Author: Professor John Waterbury
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: collective, action, determinants, national, basin, nile
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2002-03-01
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0300088531
ISBN-13: 9780300088533

The supply and management of fresh water for the world’s billions of inhabitants is likely to be one of the most daunting challenges of the coming century. For countries that share river basins with others, questions of how best to use and protect precious water resources always become entangled in complex political, legal, environmental, and economic considerations. This book focuses on the issues that face all international river basins by examining in detail the Nile Basin and the ten countries that lay claim to its waters. John Waterbury applies collective action theory and internat

Authors:Bronwyn Davies, Susanne Gannon,
Publisher: Open University Press
Keywords: educational, research, conducting, biography, collective, doing
Number of Pages: 251
Published: 2006-08-01
List price: $65.95
ISBN-10: 0335220444
ISBN-13: 9780335220441

“At last a book that not only describes what collective biography is but also explains how to use it … The book describes how to set up collective biography workshops in which participants examine how discursive structures and power relations have both enabled and limited the conditions of possibility for their lived experience. Focusing on a more complicated reflexivity than is usually described in social science research, collective biography, inspired by Frigga Haug and refined by Davies, will no doubt be used increasingly by researchers interested in the production of subjects in a po

Authors:Hannu Piekkola, Kenneth Snellman,
Publisher: Physica-Verlag Heidelberg
Keywords: performance, challenges, formation, wage, bargaining, collective
Number of Pages: 186
Published: 2004-11-10
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 3790815586
ISBN-13: 9783790815580

This volume considers the development of the wage formation and wage bargaining institutions as a response to changes in the bargaining environment. These changes include a lower level of inflation and the growth in intraindustrial trade as firms have become more specialised. The response to these changes will depend on the current institutions and on the characteristics of the bargaining system. Generally there has been some move towards decentralisation; the question is what should be bargained centrally and which issues should be transferred to lower levels. Some of the contributions pay sp

Author: Catherine M. Tucker
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: property, coffee, honduras, common, action, forests, collective, changing
Number of Pages: 258
Published: 2008-04-03
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 1402069766
ISBN-13: 9781402069765

Drawing on ethnographic and archival research, “Changing Forests” explores how the indigenous Lenca community of La Campa, Honduras, has conserved and transformed their communal forests through the experiences of colonialism, opposition to state-controlled logging, and the recent adoption of export-oriented coffee production. It merges political ecology, collective-action theories, and institutional analysis to study how the people and forests have changed through socioeconomic and political transitions encompassed in three broad phases: (1) the premodern period, which considers historic p

Author: Yael Zerubavel
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: israeli, national, tradition, making, memory, roots, collective, recovered
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 1997-06-18
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0226981584
ISBN-13: 9780226981581

Because new nations need new pasts, they create new ways of commemorating and recasting select historic events. In Recovered Roots, Yael Zerubavel illuminates this dynamic process by examining the construction of Israeli national tradition.In the years leading to the birth of Israel, Zerubavel shows, Zionist settlers in Palestine consciously sought to rewrite Jewish history by reshaping Jewish memory. Zerubavel focuses on the nationalist reinterpretation of the defense of Masada against the Romans in 73 C.E. and the Bar Kokhba revolt of 133-135; and on the transformation of the 1920 defense of

Author: Arthur G. Neal
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Keywords: events, american, experience, extraordinary, memory, trauma, collective, national
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2005-07-30
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 0765615827
ISBN-13: 9780765615824

A fascinating exploration of our evolving national psyche, this book chronicles major traumas in recent American history - from the Depression and Pearl Harbor, to the assassinations of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, Jr., to Ruby Ridge, Waco, and Columbine - how we responded to them as a nation, and what our responses mean. Reflecting on American popular culture as well as the media, this edition includes a new chapter on 9/11 and other acts of terror within the United States, as well as coverage of the Columbia space shuttle disaster. New student-friendly features, including discussion

Authors:G. K. Batchelor, H. K. Moffatt, M. G. Worster,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: current, research, introduction, collective, fluid, dynamics, perspectives
Number of Pages: 644
Published: 2002-12-23
List price: $109.99
ISBN-10: 0521531691
ISBN-13: 9780521531696

With applications ranging from modelling the environment to automotive design and physiology to astrophysics, conventional textbooks cannot hope to give students much information on what topics in fluid dynamics are currently being researched, or how to choose between them. This book rectifies matters. It consists of eleven chapters that introduce and review different branches of the subject for graduate-level courses, or for specialists seeking introductions to other areas. Hb ISBN (2001): 0-521-78061-6