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G Protein Pathways is the first of three volumes examining the nature of heterotrimeric G proteins. The text takes an integrated approach to studying common experimental questions at many different levels related to G proteins. Methods related to G proteins using molecular modeling, systems biology, protein engineering, protein biochemistry, cell biology, and physiology are all accessible in the same volume. The critically acclaimed laboratory...

This book is a history of all branches of Mennonites (including the Amish) from their first arrival in the state of Illinois around 1830 to the present. It deals briefly with Mennonite origins in Europe in the 16th century, points out how the Amish split off from the Mennonites in the 1690s, and depicts Mennonite-Amish migrations to America, especially those who came in the 19th century and settled in Illinois. The work portrays the divisions ...

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A discussion of war and militarism in the drama of the 1590s. It demonstrates that plays about war and the "art of war" literature proliferating in the 1590s intervene in the military realities of the last few years of Elizabeth's reign much more closely than is appreciated.

Telephone Survey Methodology provides essential background on both the shortcomings and advantages of telephone interviewing as well as collecting most of the latest developments in telephone interviewing research. It is highly recommended to all who are interested or involved in telephone surveys."-Journal of Official Statistics Telephone Survey Methodology presents developments in telephone survey techniques from around the world. An intern...

Interweaves literary and publishing histories around the collaborative novel THE WHOLE FAMILY in order to explore categories of readers and writers in the U.S. during the first two decades of the twentieth-century.

This anthology provides a collection of classic articles in criminology/criminal justice written by black scholars and researchers beginning with W E B Dubois up through Lee Brown, the current mayor of Houston, TX. Articles focus on crime and the black community in social, economic, and political contexts. Never before collected in a single volume, this book offers a chronology of late 19th and 20th century perspectives from African-American s...

In the mid-1970s, David M. Schneider rocked the anthropological world with his announcement that kinship did not exist in any culture known to humankind. This volume provides a critical assessment of Schneider's ideas, focusing particularly on his contributions to kinship studies and the implications of his work for cultural relativism.Schneider's deconstruction of kinship as a cultural system sounded the death knell for a certain kind of kins...

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A practical introduction to essential topics at the core of computer science Automata, formal language, and complexity theory are central to the understanding of computer science. This book provides, in an accessible, practically oriented style, a thorough grounding in these topics for practitioners and students on all levels. Based on the authors' belief that the problem-solving approach is the most effective, Problem Solving in Automata, L...

William Paulson is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. His books include The Noise of Culture: Literary Texts in a World of Information, also from Cornell, and Sentimental Education: The Complexity of Disenchantment.

In the late 1960s, Brazilian artists forged a watershed cultural movement known as Tropiclia. Music inspired by that movement is today enjoying considerable attention at home and abroad. Few new listeners, however, make the connection between this music and the circumstances surrounding its creation, the most violent and repressive days of the military regime that governed Brazil from 1964 to 1985. With key manifestations in theater, cinema, v...

First published in hardback in 1997, a fearless explorer journeys through different terrains of the world, and makes it home safely. The colour illustrations each have different creatures to find, to stimulate discussion.

Timeless business wisdom from the brilliant strategists of ancient Greece and Rome

Today, much of Williamsburg appears as it once was-the colonial capital of Virginia, where patriots forged many of the principles of American democracy. This historic city attracts a million visitors a year, including many world leaders. They come to walk the streets trod by George Washington, to stand in the legislative hall where Patrick Henry spoke out for liberty, and to be inspired by the words of Thomas Jefferson.Twentieth-century reside...

One hundred feet above the Delaware River is Merchantville, a spirited community founded in 1874. Many wealthy Philadelphia merchants established residences while others summered in this key South Jersey center for goods and services. In 1926, the building of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge opened the door to a new era of expansion, which continues today, as Merchantville forges ahead on its prosperous path. A sign of Merchantville's past and a c...

Richard Kearney is Professor of Philosophy at Boston College and University College Dublin. He is the author of numerous books on modern philosophy and culture, including Dialogues with Contemporary Continental Thinkers, TheWake of Imagination, and The Poetics of Modernity, as well as two novels and a volume of poetry. His books have been translated in many European languages. In recent years he has been engaged in the debates on ethics, aesth...

Inhaltsangabe:Zusammenfassung: Ein Qm-System wird meist als maßgeschneiderte Einheit verkauft und eingerichtet. Die vorliegende Diplomarbeit beschreibt die Konzeption und Realisierung eines standardisierten, also ¿verallgemeinernden¿ Systems, mit dem von einem identifizierten Endprodukt ausgehend, alle relevanten Prozessparameter, Teilprodukte, Rohmaterialien, Qualitätsprüfungsergebnisse und andere Daten der entsprechenden Produktionseinheit ...

Inhaltsangabe:Problemstellung: Die Unternehmensbewertung ist eine Aufgabe, die sich bei verschiedenen Anlässen im Lebenszyklus eines Unternehmens stellt. Diese Anlässe können z.B. der Kauf oder Verkauf eines Unternehmens, die Zuführung von Eigen- oder Fremdkapital, das Eingehen von Beteiligungen, die Umstrukturierung von Gesellschaften oder die Börseneinführung sein. Gerade bei einem bevorstehenden Börsengang eines Unternehmens kommt der Unt...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Die Sparten des Mediensektors sowie als Summe der gesamte Mediensektor sind traditionell von starken Konzentrationstendenzen in verschiedene Richtungen geprägt. Seit Mitte der 90er Jahre lassen sich medienübergreifendes Angebotsverhalten (cross-publishing), Diversifikationen und Unternehmenszusammenschlüsse nicht nur von und zwischen traditionellen Medienunternehmen beobachten, sondern auch die Märkte für Online-Ange...