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The editor of this volume takes on the challenging task of presenting an encompassing view of childbirth in America from an anthropological perspective. The book is indeed comprehensive...Collectively the chapters in Childbirth in America lay out a representative sketch of research problems of interest to sociocultural anthropologists and other social scientists working in the area of reproductive health. A distinct accomplishment is the ackno...

The Burrowes book is well written and provides a balanced if familiar assessment of events. He finds fault in the East-West perspective of U.S. foreign policy in the Third World, but his call for greater assertiveness by regional groupings to control their own affairs is wishful thinking, given the divisions exhibited in this case. Choice Why were so many of America's staunch allies as well as many Congressmen and opinion leaders opposed to th...

Die vorliegende Arbeit entstand während meiner Tätigkeit als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Steue­ rungstechnik der Werkzeugmaschinen und Fertigungseinrich­ tungen der Universität Stuttgart. Herrn Professor Dr. -Ing. A. Storr gilt mein besonderer Dank für das Interesse an meiner Arbeit und die wohlwollende Unterstützung bei ihrer Entstehung. Seine intensive Durch­ sicht sowie die wertvollen Hinweise haben in hohem Maße zu ihrem...

Mr. Holmes' study is ...the basic stuff of competent ethnography, that combination of science and art in which the details of daily life are systematically observed, analyzed and constructed into a cultural account...He concludes that Margaret Mead was essentially correct in her depiction of coming of age in Samoa in 1925, concerned as she was to compare it with adolescence in the United States at that time. New York Times Book Review Thanks t...

The twenty-four essays in this collection represent the best contributions to the Sixth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. All the essays are comparative or interdisciplinary in nature. Their foci range from the psychological aspects of art and literature, to the political implications of fiction and drama, the philosophic and linguistic dimensions of poetry, and the use of landscape in science fiction and fantasy illustrat...

Textiles in Transition contributes a valuable new approach to the study of relocation and wage differentials in the U.S. textile industry during the period 1880-1930. The discussion centers on two major themes: the reasons for the timing of the relocation of American textile production from the Northeast to the South and the simultaneous pattern of wage convergence between the two regions. Kane pays particular attention to the role of technolo...

Grundlegende Veränderungen sind zur Gestaltung einer rationelleren EDV-Buchführung mit ihren vielfältigen, kurzfristig zur Verfügung stehenden Informationsmöglichkeiten aufgrund der schnellen Verarbeitung notwendig. Buchungsmethoden, die in Fachkreisen inzwischen anerkannt sind, werden hier aufgegriffen und konsequent fortgeführt. Die Buchungstechnik folgt grundsätzlich den gesetzlichen Bestimmungen für Kapitalgesellschaften. Der Aufbau dieses...

Die vorliegende Arbeit entstand wahrend meiner Tatigkeit als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut fur Steuerungs­ technik der Werkzeugmaschinen und Fertigungseinrichtungen (ISW) der Universitat stuttgart. Herrn Prof. Dr. -Ing. G. Pritschow gilt mein besonderer Dank fur das Interesse an meiner Arbeit, die wohlwollende Unter­ stutzung und die Anregungen wahrend der Entstehungszeit. Ebenso danke ich Herrn Prof. Dr. -Ing. A. storr sowie Herr...

Students of twentieth-century Colombia and Venezuela will find in the essays useful information on events taking place there through the mid-1980s. Teachers of Latin American government and politics will be able to use these essays as case studies of consociational democracy in the region. And all Latin Americanists will welcome the advent of scholarly writing informed by the consociational model that provides us an approach to contemporary La...

This book addresses some of the issues of equity and equality for Black undergraduates in higher education during the latter years of the twentieth century. It provides analyses of black students' experiences and performance at predominantly white colleges as well as Black colleges, and also examines the role of federal and state governments as well as private interest groups in achieving equity for blacks in higher education. Offering a conte...

[A] fascinating and important study. . . . Well researched, well organized, and well written." Small Press Book Review "Friedman shows that the Jews were never French, ' that even as they migrated to France their customs, rituals, and daily life were still rooted in the Arab world." Stanly Aronowitz

Beim Betrieb flexibler Fertigungssysteme (FFS) sind Werkzeugversorgung und Werkzeugeinsatz informationsflußtechnisch als automatisierter, integrierter Bestandteil des Steuerungssytems anzustreben. Damit können bei hoher Dispositionsfreiheit Voraussetzungen für einen hohen Nutzungsgrad geschaffen, organisatorische Mängel reduziert und die Überwachungsmöglichkeiten ausgeweitet werden. Bei der Analyse der Anforderungen wurde deutlich, daß die Pro...

Well-written and clearly presented, this volume will greatly assist those making their way in this fascinating interdisciplinary area." Choice

As a scholar, William Hung was instrumental in opening China's rich documentary past to modern scrutiny. As an educator, he helped shape one of twentieth-century China's most remarkable institutions, Yenching University. A member of the buoyant, Western-educated generation that expected to transform China into a modern, liberal nation, he saw his hopes darken as political turmoil, war with Japan, and the Communist takeover led to a different f...

This book describes the methodology of monoclonal antibody-mediated immunohistochemistry, as applied to practical tissue diagnosis. It focuses on human disease and discusses the spectrum of monoclonal antibodies in relation to its utility in solving differential diagnostic problems.