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In Travelers, Jhabvala examines the unlikely convergence of four wanderers: Asha, an imperious Indian widow, Raymond, a curious Englishman, Lee, an American looking for her spiritual core, and Gopi, an impressionable young student. With a mixture of impassioned dialogue and subtle narrative, Jhabvala examines the psychological and cultural forces that wend their paths into inextricable knots of love and conflict.

Wavelengths is a collection of 20 superb stories by Caribbean writers, chosen to meet the needs of students in all types of Secondary school in the Caribbean. It provides a one year course for first or second year pupils.

Reynolds offers a guided tour of rave culture and techno music in this first critical history of the genre--and the drug culture that accompanies it. 40-page discography. of illustrations.

This comprehensive text takes readers through the various tasks associated with front office dental procedures, preparing them for the office of the 21st century.

Written by psychologists, this book focuses on the design of computer systems from the perspective of the user. The authors place human beings firmly at the centre of system design and so assess their cognitive and physical attributes as well as their social needs. The model used specifically takes into consideration the way in which computer technology needs to be designed in order to take account of all these human factors. The text comprise...

Eine Sammlung von Kapiteln, die sich jeweils mit einer bestimmten Reaktion oder Phase einer Reaktion beschäftigen. Die Beiträge erfahrener Fachleute wurden unter präparativen Gesichtspunkten erstellt, wobei besonderer Wert auf die Diskussion von Grenzen, Interferenzen, strukturellen Effekten und der Auswahl der geeigneten experimentellen Methoden gelegt wurde. Alle vorgestellten Reaktionsbeispiele sind in übersichtlichen Tabellen zusammengefaß...

Der Sammelband enthält Beiträge, die die Erforschung des kognitiven Raums aus philosophischer, neurologischer, neuroinformatischer, psychologischer, linguistischer und informatischer Perspektive beleuchten.

With Reading Alcoholisms, Jane Lilienfeld has produced a ground-breaking cross-disciplinary study using the social, psychological, and scientific literature on alcoholism and family alcoholism to examine the novels of Hardy, Joyce, and Woolf. Each of these authors was directly affected by the alcoholism of a family member or mentor, and Lilienfeld shows how the effects of alcoholism organized their texts: through the portrayal of a protagonist...

Communication Skills for the Environmental technicianThis book provides environmental technology students with an enjoyable way to quickly master the basic communication skills needed by the environmental technician. Like all the books in the critically acclaimed Preserving the Legacy series, it follows a rapid-learning modular format featuring learning objectives, summaries, chapter-end reviews, practice questions, and skill-building activiti...

Raumordnung und Landschaftsplanung müssen heutzutage eine Vielzahl von Ansprüchen berücksichtigen. Je dichter eine Region besiedelt ist, um so stärker verschärfen sich die jeweiligen Nutzungskonflikte durch den Druck des natürlichen Bevölkerungswachstums und durch die hohe Mobilität in Beruf und Freizeit. Zur Verfügung stehende Flächen und gewinnbare Rohstoffe müssen daher so verwaltet werden, daß sie auch zukünftig sicher genutzt werden könne...

These checked and edited experimental procedures are divided into: reagents and methods for asymmetric synthesis, synthetic transformations, organometallic chemistry and transformations of organometallic reagents, and synthetically useful reagents and compounds.

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Global Security Beyond the Millennium, " an American-Russian collaborative edited collection, explores the evolution of the US-Russian post-Cold War security relationship, obstacles and opportunities in bilateral cooperation and critical security challenges.

This dictionary provides - through alphabetically arranged entries - overviews of the various tenants, philosophers, and writers of existentialism - and of those writers/philosophers who, in retrospect, seem to existentialists to espouse their philosophy, such as Nietzsche and Kirkegaard.

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- List of abbreviations -- 1. The lexicon and linguistic theory -- 2. Simon Dik's Functional Grammar -- 3. Lexical organization and the FLM -- 4. Towards a semantic syntax -- 5. The cognitive axis -- 6. Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Lexical domains -- Appendix 2: Semantic network -- Appendix 3: Possession -- Appendix 4: Synsem interface of to come to have -- Notes -- References -- A...

The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that addr...

Es handelt sich um das erste deutschsprachige Fachbuch zum Thema Intrusion Detection. Der Autor behandelt technische Aspekte sowie auch die Thematik interdisziplinär, indem er u.a. mit dem pseudonymen Audit eine Form datenschutzorientierter Überwachung entwickelt und exemplarisch realisiert. Es werden sicherheitsfunktionale Anforderungen zu pseudonymem Audit formuliert und diese in die neuen transatlantischen IT-Sicherheitskriterien Common Cri...

nd Selected papers presented at the 22 Annual Conference of the German Classification Society GfKI (Gesellschaft fUr Klassifikation), held at the Uni­ versity of Dresden in 1998, are contained in this volume of "Studies in Clas­ sification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization" . One aim of GfKI was to provide a platform for a discussion of results con­ cerning a challenge of growing importance that could be labeled as "Classi­ fication i...

Zu den Entwicklungen auf organisierten Kapitalmärkten werden Fragen beantwortet, ob und warum Venture Capital-Gesellschaften den Neuen Markt wählen und welche Vorteile im Double Listung liegen. Beiträge über Finanzintermediäre und Fonds bieten Einblicke in institutionelle Investoren in den USA, in Leasinggesellschaften, Immobilien- und Wertpapier-Fonds. Einen dritten Schwerpunkt bildet die Bewertung von Finanzinstrumenten.

Seven years before the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 comprehensively disqualified all members of China's laboring class from immigration status, the Page Law sought to stem the tide of Chinese prostitutes entering the United States. This title investigates how administrative agencies and federal courts enforced immigration laws.