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Neoliberalism: A Very Short Introduction
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Neoliberalism: A Very Short IntroductionNeoliberalism: A Very Short Introduction

Anchored in the principles of the free-market economics, "neoliberalism" has been associated with such different political leaders as Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Augusto Pinochet, and Junichiro Koizumi. In its heyday during the late 1990s, neoliberalism emerged as the world's dominant economic paradigm, stretching from the Anglo-American heartlands of capitalism to the former communist bloc all the way to the developing regions of the global South.
 
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Introduction to Linguistics
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Introduction to LinguisticsIntroduction to Linguistics

What are human languages, such that they can be acquired and used as they are? This text surveys some of the most important and recent approaches to this question, breaking the problem up along traditional lines. The emphasis is on methods.
 
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Understanding the Universe: An Introduction to Astronomy
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Understanding the Universe: An Introduction to AstronomyUnderstanding the Universe: An Introduction to Astronomy

Who has not gazed with wonder at the night sky? The great canopy of stars stretching overhead suggests that our world is part of a vastly larger cosmos. But how large is it? Where do we fit in? And how did it all begin?
These questions have puzzled stargazers for thousands of years, and the search for answers helped spark the great advances of the Scientific Revolution in the 16th and 17th centuries. But only in our own time has the full picture of the true immensity, variety, and surpassing strangeness of the Universe come into focus.
 
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Introduction to e-Business: Management and Strategy
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Introduction to e-Business: Management and StrategyIntroduction to e-Business: Management and Strategy

An Introduction to e-Business provides the contemporary knowledge of the key issues affecting the modern e-business environment and links theory and practice of management strategies relating to e-business. This book brings together the most cogent themes for an introduction to e-business and constitutes a valuable contribution to formalising common themes for teaching the subject in higher education. It brings together theoretical perspectives based on academic research and the application of e-business strategies. These concepts are further explored in the six case studies that follow the set chapters. 
 
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Introduction to Planetary Science
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Introduction to Planetary ScienceIntroduction to Planetary Science

This textbook is intended to be used in a lecture course for college students majoring in the Earth Sciences.  Planetary Science provides an opportunity for these students to apply a wide range of subject matter pertaining to the Earth to the study of other planets of the solar system and their principal satellites.  As a result, students gain a wider perspective of the different worlds that are accessible to us and they are led to recognize the Earth as the only oasis in space where we can live without life-support systems.

 

 
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