Partial table of contents: Reductive Coupling of Carbonyls to Alkenes: Adamantylideneadamantane. Reduction of Quinones with Hydriodic Acid: Benz[a]anthracene. Conversion of Ketones to Cyanohydrins: Be
Discusses how businesses can link their activities in design, manufacturing, accounting, and marketing to form a chain of customer action that improves efficiency and productivity
A wry, on-target look at the institutions of love and marriage recalls with humor first crushes, first dates, and first kisses, and explores the foibles of both modern and postmodern love
The purpose of this volume is to present the whole story of our research program on alternative interventions with delinquent youth. It is our goal to describe the development of an alternative interv
Heavily illustrated with color photographs, Arkansas Mammals is the comprehensive guide to the state’s mammal population. Endangered or threatened species of mammals and missing species known to
Avoid business blunders with Do s and Taboos of Hosting International Visitors "Roger Axtell is an international Emily Post." The New Yorker America hosts some 41 million international visitors who sp
Do students who work longer and harder learn more in college? Does joining a fraternity with a more academic flavor enhance a student's academic performance? When are the results from an innovation t
The first comprehensive guide to troubleshooting communications facilities, it covers all aspects of measurements and tests on data and telecommunications circuits, with emphasis on practical troubles
During the Civil War, from 1862-1865, Walt Whitman spent much of his time with wounded soldiers, both in the field and in the hospitals. The 40 notebooks he filled became the basis for the extraordina
Comics and cartoons are ingrained in American life.One critic has called comic books "crude, unimaginative, banal, vulgar, ultimately corrupting." They have been regarded with considerable s
Poetry. Ron Padgett's poems are remarkably clear, almost invisibly so, like a refreshing glass of cold water—poems in which he goes nit-picking with the OED, uses Tulsa plain-speak in the diction of B
Illus. in full color. "Drawing on a Chinese form of storytelling with seven shapes cut from a square of paper, Tompert recounts the tale of two fox fairies. Parker's pen-and-watercolor art adds drama,
Life had always been predictable for Ann . . . until she met her college roommates, Niki and Hildy. Niki is always in motion, brash, often vulgar, with a philosophy of "win at any cost.&q
The fiery polemic against the State, and the Constitution, from the individualist anarchist, together with an introduction, annotations and new afterword by James J Martin.
Discusses the psychological basis of police work, describes the personality traits associated with police, and looks at leadership, stress, decision making, and public attitudes towards crime
Civilized Women is concerned with the intersection of cultural constructions of gender and other systems of ranking among the Glebo people of Cape Palmas, in southeastern Liberia.
The editors work from the perspective of community colleges (Bronx & Nassau) with strong curricula in these fields. This is an annotated bibliography of some 1,000 books and nonprint materials tha
Broad in scope and packed with useful detail," Vision, Brain, and Cooperative Computation" explores what can be learned about visual cognition from an understanding of visual neurophysiology and of th
" For more than fifty years mountain-born Earl Palmer traveled the Southern Appalachians with his camera, recording his personal vision of the mountain people and their heritage. Over these year he cr
This interdisciplinary work presents an integration of theory and research on how children develop their thinking as they participate in cultural activity with the guidance and challenge of their care
With easy-to-understand examples, this guide provides the peace of mind of knowing one has the best coverage--medical, disability, fire, automobile--at the best price.
"As Eggbert, an adventurous ball, bounces his way into some very strange places, your first-graders get practice with basic punctuation, spelling, and phonics. Story sentences on the CD are formatted
A textbook for anyone who has a passing acquaintance with procedural languages, such as BASIC or Pascal, but who has not met a functional language like Lisp before. In addition to providing a step-by-
The articles collected in this book are concerned with the treatment of anaphora within generative grammar, specifically, within Chomsky's 'Ex tended Standard Theory' (EST). Since the inception of th
Connie Ramos, a woman in her mid-thirties, has been declared insane. But Connie is overwhelmingly sane, merely tuned to the future, and able to communicate with the year 2137. As her doctors persuade
In this classic simulation, a group is stranded on a rubber life raft with minimal supplies including:* Fishing kit* Mosquito netting* Shark repellant* Shaving mirror* Two chocolate bars . . . and ten
This book deals with the history of Hong Kong in the first half of the twentieth century which affected or, as it was frequently the case, were affected by the political developments in China, especia
This is a full and detailed account of China's antiforeignism in the twentieth century, with an emphasis on the post-1949 period. The author expounds fully on the factors underlying its complicated de
With increasing pollution, it is important for children to gain an understanding of the way in which the natural world is delicately balanced and how dependant humans are on a stable environment in wh
Germans to America provides both genealogists and researchers of family history with the first extensive, indexed source of German-surname immigrants who came to all ports in the United States between
Germans to America provides both genealogists and researchers of family history with the first extensive, indexed source of German-surname immigrants who came to all ports in the United States between
Focusing on medieval women with a wide range of occupations and life-styles, the interdisciplinary essays in this collection examine women's activities within the patriarchal structures of the time. I
Deals with the structure of the microenterprise sector, government policies towards microenterprises, informal credit markets, financial and technical services, institutional aspects and a review of t
A saga of country life in America and Ireland in the 1950s follows the fortunes of Cassie, whose childhood makes her more familiar with stigma and rejection than happiness. The loss of her second chil
Charles G. Clarke (1899-1983) was a prolific Hollywood cinematographer from the 1920s through the early 1960s. His autobiography is filled with unique anecdotes and personal observations on those with
A developmental study of men in mandatory military service based on interviews of young soldiers who had recently completed their service in Israel. The book deals with the central issues of transitio
Everyone loves Willy the wind-up mouse, while Alexander the real mouse is chased away with brooms and mousetraps. Wouldn't it be wonderful to be loved and cuddled, thinks Alexander, and he wishes he c
