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An album of photographs and musical experiences during the first century of Alberta's history. Explore Alberta's astonishing musical heritage, from brass bands and minstrel shows to Ukrainian folk music and symphonies, from native singers to Wilf Carter.

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Selecting the most important literature from Wisconsin's rich historical resources, this bibliography provides 3, 400 entries on the history of Wisconsin. The book is interdisciplinary, covering titles in economics, political science, sociology, ethnic studies, religion, and social and cultural history, and includes citations from archival resources, monographs, journal articles, dissertations, conference proceedings, local and state historica...

An analysis of late-1990s' current and projected socioeconomic trends in New York State and in the US as a whole. The contributors indicate the need for new social policy at the local, state and federal levels. It includes discussion of the distribution of income, immigration, and land use.

This volume summarizes the proceedings of the Reisensburg workshop which took place at Reisensburg Castle in November 1997". The castle is built on the site of an - cient Roman compound and situated in the south of Germany at the Danube river. Sci- tists from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Estonia, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, South Africa, Switzerland, and the United States participated in the workshop. Like the 1996 workshop, the proceedings o...

This ethnography examines the struggles of the Maya community of Pich, Campeche, and the relationship between technology and the Maya cosmology.

In the post-Cold War era, we have lost the clarity that once characterized our vision of international conflict. Foreign affairs are no longer defined solely by the ideological battles fought between capitalism and communism or by the competition between two great nuclear superpowers. That oversimplified view has been replaced by an increasing awareness of the moral and political complexity surrounding international relations.To help us deal w...

The birth of this monograph is partly due to the persistent efforts of the General Editor, Dr. Klaus Timmerhaus, to persuade the authors that they encapsulate their forty or fifty years of struggle with the thermal properties of materials into a book before they either expired or became totally senile. We recognize his wisdom in wanting a monograph which includes the closely linked properties of heat capacity and thermal expansion, to which we...

Against an emerging landscape of intranets, extranets, virtual communities, and virtual reality, this book highlights the dangers of individuals or organizations becoming technology-rich but value blind. Valueware also champions the evolution of a gentler mode of capitalism as just one of many hopes for a more caring and sustainable 21st century. After detailing the critical forces now driving the convergence of technology, humanity, and organ...

In this work of historically informed political theory, Kimberly Smith sets out to understand how nineteenth-century Americans answered the question of how the people should participate in politics. Did rational public debate, the ideal that most democratic theorists now venerate, transcend all other forms of political expression? How and why did passion disappear from the ideology (if not the practice) of American democracy? To answer these q...

Contradictory results in schizophrenia research are generally explained as being due to genetic heterogeneity and multiple factor heredity in relationship to manifold environmental factors. The book reports a short overview of all relevant twin studies on schizophrenic psychoses and provides data and case histories on a systematic twin study based on a polydiagnostic approach carried out by two independently working psychiatrists. In addition ...

Heterogeneous Catalysis in Organic Chemistry provides the novice organic chemist with a concise introduction to the state of the art. The experienced organic chemist will also benefit from recent surface science and materials science discoveries that can stimulate innovative, nontraditional thinking about organic reactions on surfaces. Written for organic chemists in academia and in the fine and specialty chemicals industries, this book addres...

A comparative history of the political origins of national health policy. This comparison of American and Canadian health care takes a fresh approach to the topic by systematically specifying the historical dynamics that gave rise to two such radically different systems of health insurance in the making of national health policy in North America.

An exciting account of a little-known, yet vital part of World War II, the Allied effort to blockade Axis forces in North Africa with a relatively small number of planes and submarines included some of the war's most spectacular air battles and opened the way to the attack on Fortress Europe from the south.

An outstanding, comprehensive, and up-to-date encyclopedia on human rights issues, designed specifically for high school and college students.

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An examination of the political maneuvering of William Borah and Hiram Johnson, two post-war leaders of Republican progressivism, this study analyzes efforts to prevent US entry into the League of Nations despite overwhelming support for the organization among both Democrats and Republicans.