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Provides interview transcripts and letters from nearly 20 presidents of Argentina, Brazil and Chile. Some of the correspondence and interviews are spread over a considerable length of time. The introduction places the presidents in the context of their roles in the history of their countries.

Reinforced concrete structures are subjected to a complex variety of stresses and strains. The four basic actions are bending, axial load, shear, and torsion. This work develops one unified theory of reinforced concrete behavior that embraces and accounts for all four basic actions and their combinations.

This bibliography provides over 1300 annotated entries on material covering all aspects of the culture of international business, focusing mainly on the literature published from 1980 to 1991. Topics covered include cross-cultural communication, cross-cultural training and negotiations.

* 'One of the finest, best-documented biographies ever published about a modern mathematician' - Martin Gardner

Nach Schatzungen der WHO leiden mindestens 3% der WeltbevOlke­ rung an behandlungsbedtirftigen depressiven SWrungen unterschiedli­ cher Intensitat und Atiologie. Mindestens 20% aller Menschen reagieren irgendwann in ihrem Leben depressiv. Depressivitat ist also, unabhmgig von der Form und yom Schweregrad, eine haufige Erkrankung bzw. ein verbreiteter Reaktionsmodus von Menschen auf Belastungen unter­ schiedlicher Art. Niedergelassene Arzte vie...

Immer mehr Menschen leiden unter Schlafst|rungen. Das Thema "Schlaf, Gesundheit, Leistungsff{higkeit" ist daher von nicht zu untersch{tzender Aktualit{t. Der vorliegende Band legt gro~en Wert darauf, das Thema von den unterschiedlichen Fachrichtungen her auszuleuchten. Insbesondere wird die sich immer st{rker ausbreitende chronobiologische Denkweise der Schlafmedizin zum Ausdruck gebracht. Zur Sprache kommen u.a. Schlafst|rungenund Ges...

Our life is a highly nonlinear process. It starts with birth and ends with death, in between there are a lot of ups and downs. Quite often, we believe that stable and steady situations, probably easy to capture by linearization, are paradisiacal, but already after a short period of everyday routine we usually become bored and seek change, that is, nonlinearities. If we reflect for a while, we notice that our life and our perceptions are mainly...

Aims to summarise the law concerning dying and death. The book brings together case and statutory law applicable to dying patients, the right to die, advance directives, brain death and organ transplantation. It should prove useful for professional legal counsel.

Collective theatres are collectively organized and run performing groups, usually socially conscious and politically oriented, often aligned with the people's theatre movement. This book examines collectivization as a way of successfully challenging the hierarchy and ideology of traditional theatre and of society. It asserts that the collective process is a vibrant and accessible method of creating theatre, of representing a variety of culture...

The dynamics of the International Monetary Fund are examined here in terms of how the system coped in the 1980s with the crises resulting from events in Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina, the three most heavily indebted developing countries in the world.

Few theatre aficionados, even theatre historians, could come up with the names of many actresses known for serious dramatic roles before the 1950s brought Ruby Dee and other stars to the fore. The road to the professional dramatic stage was not easily traveled by Black actresses, but some did make the transition from minstrels and musicals to drama beginning at the turn of the century. For the most part even those who achieved significant crit...

The first in-depth, theoretical and empirical study of Tanzanian income distribution and growth, this work pinpoints and critiques Tanzania's development strategy.

A catalogue of the holdings of the Warren N. and Suzanne B. Cordell Collection of Dictionaries, housed at Indiana State University. Foreign and English-language materials are interfiled, and access to the holdings is provided through a date index, a language index and a subject guide.

This bibliographical survey of energy and the development of West Africa contains 774 entries and materials on all but one country of the region. Roughly 70per cent of the entries have been annotated, and they cover a wide array of books, journal articles, conference proceedings and official documents.

Popular European Cinema examines the reasons why films that are most popular with audiences in any one European countha are seldom successful eslewhere. Audiences themselves represent diverse class, gender and ethnic identities that complicate th equestoin of national cinema, not least with recent developments in formerly communist Eastern Europe and post-colonialist Western Europe. THrough their individual studies, the contribuitots ehr oven ...

Sediments from the world's ocean floors and other water body basins hold a wealth of information about organic life as we know it. Organic Matter: Productivity, Accumulation, and Preservation in Recent and Ancient Sediments addresses focusing on the production, accumulation, and preservation of organic matter in marine and lacustrine sediments. Contributors to this important monograph cover a range of geologic ages from recent times back to th...

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Provides an examination of John Dewey's influential arguments against traditional theories of knowledge, in particular against a traditional spectator theory of knowledge, the thesis that knowing is fundamentally a passive "beholding" relation between the knower and the object known.

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Return Trip Tango is a veritable cornucopia of contemporary world fiction that brings together a number of renowned authors including Italo Calvino, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kobo Abe, Marguerite Duras, Jorge Luis Borges, and Samuel Beckett, as well as the work of lesser known talents such as He Liwei, Haroldo Conti, Bob den Uyl, and Yasunari Kawabata.This striking array of stories also showcases our very finest translators - Barbara Bray, Willi...