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This text provides a comprehensive review of knowledge regarding nuclear fission from both the purely scientific and practical points of view. Topics discussed include fission barriers, spontaneous fi
Silvio Scionti was a zestful, colorful figure, as well as a master pianist and teacher. Stories about him, particularly about his more than ten-year career at the University of NorthTexas, are legion,
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PALPA has been designed as a comprehensive psycholinguistic assessment of language processing in adult acquired aphasia. Intended both as a clinical instrument and research tool, PALPA is a set of res
Outlines twenty years of human rights abuses in Syria under the rule of President Hafez Asad, providing details of imprisonment without trial, torture, and other forms of opression
This second selection of articles by George Makdisi concentrates on the schools of religious thought and legal learning in the medieval Islamic world and their defence of a€?orthodoxya€?. The author a
Invites the reader to examine the concept of the One in several complex cultural and philosophical mileux. The uniqueness of the study is its collation of Eastern and Western sources and systems.
This outstanding book serves as both an introductory research work and a graduate text on condensed matter physics. It is also accessible to plasma physicists and their students. The emphasis is on ap
The conventional opposition of scholastic Aristotelianism and humanistic science has been increasingly questioned in recent years, and in these articles William Wallace aims to demonstrate that a prog
The 9th Conference, held September 1990, was organized around four main themes: general relativity and classical theories of gravitation, relativistic astrophysics and cosmology, experimental and obse
In the familiar and distinguished DLB format, presents contextual career biographies and appraisals of 24 poets, all born after the death of Queen Anne in August 1714, and with publishing careers rang
Available again, this popular edition of Peter Pan includes the complete and unabridged text accompanied by fifty full-color paintings by Scott Gustafson. Kirkus Reviews wrote "Gustafson's lusty oil p
As president of the University of Chicago from 1929 to 1951, Robert Maynard Hutchins came to be one of the most prominent and controversial figures in American higher education. To this day, his visio
Featuring 403 authoritative articles by world experts, this landmark volume is the most detailed sourcebook on astronomy and astrophysics ever published. Comprehensive yet concise, this extensively il
“Inside Texas: Culture, Identity and Houses, 1878–1920” is a 464 page book with 296 photos that tests and rejects the notion that Texas homes, like all things Texan, were unique and
The last of the Andean civilizations, Inca society was the product of complex historical and social processes of class and state formation. This study examines the contradictions, tensions and conflic
Both what leaders do--management--and what they plan for the future--leadership--is faulty today. Performance is low, commitment to excellence is lacking, our expectations are low, unchallenging, and
What is fair? How and when can punishment be legitimate? Is there recompense for human suffering? How can we understand ideas about immortality or an afterlife in the context of critical thinking on t
Challenges management teams to cooperate in new ways in order to bring about technological change that meets both business and employee goals for the organization. Offers a context and methodology for
In these essays, the leading French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez explains many of his most significant ideas about music. The essays are divided into four parts, the first three concerned with
Provides detailed coverage of the meeting and convention industry and careers available in it, types of meetings, how to plan programs, selecting sites, preparation of meeting materials, the managemen
Alcohol Interactions with Drugs and Chemicals is a concise volume that identifies, documents, and assesses the capacity of alcohol to alter the toxicity of chemical pollutants and drugs in animal mode
Discusses the subject of the complications of elective coronary angioplasty in detail, primarily for angioplasty operators and cardiologists who are involved in the care of patients with coronary arte
In this book Thomas Wren uncovers and assesses the largely hidden philosophicalassumptions about human motivation that have shaped contemporary psychological theories aboutmorality.
Photographs capture the faces and lifestyle of Germany during the 1920s, showing the now-destroyed archetucture, the art and film fads, and the busy street scenes and recreational outings that were a
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
For the past 25 years the theory of pseudodifferential operators has played an important role in many exciting and deep investigations into linear PDE. Over the past decade, this tool has also begun t
Liberation theology is a school of Roman Catholic thought which teaches that a primary duty of the church must be to promote social and economic justice. In this book, Christian Smith explains how and
Seven papers from a June 1988 conference in Washington, DC, report on epidemiological studies of War World II and Vietnam veterans. They include such topics as hepatitis, drugs, the psychology of capt
The author is a doctor who has developed a yoga-based program for coping with stress, which she presents after discussion of the causes and consequences of stress. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc.
China today is sexually (and in many other ways) a very repressive so ciety, yet ancient China was very different. Some of the earliest surviving literature of China is devoted to discussions of sexu
This is the first volume of a projected three-volume work on the little-known South Indian folk cult of the goddess Draupadi and on the classical epic, theMahabharata, that the cult brings to life in
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
