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Offers a thought-provoking, lively examination of current debates focusing on sex, gender, race, ethnicity, politics and economics and provides insights which are still too often lacking in mainstream anthropology.

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This book presents computational techniques for machine vision necessary for building intelligent machines which can understand the environment by vision.

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∗ This volume is an outstanding collection of critical essays on Bourdieu′s work, it provides the best critical appraisal of Bourdieu which is currently available. ∗ The contributors are well known and well established authors. ∗ The volume also includes a new essay by Bourdieu in which he replies to his critics.

The Economics of Being Poor is mainly devoted to the economics of acquiring skills and knowlede, to investment in the quality of the population and to the increasing economic importance of human capital - the quality of the work-force embodied in the health, education and skills, including the entrepreneurial skills of the workers themselves.

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From Tammany Hall to the election of David Dinkins, To Be Mayor of New York offers insights into the effect of ethnic competition on the demise of urban political machines.Beginning with a colorful assessment of New York City's Tammany Hall as it existed in the late nineteenth century, McNickle traces the effect of the arrival of large numbers of Jewish and Italian immigrants -and later black and Puerto Rican migrants- on the Irish-dominated p...

Over the last decade, interest in treatment of ischemic stroke has increased significantly. Perhaps the single most important feature of attempts to improve the outcome of stroke patients has been that the interventions be applied within the very early hours of stroke symptoms. This has spawned efforts to understand the vascular and neuronal responses to cerebral artery reperfusion experimentally. Important prospective clinical studies of thro...

First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In this outstanding collection of essays, contributed by some of America′s leading feminist writers, the current terrain of American feminism is charted as never before.

A collection of repertoire books of enjoyable, interesting, and stimulating material for use in the early stages of learning. The pieces in Book 1 are of around grades 1-2 standard and are in chronological order, with brief notes placing them in history.

A collection of repertoire books of enjoyable, interesting, and stimulating material. Pieces are in chronological order, with brief notes placing them in history.The pieces in Book 3 are of around grades 5-6 standard.

A collection of repertoire books of enjoyable, interesting, and stimulating material for use in the early stages of learning. The pieces in Book 2 are of around grades 2-3 standard and are in chronological order, with brief notes placing them in history.

When the United Nations Charter was adopted in 1945, states established a legal paradigm' for regulating the recourse to armed force. In the years since then, however, significant developments have challenged the paradigm's validity, causing a pardigmatic shift'. International Law and the Use of Force traces this shift and explores its implications for contemporary international law and practice.

Describes where and how Americans travel abroad. Analyzes American travel and relates this information to tourism and travel operations. In this revised edition there are new chapters which cover international air travel and hotelkeeping, air safety and the travel agent. There is also an up-to-date overview of the international travel business included in a new introductory chapter.

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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and acheived fewer results than any other branch of learning ... I believe that the time has now arrived when this unsatisfactory state of affairs can be brought to an end' - Bertrand Russell So begins Our Knowledge of the Eternal World, Bertrand Russell's classic attempt to show by means of examples, the nature, capacity and limitations of the logico-analytical method in philosophy.

Merritt tells a moving and fascinating story that weaves together his father's adventures as a WWII bomber pilot and his own "unfinished business" of coming to terms with his father. He describes the last mission flown by his father during World War II as the pilot of a Liberator bomber named the Liberty Belle. Interwoven is the story of Merritt's quest to know his father.