Environmental Protection Agency (HB @ PB Price): Structuring Motivation in a Green Bureaucracy -- The Conflict Between Regulatory Style and Cultural Identity: ... Regulatory Style and Cultural Identity by RobertMcmahon Hardcover, 220 Pages, Published 2005 by Sussex Academic Press Import ISBN-13: 978-1-84519-206-8, ISBN: 1-84519-206-0
"By utilising the lenses of institutions and culture -- examining the relationship between regulator and regulated, dominant regulatory style, and interaction with the institutions of government -- this book challenges the contemporary wisdom that recommends holistic and integrated institutional forms that result in the decimation of existing cultural identifications. No sense of bureaucratic mission can be established where cultural ide ..."
The Environmental Protection Agency Structuring Motivation in a Green Bureaucracy: The Conflict between Regulatory Style and Cultural Identity by RobertMcmahon Hardcover, 220 Pages, Published 2006 by Sussex Academic Press ISBN-13: 978-1-903900-69-7, ISBN: 1-903900-69-7
"By utilising the lenses of institutions and culture -- examining the relationship between regulator and regulated, dominant regulatory style, and interaction with the institutions of government -- this book challenges the contemporary wisdom that recommends holistic and integrated institutional forms that result in the decimation of existing cultural identifications. No sense of bureaucratic mission can be established where cultural ide ..."
"In this radically new approach to morphological typology, the authors set out new and explicit methods for the typological classification of languages. Drawing on evidence from a diverse range of languages including Chinantec, Dakota, French, Fur, Icelandic, Ngiti and Sanskrit, the authors propose innovative ways of measuring inflectional complexity. Designed to engage graduate students and academic researchers, the book presents opport ..."
Voices from the Vietnam War(1st Edition) Stories from American, Asian, and Russian Veterans by Xiaobing Li, RobertMcmahon Hardcover, 296 Pages, Published 2010 by University Press Of Kentucky ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-2592-3, ISBN: 0-8131-2592-8
"The Vietnam War's influence on politics, foreign policy, and subsequent military campaigns is the center of much debate and analysis. But the impact on veterans across the globe, as well as the war's effects on individual lives and communities, is a largely neglected issue. As a consequence of cultural and legal barriers, the oral histories of the Vietnam War currently available in English are predictably one-sided, providing limited in ..."
"This book considers how languages have traditionally been divided into families, and asks how they should classified in the future. It describes and applies computer programs from biology and evolutionary genetics to data about languages and shows how the power of the computer can be harnessed to throw light on long-standing problems in historical linguistics. It tests current theories and hypotheses, shows how new ideas can be formulat ..."
Understanding the Medieval Meditative Ascent Augustine, Anselm, Boethius, and Dante by RobertMcmahon Hardcover, 284 Pages, Published 2006 by The Catholic University Of America Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8132-1437-5, ISBN: 0-8132-1437-8
"The Confessions, Proslogion, and Consolation of Philosophy, like the Divine Comedy, all enact Platonist ascents. Each has a pilgrim figure, guided dialogically on a journey of understanding. Each rises to progressively higher levels of understanding and culminates in a supreme intellectual vision. The higher levels contain and surpass earlier understandings and thereby reconfigure them, but implicitly, for the questing pilgrim rarely ..."
"The later books of the poem, therefore, are presented as morally better than the earlier, according to McMahon. Even more, Milton understood them to be aesthetically better."
Augustine's Prayerful Ascent(1st Edition) An Essay on the Literary Form of the Confessions by RobertMcmahon Hardcover, 175 Pages, Published 1989 by Univ Of Georgia Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-1126-5, ISBN: 0-8203-1126-X