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In a foreword, an author usually elucidates the aim of his book and describes an idealized reader to whom it is addressed. The first task - the formulation of the scope of the book - is the easier one, for the second one involves assessing a reader's personality, and no "specification" should warrant the author's being accused of snobbery, underestimating the reader, or other sins of that kind. It is natural to commence with the first task. Th...

As a supervisor, manager, engineer, or technical expert, you may often be asked to pass on your important knowledge and skill to other people in your organization. This convenient handbook provides ev

This is a remarkable book: wide-ranging, resonant, andwell-written, it is also reflective and personable, warm and engaging." --Philosophy and Literature"With this book Caputo takes hisplace firmly as the foremost American, continental post-modernist... " --International Philosophical Quarterly"One cannot but beimpressed by the scope of Radical Hermeneutics." -- Man andWorld"Caputo's study is stunning in its scope andscholarship." -- Robert E....

How does one explain America's failure to take bold action to resist the Nazi persecution and murder of European Jews?

Maria Montessori (1870-1952) brought about a revolution in the classroom. She developed a method of teaching small children and inspired a movement that carried that method into every corner of the wo

Dance Music of the French Baroque brings together information on rhythmfrom the interrelated fields of music, dance, poetry, rhetoric, and philosophy. PartI is devoted to the various factors involved in dance rhythms, including tempos, rhythmic feet, dance steps, declamation of lyrics, instrumental articulation, andperformance of ornaments. Part II describes in alphabetic orderthe fifteen most frequently encountered dances of the period and id...

Today Fanny Burney's venture into authorship would not be questionable. She was, after all, a daughter of a celebrated musician, and the Burney family was know to the circle of Samuel Johnson and Hester Thrale. Yet as Kristina Straub ably shows, the public recognition which followed the publication of her first novel placed Fanny Burney in a situation of disturbing ambiguity. Did she become famous or notorious? Was she a prodigy or a freak? In...

Geometrie inequalities have a wide range of applieations-within geometry itself as weIl as beyond its limits. The theory of funetions of a eomplex variable, the ealculus of variations in the large, embedding theorems of funetion spaees, a priori estimates for solutions of differential equations yield many sueh examples. We have attempted to piek out the most general inequalities and, in model eases, we exhibit effeetive geometrie eonstruetions...

Over the past ten years, The Inventurers has helped thousands of people discover what they truly want to do in their lives and careers. Whatever your lifestyle or career stage, Hagberg and Leider will

In this collection, Sandra Harding offers a broad spectrum offeminist research... an incisive introduction... With this collection, Hardingoffers an outline of possibilities to students and practicing social scientistswhose questions lie outside the dominant traditions of inquiry... " -- HarvardEducational Review "The quality of the essays, plus that ofthe introduction and collection, commend this book to both the reader who wouldexplore these...

The celebrated biographer of Edith Wharton is the first to unravel the intricate relationship between Emily Dickinson's life and her poetry, between the life of her mind and the voice of her poems. 23 photos.