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One of the world's leading authorities on theoretical fluid mechanics here offers an unusually accessible introduction to the subject, blending practical and theoretical aspects in a useful and different approach.

This is one of a complete set of Jane Austen's novels collating the editions published during the author's lifetime and previously unpublished manuscripts. The books are illustrated with 19th century-plates and incorporate revisions by experts in the light of subsequent research.

3 or 4 Families in a Country Village is the very thing to work on', Jane Austen wrote, in September 1814, to a niece with literary ambitions. The advice undoubtedly reflected Jane Austen's satisfaction with her own work in progress, a novel in which the village of Highbury provides the setting for the moral and emotional education of Emma Woodhouse, a heroine 'handsome, clever, and rich' but spoiled by 'the power of having rather too much her ...

This collection of all Jane Austen's Minor Works printed from her manuscripts, includes three volumes of high-spirited early efforts (written at about fifteen), Lady Susan, the fragments The Watsons (thought to have been a sketch for Emma) and Sanditon, written in the last year of her life, and a number of impromptu comic verses, and three prayers.

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Northanger Abbey has long been a popular member of the Jane Austen canon of novels, with its combination of literary burlesque, satirizing the prevailing taste for Gothic action, and the story of Catherine Morland's adventures as she captures the heart of Henry Tilney. Persuasion, the last completed novel Jane Austen wrote, was finished in 1816, the year before her death, and published posthumously in 1817. It features a heroine, Anne Elliot, ...

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This collection of twelve essays examines the use of mediation in intranational as well as international disputes so that parallels and similarities between various approaches could be emphasized and the whole approach viewed as a universal means of managing human conflict. Initial chapters treat mediation as a concept, beginning with an analysis by editors Mitchell and Webb entitled Mediation in International Relations: An Evolving Tradition....

Survival of the Black Family critically examines the social policies that arose from the civil rights movement. Jewell proposes new steps to economic independence for black families that would place this responsibility within all sectors of society, arguing that social policies and their absence have affected the status of black family structures. She refutes the myths of significant black progress that emanated from the civil rights era, incl...

The Nicaraguan revolution of 1978 and the subsequent violence engulfing the Central American states, cause mass migration of Latin American persons seeking territorial asylum. Latin American States and Political Refugees focuses on the questions surrounding this new problem of refugees.

For Thomas, 'folklore' is an all-encompassing term that incorporates the sum total of the rituals, practices, and behavior of the black community...Although some readers will quarrel with the elasticity of Thomas's theoretical framework, this study nevertheless offers a useful overview of the various ways in which Afro-American writers have drawn upon a common cultural heritage. Choice This study focuses on the transposition of Afro-American f...

As the popularity of the genre increases and special effects are pushed to greater extremes of terror and cruelty, more and more people have begun to wonder, what is the attraction of horror films? Do they have any socially redeeming features? Rockett offers some surprising and provocative answers to these questions in his analysis of the cinema of cruelty. First commenting on our fascination with experiences that transcend the world of ordina...

A valuable resource and guide for scholars, students, and theater professionals, this book will be appreciated by general readers with an interest in contemporary theater. It is an appropriate choice for large or small theater collections. Books on the Theater Although European critics have recognized Poland's distinctive contributions to theatre since the beginning of the twentieth century, American audiences first became acquainted with Poli...

Direct coal liquefaction, a synthetic liquid fuel process, is one of the major developmental alternatives for meeting the anticipated fuel demands for the twenty-first century. This work provides a retrospective assessment of past attempts in this century to develop synthetic liquid fuel and applies the findings to produce reliable and pertinent data for the future. Retrospective technology assessment, a recent methodological invention, is use...

Diese Einführung in die Anwendung der geostatistischen Methoden basiert auf langjährigen Lehrerfahrungen und praktischen Tätigkeiten der Autoren und eignet sich hervorragend als Begleitbuch zu Vorlesungen und Kursen, wobei nur geringe Kenntnisse der Statistik vorausgesetzt werden. Neben einer Fülle von durchgerechneten Beispielen werden auch die theoretischen Grundlagen vermittelt. Angesprochen sind in erster Linie Geowissenschaftler und Bergl...

Wie im Vorwort des Buches iiber die Grundlagen der Verbrennungsmotoren angekiindigt, hat der Verfasser in der vorliegenden Arbeit nun auch den Stoff seiner weiterfUhrenden, an der Technischen UniversiHit Braunschweig abgehaltenen Vorlesungen iiber die theore­ tischen Analysen der verschiedenen MotorprozeBabschnitte, die in der Literatur in sehr vielen Einzeidarstellungen behandelt werden, zusammengefaBt. Wie die Ergebnisse aller bisherigen und...

Anxious to get her son to sleep, Mrs. Mouse goes off to find what she thinks he wants.