Based both on extensive fieldwork and detailed study of local records, O'Neill offers a different perspective to the traditional image of northern Iberian mountain settlements.
Analysis of variance (ANOVA) is a core technique for analysing data in the Life Sciences. In this reference book, the gap between statistical theory and practical data analysis is bridged by presenting a comprehensive set of tables for all standard models of analysis of variance and covariance with up to three treatment factors. This book will serve as a tool to help post-graduates and professionals define their hypotheses, design appropriate ...
Explores the epoch journeys of human beings as they first ventured beyond Earth's atmosphere, starting in the early 1960s, and traveled into outer space. This book follows the evolution of space technology since the dawn of the Space Age, addressing such topics as human survival in space, and a spacecraft's ability to launch people into orbit.
A surprisingly little-known marque today, Elcar once ranked among the finest vehicles on American roads. This remarkably exhaustive history details every Elcar model and the Pratt vehicles that preceded them. Lavishly illustrated and a well of information.
This book provides a thorough historical overview of U.S. and U.N. sanctions against North Korea since 1950. Several essays propose ways to make such sanctions more politically effective while limiting their harmful humanitarian consequences. The book also discusses the impact of the newest, six-nation agreement signed in February 2007 which would shut down North Koreas nuclear facility in return for economic aid and a security guarantee.
This work offers a complete episode guide and comprehensive history of Second City Television. The influential Canadian sketch comedy series created dozens of memorable characters (i.e. station president Guy Caballero and showbiz mogul Johnny LaRue) and featured well-known performers such as John Candy, Catherine O'Hara, and Martin Short, at the height of their comedic careers. Presenting a thorough summary and review for each of SCTV's 135 ep...
This work focuses on the principal trends and chief personnel essential to journalistic development in each country, and incorporates analysis of how each countrys journalists influenced, or were influenced by, journalists from outside its borders.
This book presents the first comprehensive anthropological account of premodern Tibetan pastoral economy and social organization in the Kham region of eastern Tibet, and convincingly readdresses anthropological debates and political claims about feudalism or serfdom in Tibetan societies.
You're happily married with a beautiful family . when tragedy strikes not once but twice. Iris Davis is a woman of faith and courage who has relied on these traits to survive the sudden loss of her beloved husband and son. How do you go on when life deals such harsh blows? How do you make a life for yourself when the lives of those you love end so suddenly? The answers are here, in Iris Davis's memoir, CHASING THE WIND.
Sieben Jahre alt ist Annette, als ihre Mutter stirbt. Nun muss sie auf dem kleinen Bergbauernhof in den Schweizer Alpen für ihren Vater und den kleinen Bruder Dani sorgen. Bei einem Streit mit dem Nachbarsjungen Lukas verunglückt Dani schwer. Annettes Hass kennt keine Grenzen. Sie scheut kein Mittel, um Lukas zu »bestrafen« - und wird dabei selbst unglücklich. Eines Tages erfährt Lukas, dass es eine Möglichkeit geben könnte, das Böse wiedergut...
In spring 1962, a young black girl is killed at a civil rights demonstration on a university campus in Atlanta. The next day a home in Georgia is burned. Both events are etched into the memory of Cole Bishop, eerily playing out the predictions of a former classmate named Marie Fitzpatrick. Cole and Marie are high school seniors when they first meet in fall 1954. He is a native-born Southerner accepting the traditions of segregation as a way of...
This book presents, compares, and develops various techniques for estimating market power - the ability to set price profitably above marginal cost - and strategies - the game-theoretic plans used by firms to compete with rivals. The authors start by examining static model approaches to estimating market power. They extend the analysis to dynamic models. Finally, they develop methods to estimate firms' strategies directly and examine how these...
David Goldblatt was born in 1965 and inherited, for his sins, Tottenham Hotspurs from his father. His books include Social Theory and the Environment, Global Transformations and the World Football Yearbook. He currently lives in Bristol, the Bermuda triangle of football prowess, where he spreads his affections amongst Spurs, Bristol Rovers and Bristol City.
As the world watched the crumbling away of communist regimes in Eastern Europe, the pro-democracy movement in China was dealt a severe blow in June of 1989. Also referred to as the June 4th Incident, the Tiananmen Square protest included students, intellectuals, and workers demanding democratic reforms and social change. To break up the escalating protest armed soldiers stormed the square killing close to two hundred demonstrators and injuring...
