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Does thinking differ in western and non-western cultures. Read the results as a team of philosophers, psychologists, theologians, anthropologists and narrativises grapple with the question

This classic text offers you the key to understanding short circuits, open conductors and other problems relating to electric power systems that are subject to unbalanced conditions. Using the method of symmetrical components, acknowledged expert Paul M. Anderson provides comprehensive guidance for both finding solutions for faulted power systems and maintaining protective system applications. You'll learn to solve advanced problems, while gai...

With particular reference to nineteenth-century French culture, the contributors explore the role realism has played in the social construction of gender and sexuality. Among their subjects are nineteenth-century physiologies, photographs, caricatures, and Balzac's Comedie humaine, the ethnographic claims of the Goncourts' naturalism and the historical claims of Zola's, and the allure of exotica displayed at new museums and international expos...

This bibliography attempts to provide a comprehensive guide to the available literature on how to manage the publishing process. It includes citations and annotations for more than 1200 works related to publishing.

This work describes how the political conflicts that have haunted the United States from its inception - class inequalities, racial frictions and constraints on democracy - loom large in the suburbia of today. Suburbia, it appears, is as volatile a political environment as any other.

This examiniation of America's national pastime explores the dichotomous relationship between race and merit in professional baseball. It critically evaluates the role that race and performance play in determining the extent to which the sport is representative of a culture that continues to harbor racist attitudes. The authors look specifically at several interrelated variables as they pertain to baseball and players salaries: (1) merit-perfo...

Important aspects of historical study are not being dealt with effectively by academic historians.

Lee Remick's ascent as an actress was swift and distinguished. At age 24 she attained stardom in Anatomy of a Murder (1959), and was nominated as Best Actress three years later for her role in Days of Wine and Roses (1962). In the second half of her career, she found her most prolific and rewarding opportunities in television. This book chronicles her life and work in extensive detail, with entries for all her performances. The opening biogra...

Shakespeare forged his tremendous art in the crucible of his comic imagination, which throughout his life enveloped and contained his tragic one. His early comedies-with their baroque poetic exuberance, intense theatricality, explosive bursts of humor, and superbly concrete realizations of the dialects of love-capture as in a chrysalis all that he was to become. They provide a complete inventory of the mind of our greatest writer in the middle...

This is the first book on New York's subway musicians-modern troubadours who perform on platforms, mezzanines, and even trains pounding through the city. Illustrating her account with captivating photos, Susie J. Tanenbaum draws on interviews with...

This work provides a history of the political contests that took place over the Federal Constitution in Pennsylvania. It suggests that political divisions were based less on class, sectional and occupational differences than on partisan attachments rooted in religious and ethnic conflicts.

The drottkvett was a form of Old Norse skaldic poetry composed to glorify a chieftain's deeds or to lament his death. Kari Ellen Gade explores the structural peculiarities of ninth- and tenth-century drottkvett poetry and suggests a solution to the...

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Introduction by Ann Pasternak Slater

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on the Mathematics of Program Construction, held at Kloster Irsee, Germany in July 1995. Besides five invited lectures by distinguished researchers there are presented 19 full revised papers selected from a total of 58 submissions. The general theme is the use of crisp, clear mathematics in the discovery and design of algorithms and in the development of correspondin...

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