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Evaluation--whether called by this name, quality assurance, audit, accreditation, or others--is an important social activity. Any organization that "lives in public" must now evaluate its activities, be evaluated by others, or evaluate others. What are the origins of this wave of evaluation? And, what worthwhile results emerge from it?

The Evaluation Society argues that if we want to understand many of the norms, values, and expectations that we, sometimes unknowingly, bring to evaluation, we should explore how evaluation is demanded, formatted, and shaped by two great...

This book explores how NGOs have been influential in shaping global biodiversity, conservation policy, and practice. It encapsulates a growing body of literature that has questioned the mandates, roles, and effectiveness of these organizations-and the critique of these critics. This volume seeks to nurture an open conversation about contemporary NGO practices through analysis and engagement.

The World Heritage community is currently adopting policies to mainstream human rights as part of a wider sustainability agenda. This book provides a review of World Heritage policy at the global level and case studies from Asia-Pacific to show how human rights issues impact on both natural and cultural heritage sites and their conservation and management.

The book explores the various rights issues experienced in World Heritage sites and analyzes the diverse social, cultural and legal challenges and responses at both regional and global level. Detailed case studies are included...

The World Heritage community is currently adopting policies to mainstream human rights as part of a wider sustainability agenda. This book provides a review of World Heritage policy at the global level and case studies from Asia-Pacific to show how human rights issues impact on both natural and cultural heritage sites and their conservation and management.

The book explores the various rights issues experienced in World Heritage sites and analyzes the diverse social, cultural and legal challenges and responses at both regional and global level. Detailed case studies are included...

This monograph, translated from the original Danish, concentrates on the plan and execution of 'Messiah', its singers and performances, manuscripts and editions, and aesthetics. . . . For all scholarly collections. "Library Journal"

Each chapter follows a similar format with core anatomy linked...

The development of cavalry firearms and the widespread disappearance of armor from the European battlefield saw a decline in the use of the cavalry lance in early modern warfare. However, by 1800 the lance, much changed from its medieval predecessors in both form and function, was back.

During the next century the use of the lance spread to the armed forces of almost every Western country, seeing action in every major conflict from the Napoleonic Wars to World War I including the Crimean and Franco-Prussian wars and across the Atlantic in the American Civil War. The lance even...