In today's world of globalization, the United States generally is considered by foreign investors around the world to be the safest and most profitable location to invest their funds and from where to...
Solid State Physics opens with the adiabatic approximation to the many-body problem of a system of ions and valence electrons. After chapters on lattice symmetry, structure and dynamics, it then proce...
Solid-State Theory - An Introduction is a textbook for graduate students of physics and material sciences. Whilst covering the traditional topics of older textbooks, it also takes up new developments ...
Terry Fisher, a young soldier about to be sent on operation, has arranged to meet up with friends at the top of the Empire State Building for a farewell party... But suddenly a legion of Vampires att...
The central issue in this book are the federal ideas in the Zionist political thought during seventy years, from the early 1920s to the late 1990s. These ideas and plans had a double meaning and purpo...
Niniejsza monografia zrodziła się z przekonania o tym, ze wiedza o Stanach Zjednoczonych Ameryki, ich instytucjach, polityce jest coraz bardziej przydatna do zrozumienia mechanizmów polityki zagranicz...
Niewielu sportowców przeżyło równie nieprawdopodobną karierę co Steve Kerr. Jako zawodnik zdobywał mistrzowskie tytuły w NBA, a później został trenerem, dyrektorem generalnym klubu i szanowanym komen...
This book presents a phenomenological approach to the field of solid state magnetism. After introducing the basic concepts from statistical thermodynamics and electronic structure theory, the first pa...
This text treats electronic transport in the regime where conventional textbook models are no longer applicable, including the effect of electronic phase coherence, energy quantization and single-elec...
National practice, law, and jurisprudence on state aid are developing rapidly in the present context of EU decentralization. Although the EU rules governing state aid are widely discussed, there has b...
The present book deals with canonical factorization of matrix and operator functions that appear in state space form or that can be transformed into such a form. A unified geometric approach is used. ...
As full market integration in the EC comes into clearer perspective, the danger of distortions of competition become more evident. Although state aid may be provided to undertakings for a variety of r...
A hardbound compendium of Volume 20, Numbers 1 and 2 of the journal, Seminars in Liver Disease, this new volume brings together an international group of distinguished authors to present 16 current, i...
West and Central Asia have for centuries contributed to shaping the identity of Europe by constituting a significant other. This work aims to explore the diverse facets of this contribution, looking a...
Modelling Fluid Flow presents invited lectures, workshop summaries and a selection of papers from a recent international conference CMFF '03 on fluid technology. The lectures follow the current evolut...
In recent years, international commercial arbitration procedures have made great strides to bring into line different traditions of law and practice. But considerable problems remain. The aim of this ...
This text provides an introduction, at the level of an advanced student in engineering or physics, to the field of nanomechanics and nanomechanical devices. It provides a unified discussion of solid m...
The book explores the many legal and economic challenges emerging from the liberalization process engaged by the European Community with respect to state monopolies. It is divided into three parts. Ta...
The Russian State Archive of Literature and Art is one of Russia's largest archive collections. This CD-ROM edition describes 2,902 record groups containing almost 1.5 million individual documents; 90...
Publikacja w języku angielskim przedstawia zapisy historyczne na temat Finlandii z lat 1917-1918 w dokumentach Departamentu Stanu.
Publikacja anglojęzyczna ? księga jubileuszowa z okazji 70. urodzin prof. dr. hab. Jana. J. Milewskiego. Professor Jan J. Milewski is and economic historian and one of the Nestors of African studies i...
Okres wielkiej konfrontacji to czas, w którym Stany Zjednoczone stawały się mocarstwem, a w polityce zagranicznej przejawiały coraz większą aktywność. Głównym obiektem ich zainteresowania byt Związek...
While no single theory of integration is able to explain the functioning of the European Union, member state remains the most powerful element of the EU decision-making system. Three approaches of dif...
The dissertation is a novel study on the Polish literature market. In an interesting manner, it presents an important issue in terms of economy and state institutions, namely, public procurement. Her ...
The book continues investigations presented in The Concept of State in Polish Political Thought in the Period 1918-1939 by Jerzy Juchnowski and Jan Ryszard Sielezin. It presents the development of Pol...
Broad-ranging in its coverage and truly international in scope, this major new text introduces all the main competing theoretical approaches to the study of the state as well as key contested issues i...
What was life really like for East Germans, effectively imprisoned behind the Iron Curtain? The headline stories of Cold War spies and surveillance by the secret police, of political repression and co...
Putting into question the conventional view that the military is detrimental to democratic development, Dolman provides a multifaceted examination of the institutional incentives of the military and i...
State sovereignty is the foundation of international relations. This thought-provoking book explores the gap between seeing sovereignty as either absolute or relative. It argues that state sovereignty...