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Baladi women extol themselves with the proverb, "A Baladi woman can play with an egg and a stone without breaking the egg". The author illustrates this and other expressions of Baladi women's identity by observing and recording their everyday discourse and how they handle life in general.

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This text offers a comprehensive introduction to molecular biology, genetics, and neurobiology relevant to psychiatry. Generously illustrated chapters are organized to be read at both an introductory and a more advanced level. Both beginners and advanced professionals will benefit from this text's discussion of how psychotropic drugs work and how gene-environment interactions may contribute to the pathogenesis of psychiatric disorders. The aut...

Based on the AMS Short Course, The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Number Theory, held in Orono, Maine, in August 1991, this work is suitable for a general mathematical audience as well as to researchers in other areas of science and engineering who wish to learn how number theory is being applied outside of mathematics.

This volume brings together current research and thought on family day care, from both the United States and Canada, presenting the professional literature and multidisciplinary reports in a way designed to maximise the usefulness of the information for programme planners and policy makers.

Effective service delivery requires a transition from high-volume, long-run operations to low-volume, short-run output. This book outlines an operations vision based on proven principles of management and organisation science that can guide the way into an emerging service era.

An insider's view of educational development and problems in China since economic reform began in 1978, this volume examines the issue of political socialisation through the curriculum, comparing the one used during the Cultural Revolution with that used throughout China in 1988.

This book presents an analysis of Caribbean fiscal problems, with particular emphasis on the relationship between high levels of public expenditure and balance of payment problems. The study examines deficit financing, public expenditure growth, and IMF stabilization policies. Other issues raised relate to income distribution and problems of taxation and tax reform. The work focuses on Jamaica, Guyana, Barbados, and Trinidad and Tobago. The ec...

A volume of critical and theoretical essays seeking to interpret the current philosophical, aesthetic and literary thinking about African American literature and language. It is designed to accompany debates over the canon of American literature and the issue of cultural diversity.

Judith Shuval discusses the health and health behaviour of a variety of groups in Israeli society that have not been systematically considered in other analyses: women, the elderly, alternative health care providers, immigrants and Israeli Arabs.

L-------------------------------------------~ Kathy Ruppel, Ken Niebling and JeffFiner for their help and comments on the first draft. I am also grateful for discussions with and comments from Dr Neil Miliar, Professor Bob Simmons, Dr Roger Cooke, Dr Tosbio Yanagida, Dr John Kendrick-Jones, Dr Rob Cross, Dr Ian Trayer, Dr John Sparrow, Dr Michael Geeves, Dr Bernhard Brennerand Dr Peter K. night. The task of illustrating the book was made much ...

Argues that it is not too late to confront the realities of cruise missile proliferation. Carus proposes a new regime of technology controls, security-building measures and conflict resolution that should be acted on by policy-makers and international relations experts everywhere.

Argues that it is not too late to confront the realities of cruise missile proliferation. Carus proposes a new regime of technology controls, security-building measures and conflict resolution that should be acted on by policy-makers and international relations experts everywhere.

Here, Daniel A. Hart analyzes the results of an intensive twenty-year longitudinal study of men's development. Integrating a wide range of research approaches, Hart assesses personality trait, structural-developmental, and crisis-transformational factors in the study of lives followed over time. The author then develops an original framework for understanding the psychological similarities and differences in men's lives.

Writer and well-known wit, the inimitable Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) had something to say about virtually all her contemporaries among the literati, and they returned the favor in full measure. This well articulated primary and secondary bibliography covers the complete canon and its critical reaction, with illuminating annotations complemented by a biographical sketch. Included also are three personal views of Parker by Joseph Bryan, III, Ric...

In over 725 entries, this discography comprises recordings on records, cassettes and compact disks in which one or more steel pans features, or is used as accompaniment. Information pinpoints recording locations, release dates, catalogue numbers and contents. Indexes and appendices are included.

A description and analysis of the parts played by Argentina's major political actors: the political parties, armed forces, labour unions, the Catholic Church, and students. Their traditional roles are examined, but emphasis is placed upon the dramatic transition to democracy beginning in 1983.

Radikale Vernunftkritik ist der philosophische Gemeinplatz unseres Jahrhunderts, der auch hundert Jahre nach Nietzsches Verstummen immer erneut mit Originalitätsanspruch und in schockierender Absicht vorgetragen wird. Hier geht es nicht mehr um einzelne Schwächen, Selbstmißverständnisse oder Kompetenzüberschreitungen der Vernunft wie in der Tradition philosophischer Aufklärung seit den Sophisten - Vernunft als ganze steht unter Anklage. Dem en...

Wissenschaft und Technik machen die Welt zu einem Artefakt, zu einer Leonardo-Welt. Diese Welt, benannt nach dem Renaissanceingenieur, Wissenschaftler und Künstler Leonardo da Vinci, erfaßt auch die Natur und den Menschen. Gegenstand der mit diesem Band vorgelegten philosophischen und wissenschaftstheoretischen Überlegungen ist die Darstellung und die Kritik der Leonardo-Welt. In dem Maße, in dem diese Welt Wirklichkeit wird, ändern sich auch ...

The use of electrochemical techniques by chemists, particularly those who regard themselves as "inorganic" coordination chemists, has undergone a very rapid growth in the last 15-20 years. The techniques, as dassically applied to inorganic species, had their origins in analytical chemistry, and the methodology had assumed, until the mid 60s, more importance than the chemiStry. However, the growth of interest in coordination compounds (includin...