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Introduction to Computer Networking to Methods for Usability Engineering in Equipment Design.

Over the past half century, no prospective trade agreement has captured the attention of the American people in the way NAFTA has and will continue to do. This investigative study seeks to explore the decision-making processes that led up to the agreement and whether or not they were distorted in the process by lobbying.

This analysis of relations between the United States and Central America through the 1980s seeks to broaden views of events and historical processes by examining the relations in global and historical terms in lieu of the usual local and regional focus.

Ein Lesebuch über Landschaften und Städte, über Dichter und Politiker, über Gott und die Welt - Heimsuchungen im wahrsten und doppelten Sinne des Wortes.

Narcissists are people who believe themselves to be the center of the universe, with the people around them merely servants. These parents view their children as only extensions of themselves, and are unable to see their children as individuals. Golomb reveals that the adult child's ultimate goal is the development of strength to free themselves from their parents.

In 'Zunder' notiert Meienberg verschiedenartigste Gewalttätigkeiten, harsche Wirklichkeiten und geplatzte Träume. Es ist die Rede vom angeblichen Sieg der Alliierten im sauber präsentierten Golfkrieg, von unserer Gewöhnung an das tägliche Gemetzel und vom Tod der Mutter. Außerdem enthält 'Zunder' einen Brief an Salman Rushdie und einen anderen an den Chefredakteur von 'Oslobodjenje' in Sarajewo.

From old Revelation to new takes an important step beyond the studies by Robert Carroll and Michael Fishbane in exploring inner-biblical exegesis. Simon De Vries attempts to solve the problem of ideology and technique in the expansion of prophetic prediction by schools of redactors. By analyzing those prophetic predictions that employ temporal expressions as introductory transitions - expressions such as "in that day, " "behold, days are comin...

The aim of the Expositions is to present new and important developments in pure and applied mathematics. Well established in the community over more than two decades, the series offers a large library of mathematical works, including several important classics. The volumes supply thorough and detailed expositions of the methods and ideas essential to the topics in question. In addition, they convey their relationships to other parts of mathem...

Ideally a logic text should encourage not only criticism of thinking, but critical thinking itself. To its great credit, ard Thinking does both. -s Nicholas Rescher, University of Pittsburgh Mullen effectively combines logic, epistemology, and good old fashioned common sense. The dialogues and examples are telling, the explanations clear and to the point. The book articulates, defends, and exemplifies all the important features of 'hard thinki...

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This book provides a comprehensive review of our knowledge of vitamin B-6 requirements and metabolism throughout pregnancy and lactation. It concentrates on two primary points: adequacy of available methodologies and a presentation of the extant knowledge on vitamin B-6 metabolism and requirements in pregnancy, infancy, lactation, and in women of childbearing age. Many of the chapters offer new perspectives on how decisions have been and are b...

Kreditinstitute benötigen als informationsintensive Unternehmen einen langfristigen Rahmenplan zur Planung ihrer Datenverarbeitung. Architekturmodelle helfen hierbei, die Anforderungen an die betriebliche Informationsverarbeitung sowohl aus bankfachlicher als auch aus technischer Sicht zu spezifizieren. In dieser Arbeit wird die DV-Landschaft sowohl für Kreditinstitute allgemein als auch für drei ausgewählte Typen festgelegt. Ausgegangen wurde...

C.L.R. James (1901-1989) made important contributions in a range of fields - literature, criticism, cultural studies, political theory, history and philosophy, serving as a mentor to two generations of international intellectuals. These essays offer a fresh perspective on his life and writings.

Provides invaluable information about one of the most significant yet least understood new religious movements of the twentieth century.

In an astonishing feat of literary detection, one of the most provocative critics of our time and the author of In the Freud Archives and The Purloined Clinic offers an elegantly reasoned meditation on the art of biography. In The Silent Woman, Janet Malcolm examines the biographies of Sylvia Plath to create a book not about Plath's life but about her afterlife: how her estranged husband, the poet Ted Hughes, as executor of her estate, tried t...

At a time when the importance of ceramics in modern products has advanced rapidly, James S. Reed's Principles of Ceramics Processing fulfills the need for a clearly written, comprehensive introduction to the field. This single text gives materials science engineers and students in ceramics engineering an understanding of the scientific principles and technology of ceramics processing as it applies to the development and production of new advan...

A Measured Pace is a wide-ranging and substantial contribution to a philosophical understanding of dance.

From a 1965 Lyndon Johnson Executive Order requiring federal government contractors to abide by certain equal opportunity standards, the center looked back over the past quarter century to ascertain 'How America's Leading Defense Companies Employ Women and Minority Executives.' They found that an extraordinarily small number of women and minorities - two percent or less - are employed in the upper management ranks of the 20 largest defense con...

This book addresses the history of mentalities, psychohistory, and the history of colonialist discourses. For those interested in the development of Third World and of post-colonialist cultures, the book offers a new set of insights and methodologies.

Kim skillfully argues that the Korean War was a consequence of the historical process that emerged in the summer of 1945, escalated in the period of occupation (1945-1948), and finally exploded in the summer of 1950 through a vicious circle of internalization of an external power struggle by domestic political groups and the internalization of the Korean politics by the external powers.