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An engrossing examination of a popular box office genre--the gross-out movie-- "Laughing Screaming" is the first study to take this lowbrow product seriously.

Poised between the commercialism of mass consumption and a questioning of prevailing social norms, youth cultures offer a fascinating insight into the social and cultural state of Western societies. This innovative collection provides a lively exploration of such cultures, with all their implicit ironies and contradictions, at the end of the twentieth century. Highlighting the current forms of expression - music, style, fashion, entertainment...

This book is a major contribution to the interdisciplinary project of investigating the true nature of color vision. In recent times, research into color vision has been one of the main success stories of cognitive science. Each discipline in the field--neuroscience, psychology, linguistics, computer science and philosophy--has contributed significantly to our understanding of color. Evan Thompson provides an accessible review of current scien...

The authors describe how effective superintendents work with their immediate staffs, elected trustees, and school-based administrators. Each chapter examines the meaning of effective district leadership from different perspectives.

Presents the contemporary religious crisis in India, providing historical perspective and focusing on the crises in Punjab, Kashmir, and Ayodhya.

Thomas Pynchon is the author of The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Slow Learner, a collection of short stories, Vineland, Mason and Dixon, Against the Day and Inherent Vice. He received the National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974.

20th-century science and music, argues Jamie James, have rejected the Romantic separation of the two. The book provides a survey of the history of science and music, a reassessment of Romanticism and the modernist reaction to it, and a radical intellectual journey.

Risk compensation postulates that everyone has a "risk thermostat" and that safety measures that do not affect the setting of the thermostat will be circumvented by behaviour that re-establishes the level of risk with which people were originally comfortable. It explains why, for example, motorists drive faster after a bend in the road is straightened. Cultural theory explains risk-taking behaviour by the operation of cultural filters. It post...

Management by Acting anstatt passives Reagieren heißt die Devise dieses Ratgebers für die wohl wichtigste und etablierteste Methode der modernen Unternehmensführung. Kompakt und verständlich informiert das Buch über Werkzeuge und organisatorische Konzepte, deren Bedeutung weit über das Simultaneous Engineering im engeren Sinne hinausreicht. Concise text: Kompakt und verständlich gibt das Buch einen Überblick über Werkzeuge und organisatori...

Das Lehrbuch führt in die grundlegenden Verfahren und Methoden der Bildverarbeitung ein. Zahlreiche Übungsaufgaben mit Lösungshinweisen ergänzen das Buch.

What does Walter Mondale's career reveal about the dilemma of the modern Democtratic party and the crisis of postwar American liberalism? Steven M. Gillon 's answer is that Mondale's frustration as Jimmy Carter's vice president and his failure to unseat the immensely popular President Reagan in 1984 reveal the beleaguered state of a party torn apart by generational and ideological disputes. The Democrats' Dilemma begins with Mondale's early ca...

The need for health and safety training has never been greater than in today's ever more complex and potentially hazardous industrial workplace. A comprehensive guide to designing, implementing, and monitoring on-the-job health and safety training, Safety Training Methods, Second Edition was designed around the principle that worker safety training is an ongoing process and that safety and health-related skills and knowledge must continue to b...

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This book is a major contribution to the interdisciplinary project of investigating the true nature of color vision. In recent times, research into color vision has been one of the main success stories of cognitive science. Each discipline in the field--neuroscience, psychology, linguistics, computer science and philosophy--has contributed significantly to our understanding of color. Evan Thompson provides an accessible review of current scien...