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Key researchers in the fields of criminology and law demonstrate the application of the conceptual tools of chaos theory in providing new theoretical insights and suggested transformative practices for building the just society.

In this engaging retelling of a Russian folktale, an old man finds a piece of clay and fashions it into a boy. As soon as the clay boy dries out by the fire, he jumps up and cries, "I am here! I am hungry!" He eats and eats, and grows until the clay boy is a giant threatening to devour the whole village. Full color.

This guidance manual prescribes the requirements of the Radiation Protection Program of the US Army Corps of Engineers.

Die Arbeit faßt die bisherigen Erkenntnisse über intrazelluläre Transportprozesse und ihre klinische Bedeutung zusammen, beschreibt die Methoden zur Untersuchung intrazellulärer Transportprozesse und präsentiert neue Ergebnisse aus eigenen Forschungsarbeiten über Krankheiten mit Veränderungen des intrazellulären Proteintransportes wie Zöliakie, Ornithin-Transcarbamylase-Mangel und Morbus Gaucher.

This introductory text offers a concise look at the philosophy of love. From the dialogues of Plato to the writings of feminist Luce Irigaray, Wagoner presents six major ideas of love: erotic love, Christian love, romantic love, moral love, love as power, and mutual love.

Just like the songs of a gospel choir, the pieces in this book give voice to the hardships faced by African Americans. Through allegorical stories and fictional encounters, dreams and dialogues, it presents fresh perspectives on the different issues that concern blacks. Despite their tough subjects, however, these stories resound with laughter and compassion and a continuing theme of Christian love.

Physical Processes in Inorganic Scintillators explains the complexities of scintillation from a modern point of view, and illuminates the way to the development of better scintillation materials. This unique work first defines the fundamental physical processes underlying scintillation and governing the primary scintillation characteristics of light output, decay time, emission spectrum, and radiation hardness. The book then discusses the comp...

Ob Analyse eines Nahrungsmittelbestandteils, Interpretation von Meßwerten oder Risikoabschätzung - dieses vierbändige Nachschlagewerk für die Praxis, dessen letzter Band jetzt vorliegt, läßt keine wichtige Frage offen. Mit umfassender Bibliographie.

South of the clouds, in the land of the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, dwell the descendants of a once pastoral people, the Nakhi. In the legends presented here we are introduced to a fantastic cast of characters: plants, insects, animals--all of them female.

A study of civil military operations from World War II to the present.

This is a broad assessment of the institutional health of the 28 major national unions in the United States. The membership in the unions and the financial and political resources are examined specifically from 1979 through 1993. The focus on this era is because it contains the 1980s--a time when the unions were assailed from several positions. The fundamental idea in this work is that the resources of the union affect their capacities to unde...

Libraries, musicologists, and Deadheads alike will want a copy of this comprehensive annotated bibliography that contains most of what has been written over the past 30 years about this legendary American musical institution and its fans, the Deadheads. The approximately 4, 000 annotations serve as a chronological history, an aid to researchers, and a guide for fans and collectors. The Grateful Dead appeared on the San Francisco music scene in...

Adult Education contradicts the theorists and practitioners who claim that empowering organizations can only be created when those at the top decide to share power. The emancipating educational processes are the tools of those who work within systems whether the issue is literacy, civil rights or democracy in the workplace. The Adult Education movement has linked its mission to cultivating the growth of democratic processes. Those people who w...

With the approach of the year 2000, millennial fever is on the increase. People are excited and sometimes afraid of change. The essays in this volume explore the theme of the coming deliverer in different religious traditions, using insights drawn from religious studies, theology and anthropology.

Fortran is currently the world's most powerful numeric language and F is a subset of this. F is a programming language which is nearly as powerful as its parent language, containing the modern language features of Fortran, yet smaller and easier to use, debug and teach than Fortran. As with his previous Fortran books, Wilhelm Gehrke has provided a clear and comprehensive guide to the F language in this book which will be welcomed by practition...

Contains eleven plays that speak in the 'hybridized, unique American voices of Asian descent and often dissent.' This title features plays that testify to the rich complexity of Asian-American experience. It also demonstrates the different styles and thematic concerns of the individual playwrights.

Providing an in-depth treatment of neural network models, this volume explains and proves the main results in a clear and accessible way. It presents the essential principles of nonlinear dynamics as derived from neurobiology, and investigates the stability, convergence behaviour and capacity of networks.

In this first English-language book on Ken Loach, McKnight brings together seven original critical essays on major aspects of Loach's work, an interview with the director, as well as comprehensive reference material.

When Asian Americans are discussed in the media the reference is often to people of Chinese or Japanese descent. However, the largest Asian American ethnic group is Filipino, a group of which little is known or written, despite its long-standing history with the United States. This interdisciplinary analysis rectifies this dearth of information by addressing ethnic identity, the impact of different colonizations on ethnic identity, personal a...

This timely book deals directly with a topic increasingly in the news and on the minds of policy makers-political inequality. It is no coincidence that the official theme of the 1996 meeting of the American Political Science Association is the issue of political inequality. Drawing together a number of the leading writers on the topic, White provides a full and serious examination of the biological and environmental factors that may be involve...