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Originally published in 1992 this book charts a global restructuring of telecommunications industries worldwide. It examines the impact of new technology for consequences of change in trade and government policies.

The Use of Children's Literature in Teaching reveals the impact of politics, professional guidelines and restrictive measurements of literacy on the emerging identities of young teachers.

The main objectives of this book are to analyse the risks and dangers NATO faces in the current strategic environment, and to discuss how the alliance can readjust to those challenges.

Originally published in 1985, in the deteriorating climate of East-West relations technology transfer became vitally important. This book reviews the state of technology transfer to the East in the 1980s and considers the place of Western technology in the Eastern economies. It also discusses the strategic goals of Western technology embargoes.

This book addresses foundational concerns at the interface of educational measurement and social justice. Following John Rawls's philosophical methods, Stein builds and justifies an ethical framework for guiding practices involving educational measurement which demonstrates that educational measurement is critical to insuring, or inhibiting, just educational arrangements, and distinguishes between efficiency- and justice-oriented testing. Analysing historical case studies which exemplify ethical testing issues, this book explores design principles and arguments in favour of radically democratic school reforms, which address how the future of testing might be shaped to ensure justice for all.

This book moves beyond legal compliance in European Union (EU) implementation research to shed light on the diversity of responses to EU policy, practical implementation patterns, and mechanisms to ensure compliance. The chapters originally published as a special issue in the Journal of European Public Policy.

Following on from his 1994 volume Mercantilism ¿ The Shaping of an Economic Language, this new book from Lars Magnusson presents a more synthetic interpretation of Mercantilism not only as a theoretical system, but also as a system of political economy. This book incorporates samples of material from the 1994 publication alongside new material, ordered in a new set of chapters and up-date discussions on mercantilism up to the present day.

Drawing on discursive psychology, this book traces the historical development of psychiatric constructions of `normal¿ and `abnormal¿ gender expression and contextualises the recent reconstruction of gender through the DSM-5 criteria for gender dysphoria.

This book offers a reconsideration of the ways in which imagination engages and empowers learners across the education spectrum, from primary to adult levels and in all subject areas. It explores what imagination is and how applying imagination to teaching and learning can increase the engagement of disaffected students and reinvigorate their relationships with curriculum content.

In Australia, regions are not just a geographic category, they are also cultural. Being regional means being located outside the nation¿s capital cities and in the periphery of centres of power and influence. It is thus significantly different than its European or American counterparts. However, surprisingly little has been written about this unique dynamic; this book has been written to fill this gap.

This book explores the multiple, interrelated social contexts that young people inhabit and navigate, and how educational institutions cope with increasing ethnic, cultural and ideological diversity.

This book examines the results of a longitudinal study of change during psychoanalysis, illuminating the characteristics of patients, analysts and analyses which can help to predict outcomes of treatment. Chapters draw upon sixty case studies to consider how patients with very different analytic outcomes respond at both the beginning and end of their analysis, in turn improving treatment planning and practice for the well-being of other patients.

Originally published in 1999, this volume contains a systematic collection of both theoretical and applied studies on user information systems for road users. Te book contains European, American and Asian contributions and shows the analytical wealth of recent studies in this field.

This book explores the complex relationship between the idealism and pragmatism, showing how they share important common ground, and illustrating their intertwined histories. This book was first published as a special issue of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy.

Using a range of case studies, the contributors assess the challenges of adopting digital technologies by the media. They pay particular attention to how social media such as Facebook, Twitter and Whatsapp have been appropriated by Africa language media.

Originally published in 1993 this book presents the findings of 14 teams involved in a research initiative to examine the initiation and resonse to innovation in firms. It draws together the many strands which were discovered to influence the succesful generation and adoption of new technologies.

This book provides a study of international intervention in Somalia, contesting the rigidity of the Failed State Narrative, as well those anchored to political and anthropological determinism that have overemphasised the role of clanism, Islam, state capacity as explanatory variables of the Somali crisis.

This book argues that Islam¿s rise is a feature of a common process during which tensions between imperial ambitions and apocalyptic beliefs in Europe and the Middle East cut straight across today¿s theological and political definitions.

The chapters move between ancient and contemporary literature, exploring Sultan Selim¿s interest in dream interpretation, translating newly uncovered poetry and exploring the works of Orhan Pamuk. This is a festschrift volume published for the leading scholar Bob Dankoff.