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This volume is an impressive tour de force. It is state-of-the-art Aristotle: it employs the most recent philological, philosophical, and logical advances which since the 1970's at least have rendered previous translations and commentaries obsolete. The translation is the first to take account of the recent epistemically orientated natural-deduction approach, which restores Aristotle's reputation as a consummate logician and reveals much more ...

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A study of the Krio of Sierra Leone, the descendants of black people brought to Africa from Nova Scotia and Jamaica, and "Liberated Africans" freed from slave ships. The author shows the character and ethos of his own people as expressed in their aspirations and careers of their leading figures.

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Comprising selections from Aulus Gellius, Nepos, Caesar, and Phaedrus, this college-level reader serves as a bridge between the beginning Latin student's text and the Orations of Cicero. Substantial notes explain new grammatical constructions and historically situate the people, places, and institutions mentioned in the excerpts. An outline reviews grammar the student should know, using examples taken from, or based upon, the text.

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Vladimir Nabokovs 'Lolita' hat 1958 nicht nur in Amerika einen Wirbel ausgelöst - der Roman hat seither nichts von seiner Frische verloren und ist längst zu einem modernen Klassiker avanciert. Dieses Buch bietet nicht die tausendste Lolita-Interpretation, wartet nicht mit Phantasien über eine Phantasiegestalt auf. Vielmehr untersucht es den Roman in diversen Beziehungen zur realen Welt. Es schildert den hindernisreichen Weg zu seiner Akzeptanz...

A stunning combination of fluent prose and exquisitely wrought illustrations" (School Library Journal). "An inventive twist on the classic tale" (Publishers Weekly).This Egyptian spin on the classic Cinderella tale was initially recorded in the first century by a Roman historian and is retold here by folklorist Shirley Climo.Poor Rhodopis! She has nothing—no mother or father, and no friends. She is a slave, from the far-off country of Greece. ...

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Although design infuses every object in the material world and gives form to immaterial processes as well, it is only recently that design itself has become the focus of intellectual debate. In "Design Discourse, " Victor Margolin gathers together a body of new writing in the emerging field of design studies. The contributors argue in different ways for a rethinking of design in light of its cultural significance and its powerful position in t...

Few aspects of public life are scrutinized and debated as intensely as leadership. It is crucial to the welfare of nations, the survival of political parties, and the functioning of interest groups and public corporations. And, as this volume demonstrates, political leadership is both a complex and elusive quality. In twelve provocative, state-of-the-art essays, leading scholars in political science explore the meaning of political leadership ...

Diese Einführung in die Methoden enthält konkrete Anleitungen zur Durchführung von Experimenten, wie sie jeder Student im Rahmen seiner Praktika zur Pflanzenphysiologie zu absolvieren hat. Diese Experimente sind in zwei Kategorien eingeteilt: zuerst "Demonstrations-Experimente" als in der Regel einfach auszuführende Versuche zur Veranschaulichung bestimmter physiologischer Sachverhalte. Sie haben vor allem didaktischen Charakter und sind weitg...

Grundlagenforscher und Kliniker vermitteln in diesem Buch einen Überblick über den derzeitigen Stand der Forschung über katatone und dyskinetische Syndrome. Das Buch verbindet somit Psychopathologie und Pharmakopsychiatrie, geschichtlichen Rückblick und Ausblick auf zukünftige diagnostische und therapeutische Strategien in der Neurologie und Psychiatrie.

The goal of this book is to teach spectral methods for solving boundary value, eigenvalue, and time-dependent problems. Although the title speaks only of Chebyshev polynomials and trigonometric functions, the book also discusses Hermite, Laguerre, rational Chebyshev, sinc, and spherical harmonic functions. These notes evolved from a course I have taught the past five years to an audience drawn from half a dozen different disciplines at the Uni...

Benjamin - philosophy, aesthetics, history. Most of this material is reprinted from Fall-winter 1983-1984 issue of the Philosophical forum.Benjamin was a philosopher. He was one through all the phases and in all the fields of his activity. On the face of it he wrote mostly about subjects of literature and art, sometimes also about topics on the borderline between literature and politics, but only rarely about matters conventionally considered ...

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When rains descend on southern Africa, especially on those parts where cattle are kept, flies regenerate in numbers intolerable to Western sensibilities. Photographs of these winged invaders of eyes and nostrils, of milk pails and teacups, found in dozens of coffee-table books and television documentaries, faithfully depict this reality of rural African life. In stark contrast, the modern pesticides, drainage projects, and absentee ownership t...