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Offers basis for the examination and explanation of thermoelectric phenomena and their correlations with other physical properties. This book explains the 'why' and the 'how' and 'what' of thermoelectric behaviors. It is suitable for the busy technician or engineer working with thermoelectric thermometry in metallurgical, chemical, and petroleum.

Anyone wishing to write short stories and novels will learn from The Art of Creating Fiction how some eminent writers, such as William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf, created their art. By giving the new writer an understanding of fiction as it has been produced by the great novelists, The Art of Creating Fiction serves a double purpose: it is an implicit manual on how to write fiction and at the same time a work that provokes, challenges and ins...

In the 19th century, the Fourier transformation was introduced to study various problems of partial differential equations. Since 1960, this old tool has been developed into a well-organized theory called microlocal analysis that is based on the concept of the pseudo-differential operator. This book explains the origin of the theory.

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A practical, clearly written resource on substance abuse, Drugs and Behavior offers the most comprehensive examination for human service professionals to date on this topic. Relevant psychopharmacological and central nervous system information is presented, the impact of the family and community upon the abuse of drugs is discussed and descriptions of various drugs (alcohol, CNS depressants, hallucinogens, nicotine and marijuana) are provided...

I suppose that most of the people reading this volume will have read or have access to Volume One of my Global Report on Student Well­ Being. Therefore, I will not review the background literature relevant to multiple discrepancies theory (MDT), the theory itself or the essential features of the international university undergraduate data­ set on which this whole report is based. Anyone familiar with my earlier papers (Michalos 1985, 1987, 198...

This book has been prepared for those readers who want to maintain their knowledge of current developments in the field of behavioral research as applied to auditing. The articles and papers presented in this volume were selected because they will contribute to the knowledge and advancement of not only the individual researcher or educator, but also of the profession. It is our belief that if research endeavors may be viewed as having stages o...

On the 26th, 27th, and 28th of February of 1988, a conference was held on the epistemological foundations of mathematical experience as part of the activities of NSF Grant No. MDR-8550463, Child Generated Multiplying and Dividing Algorithms: A Teaching Experiment. I had just completed work on the book Construction of Arithmetical Meanings and Strategies with Paul Cobb and Ernst von Glasersfeld and felt that substantial progress had been made i...

In honor of the sixtieth anniversary of the end of World War II, Nobel Prize winner Winston Churchill's essential, abridged memoirs of that time are reintroduced with an updated cover and a new low price. The quintessence of the war as seen by it's greatest player, in a one-volume abridged edition that captures all the drama of the original volumes.

Using the iconography of New Deal murals and plays to interpret the cultural history of the 1930s, Engendering Culture demonstrates that the visual and dramatic images of each form contain an underlying vocabulary of gender: a stock of commonly used poses, subjects, settings, and dramatic roles that encode recognizable characteristics of manhood and womanhood.

The objective of the Single European Act is to establish a European market without barriers, thereby enabling the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital. To achieve this end the European Commission has put forward some 300 directives to be implemented by 1 January 1993. The contributors to this volume offer a critical evaluation of the likely effects of these measures for Europe as a whole and for the UK economy, in particular.

A reprint of the Doubleday edition of 1976 with a new afterword by Norman Sherman. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Presenting a multidisciplinary view of the medicinal plant industry, this book covers its growth. It discusses the need for developing countries to acquire technologies and techniques for programmed cultivation of medicinal plants. It highlights cultivation and climatic variations, biological assessment and formulation, and phytochemical research.

Do certain eating disorders directly correlate with neglect and abuse? What do eating and growth disorders have in common? Are some treatment methods more successful than others in treating such disorders? Exploring these and other questions, this volume examines the relevant literature on each major eating and growth disorder from infancy to childhood. Anorexia nervosa, obesity, failure to thrive and psychosocial dwarfism are among the major...

A simplified retelling of the adventures of Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up. Accelerated Reader: Reading Level 3, 1 Point.

Why is adolescence a time of conflict between teenage girls and their mothers? Is mother/daughter strife a way of redefining a critical relationship? Terri Apter answers these and other important questions in this book which addresses the female experience in the insightful tradition of Carol Gilligan's In a Different Voice. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

Begriffe stellen Ansprüche. Man benutzt sie nicht ohne Risiko. Wahrscheinlich beherrschen wir ihre Semantik nicht so, wie diese Semantik uns beherrscht. Für den Begriff Geschichte ist das offensichtlich. Geschichte ist einer von den Begriffen, die ein Erklärungsmonopol beanspruchen. Dieser Anspruch zeigt sich in Wendungen wie »Eigentlich ist alles ...«, z.B. geschichtlich. Der Geschichtsbegriff ist nur ein Kandidat solcher absoluten Bedeutungs...