A study of the production and trade in textiles in the Roman west during the Late Republic. It addresses the problems of interpreting the sources, especially the epigraphic evidence, and attempts a reconstruction of the organisation and economic importance of the industry.
This newly revised edition adds two entirely new chapters, one of LDMOS high power RF transistors and how they differ from bipolars, and TMOS FETs, etc. as well as another chapter on designing high power RF amplifiers using LDMOS.
For more than a quarter of a century, Eleanor Roosevelt wrote her hugely popular syndicated column, "My Day". This collection brings together for the first time in a single volume the most memorable of those columns, written with singular wit, elegance, compassion, and insight. 35 photos.
Die berühmteste und weltweit erfolgreichste Gruppe russischer Zigeunermusik präsentiert mit erweiterter Besetzung ein weites Spektrum der Romamusik: mehrstimmige Gesänge der Nomaden, filigrane Geigenduette, Instrumentalstücke in der Tradition des Gypsy Swing. Dazu die feurige Stimme Leonsia Erdenkos.
Interdisciplinary Food Safety Research answers the increasing calls to better understand and analyze the impact of food safety efforts. By collecting a wide rage of multidisciplinary examples, the text identifies key areas of research while providing a resource for future group building activities. Esteemed authors have been drawn from the fields of animal science, veterinary science, food science, agricultural economics, and plant pathology.
Simultaneously co-published as Women & Therapy, v.23, no.1, 2001, this volume presents both theoretical views and personal accounts of illness. Nine contributions combine feminist and social constructionist approaches to describe ways that therapists can help clients cope with the pain, fear, and stigma of a serious disease. Some of the disorders
This exciting new guide is the ideal companion to Greece if you are a traveller with historical and archaeological interests, as it combines practical information with impeccable scholarly research.
While the acquisition of skills has become a major public need, there is increasing dependence for their provision on individual firms. These firms can have no responsibility for general needs with government action being restricted to residual care for the unemployed rather than contributing at the leading edge of advanced skills policy. The authors argue that public agencies must find new ways of working with the business sector, acquiring e...
Designed for people wanting to develop an anxiety management programme for use with groups or individuals, this book is divided into two parts: information for anxiety management training, and, 10 chapters each looking at specific aspect of anxiety management.
This book aims to help college students understand how their lives are shaped by the complexities of global social forces in our new century. It will enable students to develop an approach to thinking about social issues and evaluating claims and arguments. It demonstrates the power and value of thinking sociologically about societies today and helps teach the process of investigation, the sociological craft of research, critical thinking, and...
By a wide measure of assent, Edward Said was one of the most important scholars examining society, politics and culture. A Palestinian-American, his life had been shaped by the cross-currents of race, globalization and nationalist violence. Said emerged as a leading figure in the dialogue between occidentalism and orientalism, making seminal contributions to our understanding of colonialism, postcolonialism and the responsibilities of criticis...
This important book critically addresses the `becoming West' of Europe and investigates the `becoming Modern' of the world. Drawing on the work of Derrida, Foucault, Levinas, Lyotard, Merleau-Ponty and Ricoeur, the book proposes that the question of postmodernity is inseparable from that of post-coloniality. The argument fully conveys the sense that modernity is in crisis. It maps out a new genealogy of the birth of the modern and suggests a n...
Despite its typically regressive associations with homesickness, the longing associated with nostalgia may also function progressively as a vehicle for imaginatively 'fixing' the past in two senses: securing and mending or repairing. Considering fiction by two British and six American women writers of different generations and ethnicities, this study explores tensions between home and exile, insider and outsider, longing and belonging, loss an...
