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Focusing on the theme of the discrepancy between ideal and reality, this volume brings together ten previously unpublished studies on aspects of social and political change in modern China.

?In clear and concise prose, Shields provides a unique study of selected members of the House of Representatives, 1836-60. Although the author discusses party regulars, her focus is upon mavericks, or party-affiliated nonconformists. Using voting records and the columns of the Congressional Globe as well as additional sources, Shields identifies 84 political mavericks. They include well-known men--John Quincy Adams, Alexander H. Stephens, Josh...

This volume deals with a multifunctional plasma and tissue protein, fibronectin, which participates in many significant biological and pathophysiological actions, presenting the information concerning structure and describing the interactions of fibronectin with fibrinogen and fibrin.

This bibliography provides publishing data for several hundred journals and serials in the fields of dentistry, dental health, and dental health education. The titles listed are produced at least once a year, have the bulk of their text in English, address some aspect of dentistry, and contain more than announcements. Arranged alphabetically by key words, the entries consist of two main parts. The first part lists bibliographic information abo...

Keine Frage! Zu einem modernen, komfortabel ausgestatteten Keyboard gehören auch zeitgemäße, ansprechende Notenausgaben. Diese Serie ist für die Keyboards der neuen Generation maßgeschneidert, die die leicht spielbaren Arrangements im Supersound erklingen lassen. Die Ausstattung der Hefte dürfte alle Erwartungen eines Keyboarders erfüllen. Sie finden: Vorschläge zur Registrierung, zum Tempo, zur Begleitautomatik, zum Einsatz von Effekten, leic...

This discography is successful in its attempt to 'present a complete picture of women instrumentalists' recording activity from 1913 to 1968.' Jan Leder also shows the significant contributions made by women in jazz and their involvement playing jazz since its beginnings. The book contains two parts: Discography of Women in Jazz and Collective Section. The first section arranges names alphabetically by name of player with works arranged chrono...

Belkaoui offers a critical analysis of accounting and the societal problems the profession faces. The roles played by accountants and auditors, the standard-setting and oversight processes, the history, function, and current status of the discipline itself--all are treated systematically and with candor. Clarifying our understanding of what is wrong and what is right with accounting in the context of public interest, the author probes question...

Paul David Nelson has written an exciting biography of an exciting figure the military hero of the American Revolution and the Indian Wars in the Northwest Territory "Mad" Anthony Wayne. Some of his contemporaries called him rash and impetuous, a braggart and a dandy. "More active and enterprising than judicious and cautious" was George Washington's verdict. True, Wayne had a flair for the dramatic and consciously acted the role of swashbuckle...

Barbara White has written a thoroughly researched, detailed description of patterns of women's experience in fiction for adolescents. This well-written study should be required reading for graduate students and library school educators. It belongs in academic libraries, public libraries, and school libraries' professional collections and should be valuable reading for all adults who work with and/or live with adolescents. Choice

?Manning's book is an important addition to Welty studies in its detailed exploration of the complexity of this Southern writer's use of the oral tradition, both as a technique and as a theme. Her assessment of Welty as a comic realist' who repeatedly examines the Southerner's propensity to romanticize the past through storytelling is convincing, as is her explanation of the needs such storytelling fulfills. Manning relates this oral tradition...

This volume moves beyond ethics as problem-solving or ethics as etiquette to offer a look at ethics in primary care—as opposed to life-or-death—medical care. Professional Ethics and Primary Care Medicine deals with the ethics of routine, day-to-day encounters between doctors and patients. It probes beneath the hard decisions to look at the moral frameworks, habits of thought, and customs of practice that underlie choices. Harmon Smith and Larr...

?Kraske's study begins with the creation of the Division of Cultural Affairs in the Department of State and describes in considerable detail the organization, projects, funding, politics, and the early leaders of international library development during the next ten years. ... Kraske's book is a good guide through this complex period. He has used his sources well, archival and human, in giving us an accurate account of a formative period in in...

The Guinness Book of World Records has in twelve editions listed BelleGunness under the category "Most Prolific Murderers." She earned the epithet theLady Bluebeard because she is believed to have killed as many as twenty spouses. Shesettled on a farm on the outskirts of LaPorte, Indiana, in 1901. Over the next sevenyears it is believed that she killed a husband, children, and an indeterminatenumber of would-be suitors who answered her matrimo...