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In the beginning, it was happy trails. Then someone invented the horseless carriage and things haven't been the same since. As ribbons of concrete spread over the horse trails, so did the fun and frustration.This book explores some of that highway fun, both past and present. Included are unique pictures of strange vehicles, early gas stations, convenience stores, the evolution of the stop light, unusual roadside signs, the Texas billboard hall...

Adopting an interdisciplinary approach to solar physics, this study traces the evolution of the Sun and provides a review of our current understanding of both its structure and its role in the origin and evolution of the solar system.

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Examining the concept and social phenomenon of discrimination from economic and sociological perspectives, this text brings together the work of a wide range of sociologists and economists and provides a spectrum of methodological and ideological views on this topic.

Focuses on five aspects of Portuguese society - the transition from latifundia agriculture to industrial oligopoly, the role of the state during the reactionary coalition regime, the African Wars, the changing structure of the military officer corps, and the revolution of 1974.

Marianne McDonald's book triumphantly confirms the steadiness of the classical inheritance and explores the reason for its continuing force and glamour in contemporary theatre. These analyses and interviews give Greek drama a whole new lease on life, they send you back to the texts and make you eager to see the works performed.' Seamus Heaney

Orr has prepared a much-needed historical and international dictionary of the language of critical theory. He includes terms which appeared with great frequency in the indexes to anthologies of critical theory, either general or specific to a period or school, terms which appeared in the indexes to standard histories of criticism, schools of criticism or broad types of criticism, and key terms from foreign-language critical theory. All definit...

The themes of this volume are concerned with how governments, employers, trade unions and workers have acted to promote economic growth and accountability with active industrial policies and forms of co-determination, worker self-management, and/or employee ownership.

In this contribution to the study of ethnic minorities, the author documents a distinctive American community - Chinatown, San Francisco - testing prevailing sociological and psychological theories, and dispelling stereotypes about American Asians.

An examination of the high school dropout problem which considers the numbers, rates and characteristics of undereducated young people among the white majority, African American, Hispanic, American Indian, Eskimo, Aleut, Asian and Pacific Islander Youth, and among non-Hispanic language whites.

A detailed, scholarly reassessment of developments in Cambodia since December 25, 1978, when Vietnamese combat soldiers expelled the ruthless Pol Pot regime. Genocide by Proxy is an account of a country at war and of a people consigned to the role of pawn in world politics. Michael Haas contends that Cambodia became an arena for superpower conflict and thus could only find peace when the superpowers extricated themselves from the country. In p...

This comprehensive discography documents some 750 songs recorded by Vaughan in 221 recording sessions between 1944 and 1989, some of them multiple times. Information on orchestra leaders, arrangers, musicians, matrix numbers, and record company catalog numbers is also given.

The result of a symposium co-sponsored by several academic and professional organizations, this book provides information and insights useful for anyone aspiring to succeed in marketing to consumers in the 1990s.

The Interstate Commerce Commission and its relationship with the railroad is the subject of this work, which traces the enormous changes that saw the rail industry go from being strictly regulated for 90 years to being largely deregulated in the late 1970s.

Twentyfour years have gone by since the publication of K. Lohner and H. MOiler's comprehen­ sive work "Gemischbildung und Verbrennung im Ottomotor" in 1967 [1.1]. Naturally, the field of mixture formation and combustion in the spark-ignition engine has wit­ nessed great technological advances and many new findings in the intervening years, so that the time seemed ripe for presenting a summary of recent research and developments. There­ fore, I...

Discussing key issues before and after the Cold War, this study assesses military and political strategies of serious concern to military historians and professionals, political scientists, academics and policymakers.