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Adventures in Lesbian Philosophy contains many illuminatingdiscussions (of S/M sex, lesbian ethics, lesbian desire, bisexuality), and includesa useful bibliography of lesbian criticism." --Passion "This new collection edited by Claudia Card includesimportant articles of interest to feminist philosophy relating to lesbian feministissues and ethics." -- Ethics ..". a fun and engagingconceptual romp." -- Journal of the History ofSexuality These e...

In this collection of informative essays, Noralee Frankel and Nancy S. Dye bring together work by such notable scholars as Ellen Carol DuBois, Alice Kessler-Harris, Barbara Sicherman, and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn to illuminate the lives and labor of American women from the late nineteenth century to the early 1920s. Revealing the intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, and social class, the authors explore women's accomplishments in changing wel...

Depuis une vingtaine d'annees, me me s'il n'est pas parfaite­ ment fiable, Ie traitement de l'instabilite du genou s'est deve­ loppe a grandes enjambees. Pour les malades il y a une de­ mande, pour les chirurgiens un creneau a occuper. Le Docteur Guy Liorzou, perfectionniste, eIeve a l'Ecole du Professeur Louis Pouyanne, apotre de la «Medecine de la Per­ sonne», a pris Ie train au depart, mais il ne s'est pas lance, tete baissee, d'emblee dans...

Infinite dimensional systems can be used to describe many phenomena in the real world. As is well known, heat conduction, properties of elastic­ plastic material, fluid dynamics, diffusion-reaction processes, etc., all lie within this area. The object that we are studying (temperature, displace­ ment, concentration, velocity, etc.) is usually referred to as the state. We are interested in the case where the state satisfies proper differential ...

Johnson and Petrie have produced an admirable book. Anyone who wants to make sense of Tarkovsky's films--a very difficult task in any case--must read it." --The Russian ReviewThis book is a model of contextual and textual analysis.... the Tarkovsky myth is stripped of many of its shibboleths and the thematic structure and coherence of his work is revealed in a fresh and stimulating manner." --Europe-Asia Studies[This book, ] with its wealth of...

This work covers the history of those orders which combined religion and caring with military prowess. Among the orders covered: are the Hospitallers of St John, the Templars, the Teutonic order, and the Spanish. The book also discusses the perceptions and roles of the military orders.

The first attempt to present Romanian women poets systematically fills an important gap in the study of a country where poetry has always been an essential aspect of cultural expression. The selections represent many generations of poets, from Veronica Micle and Matilda Cugler-Poni in the nineteenth century, to Magda Isanos and the interwar poets, to such important contemporary poets as Ana Blandiana and Daniela Crasnaru, and younger poets, su...

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The history of anthropology has great relevance for current debates within the discipline, offering a foundation from which the professionalisation of anthropology can evolve. The authors explore key issues in the history of social and cultural anthropological approaches in Germany, Great Britain, France, The Netherlands, Sweden, Poland, Slovenia and Romania, as well as the influence of Spanish anthropologists in Mexico to provide a comprehens...

This is a book about isomorphisms 0/ types, arecent difficult research topic in type theory that turned out to be able to have valuable practical applications both for programming language design and far more human­ centered information retrieval in software libraries. By means of a deep study of the syntax of the now widely known typed A-ca1culus, it is possible to identify some simple equations between types that on one hand allow to improve...

Topological tools in Nonlinear Analysis had a tremendous develop­ ment during the last few decades. The three main streams of research in this field, Topological Degree, Singularity Theory and Variational Meth­ ods, have lately become impetuous rivers of scientific investigation. The process is still going on and the achievements in this area are spectacular. A most promising and rapidly developing field of research is the study of the role th...

Designed to accompany the Open University course Developing Intensive Curricula:Equality and Diversity in Education, Vol 1 will appeal to research students undertaking research in the area of education, focusing on special needs.

Unflinchingly objective. Doubler makes a convincing case for seeing the GI as an amateur who learned quickly and well and who, by the end of the war, had turned himself into a formidable enemy.' -- John Keegan in the Washington Times

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Arms control remains a major international issue as the twentieth century closes, but it is hardly a new concern. The effort to limit military power has enjoyed recurring support since shortly after World War I, when the United States, Britain, and Japan sought naval arms control as a means to insure stability in the Far East, contain naval expenditure, and prevent another world cataclysm. Richard Fanning examines the efforts of American, Brit...

To Be Continued... explores the world's most popular form of television drama, the soap opera. From Denver to Delhi, Moscow to Manchester, audiences eagerly await the next episode of As the World Turns, The Rich Also Weep or Eastenders. But the popularity of soap operas in Britain and the US pales in comparison to the role that they play in media cultures in other parts of the world. To Be Continued... investigates both the cultural specifici...

The history of anthropology has great relevance for current debates within the discipline, offering a foundation from which the professionalisation of anthropology can evolve. The authors explore key issues in the history of social and cultural anthropological approaches in Germany, Great Britain, France, The Netherlands, Sweden, Poland, Slovenia and Romania, as well as the influence of Spanish anthropologists in Mexico to provide a comprehens...

This book is a principled, accessible and highly stimulating discussion of a politics of resistance for today. Ranging widely over issues of identity, representation, culture and schooling, it will be required reading for students of radical pedagogy, sociology and political science.

Over the last fifteen years there have been dramatic increases in both private and public intervention in international trade. Traditional barriers to market-based trade such as commodity cartels and tariffs have been augmented by new developments such as the rise of regional trade blocs and the growth of intra-firm trade. This book argues that these changes are large and persistent enough to have an impact on total development performance, an...

Frances Tustin describes the life and clarifies the work of an outstanding clinician whose understanding of autistic and psychotic children has brilliantly illuminated the relationship between autism and psychosis for others in the field. Sheila Spensley defines Tustin's position in traditional and contemporary psychoanalytic theory and explains how it is related to work in infant psychiatry and developmental psychology. She makes Tustin's ori...