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An unprecedented new book that focuses on incorporating, appreciating, and building on the differences among women. Multicultural in content and authorship, this intellectually and emotionally stimulating volume breaks new ground in the development of theory in feminist therapy. You will also find provocative, creative, and diverse chapters that address women's development as it relates to their ethnic, religious, socioeconomic, sexual, and ag...

Gives clear explanations of the logical design sequence for structural elements. The Structural Engineer says: `The book explains, in simple terms, and with many examples, Code of Practice methods for sizing structural sections in timber, concrete, masonry and steel. It is the combination into one book of section sizing methods in each of these materials that makes this text so useful....Students will find this an essential support text to the...

This study analyzes the development of Franz Boas' theories and examines his contributions to racial and ethnic thought in the context of his own ethnicity and personal experience with persecution. The author focuses on Boas' attempt to fuse science with political and social activism.

Featuring period drawings and prints of swordplay, this book examines and compares the only three existing Elizabethan fencing manuals written in English before 1600: Giacomo Di Grassi's "His True Arte of Defense "(1594), Vincentio Saviolo's "His Practice in Two Bookes "(1595), and George Silver's "Paradoxes of Defence and Bref Instructions Upon my Paradoxes of Defence "(1599).More than a technical manual on swordplay, this book explores the i...

A philosophical discussion of the moral problems associated with the need to control health care costs. The crisis of diminishing beneficence in the US health care system is examined and a justification for beneficence is given, describing how it can be implemented as a means to control costs.

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Auf dem Weg zur rechnerintegrierten Produktion (CIM) rückt die Kopplung von CAD und PPS zunehmend in den Mittelpunkt des Interesses, weil damit ein erhebliches Rationalisierungspotential erschlossen werden kann. Daß dies mehr ist als die Verbindung zweier Rechner, zeigen erste Anwendererfahrungen. Der Erfolg einer CAD/PPS-Kopplung wird neben der technischen Gestaltung entscheidend durch die organisatorische Gestaltung des Kopplungskonzeptes be...

In diesem Buch wird die Gestaltung der Arbeitsorganisation bei Einsatz einer Kopplung zwischen einem NC-Programmiersystem (CAD/NC-Kopplung) untersucht. Dieses erfolgt vor dem Hintergrund, daß die Effizienz der Kopplung von CAD-Systemen mit NC-Programmiersystemen nicht ausschließlich durch technische oder technologische Aspekte festgelegt wird. Vielmehr muß eine anforderungsgerechte Oranisationsstruktur, insbesondere zwischen den Bereichen Kons...

Elementare, gleichzeitig exakte Einführung in das Thema. Gezeigt werden für technisch wichtige Fragestellungen sowohl strenge als auch Näherungslösungen, insbesondere erste Abschätzungen auch komplizierter Vorgänge. Exemplarisch wird an Beispielen aus verschiedenen Bereichen das breite Anwendungsgebiet verdeutlicht und die Übertragbarkeit des Vorgehens demonstriert. Tabellen der benötigten Stoffgrößen erleichtern die direkte Anwendung. Damit w...

A selection of seventeen essays on the writings of Ernest Hemingway. The essays are divided into four groupings which examine Hemingway's female characters, his relations with other writers, textual and critical studies and his fiction set in Italy.

This fourth volume continues a series emerging from the Penn State Project on Anglo-German and American-German Literary and Cultural Relations. All articles contained in the volume focus on the theme of the Project and reflect the wealth of scholarly resources to be found in the Allison-Shelley Collection, located in the Pattee Library of The Pennsylvania State University. Contents: Goethe in the American Annuals and Gift-Books, Philip Allison...

By the mid-1920s, the Harlem Renaissance was underway. As an effort to secure economic, social, and cultural equality with white citizens, the Renaissance years were a proving period for black composers and performers. Black Music in the Harlem Renaissance explores black music in the United States and England during the 1920s and its relationship to other arts of the time. The first collection on the subject, Black Music in the Harlem Renaiss...

Historically, the major emphasis on the study of purinergic systems has been predominantly in the areas of physiology and gross pharmacology. The last decade has seen an exponential in­ crease in the number of publications related to the role of both adenosine and A TP in mammalian tissue function, a level of interest that has evolved from a more molecular focus on the identity of adenosine and A TP receptor subtypes and the search for selecti...