Product Description: Speed Wilson and Hattie Willis Wilson answered their own calling during The Civil War. Arrested for harboring a Confederate recruiting officer, Speed faced the prospect of military service against his conscience and leaving Hattie with six children and crops in the field...read more

Product Description: A complete guide to optical waveguide modes This in-depth work explains how transverse optical waveguide geometry influences field distribution and polarization properties. You will gain a thorough understanding of the fundamental physics of mode structure...read more

Product Description: The Southern Africa Migration Project (SAPM) launches its new series on migration and development. Migration has been an integral aspect of the labour markets across much of Africa for at least the last century, cutting across class and skill boundaries...read more

Product Description: The strategy team have technology ideas and frameworks that represent the best body of knowledge for creating real business value from technology, but only other teams not the strategy team can create the value, by broadly completing the strategy team s ideas...read more

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Product Description: At the start of the 1990s, there was great optimism that the end of the Cold War might also mean the end of the "refugee cycle" - both a breaking of the cycle of violence, persecution and flight, and the completion of the cycle for those able to return to their homes...read more

Product Description: Examines the character and different traditions of rural life in Europe, seeking to explore how these have become embedded in national identities and through this see expression in governmental policies, as well as economic, environmental and social change in country areas...read more

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Product Description: Provides a much-needed perspective on the geopolitical, economic and social consequences of refugees, drawing out key global themes and illustrating them with empirical and comparative material. The first section (of three) deals with the background of the refugee crisis; its effects in the countries of first asylum, predominantly in the poorer countries of the ``south''; and the new challenges facing governments and migrants in the richer countries of the ``north''...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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