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This book translates twenty-seven short stories by Spain's most prolific cuentista of the nineteenth century. These stories illustrate Pardo Bazan's ability to awaken interest and engage the reader in the opening lines.

First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

This useful book outlines the chief forms and major causes of academic stress. Practical advice shows how to distinguish negative from positive stress and how to deal with negative stressors in life and at work. The book includes exercises to help the academic understand how stress affects him or her, as well as forms to help design programmes for coping with stress.

Analyzing the structure and growth of major theoretical research programs in the sociological study of group processes, this book considers such topics as exchange processes and network structures, bargaining and conflict, status characteristics and status organizing processes, social interaction, and legitimation processes.

Twelve groundbreaking essays show the varied and complex ways in which ideas about sexuality, gender, and the body have shaped and been influenced by Russian literature, history, art, and philosophy from the medieval period to the present day.

Focusing primarily on the period from the eighteenth-century to the present, this interdisciplinary volume takes a fresh look at the institutions and practices of autobiography and self-portraiture in Europe, the United States and other cultures.

The fourth edition helps bridge the gap between GCSE and A Level Physics for your students of all different abilities, reflecting the different experience and knowledge of students coming to A Level Physics from GCSE.

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In developing a new gender theory for analyzing Samuel Richardson's three major novels - Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison - the author argues that these novels of sexual threat expose, sometimes unwillingly, the extraordinary labor required to construct and maintain the eighteenth-century ideology of gender, that apparently natural dream of perfect symmetry between the sexes. The instability of that model is revealed notably in Rich...

Set primarily on the high plains during the 1860s, this novel has the epic sweep of the frontier built into it."-Publishers Weekly Jonah Hook fought for the Confederacy at Pea Ridge and Corinth, where he was wounded, captured, and sent to the prison hellhole they called Rock Island. The only way out for the young Reb was to don a blue uniform and serve on the western frontier as a "galvanized Yankee." Along the North Platte, Tongue, and Pow...

This volume is required reading for anyone interested in how federal banking regulations impact the economy.' L. William Seidman, Former Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

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Frontmatter -- Vorwort -- Inhalt -- Einleitung: Grundlinien der Entwicklung des Charismakonzeptes in den Sozialwissenschaften / Gebhardt, Winfried -- Theorie -- 1 Charisma - Schuld und Gnade Soziale Konstruktion, Kulturdynamik, Handlungsdrama / Lipp, Wolfgang -- 2 Charisma, Gemeinde und Bewegung Zwei Paradigmata für den charismatischen Prozeß / Cavalli, Luciano -- 3 Charisma und Ordnung Formen des institutionalisierten Charisma - Überlegungen ...

Frontmatter -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Einleitung -- I. Die Quellen -- II. Die Darstellung des Frillenwesens in den Íslendinga sögur -- III. Die Frillen der Norwegerkönige -- IV. Die Darstellung von "Frauenraub" und "Entführung" in den Íslendinga sögur -- V. Polygamie bei den Nordgermanen -- VI. Die Sturlungen und ihre Frillen -- VII. Die Frillen der Íslendinga sögur auf dem Hintergrund der Sturlungenzeit -- VIII. Die Kirche und das weltliche Fr...

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Preliminary Assumptions -- Chapter 2. The Case System -- Chapter 3. Agreement -- Chapter 4. Prenominal Adjectives -- Chapter 5. Numerals, Quantifiers, and other Prenominals -- Chapter 6. Finite INFL -- Chapter 7. Non-finite INFL -- Appendix A. On the Nature of Derived Words -- Appendix ¿. On the Interpretation of Tense -- Appendix C. On the Representation of Ver...

Pattern recognition and computer vision and their applications have experienced enormous progress in research and development over the last two decades. This comprehensive handbook documents both the basics and new and advanced results in the field.

This lively laugh-along text explores the many ways in which you and I differ from our furry, feathery and finny friends. The hilarious illustrations bring all the unlikely creatures to life in this book that challenges the reader to dream up more characters for this delightful menagerie. Full-color illustrations.

The late eighteenth century marked a period of changing expectations about marriage. The difficulties that rose, including abuse, and domestic violence differ little from those with which couples struggle today. This account reveals a strongly communicative world in which neighborers came to the aid of those locked in unhappy marriages.

Discusses what is involved in "making art".