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Journalist Max Lerner writes a stunningly honest account of the feelings and thoughts that marked his battle with two successive cancers and a heart attack. Journal entries from this extraordinary ordeal show how mind and body interweave in the healing process. "A worthy companion to Anatomy of an Illness".--Kirkus Reviews.

Awarded the 1988 Johnsonian Prize in Philosophy. Published with the aid of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

European Review of Social Psychology Volume 2 Edited by Wolfgang Stroebe, University of Tü bingen, West Germany and Miles Hewstone, University of Bristol, UK The European Review of Social Psychology is an annual series that reflects the dynamism of social psychology in Europe and the attention now paid to European ideas and research. Although open to authors from all nations, one of its major purposes is to further the international exchange o...

“Each time I leave home I seem to go in search of something—call it a bo tree, or Shangri-La, or paradise—which is only another name for peace itself and these days decidedly a fool’s errand.”So writes Helen Bevington in The World and the Bo Tree, a book that describes her travels taken amid the turbulence of the 1980s. The “world” of the title is the one everybody knows, a fairly troubled, even threatening place to inhabit these days. The bo ...

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Redpath, today a household name for sugar in Canada, has its roots in the story of an enterprising Scots immigrant, John Redpath.

This book provides practical guidance from the maintenance and improvements of highways to activities related to construction work on or near highways.

This volume is the first in the series devoted to the commutative harmonic analysis, a fundamental part of the contemporary mathematics. The fundamental nature of this subject, however, has been determined so long ago, that unlike in other volumes of this publication, we have to start with simple notions which have been in constant use in mathematics and physics. Planning the series as a whole, we have assumed that harmonic analysis is based o...

This text takes the reader step-by-step through the receiving and inspection processes involved in judging the quality of fresh and frozen fish and shellfish as well as live shellfish. It gives receiving procedures and sampling plans, and tells how to conduct simple, fair tests on products. It also tells clearly and in detail what quality points to look for with a wide range of seafood products, from live shellfish to frozen coated portions. E...

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Die erste und zweite Auflage des »Rückläufigen deutschen Wörterbuchs« hat eine überaus freundliche Aufnahme gefunden. Die neuartige Konzeption mit Berücksichtigung der Wort- und Lautstruktur ist allgemein als wesentliche Hilfe anerkannt worden. Sie ermöglicht eine umfassende Bestandsaufnahme aller Wortausgänge im Blick auf Ableitungen aller Art, auf Komposita, Aussprache und selbst Fragen der Rechtschreibung. Sie umfaßt den gesamten Wortschatz...

From Simon & Schuster, The World Affairs Companion is Gerald Segal's essential one-volume guide to global issues that you can't afford to miss.The World Affairs is a fascinating, facts-at-your-fingertips guidebook for the newswatcher, armchair strategist or student of international politics, and the first place to look for instant perspective on today's world events.

The Third and Only Way considers subjects that are not often enough written about, particularly by someone as eloquent as Helen Bevington. I value her wisdom and learning, her endless curiosity, and the beautiful clarity with which she writes."--David Guy, author of "The Autobiography of My Body

A lyrical, innovative introspection into the process of inspiration by one of the great Irish poets.

The cities and the regions of the world are being transformed under the combined impact of a restructuring of the capitalist system and a technological revolution. This is the thesis of this book, now in paperback. Castells not only brings together an impressive array of evidence to support it but puts forward a new body of theory to explain it. He analyzes the interaction between information technology, economic restructuring and socio-spatia...