Author: Frederick Arthur Halsey
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: fallacy, metric
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 2008-12-09
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0559689233
ISBN-13: 9780559689239

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE METRIC SYSTEM IN EXPORT TRADE The renewal of the agitation for the adoption of the metric system, because of the speciously plausible assumption that it is necessary in the interest of foreign trade, has made necessary the investigation which is herein summarized. This assumption is known to be untrue by manufacturers and others who are in touch with export trade. Those who are properly informed kn

Author: Frederick Arthur Halsey
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: fallacy, metric
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 2008-12-09
List price: $25.75
ISBN-10: 0559689225
ISBN-13: 9780559689222

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE METRIC SYSTEM IN EXPORT TRADE The renewal of the agitation for the adoption of the metric system, because of the speciously plausible assumption that it is necessary in the interest of foreign trade, has made necessary the investigation which is herein summarized. This assumption is known to be untrue by manufacturers and others who are in touch with export trade. Those who are properly i

Author: Frederick Arthur Halsey
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: slide, plain, valves, construction, explanation, valve, gears, action
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 2008-11-14
List price: $24.75
ISBN-10: 055960341X
ISBN-13: 9780559603419

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Authors:Gert Spaargaren, Arthur P. J. Mol, Frederick H. Butt
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: social, theory, challenges, global, environmental, flows, governing
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 2006-06-01
List price: $67.00
ISBN-10: 0262195453
ISBN-13: 9780262195454

Globalization and the changing role of the nation-state call for new approaches to environmental governance and new ways to conceptualize it. Recent developments in sociology—seen in the work of John Urry, Manuel Castells, and others—show how social theory can be made less static, more fluid, and more directed toward flow and networks in order to encompass today’s reality. Governing Environmental Flows explores what such a reformulation means for the environmental social sciences. Taking the term environmental flows—in both its traditional scientific sense and in a newer social dim

Authors:Charles Frederick Abel, Arthur Jay Sementelli,
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Keywords: public, affairs, role, theory, critical, evolutionary
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2003-12
List price: $88.95
ISBN-10: 0765610469
ISBN-13: 9780765610461

The subject of this book is one of the most central and timely in Public Administration - how to make sense of critical theory, and (especially) how to assess its implications for everyday practice. Charles Frederick Abel and Arthur Sementelli argue that Evolutionary Critical Theory - a synergistic employment of the methodologies of traditional social science, institutionalism, and hermeneutics - provides fresh insights into the core issues of Public Administration theory and practice. While some may argue that "public administration theory" is an oxymoron, this ground-breaking volume explodes

Authors:Charles Frederick Abel, Arthur Jay Sementelli,
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Keywords: public, affairs, role, theory, critical, evolutionary
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2003-10
List price: $43.95
ISBN-10: 0765610477
ISBN-13: 9780765610478

This work addresses one of the most central and timely subjects in Public Administration - how to make sense of critical theory and especially how to assess its implications for everyday practice.

Author: Jim Halsey
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Keywords: starmaker
Number of Pages: 452
Published: 2010-01-12
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 1607995417
ISBN-13: 9781607995418