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Guiding principle of Eastern art and design, focusing on the interaction between positive and negative space, demonstrated in 6 problems of progressive difficulty. Solutions will fascinate artists and designers. 101 illustrations.

There is a pressing need for rationalization and standardization of test procedures for metals for use in all types of structure. This book brings together the latest international research developments, presented at a RILEM workshop held in Naples in May 1990.

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In this major new work, Bernstein explores the ethical and political dimensions of the modernity/post-modernity debate. Bernstein argues that modernity / post-modernity should be understood as a kind of mood - one which is amorphous, shifting and protean but which exerts a powerful influence on our current thinking.

At last! It is over 50 years ago since a comprehensive review on the biology of chaetognaths appeared ... This book will be consulted as a reference work for many years ahead. It is a 'must' on the bookshelf for every higher degree student and researcher in zooplanktology, systematics and comparative morphology and physiology, as well as for teachers of zoology.' Journal of Natural History More than 500 references Superb illustrations

The penultimate work in the Oxford English Text's Byron Series, this volume, described by Ian Jack as "one of the finest editions we have of any of the Romantic poets, " contains all Byron's works of 1821 and 1822, including his late plays--The Two Foscari, Sardanapalus, Cain: A Mystery, and the unfinished, The Deformed Transformed.

This important collection of essays, originating in a 1989 conference on the disadvantaged in American health care, provides incisive commentary on U.S. health care policy and politics. Examining public responses to health crises and analyzing the political logic of the American community, this volume charts the immobility of U.S. health policy in recent years and points to its disastrous consequences for the 1990s.Focusing on the particular n...

There are a number of persistent anomalies in binding theory. One is the lack of an integrated view of long distance anaphora. Anaphors generally require an antecedent, but languages have been found to show striking differences as to where such antecedents may occur. This volume is a collection of original articles by distinguished contributors on the nature of anaphoric systems in a wide variety of genetically and structurally different langu...

This volume integrates theory and experiment to place the study of vision within the context of the action systems which use visual information. This theme is developed by stressing: (a) The importance of situating anyone part of the brain in the context of its interactions with other parts of the brain in subserving animal behavior. The title of this volume emphasizes that visual function is to be be viewed in the context of the integrated fu...

Crossing many conceptual and disciplinary boundaries, this book will cause much exciting controversy. The author draws upon a wide range of fascinating sources. The text is enhanced with the use of photographs.

This important collection of essays, originating in a 1989 conference on the disadvantaged in American health care, provides incisive commentary on U.S. health care policy and politics. Examining public responses to health crises and analyzing the political logic of the American community, this volume charts the immobility of U.S. health policy in recent years and points to its disastrous consequences for the 1990s.Focusing on the particular n...

Tracing the evolution of modern dance movements in New York City, this survey focuses on the choreographers, such as Merce Cunningham, Twyla Tharp, Trisha Brown and David Gordon, who were propelled into rebellion against conventional modern dance by various counter-cultural dance troupes.

Called by "Entertainment Weekly" "The best book on Hendrix", "Crosstown Traffic" rode their A-list for over two months and won the prestigious Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award. Roots-savvy British critic Charles Shaar Murray assesses the lifework of guitarist Jimi Hendrix in the context of black musical tradition, social history, and the upheaval of the 1960s. of photos. (Music)

A suspenseful and sometimes horrifying novel of manners, whose plot and odd mix of characters combine to produce an unorthodox thriller about the hijacking of a Middle East-bound jetliner over France in early 1975. "Psychologically astute, ironic and ultimately heartbreaking"(Publishers Weekly).

Filled with bizarre anecdotes and illustrated with ghoulish images, this most unusual bedside companion records the lengths to which people throughout history have gone to cope with fears of being buried alive, of being defiled after death, of disintegrating in tombs, of being forgotten, and of coming to ignominious ends. **Lightning Print On Demand Title

No other textbook on the civil service is as comprehensive and wide-ranging Established textbook, now revised, enlarged and updated The first edition was widely and very well reviewed. .

This is the first book devoted to the role of chemical synthetic techniques in the development of advanced ceramic materials. It bridges the gap between existing volumes dealing with the properties of ceramic materials (for example their mechanical properties) and those on chemistry.The author describes the variety of advanced ceramics and their conventional synthesis and fabrication.

You Know me Al" is a classic of baseball--the game and the community. Jack Keefe, one of literature's greatest characters, is talented, brash, and conceited. Self-assured and imperceptive, impervious to both advice and sarcasm, Keefe rises to the heights, but his inability to learn makes for his undoing. Through a series of letters from this bush-league pitcher to his not-quite-anonymous friend Al, Lardner maintains a balance between the funny...

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