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Organized for self-paced study, this user-friendly book can easily be understood by designers with no engineering training. Provides excellent guidance concerning how design can be used to control noise, privacy and room acoustics within buildings. Contains a summary of the basic types of sound problems that occur in buildings.

Applies a new emphasis to the challenge of teaching mathematics to three-, four- and five-year old children. A companion volume to "Investigating Science With Young Children", this book outlines appropriate and innovative activities for helping young children explore the world of mathematics.

In dieser Arbeit wird an einem konkreten Fall untersucht, wie sich die Umstellung auf Gruppenarbeit auf die Wirtschaftlichkeit ausgewirkt hat. Dabei zeigt sich, daß die Personalkosten in der Endmontage nach Einführung von Gruppenarbeit gesunken sind.

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List of IllustrationsPreface1: Issues in Rural Development2: The Biase of Southeastern Nigeria3: Use of Environmental Resources4: Managing the Environment5: The Economy6: Biase Social Organization and the Reconstruction of Gender Roles7: Rural Politics in a State Polity8: Ideology9: Implications for AnthropologyGlossary of Agwagune WordsReferencesIndex

Japan today is haunted by the ghosts its spectacular modernity has generated. Deep anxieties about the potential loss of national identity and continuity disturb many in Japan, despite widespread insistence that it has remained culturally intact. In this provocative conjoining of ethnography, history, and cultural criticism, Marilyn Ivy discloses these anxieties--and the attempts to contain them--as she tracks what she calls the vanishing: mar...

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Action Before Westport consults official records, newspaper accounts, letters, diaries, journals, and privately printed records to describe in detail the unusually daring, last-ditch 1864 Confederate cavalry raid that ended the bitter fighting that had devastated the Missouri-Kansas border.

Engendering History broadens the base of empirical knowledge on Caribbean women's history and re-evaluates the body of work that exists. The book is pan-Caribbean in its approach, though most articles are on the English-speaking Caribbean, highlighting the research pattern in Caribbean women's history.

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U.S. Marine Corps aviation unit insignia from 1941-1946. (From Prologue) During WWI Marine Corps Aviation personnel used a shoulder sleeve insignia. Marine Corps aviation unit insignia first came into use during the mid 1920's with the Ace Of Spades insignia of the 1st Air Squadron and the Running Red Devil insignia of VF-3M.

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsI: The End of Art?II: The Status of the Art Object Relative to Mere Real Things Before 1800III: Confronting the Art Object: The Simple Produce of the Common DayA: William Wordsworth: The Simple Produce of the Common DayB: Thomas Carlyle: Natural SupernaturalismC: John RuskinIV: Leaving the Raft Behind: John CageA: Recontextualizing Cage: Industrial Supernaturalism, Suzukian Zen, andthe Buddha's RaftB: The Simple Produce C...

Focusing on the phoenix, the griffin, the unicorn, and the dragon, this book combines tales and lore of each, presenting primary sources (e.g., the writings of Herodotus and original fairy tales and poems) within the context of background material and commentary. The shifting images of these animals offer a unique perspective on myths, religions, art, literature, and science in history. Discussion questions and learning activities at the end o...

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Gregory Bateson was one of the most original social scientists of this century. He is widely known as author of key ideas used in family therapy - including the well-known condition called 'double bind' . He was also one of the most influential figures in cultural anthropology. In the decade before his death in 1980 Bateson turned toward a consideration of ecology. Standard ecology concentrates on an ecosystem's biomass and on energy budgets s...

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U.S. Marine Corps aviation unit insignia from 1941-1946. (From Prologue) During WWI Marine Corps Aviation personnel used a shoulder sleeve insignia. Marine Corps aviation unit insignia first came into use during the mid 1920's with the Ace Of Spades insignia of the 1st Air Squadron and the Running Red Devil insignia of VF-3M.

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