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Evaluates the state of knowledge about adverse aircraft-pilot coupling (APC) and processes that may be used to eliminate it from military and commercial aircraft. This book is useful for technical, government, and administrative decisionmakers and their technical and administrative support staffs.

Post-transcriptional reactions have been implicated in a number of clinical conditions (e.g. lupus, and rheumatoid arthritis), and regulatory mechanisms are the target of potential therapeutic strategies. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the various modes of gene regulation that exist post-transcriptionally. Selected well-characterized examples illustrate the generally applicable principles for regulation that exist throughout th...

This volume brings together articles that apply critical discourse analysis to texts and speech which contribute to the marginalizaton of minority groups. Studying both the fine detail of language use and the political values implicated by word choice, the contributors demonstrate the usefulness of linguistic perspectives in advancing the study of prejudice and social inequality. Journalists and academics can contribute unwittingly to the mar...

A path-breaking collaboration between an Israeli arms control expert and a Jordanian policy advisor, this concise book offers a frank assessment of Arab and Israeli perceptions of their security problems. Building on the bilateral and multilateral peace process, the authors propose a set of measures to increase trust between the two sides and break out of the security dilemma in which a move by one side to strengthen itself provokes the other ...

What does an elephant do? It stomps its foot. Can you? From the creator of such beloved classics as The Grouchy Ladybug and The Mixed-Up Chameleon comes this interactive story that invites kids to imitate animal movements. Watching giraffes bend their necks or monkeys wave their arms is fun, but nothing could be better than joining in. From their heads down to their toes, kids will be wriggling, jiggling, and giggling as they try to keep up wi...

Nine animals, nine shapes, and sixteen shades of color'everyone can have fun discovering them all by turning Color Zoo's full-color pages and watching a lion turn into a goat, an ox into a monkey, a tiger into a mouse. . . .1990 Caldecott Honor BookNotable Children's Books of 1989 (ALA)1990 Fanfare Honor List (H)

Cumulative text and illustrations depict what happens in Jack's garden after he plants his seeds.

Photons and Atoms Photons and Atoms: Introduction to Quantum Electrodynamics provides the necessary background to understand the various physical processes associated with photon-atom interactions. It starts with elementary quantum theory and classical electrodynamics and progresses to more advanced approaches. A critical comparison is made between these different, although equivalent, formulations of quantum electrodynamics. Using this form...

Verführerisch bunt und schillernd wie Bombay, unberechenbar magisch und spannend wie ein akrobatischer Seiltrick, das ist John Irvings lang erwarteter Roman >Zirkuskind<, ein Arzt- und Zirkusdrama der ganz anderen Art. Dr. Daruwalla sucht das >Zwergen-Gen< und einen Golfplatzmörder. Was er findet, ist Possenspiel und Grusel zugleich.

Jo-Ann Mapson crafts a rich and evocative tale of love, loss, and how they affect several generations of a Southern California family in this, her most successful novel yet. "The Carpenters are as convincing and as touching a family as we are likely to find on the written page".--"Boston Globe".

Opie and Aunt Etta think there's something funny going on when Professor Pepper announces that he's going to raise the ghost of a dead outlaw--live on stage. Can Opie cut through all the fog to get to the bottom of the professor's plans? A Beech Tree Chapter Book. Illustrations.

In "The Dance of Intimacy, " the bestselling author of "The Dance of Anger" outlines the steps to take so that good relationships can be strengthened and difficult ones can be healed. Taking a careful look at those relationships where intimacy is most challenged--by distance, intensity, or pain--she teaches us about the specific changes we can make to achieve a more solid sense of self and a more intimate connectedness with others. Combining c...

Finance Ethics is not just a moral critique of the finance paradigm, arguing that self-interested profit making must be constrained by ethics. Rather, it is a critique from within that paradigm, in which truth becomes a rational mechanism to enforce contracts, and virtuous behavior is shown to make the most business sense.

Conversations with ten prominent African-American operatic artists.

The multiple-cultures perspective advocated in this book suggests that culture in organizational settings is more complex, pluralistic, diverse and contradictory than previously acknowledged. Contributors address culture at various levels including national, industrial and organizational. Issues covered include: implicit managerial understandings and overt practices, the growth and decline of organizations with a focus on culture, managerial c...

Malcolm St. Clair was a master director of sophisticated silent comedy. This book traces his career, beginning with his start as a Mack Sennett Keystone Kop.

Building on children's natural inclinations to pretend and reenact, play therapy is widely used in the treatment of psychological problems in childhood. 101 Favorite Play Therapy Techniques incorporates methods developed to elicit the best responses

In the Hellenistic period certain Greek temples and cities came to be declared "sacred and inviolable." "Asylia" was the practice of declaring religious places precincts of asylum, meaning they were immune to violence and civil authority. The evidence for this phenomenon--mainly inscriptions and coins--is scattered in the published record. The material has never been collected and presented in one publication until now.Kent J. Rigsby lays out ...

This book offers a series of twenty-eight checked and edited procedures that describe in detail the preparation of generally useful synthetic reagents, intermediates, and heterocycles. It also includes new synthetic methodology on the leading edge of organic chemistry.