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Drawing upon the religious writings of southern evangelicals, John Boles asserts that the extraordinary crowds and miraculous transformations that distinguished the South's First Great Awakening were not simply instances of emotional excess but the expression of widespread and complex attitudes toward God. Converted southerners were starkly individualistic, interested more in gaining personal salvation in a hopelessly evil world than in improv...

Image processing and machine vision are fields of renewed interest in the commercial market. People in industry, managers, and technical engineers are looking for new technologies to move into the market. Many of the most promising developments are taking place in the field of image processing and its applications. The book offers a broad coverage of advances in a range of topics in image processing and machine vision.

In dem Buch werden zwei linguistisch fundierte Grammatikfragmente dokumentiert, die am Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung der Universität Stuttgart im Rahmen der maschinellen Übersetzung entwickelt wurden. Die Grammatiken folgen der Theorie der lexikalisch-funktionalen Grammatik (LFG) und erfassen eine Vielzahl syntaktischer Phänomene. Sie stellen somit eine der wenigen Implementierungen großer Grammatikfragmente dar, die auf einer wo...

Die Beiträge dieses Sammelbandes untersuchen die Möglichkeit, separate Strukturebenen in Texten zu unterscheiden und ihr Zusammenspiel zu beschreiben. Im Mittelpunkt stehen drei Ebenen, die zentrale Aspekte der Struktur von Texten beschreiben: Die Ebene der Textbearbeitung enthält Mittel, die das Verständnis des Textes befördern, die Ebene der Illokutionsstruktur bestimmt den Handlungscharakter eines Textes und sichert seine Akzeptierbarkeit, ...

First English translation of important text in the history of socialism.

A vivid portrait of a unique leader who both experienced and influenced the great social and political changes of the first half of the twentieth century.

Do lay people view modern medicine as a fountain of hope or a font of despair? What are their experiences of modern medical care and technology, and how do their views and experiences differ across different social groups? Combining theoretical insights with a range of qualitative and ethnographic research, this volume examines lay experiences and evaluation of medicines and drugs, chronic illness and life-saving technology, and reproductive t...

This book assesses current Chinese arms imports in the light of China's historical efforts to modernize its weapon-production capacity through foreign acquisitions. It considers the implications of these imports for future security developments in the East Asian region.

Der vorliegende Band vereinigt die Erträge des Dreizehnten Blaubeurer Symposions, das der Frage nach der Geschichte der Ridicula und den sich wandelnden Funktionen des Lachens vom Mittelalter zur Gegenwart gewidmet war. An der komparatistisch und interdisziplinär ausgerichteten Tagung wirkten Fachvertreter der Anglistik/Amerikanistik, Germanistik, Romanistik, Rhetorik und Soziologie mit dem Ziel zusammen, kultur- und periodenspezifische Ersche...

Guangdong, capitalizing on its traditional role as China's gateway to the outside world and its proximity to Hong Kong and Macau, has witnessed momentous and fundamental changes since 1978. The province has raced ahead in rapid economic development and physical transformation, reaping the largest dividends in China's open policy and economic reforms. So rapidly has Guangdong developed during the last decade that it has set for itself the targe...

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The renowned reference work is a practical guide to the selection and design of the components of machines and to their lubrication. It has been completely revised for this second edition by leading experts in the area.

A Volume in the Jossey-Bass Managed Behavioral Healthcare Library Offers comprehensive advice and practical guidelines on computerization that will fundamentally change the clinical practice, management, and communications of behavioral healthcare. Also provides suggestions for overcoming human resistance, and making a smooth transition from a traditional paper system to a high-tech computer operation.

Simone de Beauvoir continues to dominate twentieth century feminist theory, yet her work is the focus of inflamed debate amongst theorists of feminism. This accessible introduction to de Beauvoir's life and ideas considers the themes and tensions which inform her work. Mary Evans shows how de Beauvoir's writings resist simplistic interpretations and cannot be reduced to simple oppositions between masculine and feminine, rational and irrationa...

This book provides an accessible introduction to the life, work, and particularly the ideas of Eleanor Rathbone. A prominent figure in British politics, both as a suffragist and as a Member of Parliament, she is best known today as the leading proponent for the introduction of family allowances. Johanna Alberti outlines and explores the development of Eleanor Rathbone's ideas presenting them in the political and intellectual context of her ti...

This is a comprehensive account of the five tribes - Onandagas, Senecas, Mohawks, Oneidas and Cayugas - who together made up the Iriquois nation, form their origins in prehistory to their dispersal and confinement after the American Revolution. This accessible account by the leading schlolar in the filed draws on the widest possible range of archaeological evidence to provide a narrative interpretation of a people whose beliefs and culture hav...