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Defining the process of learning as an apprenticeship-a social activity that is mediated by parents and peers who support and challenge the child's understanding and skills-Rogoff here explores the mental development of children. She draws from and expands on the work of Vygotsky in her examination of the dynamic relationship between thinking processes and the cultural context and gathers evidence from various areas-cognitive and developmental...

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This new text of Sophocles is the product of extensive collaboration between Sir Lloyd-Jones and N.G. Wilson, both highly respected scholars in the field. The volume includes the Greek texts and apparatus criticus for Ajax, Electra, Oedipus Tyrannus, Antigone, Trachiniae, Philoctetes, and Oedipus Coloneus.

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A special meeting of the Royal Society in London in 1986 marked the centenary of the first demonstration of nitrogen fixation. Currently the subject is of great practical importance because the use of nitrogenous fertilizers has resulted in unacceptable levels of water pollution, also these fertilizers are becoming steadily less economic both in cash terms and in utilization of fossil fuels for their manufacture. The number of papers published...

The first volume of stage and TV plays by one of the best British TV writers Where the Difference Begins, a naturalist play for television, is about the "difference" between thirties deprivation and fifties affluence, between material prosperity and its accompanying spiritual and political apathy, as embodied by sixty-year-old railwayman Wilf and his sons, A Suitable Case for Treatment, a play for television, portrays a man who, on account of...

Weaving political commentaries, cultural adventures, and Chinese and Native American Indian myths into stories rich in adventure and mystery, Griever: An American Monkey King in China is about Griever de Hocus, a reservation-born tribal trickster, who accompanied by his rooster, Matteo Ricci, takes on the monolithic institutions of the People's Republic of China.

The phenomenon of Doris Lessing's global reputation and readership is addressed for the first time in In Pursuit of Doris Lessing through a series of essays that also provide a provocative overview of Lessing's long career from The Grass Is Singing, the first of a series of African and woman-centered politically radical works, to her latest galactic and politically conservative works. Nine different Lessings emerge from these essays, forcing u...

Provides an authoritative contemporary review of both the science and art of EIA, reflecting concern both with the technical aspects of appraisal and the effects of EIA on the decision-making process.