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Produced by Europe's finest cartographers, Oxford's fully up-to-date Atlas of the World is authoritative, comprehensive, and easy-to-use reference. Hundreds of outstanding full-color maps provide thorough political and topographical information and the 75, 000-entry index offers easy access. Full-color maps & artwork.

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Updated for the 1990s, the award-winning book that stands as the definitive critique of competition. Kohn says that contrary to accepted wisdom, competition is not basic to "human nature", but actually poisons our relationships, damages our self-esteem, and holds us back from doing our best. Includes new matial on "cooperative learning" in the classroom. "By perceiving that cooperation is the answer, not competition, Alfie Kohn opens a new wor...

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There is in The Aeneid one "voice" that Vergil wishes us to hear, what may be called the epic voice, not shocking in tone and substance, even patriotic and inspiriting. But there are in addition "further voices" which Vergil incorporates into his great epic, and these may be disturbing, even shocking, as they add to, comment upon, question, and occasionally subvert the implications of the epic voice. This book provides the first in-depth analy...

In Wise Choices, Apt Feelings, Alan Gibbard explores a central question in ethics: what content our moral judgements carry in relation to the `norms' of society which have shaped our views and opinions. Gibbard develops a philosophically sophisticated answer to this, taking ideas from a wide background, - modern psychology, game theory, and evolutionary biology, - and applying them to ethics for the first time.

In A Social Cinema: Film-making and Politics in America, Brian Neve presents a study of the social and political nature of American film by concentrating on a generation of writers from the thirties who directed films in Hollywood in the 1940's. He discusses how they negotiated their roles in relation to the studio system, itself undergoing change, and to what extent their experience in the political and theatre movements of thirties New York ...

This theme issue is an exploration of the way in which feminist ideas appear in popular forms, especially feminist novelists, such as Angela Carter and Marge Piercy, have handled particular issues, it considers writing and it duscusses the popular genres that have been taken up by feminist writers - lesbian romance and stories for teenagers.The central concern is with the problems of putting across feminist ideas in popular crative writing. Wh...

Volume 4 assembles a selection of documents illustrating the statuory development of the federal judiciary from 1789-1800. Beginning with a narrative essay on the background of Article III of the Constitution, the volume tracks, from the First through the Sixth Congresses, all the major and minor legislation relevant to the establishment of the American judicial system. As the decade unfolded, experience revealed problems with the system as it...

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The fifth dazzling novel in the richly authentic Hugh Corbett series

An historical portrait of society in the pre-modern Middle East, which focuses on the great Syrian city of Aleppo, piecing together aspects of life from business and family to leisure and medicine. It attempts to throw new light on events in 18th-century Ottoman history.

Basierend auf den Ergebnissen einer breit angelegten Umfrage in Industrie und Forschung wird der Stand der Technik sowie der zukünftige Forschungsbedarf auf dem Gebiet der Lasermaterialbearbeitung aufgezeigt und gewichtet. Dabei werden Aspekte genannt, die den Erfolg des Lasereinsatzes in der industriellen Praxis beeinträchtigen können. Besonders wichtige Themenkomplexe werden durch Expertenbeiträge detailliert.

Various underpinning methods exist, and choosing a particular method or selection of methods is the job of the engineer. Consistent with the underpinning procedure is the need to retain the affected structure plus the surrounding ground and/or buildings. This book will offer advice on how to chose the correct procedure.

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Electrophotography and Development Physics focuses on the complicated and increasingly important technology found in photocopiers and laser printers. An introduction chapter acquaints the reader with the technical history of electrophotography, its current and projected markets, and also alternative related copying and printing technologies. A concise descriptionof the physics of the complete electrophotgraphic process is followed by an...

The destruction of tropical forests is intimately intertwined with the fate of the rural poor who rely on this resource for their livelihood. Conservation of Neotropical Forests provides important information for understanding the interactions of forest peoples and forest resources in the lowland tropics of Central and South America. This interdisciplinary study features experts from both the natural and social sciences to illuminate the prese...