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The field of research in 5-hydroxytryptamine has increased dramatically over the past decade, with far reaching implications in psychiatry. The CINP (the international neuropharmacological organization) chose this topic for its first President's Workshop and the record of this meeting is presented here. The contributors are active researchers with a distinguished track record.

The appearance of the crossbow on the European battle field in A.D. 1100 as the weapon of choice for shooting down knights threatened the status quo of medieval chivalric fighting techniques. By 1139 the Church had intervened, outlawing the use of the crossbow among Christians. Withthis edict, arms control was born. As Robert L. O'Connell reveals in this vividly written history of weapons in Western culture, that first attempt at an arms contr...

This book is a sustained philosophical analysis and critique of Plato's Theaetetus. Presupposing no knowledge of Greek, Bostock provides a detailed examination of Plato's arguments and the issues they raise, rival interpretations of the text, and the relations between the Theaetetus and Plato's other works.

Many Chinese philosophic concepts derive from an ancient cosmology. This work is the first reconstructions of the mythic thought of the Shang Dynasty (ca. 1700- 1100 B.C.) which laid the foundation for later Chinese patterns of thought. Allan regards the myth, cosmology, divination, sacrificial ritual, and art of the Shang as different manifestations of a common religious system and each is examined in turn, building up a coherent and consiste...

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Im Mittelpunkt der Publikation stehen die historisch-geologische Entwicklung Amazoniens sowie die Herausbildung des heutigen Gewässernetzes. Darüber hinaus werden die heutige geomorphologisch-fluviale und geoökologische Dynamik behandelt. Anthropogene Eingriffe und Fragen der Ökologie weisen auf Probleme hin, die weltweite Auswirkungen besitzen. Der Leser wird über die Entwicklungsgeschichte und gegenwärtige Problematik eines sensiblen Bereich...

PPS-Systeme in den weitaus meisten Fallen entweder fur die kundenauftragsorien­ tierte Einzel- und Kleinserienfertigung oder ftir die kunden­ anonyme Serienfertigung konzipiert sind.

Neue Produktions- und Informationstechnologien verwandeln unsere industrielle Arbeitswelt. Auch neue Formen der Arbeitsorganisation im direkten und indirekten Bereich sind heute schon feste Bestandteile innovativer Unternehmen. Die Entkopplung der Arbeitszeit von der Betriebszeit, integrative Planungsansätze sowie der Aufbau dezentraler Strukturen sind nur einige Beispiele der Konzepte, die die aktuellen Entwicklungsrichtungen kennzeichnen. Ob...

The theory and practice of measuring consumer demand for environmental quality is comprehensively and practically reviewed in this book. It was perceived that there was a significant need for a book that was both theoretically rigorous yet could address the question of how to actually measure this demand. The volume is divided into two sections. The first section develops theoretical tools and covers the principal methods for measuring demand ...

A favorite with storytellers because of the rich, descriptive language of the retelling, this is a reissue of the classic edition of the famous Scandinavian tale. Marcia Brown's stylized illustrations capture the personalities of the clever goats and the horrible troll, making this book a feast for the eyes as well as the ears.

On Duties' was Cicero's last philosophical work. In it he made use of Greek thought to formulate the political and ethical values of Roman Republican society as he saw them, revealing incidentally a great deal about actual practice.

This collection of articles reviews some of the latest developments in telecommunications and electronic storage and processing devices, and provides a perspective on telecommunications capabilities currently available. Each section focuses on specific technologies or aspects of the communications environment. ^BSelected Contents: A Little Light, A Bright Promise: Fiber Optics, Teleconferencing: A Rapidly Growing Innovation, Cellular Phones: T...

From 1837 to 1861 Thoreau kept a Journal that began as a conventional record of ideas, grew into a writer's notebook, and eventually became the principal imaginative work of his career. The source of much of his published writing, the Journal is also a record of both his interior life and his monumental studies of the natural history of his native Concord, Massachusetts. In contrast to earlier editions, the Princeton Edition reproduces the Jou...

In this timely book, Patrick Boyer examines the important role that direct democracy - through the occasional use of referendums, plebiscites, and initiatives - can play in concert with our existing institutions of representative democracy.