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Poor whites are associated with kitschy chic or dangerous perversions in mainstream culture, rather than with the realities of life under conditions of economic hardship and social disempowerment. White Trash compares the stereotypes with the social reality, unmasking the racial and class assumptions behind the term. Issues range from religion to Elvis, Spam to trailer parks. 10 illustrations.

Mid 14c Norwich episcopal registers with evidence for progress of Black Death, outbreak of 100 Years War.

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Covers nonlinear optical (NLO) material published in 1995. The text presents an overview of the advances in NLO materials and their applications in emerging photonics technologies. All theoretical approaches, measurement techniques, materials, technologies and applications are covered.

Virtually every wound, whether surgical or traumatic, needs to be closed to promote wound healing and prevent infection. This book provides information and discussions on: sutures and other wound closure devices, the chemistry, physics, mechanics, and biomaterials science of suture materials, and, tissue adhesive, ligating clips, and staplers.

Access, Resource Sharing, and Collection Development explores the role of libraries in acquiring, storing, and disseminating information in different formats to help you better use technology to share scarce resources and connect library users with collections. With an expressed goal of encouraging continued debate and further investigation, this book provides you with developing strategies and procedures to meet the challenges you face as a c...

Since communism collapsed we have witnessed the emergence of numerous political actors - neopopulists, neoliberals, fundamentalists, nationalists, and others - who share one ideological leitmotif: their deep contempt for modern democratic politics. The book asks an old question: What is politics? And it adds a new one to the agenda of social sciences: What is antipolitics? Some authors trace antipolitical traditions in Western political though...

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Georg M. Gugelberger is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Riverside and Director of the University of California’s Education Abroad Program at U.N.A.M. in Mexico City.

Fundamental changes in recent decades have heightened the need for new and viable solutions to the problems of world trade. In the new climate of internationalisation an expanding number of firms are engaged in international trade, barriers have been coming down, and trading blocs, whose members may share the advantage of lower tariffs and the absence of quotas, are beginning to predominate. Such systems, however, have a generally negative imp...

The book that revolutionized the psychotherapist's approach to treating alcoholism When it was first published in 1985, Treating the Alcoholic challenged traditional psychotherapeutic approaches to alcoholism treatment. Since then, thousands of mental health professionals, using Dr. Stephanie Brown's treatment model, have found renewed faith in their ability to help alcoholic patients achieve lasting recovery. The book begins by studying the e...

Transformation Geometry: An Introduction to Symmetry offers a modern approach to Euclidean Geometry. This study of the automorphism groups of the plane and space gives the classical concrete examples that serve as a meaningful preparation for the standard undergraduate course in abstract algebra. The detailed development of the isometries of the plane is based on only the most elementary geometry and is appropriate for graduate courses for sec...

This volume of al-Tabari's history deals with the traumatic breakup of the Muslim community following the assassination of the Caliph 'Uthman. It begins with the first seriously contested succession to the caliphate, that of 'Ali, and proceeds inexorably through the rebellion of 'A'ishah, T'alhah, and al-Zubayr, to the Battle of the Camel, the first time Muslim army faced Muslim army. It thus deals with the very first violent response to the t...

Possibly The Greatest Leadership Book Ever Written-Powerful "Leadership Secrets" That Build True, Lasting Achievement. Included are...5 Power Keys For Effective Delegation / The Secret of Handling Rejection / How To Deal With The Mistakes of Others...Plus Many More.

Das kleine frühneuhochdeutsche Wörterbuch ist ein pragmatisch determiniertes, benutzerfreundliches, leicht und schnell handhabbares einbändiges Nachschlagewerk für die Erschließung von Texten aus dem Zeitraum von 1350 bis 1600. Es ist als Lektürehilfe intendiert, das dem Studenten der Germanistik, aber auch dem Sprach- und Literaturhistoriker, Volkskundler und Wissenschaftshistoriker den Zugang zu literarischen Denkmälern unterschiedlicher Tex...

A good appraisal system can serve as an effective structure for culture change within an organization -- and it can help ease one of every manager's most dreaded duties. Now, based on 25 years of experience, Dick Grote gives readers everything they need to make the process work well, including:* what an ideal system looks like* the available options and approaches* how to evaluate performance, write a fair appraisal, and conduct the actual app...

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Early scientific discoveries, the sizes, nesting habits and eyesight of dinosaurs, and many other intriguing aspects of those magnificent creatures.

A much-needed expansion of traditional chemical thermodynamic concepts--essential reading for today's advanced students and research professionals Reflecting the current operational practice of chemistry, this unique book provides an important update of traditional chemical thermodynamics, especially the thermodynamics of liquid solutions. Using a flexible composition model that enumerates both the formal components of a system and the molecu...

This exciting book presents a wide variety of intriguing and challenging cases, drawn from the experiences of 40 leading practitioners of acupuncture in the West. Written with insight and understanding, the collective contributions of the authors demonstrate the vitality and depth of acupuncture as it is actually practised. The contributors share their observations with remarkable honesty and clarity. Experienced practitioners are seen facing ...