Lucid, ardent, and contemplative, May Sarton is one of America's best-loved writers. This comprehensive collection - the first in twenty years - celebrates six decades of bold imagination and fifteen
These 22 essays provide a forum for assessing the tenets, accomplishments, and limits of modernism in landscape architecture and for formulating ideas about possible directions for the future of the d
Can environmental institutions be effective in bringing about a healthier environment? How? "Institutions for the Earth" takes a close look at the factors influencing organized responses to seven inte
Gender and Education is a rich resource for obtaining an overview of current scholarship in this important area. Its usefulness derives not only from the range of topics considered but also from the v
Providing discussions of all syndromes in which parkinsonism may be a feature, this reference refines nosologic conceptions of parkinsonism, elucidates its cause, and points the way toward future inve
This landmark collection of essays addresses the question: Given peace in the Middle East, then what? Focusing on the countries most immediately affected by the Arab-Israeli conflict, economists repre
Underlying Julia Kristeva's latest work is the idea that otherness - whether it be ethnic, religious, social, or political - needs to be understood and accepted in order to guarantee social harmony. N
This book offers a survey of the present state of affairs in the discipline of design methodology, with a special focus on relationships between design and science (both knowledge and methods). Con
In a celebration of life and joy, a professor recalls the thirty-nine years of her life as she lies dying, revealing emotional and intellectual richness and variety, including the horrors of her famil
Originally published in 1907 by the United Confederate Veterans to raise money for a memorial to women of the Confederacy at the state capitol, this classic collection of Civil War experiences and rel
The origins of the mathematics in this book date back more than two thou- sand years, as can be seen from the fact that one of the most important algorithms presented here bears the name of the Greek
The correspondence volumes of The Papers of George Washington, 1748-99 are being published in four series and include not only all of Washington's own correspondence and other documents of his but a
Hammon (1711-179?), a slave, is considered the first black writer in America. His works four poems, two essays, and a sermon are here reprinted with modernized text and critical interpretation. O'Neal
The death of Louis XIV in 1715 and the accession of his more progressive younger brother as Regent of France might have brought some hopeful changes to Louisiana, France's tiny, struggling outpost on
This book explores the impact on Third World women of the stringent economic prescriptions of the World Bank and IMF. Introductory chapters explain in non-jargonistic terms exactly what structural adj
The voices in this collection are primarily those of researchers and developers concerned with bringing knowledge of technological possibilities to bear on informed and effective system design. Their
This reference offers detailed descriptions of the interaction of viruses with human and animal haematopoietic cells, examines the role of viruses in human disease and important animal models, and elu
"Explanation and Interaction" describes the problems and issues involved in generating interactive user-sensitive explanations. It presents a particular computational system that generates tutorial, i
Tried-and-tested methods for financial institution success in a risky economy Written by a partner of McKinsey & Company, the world's largest and most influential management consulting firm, this book
The second volume in the definitive Buildings of Ireland series covers the counties of Longford, Louth, Meath and Westmeath. Within this varied landscape north of Dublin lie some of Ireland's most rem
If we want to improve educational opportunities and outcomes for all children, we must start applying what we know about mental functioning - how children think, learn and remember - in our schools. W
This Second Edition for the standard graduate level course in conduction heat transfer has been updated and oriented more to engineering applications partnered with real-world examples. New features i
Assessment in Social Work Practice confronts the current bureaucratic and fiscal constraints that have inhibited social workers from assessing clients and offers concrete ways of handling a wide array
Between 1860 and 1897, Dodgson, a.k.a. Lewis Carroll, produced (in addition to the Alice books and his photographic works) more than 180 booklets, pamphlets, leaflets, and instruction manuals, varying
Full-color illustrations highlight the life story of the young Jewish girl, who became a victim of the Nazis but whose diary--written while she was in hiding with her family--has become world famous.
Living in the past is the phenomenon that underlies this study, which focuses on the causes of the Egyptian archaizing spirit that reached its climax under the Saite Twenty-Sixth Dynasty (664-525 B.C.
The comprehensiveness and breadth of the textbook is unmatched in the field...makes a unique contribution to our understanding. - James F. Nolan, Penn State University
The first wildcatters in the Southeastern states of Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida began drilling around the turn of the century, but success eluded them. Except for a few insignificant shallow gas
Christoph Martin Wieland's comic novel History of the Abderites (1774-81) is, in its author's own words, a "work that was written to entertain all intelligent people and to admonish and chastise all f
After visiting the castle in Scotland which her family has inherited and returning home to Canada, twelve-year-old Emily finds that she has accidentally brought back with her a boggart
This is a complete update and revision of Stoetzer's classic reference work on the Organization of American States (OAS), first published by Praeger in 1965. The work will provide the reader with an u
In light of the growing importance and availability of intense x-ray sources and position-sensitive detectors, this book offers comprehensive treatment of the principles, instrumentation, and applicat
Leading scientists provide a modern description of the metal-solution interface and describe the numerous advances made in interfacial electrochemistry during the past decade. Contributing authors sum
Of related interest… Digital Signal Processing with the TMS320C25 Rulph Chassaing and Darrell W. Horning Written by two of the top names in the field, this comprehensive guide first provides eng
Blessed Are You: A Comprehensive Guide to Jewish Prayer offers the layperson, in a nonacademic, simple (but not simplistic) style, a one-volume, encyclopedic presentation of virtually every aspect of
In celebration of distinguished author/critic Julian Symons' 80th year, here is the third and final revised edition of his classic history of mystery fiction. The views expressed here are as candid as
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
The Cat in the Hat challenges readers with seemingly silly questions: Do pineapples grow on pine or apple trees? Do roosters sleep on their backs or sides? Kids will pick up a host of oddball facts, h
The landscape of the world economy is changing rapidly, including new and much more powerful roles for the IMF and World Bank, as well as the rapid growth of wider free trade areas in North America an
This volume describes art therapy interventions for particularly dysfunctional families and explains the connections between the process of creating art and the curative process in meeting these famil
