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This volume launches a series that will focus on providing chapters that advance our understanding of human performance in organizational systems as cognitive engineering principles are applied. Topics addressed in this volume include: a historical review of a cognitive engineering research at a national laboratory, an adaptive learning system approach to designing an integrated-embedded training system, application of PRONET, a method that pr...

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The book gathers together a particularly strong line-up of contributors from across the literary-performative divide to examine the relationship between Shakespeare, the 'culture industries', modernism and live performance.

In The Cambridge Companion to Keats, leading scholars discuss Keats's work.

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Karl Kraus (1874-1936) was the editor of and chief contributor to the journal Die Fackel and the author of several works for the stage, including The Last Days of Mankind.Jonathan McVity, a partner with Twentieth Century Art and Antiques in Charlottesville, Virginia, holds a bachelors degree in English from Oxford University. ¿

Everyone wishes to be professionally successful and productive. No one wants to suffer from workplace pains in the wrist, shoulder, or back. Written by a well-known certified professional ergonomist and based on sound theory and research, this practical book is full of tips on how to set up an office in the most ergonomically sound way. It includes nine fast-paced chapters, covering such topics as good lighting, sound environment and climate, ...

Although research on general multidimensional systems theory has been developing rapidly in recent years, this is the first research text to appear on the subject since the early 1980s.The field is closely related to control, systems, circuits and signal/image processing. The text describes the current state of the art nD systems and sets out a number of open problems, and gives several different perspectives on the subject. It presents a numb...

Presenting new material and a fresh perspective, This book provides a unifying framework for the exploration of the role played by specialisation in economic growth and international competitiveness.

Did the U.S. really "win" the Cold War? Is the fall of Communism only a temporary setback for Marxism, or has the freemarket prevailed, once and for all? In this work, the last ten years are examined by the most important Marxist scholars and journalists.

Did the U.S. really "win" the Cold War? Is the fall of Communism only a temporary setback for Marxism, or has the freemarket prevailed, once and for all? In this work, the last ten years are examined by the most important Marxist scholars and journalists.

This special issue encompasses studies of a wide range of developmental disorders, including specific language impairment (SLI), reading disability, Williams syndrome, hearing impairment and autistic disorder. Chiat contributes a theoretical analysis of the underlying nature of specific language impairment, questioning whether it is appropriate to focus on a narrow domain of linguistic functioning, such as morphosyntax, and suggesting instead ...

The importance of A. W. N. Pugin (1812-52) in the history of the Gothic Revival, in the development of ecclesiology, in the origins of the Arts and Crafts movement, and in architectural theory is incontestable. A leading British architect who was also a designer of furniture, silver, textiles, stained glass, and jewellery, he is one of the most significant figures of the mid-nineteenth century and one of the greatest designers. His corresponde...

For too long now, the issue of health care reform has been dominated by the techniques of mainstream economics and the constant application of the tools of cost-benefit analysis to an area that does not suit it. Issues such as privacy, genetic testing and the allocation of organ transplants require a more sensitive approach to the setting of budgets, and so a more socially responsible attitude towards health care economics is emerging. John Da...

Spike Milligan, the much-loved entertainer, broadcaster and writer, was widely regarded as the most influential British comedian of the 20th Century. He was awarded the CBE, an honorary knighthood plus two Lifetime Achievement His published works include poetry, scripts, novels, letters and general humour including his much-loved and very funny According To... series.

This book covers service provision for people dying from causes other than cancer looking at the difficulties in estimating prognosis for non-cancer patients, the appropriateness of caring for non-cancer patients alongside cancer patients, the balance between acute care, rehabilitative services and palliative care, and the differences and similarities between the hospice philosophy and those underlying , for instance, primary care and geriatrics.

Collected in this volume are the works of Paul Grice, who not only presents a fascinating metaphysical defense of value but also provides a metaphysical foundation for value. Value judgments are viewed as objective, they are part of the world we live in, but are nonetheless constructed by us. We inherit, or seem to inherit, the Aristotelian world in which objects and creatures are characterized by what they are supposed to do. We are thereby e...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1979, "The Dred Scott Case" is a masterful examination of our nation's most famous example of judicial failure--the case referred to as "the most frequently overturned decision in history". 5 line illustrations.

This text provides a clinical framework for the diagnosis and management of more than seventy potential neurological complications that may occur in the HIV infected patient. The clinical framework is designed to be "user friendly" so that even the most inexperienced clinician should be ableto arrive at the correct diagnosis. The neurological complications of HIV disease have considerably changed in the last decade. Not only have more opportun...