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Rare-earth intermetallics, also known as lanthanide elements, play an important role in the study of magnetic materials and the development of semi- and super-conducting materials. This handbook provides a compilation of crystallographic, physical, and magnetic data on rare-earth intermetallic compounds.

An avowedly feminist, wickedly funny exposé of Freud's sexually obsessed methods. Troubled by her "neurotic" symptoms, Dora was sent to Freud by her father. Despite clear indications of sexual harassment and abuse by one of her father's friends, Freud insisted Dora's symptoms were caused by repressed sexual desire.

This book examines the linkage between literacy and linguistic diversity, embedding them in their social and cultural contexts. It illustrates that a more complete understanding of literacy among diverse populations and in multicultural societies requires attention to issues of literacy per se as well as to improving an educational process that has relevance beyond members of majority cultures and linguistic groups. The focus of the book is on...

The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system! It's a treasure trove of trouble! Jack and Annie are in for a high-seas adventure when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to the days of deserted islands, secret maps-and ruthless pirates! Will they discover a buried treasure? Or will they be forced to walk the plank? Did you know that there's a Magic Tree House bo...

Women's studies is a rapidly expanding field with a tremendous growth in the number of London courses available. As a result of this there has been increasing debate about the nature of feminist research. Can a specifically feminist methodology be identified? Which research methods are most appropriate in feminist work? What is the difference between a feminist approach and other forms of scholarship., "Researching Women's Lives" explores thes...

Joseph M. Levine is Professor of History at Syracuse University.

Die Kryptologie, eine jahrtausendealte "Geheimwissenschaft", gewinnt für den Informatiker zusehends praktische Bedeutung in Verbindung mit Datenbanken und Telekommunikation. Neben ihre Nutzung in rechnergestützten öffentlichen Nachrichtensystemen ("öffentliche Schlüssel") treten interne Anwendungen, die sich auch auf Zugriffsberechtigungen und den Quellenschutz von Software erstrecken. Der erste Teil des Buches handelt in elf Kapiteln von den...

Microstrip Circuits offers a crucial link between microwave theory and practical aspects of design, fabrication, analysis, and measurement of printed circuits and antennas. Providing a solid introduction that ranges from basic concepts to more sophisticated recent developments, this book enables newcomers to quickly gain the knowledge and insights needed to understand the specialized literature and begin independent research. After a general d...

Names like Love Canal, Chernobyl, and the Exxon Valdez have come to symbolize our anxiety over toxic substances in the environment and their effects on human health and the ecology. Yet, as toxins continue to accumulate rapidly in our air, water, and soil, major environmental disasters are only the most obvious manifestation of a complex and growing problem - the tip of the iceberg, so to speak. The need for scientists and nonscientists who ar...

Information previously available only in journal articles and research papers has been brought together in this outstanding text. Uses the unifying theme of monotone structure to transcend the two-perspective approach to DES-one stressing logical/qualitative issues and the other temporal/quantitative analysis-to encompass elements from both. Features notes and references at the end of each chapter.

Into a waterfront bar, full of life's failures, subsisting solely on their dreams, comes Hickey with his urge to make them face the truth. This play, first staged in 1946, is written by the author of "Anna Christie" and "Strange Interlude", who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936.

Cutting across class, race, religion, and gender, A Woman's Worth speaks powerfully and persuasively to a generation in need of healing, and in search of harmony.With A Woman's Worth, Marianne Williamson turns her charismatic voice-and the same empowering, spiritually enlightening wisdom that energized her landmark work, A Return to Love- to exploring the crucial role of women in the world today. Drawing deeply and candidly on her own experien...

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all timeThe Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise Barbara W. Tuchman's classic histories of the First World War eraIn this landmark, Pulitzer Prize-winning account, renowned historian Barbara W. Tuchman re-creates the first month of World War I: thirty days in the summer of 1914 that determined the course of the c...

The volume assesses whether or not South Africa can achieve peace and stability following the violence, chaos and disorder that has accompanied the transition from apartheid. Some chapters examine important aspects which define the current period of chaos in order to evaluate the prospects of the disorder coming to an end. Others address key areas of reform by which peace and stability could be restored in order to assess the likelihood of thi...

In diesem Buch werden Konzepte, Methoden und Instrumente von Informationssystemen für das Controlling dargelegt: Ein ganzheitlich zu konzipierendes Informationssystem ist neben dem Planungs- und Kontrollsystem das wichtigste Instrument des Controlling. Controlling-Informationssysteme werden hinsichtllich Begriff, Funktionen und Struktur aufgezeigt, wobei Informationssysteme selbst Objekt des Controlling sind. Dabei geht es um mehr als die Mini...

Dieses Buch gibt einen Überblick über Entwicklung, Stand und Methoden der Konjunkturtheorie anhand ausgewählter, aber repräsentativer Erklärungen konjunktureller Schwankungen. Es beschreibt das Konjunkturphänomen durch eine Liste stilisierter Fakten, die es für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland anhand entsprechender Zeitreihen illustriert. Aufgabe der Konjunkturtheorie ist es, diese Fakten zu erklären. Zwei Ursachenkomplexe haben sich herausgesch...

Die Nichtstandard-Mathematik hat in den letzten Jahren einen gewaltigen Aufschwung erfahren und die Entwicklungen in den verschiedenartigsten Gebieten beeinflußt und befruchtet. Mit diesem Lehrbuch liegt nun die erste umfassende und leicht verständliche Einführung in dieses Thema in deutscher Sprache vor. An Vorkenntnissen braucht der Leser für ein gewinnbringendes Selbststudium nichts weiter als Grundkenntnisse in Linearer Algebra und Analysi...

A splendid collection...Eloquent, powerful, compassionate and droll. There is considerable variety in the subjects she addresses....Compelling."THE CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALERThinking out loud is what Anna Quindlen does best. A syndicated columnist with her finger on the pulse of women's lives, and her heart in a place we all share, she writes about the passions, politics, and peculiarities of Americans everywhere. From gays in the military, to the...

A panopticon of life in this decade, sure to be valuable to future social historians She touches on life, love, home, family, work, men, women, children and issues large and small."CHICAGO TRIBUNEThe voice is Anna Quindlen's. But we know the hopes, dreams, fears, and wonder expressed in all her columns, for most of us share them. With her NEW YORK TIMES-based column, "LIFE IN THE 30s, " Anna Quindlen valued to national attention, and this wond...