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This book, first published in 2001, examines the impact of increased legislative power and political authority on the internal development of the E...

This comprehensive 2002 book examines approaches to teaching students who aim to make the leap from 'advanced' or 'superior' proficiency in a forei...

Through either direct exposure or media coverage of the online world, consumers have built certain expectations around interactivity. Activities li...

This authoritative textbook - the second volume of a comprehensive three-volume course on theoretical astrophysics - deals with stellar physics. De...

Economics and the Global Environment is a path-breaking, comprehensive analysis of how economic and environmental systems mesh in the international...

This extensive survey of migration in the modern world begins in the sixteenth century with the establishment of European colonies overseas, and co...

Salmonella enterica encompasses a diverse range of bacteria that cause a spectrum of diseases in many hosts. Advancements in prevention and treatme...

Charitable Knowledge explores the interconnections between medical teaching, medical knowledge, and medical authority in eighteenth-century London....

This book provides a powerful theoretical framework for understanding cross-national cultural differences. Focusing on France and America, it analy...

Joining Society asks precise questions: To what are the young socialized? Which skills, modes of thinking or action are required from them and what...

Sandy Isenstadt examines how architects, interior designers, and landscape designers worked to enhance spatial perception in middle class houses vi...

This 1998 book describes the physics of superconductivity and superfluidity, macroscopic quantum phenomena found in many conductors at low temperat...

The Provincetown Players was a major cultural institution in Greenwich Village from 1916 to 1922, when American Modernism was conceived and develop...

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in Engli...

This book explores teachers' understanding of the personal and professional experiences that have informed their language teaching. The intent of ...

Patients with advanced cancer increasingly receive end-of-life care from a variety of health care professionals, physicians and nurses. These profe...

This is a critical and historical interpretation of 'Oriental' influences on American modernist poetry. Kern equates Fenollosa and Pound's 'discove...

Trade Policy in Developing Countries is aimed at academics, graduate students and professional, policy-oriented economists. It is the first work in...

Product Description This treatment provides an exposition of discrete time dynamic processes evolving over an infinite horizon. Chapter 1 revi...

Human behavior is very flexible and ontogenetic potential adds to the scope of variability of developmental paths. Therefore, development in the li...

The present national reform agendas stress that rigorous content and high expectations be accessible to all students, including students from group...

In the last twenty to thirty years, a new way to understand complex systems has emerged in the natural sciences - an approach often called non-line...

Public opinion has played a crucial role in the transitions from war to peace in Israel since the 1967 Six Day war. Security Threatened is the firs...

A blend of theoretical and policy-oriented analysis, this book provides a comprehensive assessment of the causes and implications of the 1992-3 cri...

Engineers need hands-on experience in solving complex engineering problems with computers. This text introduces numerical methods and shows how to ...

This book, first published in 2000, reviews psychological research on practical intelligence and describes its importance in everyday life. The aut...

Roberto Rossellini's Rome Open City instantly, markedly, and permanently changed the landscape of film history. Made at the end of World War II, it...

Contrasts are statistical procedures for asking focused questions of data. Compared to diffuse or omnibus questions, focused questions are characte...

In this 2006 volume Smith examines the early modern science of generation, which included the study of animal conception, heredity, and fetal devel...

The degree to which human conditions and the natural environment are vulnerable to the potential effects of climate change is a key concern for gov...

Psychologists, sociologists, philosophers, historians - and even scientists themselves - have often tried to decipher the basis for creativity in s...

The goal of this book is to present and evaluate the concept of dynamic testing. Unlike 'static' tests such as the SAT or IQ tests, dynamic testing...

Using controversy over abortion as a lens through which to compare the political process and role of the media in these two very different democrac...

Raging Bull (1980) represents American film making at its best. Since its initial release, the film has been called the greatest film of the 1980s,...

A striking but little recognized change in race relations during the past two decades has seen the declining levels of racial segregation in most o...

Effective global response to climate change requires the development and transfer of environmentally sound technologies between and within countrie...

From the founding editor-in-chief of 'Java Report Online' comes advanced information on JDBC, servlets, JNI, RMI, Java IDL, and EJBs - the basic bu...

Fundamentals of OOP and Data Structures in Java is a text for an introductory course on classical data structures. Part One of the book presents th...

Originally published in 1995, The Cambridge Gazetteer of the United States and Canada contains more than 12,000 entries of places of all kinds. It ...

Edward Keene argues that the conventional idea of an 'anarchical society' of equal and independent sovereign states is an inadequate description of...

Over the last 20 years, developments in climatology have provided an amazing array of explanations for the pattern of world climates. This textbook...

We all rely on a familiar set of indicators - interest rates, unemployment, inflation, the Dow Jones index, and GDP, for example - to gauge the per...

This concise guide to planning, writing, and presenting research is intended for biology students of all levels, especially those in behavioral eco...

E-commerce is still a new and volatile industry, but each day a new enterprise pops up promising to be the next big thing. The real challenge is to...

Software engineering is becoming more procedural and controlled, but the estimation of IT projects is still regarded as a 'black art'. IT Project ...

Scientific evidence is crucial in a burgeoning number of litigated cases, legislative enactments, regulatory decisions, and scholarly arguments. Ev...

This book treats learning a programming language much like learning a spoken language: programming is best learned by immersion. Through building i...

This book examines from a multidisciplinary viewpoint the question of what we mean - what we should mean - by setting sustainability as a goal for ...