Классический труд американского политолога о принципах и практике функционирования демократии в неоднородных обществах. На примере четырех европейских демократий автор формулирует общие закономерности и механизмы разрешения неизбежных для этих обществ противоречий.

This major new text offers a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to this important area of human geography.

Java 1.5, code-named "Tiger", promises to be the most significant new version of Java since the introduction of the language. With over a hundred substantial changes to the core language, as well as numerous library and API additions, developers have a variety of new features, facilities, and techniques available.
But with so many changes, where do you start? You could read through the lengthy, often boring language specification; you could wait for the latest 500 page tome on concepts and theory; you could even play around with the new JDK, hoping you figure things out–or you can get straight to work with Java 1.5 Tiger: A Developer's Notebook.
This no-nonsense, down-and-dirty guide by bestselling Java authors Brett McLaughlin and David Flanagan skips all the boring prose and lecture, and jumps right into Tiger. You'll have a handle on the important new features of the language by the end of the first chapter, and be neck-deep in code before you hit the halfway point. Using the task-oriented format of this new series, you'll get complete practical coverage of generics, learn how boxing and unboxing affects your type conversions, understand the power of varargs, learn how to write enumerated types and annotations, master Java's new formatting methods and the for/in loop, and even get a grip on concurrency in the JVM.

Policies in the EU are largely made by national civil servants who prepare and implement decisions in Brussels as well as at home. Despite their important role, these national civil servants form a relatively hidden world that has received little attention from both the media and academics. This volume considers a wide variety of sources and research methods to answer such questions as: how many civil servants are actually involved in EU-related activities? What do these civil servants do when they engage with the EU? And how do they negotiate their dual roles?

The practices described in this book have been used successfully for thousands of years by Taoists trained by personal instruction. Readers should not undertake the practice without receiving personal transmission and training from a certified instructor of the Universal Tao, since certain of these practices, if done improperly, may cause injury or result in health problems. This book is intended to supplement individual training by the Universal Tao and to serve as a reference guide for these practices. Anyone who undertakes
these practices on the basis of this book alone, does so entirely at his or her own risk.

Выставка "Резные иконостасы и деревянная скульптура Русского Севера" посвящена одному из интереснейших видов художественного творчества - искусству деревянной пластики, явлению уникальному и наименее исследованному в древнерусской культуре. Автор-составитель Т.М.Кольцова.
Настоящий каталог включает сведения о 206 экспонатах, дополненных письменными и литературными источниками и словарем северных резчиков. Две трети экспонатов впервые введены в научный оборот.
The exhibition ' Carved icon-stasis and a wooden sculpture of Russian North ' is devoted to one of the most interesting kinds of art creativity - to art wooden plastics, to the phenomenon unique and to the least investigated in old russian culture. Author-composer T.M.Koltsova.
The present catalogue includes data on 206 exhibits added written both references and the dictionary of northern carvers. Two thirds of exhibits for the first time are entered into a scientific turn.

G'day! In this fifth book in Christi Friesen's Beyond Projects series, you will have a clayfully good time making polymer koalas, kangaroos, echidnas, gum tree leaves and flowers and lots more.Christi's warm writing style and helpful nudgings will stir up your creativity and imagination. Techniques include adding beads, stones and crystals to your designs, simple caning, color mixing, stylizing and surface treatments. Part project, part travelogue – all fun! Crikey!

This book sets out to provide a description of the chemical analysis of potentially contaminated land for all those involved in risk assessment. It is not intended as a recipe book of analytical methods. Indeed, with the wide range of techniques and options available, it would be impracticable and unnecessary to document all potential methods, and methods can rapidly become superseded. The book aims to assist in specifying appropriate analyses, relevant strategies for carrying out analyses and methods of interpreting results within the new risk-based legislative framework for contaminated land.