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Environmental engineering professionals and students will benefit greatly from this general reference. The text has been updated to include new coverage of chemistry and microbiology, and continues to emphasize wastewater treatment and water quality.

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To celebrate Peter Huber's 60th birthday in 1994, our university had invited for a festive occasion in the afternoon of Thursday, June 9. The invitation to honour this outstanding personality was followed by about fifty colleagues and former students from, mainly, allover the world. Others, who could not attend, sent their congratulations by mail and e-mail (P. Bickel:" ... It's hard to imagine that Peter turned 60 ... "). After a welcome addr...

Algebraic K-Theory is crucial in many areas of modern mathematics, especially algebraic topology, number theory, algebraic geometry, and operator theory. This text is designed to help graduate students in other areas learn the basics of K-Theory and get a feel for its many applications. Topics include algebraic topology, homological algebra, algebraic number theory, and an introduction to cyclic homology and its interrelationship with K-Theory.

Presents an argument that bodies are knowable only through culture and history, they are not in any simple way natural, nor free of relations of power. This book traces the construction of particular deviant bodies, including the homosexual body, the HIV-infected body, the infertile body, the deaf body, the colonized body, and the criminal body.

Environmental Chemistry of Dyes and Pigments is the first comprehensive reference to address the environmental problems posed by synthetic colorants, and to provide a forum for the solutions proposed by industry, government, and academia. Focusing on developments in the field over the past two decades, it deals with all aspects of colored wastewater treatment, the disposal of dyes, analytical methods, toxicity, and regulatory questions. In its...

Translations of twelve popular Arabic plays written and produced duringthe past thirty years introduce English readers to the vibrant theater scene of theArab world. The plays -- from Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, andTunisia -- reflect a variety of dramatic trends and styles and provide insights intocontemporary social, cultural, and political currents. This well-prepared anthologyrepresents a unique contribution to the study...

..". will draw a wide readership from the ranks of literary critics, film scholars, science studies scholars and the growing legion of 'literature andscience' researchers. It should be among the essentials in a posthumanisttoolbox." -- Richard Doyle Automatic teller machines, castrati, lesbians, The Terminator: all participate in the profound technological, representation, sexual, and theoretical changes in which bodies are implicated.Posthuma...

Russian texts of the songs are included in the book.

Written as a sketch revue, this work has snappy dialogue, great humor, and a poignancy found in few other such revues.

For those of us who have labored in the field of hormonal carcinogenesis, it has been most gratifying to see its rapid growth and increasing relevance in recent years. Although many factors and forces have contributed to this phenomenon, a few appear particularly significant. Perhaps foremost is the realization that two of the most prevalent cancers which afflict women and men, that is, breast and prostate, have essential hormonal component(s)...

The past decade and a half has witnessed a great deal of renewed interest in the study of Chinese linguistics, not only in the traditional areas of philological studies and in theoretically oriented areas of syn­ chronic grammar and language change but also in the cultivation of new frontiers in related areas of the cognitive sciences. There is a significant increase in the number of students studying one area or another of the linguistic stru...

DANIEL NELSON is Professor of History at the University of Akron. He is the author of American Rubber Workers and Organized Labor, 1900�41 and Managers and Workers: Origins of the New Factory System in the United States, 1880�20.

The Springer Handbook of Auditory Research presents a series of com­ prehensive and synthetic reviews of the fundamental topics in modem auditory research. It is aimed at all individuals with interests in hearing research including advanced graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and clinical investigators. The volumes will introduce new investigators to important aspects of hearing science and will help established investigators to bette...

The public's attitude toward air pollution in the United States evolved substantially during the 1960s. One of the results of the nation's emerging environmental ethic was the creation of the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in December of 1970. Prior to this time, research was focused on the impacts of air pollution on human health and welfare and was largely conducted by several federal research agencies, which included the Depart...

This is a very strong, thought-provoking (volume)... " --George Marcus As home photographs shift from the print format todigital technology and as video moves from the television screen to multimedia, itis crucial to develop new strategies of interpreting and analyzing these images. Visit the author's World Wide Web site: (2/19/03: Link is nolonger active) http: //www.facl.mcgill.ca/burnett/englishhome.html

A lively and stimulating resource for all 1st year students of human geography, this introductory Reader comprises key published writings from the main fields of human geography. Because the subject is both broad and necessarily only loosely defined, a principal aim of this book is to present a view of the subject which is theoretically informed and yet recognises that any view is partial, contingent and subject to change. The extracts selecte...

This history provides ready access to the insights of recent research, combining analysis with a narrative account of the period. It covers the rise of the Nazi Party, the consolidation of power in 1933-38, preparations for war, and the nature of the Nazi State. The war itself is a particular focus of attention and is considered in relation to the military engagements, the persecution of the regime's victims, the extermination and terror progr...