The globalization of trade has lead to an enormous growth in sea transportation over the last years. A great majority of general cargo is containerized and handled in container terminals, which are...więcej »
What are the factors that enable weak states to withstand foreign policy pressure from strong states? This study examines how some African states held their own in the face of United States lobbyin...więcej »
Anastassia has produced research that makes a significant and original contribution to our knowledge about the generic relation between democratization and federalization and about their specific r...więcej »
What is the cost of complying with government regulations? Businessmen would like to know. Lawmakers and bureaucrats would like to know as they conduct cost-benefit analyses prior to creating new ...więcej »
The potential of ancient pit ovens to yield important information about the human past has been recognized only recently in the U.S. Ovens implicate cooking and diet as well as food procurement and...więcej »
Contemporary military interventions involve public relations. Strategic communication to inform and persuade publics has become part of achieving specific political and organisational, as well as m...więcej »
Energy storage has nowadays become an important issue due to the fact that equipment is being scaled down while energy consumption is generally not reduced. This has also resulted in ever increasin...więcej »
How can altruistic organisms that sacrifice their fitness to help their competitors survive natural selection?
This book attempts to resolve this puzzle by showing that it stems from the questiona...więcej »
Although gender equity has been adopted as an organizational value in some sport organizations, evidence of continued gender inequities at all levels of sport signal it is not always enacted. This ...więcej »
Embedded capacitor technology, where thin film capacitors are integrated at on-chip and/or off-chip levels, offers high packaging densities and improved electrical performance at potentially reduce...więcej »
This book addresses the causes of tax policy changes, its direction and magnitude, in a comparative way by studying three dimensions: centralization, progressivity, and level in Argentina and Brazi...więcej »
Collective action is frequently compromised by free riding. When addressing global environment problems, countries often proceed from their national interests more than from principles or common in...więcej »
The Philippine political milieu is characterized by a "weak state" dominated by elite cacique patron-client relations whom exploit state mechanisms for the private accumulation and distribution of ...więcej »
How, and to what extent, do successful world market integration strategies in developing countries depend on the institutional strength of state bureaucracies and business associations? Guided by t...więcej »