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Die "Historische Kommission zu Berlin" betreibt die Erforschung der Landesgeschichte und der Historischen Landeskunde Berlin-Brandenburgs bzw. Brandenburg-Preußens in Form von wissenschaftlichen Untersuchungen, Vorträgen, Tagungen und Veröffentlichungen sowie durch Serviceleistungen. Dabei kooperiert die Kommission auch mit anderen Institutionen und begleitet wissenschaftliche und praktische Vorhaben von allgemeinem öffentlichen Interesse. In ...

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This handbook is a guide to the status of named and experimental grasses available for use in the US. There are maps and descriptions of land resource regions and plant hardiness zones assisting in the understanding of plant adaptation areas. Also included is an index of scientific plant names.

A supportive, self-help manual on breast cancer. This book provides important information on detecting breast cancer, dealing with it physically and emotionally, and surviving it. Fears, truths, remedies, and alternatives are presented, weighed, and evaluated from perspectives of doctors, nurses, patients, families, and experts. Issues such as insurance, physical changes, family stress, recovery, and death are discussed frankly and openly. The...

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In this book, Mary Talbot shows how fiction works in the constitution and reproduction of social life. She does not reduce fiction to a functional support for ideology, however, but considers that the greatest interest in fiction is as a source of pleasure. She discusses both 'high' and 'low' fiction, combining discussion of social context with language analysis. Taking a view of fiction as a product of social practices, the book examines not ...

With simple cases of premature ejaculation or anorgasmia becoming increasingly rare, clinicians are now utilizing a sophisticated array of multidisciplinary approaches to treat a complex variety of challenging problems and patient populations. Bringing together, under one cover, case studies and clinical discussions by the very authorities whose work is changing the field, Case Studies in Sex Therapy provides a state-of-the-art guide to curren...

Pain and suffering, once associated with punishment for sin, became regarded as a purposeless evil that was hostile to human welfare. The works of Thomas Beddoes, Coleridge, and Shelley embody the change in attitude toward suffering and lay the groundwork for the general use of anesthesia in modern medicine. Papper contends that there was no real societal readiness to treat or prevent pain until the idea of the worth of the common man or woman...

This book examines the federal judiciary in the light of political science research on the role of interests and interest groups in the making of policy and suggests that efforts of federal judges to shape court administration are guided, in part, by self-interest which consequently affects the development and results of judicial policies.

Neben den operativen Eingriffen bei Gef¿rkrankungen haben interventionelle radiologische Verfahren in der Behandlung arterieller und ven¿ser Durchblutungsst¿rungen inzwischen ihren festen Platz. Die M¿glichkeiten beider Bereiche f¿r ein therapeutisches Vorgehen sind vielf¿ig, in diesem Buch nehmen Experten sowohl der Gef¿hirurgie als auch der Radiologie zu den Krankheitsbildern und der Therapiewahl Stellung - zum Nutzen des Lesers. Zielsetzung...

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Partners in Public Service" brings together some of Lester Salamon's most important work on the changing relationship between government and the voluntary sector in the American version of the modern welfare state. Approaching issues from a variety of perspectives, Salamon covers topics such as the theoretical basis of government-nonprofit cooperation and recent efforts to cut federal spending.

This volume is the first-ever English translation of Kant's last major work, the so-called Opus postumum, a work Kant himself described as his "chef d'oeuvre" and as the keystone of his entire philosophical system.

This bibliography aims to provide gerontologists, health care professionals and the general reader with a source for identifying literary works whose plot, characters and themes provide insight into various topics in gerontology.

In this book, Elizabeth Tonkin, an anthropologist, uses an interdisciplinary approach to investigate the construction and interpretation of oral histories. She argues for a deeper understanding of their oral and social characteristics. Oral accounts of past events are guides to the future, as well as being social activities in which tellers claim authority to speak to particular audiences. Like written history and literature, orality has its s...

This work examines the influence of both Will Rogers and Frank Capra on modern populist movies, providing background to Capra's links with the crackerbarrel personality of Rogers. Films drawn upon include "The Electric Horseman", "Field of Dreams", "Dave" and "Grand Canyon".

A comprehensive guide to the statistical methods used in economics and quantitative economics. Acknowledged experts cover topics such as: ∗ Semiparametic and non-parametic interference ∗ Time series behaviour of commodity prices ∗ Applications of Edgeworth expansions and quantitative methods in development economics.

In this major new work Alice Harris and Lyle Campbell set out to establish a general framework for the investigation of linguistic change. Systematic cross-linguistic comparison of syntactic change across a wide variety of languages is used to construct hypotheses about the universals and limits of language change more generally. In particular, the authors seek to move closer towards describing the range of causes of syntactic change to develo...