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The first reference work ever to be awarded the Eccles Prize for Excellence in Economic Writing from Columbia Business School. Continuing in the tradition of The New Palgrave , this 3-volume set provides an unparalleled guide to modern money, banking and finance. In over 1, 000 substantial essays by leading academic and professional authorities, it provides the most comprehensive analysis available of contemporary theory and the fast-evolving ...

Discusses the research needs, institutional modifications, and legislative changes that must be addressed to deal more effectively with the risks of hazardous materials. Prominent among the research needs is the necessity to assess the health effects of low-level exposure to toxicants.

Discusses the research needs, institutional modifications, and legislative changes that must be addressed to deal more effectively with the risks of hazardous materials. Prominent among the research needs is the necessity to assess the health effects of low-level exposure to toxicants.

An exhaustive volume clears up misconceptions about critical reception of an important African-American writer, Chester Himes.

New York Times bestselling author Douglas Adams and zoologist Mark Carwardine take off around the world in search of exotic, endangered creatures.Join them as they encounter the animal kingdom in its stunning beauty, astonishing variety, and imminent peril: the giant Komodo dragon of Indonesia, the helpless but loveable Kakapo of New Zealand, the blind river dolphins of China, the white rhinos of Zaire, the rare birds of Mauritius island in th...

Dieser Roman ist das Ergebnis dreijähriger intensiver Beschäftigung mit dem wohl wichtigsten Thema unserer Zeit, der globalen Zerstörung unserer Umwelt. Er erzählt vom Kampf einer kleinen Gruppe, die versucht, die ökologische Katastrophe aufzuhalten, und macht deutlich, daß es noch nicht zu spät ist, unsere Erde zu retten.

This volume presents a comprehensive overview of the current rural health environment by sorting topics into coverage of the demand for rural health, the supply of resources (facilities and personnel), the broad application of technology, and the roles of government policies and rural sociology. A major purpose is to guide those involved in decision making and planning to insure continued provision of health care for rural residents. A unique ...

Discusses music used in Shakespeare productions on the London stage following the Restoration. Included are settings of Shakespeare's song lyrics, other original texts, and added non-Shakespearean texts, as well as incidental music, masques, operas and afterpieces based on the plays.

This new edition of the critically acclaimed "The Fame of Gawa"--originally published in 1986--makes available for the first time this important work in paperback. "The Fame of Gawa" is concerned with fundamental practices of value creation on Gawa, a small island off the southeast coast of mainland Papua New Guinea, the inhabitants of which participate in the long-distance kula shell exchange ring. Integrating various aspects of the study of ...

This volume presents current models of coping, describes the coping process, and relates that process to environmental factors, person variables, and desirable outcomes. Unlike most treatments of coping, which are organized around stress, this volume emphasizes features of the coping process that have broad relevance across many potential stressors. Although each model in the book tends to emphasize different aspects of coping, the organizatio...

Offers a comprehensive discussion of the consultant/library relationship, including chapters written by professional library consultants, information specialists and library administrators who have had experience in using consultants to solve a range of problems in information service.

With British broadcasting standing on the threshold of immense change, this handbook leads a wide-ranging discussion of funding options open to broadcasters.

A powerful memoir of rural Mississippi family life in the 1920s--the bitter harvest of racial repression from the clear-eyed viewpoint of a child.

Placing the local in its historical and political context, while at the same time showing how migrations and media have made the world smaller, "Rereading Cultural Anthropology" brings together (some of the best) work which has learned from and gone beyond the recent critiques of anthropological writing."--Paul Rabinow, University of California, Berkeley

It is often claimed that we know ourselves and the world through narratives. In this book, Robert D. Newman portrays narrative engagement as a process grounded in psychoanalytic theory to explain how readers (or listeners or viewers) manage to engage with specific narratives and derive from them a personal experience.Newman describes this psychodrama of narrative engagement as that of exile and return, an experience in which narrative becomes ...

It is often claimed that we know ourselves and the world through narratives. In this book, Robert D. Newman portrays narrative engagement as a process grounded in psychoanalytic theory to explain how readers (or listeners or viewers) manage to engage with specific narratives and derive from them a personal experience.Newman describes this psychodrama of narrative engagement as that of exile and return, an experience in which narrative becomes ...

During its first six years (1986–1991), the journal Cultural Anthropology provided a unique forum for registering the lively traffic between anthropology and the emergent arena of cultural studies. The nineteen essays collected in Rereading Cultural Anthropology, all of which originally appeared in the journal, capture the range of approaches, internal critiques, and new questions that have characterized the study of anthropology in the 1980s,...

This book studies the impact of the nuclear revolution on the course of the rivalry between the former USSR and the USA. It explains why it has been so different from great power rivalry in prenuclear times, in avoiding war and leading first to a co-operative relationship and then ending peacefully. The book analyses four aspects of the nuclear revolution: reciprocal restraint, security co-operation, the deadlock of nuclear strategy (including...