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Argues that the US strategic response to startling changes taking place in Western Europe should be no less dramatic. Collins describes the creation of a new type of political organization - a new way for people to combine themselves politically in Western Europe.

Das Multiorganversagen stellt eine der größten Herausforderungen in der Intensivmedizin dar. Aufgrund ausgedehnter Forschungstätigkeit konnten in den letzten Jahren neue Erkenntnisse in der Entstehung dieses bedrohlichen Krankheitsbildes und in dessen Beherrschung gewonnen werden. Hauptthema der 10. Wiener Intensivmedizinischen Tage war daher das Multiorganversagen, dessen wichtigste Referate im vorliegenden vierten Band des Intensivmedizinisc...

Diese Publikation befa~t sich mit der Entwicklung einer Steuerung f}r die Freiformfl{chenbearbeitung mit der M|glichkeit, Bahnvorgaben in Parameterkoodinaten der Fl{chenbeschreibung zu interpolieren. Die damit verbundenen Vorteile sind der durchg{ngige Informationsflu~ f}r Geometriedaten, die Reduktion der NC-Datenmenge, die Flexibilit{t des Fr{sereinsatzes und die hohe Bearbeitungsgeschwindigkeit. Es wurde eine erweiterte NC-Programmi...

In the only history of its kind, Etheridge traces the development of the Centers for Disease Control from its inception as a malaria control unit during World War II through the mid-1980s . The eradication of smallpox, the struggle to identify an effective polio vaccine, the unraveling of the secrets of Legionnaires' disease, and the shock over the identification of the HIV virus are all chronicled here. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and s...

Quentin Blake has been drawing ever since he can remember. He taught illustration for over twenty years at the Royal College of Art, of which he is an honorary professor. He has won many prizes, including the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration, the Eleanor Farjeon Award and the Kate Greenaway Medal, and in 1999 he was appointed the first Children¿s Laureate. In the 2013 New Year¿s Honours List he was knighted for services to illust...

John Lydus and the Roman Past offers a new interpretation of the emergence of Byzantine society as viewed through the eyes of John Lydus, a sixth-century scholar and civil servant. Maas show that control of classical inheritance was politically contested in the reign of Justinian. He demonstrates how the past could be used to convey legitimacy and social definition at a time of profound change.

Language has always been used as a measure of social, ideological, and psychological contexts for the exploration of madness. The Madhouse of Language considers the relations between madness and language from the late seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries, focusing on the close analysis of both medical records and texts by mad writers. It presents a highly original account of the linguistic relations between madness and sanity, of the appr...

First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This work offers a new analysis of reflection and of the significance of framing in teachers' thinking. The book encapsulates recent developments in the field in the UK, USA, Canada and Australia. Case studies and research results are cited in support of the reflective process.

This work offers a new analysis of "reflection" and of the significance of "framing" in teachers' thinking. The book encapsulates recent developments in the field in the UK, USA, Canada and Australia. Case studies and research results are cited in support of the reflective process.

This book seeks to redress the balance of reporting in the sport's literature which has always favoured the activities of aquatic gentlemen at the public schools, Oxford and Cambridge Universities, Henley Regatta and on the River Thames. This study focuses on the many who helped instigate and nurture the sport but who have been forgotten due to their not being associated with the elite of the sport.

In April 1982, an infant boy was born in Bloomington, Indiana, with Down syndrome and a defective, but surgically correctable, esophagus. His parents refused to consent to surgery or intravenous feeding. The hospital unsuccessfully sought a court order to force treatment, and appeals to higher courts also failed. The child, identified as Baby Doe by the news media, subsequently died. The events in Bloomington became the catalyst for action by ...

The techniques available for the chemical analysis of silicate without an appreciation of what happens in between. rocks have undergone a revolution over the last 30 years. However, to use an analytical technique most effectively, No longer is the analytical balance the only instrument used it is essential to understand its analytical characteristics, in for quantitative measurement, as it was in the days of classi­ particular the excitation m...

This series catalogues the Educational Test Service (ETS) database of standardized tests. Each volume describes tests used in a specific academic or diagnostic discipline. Every entry includes a full description of the test, its title, author, source and age or grade level.

Here is the book that brought the mystical implications of subatomic physics to popular consciousness for the very first time--way back in 1975. This special edition celebrates the thirty-fifth anniversary of this early Shambhala best seller that has gone on to become a classic. It includes a new preface by the author, in which he reflects on the further discoveries and developments that have occurred in the years since the book's original pub...