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Die Edition Schott spiegelt die ganze Vielfalt der Musik in einer umfassenden Noten-Bibliothek für den Schüler, Amateur- und Profi-Musiker wider.Die Edition Schott bietet Musik von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne, vom Solo-Instrument bis zum Orchester, von klassischen Standardwerken bis zu interessanten Raritäten. Sie enthält rund zwanzig der anerkannten und bestens bewährten Schott-Instrumentalserien, wie Gitarren-Archiv, Violin-Bibliothek, I...

This original work combines technical analysis of the North-South, Third World debt crisis with a description of the political frameworks used to analyze this issue...Business professionals who want a deeper understanding of the debt question, as well as scholars of international banking and economic development, can use this book as a roadmap toward understanding the assumptions behind debt analysis, as well as a way to frame more clearly the...

The Long Wait examines the history of the United States' dealings with the United Kingdom on nuclear matters in the first dozen years following the Second World War. Chief among the issues analyzed are whether to share nuclear information, know-how, and technology with the British, whether to cooperate in the control and allocation of critical raw and nuclear materials, whether to grant the British any right of consultation on use of American ...

This book is a selection of edited papers, most of which were initially presented at an international conference held under the auspices of the Ad Hoc Committee on Housing and the Built Environment of the International Sociological Association. It represents a relevant sample of the literature on recent developments in and current research on housing and neighborhoods. It focuses attention on the nature of housing and urban research at present...

Vermeer's competently edited volume fills a void in the literature by focusing on mass media in congressional elections...The project is well executed. The quality of the articles varies, but overall this edited collection is important because it addresses a topic which has not been covered very well. Choice Questions about the impact of media advertisements and news coverage on the democratic process are asked with increasing frequency by bot...

Though the book ranks as an admirable exercise in rigorous scholarship, the prevailing tone is that of an informal conversation. That's what keeps you turning the pages. Serious record collectors will find that this book ...will make them see--and hear--their disks in a wholly new perspective. The New York Times The first book of its kind ever published, Edison, Musicians, and the Phonograph presents the candid opinions of a wide variety of mu...

Alex O. Williams thoroughly examines the nature and sources of mortgage portfolio risk, the analysis of that risk, and the methods for identifying and guarding against it. Following a discussion of regulation and the mortgage market, Williams describes the portfolio diversification approach to controlling risk in mortgage portfolios. He then examines four systems for analyzing portfolio risk: the regression method of mortgage risk analysis, th...

This definitive study concentrates on one fundamental aspect of complex organizations, the organization-environment relationship. Numerous theoretical frameworks are described and evaluated which are directly or indirectly relevant to this focus, and included are several chapters that deal with various aspects of this complex relationship.

Nach Erscheinen des 1. Bandes Psychosomatische Medizin im inter­ diszipliniiren Gespriich mit dem Schwerpunktthema "Der Magen­ Darm-Kranke und seine pdi- und postoperative Situation" legen wir jetzt den 2. Band vor. Er befaBt sich mit Fragen des Stoffwech­ selkranken, der Adipositas, der Anorexia nervosa, der Bulimie, dem Diabetes mellitus, der Gicht und allgemeinen Stoffwechsel­ problemen. In der Praxis hat sich gezeigt, daB die alleinige sch...

Die Sonographie hat sich innerhalb weniger Jahre als Routineverfahren in der gastroenterologischen Diagnostik durchsetzen können. Das vorliegende Buch vermittelt einen konzentrierten Überblick über den gegenwärtigen Stand der Sonographie in der Gastroenterologie und gibt einen Ausblick auf neue oder noch zu entwickelnde Ultraschallverfahren. Wichtige und interessante sonographische Befunde an den Organen des Verdauungstraktes werden in Kurzfor...

This volume collects papers dedicated toWalterNoll on his sixtieth birthday, January 7, 1985. They first appeared in Volumes 86-97 (1984-1987) of the Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis. At the request ofthe Editors the list of authors to be invited was drawn up by B.D. Coleman, M. Feinberg, and J. Serrin. WalterNoll's influence upon research into the foundations of mechanics and thermodynamics is plain, everywhere acknowledged. Less o...

An indispensable work for any collection on Latin America, Greenfield and Maram, both professional Latin American historians, have performed a remarkable service for scholars, journalists, students, and the interested lay public...The focus of the individual chapters is on labor organizations, and the information assembled on the various unions, cooperatives, sindicatos, and mutual aid societies is invaluable...The index, itself 98 pages, make...

A major contribution to the environmental policy debate, this is the first book to examine the legal, technical, and planning initiatives employed in Europe to avoid land disposal of toxic waste. Although largely ignored in the U.S. until now, safer alternatives to land disposal exist in Europe. By studying and implementing the best of these methods, the authors argue, the United States can begin to resolve its own toxic waste problem, a probl...

The contributors to this volume represent acknowledged experts in the field as well as a number of promising young scholars. They provide a thorough examination of how Romantic authors grappled with the problem of describing the connections between consciousness, unconsciousness, and language in their endeavor to capture this interplay in their art. As this collection bears witness, the Romantics sought to discard old ideas about language and ...

This collection of essays addresses a number of facets of George Orwell, examining both Orwell the man of letters and Orwell the political man. In his preface, Courtney Wemyss asserts that Orwell may not receive the recognition he is due because at present he is appreciated for the wrong reasons. The author of other fine novels (such as Burmese Days and Coming up for Air), Orwell should also be recognized for his literary criticism, book revie...

Drawn from the Hofstra University series of Presidential conferences, this volume collects a diverse set of essays that explore the life and times of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Treated in depth are Roosevelt's political beginnings and his life as a politician, the tumultuous World War II years, the New Deal and its legacy, and the political emergence of Eleanor Roosevelt in an era that saw few women in public life. these papers provide a good sens...

The presence of children of all ethnic groups in American schools has made reading about other cultures an essential part of the curriculum. Public libraries serving a multiethnic community will also find this bibliography a helpful readers' guide." ARBA

As efforts to promote literacy accelerate in all parts of the world, research on reading has moved in new and innovative directions and taken on an increasingly international dimension. Reflecting these developments, this new bibliography expands current notions of what comparative reading is, or ought to be. It lists and categorizes research efforts made throughout the world, giving special emphasis to the tendency to conceive of the reading ...

The first and only collection of its kind, Sacred Symphony contains 100 transcriptions of muscial excerpts from the chanted sermons of contemporary black preachers. In his introduction to the pieces that follow, author John Michael Spencer argues that there is an observable correlation between the chanted sermons of today's black preachers and the antebellum spiritual. He shows that the pieces collected here, each of which spontaneously evolve...

This book investigates the efforts of homeowners to maintain and improve their dwellings. Their behavior, it has found, depends on economic variables as well as the sociological structure of their neighborhoods. Residential satisfaction, expectations of the neighborhood, and mobility plans were taken into account.Multivariate statistical analyses of models were conducted using household data from Minneapolis and Wooster, Ohio. Three important ...