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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mieczysław P. Boduszyński
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2010-04-26
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 0801899192
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the 1990s, amid political upheaval and civil war, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia dissolved into five successor states. The subsequent independence of Montenegro and Kosovo brought the total number to seven. Balkan scholar and diplomat to the region Mieczyslaw P. Boduszynski examines four of those states—Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia, and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia—and traces their divergent paths toward democracy and Euro-Atlantic integration over the past two decades. Boduszynski argues that regime change in the Yugoslav successor states was powerfully shaped by both internal and external forces: the economic conditions on the eve of independence and transition and the incentives offered by the European Union and other Western actors to encourage economic and political liberalization. He shows how these factors contributed to differing formulations of democracy in each state. The author engages with the vexing problems of creating and sustaining democracy when circumstances are not entirely supportive of the effort. He employs innovative concepts to measure the quality of and prospects for democracy in the Balkan region, arguing that procedural indicators of democratization do not adequately describe the stability of liberalism in post-communist states. This unique perspective on developments in the region provides relevant lessons for regime change in the larger post-communist world. Scholars, practitioners, and policymakers will find the book to be a compelling contribution to the study of comparative politics, democratization, and European integration.
Author: United States. Bureau of Reclamation
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 18
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Marshall McLuhan
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2016-09-04
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9781537430058
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen first published, Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media made history with its radical view of the effects of electronic communications upon man and life in the twentieth century.
Author: Steven E. Koop
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased Upon interviews and correspondence with more than four hundred former patients, We Hold This Treasure is the inspiring story of the first state-funded hospital in the United States to provide care for indigent, handicapped children.
Author: Lynn T. Staheli
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-04-28
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780521571067
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe term arthrogryposis describes a range of congenital contractures that lead to childhood deformities. It encompasses a number of syndromes and sporadic deformities that are rare individually but collectively are not uncommon. Yet, the existing medical literature on arthrogryposis is sparse and often confusing. The aim of this book is to provide individuals affected with arthrogryposis, their families, and health care professionals with a helpful guide to better understand the condition and its therapy. With this goal in mind, the editors have taken great care to ensure that the presentation of complex clinical information is at once scientifically accurate, patient oriented, and accessible to readers without a medical background. The book is authored primarily by members of the medical staff of the Arthrogryposis Clinic at Children's Hospital and Medical Center in Seattle, Washington, one of the leading teams in the management of the condition, and will be an invaluable resource for both health care professionals and families of affected individuals.
Author: Erica L. Ball
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-10-08
Total Pages: 529
ISBN-13: 1108493408
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA groundbreaking collective biography narrating the history of emancipation through the life stories of women of African descent in the Americas.
Author: Guillermo Curbera
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2009-02-23
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1439865124
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis vividly illustrated history of the International Congress of Mathematicians- a meeting of mathematicians from around the world held roughly every four years- acts as a visual history of the 25 congresses held between 1897 and 2006, as well as a story of changes in the culture of mathematics over the past century. Because the congress is an int
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
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Published: 1950
Total Pages: 48
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Author: Leslie Tomory
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2017-04-25
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 1421422042
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Beginning in 1580, London companies sold water to consumers through a large network of wooden mains in the expanding metropolis. This new water industry flourished throughout the 1600s, eventually expanding to serve tens of thousands of homes. By the late eighteenth century, more than 80 percent of the city's houses had water connections-making London the best-served metropolis in the world while demonstrating that it was legally, commercially, and technologically possible to run an infrastructure network within the largest city on earth. Leslie Tomory shows how new technologies imported from the Continent, including waterwheel-driven piston pumps, spurred the rapid growth of London's water industry. The business was further sustained by an explosion in consumer demand. Meanwhile, several key local innovations reshaped the industry by enlarging the size of the supply network. By 1800, the success of London's water industry made it a model for other cities in Europe and beyond as they began to build their own water networks, and it inspired builders of other large-scale urban projects, including gas and sewage supply networks."--Provided by the publisher.
