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The horrible Herdmans are the meanest kids around. They lie, steal, cuss, and smoke cigars---even the girls. The last place anyone expected to see them is in church. So when the Herdmans storm Sunday school and take over the annual Christmas pageant, everyone braces for the worst. But no one is prepared for what really happens when the rottenest kids in the world take over the greatest story ever told. It's a pageant full of surprises for ever...

This book questions the postmodern credo that the autonomy of reason and action is a delusion, concealing our entrapment in historical convention and masking a logocentric domination. The author shows how this dogma not only assails a false vision of self-determination, but also how it ignores the way in which a critique of rational autonomy can provide no epistemology or ethics, nor any critique of modernity, without embracing the very indepe...

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The authors argue that the convention's primary function is not the nomination of the party standard-bearer, but the mobilization of party resources in support of a decision rendered elsewhere. They examine how these mobilization processes are coordinated through political, governmental, and media institutions--especially television.

The authors show that since the candidate is the product of primaries and caucuses, the convention's primary function involves not the nomination of the party standard-bearer, but the mobilization of party resources in support of a decision rendered elsewhere.

The essays in this volume were written between 1984 and 1989 for different audiences and for different purposes. They represent an extended reflection on the crisis of sustainability now looming before the modern world, and what this portends for the theory and practice of education.

The answers to questions on a wide variety of social and political issues from more than 25, 000 respondents are contained in the General Social Survey (GSS) data base. The authors, who have directed the GSS since its inception, have set out to enable social scientists to exploit this large data set more effectively. The book outlines such topics as the recurrent, replicated `core' items suitable for trend analyses, the annual topical modules...

Abe's studies of Dogen constitute a minor masterpiece within his overall scholarly production. His efforts have been two-fold: translation and interpretation.

The central claim of this powerful philosophical exploration is that within any logic we have, there can be no coherent notion of all truth or of total knowledge.

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The author aims to challenge most traditional and conventional American political scientific thinking on the value and practicality of direct citizen participation in agenda setting, planning and policy-making. She offers empirical evidence to support her arguments.

Meditations on the central issues and needs of human existence--considered a twentieth-century spiritual classic.

Das Buch geht der Frage nach, ob es in den n{chsten Jahr- zehnten in den urbanen Regionen zu einer Versch{rfung der gegenw{rtigen sozialen, |kologischen und politischen Fronten kommen wird, oder ob die postindustrielle Gesellschaft nicht neue Antworten auf die anstehenden Fragen finden kann. Dazu werden kulturhistorische, soziologische und |konomische Pro- zesse der Stadtdynamik theoretisch diskutiert und exempla- risch anhand der j}nge...

Die Chirurgische Arbeitsgemeinschaftfur Sportverletzungen (CASV) veranstaltete in Tiibin­ gen am 26. Januar 1990 ihre 3. Arbeitstagung, die sich mit der funktionellen Behandlung nach operativ versorgten Kapsel-Band-Verletzungen des Kniegelenkes beschMtigte. Ziel dieser Veranstaltung war es, eine Art Standortbestimmung dieses zunebmend an Bedeutung gewinnenden Bereiches in der Traumatologie vorzunebmen. Bandverletzungen am Kniegelenk sind eine ...

Die Frage eines maglichen Knochenersatzes hat in den letzten Jahren durch zwei Entwiek­ lungen zusatzlich an Aktualitiit gewonnen: Auf der einen Seite nehmen Rasanztraumen mit entsprechenden Defektfrakturen im unfallchirurgischen Patientengut sowie die Zahl rekonstruktiver Eingriffe im orthopadischen Fachbereich, welche einen Knochenersatz er­ forderlieh machen, zu. Auf der anderen Seite hat die Anwendung der homologen tiefgefro­ renen Spongio...

Dieses Buch behandelt die Frage, ob die funktional geforderte Gestalt eines Bauteils mit den denkbaren Technologien hergestellt werden kann und welche Verfahren sich im einzelnen anbieten, wobei auch wirtschaftliche Gesichtspunkte berücksichtigt werden. Unter Gestaltbildung wird hier der Konstruktionsvorgang verstanden, der während des gesamten konstruktiven Entwicklungsprozesses die spätere Gestalt eines Produktes - eine Einheit aus Geometrie...

This book brings together the work of scholars from England, France, Germany, Sweden, and the United States to examine the ways in which industrialized nations have used and are developing tax laws to help alleviate environmental problems. For each country, the contributors offer a thorough review of existing and proposed initiatives and an in-depth evaluation of their effectiveness. They also discuss the theoretical framework behind environme...

The contributors examine such key issues as: How has the implementation of IRCA proceeded? What have been its effects so far? Have the goals of the immigration policy reform been fulfilled? What potential impact on the U.S. economy can the policy reforms be expected to have over the next few years?

Collected in this volume are the remembrances of the survivors of the Latvian Holocaust. It provides the reader with the human responses of those who witnessed the atrocities, from those whose fate enabled them to survive and later lead fulfilling lives, to those broken by the experience.

This book is the first major analysis of the vigilantism that accompanies the economic, political, and social disintegration occurring in many Latin American countries. The essays examine the most prominent forms of vigilantism, including mob lynchings, assassinations by self-appointed or privately employed "enforcers, " citizen uprisings against the police, the work of the notorious death squads, and extra-legal violence by on-duty police. Th...