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In combining firsthand investigative reporting with scholarly research, Lynn Olson gives us a compelling analysis of the school-to-work movement . . . from its beginnings in the mid-1980s to the present and . . . the students themselves. Her book challenges all of us . . . to bring the worlds of work and learning closer together".--Hilary C. Pennington, President, Jobs for the Future.

This book presents the latest scientific developments in the field of positron emission tomography (PET) dealing with data acquisition, image processing, applications, statistical analysis, tracer development, parameter estimation, and kinetic modeling. It covers improved methodology and the application of existing techniques to new areas. The text also describes new approaches in scanner design and image processing, and the latest techniques ...

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THE AMERICAN ENCOUNTER offers far-reaching commentary on global politics and economic policy from the world's leading journal of international relations--a powerful link to the giants of history, those visionaries whose warnings and advice still speak to us today. photo insert.

In the1996 presidential election, voters stayed away from the polls in record numbers. This volume of original essays by leading political scientists and media scholars examines the nature of political disengagement among the public and offers concrete solutions for how the government and media can stimulate public engagement in the political process. Among recommendations are more public deliberation, media responsibility, and campaign financ...

This is a full-length study of the life and work of Jan Morris, one of Britain's foremost travel essayists and historians. It takes a critical look at the writer who after spending more than 40 years as a man, underwent a sex change in the 1970s and became a woman.

State failure, ethnopolitical war, genocide, famine, and refugee flows are variants of a type of complex political and humanitarian crisis, exemplified during the 1990s in places like Somalia, Bosnia, Liberia, and Afghanistan. The international consequences of such crises are profound, often threatening regional security and requiring major inputs of humanitarian assistance. They also may pose long-term and costly challenges of rebuilding shat...

While this subject is one that no educator wants to confront, it is also one about which schools must be knowledgeable. Biggs thoroughly explores the legal, psychological, administrative, and educational (broad policy) issues regarding teachers who sexually abuse students. He also provides administrators with background information and guidelines that will help protect school children from sexual intrusion, furnishes the psychological and lega...

The Liberal Arts in Higher Education launches an institutional effort to establish a shared definition and to clarify the contours of the liberal arts and liberal education by extending centuries-old dialogue to the coeducational, Christian campus of Azusa Pacific University.

Frontmatter -- Vorwort zur 2. Auflage -- Vorwort -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Erster Teil. Die Willen-zur-Macht-Prozesse -- Zweiter Teil. Der Gedanke der ewigen Wiederkehr des Gleichen -- Dritter Teil. Wiederkunftslehre und neuzeitliches Denken -- Literaturverzeichnis -- Personenregister -- Sachregister

The accurate and reliable diagnosis of transmissible diseases is the most powerful weapon available to ensure their control, and in some cases eradication. The detection of parasites in clinical cases, companion and farm animals, and in the environment is relatively easy since many of them are visible to the naked eye, and those that are not are readily detected by light microscopy. Fungal infections can similarly be determined. Bacteria are s...

This is a user-friendly (and extensively tested) tool for educational researchers, whether students, faculty or researchers. It focuses on helpful phrases and concepts needed in the writing of research papers, articles, grant proposals, theses and doctoral dissertations.

The accurate and reliable diagnosis of transmissible diseases is the most powerful weapon available to ensure their control, and in some cases eradication. The detection of parasites in clinical cases, companion and farm animals, and in the environment is relatively easy since many of them are visible to the naked eye, and those that are not are readily detected by light microscopy. Fungal infections can similarly be determined. Bacteria are s...

All the Wrong Reasons reveals the historical, political, and philosophical route which has formed today's government school system and argues for separating education from the state. It explains that the establishment of government schools grew out of nationalistic movements which took place in western culture during the nineteenth century due to the desire for freedom. The author discusses the major influences on the development of contempora...

This book provides all the up-to-date information needed by researchers in many fields, especially medicinal and pharmaceutical chemistry.

This important work is a detailed biblical investigation of the relationship of Jesus to the one God of Israel. The authors challenge the notion that biblical monotheism is legitimately represented by a Trinitarian view of God and demonstrate that within the bounds of the canon of Scripture Jesus is confessed as Messiah, Son of God, but not God Himself. Later Christological developments beginning in the second century misrepresented the biblic...

The first aircraft to be purposely designed as a radar-equipped nightfigher, Northrop's P-61 Black Widow was heavily influenced by early RAF combat experience with radar-equipped aircraft in 1940/41. Built essentially around the bulky Radiation Laboratory SCR-720 radar, which was mounted in the aircraft's nose, the P-61 proved to be the largest fighter ever produced for frontline service by the USAAF. Twin-engined and twin-boomed, the Black Wi...

The groundbreaking New York Times bestseller--an intimate, fiercely honest memoir of a daughter's struggle to come to terms with her terminally ill mother's decision to die--now in trade paperback with a new reader's guide inside

The outcome of the Pacific War was heavily influenced by the results of naval battles between the Imperial Japanese fleet and the US Navy. One of the key elements was Japan's large fighter component, which had gained experience over Manchuria, China and Mongolia in the late 1930s. Flying A5Ms, at least 21 pilots achieved 'acedom' securing air superiority for the invaders. Manufacturer Mitsubishi derived much from these campaigns, producing one...

Known to its pilots as the 'last of the gunfighters' due to its quartet of Colt-Browning Mk 12 20 mm cannon, the F-8 Crusader was numerically the most populous fighter in the US Navy at the start of America's involvement in the Vietnam conflict in 1964 - some 482 F-8C/D/Es equipped 17 frontline units. It enjoyed great success against North Vietnamese Mig-17s and Mig-21s during the Rolling Thunder campaign of 1965-68, officially downing 18 jets...