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

In this book John Zaller develops a comprehensive theory to explain how people acquire political information from the mass media and convert it into political preferences. Using numerous specific examples, Zaller applies this theory in order to explain the dynamics of public opinion on a broad range of subjects, including both domestic and foreign policy, trust in government, racial equality, and presidential approval, as well as voting behavi...

Winner of the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator Award From the time Chin Chiang stood only as high as his grandfather's knees, he dreamed of dancing the dragon's dance. Now the first day of the Year of the Dragon has arrived, and Chin Chiang is so scared that he wants to melt into his shoes. Chin Chiang is a most appealing small boy, whose plight will touch readers young and old.

In this mathematical autobiography, Chaitin presents a technical survey of his work and a non-technical discussion of its significance. The volume is a companion to the earlier collection of Chaitin's papers "Information, Randomness and Incompleteness" also published by World Scientific.

These original research papers, written during a period of over a quarter of a century, have two main objectives. The first is to lay the foundations of the theory of harmonic maps between Riemannian Manifolds, and the second to establish various existence and regularity theorems as well as the explicit constructions of such maps.

This book presents an extensive survey of the state-of-the-art research in parallel computational algorithms and architectures for robot manipulator control and simulation. It deals not only with specifics but also includes general and broader issues which serve as a useful foundation to the topic. The educational flavor of the book makes it a necessary resource for researchers, engineers and students wanting to be familiarized with the potent...

The monograph summarizes recent achievements in the calculation of matrix elements of local operators (form factors) for completely integrable models. In particular, it deals with sine-Gordon, chiral Gross-Neven and O(3) nonlinear s models.

This volume brings together review articles written by noted researchers in this field.

This edited volume demonstrates that the key to the modelling, diagnosis and control of the next generation manufacturing processes is to integrate knowledge-based systems with traditional techniques. An up-to-date study is given here of this relatively recent development.

A collection of papers that appeared at the fourth International Symposium of the Psychiatric Research Institute of Tokyo, which represent the work of clinicians and scientists in the complex area of alcoholism and the family.

For the first time in her life she was facing a man she couldn't handle. He knew the white man's ways-and every woman's secrets. . . . Boston heiress Blaze Braddock, known more for her daring than her discretion, had insisted on trying to persuade the mysterious Absarokee Indian to sell his land claim to her father. But the moment she felt the impact of his tall, rangy body, the heat of his seductive dark eyes, and the drugging warmth that sto...

This collection of 25 short stories written in English by non-Americans represents a wide range of writers working in all genres. Some of these writers are well known and widely published, others have just begun their writing careers." -Library Journal

In this savage novel Huxley transports us to Los Angeles in the year 2108, where we learn to our dismay about the 22nd-century way of life.

Amazing… If you've been searching for a basic text on how the atom works, this is it." -Booklist "A masterpiece."-Omni The legendary Isaac Asimov starts what is perhaps the most fascinating of all his books with a simple query: how finely can a piece of matter be divided? But like many simple questions, this one leads us on a far-flung quest for a final answer, a search that becomes a series of beautifully structured building blocks of knowled...

Charles Darwin's On the Origins of Species had two principal goals: to show that species had not been separately created and to show that natural selection had been the main force behind their proliferation and descent from common ancestors. In Coevolution, the author proposes a powerful new theory of cultural evolution--that is, of the descent with modification of the shared conceptual systems we call cultures--that is parallel in many ways t...

Presents the study of ancestor worship which has an eminent pedigree in two disciplines: social anthropology and folklore (Goody 1962: 14-25, Newell 1976, Fortes 1976, Takeda 1976).

This volume brings together review articles written by noted researchers in this field.

Dinosaur Systematics presents a current overview of dinosaur systematics, increasing our understanding of dinosaurs as a biological species.

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