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Is Oil Thicker Than Blood?
Knowledge about Timor's abundant offshore and onshore oil and gas reserves was the main economic rationale for Indonesia's annexation of East Timor - and the Western nations' tacit approval of this gross violation of human rights. This book outlines Timor's oil history and its underlying role in the present Timor conflict and the U.S. oil interests in this conflict. In conclusion, the social and environmental impact of those oil and gas exploration and production activities and its implications for an independent East Timor nation-state are discussed followed by some recommendations for action.
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Hr Transformation
Named as BusinessWeek's #1 Management Educator, expert Dave Ulrich and his team of authors bring human resources a whole new way of thinking and practicing moving the focus from internal issues to actively helping to set business strategies. Businesses of the future need all hands on deck when implementing new ways to stimulate grown and cost efficiency, and this includes human resources.This team presents a four-phase model of transformation that shows you stepby-step how to make meaningful progress in contributing to the performance of your company by redesigning HR to work as a strategic partnership.
Expectations Unfulfilled: Norwegian Migrants in Latin America, 1820-1940
In Expectations Unfulfilled scholars from Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Mexico, Norway, Spain and Sweden study the experiences of Norwegian migrants in Latin America between the Wars of Independence and World War II.
Impotent Superpower--potent Small State
Contending that smaller nations such as Norway and the Netherlands are more able than larger ones to make progress in bilateral or multilateral negotiations on human rights, this book provides a timely, comprehensive, and provocative survey of international human rights action. Egeland compares the human rights policies of the United States and Norway, and looks back on the past two American administrations to show the difficulties that superpower status creates in developing sound human rights policy.
Early Childhood Education and Care for Sustainability
This innovative and timely book explores issues and concerns surrounding Education for Sustainable Development in early childhood, providing a range of perspectives on how we can live and promote more healthy, just and sustainable lives. It examines the professional responsibility of Early Years practitioners to embed sustainability into their everyday practice and to ensure that young children are acquiring the knowledge and skills they need to become effective agents of change, committed problem-solvers and system-thinkers. Bringing together international examples of best practice, drawing on cutting-edge research, and providing an array of practical examples, chapters focus on issues such...
Quality Improvement in Early Childhood Education
This book explores international perspectives on quality improvement within the field of early childhood education and care. Many countries and governments are focusing on preschool quality as a way to improve entrenched inequalities and reduce social disadvantage and segregation: this book draws together various global case studies to showcase how different countries tackle aspects of quality improvement. The concept of quality is understood in different ways both culturally and contextually, and the implementation of measures to improve quality will differ from country to country. The book draws together case studies from numerous contexts to showcase various ways of working with aspects of quality improvement. Sharing important insights into policy and practice, this book guides a shared understanding of the complex nature of quality improvement within early childhood education and care.
Nordic Approaches to Peace Operations
A new examination of Nordic approaches to peace operations after the Cold War. It shows how the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) remain relevant for the study and practice of post-Cold War peace operations. This unique study is structured around eleven success conditions derived from an analysis of the lessons learned since the early 1990s, ensuring that the results of the case studies are directly comparable. These case studies are supplemented by an analysis of Nordics’ collective efforts to replace their old Cold War peacekeeping model with a new one that meets the requirements of the new era. The overall conclusion is that the Nordics have succeeded in meeting the...
