Drug Abuse Treatment, together with its companion volume, Alcohol Abuse Treatment, critically examines the many difficult issues and complex strategies associated with the successful treatment of substance abuse today.
Because of the high cost in lives, health, and dollars, the need for improved tech-niques and strategies for the treatment and reduction of substance abuse has become a critical national priority.
In this volume of Drug & Alco...
The remarkable developments in differential topology and how these recent advances have been applied as a primary research tool in quantum field theory are presented here in a style reflecting the genuinely two-sided interaction between mathematical physics and applied mathematics. The author, following his previous work (Nash/Sen: Differential Topology for Physicists, Academic Press, 1983), covers elliptic differential and pseudo-differential...
Zum ersten Mal wurden für die Neuedition der Märchenoper "Hänsel und Gretel" von Engelbert Humperdinck sämtliche vorliegenden Quellen des Werkes benutzt. Bei der Auswertung zeigte sich, dass eine große Auswahl von Korrekturen, die der Komponist den Erfahrungen der befreundeten Kapellmeister Richard Strauss (Weimar), Hermann Levi (München) und Kurt Rottenberg (Frankfurt) sowie eigener Einsicht verdankte, berücksichtigt werden musste. Auf diese ...
An exposition of the biblical theology of worship. Deploying impressive exegetical gifts across the significant biblical data, Peterson sees worship as engaging with God in terms of a total lifestyle directed to glorifying him. A book which challenges much current thinking and practice.
For too long military history has ignored the role of intelligence. As a result, many people do not realize that military intelligence has played a significant role in history. However, intelligence gathering, evaluation, and analysis has always been part of war. Lack of knowledge of how intelligence has been utilized in wars makes for an incomplete and inaccurate picture of historical events. While many are aware of such things as the Allied ...
This non-conventional book provides a human resource perspective to sales force management. It describes sales forces as complex systems of human interactions and shows how a decision in one area is likely to have direct, but also more or less desirable and lasting effects, on other aspects of the sales force. Managing human resources is no simple task, and in a sales force context, the difficulty is compounded by the fact that managers often ...
This book was written to help practitioners more effectively design and market products and services to the older consumer. It helps the reader understand how older consumers behave in the marketplace and why they behave the way they do.
Zahlentheorie, ein schwer verstandliches Spezialgebiet, das sich mit den Eigenschaf ten der ganzen Zahlen beschaftigt. TIME, 4. April 1983 Die Texte, die in diesem Buch untersucht werden, erstrecken sich von einer altbabylonischen Tafel, welche in die Zeit Hammurapis oder un gefahr in diese Zeit datiert wurde, bis zu Legendres "Essai sur la TMorie des Nombres" aus dem Jahre 1798. Selbst wenn das Buch eine Episode aus Legendres spaterer Laufb...
A guide to North American graphic design from colonial times to the present, aimed at designers, students, and librarians making collections. Among topics covered are design theory, history and techniques, reproduction, illustration, advertising, packaging, signs and computer technology.
Dogfight" examines the intense rivalry since the mid-60s between the European Airbus consortium and the major US aircraft manufacturers, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas. The author places the controversy in its political and international context.
Offers a practice-oriented and realistic assessment of how the chronically ill elderly are being served at the community level and analyzes options open to policy-makers and practitioners relative to long-term care in the community environment where so many elderly people want to be.
Modellbildung und -anwendung zur Lösung multiattributiver Entscheidungsprobleme läßt sich in drei Schritte unterteilen: die Prozeßgestaltung und -auswahl, die Modellgestaltung und -auswahl und die Maßnahmengestaltung und -auswahl. In diese neuartige Darstellungsweise kann man systemtheoretische und prozeßorganisatorische Aspekte einbeziehen - mit interessanten Verbindungen zwischen allgemeinen Problemlösungsprozessen, kybernetischen Regelkreis...
The First Book To Take A Hard Look At The Phenomenon Called "The Ouija Board"Is it just a game? When you ask the Ouija board a question, who is it that answers? What about those stories of Ouija-inspired prophecy and clairvoyance? What are the dangers of the Ouija board? Do you know the stories of Ouija-inspired murders, madness, obsession and possession? Exalted by some, condemned by others, there's no doubt the Ouija is controversial. In thi...
The train ran right by Bigmama's house in Cottondale, the town made famous in Crews's book Bigmama's. The children were warned to stay off the tracks. But this time they were in a hurry, and the tracks were a shortcut. So they started off, and when there was no turning back, they heard the train coming. Drama, suspense--and a happy ending. Full-color illustrations.
Comprehensive planning has become a vital element in the management of modern university libraries. This book aims to help those fulfilling this management function by summarising the history of academic library planning and analysing its practice in some major libraries over recent decades.
A biography dedicated to the career of an American actress who, over a period of four decades, has moved back and forth between stage and screen, proving herself successful in both media. Full production information is provided, together with a bibliography, an appendix of awards and an index.
Managing the entire environment in which products are conceived, manufactured, transported, stored, marketed, sold, and consumed is the marketing channel orientation to marketing management. This book gives step-by-step instructions on how to accomplish this important management task.
This book takes a different approach to business ethics. Some of the contributors take a more popular collectivist approach, but many of them do not. Thus, the book offers a more balanced presentation of business ethics than that found in most books on the subject.
This critical history of, and guide to, Soviet studies aims to take stock of the achievements and shortcomings in Western research on the region's politics and to serve as a "who's who" of Western Sovietologists, identifying many prominent political scientists from the former Communist states.
