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A trenchant critique of sexuality in an age of discipline, where bodies and pleasures have become sites of regulatory power.

Government and commercial efforts to develop orbital and suborbital passenger and transport aircraft have resulted in a burgeoning of research. This book addresses the physics and engineering aspects of ultra high-speed aerodynamic problems. It is suitable for aeronautical engineers, mathematicians, and physicists involved in this field.

Some things walk. And some things talk. And some things fly. Part of the "HOP STEP JUMP" series of stories, rhymes and fact books for African children, this book is part of the (HOP) section in which the stories are told in simple sentences with basic grammatical structures.

Chameleons change colour very fast. But Shammy was too slow. Until one day... Part of the "HOP STEP JUMP" series of stories for African children, this book is part of the (HOP) section in which the stories are told in simple sentences with basic grammatical structures.

Have you ever been inside a termite hill? Chichi has! Part of the "HOP STEP JUMP" series of stories, rhymes and fact books for African children, this book is part of the (JUMP) section in which the stories are told to the level of reading reached at the end of primary school.

It's ice-cream falling from the sky! Part of the "HOP STEP JUMP" series of stories, rhymes and fact books for African children, this book is part of the (STEP) section in which freer use of language is made than in the (HOP) section.

This practical handbook is your one-stop source for all the formulas, tables, curves, and charts you'll need to design switching systems and networks.

The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited is a comprehensive overview of the great cornucopia of new materials recently released by the Soviet Union, United States, and Cuba. The authors, some of whom were participants in the crisis, have all had a major role in bringing to light either significant reevaluations of the crisis, or in some cases, truly startling revelations of the extant wisdom surrounding much of the crisis. The collection, edited by ...

Anton L. - vormals glückloser Fremdenführer, nunmehr unglücklicher Finanzbeamter - wacht eines Morgens in seinem Untermieterzimmer auf, um zu erfahren, dass alle Mitmenschen verschwunden sind. Einfach weg, von einer namenlosen Katastrophe spurlos dahingerafft. Langsam schickt sich Anton solo in sein Schicksal und begibt sich auf die Suche nach der verlorenen Welt: Der letzte Held im Erziehungsroman zur Endzeit. Ein Doktor Faust unserer Tage - ...

Piqued by a dare, Angelou wrote this first book as an exercise in autobiography as art and succeeded. Her novel is a story of the difficulties of black women and the eventual victory of spirit that comes from being a soulful fighter.

Neural network technology encompasses a class of methods which attempt to mimic the basic structures used in the brain for information processing. Thetechnology is aimed at problems such as pattern recognition which are difficult for traditional computational methods. Neural networks have potential applications in many industrial areas such as advanced robotics, operations research, and process engineering. This book is concerned with ...

Der vorliegende dritte Band der Forensia-Jahrb}cher beinhaltet wieder zwei aktuelle forensische Themen, die von anerkannten Experten f}r einen interdisziplin{ren Leserkreis bearbeitet wurden. Gegenstand des ersten Teils ist eine kritische Darstellung des Stellenwerts der Kriminalprognose, insbesondere der Individualprognose, in Gesetzgebung und Rechtsprechung. Die Autoren geben zahlreiche Denkanst|~e, wie mit dem Sachzwang zu prognosti...

Between 1989 and 1992 three colloquia on transformation problems were held at the Ludwig-Reimers-Stiftung, Bad Homburg. At the end of the 1980s the collapse of the Soviet-type socialist economic system had become clear and, hence, the necessity to transform these systems into an entirely different eco­ nomic order. Similar processes have happened and still happen in other his­ torical constellations, for instance in developing countries. It ha...

This book traces the manifold functions of 'America' - as a view of history, a spiritual ideal, a myth of origins and a mode of identity, in the work of major influential writers from the Revolution to the Civil War.

The intention of this book is not to add another technical work to the series of publications already available on matters connected with the relations between natural and artificial intelligence, nor to repeat the positions already well expressed in, for example, the debate between John Searle, Daniel Dennet and Hubert Dreyfus. It is an attempt to encourage philosophical reflection on dimensions of the subject that have hitherto been somewhat...

This remarkable new book is a collection of selected essays whose theses first came together in October 1988 at a conference sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, "Concepts of History in German Cinema". The contributors include notable historians, film scholars, and German studies specialists who explore the complex network of social, psychological, and aesthetic factors that have influenced the historiography of German cinem...

This sequel to Harvey Goldman's well-received "Max Weber and Thomas Mann" continues his rich exploration of the political and cultural critiques embodied in the more mature writings of these two authors. Combining social and political thought, intellectual history, and literary interpretation, Goldman examines in particular Weber's "Science as a Vocation" and "Politics as a Vocation" and Mann's "The Magic Mountain" and "Doctor Faustus."Goldman...

Mary Joe Frug charts a course for future feminist thinking about law. She identifies the political and theoretical limitations of earlier strands of legal feminism and demonstrates why postmodernism offers more hope for women in law.

A revolutionary work since its publication, Black Power exposed the depths of systemic racism in this country and provided a radical political framework for reform: true and lasting social change would only be accomplished through unity among African-Americans and their independence from the preexisting order. An eloquent document of the civil rights movement that remains a work of profound social relevance 50 years after it was first published.

Henry Petroski traces the origins of the pencil back to ancient Greece and Rome, writes factually and charmingly about its development over the centuries and around the world, and shows what the pencil can teach us about engineering and technology today.