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This is the first collection of essays in any language on Aulus Gellius. Its contributors, both established and younger scholars, include Gellian experts looking out with specialists in other fields looking in, they combine traditional and new approaches. Subjects range from the bilingual culture in which Gellius wrote, through his stylistic judgements, his skills in etymology and narrative, his relation to the antiquarian tradition, the gener...

The dynamics of realistic Hamiltonian systems has unusual microscopic features that are direct consequences of its fractional space-time structure and its phase space topology. The book deals with the fractality of the chaotic dynamics and kinetics, and also includes material on non-ergodicand non-well-mixing Hamiltonian dynamics. The book does not follow the traditional scheme of most of today's literature on chaos. The intention of the autho...

Twentieth-Century Poetry presents detailed studies of the pressures and processes involved when twentieth-century poets have composed poems. It not only deals with the forces working upon them, but also the aesthetic, political, and human pressures that they may deploy when negotiating with these forces.

In this book, Haridimos Tsoukas, one of the most imaginative organization theorists of our time, examines the nature of knowledge in organizations, and how individuals and scholars approach the concept of knowledge. Tsoukas firstly looks at organizational knowledge and its embessedness insocial contexts and forms of life. He shows that knowledge is not just a collection of free floating representations of the world to be used at will, but an a...

Television as we know it was invented through processes of trial and error. This book delivers the uncertainties and excitements of 1955-65 by looking at women's programs, current affairs, and popular drama. Programs had to be devised and the mass audience built. Though women were central to this audience their images were often demeaning, in line with fifties paternalism. Janet Thumim brilliantly illuminates television's role in Britain of th...

How do mixtures of differently sized and shaped molecules form the plastic solids known as waxes? Firstly, the book considers the characteristic crystalline assemblies of important wax ingredients, secondly, it looks at assemblies of two separate components and finally, based on the rules derived from the first two studies, it shows how plausible molecular models for several types of wax can be constructed.

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Tools For Your Emotional Health Toolbox is a practical resource for school counselors and therapists, filled with great activities, lesson plans, and information handouts to help empower teens and adults.

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This volume consists of six parts, each part expounding on a separate component of the field. Part 1, "Rent Seeking: An Overview", brings together two papers that focus on problems of defining rent-seeking behaviour and outline the nature of the ongoing research program in a historical perspective. Part 2, "More on Efficient Rent Seeking", contains four contributions in which Tullock elaborates on his 1980 article on efficient rent seeking. Pa...

Insects and fungi have a shared history of association in common habitats where together they endure similar environmental conditions, but only recently have mycologists and entomologists recognized and had the techniques to study the intricacies of some of the associations. This new volumecovers "seven wonders of the insect-fungus world" for which exciting new results have become available, often due to the use of new methods that include phy...