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Government Without Passing Laws
Congress' Nonstatutory Techniques for Appropriations Control
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
424 kr
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This book demonstrates both the limits and unique role of non statutory controls in a world that demands a flexible administrative response that might be overly constrained by rigid statutes. It also explains that nature and impact of congressional involvement through non statutory controls.
518 kr
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This original research study of residential treatments of problem adolescents represents one of the few attempts in the field to observe in a systematic fashion the residents' living situation in the institutional setting. An innovative field experiment is developed to contrast the interaction of counsellors and residents as they create three distinctive cottage subcultures.
518 kr
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This unified treatment of principal themes in the area of the philosophy of history is an attempt to combine important insights scattered among books and articles published during recent decades and to coordinate the various approaches to the nature of history associated with positivism, analytical philosophy, pragmatism, and phenomenology.Originally published in 1967. A UNC Press Enduring Edition - UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
644 kr
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This volume offers the clearest explanation of the process by which the Communist party directs scholarly activity that has appeared to date. Tillett has plunged into the brambles of Soviet historiography, has found his way skilfully through them, and has emerged with a study that will be an important addition to the growing literature on the Soviet Union.
644 kr
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Opening with a summary of the political and social role of the literate in traditional China, this study includes detailed biographical information on many of those whose careers affected the process by which China assimilated Western thought. It deals specifically with study in Western nations and Japan.Originally published in 1966. A UNC Press Enduring Edition - UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
664 kr
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This is the second and final volume of the Wickwires' definitive biography of Cornwallis. It details Corwallis's work in India, his contributions in Britain as master general of ordnance, his tenure as lord lieutenant and commander in chief in Ireland, and his diplomacy in negotiating the peace of Amiens. Through Cornwallis's career, the authors show how the British made important decisions that affected the empire for the century to follow.Originally published in 1980. A UNC Press Enduring Edition - UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Quest for Power
The Lower Houses of Assembly in the Southern Royal Colonies, 1689-1776
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
644 kr
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In this study, Greene describes the rise of the lower houses in the four southern royal colonies - Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia - in the period between the Glorious Revolution and the American War for Independence. It assesses the consequences of the success of the lower houses, especially the relationship between their rise to power and the coming of the American Revolution.Originally published in 1963. A UNC Press Enduring Edition - UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Bonnin and Morris of Philadelphia
The First American Porcelain Factory, 1770-1772
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
437 kr
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Excavating the site of the factory has revealed that Bonnin and Morris produced bone porcelain some fifty years earlier than experts had previously believed it was manufactured in America. With wit and a keen eye, Hood examines the larger implications of the failure to establish a large-scale industry in the colonies. Insufficient capital was part of the answer, but Hood also advances the idea that the factory's demise was also the result of price cutting by the East India Company.Originally published in 1972. A UNC Press Enduring Edition - UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Studies in Demography
Essays in Honor of Professor S. Chandrasekhar
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
936 kr
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This is a collection of thirty essays presented to Professor S. Chandrasekhar to honour his lifelong devotion to population and family planning. From distinguished scholars all over the world, the essays cover anthropology, medical and public health, economics, sociology, statistics, and, of course, demography.Originally published 1971.UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
534 kr
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The building of the wall in 1961 occupies the central position in Dulles's book. But she has prefaced it with an excellent review of Berlin's tangled history since the end of World War II with its recurrent crises and the hardening of lines as the cold war continues.Originally published 1967. A UNC Press Enduring Edition - UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats.
644 kr
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This is the first published study in English of Russian trade and commercial relations with China from the Treaty of Kiakhta (1727) to the early nineteenth century. It is a study in Russian economic and entrepreneurial history, focusing on Russian state economic policy and activity concerning China. It dwells at length on the state monopolies, but at the same time private trade with China and the Chinese is also fully explored.Originally published 1969. A UNC Press Enduring Edition - UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
534 kr
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In analyzing the social and professional struggles of Prussian elementary schoolteachers from the time of Frederick the Great to the end of 1848, La Vopa focuses on the first generation of trained teachers and their emancipation movement in the Revolution of 1848. This case history explores the subjective experience of social mobility, the emergence of corporate solidarity, and the relationship between professional aspirations and ideological commitment.Originally published in 1980. A UNC Press Enduring Edition - UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Colonial North Carolina in the Eighteenth Century
A Study in Historical Geography
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
534 kr
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This extensive study in historical geography exhibits a precise understanding of the physical environment of pre-revolutionary North Carolina and skillfully interprets this environment in terms of mid-eighteenth century culture. Merrens is the first author to effectively examine the relationship between geographical factors and to analyze it for the entire colonial period.Originally published in 1964.A UNC Press Enduring Edition - UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Land Reform in China and North Vietnam
Consolidating the Revolution at the Village Level
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
534 kr
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This first book to consider land reform in both countries show that reform, as the Communists have conducted it, can be justified in China and North Vietnam for both economic reasons and ideological imperatives. Moise argues that the violence associated with land reform was as much a function of the social inequities that preceded reform as it was of the reform policy itself and explains the difficulties the Communist leaders encountered in developing a successful programme. Originally published in 1983.
437 kr
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In preparing these lectures, Norlin drew upon his experiences of the Hitler revolution in Germany. He attempts to answer the question: What is proper nationalism? Approaching this question by an analysis of nationalism at its worst - as seen under a Nazi regime - he pleads for nationalism at its best and for a rediscovery of America. Originally published in 1934.A UNC Press Enduring Edition - UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
518 kr
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This book, combining as it does the method of the broad survey with the careful consideration of detailed fact, presents, from a lay point of view, a complete synthesis of the varied aspects of social work. It will serve to orient the social worker to those larger aspects of the field which might be obscured by the more immediate consideration of specific problems. Originally published in 1928.A UNC Press Enduring Edition - UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
437 kr
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This important collection of eight interrelated essays fills a gap in English-language literature in public finance and fiscal theory. The author consistently emphasizes the central role of collective decision making in fiscal theories as well as the methodological setting in which positive proportions in fiscal theory must be developed.