Subject(s): Elections | Voting | Representative government and representation Summary: "Elections lie at the heart of democracy, and this book seeks to understand how the rules governing those elections are chosen. Drawing on both broad comparisons and detailed case studies, it focuses upon the electoral rules that govern what sorts of pref

Subject(s): Human-alien encounters -- Fiction | Space flight -- Fiction Summary: "An object one hundred miles across, originating from Octans constellation, on a trajectory for our sun. Now its journey is almost over. And humanity's journey is about to begin. As the Near-Earth Object--dubbed "Keanu"--approaches, two manned vehic

Subject(s): Older people -- Humor | Old age -- Humor Summary: Wry essays about the advantages and indulgences of aging. No matter what they say, sixty will never be the new forty. But 65-year-old British writer Virginia Ironside is determined to convince people that getting old is not so bad--even for a Baby Boomer who interviewed the Rolling S

Subject(s): Language and languages -- Origin | Linguistic change | Anthropological linguistics Summary: "There are more than six thousand human languages, each one unique. For the last five hundred years, people have argued about how important language differences are. This book traces that history and shows how language differences have ge

Subject(s): Balinese literature -- Texts | Balinese language -- Transliteration into Indonesian Summary: A literary mirror" is the first English-language work to comprehensively analyse Indonesian-language literature from Bali from a literary and cultural viewpoint. It covers the period from 1920 to 2000. This is an extremely rich field for

Subject(s): International Monetary Fund | Financial crises -- History Summary: "A topical insider view of causes and consequences of financial crises since the Mexican collapse of 1995. The book includes a detailed exploration of recent and ongoing firestorms, including the near meltdown of the global financial system and the euro crisis, a

Subject(s): Mass media -- Audiences | Mass media and culture Summary: "This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the complexity and diversity of audience studies in the advent of digital media. -Recognizes and appreciates valuable traditional approaches and identifies how they can be applied to, and evolve with, the changing media wo

Subject(s): United States. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms -- Fiction -- Officials and employees | Young women -- Fiction | Political corruption -- Fiction | Political fiction | Europe, Eastern -- Fiction Summary: Jack McClure, Special Advisor and closest friend to the new President of the United States, takes on a personal mission alo

Subject(s): Employee selection | Employee selection -- Handbooks, manuals, etc Summary: The Handbook of Employee Selection provides a comprehensive review of a) contemporary personnel selection instruments, including the technical methodology for their development and evaluation of their effectiveness, b) the organizational systems necessary fo

Subject(s): Creative ability Summary: "The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity is a comprehensive scholarly handbook on creativity from the most respected psychologists, researchers, and educators. This handbook serves both as a thorough introduction to the field of creativity and as an invaluable reference and current source of important info