The Union of International Associations (UIA) was founded in 1910, aiming to coordinate the relations and interests of international organizations across the world.
Contesting the putative "e;even-handedness"e; of many introductory social science texts, this innovative book presents strong and provocative arguments on contemporary social issues that will stimulate readers to think critically.
Unter den zeitgeschichtlichen Forschungsinstitutionen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland nimmt das Institut für Zeitgeschichte einen singulären Platz ein.
From pressure to "e;teach to the test"e; and the use of quantitative metrics to define education "e;quality,"e; to the rise of "e;school choice"e; and the shift of principals from colleagues to managers, teachers in New York, Mexico City, and Toronto have experienced strikingly similar challenges to their professional autonomy.
Contested Spaces, Counter-narratives, and Culture from Below in Canada and Quebec explores strategies for reading space and conflict in Canadian and Quebecois literature and cultural performances, positing questions such as: how do these texts and performances produce and contest spatial practices?
This volume combines ten papers on various aspects of aging in Canada (which together have been published in a special issue of the Journal of Canadian Studies) with several of the most important and interesting relevant essays from other sources.
The Americanist community played a vital role in the Cold War, as well as in large part directing the cultural consumption of Soviet society and shaping perceptions of the US.
Innovation is central to the dynamics and success of organizations and society in the modern world, the process famously referred to by Schumpeter as 'gales of creative destruction'.
Contested Spaces, Counter-narratives, and Culture from Below in Canada and Quebec explores strategies for reading space and conflict in Canadian and Quebecois literature and cultural performances, positing questions such as: how do these texts and performances produce and contest spatial practices?
The first monograph on Islamic hospitals, this volume examines their origins, development, architecture, social roles, and connections to non-Islamic institutions.
On March 11, 2004, Islamist terrorists carried out a massive bombing on Madrid's largely working-class commuter trains, leaving 191 people dead and more than 1,500 others wounded.
In this third edition of Capitalism and Classical Social Theory, John Bratton and David Denham build on the classical triumvirate-Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, and Max Weber-by extending the conversation to include early female theorists such as Mary Wollstonecraft and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, as well as the writings of W.
The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Decision Making comprehensively surveys theory and research on organizational decision-making, broadly conceived.
Der zunehmende Drittmittelwettbewerb, der Einzug von New Public Management und akademischem Kapitalismus und nicht zuletzt die Exzellenzinitiative haben die universitäre Landschaft in Deutschland erheblich umgestaltet und damit auch der wissenschaftlichen Praxis einen neuen Rahmen gesteckt.
Being Poland offers a unique analysis of the cultural developments that took place in Poland after World War One, a period marked by Poland's return to independence.
