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The distinctive feature of this book is its ingenious argumentative strategy: it takes on the political by developing a practice and a thought the authors call 'polemicization'.

Albert Somers offers teachers a vast compendium of resources for teaching poetry in a highly accessible format. If you were teaching poetry in high school, which poems would you select? Those you studied in first-year English because they were "classics"? Would you teach form and technique? What about rap? Albert Somers answers these and other questions, offering the teacher a vast compendium of resources in a highly accessible format. The b...

Focusing on the technical, social, and economic issues involved in watershed management, the author explores ideas for bettering land use practices and the condition of soil water resources. Integrated Watershed Management in the Global Ecosystem is based on an international symposium of the world's leading experts and practitioners in soil and water conservation exploring an "ecosystem-based" management approach to the problem. Readers of thi...

Presents a logical way of thinking about organizational knowledge and competition that centers on discipline, integration and focus. This book suggests that it is possible for companies to move beyond informational chaos to create focused opportunities. It outlines 12 steps that show you how to make your company into a world-class organization.

This complete design and operation manual gives you critical tools to conduct successful, cost effective remediation projects. It presents key information needed to design, construct, and operate similar modular remediation testing systems or to utilize the two existing modular Experimental Control Release System (ECRS) facilities. These pilot-scale systems are uniquely suited to both research development and real-world applications. TOC:Execu...

This book explores what speech, music and other sounds have in common. It gives a detailed description of the way perspective, rhythm, textual quality and other aspects of sound are used to communicate emotion and meaning. It draws on a wealth of examples from radio (disk jockey and newsreading speech, radio plays, advertising jingles, news signature tunes), film soundtracks (The Piano, The X-files, Disney animation films), music ranging from ...

This text begins with an in-depth overview into the human organism at the molecular, cellular, tissue and organ levels, and develops into a discussion of the objectives and features of organ systems of the evolved human. The book also covers the relationship between the human body and the environment in which it exists including other organisms that co-habitate the environment. Discussions of the nature of other organisms such as various anima...

There has been a growing research interest in all aspects of rehabilitation and management of brain-injured adults with an accompanying increase in knowledge of the problems faced by brain-injured adults. This new knowledge is fully reflected in the extensive revisions which have been made for this edition.

The enigmatic science of military intelligence is examined in this personal record, written by Brig.Gen. Oscar W. Koch, who served during World War II as chief of intelligence for General George S. Patton, Jr., one of the most colorful military leaders in American history. General Koch traces the growth and development of the infant science through detailed accounts of the intelligence role in some of the most celebrated battles of the war, an...

Here at last is the exciting, detailed story of the U.S. Eighth Air Force's only Radar Countermeasure squadron that flew from England duing World War II. This book tells of the men of the elite 36th Bomb Squadron and the special operations they flew in modified B-24s to jam the German radar which controlled the fighter and flak batteries. Here too is the story of the men behind the scenes who sought to develop an extension of modern air warfar...

This volume brings together key readings of significant moments in the understanding of health. It goes beyond the often superficial literature-review style of medical sociology texts.

This volume brings together key readings of significant moments in the understanding of health. It goes beyond the often superficial literature-review style of medical sociology texts.

The first comprehensive, real-world look at two-phase flow systems-from one of the world's leading authorities on the subject. From his early works in the area of heat transfer research on boundary layer flows and two-phase flows to his role as one of the lead consultants following the Three Mile Island accident, internationally renowned engineer Salomon Levy has achieved an ideal balance of theory and practice in his engineering career. In T...

Die Verbindung wissenschaftshistorischer und wissenschaftstheoretischer Fragestellungen macht die Eigenart dieses Buches aus. Ohne zwar eine ausgearbeitete philosophische Theorie der Wissenschaften zu sein, nimmt es in sieben Studien konkret Stellung zu philosophischen Voraussetzungen der Natur-, Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften und zur Bedeutung von deren Ergebnissen für die Idee der Philosophie.

Peter Bichsel hat seine Geschichten aus dem Alltag und über den Alltag mit Bedacht zu einer eigenen Kunstform entwickelt. Seine Kolumnen sind inzwischen berühmt: Im Gegenteil sammelt, nach Geschichten zur falschen Zeit (st 2872) und Irgendwo anderswo (st 2932), die Tages-Geschichten von 1986 bis 1990.Der Bestand an festen fragwürdigen Meinungen, die Sachzwänge und altehrwürdigen Hüte sind in dieser Zeit nicht weniger geworden. Das Nachdenken d...

Erleben Sie mit Theodor Fontane, Albert Kerr, Robert Musil, Hans Fallada, Thomas Mann, Max Frisch und vielen anderen die Faszination dieser einzigartigen Insel.

From a Harvard Business School professor comes a concise, accessible, state-of-the-art guide to developing and investing in real estate.

The past: the 'big house', the servant class, the close-knit family ties of a bygone generation. For better or for worse?April de Angelis's funny and compassionate new play powerfully illustrates a rapidly changing way of life by focusing on the loves, traumas and disputes of one Midlands family throughout the twentieth century.

In twelfth century Languedoc a subversive heresy of Eastern origin flourished to an extraordinary degree. The Albingenses believed that the world was created by an evil spirit, and that all worldly things - including the Church - were by nature sinful. This title examines the roots of the heresy.