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This book analyzes the state of the bureaucracy in the eastern part of Germany prior to reunification and discusses changes that occurred after 1990. The contributors review the impact of these changes on the bureaucracy and other sectors of society where a new ethic seems to ...

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A continuation of the ongoing Oxford University's Centre for the Study of Values in Education and Business. The papers deal with the interactive effect of business and education as well as the moral and ethical concerns underpinning each.

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Does campus policing predominantly involve the enforcement of law or does it involve more traditional security functions such as plant protection, preventive maintenance, and the regulation of student conduct In what ways is university policing, a form of private policing, si...

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Catholic Spirituality and Prayer in the Secular City presents the role of religion and spirituality in a rapidly changing religious scenario. Author Robert A. Burns explores ways Catholics have been called upon to develop their spiritual lives in the most religious pluralistic society that has ever existed.

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Children as Equals explores the subject of children's rights. The twelve chapters are written by authors whose disciplines include history, law, philosophy, psychology, and sociology.

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With comprehensive historical, political, socioeconomic, and cultural data, this book offers an examination of the developments in mainland China, Taiwan, and US involvement in the region as they relate to the Taiwan Strait dilemma. It gives considerable attention to China and its development and role in the issue.

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China, Taiwan, Japan, the United States and the World is the fifth volume in the Miller Center's series on Asian political leadership. As part of the Center's ongoing research program, recognized authorities participate in forums, colloquia, and conferences. China, Taiwan, Jap...

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This volume brings together a digest of the basic beliefs and teachings associated with the Christian religion.

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This study acknowledges the power that pornographic images continue to assert in a culture whose conscious intention is to deny their attraction. It brings together a wide range of sources in an attempt to explain the prevalence of pornographic themes and imagery in sexual arousal and fulfilment.

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In Clinical Ethics, Robert Timko argues that the moral dilemmas of clinical medical practice can best be resolved within a framework of prima facie duties, and that the most stringent duty is that of nonmaleficence. Timko shows that respect for individual autonomy and the prin...

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A selection of twenty-two narratives reprinted from William Jones' Ojibwa Texts.

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Aniagolu examines the dynamics of race and gender in the history of the United States, concluding that white American women collaborated with white American men as 'Co-Whites' or co-partners in the management and maintenance of white supremacy in the United States.

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Research-intensive universities have long struggled to reconcile the imperative of specialized learning with the need for a broader, more liberal education. Combining Two Cultures provides a comprehensive account of a degree program at a distinguished Canadian university, McMaster, aimed at accomplishing this synthesis.

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Engagement is the label increasingly embraced by higher education to describe activities associated with serving the public interest. This book describes how members of a faculty learning community have come to understand engagement as both intellectual endeavor and scholarly practice at the interface between academy and citizenry.

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Author Patrick Mendis explores unseen forces that have guided America to global dominance. He details how the creation of Madison's 'Universal Empire' through Hamilton's 'Federalism' realizes Jefferson's 'Empire of Liberty.' The author then unveils America's Masonic endgame of universal brotherhood: E Pluribus Unum.

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A comprehensive approach to media and communication in developing countries. This book includes an analysis of traditional methods of communications, and an examination of the "new-world information and communication" debate and its meaning to Africa.

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A study, rooted in philosophical anthropology and metaphysics, of the meaning of community, which discusses such questions as what constitutes a community, what its language reveals, how to distinguish genuine community from its counterfeits, and how a community is established.

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This book is part of a continuing series that explores international political change. The volume focuses on African nation-states, their internal conflicts, and their role in the international arena, and also delves into history, political leadership, rebellion, military conf...

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In Congressional Budgeting, Patrick Fisher analyzes the problems inherent in the congressional budget process, and studies why congress makes the budgetary decisions that it does. Fisher argues that it is the representational nature of Congress that makes budgeting such a flaw...

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This book documents the decline of political parties in the State of Connecticut. The author presents an extensive description of statewide political trends, taps the perceptions of state lawmakers regarding the current condition and influence of party organization, and provid...