Nancy Friday's phenomenal bestsellers My Secret Garden and Forbidden Flowers broke new ground, revealing for the first time the complexity of women's secret sexual fantasies. In Women on Top, she retu
Montgomery offers a theory of caring, grounded in both clinical practice and theory, that advances caring as an intrinsic part of nursing. Demonstrating the depth and complexity of caring communicati
Becoming a Brother captures all the complexity and richness of a preschooler's responses to family change. Strictly speaking, four-year-old Simon became a sibling when Asher was born. But role transit
By formalizing recent syntactic theories for natural languages Stabler shows how their complexity can be handled without guesswork or oversimplification. By formalizing recent syntactic theories for
How does one explain the presence of educated recruits in movements that were overwhelmingly working class in composition? How did intellectuals function within the movements? In the first in-depth ex
Summarizing the status of the neural network field today, this comprehensive volume presents the software-based paradigms and the hardware implementations of neural networks and how they function. Mic
In this book contemporary perspectives are introduced within each major management function. It is organized around a traditional management approach - planning, organizing, leadership and control. Em
The ritual of real estate dominated the spiritual life of Texas for a decade, a ritual based on the mythic premise that developers function as divinely ordained princes who bring prosperity to the who
Ever since the groundbreaking work of J.J. Kohn in the early 1960s, there has been a significant interaction between the theory of partial differential equations and the function theory of several com
This uniquely comprehensive historical study analyses and explains how international societies function. The author examines ancient city states and then looks in more detail at European society and w
This uniquely comprehensive historical study analyses and explains how international societies function. The author examines ancient city states and then looks in more detail at European society and w
This work on vocal fold physiology comprises sections on phonatory mechanisms, voice source acoustics and parameterization, physiology, and assessment of the laryngeal function.
The rate and extent of drug absorption are a function of many factors, including the site of administration, the physiochemical characteristics of the compound, and the dosage form. The issues involve
Child sex abuse is a minefield of complexity and confusion for all involved. A genuinely multidisciplinary problem, it requires the close co-operation of a wide range of people with different tasks, f
Chris Demchak explores the reasons why military machines surprise their users and how they can change both the complexity and effectiveness of tactical organizations. She uses the Army's experiences w
Addresses basic structural and functional aspects of normal and abnormal memory function and applies this knowledge to a variety of clinical conditions associated with memory impairment, integrating t
The "function" and "notion" of literacy may be considered the keystone, a "filigree" principle underlying the educational, social, and cultural organiza tion of the soci
Ram Verma has assembled ten distinguished contributors to survey what is currently known about the relationship of the structure of DNA to its role in the function and expression of genes. The crucial
This book sets banking law against the background of general legal doctrines, discussing its operation in the context of its wider economic function. It examines the broad spectrum of banking organiza
Preface by Daniel C. Dennett Beginning with a general theory of function applied to body organs, behaviors, customs, and both inner and outer representations, Ruth Millik
Comprehensive textbook provides both mathematicians and applied scientists with a detailed treatment of orthogonal polynomials, principal properties of the gamma function, hypergeometric functions, Le
The definitive life of Jefferson in one volume, this biography relates Jefferson's private life and thought to his prominent public position and reveals the rich complexity of his development. As Pete
During the past two decades, there has been a gradual change of emphasis in ecological studies directed at unravelling the complexity of natural communities. Initially, the population approach was use
In Structure and Society in Literary History Robert Weimann, one of Germany's leading literary theoreticians, raises important questions about the social function of literature and sketches the outlin
This volume, co-published with the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, highlights the enormous complexity of the missionizing process in Oceania in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Many situations exist in which solutions to problems are represented as function space integrals. Such representations can be used to study the qualitative properties of the solutions and to evaluate
A detailed, scholarly study of Picasso's drawings analyzes 102 seminal works, examining his draftsmanship as a key to understanding the complexity of Picasso's art
This volume illustrates a unique set of ivory panels discovered in a single chamber of Fort Shalmaneser and discusses their iconography and their arrangement and function as palace furniture.
A comprehensive reference to the style of the 19th-century Arts and Crafts movement, with its hallmark simple designs, modern function, beautiful materials and honest craftsmanship. This guide is aime
Discover a range of fearsome and fantastic features you didn't even know you had in the Body Owner's Handbook. Learn how your auto-repair function works and where your top-of-the-range sensory equipme
To maintain router performance is a critical task for network managers. If routers dont function properly, then the network, e-mail and other significant applications experience trouble. This title fo
Organizations have always assessed and managed risk, but until recently this function has been isolated and little understood. Now risk management is moving into a broader spotlight, taking its rightf
Now in its Fourth Edition, this richly illustrated guide serves as an introduction to medical terminology. It provides extensive coverage of those terms relating to normal structure and function, diso
"Today we must regain, by conscious effort, the essential unity of function and form. It is not a question of 'city beautiful.' It is a question of discovering the forms that will most clearly give ex
Not as well known today as Volpne and The Alchemist, this comedy of London’s lower classes was a great favorite of Ben Jonson’s contemporaries. The richness of its comic invention and the complexity o
Birth, puberty, marriage, and death are, in all cultures, marked by ceremonies which may differ but are universal in function. Arnold van Gennep (1873-1957) was the first anthropologist to note the r
A classic of criticism that examines the nature, function, form, and contents of literature. "The most ordered, ranging and purposeful attempt...toward keeping the study of literature at once intellig
The components that make up electro-optical information and communication systems are advancing in capability and function. This work discusses techniques for flat display design and extension of comm
