In the tradition of Wendell Berry and John McPhee, Donald McCraig writes with a powerful sense of place about the history of Virginia's Highland County. This entertaining book is composed in part of essays he has written for various publications and for National Public Radio's "All Things Considered".
The Solutions Manual to Elements of Econometrics, Second Edition provides chapter solutions to the exercises in the college textbook: Elements of Econometrics, Second Edition by Jan Kmenta.
The nature of this book is to emphasize the inherent complexity and richness of the human experience of change. Now, the author believes there to be an acceptable "scientific" explanation for this phenomona. Explored here are 30 years of studies to describe nonlinear dynamics, today termed either chaos theory or complexity theory. The connotations of both theories are discussed at length. Offering social scientists validation in their attempts...
Exploring materialism and social relationships in modern culture Material Culture and Mass Consumption offers an in-depth exploration of objects, objectification, ideology, and materialism in modern society. Drawing from Hegel, Marx, Munn, and Simmel, the discussion delves into the physicality of the material world and attempts to understand materialism as a form of cultural expression. Targeting mass production as the root of mass consumption...
»Dreimal träumte Randolph Carter von der wunderbaren Stadt... Geheimnis umlagerte sie wie Wolken einen sagenhaften unbestiegenen Berg, und als Carter atemlos und erwartungsvoll auf jener Brustwehr mit dem steinernen Geländer ringsum stand, da schwemmten zu ihm herauf Bitterness und Zweifel fast versunkener Erinnerung, der Schmerz über verlorene Dinge und das rasende Bedürfnis, sich wieder dessen zu entsinnen, was einst eine ehrfurchtgebietende...
A provocative guide to Deleuze by Deleuze, this collection traces the intellectual journey of one of the most important French philosophers and clarifies the key critical concepts in the work of this vital figure who has had an impact on aesthetics, film theory, psychoanalysis and cultural studies.
This volume deals with special relativity theory and its applications to cosmology. It presents Einstein's theory of space and time in detail, and describes the large-scale structure of space, time and velocity as a new cosmological special relativity. A cosmological Lorentz-like transformation, which relates events at different cosmic times, is derived and applied. A new law of addition of cosmic times is obtained, and the inflation of the sp...
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part A Design of light water reactor nuclear power plants -- Part ¿ Radiochemistry during normal operation of the plant -- Part C Radiochemistry under the conditions of reactor accidents -- Subject Index
Ziel des Buches ist es, die Grundlagen für ein Management des Vertrauens zu entwickeln und damit das in den Unternehmen vorhandene Mißtrauensmanagement zu überwinden.
The Ottoman Empire ranks alongside the Roman and Byzantine as one of the most powerful and long-lasting imperial systems in world history. In existence from the late thirteenth century until 1923 and embracing at its height most of Southeastern Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, it was certainly the most imposing and arguably the most influential political system over the course of more than a millennium of Islamic history.Though the O...
This book presents a comparative analysis of mental health policy in Western Europe and North America. It also considers how and why different policies have developed.
Simon Goodwin examines the transition from institutional to community-based models of care for people with mental health problems, identifying variations in the inception, pace and style in which community-based service provision has emerged in different countries. Goodwin also...
Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725) wrote some 130 plays, chiefly for the puppet theater, many of which are still performed today by puppet operators and Kabuki actors. Chikamatsu is thought to have written the first major tragedies about the common man. This edition of four of his most important plays includes three popular domestic dramas and one history play.
