This book is about the daily life of a group of homeless people who live in camps under some freeway bridges in downtown Los Angeles. It is what is called a narrative ethnography, that is, it consists primarily of what the author said to them and what they said to him. As a research project in the Department of Psychiatry at UCLA, Underwood documented conversations with these homeless people for two and one half years.
Immer wieder fahren sich Argumente für und wider regenerative Energieträger an unterschiedlichen Wirtschaftlichkeitsberechnungen fest. Als Beitrag zu einer sachlichen Diskussion liefert das Buch harte Daten über Potentiale und Kosten der verschiedenen regenerativen Energieträger. Es zeigt für ganz Deutschland auf, wo konventionelle durch regenerative Energien wirtschaftlich ersetzt werden können.
This volume represents a certain "German school" of poiltical culture research which emphasizes historical legacies and popular orientations as well as specific cultural meanings an interpretations.
This book covers the two presidential campaigns of Jesse Jackson. It examines the electoral system and points out, among other things, the structural difficulties which Jackson experienced in marshalling voters, particularly in the south. Gibbons asserts that the electoral system operated against him on several levels: psychological factors that condition minds to think of individuals in terms of race first created an enormous barrier, the act...
This study examines from a materialist perspective the socio-economic, historical and political factors contributing to the political instability and underdevelopment of Sierra Leone. Tools of analysis from different methodological perspectives such as class and ethnicity are critically reviewed and utilized in the analysis and identification of colonial class formation, the behavior of political groups and their economic bases. The emphasis i...
Protocols in Molecular Parasitology offers a wide range of experi mental protocols, each written by experts, to research workers interested in exploring the molecular aspects of parasitology. This is a field that has expanded enormously in scope and potential over the last decade, although it is as yet significantly underrepresented in the literature out side of academic journals. The need for manuals such as this one stems in part from the ...
This guide provides newcomers, visitors, and business travellers with a native's perspective of St. Louis. The guide details hotels, restaurants, annual events, attractions, nightlife, parks and recreation, real estate, and much more.
This volume presents the proceedings of the Computer Science
Logic Workshop CSL '92, held in Pisa, Italy, in
September/October 1992. CSL '92 was the sixth of the series
and the first one held as Annual Conference of the European
Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL). Full
versions of the workshop contributions were collected after
their presentation and reviewed. On the basis of 58 reviews,
26 papers were selected for publicat...
Educational technology in the broadest sense is knowledge
and competence forimproving the educational process: for
using hardware (equipment), software (methods), and
"underware" (underlying organizational structures).
This volume in the Special Programme on Advanced Educational
Technology presents the results of a NATO Advanced Research
Workshop on educational systems design as a new educational
technology. The objective of the worksho...
This title is a text-reference for advanced students and practitioners involved in operations, inventory control, production control, and physical supply in manufacturing.
This book includes both a description and a discussion of the methods used by Kanriye Fujima, a member of the Fujima school of Japan, to teach Nihon Buyon to primarily Japanese-Americans. Sellers-Young discusses Fujima's life as a teacher in three Pacific Northwest communities, providing an explanation of her teaching processes and contexts of performances. Incorporating the themes and images associated with the pieces, Sellers-Young discusses...
