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Esteemed critic Blanche Gelfant's brilliant companion gathers together lucid essays on major writers and themes by some of the best literary critics in the United States. Part 1 is comprised of articles on stories that share a particular theme, such as "Working Class Stories" or "Gay and Lesbian Stories." The heart of the book, however, lies in Part 2, which contains more than one hundred pieces on individual writers and their work, including ...

This is a critical study of many of the leading writers of horror and supernatural fiction since World War II. The primary purpose is to establish a canon of weird literature, and to distinguish the genuinely meritorious writers of the past fifty years from those who have obtained merely transient popular renown. Accordingly, the author regards the complex, subtle work of Shirley Jackson, Ramsey Campbell, Robert Aickman, T.E.D. Klein, and Thom...

Renowned for her majestic beauty and impassioned performances, the English actress Sarah Siddons (1755-1831) revolutionized the aesthetics of eighteenth-century theater while inventing a complex public persona to promote her fame. Her flair for self-presentation was matched by the showmanship of the many artists who portrayed her. Here three lively essays--by Robyn Asleson, Shelley Bennett, Mark Leonard, and Shearer West--explore Siddons's lif...

An essential resource for students of social policy and social welfare as well as for social welfare practitioners and other human services professionals, this text examines the policymaking activity of the different branches of the American government and of the public-at-large as well as the interactions between the branches of government and the general public in the formation and implementation of social policy.In addition to examining the...

Stalinist Reconstruction and the Confrontation of a New Elite, 1945-53 looks at the postwar Stalin era through the eyes of industrial supervisors and offers a picture of the technical intelligentsia's transformation into the Soviet Union's social and political elite. Drawing from archives, newspapers, memoirs, and an array of secondary sources, the book reveals new aspects of the Stalin phenomenon and concludes that, contrary to prior assumpti...

The yearbook compiles the most recent, widespread developments of experimental and clinical research and practice in one comprehensive reference book. The chapters are written by well recognized experts in the field of intensive care and emergency medicine. It is addressed to everyone involved in internal medicine, anesthesia, surgery, pediatrics, intensive care and emergency medicine.

Inhaltsangabe:Zusammenfassung: Die vorliegende Hausarbeit im Rahmen des Ersten Staatsexamens befasst sich mit der angestrebten Liberalisierung des schweizerischen Strommarktes. Der schweizerische Strommarkt ist bis dato noch ein streng regulierter wirtschaftlicher Ausnahmebereich. Die zahlreichen staatlichen Regulierungen haben bis heute die Struktur des schweizerischen Strommarktes erheblich beeinflusst und geprägt. Daher wird zunächst die...

Inhaltsangabe:Problemstellung: Vor dem Hintergrund einer sich ständig verändernden Umwelt und eines sich stets im Wandel befindenden Unternehmens, welches den Anforderungen eines immer intensiveren, dynamischeren und internationaleren Wettbewerbs genügen muss, stehen Unternehmen vor neuen, vorausschauend zu begegnenden Herausforderungen. Darüber hinaus besteht ein zunehmender Druck auf Hersteller und Anbieter zur Verbesserung von Produkten, S...

Inhaltsangabe:Problemstellung: Tourismus und Ruhrgebiet ¿ eine undenkbare Konstellation? Diese Frage stellt sich sicherlich, wenn man den Titel der Arbeit das erste Mal liest. Es ist kaum vorstellbar, in einer ehemaligen Industrieregion Urlaub zu machen oder sie als Ziel für einen Tagesausflug auszusuchen. Das liegt daran, dass das Ruhrgebiet in den Köpfen der Menschen, vor allem derer, die nicht aus Nordrhein-Westfalen kommen, als eine unatt...

Inhaltsangabe:Zusammenfassung: In dieser Diplomarbeit wird ein Aufnahmesystem für stereoskopisches Video entwickelt und erprobt. Basierend auf zwei Mini-DV Camcordern wird eine mobile 3-D Kamera konstruiert, welche eine hohe Bildqualität liefert. Die technischen Möglichkeiten und Einschränkungen dieses Aufnahmesystemes werden dabei genau untersucht. Weiterhin thematisiert diese Arbeit die Nachbearbeitung, Speicherung und Wiedergabe stereoskop...

Can research have an immediate practical benefit in the place where it is undertaken?Action research is a form of research closely linked to practice and can readily be undertaken by practitioners and service users. A Handbook for Action Research in Health and Social Care offers a comprehensive guide to action research as a strategy for inquiry and development in professional contexts with particular reference to health and social care. It fea...

Horse of Karbala" is a study of Muharram rituals and interfaith relations in three locations in India: Ladakh, Darjeeling, and Hyderabad.

Timespace undermines the old certainties of time and space by arguing that these dimensions do not exist singly, but only as a hybrid process term. The issue of space has perhaps been over-emphasised and it is essential that processes of everyday existence, such as globalisation and environmental issues and also notions such as gender, race and ethnicity, are looked at with a balanced time-space analysis.The social and cultural consequences of...

Timespace undermines the old certainties of time and space by arguing that these dimensions do not exist singly, but only as a hybrid process term. The issue of space has perhaps been over-emphasised and it is essential that processes of everyday existence, such as globalisation and environmental issues and also notions such as gender, race and ethnicity, are looked at with a balanced time-space analysis.The social and cultural consequences of...

War continues to occur and bewilder, despite the keen attention of scholars, generals, and officials. This book takes accounts of war - told, interpreted, retold, recast, and enacted - as its focus. It argues that war propagates from «war stories» into plans for the future. The vehicle is politics, ongoing, surging negotiation of interpretations and designs. Politics defies closure in civil society, but governments must take authoritative deci...

Beginning with the earliest days of his meteoric rise to power at the turn of the nineteenth century and continuing into the post-soviet era, Napoleon Bonaparte has maintained a peculiar grip on Russian popular and literary imagination. Heralded as the Messiah, condemned as the Antichrist, and lauded as the spirit of the Revolution, Napoleon invaded Russia at a critical period in its historical development, when ideas about nation and identity...

The Quest for Postcolonial Utopia is a critical introduction to utopian and dystopian fiction written in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Africa, and India. It outlines the development of utopian writing over the last thirty years and analyzes the relationship between postcolonial and utopian issues foregrounded in these works. Based on a comparative approach that takes into account the different traditions the texts are derived from, this book...

This book investigates the convergence of feminist literary projects in the Latin American and West African contexts and demonstrates how the authors examined here employ similar writing strategies to (re)constitute feminine subjects. Their writing strives to rid literature, and thus international psyches, of reductive stereotypes of subaltern women, while projecting more complex, active female images. In portraying the horrific victimization ...

This book provides access to the work of a brilliant contemporary Chinese thinker, Hsu Fu-kuan, whose works may not be accessible to English readers. As a scholar of depth, acumen, and originality, Hsu endeavors to explore the core value of Confucian humanism and to dissociate it from the baneful or outdated bequest. He attributes the political failures of the culture not to the Confucian tradition, but to a legalistically influenced model of ...

The Post-Washington Consensus has succeeded in becoming the new theoretical underpinning for the World Bank's Structural Adjustment policies in developing countries. This broad-ranging critique explains that without a much broader political economy the Post-Washington Consensus is unlikely to provide a coherent framework for successful development policies. Development Policy in the 21st Century is unique in its depth and assesses the postures...