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Advances in research, knowledge and clinical practice in all branches of medicine have been rapid over the past decades and the speed is accelerating. Thus, as we enter the 1980s the pressure on specialists is to concentrate on ever-narrowing fields of their science. For the research worker this is desirable, but the practising clinician Our patient is a whole can have no clearly defined dividing lines. individual and every aspect of her makeu...

For teachers of teachers and directors of inservice staff development who need assistance in planning and implementing multicultural education curricula and programs, Perspectives in Multicultural Education should be a valuable resource.

The essays included in this volume are a mixture of old and new. Three of them make their first appearance in print on this occa­ sion (Nos III, IV, and V). The remaining four are based upon materials previously published in learned journals or anthologies. (However, these previously published papers have been revised and, generally, expanded for inclusion here.) Detailed acknowl­ edgement of prior publications is made in the notes to the rele...

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Error-correction coding is being used on an almost routine basis in most new communication systems. Not only is coding equipment being used to increase the energy efficiency of communication links, but coding ideas are also providing innovative solutions to many related communication problems. Among these are the elimination of intersymbol interference caused by filtering and multipath and the improved demodulation of certain frequency modulat...

The student of biological science in his final years as an undergraduate and his first years as a graduate is expected to gain some familiarity with current research at the frontiers of his discipline. New research work is published in a perplexing diversity of publications and is inevitably concerned with the minutiae of the subject. The sheer number of research journals and papers also causes confusion and difficulties of assimilation. Revie...

This book is intended for those people who have a knowledge or understanding of rubber materials and processes but who wish to update their knowledge. It should be read in conjunction with Developments in Rubber Technology-l as that volume discussed developments in natural rubber and selected special purpose synthetic rubbers as well as additives. The authors have been selected for their expertise in each particular field and we, as editors, w...

?Travitsky has assembled a broad anthology of writings by women who lived in England during the 16th and early 17th centuries. This is an exceedingly useful project, for many of the texts are not easily available. The anthology demonstrates how narrow and constricted a life was led by most of Shakespeare's female contemporaries....Recommended for academic and large public libraries.?-Library Journal

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EINE TRAGODIE: W ALLEN STEINS UND UNSER ALLER BOSER GEIST Descartes zweifelte - selbst an der Wahrheit von Arithmetik und Geometrie: "Equidem non aliam ob causam de iis dubitandum esse . . . judicavi, quam quia veniebat in mentem forte aliquem Deum talem mihi naturam indere potuisse, ut etiam ilia deciperer, quae manifestissima viderentur. Sed quoties haec praeconcepta de summa Dei potentia opinio mihi occurrit, non possum non fateri, siquidem...

This is the story of philosophy in ancient and classical Greece. Robert Brumbaugh brings out the intrinsic and current importance in the development of Western philosophy from Thales to Aristotle. He emphasizes the insights and ideas that have proven crucial to later Western thought and reveals the success of the classical thinkers in forming systematic philosophic syntheses. This book is a useful introduction to philosophy. The ancient Greek...

?A first-rate and clearly written analysis of existing data sets pertaining to primary presidential balloting in California, 1968 and 1972....The analysis is clever and its implications are provocative. While the basic thesis of primary election distortion is not new, it is supported in novel ways.?-Choice

This book presents the findings of the highly respected eight-year Cornell-New York Hospital second opinion elective surgery program. The study covered 470, 000 people in voluntary second opinion programs and an additional 273, 000 people through a health insurance program mandating consultation. The authors present evidence that second opinion programs can effect significant medical cost reductions, even while enhancing the quality of care.

?These case studies explore the way the Industrial Workers of the World organized in industries as diverse as textiles, agriculture, and mining....These detailed accounts of Wobbly organizing drives will be of great interest to scholars and active trade unionists. Recommended.?-Library Journal

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Lynn, Massachusetts, once the leading shoe manufacturing city of the United States, was in many ways a model of the industrial city that much of America was to become. This study of the early industrial revolution in Lynn focuses on the journeymen shoemakers¿leading participants in the making of the institutions, ideas, and events that form central themes in the history of working people in America. Spanning the time period from just after th...

In 1903, Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor Company in a small Detroit workshop. Five years later, he introduced the Model T and met with extraordinary commercial success. Between 1910 and 1914, he developed mass production and made the conveyor a symbol of the auto-industrial age. Then, in 1914, Ford acquired an overnight reputation as humanitarian, philanthropist and social reformer, and simultaneously infuriated the business community and st...

One of the misfortunes of a nation, is to hear little besides its own praises, " wrote James Fenimore Cooper in his Preface to Wyandotté in 1843. The novel arrived at a time when a patriotic mythology about the American Revolution was developing, and Cooper's somber tale of the sufferings of an isolated family in upstate New York during the Revolution was not congruent with the celebratory stories then being told. One reviewer indeed objected ...

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