Author: United States. Arms Control and Disarmament AgencyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arms control
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency 1990 and 1991 Annual Reports
Author: United States. Arms Control and Disarmament AgencyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arms control
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
1991 Annual Report on Alaska's Mineral Resources
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Annual Reports
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: Saint Lawrence Seaway Development CorporationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Talking Dialogue
Author: Karsten LehmannPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110527723
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Throughout the last two decades, the modern dialogue movement has gained worldwide significance. The knowledge about its origins is, however, still very limited. This book presents a wide range of insights from eleven case studies into the early history of several important international interreligious/interfaith dialogue organizations that have shaped the modern development of interreligious dialogue from the late nineteenth century up to the present. Based on new archival research, they describe, on the one hand, how these actors put their ideals into practice and, on the other, how they faced many challenges as pioneers in the establishment of new interreligious/interfaith organizational structures. This book concludes with a comparison of those case studies, bringing to light new and broader historico-sociological understanding of the beginnings of international and multi-religious interreligious/interfaith dialogue organizations over more than one century. The World’s Parliament of Religions / 1893 The Religiöser Menschheitsbund / 1921 The World Congress of Faiths / 1933-1950 The Committee on the Church and the Jewish People of the World Council of Churches / 1961 The Temple of Understanding / 1968 The International Association for Religious Freedom / 1969 The World Conference on Religion and Peace / 1970 The Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions / 1989-1991 The Oxford International Interfaith Centre / 1993 The United Religions Initiative / 2000 The Universal Peace Federation / 2005 Based on these analyses, the authors identify three distinct groups with sometimes-conflicting interests that are shaping the movement: individual religious virtuosi, countercultural activists, and representatives of religious institutions. Published in cooperation with the King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious & Intercultural Dialogue, Vienna.
Energy Research Abstracts
Author: When Government Fails
Author: Mark BaldassarePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520921368
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
When Orange County, California, filed for Chapter 9 protection on December 6, 1994, it became the largest municipality in United States history to declare bankruptcy. In the first comprehensive analysis of this momentous fiscal crisis, Mark Baldassare uncovers the many twists and turns from the dark days in December 1994 to the financial recovery of June 1996. Utilizing a wealth of primary materials from the county government and Merrill Lynch, as well as interviews with key officials and players in this drama, Mark Baldassare untangles the causes of this $1.64 billion fiasco. He finds three factors critical to understanding the bankruptcy: one, the political fragmentation of the numerous local governments in the area; two, the fiscal conservatism underlying voters' feelings about their tax dollars; three, the financial austerity in state government and in meeting rising state expenditures. Baldassare finds that these forces help to explain how a county known for its affluence and conservative politics could have allowed its cities' school, water, transportation, and sanitation agencies to be held hostage to this failed investment pool. Meticulously examining the events that led up to the bankruptcy, the local officials' response to the fiscal emergency, and the road to fiscal recovery—as well as the governmental reforms engendered by the crisis—When Government Fails is a dramatic and instructive economic morality tale. Eminently readable, it underlines the dangers inherent in a freewheeling bull economy and the imperatives of local and state governments to protect fiscal assets. As Baldassare shows, Orange County need not—and should not—happen again.
Australian National Bibliography: 1992
Author: National Library of AustraliaPublisher: National Library Australia
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 1976
Book Description
Resources in Education
Author: The Power of Promise
Author: M V RamanaPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 8184755597
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 565
Book Description
Nuclear power has been held out as possibly the most important source of energy for India. And the dream of a nuclear-powered India has been supported by huge financial budgets and high-level political commitment for over six decades. Nuclear power has also been presented as safe, environmentally benign and cheap. Physicist and writer M.V. Ramana offers a detailed narrative of the evolution of India’s nuclear energy programme, examining different aspects of it and the claims of success made on its behalf. In The Power of Promise he makes a historically nuanced and compelling argument as to why the nuclear energy programme has failed in the past and why its future is dubious. Ramana shows that nuclear power has been more expensive than conventional forms of electricity generation, that the ever-present risk of catastrophic accidents is heightened by observed organizational inadequacies at nuclear facilities, and that existing nuclear fuel cycle facilities have been correlated with impacts on public health and the environment. He offers detailed information and analysis that should serve to deepen the debate on whether India should indeed embark on a massive nuclear programme.