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Haraway, one of the most highly regarded theorists in America, discusses her intellectual development and influences, the role of Catholicism in her thinking and how her ethical stands have mirrored issues in her personal life.

State-of-the-art methods and current perspectives on interconnect The irrepressible march toward smaller and faster integrated circuits has made interconnect a hot topic for semiconductor research. The effects of wire size, topology construction, and network design on system performance and reliability have all been thoroughly investigated in recent years. Interconnect Analysis and Synthesis provides CAD researchers and engineers with powerful...

This book expertly handles common reference sources, search engines, meta-subject guides, the humanities, and social science disciplines, which are arranged in an alphabetized sequence of chapters featuring each individual discipline.

This thought-provoking and insightful study of 40 years of American violent cinema ties together the multiple disciplines of psychology, criminology, censorship, and anthropology. The study is divided into two volumes: Volume 1: American Chaos, From Touch of Evil to The Terminator, and Volume 2: Millennial Blues, From Apocalypse Now to The Matrix. Horsley raises a new dialogue between scholars and movie buffs as readers struggle to find their ...

A Calculating People" is an entertaining and informative history of the birth of the American passion for numbers, tracing the history of "numeracy" from its origins in the Enlightenment to its flowering in mid-19th century America. Patricia Cline Cohen focuses on episodes that illustrate the growing skill and enthusiasm for numbers in the colonies and early republic, from the controversial inauguration of the census in Jamestown and the West ...

What does free market environmentalism have to say about Love Canal, Cleveland's burning Cuyahogo River, golf course pollution, EPA's Toxic Release Inventory Requirement, nonpoint source pollution and river basin associations? In this revealing book Bruce Yandle has compiled eleven essays that address these concerns and provide the reader with an in-depth, market-based analysis of evolving environmental institutions and regulations. This book ...

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom master storyteller Clive Barker, comes this intricately woven and meticulously constructed epic where past and future meet.In the little town of Palomo Grove, two great armies are amassing, forces shaped from the hearts and souls of America. In this New York Times bestseller, Barker unveils one of the most ambitious imaginative landscapes in modern fiction, creating a new vocabulary for the age-old battle between ...

In this landmark guide to the spiritual journey, respected Zen teacher and psychotherapist John Tarrant brings together ancient Eastern traditions and the Western passion for the soul. Using real-life stories, Zen tales, and Greek myths, The Light Inside the Dark shows how our darkest experiences can be the gates to wisdom and joy. Tarrant leads us through the inevitable descents of our journey--from the everyday world of work and family into ...

There's a bad new cat in sleepy little Molena Point: a renegade tom with a penchant for robbery, a scorn for his fellow felines, and a disdain for human laws. And he's masterminding a crime spree that's quickly escalating toward murder most foul.Dulcie and Joe Grey both know the score -- they've seen Azrael in action. But how can they expose the criminal without letting ordinary, untrustworthy humans in on the secret that certain select cats c...

This popular three-level reading series is designed for beginning through low-intermediate students. It features high-interest dialogues and stories about ordinary people from around the world (some famous) with whom the students can identify. Students can identify with the hopes, dreams, and fears of these real people, and will enjoy reading and discussing these stories and dialogues as they relate their own experiences to the class.Each book...

Enthralling and chilling, this is a novel about the deepest yearnings of the human heart--and about monsters that are never more terrible than when they wear human faces. 704 print.

The European Materials Society decided to hold a Symposium entitled "Materials and Processes for Submicron Technologies" in June 16-19, 1998, within the yearly E-MRS Spring Meeting in Strasbourg, France. The purpose of this meeting was to discuss the results of the advances in microelectronic devices directly relating to the reduction in size of features of the devices down to submicron size. When electronic materials are patterned to these sm...

The beat of an nkul, a wooden slit drum, reverberates at dawn around and through the trees and houses of the Ewondo people of Mekomba, Cameroon. What is being communicated? The author's interest was sparked in this communication phenomenon when he recorded audio versions of a drummed message. Though the general message was the same for each performance, the differences were strikingly noticeable. It was apparent that this was not a recital of ...

Inhaltsangabe:Gang der Untersuchung: Im ersten Teil dieser Arbeit geht es darum, die Begriffe individuelles bzw. organisationales Lernen zu beschreiben. Aus diesem Grund wird ein Überblick über in der Literatur vertretene Ansätze zu diesen Begriffen gegeben. Insbesondere wird das Konzept einer Lernenden Organisation von Peter M. Senge vorgestellt. Im zweiten Teil werden ausgewählte Konzepte zur Umsetzung beschrieben. Dabei stehen die Anforde...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Die Marketingkommunikation ist als Teil des gesamten Marketinginstrumentariums seit mehreren Jahren wesentlichen Veränderungen verschiedener Rahmenbedingungen ausgesetzt. Ein Aspekt, der in jüngster Zeit in den Vordergrund rückt, ist die Veränderung der Medienlandschaft. Die in diesem Zusammenhang oft zitierte "Reizüberflutung des Menschen" ist dabei nur eine von vielen Auswirkungen. Für die Marketingkommunikation v...

Inhaltsangabe:Gang der Untersuchung: Die Arbeit wird in zwei Bereiche unterteilt: Der Schwerpunkt des ersten Teils folgt der Analyse der Produktion und Anwendung der Hardware und arbeitet die Auswirkungen von Video auf Elektronikhersteller und (professionelle wie nicht-professionelle) Anwender heraus. Unbestreitbar haben die größten Elektronikkonzerne wie Sony, Matsushita und JVC den Erfolg des Mediums mitbegründet. Ihre Rolle bei der Etablie...

Originally published in 1912, this attractive book includes 17 prominent authors who offer their knowledge of every aspect of fly fishing.

An exploration of the plight of feminist scholars in the academy. Focuses on the notion that feminists have traded their idealism and concerns about their lived experiences for a place in the academy.