Indexes 191 separate collections of wedding music, containing several thousand different titles and renditions. In addition to traditional wedding compositions, hundreds of modern love songs are also
Eighteenth-century Europe, commonly referred to as the Age of Enlightenment, witnessed a growing interest in China on the part of many great thinkers, inspired by reports of the Jesuit missionaries.
An internationally recognized expert in the field comprehensively covers the numerous classes of organic polycoordinated iodine compounds. The introductory chapter provides an overview of the most sig
"Behavioral Endocrinology" addresses a major area within the field of biological psychology, presenting an up-to-date, comprehensive survey of basic concepts in the field at the advanced undergraduate
The most prolific ethnographic filmmaker in the world, a pioneer of cinema verite and one of the earliest ethnographers of African societies, Jean Rouch (1917-) remains a controversial and often misun
Technical improvements in ultrasonic instrumentation have facilitated the visualization and evaluation of the foetal anatomy. They have also permitted new methods of treatment for foetal and gynaecolo
Butler (1886-1953), on the faculty of the U. of Chicago from 1928 to 1952, is considered one of library science's greatest intellects. In this biography, Richardson provides a well-documented narrativ
A detailed study of painting and sculpture in sixteenthand seventeenth-century Germany and the Netherlands notes influences and styles as well as drawing attention to the work of lesser-known painters
The incredible autobiography of an incredible man. Souchy fought in the Spanish Revolution;was a serious and knowledgeable student of Proudhon, Bakunin, Kropotkin and Gustav Landauer; a consistent war
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
Writing for the general reader or student, Wald has completely revised and updated this highly regarded work to include recent developments in black hole physics and cosmology. Nature called the first
Can a man be content with a piece of bread and some change tossed his way from a passerby?Today's modern welfare state expects he can. Those who control the money in our society think that giving a do
A supplemental text for an undergraduate physics course in physical kinetics and hydrodynamics, designed to help students master the basic physics of irreversible statistical processes. Also discusse
More than 99 percent of all life that has ever existed on this planet is extinct. Moreover, human acceleration of the extinction of species has created a crisis in biodiversity. How can the history of
Shows how Soviet reformers, believing the East German could be transformed into a legitimate and viable Socialist state, took steps that led instead to its collapse. Annotation copyright Book News, In
Illustrations, one of the rarest books on American birds, established John Cassin (1813-1869) as the leading American ornithologist of his day. Now, in a superb facsimile edition from Wind River Press
This two-volume work is the first published comprehensive history of military medicine in the Western world. The first volume deals with the period beginning with Sumer (4000 B.C.) and concludes with
In this volume a series of co-ordinated studies demonstrates that examining time as a key component of the social organization of health provides a new and revealing perspective on the sociology of me
Changing Cultures brings together a selection of challenging essays which have their roots in the fertile convergence of feminism, sociology and cultural studies.Themes include the assessment of femin
"The Core Language Engine" presents the theoretical and engineering advances embodied in one of the most comprehensive natural language processing systems designed to date. Recent research results fro
Between 1948 and 1955, nearly two-thirds of all American families bought a television set—and a revolution in social life and popular culture was launched.In this fascinating book, Lynn Spigel chronic
In this first book-length treatment of Descartes' important and influential natural philosophy, Daniel Garber is principally concerned with Descartes' accounts of matter and motion—the joint bet
"Solving Geometric Constraints" records and explains the formal basis for graphical analysis techniques that have been used for decades in engineering disciplines. It describes a novel computer implem
On June 1,1792, Kentucky became the fifteenth state in the new nation and the first west of the Alleghenies. Lowell Harrison reviews the tangled and protracted process by which Virginia's westernmost
A source on the rapidly changing field of optical computing. Readers are taken through the relevant concepts of classical and Fourier optics, digital logic and digital image processing. In addition to
From the Foreword: "In the face of the collapse of socialism and the withering away of Communist parties throughout Europe, Fidel Castro's resistance to this change will intensify attention on the cou
Volumes 12 and 13 of this highly acclaimed documentary edition cover the first Congress's second session, from January to August 1790. Among other important issues in this critical period, Congress de
The issue of how Japanese society operates, and in particular why it has `succeeded', has generated a wide variety of explanatory models, including the Confucian ethic, classlessness, group consciousn
Physicists, historians, and anthropologists examine the transition of research in the physical sciences from the individuals or small groups after World War II, to the huge projects that now involve h
This, the 21st volume in the Library of Living Philosophers, is more than Sir Alfred Ayer's final word on the philosophical issues that preoccupied him for more than sixty years; the list of contribut
Low-temperature microscopy and analysis is not the sole preserve of biologists and those interested in hydrated organic samples although these types of samples present both the greatest challenge to t
In this special Passover story, Larnel Moore, a young African-American boy, and Mrs. Katz, an elderly Jewish woman, develop an unusual friendship through their mutual concern for an abandoned cat
This is the first volume of an eight-volume edition of Washington's papers in the Confederation period. Unlike the series devoted to Washington's Revolutionary War and presidential papers, the Confede
Designed to overcome flaws during the planning and design stages of educational or training courses, this guide explains the importance of physical factors in the instructional environment, the roles
A textbook for either a semester or year course for graduate students of mathematics who have had at least one course in topology. Introduces continuum theory through a combination of classical and mo
Political actors within the modern state--in both the West and the Third World--argue that more schooling can provide remedies for a variety of economic and social ills. But what is the state's actual
Volumes 10 and 11 in the series (available separately for $49.95 each) are the first two of five that aim to provide a compilation of the variant accounts of the debates of the first US House of Repre
