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During the twentieth century the Mexican government invested in the creation and promotion of a national culture more aggressively than any other state in the western hemisphere. Fragments of a Golden Age provides a comprehensive cultural history of the vibrant Mexico that emerged after 1940. Agreeing that the politics of culture and its production, dissemination, and reception constitute one of the keys to understanding this period of Mexican...

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The sculptor Louise Bourgeois is best known for her monumental abstract sculptures, one of the most striking of which is the installation "Spider" (1997). Too vast in scale to be viewed all at once, this elusive structure resists simple narration. It fits both no genre and all of them--architecture, sculpture, installation. Its contents and associations evoke social issues without being reducible to any one of them. Here, literary critic and t...

Authoritative resource for essential concepts and terms in chemical health and safety Chemical health and safety are impacted by federal, state, and local regulations, notably the OSHA Laboratory Standard, and are of concern to a wide range of personnel. Laboratory Health and Safety Dictionary defines basic and essential terms, making it a core reference for experienced as well as novice health and safety professionals. It will also help peop...

An essential collection of favourite nursery songs in a beautifully-illustrated music edition with piano acompaniments and guitar chords - a standard resource for early years settings.

In the opening volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator travels backwards in time in order to tell the story of a love affair that had taken place before his own birth. All Proust's great themes - time and memory, love and loss, art and the artistic vocation - are here in kernel form.

The global trend to replace fossil fuels with clean-burning natural gas leaves it poised to become the growth fuel of the 21st century. This study assesses the prospects for natural gas in the global energy market, and examines the impacts of government regulation and liberalization.

This volume explores the emergence of modern Iraq covering the period since the revolution in 1958 and concentrating on Saddam Hussein's rise to power and his consolidation as leader. It also covers the role and decline of the Iraqi Communist Party and the shifting policies towards the Kurds and the Shi'is.

The author reconstructs collective memory theory in light of the Kazak case, stripping it of its postmodernist baggage, and proposing a place for it in a general theory of religion. This ethnography of Muslim life among the Kazaks of Central Asia describes the sacralisation of land and ethnic identity, local understanding of Islamic purity, the Kazak ancestor cult and its domestic spirituality, pilgrimage at the tombs of Sufi saints, and folk ...

This is one of the first books to take an ecological perspective on uncertainty in spatial data. It applies principles and techniques from geography and other disciplines to ecological research, and thus delivers the tools of cartography, cognition, spatial statistics, remote sensing and computer sciences by way of spatial data. After describing the uses of such data in ecological research, the authors discuss how to account for the effects of...

God and the Problem of Evil" brings together influential essays on the question of whether the amount of seemingly pointless malice and suffering in our world counts against the rationality of belief in God, a being who is said to be all-powerful, all-knowing, and perfectly good.

Auch der vierte und letzte Band der Reihe "Onkologie heute" beschäftigt sich mit einer der häufigsten Krebsformen unserer Gesellschaft: den urogenitalen Carcinomen. Nach einer einleitenden Darstellung der Epidemiologie werden Diagnostik und Therapie folgender Carcinome einzeln abgehandelt: Prostatacarcinome und Hodentumore, Ovarial-, Cervix- und Corpuscarcinome, sowie Carcinome des Übergangsepithels und Nierenzellcarcinome. Das international ...

Internationally, there is now an acceptance of the need to develop new strategies in criminal justice which reflect restorative justice principles. This book provides an up to date and critical account of recent developments.

A stimulating appraisal of a crucial contemporary theme, this comprehensive analysis of globalizaton offers a distinctively cultural perspective on the social theory of the contemporary world. This perspective considers the world as a whole, going beyond conventional distinctions between the global and the local and between the universal and the particular. Its cultural approach emphasizes the political and economic significance of shifting c...

This text aims to teach novice and experienced falconers about how to train the five family groups: hawks, falcons, eagles, buzzards and owls. It discusses the merits of keeping and flying birds from each group, emphasing the welfare of the birds at all times.

Drawing on a range of influential contemporary movements in the social sciences, particularly Critical Theory, this volume introduces a critical analysis for the study of management and the various management functions. The book examines: the relations between power and discursive practices in the modern corporation, the construction of pleasure as a potentially subversive and emancipatory force in organizational life, the double-edged role o...