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In 1996 the world commemorated the 900th anniversary of the First Crusade or, more precisely, of the pogroms unleashed by the crusade upon the Jews of the Rhineland. In the Year 1096...presents a clear, highly readable chronicle of the events of 1096. Noted teacher and historian Robert Chazan brings readers to critical moments in Jewish history, illuminating the events themselves, their antecedents the significance of the events of 1096 within...

A Publication of the Association of American Colleges and Universities Top practitioners and scholars detail a range of philosophies, frameworks, program designs, instructional strategies, and assessment methods being used to strengthen and transform the curriculum. They examine both the current state of knowledge and teaching in the disciplines and the forces that will reshape the curriculum in the coming years.

In applied and pure sciences, the structural properties of groups are increasingly utilised to find better solutions in statistical sciences. Modern computers make statistical methods with large numbers of variables feasible. Invariance is a mathematical term for symmetry, and many statistical problems exhibit such properties. In statistical analysis with large numbers of variables, the invariance approach is becoming increasingly popular and ...

NMR has made important contributions to our understanding of structure-property relationships in polymers. This book provides an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of the fundamentals of NMR, with applications of multidimensional NMR and the new solution and solid-state methods in polymer science. NMR of Polymers is written by leading authorities for graduate students and professionals in academia and industry.

Viele große Bücher des legendären Verhaltensforschers wurden zu Bestsellern. Diese kleine Schrift allerdings wurde sein am meisten verbreitetes Buch. »Wir leben aber in einer Zeit, in der es der Naturforscher ist, der gewisse Gefahren besonders klar zu sehen vermag. So wird ihm das Predigen zur Pflicht.« Lorenz untersucht in seiner »Predigt« acht Vorgänge der Dehumanisierung, Vorgänge, die die Menschheit als Ganzes mit dem Untergang bedrohen: ...

In Transcending the Talented Tenth, Joy James provocatively examines African American intellectual responses to rascism and the role of elitism, sexim, and anti-radicalism in black leadership politics throughout history. The book is essential reading for all those concerned with the past and the future of African American intellectual life.

..". remarkable account of the impact of postmodern philosophy onthe question of ethics and politics... commendable also for its balanced view ofHeidegger's relationship to politics and ethics.... an excellent account ofHeidegger's philosophical understanding of technology..." --Choice This book takes as its point of departure the question ofethics: that values and their pursuit in the West often perpetuate their own worstenemies. At issue are...

This book develops an analysis of the air entrainment processes in free-surface flows. These flows are investigated as homogeneous mixtures with variable density. Several types of air-water free-surface flows are studied: plunging jet flows, open channel flows, and turbulent water jets discharging into air. Experimental observations reported by the author confirm the concept that the air-water mixture behaves as a homogeneous compressible flui...

This book pays tribute to 14 women who donated millions of dollars to causes close to their hearts. "There is much food for thought in Nowell's look at how and why people give away money." -Pauline Carey , Canadian Book Review Annual "...a book well worth reading, both for the sheer human interest of the stories Nowell has to tell, and for the implications of her stories for social policy decisions that we will all have to contend with over ...

Against the Law" is a sometimes playful, sometimes pungent polemic about the state of legal theory today. Three authors from different parts of the political spectrum come together in this book to attack contemporary legal scholarship's complacency, idolatry, and insipidness. "Against the Law" is not against the law, just the ways law professors imagine it."--J. M. Balkin, Yale Law School

Against the Law" is a sometimes playful, sometimes pungent polemic about the state of legal theory today. Three authors from different parts of the political spectrum come together in this book to attack contemporary legal scholarship's complacency, idolatry, and insipidness. "Against the Law" is not against the law, just the ways law professors imagine it."--J. M. Balkin, Yale Law School

With The Jazz Poetry Anthology, this volume offers a comprehensiveexploration of the history of jazz poetry. The Second Set gathers many poets omittedfrom The Jazz Poetry Anthology, including Gwendolyn Brooks, Arthur Brown, Diane diPrima, Henry Dumas, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Anselm Hollo, Haki Madhubuti, Michael McClure, Larry Neal, Dudley Randall, Eugene B. Redmond, Carolyn M. Rodgers, Ntozake Shange, A. B. Spellman, and Jay Wright. ...

SAFECOMP '96 contains papers presented at the 15th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security held in Vienna, Austria, 23-25 October 1996. The conference aimed to provide an opportunity for technical developers and users to discuss and review their experiences, to consider the best technologies currently available, and to identify the skills and technologies required for the future. SAFECOMP '96 focuses on critical c...

Bogart Rogers's lively style is ideal for relating the adventures of a young man caught up in the world's first air war. This is a deft and vivid portrait of life in the cockpit". -- Lee Kennett, author of The First Air War, 1914-1918. "Rogers's letters chronicle his maturation in the terrible crucible of the air war". -- David F. Trask, author of The AEF and Coalition Warmaking, 1917-1918.

From his early years with his loving Jewish family to the horrors of Auschwitz to his life as a Nobel Prize-winning novelist, Elie Wiesel tells his story. Passionate and poignant, All Rivers Run to the Sea is an unforgettable book of love and rage, doubt and faith, despair and trust, and ultimately, of wisdom. of photos.

John H. Hanson's thoroughly researched study revises late-19th-century colonialist assumptions about a West African Muslim social movement. The book investigates three political crises that took place in Nioro, a town in the region of Karta in the upper Senegal River valley, conquered during a military jihad by Shaykh Umar Tal.