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Personality disorders have been recognized as categories of psychiatric illness, and still need to be better defined. This book interprets the pers...

The study of Panhandle Eastern's history shows the relationship between regulatory policy and the modern corporation in the twentieth century from ...

Managing migration promises to be one of the most difficult challenges of the twenty-first century. It will be even more difficult for south Europe...

Linguistic, ethnic, and economic diversity is a major factor influencing how school reform ought to be accomplished at local, state, and government...

This book serves as a compact introduction to the economic analysis of law and organization. At the same time it covers a broad spectrum of issues....

The European Union and European identity were until recently the objects of separate branches of scholarship and inquiry. With the entry of Central...

This book offers a scholarly yet accessible overview of the role of lobbying in American politics. It draws upon extant research as well as origina...

This is the first book to examine in detail the roles that the news media can play in an ongoing peace process. Gadi Wolfsfeld explains how the pre...

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

Case is an accessible introduction for students of linguistics to the ways relations between words in sentences are marked in languages. Case is fu...

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 book provides a thorough description of classical electromagnetic radiation, starting from Maxwell's equations, and moving on to show how fund...

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...

Dawkins examines the forces that made the nude a contentious image in the early Third Republic. Analyzing the evolving relationship between the fin...

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...

This text is a highly accessible and authoritative approach to the theory and practice of teaching writing to students of English. This book is an...

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...

'To qualify as human, a hominid has, so to say, to justify himself by works: the criteria are no longer biological so much as cultural'. In this 19...

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...