The definitive field guide to all the sharks, rays and chimaeras of the European Atlantic and Mediterranean
The waters of the northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea are home to an amazing variety of sharks, rays and chimaeras. This comprehensive and easy-to-use field guide covers all 145 species found in the Mediterranean, the waters of the European Atlantic and Iceland, along all the Scandinavian coasts, in the Black Sea and as far south as the Canary Islands. Detailed species accounts describe key identification features, habitat, biology and status. Every species account comes with a colour distribution map, a depth guide, at-a-glance icons and colour illustrations. This must-have field guide also features illustrated key guides that enable you to accurately identify down to species, comparison plates of similar species, illustrations of eggcases where known and plates of teeth.
The first field guide to cover all 145 species
Features hundreds of colour illustrations, photos, maps and diagrams
Describes key features, habitat, biology and status
Includes depth guides, at-a-glance icons, key guides and teeth plates
Автор: E. Sch?n-Quinlivan Название: Reforming the European Commission ISBN: 1349322180 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349322183 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12157.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Analyses the impact of the managerial reforms of the European Commission. In 1999 the resignation of the College of Commissioners triggered the implementation of a White Paper which listed 98 measures to overhaul the way the Commission did business. Ten years later what impact have the reforms had on the European Commission and European governance?
Автор: I. Garzon Название: Reforming the Common Agricultural Policy ISBN: 1349280208 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349280209 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13275.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Reforming the Common Agricultural Policy presents an unprecedented comparison of three successive major reforms of the CAP. It shows the influence of related issues such as international trade negotiations and budget constraints and demonstrates that factors such as opening of the policy network and feedback were key to accelerating change.
Автор: Vincent, Andrew Название: Nature of political theory ISBN: 0199297959 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199297955 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 7285.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Offers a comprehensive, synoptic, and comparative analysis of the conceptions of political theory throughout the twentieth century. This book challenges views of contemporary political theory and provides perspectives on the future of the subject. It serves as a useful resource for scholars and students of the discipline.
Автор: Purdy Jedediah Название: After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene ISBN: 0674979869 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674979864 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 3160.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. Henceforth, the world we will inhabit is the one we have made. Geologists have called this new planetary epoch the Anthropocene, the Age of Humans. The geological strata we are now creating record industrial emissions, industrial-scale crop pollens, and the disappearance of species driven to extinction. Climate change is planetary engineering without design. These facts of the Anthropocene are scientific, but its shape and meaning are questions for politics--a politics that does not yet exist. After Nature develops a politics for this post-natural world.
"After Nature argues that we will deserve the future only because it will be the one we made. We will live, or die, by our mistakes." --Christine Smallwood, Harper's
"Dazzling...Purdy hopes that climate change might spur yet another change in how we think about the natural world, but he insists that such a shift will be inescapably political... For a relatively slim volume, this book distills an incredible amount of scholarship--about Americans' changing attitudes toward the natural world, and about how those attitudes might change in the future." --Ross Andersen, The Atlantic
Автор: Castellani Название: The Rise of Managerial Bureaucracy ISBN: 3319900315 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319900315 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 11878.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The book provides detailed analysis of the structure and operation of the British Civil Service along with a historically grounded account of its development in the period from Margaret Thatcher to the Tony Blair premiership. It assesses continuity and change in the civil service during a period of deep transformation using new archive files, government and parliament reports, primary and secondary legislation. The author takes the evolutionary change of the civil service as a central theme and examines the friction between new managerial practices introduced by government in the 80s and 90s and the administrative traditions rooted in the history of this institution. In particular the author assesses the impact of the New Public Management agenda of the Thatcher and Major years its enhanced continuity during the Blair years. Further changes that involved ministerial responsibility, codification, performance management, special advisers and constitutional conventions are analyzed in the conclusions.
This book is a bold prescription for local government reform that moves well beyond the old arguments regarding consolidations (also referred to as amalgamations) and co-operation (sometimes referred to as shared services) to paint a picture of an efficient, effective tier of government that strikes a balance between the right of persons to pursue their existential ends and the need to promote the common good.
The book presents a system of local government that balances human dignity with the common good, restrains Leviathan, provides a voice for the disenfranchised (and even the disinterested), and delivers goods and services efficiently and effectively. Ironically, what is often argued to be the weakness of local government in many jurisdictions - the fact that it is merely a creature of statute - is also the best hope we have of making the oft cited rhetoric about how 'local government is the closest to the people that serves the people best' become reality.
Автор: Constantine Arvanitopoulos Название: Reforming Europe ISBN: 3642263119 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783642263118 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 20263.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In the 2009 elections throughout Europe, the centre-right emerged victorious. In this book, prominent centre-right thinkers address Europe`s major problems, focusing on the financial crisis and the next institutional steps regarding the integration project.
Автор: Bedock Camille Название: Reforming Democracy ISBN: 0198779585 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198779582 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 16632.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This volume explores when, why, and how, democratic institutions are reformed.
Автор: Norbert Kersting; Angelika Vetter Название: Reforming Local Government in Europe ISBN: 3810039586 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783810039583 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12157.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Worldwide processes of transnationalization are accompanied by new chal- lenges for the democracies of the Western world. On the one hand these proc- esses ask for more efficient and effective ways of policy-making. On the other hand the legitimacy of the political systems is also challenged by growing dif- ficulties of bringing the citizens (back) to politics. This gets more and more difficult with the increasing transfer of formerly national political competen- cies to supra-national institutions. Thereby the political decision-making processes loose their transparency and the chances of the man in the street to understand and influence the political process decline. But not only in West- em Europe political systems have to enhance citizens' support by increasing their input-and output-legitimacy. This holds as well for the new democra- cies in Central Europe, which had to rebuild their systems after the fall of communism in the beginning of the 1990s. Facing these problems of political legitimacy structural and procedural reforms are on the agenda in almost all European democracies. Local authorities are one of the main actors in this context of public sector reform. The different political and administrative reforms of local govern- ments during the last decades were implemented with regard to their positive consequences for at least one of the goals mentioned above.
These days, it's rare to pick up a newspaper and not see a story related to intelligence. From the investigations of the 9/11 commission, to accusations of illegal wiretapping, to debates on whether it's acceptable to torture prisoners for information, intelligence—both accurate and not—is driving domestic and foreign policy. And yet, in part because of its inherently secretive nature, intelligence has received very little scholarly study. Into this void comes Reforming Intelligence, a timely collection of case studies written by intelligence experts, and sponsored by the Center for Civil-Military Relations (CCMR) at the Naval Postgraduate School, that collectively outline the best practices for intelligence services in the United States and other democratic states.
Reforming Intelligence suggests that intelligence is best conceptualized as a subfield of civil-military relations, and is best compared through institutions. The authors examine intelligence practices in the United States, United Kingdom, and France, as well as such developing democracies as Brazil, Taiwan, Argentina, and Russia. While there is much more data related to established democracies, there are lessons to be learned from states that have created (or re-created) intelligence institutions in the contemporary political climate. In the end, reading about the successes of Brazil and Taiwan, the failures of Argentina and Russia, and the ongoing reforms in the United States yields a handful of hard truths. In the murky world of intelligence, that's an unqualified achievement.
Автор: Drew, Joseph Название: Reforming local government ISBN: 9811565023 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789811565021 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13974.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Chapter 1. Why Reform Local Government?.- Chapter 2. A Theory of Local Government.- Chapter 3. Theory and Practice in Local Government Consolidations.- Chapter 4. Designing and Selling Effective Local Government Consolidations.- Chapter 5. Theory and Practice in Local Government Co-operative Production.- Chapter 6. Designing and Selling Effective Local Government Co-operative Arrangements.- Chapter 7. The Size and Shape of Local Government.- Chapter 8. The Political Framework for Local Government.- Chapter 9. The Remit of Local Government.- Chapter 10. Own-source Financing of Local Government.- Chapter 11. Inter-governmental Relations.- Chapter 12: Selling Re-created Local Government.
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