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Develops a comprehensive multivariate paradigm of the process of ageing, delineating the factors underlying age-related degeneration. The model is aimed at understanding the conditions under which age sets into motion a process of degeneration.

This handbook addresses issues unique to the "in-city" academic library and shows how the use of new technologies can assist the urban librarian in fashioning services for a non-resident faculty, as well as a usually older student body, comprised of many international and part-time students.

Transport phenomenain porous media are encounteredin various disciplines, e. g. , civil engineering, chemical engineering, reservoir engineering, agricul­ tural engineering and soil science. In these disciplines, problems are en­ countered in which various extensive quantities, e. g. , mass and heat, are transported through a porous material domain. Often, the void space of the porous material contains two or three fluid phases, and the variou...

Rodes examines the legal materials (cases, statutes, canons, and measures) used in the English experience of updating the medieval synthesis of church and state.

This volume is a comprehensive bibliographical and historiographical survey of the battle of Jutland, the major naval engagement of World War I. Rasor has incorporated all published books, monographs, official reports, dissertations, bibliographies, pertinent journals and periodicals, collections of unpublished personal papers, letters, diaries, manuscripts, and other materials. Sources appropriate to the background on the origins and conseque...

Constructivism is based on the principle that our personalities, behaviour and society are organized by the ways in which we attribute meanings to events and act upon these meanings. This work explains constructivism as an epistemology and demonstrates its practical relevance for social work.

A collection of essays focusing on the role of the fantastic in Irish literature and arts, looking at the works of Yeats, John Field, Shelley, Synge, Beckett, Swift and others, as well as Irish theatre, music and paintings.

The text has again been brought up to date and extensively revised, especially the EC chapter. The chapter on the OECD has been transferred to Part One. The brought-up-to-date chapter on the CMEA has been maintained, but at the time ofwriting its abolition was still not decided. A new treaty on central andeasternEuropeancooperationwasnotyetapproved. My thanks are due to the persons listed below, who were kind enough to comment on the draft of ...

Discount Schedule Analysis (DSA), a technique illustrated and explained in this management book, provides analytical tools for increasing profits by linking prices and discounts to management decision making.

The world is a different place today.* Much of this has to do with the increasing volume and clarity of the people's collective voice. The power and pressing desire in man for autonomy, self-determination, and change are emerging as a demand. As a consequence, Communist governments are giving way to democratic re­ structuring, Europe is being recrafted, and the Cold War is slowly thawing. Simultaneously, back home, our government is becoming i...

Provides detailed information on constraining factors in the medical academic marketplace, the impact of public accountability on medical school faculty, and the essential character of medical schools as research institutions and providers of important services to the larger community.

This analysis of France's role in Europe's new security order examines a post-Cold War security dialogue that has focused on the superpowers and Germany. The author provides an historical framework for his study of current French security policy, linking broad themes to changes in operation.

This collection of essays explores in concrete anthropological detail the ways that people throughout the world have been drawn into the new international labour web created by multinational corporations and the world capitalist market.

The authors show how new economic linkages are being formed between world markets and small-scale entrepreneurs and home-based local producers. The essays explore in anthropological detail the ways that people throughout the world have been drawn into a new international division of labor.

This collection is a tribute to the talent, teaching and humanism of Alfred Einstein, whose scholarship and criticisms affirm his position as one of the foremost musicologists of the 20th century. The book is written by a former student of Einstein's.

This case history offers a background for understanding the complex European situation in 1945, and then traces how the Americans helped assist, control, regulate, promote, or even resist Austrian post-war recovery, especially in the first crucial years in Salzburg.

One of the most fascinating aspects of film studies is how it can explain more about the nature of closed societies. In Eastern Europe, artists, intellectuals, and entertainers are now free to create film outside the direct control of the state. This unique handbook convincingly shows how much film art was still being produced behind the Iron Curtain even during such repressive periods as those under Stalin and Brezhnev. Thomas J. Slater has c...

Louis E. Wilson is an associate professor and chair of the African Studies Department at Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063.

Examines the evolution of the Labour Party's defense and security policies since 1900, concentrating on the 1980s and the gradual shift from unilateral nuclear disarmament and the removal of US nuclear bases from UK soil to retention of the British nuclear deterrent and support for NATO.

Exploring the future of Europe, this work examines a wide variety of topics in detailing the choices the European nations face, including German identity and the German perception of security, doubts about the US and nuclear deterrence and the growing political role of the EC.