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Marshall, Mayhead, and their contributors explore the discourse women use to negotiate political boundaries. The analysis, based on the study of five governors-Nellie Tayloe Ross, Martha Layne Collins, Ann Richards, Barbara Roberts, and Christine Todd Whitman-illustrates that women bring issues of caring, empowerment, family, and inclusivity to the office. These issues contrast sharply with traditional male-centered ideologies and give renewed...

An exploration of the discourse women use to negotiate boundaries. The analysis, based on the study of five governors -including Martha Layne Collins and Barbara Roberts - illustrates that women bring issues of caring, empowerment, family, and inclusivity into the office.

The germs of the ideas in this book became implanted in me during my experience as a resident in clinical pathology at Boston University Medical Center. At the time, I had inklings that the test results churned out by our laboratories were more than scientific facts. As a philosophically unsophisticated young physician, however, I had no language or framework to analyze what I saw as a deep philosophical problem, a problem largely unrecognized...

Drawing on the new physics as the scientific foundation of transformational politics, Becker and Slaton write compellingly about the positive impact televoting, electronic town meetings, and other initiatives designed to put the "public" back into public affairs.

Spectacular discoveries at Mound C at the Etowah site in Georgia, the result of excavations there and in Mississippi from 1924 to 1928, changed the American perspective of the artistic achievements of prehistoric Native Americans in the eastern United States. These discoveries, in a mound that had supposedly already been excavated under the sponsorship of the Smithsonian Institution in 1883, made up the final major field expedition of Warren K...

The first comprehensive, balanced, meticulously researched study of internet marketing and the earliest crucial decisions that locked it into the course it is on now.

Examines how presidents and Congress work together

Provides differing political, social, cultural, and economic perspectives on central and southeast Europe.

An invaluable and comprehensive source of information on books and web sites dealing with the subject of animal rights.

A topical presentation of firsthand accounts from some of the thousands of army and navy nurses who served both stateside and overseas during World War II.

Best remembered as the author of Joseph Andrews (1742), Tom Jones (1749) and Amelia (1751), Henry Fielding was one of the most important pioneering English novelists of the eighteenth century, and his works continue to occupy a central place in the literary canon. During the 1730s he was the most dominant playwright in London since John Dryden, and in his official capacity as a magistrate, he addressed serious social problems and invented the ...

Examines the ways modern social science continues to reflect the subjective traits of authors and the contexts in which they operate.

In the early years of the twentieth century, Victor Hess of Germany flew instruments in balloons and so discovered in 1912 that an extra-~errestial radiation of unknown origin is incident on the earth with an almost constant intensity at all times. These penetrating non­ solar radiations which were called Cosmic Rays by Millikan, USA, opened the new frontier of space physics and many leading scientists were attracted to it. At the end of World...

Immer up-to-date in der Verkäuferweiterbildung! Als Wachstumsmarkt der beruflichen Bildung muss sich das Verkaufstraining an den Bedürfnissen und Erwartungen der zu schulenden Teilnehmer orientieren. Das Jahrbuch bietet konkrete Trainings-Know-how sowie ein umfassendes Anbieterverzeichnis.

The American upper class has become less like an aristocracy governing and guiding the nation and more like a caste, a privileged and closed body whose contribution to national leadership has steadily declined. Baltzell's theory of the structure and function of the establishment remains unique in the literature of class stratification and authority.

This book presents the most recent research advances in the theory, design, control and application of robotic systems, which are intended for a variety of purposes such as manipulation, manufacturing, automation, surgery, locomotion and biomechanics. The issues addressed are fundamentally kinematic in nature, including synthesis, calibration, redundancy, force control, dexterity, inverse and forward kinematics, kinematic singularities, as wel...

Takes issue with widely accepted theories of dealignment and party decay in contemporary America.

A cross-cultural exploration of crime and crime control in 15 representative countries from around the world.

The book is clearly written, in a relatively jargon-free style and provides a comprehensive treatise on the subject matter.... This is a good value text for the student and others wanting to fully examine all the issues of training in organizational transformation' - Richard Palmer, Industrial and Commercial Training The second volume in the set addresses the needs of hands-on practitioners of training, and program developers who focus on the ...

This book describes and analyzes the lexical phonology and morphology of the verb stem in Ciyao, a Bantu language spoken in Southern Malawi, Northwestern Mozambique, and Southern Tanzania. This is the most complete and authoritative treatment to date of the complex morphophonemics of the Ciyao verb, including the stem and derivational and inflexional endings. Dr Ngunga's monograph also contributes significantly to the linguistic documentation ...