Lonely characters harboring bad memories often slip into dreamy phases of the subconscious in a collection of fifteen stories that unfold around the globe
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
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
Pedro can read and write better than any boy in the small Spanish town of Palos. That's why Christopher Columbus signs him on as part of his crew of the Santa Maria. The young Pedro records his advent
A collection of essays on syntactical questions in the field of Hebrew and Aramaic, dealing with the nominal sentence, the particle 'et, clause types, word order and concord within sentences, the stat
Emphasizing the underlying quantum field theory throughout, deals with cononical quantization, Feynman rules, and renormalization of Yang-Mills theories in algebraic non-covariant gauges, typically ax
Updates current knowledge on the basic science of therapeutics and its influence on treatment choices for tumors arising in the myeloid and lymphoid organs. Among the topics: therapy for acute myeloge
Presents a detailed exposition of statistical intervals and emphasizes applications in industry. The discussion differentiates at an elementary level among different kinds of statistical intervals and
How can the new governments of Eastern Europe succeed in moving from centrally planned to free-market economies? This report identifies the major policy choices to be made and discusses what will work
This is the second of the 10 bestselling children's books of 1991. It features little Billy who lives with his mother in a small cottage. She warns him never to go into the Forest of Sin, but one day
This book is a work of outstanding importance for scholars of comparative law and jurisprudence and for lawyers engaged in EC law or other international forms of practice. It reviews, compares and ana
For most people literary criticism is a mystery that often seems inaccessible, written for an in-group. Even worse, a Battle of the Books has broken out between neoconservatives and neoradicals—all th
Six case studies with commentary offer a look at the interplay of scientists, interest groups, US Congress, federal agencies, and the public in determining biomedical public policy and suggest rationa
Richard Etlin's sweeping, generously illustrated study explores the changing idea of modernism in Italian architecture over the five crucial decades that saw the birth and crystallization of modern ar
The fifth edition of this series of lectures by Harvard haematologists has been revised to include discussions of scientific developments in contemporary haematology. New insights into oncogenes, grow
Ninety-three papers presented at the Fifth International Conference on Behcets' Disease held at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, September 1989, are organized within four sections: diagnostic
Like Mooki, the hero of Spike Lee's film "Do the Right Thing" artificially, intelligent systems have a hard time knowing what to do in all circumstances. Classical theories of perfect rationality pres
Most of the contributions concentrate largely on dramatic new findings linking asthma and the inflammatory process, but the hope is to encourage more research into the role of inflammation in other di
"Defining their enterprise as more in the direction of poetics than of prosaics, the Comaroffs free themselves to analyze a vivid series of images and events as objects of analysis. These they mi
In the summer of 1144, a strange calm has settled over England. The armies of King Stephen & Empress Maud, the two royal cousins contending for the throne, have temporarily exhausted each other. O
This striking study of the meaning and use of the major spatial prepositions in French provides valuable insight into how the human mind organizes spatial relationships.Most previous analyses of spati
Knutson demystifies Shakespeare and his company by providing a clear vision of the dynamics of repertory management and play-going in Shakespeare's England.
Grandeur and Twilight of Radical Universalism provides a theoretical construction to the extraordinary events of the past several years in Europe and the Soviet Union, and China. These masterful essay
Beddard here studies the events and issues which dethroned the Catholic James II and enthroned the Protestant William and Mary. Beginning with the dynastic revolution in England, he examines the depe
All of us remember our First Love. In this brilliant and often passionate book, Maria DiBattista shows that the yearning for the freshness of First Love, and the sadness of that yearning, are central
" The Spanish incursion into the New World, with its brutal destruction of indigenous peoples and their cultures and its material exploitation of much of two continents, reverberates in our h
This book presents the corrected and first complete translation from Swedish of Heckscher's 1919 article on foreign trade - "a work of genius," in the words of Paul Samuelson - as well as a translatio
This updated and revised second edition of Donald A. Wells's popular War Crimes and Laws of War, originally published in 1984, traces the rules of war since ancient times.
Based on a semester course taught in Greece for many years to science, engineering, and mathematics students. Discusses continuity and linearity, differentiability and analyticity, extrema, existence,
Papers presented at a symposium at the annual meeting of the South-eastern Archaeological Conference, held in Nashville, Tenn., November 1986, explore the wide range of societal organization during th
Volume 4 completes the documentary record of Washington's first year as commander in chief of the Continental army. It opens with his final preparations to leave Cambridge following the successful sie
Describes recent developments in high performance thermoplastic resins and their composites and assesses the benefits and limitations of these emerging materials for aerospace and other applications.
Politics and culture are at once semi-autonomous and intertwined. Nowhere is this more revealingly illustrated than in urban design, a field that encompasses architecture and social life, traditions a
In this succinct and well-written book, one of our most eminent philosophers provides a fresh reading of the view of freedom and morality developed by Thomas Reid (1710-1796). Although contemporary th
This collection of papers was written for a NATO Advanced Research Workshop held at Harvard University in March 1990. The title, "The Changing University and the Education of Scientists and Engineers:
Fomenko (mathematics, Moscow State U., USSR) uses the current methods of analytical topology to explain some of the solved and unsolved variational problems of topology arising in such fields as mecha
