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In 'Daddy's Gone to War, ' the author offers a fascinating and often poignant exploration of wartime America, and one generation's odyssey from childhood to middle age. Drawing on wide-ranging research, Tuttle argues that the Second World War left an indelible imprint on the dreams and nightmares of an American generation, not only in childhood, but in adulthood as well.

There is currently a great deal of interest in patients with functional somatic symptoms--physical complaints which are not explained by organic findings--but until now there has been little information available on the principles and practical methods of their treatment. This book covers allthe key topics in the management of somatic disorders, and will be invaluable both as a comprehensive reference and as a practical clinical guide. The aut...

The third edition of this successful book has been updated to incorporate the latest advances in the treatment of the terminally ill and includes a new section on non-malignant diseases and home care. Based on many years of clinical practice and research at St. Christopher's Hospice in London, the first teaching hospice, Living with Dying presents practical, balanced advice on the general ethical and medical principles of caring for dying pati...

The original edition was immediately recognized as a classic of condensed matter physics. This new edition covers the main properties of nematics, cholesterics, and smectics and columnar phases, particularly the symmetry and the mechanical and optical characteristics of each phase. The latter includes some applications to display systems. The emphasis on order-of-magnitude considerations should make it accessible to researchers and graduate st...

Since 1992, Italy has been rocked by the disintegration of its traditional ruling elite as dozens of leading politicians have been accused of corruption, extortion, and Mafia ties. The two linchpins o

The book covers elementary aspects of category theory and topos theory for graduate students in mathematics, computer science, and logic, it has few mathematical prerequisites, and uses categorical methods throughout, rather than beginning with set theoretical foundations. Working with key concepts such as Cartesian closedness, adjunctions, regular categories, and the internal logic of a topos, the book features full statements and elementary ...

The fitting of a curve or surface through a set of observational data is a recurring problem across numerous disciplines such as applications. This book describes the algorithms and mathematical fundamentals of a widely used software package for data fitting with tensor product splines. It gives a survey of possibilities, benefits, and problems commonly confronted when approximating with this popular type of function. Dierkx demonstrates in de...

Peer review is especially effective in inducing change and improvement in practice in the long term as it is relevant, locally based, simple and educational. The original Dutch book from which this book was developed was extremely popular and very well reviewed. The ideas presented in this new book are mainstream and challenging and will help to extend the audit debate as well as to further progress in continuing medical education.

This book is essential for everyone involved in teaching family practitioner trainers as well as for the trainers themselves. It describes the history of vocational training and examines the particular educational requirements of adult learners, then goes on to discuss all aspects of curriculum design, assessment, teaching methods, trainer-trainee relationships, and evaluation, followed by an appraisal of what changes are needed in training fo...

With the research summarized in this monumental two volume treatise, Santiago Ramon y Cajal founded modern neuroscience and thus joined Darwin and Pasteur as the leading biologists of the 19th century. Starting around 1887, Cajal refined a neurological staining method developed almost 15 yearsearlier by the Italian histologist Camillo Golgi, and applied it first to relatively orderly parts of the nervous systems like the cerebellum, spinal cor...

In der 1970 gegr¿ndeten Reihe erscheinen Arbeiten, die philosophiehistorische Studien mit einem systematischen Ansatz oder systematische Studien mit philosophiehistorischen Rekonstruktionen verbinden. Neben deutschsprachigen werden auch englischsprachige Monographien ver¿ffentlicht. Gr¿ndungsherausgeber sind: Erhard Scheibe (Herausgeber bis 1991), G¿nther Patzig (bis 1999) und Wolfgang Wieland (bis 2003). Von 1990 bis 2007 wurde die Reihe von...

In the estimating, planning and management of any project, large or small, an understanding of the impact of risk is critical. This book explains how the growing number of people choosing to or forced to organise their work as projects can make realistic assessments of the uncertainty affecting costs, timescale and revenue, before commitments are made. A clear analysis of the role of uncertainty is combined in this concise and practical handbo...

The area of adaptive systems, which encompasses recursive identification, adaptive control, filtering, and signal processing, has been one of the most active areas of the past decade. Since adaptive controllers are fundamentally nonlinear controllers which are applied to nominally linear, possibly stochastic and time-varying systems, their theoretical analysis is usually very difficult. Nevertheless, over the past decade much fundamental progr...

They eat people and cook the bones, the officers have no thought to turn outside-- these are the troops of Sun Pin." This graphic description from the Shih Chin depicts the awesome army commanded by Sun Pin, a direct descendent-- probably the great-grandson-- of the legendary Sun Tzu. Sun Pin studied and adopted many of the ideas found in his predecessor's masterpiece, "The Art of War", but he also developed his own distinct strategic style su...

Strange Strangers Come to Wayside School . . .Welcome back to Wayside School! After closing for 242 days to get rid of the cows (don't ask), everyone's favorite thirty-story school is finally back in session.But all is not well at the school with no nineteenth floor. Mrs. Jewls, the best teacher at Wayside, is having a baby, and that can mean only one thing -- substitute teachers.First comes Mr. Gorf. Was he married to the terrible Mrs. Gorf? ...

150 Years of Branching Processes It is now 150 years since statistical work done in Paris on extinction of noble and bourgeois family lines by de Chateauneuf stimulated Bienayme to formulate what is now usually known as the Galton-Watson branching process model and to discover themathe­ matical result known as the criticality theorem. However, Bienayme's work lay fallow and the criticality theorem did not emerge again for nearly 30 years, bein...

Frontmatter -- I. EITHER-OR? NEITHER! -- II. SOCRATIC MEMORABILIA: HAMANN'S METHODOLOGICAL MANIFESTO -- III. AESTHETICA IN NUCE: THE RHAPSODY OF A PHILOLOGIAN -- IV. THE HERDERSCHRIFTEN: THE ¿ AND O -- V. THE MYSTERIOUS WISDOM OF A SIBYL -- VI. METACRITIQUE OF THE PURISM OF REASON: THE KEY TO THE ABYSS -- VII. METACRITICUS BONAE SPEI -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- TRANSLATIONS -- I. SOCRATIC MEMORABILIA -- II. AESTHETICA IN NUCE -- III. TH...

Der fünfte Band der Lindauer Texte setzt die Tradition der Veröffentlichungen der Beiträge zu den Leitthemen der Lindauer Psychotherapiewochen (LPW) fort. Teil 1 zum Thema "Konflikte in der Triade" greift die zentralen menschlichen Fragen um Liebe, Begehren und Eifersucht auf. Teil 2 befaßt sich mit den "Spielregeln in der Psychotherapie, die als eine dem Spiel vergleichbare Interaktionsform verstanden werden kann, welche sich nach Regeln und ...

Through synthesis of the achievements since the 1970s and bringing into focus the outlines of the developing theory, this book offers an introduction to the linear operators of composition with a fixed function acting on a space of analytic functions.

The book includes both a historical introduction and one exploring South Asian literary traditions and the concept of the collection.