Search Results - "Australia"

Looking north, looking south China, Taiwan, and the South Pacific /

Table of Contents: “…/ Fergus Hanson -- The security implications of cross-strait competition in the South Pacific from a Taiwanese perspective / Cheng-yi Lin -- Rising Chinese influence in the South Pacific : Beijing's island fever / Tamara Renee Shie -- Big trouble in little Chinatown : Australia, Taiwan and the April 2006 post-election riot in Solomon Islands / Joel Atkinson -- New Zealand, the Pacific and China : the challenges ahead / Anne-Marie Brady and John Henderson -- Chinese foreign policy in Asia : implications for the South Pacific / Phillip C. …”
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The challenges of the housing economy an international perspective /

Table of Contents: “…Contributors -- Glossary -- Introduction : the housing economy and the credit crunch -- The housing boom, the bust and US housing policy -- Housing bubbles and foreclosures that follow : the case of Las Vegas -- Unemployment risk, homeownership, and housing wealth : lessons from the bubble -- The changing nature of household demand and housing market trends in China -- The structural sustainability of home ownership in Australia -- Impacts on wealth and debt of changes in the Danish financial framework over a housing cycle -- Market stability, housing finance, and home ownership in Germany -- The responsiveness of new supply to house prices : a perspective from the Spanish housing market -- The UK housing market cycle and the role of planning : the policy challenge following the financial crisis -- Developments in the role of social housing in Europe -- Delivering affordable housing in the UK -- The UK private rented sector as a source of affordable accommodation -- Conclusions: the challenges ahead -- References -- Index.…”
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Handbook of comparative higher education law

Table of Contents: “…International documents and higher education / Kerry Brian Melear -- Australia / Joan Squelch -- Brazil / Nina Ranieri -- Canada / Hans G. …”
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Crop ecology productivity and management in agricultural systems / by Connor, D. J.

Table of Contents: “…Evolution of wheat farming systems in southern Australia; 17. Technological change in high-yield agriculture; 18. …”
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Women, Philanthropy, and Civil Society /

Table of Contents: “…Women and philanthropy in nineteenth-century Ireland / Maria Luddy -- Women and philanthropy in France : from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries / Evelyne Diebolt -- Women and philanthropy in Brazil : an overview / Leilah Landim -- The Norwegian voluntary sector and civil society in transition : women as a catalyst of deep-seated change / Per Selle -- Women and philanthropy in colonial and post-colonial Australia / Shurlee Swain -- Parallel power structures, invisible careers, and the changing nature of American Jewish women's philanthropy / Susan M. …”
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Crop ecology productivity and management in agricultural systems / by Connor, D. J.

Table of Contents: “…Evolution of wheat farming systems in southern Australia; 17. Technological change in high-yield agriculture; 18. …”
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Handbook of comparative higher education law

Table of Contents: “…International documents and higher education / Kerry Brian Melear -- Australia / Joan Squelch -- Brazil / Nina Ranieri -- Canada / Hans G. …”
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Women, Philanthropy, and Civil Society /

Table of Contents: “…Women and philanthropy in nineteenth-century Ireland / Maria Luddy -- Women and philanthropy in France : from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries / Evelyne Diebolt -- Women and philanthropy in Brazil : an overview / Leilah Landim -- The Norwegian voluntary sector and civil society in transition : women as a catalyst of deep-seated change / Per Selle -- Women and philanthropy in colonial and post-colonial Australia / Shurlee Swain -- Parallel power structures, invisible careers, and the changing nature of American Jewish women's philanthropy / Susan M. …”
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The corporate university handbook : designing, managing, and growing a successful program /

Table of Contents: “…-- Laree Kiely, Ph.D., Consultant andformer Professor, -- University of Southern California -- Chapter 10: Measuring ROI in Corporate Universities: -- Death of the Student Day and Birth of Human Capital -- Matt Barney, Ph.D., Director, Performance Excellence anc -- Measurement, Motorola University -- Part 3: International Perspectives -- Chapter 11: Corporate Universities in Europe -- Annick Renaud-Coulon, Author and Consultant, Paris -- Chapter 12: Corporate Universities in Australia and -- Southeast Asia -- Ian Dickson, Ph.D., Deakin University, Australia -- Conclusion: Whither Corporate Universities? …”
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Conservation catalysts : how academics and researchers are advancing large landscape preservation /

Table of Contents: “…Meyer, and Dave Owen -- Landscape-scale conservation on the Serengeti / Robin Reid -- Conservation law initiatives in the West / Fred Cheever and Nancy McLaughlin -- The creation of coastal zone management in Victoria, Australia / Geoff Wescott -- Karukinka and the emerging private land conservation movement in Chile / Guillermo Donoso -- A proposal for conservation easements in Trinidad and Tobago / Karena Mahung -- Appendices: catalyzing conservation through the humanities -- A. …”
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The corporate university handbook : designing, managing, and growing a successful program /

Table of Contents: “…-- Laree Kiely, Ph.D., Consultant andformer Professor, -- University of Southern California -- Chapter 10: Measuring ROI in Corporate Universities: -- Death of the Student Day and Birth of Human Capital -- Matt Barney, Ph.D., Director, Performance Excellence anc -- Measurement, Motorola University -- Part 3: International Perspectives -- Chapter 11: Corporate Universities in Europe -- Annick Renaud-Coulon, Author and Consultant, Paris -- Chapter 12: Corporate Universities in Australia and -- Southeast Asia -- Ian Dickson, Ph.D., Deakin University, Australia -- Conclusion: Whither Corporate Universities? …”
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Conservation catalysts : how academics and researchers are advancing large landscape preservation /

Table of Contents: “…Meyer, and Dave Owen -- Landscape-scale conservation on the Serengeti / Robin Reid -- Conservation law initiatives in the West / Fred Cheever and Nancy McLaughlin -- The creation of coastal zone management in Victoria, Australia / Geoff Wescott -- Karukinka and the emerging private land conservation movement in Chile / Guillermo Donoso -- A proposal for conservation easements in Trinidad and Tobago / Karena Mahung -- Appendices: catalyzing conservation through the humanities -- A. …”
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Dialogues on distribution of powers and responsibilities in federal countries

Table of Contents: “…Australia: a quiet revolution in the balance of power / Clement Macintyre, John Williams -- Belguim: continuing changes in a new federal structure / Hugues Dumont ... …”
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Past and present in hunter gatherer studies

Table of Contents: “…Interactions of past and present in Arnhem Land, North Australia / Carmel Schrire -- 4. Forager resource and land use in the humid tropics: the Agta of Northeastern Luzon, the Philippines / P. …”
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Global commons, domestic decisions the comparative politics of climate change /

Table of Contents: “…Schreurs -- The struggle of ideas and self-interest in Canadian climate policy / Kathryn Harrison -- Climate clever? Kyoto and Australia's decade of recalcitrance / Kate Crowley -- Chinese climate policy : domestic priorities, foreign policy, and emerging implementation / Gørild Heggelund, Steinar Andresen, and Inga Fritzen Buan -- Conclusion : the comparative politics of climate change / Kathryn Harrison and Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom.…”
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Narratives of the occluded Irish diaspora subversive voices /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Mícheál Ó hAodha and John O'Callaghan -- Australia's occluded voices: Ned Kelly's history wars / Ann McGrath -- Revealing narratives: Perceptions of migration and identity in Ireland 1900-1960 / Catherine O'Connor -- "Very humiliating for the country": differing perspectives on the emigration of Irish women to Britain during the Second World War / Mary Muldowney -- Interviews of the GAA Oral History Project from Britain and America: an initial review / Regina Fitzpatrick -- Homing the Irish disapora: correspondence and autobiography in nineteenth-century Latin America / Edmundo Murray -- Poor whites in Barbadian history / Pedro L.V. …”
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Past and present in hunter gatherer studies

Table of Contents: “…Interactions of past and present in Arnhem Land, North Australia / Carmel Schrire -- 4. Forager resource and land use in the humid tropics: the Agta of Northeastern Luzon, the Philippines / P. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Global commons, domestic decisions the comparative politics of climate change /

Table of Contents: “…Schreurs -- The struggle of ideas and self-interest in Canadian climate policy / Kathryn Harrison -- Climate clever? Kyoto and Australia's decade of recalcitrance / Kate Crowley -- Chinese climate policy : domestic priorities, foreign policy, and emerging implementation / Gørild Heggelund, Steinar Andresen, and Inga Fritzen Buan -- Conclusion : the comparative politics of climate change / Kathryn Harrison and Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom.…”
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Narratives of the occluded Irish diaspora subversive voices /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Mícheál Ó hAodha and John O'Callaghan -- Australia's occluded voices: Ned Kelly's history wars / Ann McGrath -- Revealing narratives: Perceptions of migration and identity in Ireland 1900-1960 / Catherine O'Connor -- "Very humiliating for the country": differing perspectives on the emigration of Irish women to Britain during the Second World War / Mary Muldowney -- Interviews of the GAA Oral History Project from Britain and America: an initial review / Regina Fitzpatrick -- Homing the Irish disapora: correspondence and autobiography in nineteenth-century Latin America / Edmundo Murray -- Poor whites in Barbadian history / Pedro L.V. …”
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Dialogues on distribution of powers and responsibilities in federal countries

Table of Contents: “…Australia: a quiet revolution in the balance of power / Clement Macintyre, John Williams -- Belguim: continuing changes in a new federal structure / Hugues Dumont ... …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view