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?Newman has done a phenomenal job of research that has resulted in an impressive compilation of bibliographies about the Afro-American experience. ... It is a scholarly work that focuses on the reference material published about Afro-Americans in the US and Canada. Slavery and the Reconstruction period are covered but the Civil War has been excluded. Newman's bibliography is organized alphabetically.... Black Access also contains a subject ind...

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?This historical account informs readers of the ways and means used by network personnel to bring the latest news and other programs from Europe to American listeners. The book focuses on those years immediately preceding and at the beginning of WW II. ... The book provides an excellent account of the technical, political, economic, and programming obstacles faced and resolved by those correspondents in the decade of the 1930s. The book is wel...

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This history of Russia from prehistoric times to 1916 is not intended to serve as a chronicle of events, but is rather a study of the social and cultural development of the Russian nation and its related neighbors, the White Russians and the Ukrainians.

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?In February of this year (1963) Senator Joseph Clark of Pennsylvania delivered a spirited attack on the Senate establishment. . . . It is a fine speech, supported by statistics and charts. He views the situation as unfair, dangerous, and the antithesis of Democracy.' The argument is alarming and important and should be read by all.?-Library Journal

The story of how this material was secured was-for me- more interesting than the material itself. The author, knowing Samoan life as a visitor and scientist would know it, worked closely with a Samoan youth of unusual mental quickness to secure an authentic picture of the daily round of life of a boy growing up. At each point, his native collaborator checked the progress of his story, corrected not only facts, but interpretation and expression...

During the fifties, one of the authors, G. Stampacchia, had prepared some lecture notes on ordinary differential equations for a course in ad­ analysis. These remained for a long time unused because he was no vanced longer very interested in the study of such equations. We now see, though, that numerous applications to biology, chemistry, economics, and medicine have recently been added to the traditional ones in mechanics, also, there has bee...

These notes on regression give an introduction to some of the techniques that I have found useful when working with various data sets in collaboration with Dr. S. Keiding (Copenhagen) and Dr. J.W.L. Robinson (Lausanne). The notes are based on some lectures given at the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, University of Copenhigen, 1978-81, for graduate students, and assumes a familiarity with statistical theory corresponding to the book by C....

Vince uses written and artifactual evidence of theatre history to explain the nature of its current state. His study of theatre's early forms discloses a wealth of significant facts, and some conjectures, that stimulate understanding and appreciation of the art." Backstage

?This collection of essays focuses on the growing participation of Puerto Ricans in electoral politics. Although some historical background is provided, much of the book contains useful and interesting descriptive material on recent Puerto Rican politics in New York, with briefer accounts of Boston and Chicago. A major theme running through many of the essays is the shift in political attention, on the part of politically active Puerto Ricans ...

An anthropological study that compares a central London neighborhood with a London suburb in terms of family and community life, mobility, social status, and social interaction. The main sources of the authors' information were sample interviews from the two populaces. The main themes of this book are the differences between the London suburb and the East End, and the differences between the middle and working-class residents.

Der Anerkennung einer neuen Substanz als klinisch wirksames Chemotherapeutikum gehen jahrelange Studien voraus. Anfang der siebziger Jahre wurde die Antitumoraktivitat bestimmter Podophyllo­ toxinderivate entdeckt. Die ungewohnlichen biologischen Eigenschaf­ ten und die therapeutische Wirksamkeit dieser Derivate erweckten das Interesse von experimentellen und klinischen Forschern. Besonders E toposid (VP 16-213) erschien wegen seiner niedrigen...

?Teachers and students of Popular Culture, Women's Studies, and American Studies will find that Kay Mussell's scholarly discussion of contemporary woman's romance fiction provides a systematic exploration of an underscrutinized but significant genre. Mussell's book makes several specific contributions, 1) It seeks reasons for the popular genre's persistent appeal despite changing cultural options for women, and it does so against a background ...

Der streng komponierte Zyklus eines der Gründungsväter der deutschsprachigen literarischen Moderne.