The proliferation of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) among women and children represents one of the gravest health issues confronting contemporary society. Women, most of childbearing age, now constitute 11 percent of all cases, and the U.S. Public Health Service has projected over3, 000 cases of pediatric AIDS by the end of 1991. In the face of these sobering statistics, experts have been called upon to grapple with a difficult, co...
Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Vom alten zum neuen Bürgertum Die mitteleuropäische Stadt im Umbruch 1780-1820 / Gall, Lothar -- "... Tage des Wohllebens, wie sie noch nie gewesen ..." Das Bremer Bürgertum in der Umbruchszeit 1789-1818 / Schulz, Andreas -- "Ein behagliches, vergnügtes Leben, wenig berührt von den Stürmen der Zeit" Die Universitätsstadt Göttingen 1790-1825 / Jeske, Regina -- Regina Jeske / Kill, Susanne -- "Fabriken gedeihen bekanntli...
This study is devoted to the manifestations of the occult in modernist Hispanic short fiction, particularly that of Manuel Gutierrez Najera, Ruben Dario, and Leopoldo Lugones. According to Howard Fraser, modernist fiction exhibited a coherent, thoroughgoing spiritualist experimentation as an antidote to bourgeois materialism. The fascination of these modernist writers with such areas as alchemy, theosophy, and the supernatural expressed not on...
Contains the industry consensus for design and construction of masonry structures. Written in a form easily adoptable in a general building code, this title covers topics such as: strength design of masonry, integrated seismic design provisions, cold weather masonry construction provisions for grout, and more.
Nine million people in the United States live in rural poverty. This large segment of the population has generally been overlooked even as considerable attention, and social conscience, is directed to the alleviation of urban poverty. This timely, needed volume focuses on poor, rural people in poor, rural settings. Rural poverty is not confined to one section of the country or to one ethnic group. It is a national problem and the resolution of...
Colleges and universities have been criticized for their failure to educate students effectively. As a result, higher educational institutions have become increasingly interested in student outcomes assessment as an important tool for curriculum development and policy planning. This valuable work offers comprehensive coverage of issues, concepts, and practices in student outcomes assessment. The author explores the history of outcomes assessme...
Patients with eating disorders present a challenging and complicated combination of problems. In fact, the existence of one or more comorbid psychiatric conditions along with an eating disorder diagnosis is usually the rule rather than the exception. In "Special Problems in Managing Eating Disorders" a group of experienced clinicians and researchers examine troublesome and challenging problems associated with eating disorders, focusing on the ...
Knowing Women explores some of the most exciting and new developments in feminist theory, engaging the reader as an active participant in critical debates concerning the status of women as both objects and subjects of knowledge.
Defining Women is a major in-depth analysis of the social, economic and political position of women in contemporary societies. It explores the ways in which social institutions, practices and discourse define women and their position in present-day societies.
Offers a comprehensive engineering exploration of all the aspects of precision machine design-both component and system design considerations for precision machines. It addresses both theoretical analysis and practical implementation providing many real world design case studies as well as numerous examples of existing component and their characteristics.
The official publication of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists, this annual publication includes significant scholarly research reflecting the diverse interests of scholars from various backgrounds who use a variety of models, approaches, and methodologies
In this illuminating study Liebeschuetz examines two fundamental themes of Late Antiquity: the barbarization of the Roman army and the interrelation of Church and secular government. He discusses Alaric's Goths in the West, who were treated as a federate regiment rather than a migrating tribe, how the civilian authorities at Constantinople maintained control over the largely German army in a conflict that culminated in the Gainas rising, and h...
