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Part of the "Advances in Information Storage Systems" series, this text contains 30 articles covering state-of-the-art knowledge in the information storage and processing industry.

In David Sedaris's world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. Sedaris's collection of essays and stories is a rollicking tour through the national Zeitgeist: a do-it-yourself suburban dad saves money by performing home surgery, a man who is loved too much flees the heavyweight champion of the world, a teenage suicide tries to incite a lynch mob at her funeral, a bitter Santa abuses the elves. With a perfect eye and a voice infused with as muc...

Bibliographical guide to the Old French narrative lay, listing editions, translations, critical studies and reviews.

`This book provides a rich source of rigorously argued, well researched and detailed clinical material for individuals from counselling, or counselling psychology backgrounds, who wish to develop supervisory skills' - Therapeutic Communities `The text holds a key place for creativity, for "artistry" in practice, for awe and for wonder. This important contribution has relevance for supervisors in a wide range of settings and from diverse theor...

Introduction: The Ethics of TruthRonald AronsonContextsArlette Elkaim-SartreNote to the ReaderUntitled PagesTruth and ExistenceAppendix: New OutlineNotesIndex

Of all aspects of Roman culture, the gladiatorial contests for which the Romans built their amphitheatres are at once the most fascinating and the most difficult for us to come to terms with. They have been seen variously as sacrifices to the gods or, at funerals, to the souls of the deceased, as a mechanism for introducing young Romans to the horrors of fighting, and as a direct substitute for warfare after the imposition of peace.In this ori...

The impact of urbanization on the health of citizens in developing countries has received increasing attention recently. This book addresses the problems in an integrated way, looking in detail at both the problems themselves and the action and research necessary to alleviate them. It includes contributions from leading practitioners and advisors to many of the main international agencies and presents the latest thinking of those institutions....

The development of a sociology of medical knowledge is both assessed and contributed to in Medical Talk and Medical Work. Underlying the analysis is research on the work of haematologists, which offers a rich resource for understanding the complexities and contradictions between physical bodies and social embodiment, medical talk and technical apparatus. Using but moving beyond this specific material, Paul Atkinson demonstrates the strengths ...

Analyses the subject of women and religion. This volume examines writing: by women, which excludes women, and which ignores them. It represents archaeology and canon and civil law. It explores determinants of marital and social status, problems of women and language, and women's various roles and contains work done on medieval women.

The theory of integral equations has been an active research field for many years and is based on analysis, function theory, and functional analysis. On the other hand, integral equations are of practical interest because of the «boundary integral equation method», which transforms partial differential equations on a domain into integral equations over its boundary. This book grew out of a series of lectures given by the author at the Ruhr-Uni...

The twelve papers in this volume examine how and why inequality affects the patterns of crime and criminal justice. The contributors evaluate the merits of various theoretical ideas, debates, and controversies and document the dynamics of inequality in varied crime settings.

The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 was at the beginning of the long struggle for women's rights in the United States. The documents collected in this anthology bring to life the anger and the excitement of a moment when a small but determined group of women dared to challenge the laws and customs of a society dominated by men.

This work provides a guide to current research in barnacle evolution. Topics covered include: chemical signals in barnacles, larval settlement, naupliar evidence for cirripede taxonomy and phylogeny, and South American patterns of barnacle distribution.

This text contains the papers of a meeting on American isopods, the only crustacean group with representatives in all terrestrial ecosystems. It deals with two main subjects: the effects of stressful conditions on the individual animal, and distribution and selection of microhabitat.

This selection of excerpts and essays delineates Brazilian culture as exemplified by its people. Two pieces that provide a general overview of Brazilian peoples are followed by four chronological sections, each of which is preceded by a historical sketch of the period under examination.

This book offers itself as a guide both to the wealth of reading texts available for use in counselling, and to ways of reading that extend the reader-listener's engagement with fiction and poetry. Ben Knights argues that reflective reading requires us to work at both analytical and empathic levels.

A most fascinating and authoritative account of the Celtic Church, its beliefs and practices, and its remarkable theocracy based on Old Testament canon and the laws of the Pentateuch, including the keeping of the Seventh-day Sabbath. This book is illustrated with line drawings taken from the crosses which were a notable feature of Celtic church architecture, and with examples of documents of the period.

Nancy Mairs reconstructs her past by exploring her erotic and emotional development in order to lay claim to her life—and women's lives in general. Lyrical, intense, and particular, flouting taboos and self-censorship, this acclaimed memoir explores the spaces that have shaped a life, including the "bone house" of her body.

Written in layman's terms, not legalese or insurance-speak, this book is designed to help you understand how the Workers' Comp system works and to provide a basic understanding of injury prevention, types of injuries, and cost containment strategies. Although Workers' Comp regulations, procedures, and forms vary from state-to-state, the principles behind the system and the basics of compliance are almost identical. By focusing on these core pr...

Offers brief summaries of utopian novels, discusses concepts related to utopias and dystopias, and offers profiles of utopian writers.