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This volume is a compilation of papers presented at the Tenth International Symposium on Brain Edema held on October 20-23, 1996, in San Diego, California. This follows the sequence of meetings that was initiated 31 years ago in the First International Symposium held in Vienna. Subsequent symposiums were held in Mainz, Montreal, Berlin, Groningen, Tokyo, Baltimore, Bern, and Tokyo CY okohama). A considerable number of papers was chosen from ov...

Drawing on children's narratives about their everyday life this book explores how children come to understand the process of socialization at home, at school and in the neighbourhood as an embodied and biographical experience.

Where can students in health class and general readers turn for accurate, dependable, fad-free information? This two-volume reference examines the relationship between food and health on a historical, national and personal level. It analyzes how nutrition has affected quality of life, health and fitness in various countries at different times in history. The work looks at the connections between diet and such diseases as beriberi and scurvy, a...

This important book provides an account of the linear acoustics of basic isotropic/anisotropic structures excited by time-harmonic and transient mechanical forces and acoustic sources. Many examples are given to aid physical insight and to provide benchmark computations of sound radiation and sound scattering. The theoretical methods, developed originally for naval noise control problems, should find civil application in the acoustic modelling...

William A. James, Sr., in seven chapters, details how Lincoln Black was "Rudely Awakened, " early one morning. His sister-in-law, Patty, called to announce that Cory, his youngest Brother, was in a coma in a Maryland hospital. Later, Tommy, the Brother next to Lincoln, announced that Cory had died from HIV/AIDS. Lincoln never recovered from the shock of the above news. He lost control of his emotions and his physical being, and he temporarily ...

William A. James, Sr., in seven chapters, details how Lincoln Black was "Rudely Awakened, " early one morning. His sister-in-law, Patty, called to announce that Cory, his youngest Brother, was in a coma in a Maryland hospital. Later, Tommy, the Brother next to Lincoln, announced that Cory had died from HIV/AIDS. Lincoln never recovered from the shock of the above news. He lost control of his emotions and his physical being, and he temporarily ...

Henry James (1843¿1916) wrote short stories, plays, literary criticism, and travel essays and is most famous for his many novels, which include The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, The Ambassadors, and The Golden Bowl. Pierre A. Walker is a professor of English at Salem State University. He is the editor of Henry James on Culture: Collected Essays on Politics and the American Social Scene (Nebraska, 1999). Greg W. Zacharias is a professor o...

This brilliant satire of the women's rights movement in America is the story of the ravishing inspirational speaker Verena Tarrant and the bitter struggle between two distant cousins who seek to control her. Will the privileged Boston feminist Olive Chancellor succeed in turning her beloved ward into a celebrated activist and lifetime companion? Or will Basil Ransom, a conservative southern lawyer, steal Verena's heart and remove her from the ...

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Pierre A. Walker is a professor of English at Salem State University. He is the editor of Henry James on Culture: Collected Essays on Politics and the American Social Scene (Nebraska, 1999). Greg W. Zacharias is a professor of English at Creighton University, where he coordinates the Humanities Research Group and directs the Center for Henry James Studies. He is the editor of A Companion to Henry James and coeditor of Tracing Henry James. Mart...

Known as the 'father' of electrical engineering, Michael Faraday is one of the best known scientific figures of all time. In this Very Short Introduction, Frank A.J.L James looks at Faraday's life and works, examining the institutional context in which he lived and worked, his scientific research, and his continuing legacy in science today.

This book, from the series Primary Sources: Historical Books of the World (Asia and Far East Collection), represents an important historical artifact on Asian history and culture. Its contents come from the legions of academic literature and research on the subject produced over the last several hundred years. Covered within is a discussion drawn from many areas of study and research on the subject. From analyses of the varied geography that e...

Although the 1956 Hungarian uprising failed to liberate the county from Soviet domination, it became a symbol of freedom for people throughout Eastern Europe and beyond. Labeling the events a counter-revolution, communist authorities exacted revenge in two years of terror and intimidation. Then, for the next thirty years, they pursued a policy of forced forgetting, attempting to obliterate public memory of the events. As communism unraveled in...

Aging eccentric James Delacorte asks Charlie the librarian to do an inventory of his rare book collection, but the job goes from tedious to terrifying when James turns up dead. Relying on his cat Diesel to paw around for clues, Charlie has to catch the killer before another victim checks out. Original.

Learn about God's master plan. Yes, God has a plan! He forethought to have a holy people through Jesus Christ before the foundation of the world. God's plan was in motion when he made the garden of Eden and placed the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and the Tree of Life in the garden with His creations, Adam and Eve. He allowed His prophets to prophesy about His plan, but He did not give them understanding, because it was not time. Now, in ...

Learn about God's master plan. Yes, God has a plan! He forethought to have a holy people through Jesus Christ before the foundation of the world. God's plan was in motion when he made the garden of Eden and placed the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and the Tree of Life in the garden with His creations, Adam and Eve. He allowed His prophets to prophesy about His plan, but He did not give them understanding, because it was not time. Now, in ...

Abe Jones came into this world kicking and screaming, to a single mother of seventeen. She was of that dark-skinned variety of Blacks, that his father could not love. His grand mother on his father's side, insisted that his father marry his mother, Lucille, and Albert, his father made all of their lives miserable. Abe was beaten, maimed, and emotionally scarred for the rest of his life. Abe's mistreatment at home, in school, and out in the wor...

Abe Jones came into this world kicking and screaming, to a single mother of seventeen. She was of that dark-skinned variety of Blacks, that his father could not love. His grand mother on his father's side, insisted that his father marry his mother, Lucille, and Albert, his father made all of their lives miserable. Abe was beaten, maimed, and emotionally scarred for the rest of his life. Abe's mistreatment at home, in school, and out in the wor...

The Complete Letters of Henry James" fills a gap in literary studies today by presenting in a critical and scholarly edition the complete letters of one of the great novelists and letter writers of the English language. Comprising more than ten thousand letters and addressing a remarkably wide range of topics, this edition is an indispensable resource for students and scholars of James, the European novel and modern literature, and of American...

The first in a brand-new series inspired by Dewey the Library Cat. (A) kindhearted librarian hero, family secrets in a sleepy Southern town, and a gentle giant of a cat that will steal your heart.--"New York Times"-bestselling author Lorna Barrett. Original.