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
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Drawing on a variety of Jewish literary sources, including the Bible, rabbinic literature, and Jewish law and thought, the contributors explore different facets of the nuclear threat. Annotation copyr
A collection of essays, reflecting both empirical-applied and theoretical-historical research approaches, on the issue of the psychosocial foundations of war and peace, with particular emphasis on the
Focusing on the rapidly increasing interaction between biotechnology and advanced fiberoptics/electronics, Biosensors with Fiberoptics emphasizes the three major phases of the developmental process fr
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
Gender is a fascinating category, central and pervasive in some languages and totally absent in others. In this new, overall account of gender systems, over 200 languages are discussed, from English a
Johnson started a notebook of useful information when he began designing radar and microwave antennas in 1950, and has found it so handy that he cleaned it up, supplemented the notes, added references
The work of A. Sutzkever, one of the major twentieth-century masters of verse and the last of the great Yiddish poets, is presented to the English reader in this banquet of poetry, narrative verse, an
The formation of landforms by erosion, earth movements and volcanic activity has traditionally been thought of as geologically recent, often confined to the past few thousand years, the ice age, or pe
The first four volumes of Marcel Giraud's History of French Louisiana, published in France between 1951 and 1974, represent the most exhaustive and authoritative scholarly study of France's establishm
Into Kurdistan is a journey through the lives of a people without a country. Part travelogue and part political commentary, it portrays both the pride and the oppression of the Kurdish people. Sheri L
These classic essays by an important independent scholar cull the novels of the Afro-American writers James Weldon Johnson, W. E. B. Du Bois, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison for their political mean
This series edited by Nobel Prize winner Ida Prigogine and renowned authority Stuart A. Rice provides general information about a wide variety of topics in chemical physics. Experts present comprehens
Highly spiritual, the work in this collection represents both previously published and unpublished material by Olivia Ward Bush-Banks, a notable and neglected black woman writer. Including short ficti
The poems of noted African-American poet Effie Waller Smith were popular in magazines and in book form. Collected in this volume, they provide insight into the life and experience of this admired turn
The forty-six short stories collected in this volume were originally published in The Colored American Magazine or The Crisis between 1900 and 1920. The Introduction to the collection, written by Eliz
The important connection between financial processes and the macroeconomic environment has been revealed in some of today's most inventive economic analysis. Areas of current interest include stock ma
Liquid Crystallinity in Polymers' focuses on the wealth of scientific ideas and approaches which has accompanied the rapid growth of this field over the past two decades. The author highlights the mol
Jake Bernsteins New Guide to Investing in Metals Few investments arouse as much excitement, greed, and emotion as metals, especially precious metals. This book reveals why metals are such an att
Randy Kraft was highly intelligent, politically active, loyal to his friends, committed to his work--and the killer of 67 people--more than any other serial killer known. This book offers a glimpse in
In Law and Public Choice, Daniel Farber and Philip Frickey present a remarkably rich and accessible introduction to the driving principles of public choice. In this, the first systematic look at the i
Ironically depicts the lives of leather-merchants in the Leopoldstadt district of Vienna and the despair, poverty, and declining moral values of the 1930s
"Blurb & Contents" Frank von Hippel has been at the forefront of those scientists grappling with the troubled legacy of our Nuclear Age. Von Hippel offers insights about the choices we must make and h
In recent years the mediation movement has seen tremendous growth with significant advances being made in both research and practice. Despite these advances, researchers and practitioners have remaine
Chi analyzes changes in the Chinese Communist Party under the leadership of Deng, specifically Deng's efforts to expand the party's appeal from the rural areas to include urban intellectuals and his e
Polymers from biobased materials are polymers derived from renewable resources by chemical or combined chemical and mechanical methods, or produced directly in biological processes. Combinations of re
Characterizes the geology of Japan by describing the large scale construction of each geotectonically defined terrane and mass, and tracing the geotectonic history of the island chain. Also considers
Like King Arthur in Europe, the Persian hero Amir Hamzah has fought and connived his way through eight centuries of adventure throughout the Islamic world. Here is a new translation of a version of hi
Eliza Potter's 1859 autobiography expresses her indignation, abolitionist sentiments, fiery temper, and sheer joy of life as she reveals the private selves of the white women whose heads she "combed."
These essays (non-technical), written since the end of WWII by the eminent physicist and outspoken advocate of nuclear disarmament, focus on weapons research, arms control, and nuclear power (of which
"A well-documented survey of more than half a century of American plays dealing with issues of race, war, economic class, and gender. . . . In all, very much a book of our times, which even manages to
Cites over 1,000 books and articles by pan-European (Austrian-born) linguist Spitzer (1887-1960), including works published posthumously. In a variety of languages, his writings address etymology and
Contributors from the fields of psychology, sport medicine, exercise physiology, nursing, and education provide diversified approaches to physical fitness, with particular concern to the way psycholog
How is power acquired? Are there strategies and tactics that people can learn to increase their chances of becoming more powerful? Richard Brislin claims there are. In this work, he reveals the unwrit
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
