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?Dr. Bruce Piasecki's volume Beyond Dumping is aptly titled and timely. The issues, conditions and recommendations resurrected in the essays make not only for intriguing reading but also serve to remind us as a nation that we cannot continue to bury our resources and mistakes well into the 21st Century. The need to expand the cooperative effort among governmental agencies, regulated industries, and affected local citizens is more than good pub...

Jack Ray Thomas combines an extensive review of Latin American historiography with biographical sketches of historians who were Latin Americans to form a resource tool unique in its format, content, and uses. Thomas begins with an overview of Latin American historiography from the colonial period to the present. Following this extended review, Thomas provides bio-bibliographical sketches of Latin American historical writers, both amateur and p...

[This] collection of essays by 16 authorities, each devoted to a specific subject or work . . . belong[s] in any library of basic Joyce criticism." Choice

This volume, originally published by Winthrop Publishers in 1977, discusses transformational grammar in relation to traditional and structural grammar, enabling students to relate the theory to what they already know about grammar. Although all important technical terms and processes are presented, non-technical language is used as much as possible.

A young black boy describes the wilderness adventures of his pioneering family in Kansas in the 1870s. "Recommended for middle graders with reading difficulties as well as for younger children."--"Booklist." Reading Rainbow Selection.

A young deaf child who loves to run and jump and play is affectionately described by her older sister. "Can give young children an understanding of the fact that deaf children . . . share all the interests of children with normal hearing".--ALA Booklist.

Libraries with collections of popular culture and Sherlockiana will want to purchase [this book]. Shreffler brings out the big guns like T. S. Eliot, Edmund Wilson, and of course, Vincent Starrett. ... This is a well-balanced anthology that will provide the interested reader with a serious but lively introduction to Sherlockian studies."-Wilson Library Bulletin

?The present work reviews some of the recent evidence supporting the proposition that genetic or biochemical factors critically influence crime-related behavior. In the introductory chapters, Taylor disassociates present biogenic research from discredited, earlier approaches ... and outlines a sociobiological understanding of evolution. Individual chapters then consider the apparent roots of various kinds of deviant behavior....In the final ch...

Darrell M. West explores leadership and and coalition-building in the 1980 presidential campaign. Concentrating upon the candidates' own perceptions of the need to build coalitions that will elect them, he raises questions that go to the heart of presidential politics: how have changes in presidential campaigns influenced candidate strategies? what coalitions did presidential contenders try to put together? how did the candidates use rhetoric,...

In designing policies to help resolve its energy problems, every country faces a unique set of conditions. Contributors to this volume profile the energy situation in the developing countries, assess the role of energy policy in Third World development, and discuss the global energy situation in relation to these countries' consumption, production, trade, and resource endowment. The rest of the volume provides researchers with different source...

?Prado addresses two kinds of readers: those familiar with literature and literary criticism, and those acquainted with philosophical issues. Arguing persuasively from the two vantage points, he supports his claim that literature and philosophy should be considered, not two separate disciplines, but simply two sides of an argument. He hopes to achieve the desired unification by breaking down the barriers among the literary, the logical, and th...

The Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds, since its inception, has been recognized as a cornerstone of heterocyclic chemistry. Each volume attempts to discuss all aspects - properties, synthesis, reactions, physiological and industrial significance - of a specific ring system. To keep the series up-to-date, supplementary volumes covering the recent literature on each individual ring system have been published. Many ring systems (such as pyridin...