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The Botsotso Jesters poetry performance group was founded in 1994. After a few member changes, it solidified in 1996 with the line up that published this first Botsotso book. The collectively written poems that provided such powerful performance material are followed by individual collections of each of the five. Anna Varney's graphics set the tone for many future books in which the combination of written and visual images becomes a striking f...

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Covering over 40 industries and dozens of applications, this is the first bibliography on the history of computer applications. After an introductory essay on the history of applications, the volume is divided into two time periods and includes over 1, 600 entries, arranged by application and industry. Users will find sections on such fields as higher education, manufacturing, law enforcement, accounting, space travel, ATMs, artificial intelli...

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This is a detailed study of understanding in a second language, related to the actual lives of minority workers. The focus is on everyday interactions between these workers and the bureaucrats of the society in which they are now resident. It provides an important contribution to the debate about the function of language as a social practice, adding a new perspective to the psycholinguistic and experimental paradigms, currently existing in sec...

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This volume brings together fourteen papers by leading economists, regulators, and industry practitioners presented at a historic conference on natural gas deregulation. From the origins of gas regulation in the last century to a reexamination of the policy reforms of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) over the last decade, these essays constitute a primer on today's major gas policy issues. These topics include the case for incen...

Ethnic museums, libraries, and archives are rich sources of ethnic information. This Guide describes 786 such cultural institutions in the United States.

When, God willing, the abortion controversy is behind us, partisans of the pro-life and pro-choice positions are going to have to live together in this society. That is why, sloganeering and passionate polemics are inevitable, civil conversation is essential. And that is why The Silent Subject is such a gift to all of us at this point in the controversy." From the foreword by Richard John Neuhaus The essays in this work constitute a sensitive,...

Growing dependency, increased contact and interactions, and the development of a participatory world culture have brought the topic of culture change to our attention as never before. Naylor examines the various issues and aspects of change, particularly directed or intended change, as it occurs within multicultural settings. He combines the best information available on the change topic and provides a comprehensive model for change processes ...

Although there are many pamphlets and monographs that cover specific aspects of the European Community, the literature seems to lack a single, scholarly reader that gives a complete account of the many dimensions of European integration. This volume, written by a distinguished group of international specialists, seeks to fill this void by pulling together a broad collection of papers focusing on the political, sociological, and economic issues...

In diesem Buch wird der Frage nachgegangen, welche Auswirkungen die Bildung einer Europäischen Währungsunion auf die Defizit- und Verschuldungspolitiken der Mitgliedsstaaten haben kann. Die Hypothese, Marktkräfte allein seien in der Lage, unsolide Defizitpolitiken zu disziplinieren, wird theoretisch fundiert und für die Situation in der Europäischen Währungsunion widerlegt. Die spieltheoretische Anaylse einer "solidarischen" Währungsunion lie...

Selling your home isn't an overwhelming project, it just feels that way. You need a strategy. You need Stephen Pollan's Foolproof Guide to Selling Your Home. How do you know you can trust your broker? How do you choose a price range? How do you negotiate a contract? And what about repainting, exterminating, sanitizing, and organizing? What do you do when? Stephen Pollan has the answers. With this simple, streamlined plan, Pollan takes you by t...

Someone has stolen the Mona Woofa from the Dogopolis Museum of Art and it's up to Art Dog, the mysterious, masked painter, to find the missing masterpiece. With the same high-spirited fun and adventure that have made Mystery on the Docks and Mama Don't Allow such perennially popular stories, Hurd serves up a new action-packed tale to delight young readers. Full color.

Considering the opportunities for foreign participants in China across all sectors of economic activity such as banking, securities markets, infrastructure and business investment, this study explores the foreign exchange system as it affects the foreign participant.

This work examines the heroic spirit of French industrial capitalism prior to World War I, and the role certain industrialists played in ensuring the stability of the country's economic and political order. It focuses on the success of innovative manufacturers in France's chief industrial centres.

This book highlights recent progress in the chemistry of radicals. Developments include the growing use of lasers to generate radicals, the application of lasers to provide state, angular, polarization, energy and real-time resolution in kinetics and dynamics experiments, the development of theories for handling the reactions of radicals, and the simulation of the reaction dynamics of increasingly larger systems for direct comparison to experi...