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Taking Hollywood as its focus, this timely book provides a sustained, interdisciplinary perspective on memory and film from early cinema to the present. Considering the relationship between official and popular memory, the politics of memory, and the technological and representational shifts that have come to effect memory's contemporary mediation, the book contributes to the growing debate on the status and function of the past in cultural life and discourse.

The aim of this highly original book is twofold: to explain the reconciliation of religion and politics in the work of John Locke, and to explore the relevance of that reconciliation for politics in our own time. Confronted with deep social divisions over ultimate beliefs Locke sought to unite society in a single liberal community.

This outstanding text, a follow-up to the authors' award-winning 1982 text, provides a thorough treatment of economic welfare theory and develops a complete theoretical and empirical framework for applied project and policy evaluation. The authors illustrate how this theory can be used to develop policy analysis from both theory and estimation in a variety of areas including: international trade, the economics of technological change, agricultural economics, the economics of information, environmental economics, and the economics of extractive and renewable natural resources.

"Game Development with ActionScript" is the guide that can show you the way! You\'ll cover the basics of programming with ActionScript and will explore the incredible development possibilities offered by Macromedia Flash MX 2004. You'll develop the animation techniques you need to keep players coming back for more. Transform your game as you learn how ActionScript can be used to create amazing sound effects that flow seamlessly into your game's script.

This comprehensive guide to training covers everything from designing, delivering and evaluating training to advice on training as a career and advice on the use (and misuse) of online training, integrating all aspects of training into a coherent plan as well as personal development for trainers themselves. An ideal hand-holding guide for those new to training or wanting to develop their training skills, the book also includes valuable advice for trainers on training as a business and going it alone. Complete with a detailed appendix listing useful names, addresses, contact points and websites this practical handbook that proved itself invaluable in its first edition is now bigger and better than ever!

"Roger Haywood is one of the practitioners who have set the standards that the industry must follow. This is a must read." - Sandy Scott, Director General, the Chartered Insurance Institute. All organizations must manage their public relations (PR) with intelligence and integrity if they are to safeguard their reputation. "Corporate Reputation, the Brand and the Bottom Line" draws on real-life experience to give the reader clear guidance on how to plan, promote and implement effective PR programmes. It also examines the concept of the corporate reputation acting as an umbrella across brand reputations. There is practical advice on how to: avoid disasters; set easily understandable objectives; win favourable media coverage; control the cost of a programme; measure results; recruit the right people.

An updated edition of this complete first course in English for business. Business Basics now leads on to Business Focus - the new course for pre-intermediate Business english students.

Ethernet Passive Optical Networks is the IEEE's (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) approved architecture of choice for the next generation of broadband access. Written by an author of the IEEE 802.3ah standard, this is the first book to explain the EPON architecture, analyze its performance, and annotate the standard. For any engineer or graduate student building equipment for broadband access or service provider offering such service, this will serve as the "authorized" guide to EPON.