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Village people in the Punjab have lived with the terror of conflict between Sikh militants and Indian security forces. This book presents a human portrait of the struggle.

The First Passage is an important examination of the earliest recorded black presence in the Americas. It begins with an exploration of society, culture, politics, and economics in ancient and medieval Africa.

Americans in the early 19th century were, as one foreign traveller bluntly put it, "filthy, bordering on the beastly" - perfectly at home in dirty, bug-infested, malodorous surroundings. Many a home swarmed with flies, barnyard animals, dust, and dirt, clothes were seldom washed, men hardly ever shaved or bathed. Yet gradually all this changed, and today Americans are known worldwide for their obsession with cleanliness - for their sophisticat...

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As spoken natural language dialog systems technology continues to make great strides, numerous issues regarding dialog processing still need to be resolved. This book presents an exciting new dialog processing architecture that allows for a number of behaviors required for effective human-machine interactions, including: problem-solving to help the user carry out a task, coherent subdialog movement during the problem-solving process, user mode...

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This ground-breaking, work is both a reference collection of 27 new essays by leading specialists in their own fields, and also a collective demonstration of major new directions in the study of ancient Greece.

This text is part of a two-volume work on atmospherics. Volume One covers topics including: ion chemistry and composition of the atmosphere, meteorologic aspects of thunderstorms, electrification, lightning detection from ground and space, and artificially triggered lightning and ball lightning.

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RIPRAP is a widely used engineering method for protecting river banks and coastlines from erosion. This book studies the fundamental issues and problems concerned with various aspects of this method of erosion control.

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Describes analytical and visual properties of plane and spatial curves. Half of this book details investigation tools, with the other half devoted to the "Atlas of Plane Curves". The book also provides application examples and descriptions of mechanisms for drawing various curves.

A unique volume that brings together contributors from all over the world to provide the first truly global perspective on archaeological theory, and tackle the crucial questions facing archaeology in the 1990s. Can one practice without theory?

This introductory text for management students is exceptional in that it integrates quality as a theme throughout.

Sources of Architectural Form provides a critical history of Western architecture theory from the ancient world to the present day. It focuses on design theory's central question: how does the architect generate architectural form? Theorists necessarily tackle this fundamental question in order to explain a number of puzzling issues including the origins of style, the persistence of tradition and the role of genius.This book describes the majo...

This is a major new study of the films of Luis Bunuel, surrealist scourge of the bourgeosie and enduring influence on European cinema. The book is unique in offering an extended analysis of Bunuel's films in the context of contemporary debates in film studies, focusing in particular onquestions of subjectivity and desire. Throughout, Bunuel's films are viewed as both the brilliant, subversive expressions of the director's fantasies and obsessi...