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Looking at the communities of Central and West Harlem in New York City, this study explores the locus, form and significance of socioeconomic differentiation for African American professional-managerial workers. It begins by considering centuries of New York City history and the structural elements of class inequality to present readers with the larger context of contemporary events. The primary objective of this study is to examine the everyd...

A comprehensive look at present and future concerns in the allied health care field. Leading experts in allied health practice care field address practice and policy issues that have developed as technology and a changing health care environment have created new and expanded roles for allied health professionals.

The elections of Bill Clinton and Tony Blair in the 1990s saw the consolidation and completion of critical aspects of the Reagan-Thatcher fiscal agenda. This impressive book critically analyzes this process. It has been previously thought that this process of adopting common fiscal policies was caused by economic integration and globalization, Fiscal Policy From Reagan to Blair reveals a much more comprehensive explanation - one that includes ...

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Provides an overview and analysis of how the rise of digital resources for information services, collection development, and professional development has affected the professional work process of librarians.

What role do indigenous religions play in today's world? "Beyond Primitivism" is a complete appraisal of indigenous religions - faiths integrally connected to the cultures in which they originate, as distinct from globa religions of conversion - as practiced across America, Africa, Asia and the Pacific today. At a time when local traditions across the world are colliding with global culture, it explores the future of indigenous faiths as they ...

Through compelling personal stories and in rich detail, McClain reveals the give-and-take interaction between the institutional church in Rome and the needs of believers and the hands-on clergy who provided their pastoral care within England. In doing so, she illuminates larger issues of how believers and low-level clergy push the limits of official orthodoxy in order to meet devotional needs.

This book collects the best new research on globalization and human subjectivity in a classic "nation of immigrants." Contributors from the fields of sociology, anthropology, history and women's studies focus on the everyday social interactions that have made schools, workplaces and neighborhoods key sites of cultural creativity, transformation and resistance.

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The mean curvature of a surface is an extrinsic parameter measuring how the surface is curved in the three-dimensional space. A surface whose mean curvature is zero at each point is a minimal surface, and it is known that such surfaces are models for soap film. This book presents many examples of constant mean curvature surfaces.

Explores genericity of approximation in various categories and presents many applications, including spectral multiplicity and properties of the maximal spectral type. This book contains a treatment of various constructions of cohomological nature with an emphasis on obtaining asymptotic behavior from approximate pictures at different time scales.

Drawing from her expertise on energy matters, Chambers delivers an unparalleled guide to this emerging market and provides readers with everything needed for a solid understanding of renewable energy.

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An examination of self-representation in US culture. Drawing on studies of the history of the book, Pierre Bourdieu's sociology, and ethnic and gender revisionism, it focuses on the processes of national development, the self-construction of authorial personae and the appropriation of the personae by interpretive communities.

With over 600 wide-ranging and informative entries, this dictionary provides the reader with an invaluable reference aid to all areas of Judaism.

This book explores the history and latest developments in the SiC field, with an emphasis on the properties and applications of SiC to electronics and optoelectronics.

While many Western scholars have discussed the technical aspects of Balinese music or the traditional contexts for performance, little has been written in Western languages about Balinese discourses on their music. This book seeks to understand the experience of music in Bali according to Balinese voices through an analysis of oral and written discourses on music, mainly by musicians and shadow play puppeteers from the village of Sukawat, and ...