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Empowered Participation: Reinventing Urban Democracy

Empowered Participation: Reinventing Urban Democracy

Archon Fung

Their participation makes organizations more fair and effective. Though the book focuses on Chicago's municipal agencies, its lessons are applicable to many American cities.
Full Disclosure: The Perils and Promise of Transparency

Full Disclosure: The Perils and Promise of Transparency

Archon Fung

They constitute a light-handed approach to governance that empowers citizens. However, as Full Disclosure shows these policies are frequently ineffective or counterproductive.
Deepening Democracy: Institutional Innovations in Empowered ...

Deepening Democracy: Institutional Innovations in Empowered ...

Archon Fung

Volume IV of the Real Utopias Project. Contributions by Rebecca Abers, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Joshua Cohen, Patrick Heller, T.M. Thomas Isaac, Bradley Karkkainen, Rebecca Krantz, Jane Mansbridge, Joel Rogers, Craig W. Thomas.
The Oracle Sequence: The Archon

The Oracle Sequence: The Archon

Catherine Fisher

Breathtaking sequel to The Oracle, the Archon must face a journey of treachery and adventure across the pitiless desert in a bid to save his people .
Numbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence of ...

Numbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence of ...

Kaiser Fung

These are the statistics that rule your life, your job, your commute, your vacation, your food, your health, your money, and your success.
Transboundary Environmental Governance: Inland, Coastal and ...

Transboundary Environmental Governance: Inland, Coastal and ...

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... about Empowered Participatory Governance' in Archon FungandErik OlinWright (eds), Deepening Democracy (Verso,2003) 3, 38; RenaI Steinzor, 'The Corruptionof Civic Environmentalism' (2000) 30(10) Environmental Law Reporter 909.
The Militarization and Weaponization of Space

The Militarization and Weaponization of Space

Matthew Mowthorpe

... Ra'anan and Robert L., Pfaltzgraff, International Security Dimensions of Space (Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1 984), 7 1 . 37. Robinson, 71. 38. Paul B. Stares, The Militarization of Space (New York: Cornell University Press, 1985), 137. 39.
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Archon

Lana Krumwiede

Lana Krumwiede. Lana Krumwiede To the amazing Molly Jaffa, without whom this book would. Title Page.
Stardom and the Aesthetics of Neorealism: Ingrid Bergman in ...

Stardom and the Aesthetics of Neorealism: Ingrid Bergman in ...

Ora Gelley

Ed. Alan O'Leary and Catherine O'Rawe. Overbey, David, ed. and trans. Springtime in Italy: A Reader on Neo-Realism. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1979. Paladini, Aldo. “Il Caso di Rossellini” (“The Case of Rossellini”). Cinema Nouvo.
Andrew Marvell's Liminal Lyrics: The Space Between

Andrew Marvell's Liminal Lyrics: The Space Between

Joan Faust

2. Harold E. Toliver, “Marvell's Songs and Pictorial Exhibits,” in Tercentenary Es- says in Honor of Andrew Marvell, ed. Kenneth Friedenreich (Hamden, CT: Archon, 1977),113–14. 3. See Nigel Smith, Andrew Marvell: The Chameleon ( New ...
The Cambridge World History

The Cambridge World History

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131. Part of the research for this chapter was funded by the Fung Global Fellows Program at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. Adam Clulow would like to thank Michael Gordin, Helder De Schutter, David Kiwuwa, ...
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CB

Barry J. Babin

Carolyn Yoon, Gilles Laurent, Helen H. Fung, Richard Gonzales, Angela H. Gutchess, Trey Hedden, Raphaelle Lambert-Pandraud, et al., “Cognition, .... Here's Why,” Wonk blog, November 18, 2013, http://www.washingtonpost.com/ blogs ...
The Cambridge World History: Volume 6, The Construction of a ...

The Cambridge World History: Volume 6, The Construction of a ...

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131. Part of the research for this chapter was funded by the Fung Global Fellows Program at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. Adam Clulow would like to thank Michael Gordin, Helder De Schutter, David Kiwuwa, ...
Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960

Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960

Brenda Gayle Plummer

These issues are delineated in Imanuel Geiss, The PanAfrican Movement ( London: Methuen, 1974); Wilson Jeremiah Moses, The Golden Age of Black Nationalism (Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1978). 7. Floyd Miller, The Search for a Black ...
The Experience of Several Eminent Methodist Preachers: With ...

The Experience of Several Eminent Methodist Preachers: With ...

John Pawson

Colley, Jay, Coughlan.Beli, Owen, and fome others. When dinner was over, one faid, " Our LokD has promifed, whatfoever two or three of vou fhall agree to afk in MY name, l will do it. We »gree now." An. hymn was fung. It leemed as if the glory  ...
Improving Irrigation in Asia: Sustainable Performance of an ...

Improving Irrigation in Asia: Sustainable Performance of an ...

Elinor Ostrom

The authors of this work, Elinor Ostrom, Wai Fung Lam, Prachanda Pradhan and Ganesh P. Shivakoti provide detailed analysis of these interventions and support the conclusion that farmers can build on an innovative intervention that not only ...
Scientific Discourse in John Donne’s Eschatological Poetry

Scientific Discourse in John Donne’s Eschatological Poetry

Ludmila Makuchowska

Essential Articles: John Donne's Poetry. Roberts, John ( ed.). Hamden, Connecticut: Archon, 1975: 279-304. Frontain, Raymond-Jean and Frances M. Malpezzi (eds.) John Donne's Religious Imagination: Essays in Honor of John T. Shawcross ...
Annual Reports on NMR Spectroscopy

Annual Reports on NMR Spectroscopy

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T. Nowak and A. S. Mildvan, Biochemistry, 1972, 11, 2819. 290. G. H. Reed and M. Cohn, /. Biol. Chem., 1973, 248, 6436. 291. C. H. Fung, A. S. Mildvan, A. Allerhand, R. Komoroski and M. C. Scrutton, Biochemistry, 1973, 12, 621. 292.
Global Change in Multispecies Systems:

Global Change in Multispecies Systems:

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Rossberg, A.G., Farnsworth, K.D., Satoh, K., Pinnegar, J.K., 2011. ... Shephard, S. , Fung, T., Houle, J.E., Farnsworth, K.D., Reid, D.G., Rossberg, A.G., 2012. Size- selective fishing drives ... M.E., 2012. Perturbing a marine 520 Axel G. Rossberg.
Intangible Cultural Heritage in Contemporary China: The ...

Intangible Cultural Heritage in Contemporary China: The ...

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... found at some of the shrines. Figure 4.7 Sheung Fung Lane Fuk Tak Temple ( 常豐里福德祠) (Photo by Ho Yin Lee) For example, historical evidence that shows the shrines were built. 58 Ho Yin Lee, Lynne D. DiStefano and Katie Cummer.
Economic Development in Provincial China: The Central ...

Economic Development in Provincial China: The Central ...

Eduard B. Vermeer

101 K. I. Fung, 'Urban Sprawl in China: Some Causative Factors', in LaurenceJ. C . Ma and Edward W. Hanten (eds), Urban Development in Modem China, Boulder Co., 1981, pp. 194-221. 102 Industrial and City Construction Bureau of the ...
Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods 2004

Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods 2004

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Rev. Modern Phys., 73(4):913–975, 2001. 8. J.C.H Fung and J.C. Vassilicos. Inertial particle segregation by turbulence. Phys. Rev. E, 68:046309, 2003. 9. M. Hairer and G. A. Pavliotis. Periodic homogenization for hypoelliptic diffusions. J. Stat.
Network Security Technologies

Network Security Technologies

Kwok T. Fung

Saadat Malik, Network Security Principles and Practices, Cisco Press, 2003. IETF RFC 2356: Sun's SKIP Firewall Traversal for Mobile IP, G. Montenegro and V. Gupta, June 1998. SKIP Security, IBM Document. 802.11 WEP: Concepts and ...
The Global and Regional in China’s Nation-Formation

The Global and Regional in China’s Nation-Formation

Prasenjit Duara

Arrighi, Giovanni, Takeshi Hamashita and Mark Selden, eds. The Resurgence of East Asia: 500, 150 and 50 Year Perspectives. London and New York: Routledge , 2003a. Arrighi, Giovanni, Po-keung Hui, Ho-Fung Hung and Mark Selden.
Inside China's Automobile Factories

Inside China's Automobile Factories

Lu Zhang

... Jane Gordon, Burak Gruel, Kevan Harris, Phillip Hough, Ho-fung Hung, Ulrich Jürgens, Rachael Kamel, Scott Kennedy, Margaret Keck, Dustin Kidd, Sarosh Kuruvilla, Byoung-Hoon Lee, Joseph Tse-Hei Lee, Mary Nolan, Stephen Philion,  ...
Cyber Insecurity: Navigating the Perils of the Next ...

Cyber Insecurity: Navigating the Perils of the Next ...

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Henry Farrell, “Remembering Aaron Swartz,” Crooked Timber, January 12, 2013, http://crookedtimber.org/2013/01/12/remembering-aaron-swartz/. 3. Brian Fung, “ The Justice Department Used This Law to Pursue Aaron Swartz. Now It's Open ...
The Last Emperors of Vietnam: From Tu Duc to Bao Dai

The Last Emperors of Vietnam: From Tu Duc to Bao Dai

Oscar Chapuis

From Tu Duc to Bao Dai Oscar Chapuis. 95 percent agricultural ... But the most notorious group, the Black Flags under Luu Vinh Phuoc's (Liu Yu Fung) command, controlled the important centers of Tuyen Quang and Thai Nguyen. After the ...
Zhonghua yi xue za zhi: Chinese medical journal

Zhonghua yi xue za zhi: Chinese medical journal

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___._._--_-- l 'I- -T I Chinese Medical Journal (Taipei) 2002;65:4 9-54 Original Chaw-Fung Jiang Kam-Wing Ng So-Wan Tan Chiang-Shui Wu Hsueh-Chuan Chen Chung-Ting Liang Yone-Hwe Chen Divison of Gastroenterology, Department of ...
A Passion for Facts: Social Surveys and the Construction of ...

A Passion for Facts: Social Surveys and the Construction of ...

Tong Lam

... Richard Burden,Yuehtsen Juliette Chung, Linda Rui Feng,Evie Gu,Mareile Haase, Katsuya Hirano,Patrick Ho, Kajri Jain, Ken Kawashima,Sho Konishi,Fung Kwan, Thomas Lahusen, Ken Lam, Waipui Lam, Suchuan Lee, Tania Li, Victor Li,  ...
香港影片大全

香港影片大全

Hong Kong. Urban Council

... Lung Kong, Mak Kay, Pak Tip, Yau Kei, James Yi Synopsis: Rich heiress Danielle Lau (Patricia Lam Fung) loves Au Kim-wah (Lung Kong) but Au rejects her love out of an inferiority complex. Danielle shifts her affections to Elvis (Mak Kay), ...

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