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The author attempts to answer some difficult questions about the relationships between Korea, Japan and the USA in the post-war period. They include the question of how actively the USA tried to assist in creating normal relations between Korea and Japan, as well as many others.

Contains newspaper articles, book reviews and scholarly essays on "Huckleberry Finn" spanning the period from the early response in the 1880s, through the centennial celebration, to the present. An ABC-TV special on the centennial, "Huckleberry Finn: Literature or Racist Trash", is included.

Fifty-one essays cover the lives and works of the most important women writers in the history of French literature with an emphasis on their experiences as writers, a discussion of their major themes, and brief surveys of critical reactions. Each essay is followed by a bibliography of primary works, a list of titles translated into English, and a selection of critical studies. An additional essay describes the trobairitz, the women troubadours...

The author argues that a musical experience is marked by the synthesis of passion and rationality, emotion and understanding, and body and mind. This book is an attempt to understand better the dynamic interaction between various levels of musical significance.

According to Stein, an updated and clinically-relevant affect theory is conspicuously absent in the field of psychoanalysis. This book represents the first attempt to collate and clarify psychoanalytic theories on affect as they relate to the clinical process. Stein outlines and analyzes the most important affect theories and empirical work presented in the last one hundred years. She exposes the rigidity of some automatically held notions abo...

This volume surveys recent Taiwan politics, mainly from the perspective of the ruling KMT party. It includes analysis of recent changes in the party itself and also in the relations between the party, the opposition, and society generally.

Im Aufbruch der Moderne wurden soziale Verhältnisse bewußt als >Gesellschaft<, wurde sozialer Wandel erfahrbar als >Geschichte< und Entwicklung erwartbar als >Fortschritt<. Aufklärung und Selbstverständigung gesellschaftlicher Modernität stellten sich unter den Anspruch der >Wissenschaft<. Die in diesem Band versammelten Klassiker moderner Gesellschaftslehren dokumentieren solche Selbstbeschreibung und -verständigung von Aufbruch, Ausbau und W...

The ongoing globalization of financial markets has increased the import­ ance to users of financial services, policy-makers and financial analysts of understanding the structure and operation of banking systems in other countries as well as that in their own country. This volume contributes to such an understanding. The structure and operation of the banking system are described for 10 important countries, plus the European Economic Community,...

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In a rhythmic text and striking pictures, Byron Barton retells the classic story of the three bears and a little girl named Goldilocks.Mr. Barton's simple words, bold images, and imaginative use of color have made his many picture books perennial favorites with very young children.

Major religious traditions of the world contain perspectives of perennial importance on the topic of death and afterlife. In this volume, 13 scholars, each a specialist in a particular religious tradition, outline the beliefs, myths, and practises relating to death and afterlife.

Major religious traditions of the world contain perspectives of perennial importance on the topic of death and afterlife. Here thirteen scholars, each a specialist in a particular religious tradition, outline the beliefs and practices relating to death and afterlife.

Contemporaryphilosophyseems a great swirling almost chaos. Every situation must seem so at the time, probably because philosophy itself resists structura­ tion and because personal and political factors within as well as without the discipline must fade in order for the genuinely philosophical merits of performances to be assessed. Nevertheless, some remarks can still be made to situate the present volume. For example, at least half of philoso...

Fibre-reinforced plastic (FRP) composite materials are basically of two types. The first type is short fibres reinforced in a plastic matrix, and the other type continuous (long) fibres reinforced in a plastic matrix. The exact distinction between a short and a continuous fibre is discussed in Chapter 1. Continuous fibre-reinforced composite materials are referred to by many labels: FRP composites, advanced composites, fibrous composites, comp...

Um die Sache der Phänomenologie handelt es sich in den folgenden Meditationen. Sie sind aus der Überzeugung des Verfassers erwach­ sen, daß die phänomenologische Philosophie imJahre 1990nochetwas zu sagen hat, etwas Bedeutsames. Sie ist keineswegs die sagenhafte "Philosophia perennis". Es ist auch nicht so, daß sie die Lösung der Probleme aller Philosophen und philosophischen Strömungen zu bie­ ten hätte. Abersiespieltnochstetseine unersetzlic...

Intensive research on zeolites, during the past thirty years, has resulted in a deep understanding of their chemistry and in a true zeolite science, including synthesis, structure, chemical and physical properties, and catalysis. These studies are the basis for the development and growth of several industrial processes applying zeolites for selective sorption, separation, and catalysis. In 1983, a NATO Advanced Study Institute was organized in...

The purpose of this book is to bring together the most recent knowledge concerning the genetic improvement of ornamental plant species. Active researchers of many aspects of the genetics and breeding of these species have written chapters organized into three sections: Cytogenetics, Quantitative Genetics and Molecular Genetics. These titles identify the basic tools used in a variety of breeding situations. Some are traditional and well establi...

This guide offers a review of past, present and future adult literacy programmes, and considers how current programmes consistently fail to close an ever-widening workplace education gap. The authors give practical, real-life case study examples from successful on-site company programmes.

The quantum statistical properties of radiation represent an important branch of modern physics with rapidly increasing applications in spectroscopy, quantum generators of radiation, optical communication, etc. They have also an increasing role in fields other than pure physics, such as biophysics, psychophysics, biology, etc. Interesting applications have been developed in high energy elementary particle collisions. The present monograph repr...

An assessment of the Soviet Union as it enters the 1990s, this collection of essays surveys the Gorbachev reform agenda and its successes and failures to date. Topics covered include federalism and the nationality problem and foreign policy towards the West, Eastern Europe and the Third World.