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Development economics, the author of this volume insists, is a failed discipline because it does not recognize the revolutionary difference between subsistence and commercial social values. He aims to demonstrate that commercial labour norms are essential for producing assured food surpluses.

Development economics, the author of this volume insists, is a failed discipline because it does not recognize the revolutionary difference between subsistence and commercial social values. He aims to demonstrate that commercial labour norms are essential for producing assured food surpluses.

Reveals the extensive exchange of letters between Rufus Robbins and members of his family, providing a highly personalized view of the life of a Union soldier, as well as life on the home front.

This book provides a unique resource on the educational development of the American military profession. With nearly 140 entries from 65 authors, it covers the origins and major evolutionary developments of all major institutions from the Federal service academies and ROTC programs through the Capstone program for newly appointed general and flag officers. It provides sketches of personalities who made significant contributions as well as disc...

This book contains various experimental and theoretical reports on the status and prospects of one of the most interesting and difficult areas of modern high energy physics -- elastic and diffractive scattering. One can find here general trends and problems, and original ideas on particle interactions and structure.

With the Iranian revolution as her focal point, Seliktar offers a systematic analysis of predictive failure in foreign policy at the paradigmatic, policy, and intelligence levels. Seliktar first examines how social science paradigms determine conceptualizations of political change, and then applies that analysis to understanding New Internationalism, the Carter administration's foreign policy philosophy at the time of the Shah's fall from powe...

For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of the Arthur H. Clark Company. We publish new books, both interpretive and documentary, in small, high-quality editions for the collector, researcher, and library.

Perhaps the most influential figure in 20th century British, imperial, and world history, Winston S. Churchill has been the subject of numerous studies, biographies, and controversies, but not of a recent comprehensive bibliography. The most extensive and up-to-date bibliographic work on Churchill, this book provides a full historiographical survey and over 3, 000 annotated entries on all of the important writings by and about Churchill. Refle...

Drawing on English, Chinese, and Japanese sources, this study challenges the prevailing view that the Rape of Nanking was a deliberate, planned effort on the part of the Japanese military and concludes that it was instead an unfortunate tragedy of conventional warfare.

Examining some of the special ethical dimensions of work, the contributors look at the basic issues of the labor market and offer some controversial alternatives to conventional ways of understanding that market.

Although the city in the title of this sensitive collection refers to Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, City of Ash serves as a universal geography of the contemporary soul in an urban context, built on the fragments of the past. Through his poetry, Eugenijus Alisanka searches for personal and historical meaning within the framework of time, recognizing both the demands of the self and the impossibility of avoiding what came before, whether h...

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Als die Buchhändlerin Julia Neuhaus den älteren Immobilienmakler Markus Baumgartner kennlernt, weiß sie schon nach wenigen Minuten, daß sie ihren "Mr. Right" gefunden hat. Doch Markus trägt eine alte Schuld mit sich herum und auch Julia kann und will ihre ostdeutsche Vergangenheit nicht vergessen. Eine romantische Liebesgeschichte, jedoch auch kritisch und schonungslos.

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Das Buch bietet eine kompakte Zusammenstellung der wichtigsten Phänomene in der Tieftemperaturphysik, die sowohl Studenten (mit dieser Vertiefungsrichtung im Hauptstudium), als auch Doktoranden, Wissenschaftlern und Ingenieuren, die auf diesem Gebiet tätig sind, als Lehrbuch dienen kann. Es eignet sich als Grundlage für entsprechende Vorlesungen.

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Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) and Message Passing Interface (MPI) are the most frequently used tools for programming according to the message passing paradigm, which is considered one of the best ways to develop parallel applications. This volume comprises 42 revised contributions presented at the Seventh European PVM/MPI Users' Group Meeting, which was held in Balatonfr ed, Hungary, 10 13 September 2000. The conference was organized by the L...

The workshop series on Text, Speech and Dialogue originated in 1998 with the ?rst TSD1998 held in Brno, Czech Republic. This year's TSD2000, already the third in the series, returns to Brno and to its organizers from the Faculty of Informatics at the Masaryk University. As shown by the ever growing interest in TSD series, this annual workshop developed into the prime meeting of speech and language researchers from both sides of the former Iron...

The United States Capitol is a national cultural icon, and among the most visually recognized seats of government in the world. The past quarter century has witnessed an explosion of scholarly interest in the art and architectural history of the Capitol. The emergence of the historic preservation movement and the maturation of the discipline of art conservation have refocused attention on the Capitol as the American "temple of liberty". Major ...

Son of a Cherokee-English father and an Irish mother, Ralph Salisbury grew up among storytellers and has shared his family's tales and experiences in seven previous books of prose and poetry. Now in Rainbows of Stone he returns with a striking collection of poems that interweaves family tales with personal and tribal history.Salisbury conjures images that define his life, from the vanishing farming and hunting traditions with which he was rais...