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An overview of Roman women's roles and functions in religion and, by extension, in Rome's history and culture during both the republic and the empire. This work examines major female deities and cults, to show how conservative Roman society adopted and integrated Greek culture into its mythic history, artistic expressions, and religion.

Using the coercive sterilization of Mexican-origin women in Los Angeles as a case study, this title opens a dialogue on the racial politics of reproduction, and how they have developed for women of Mexican origin in the United States.

The principal message of this book is that thermodynamics and statistical mechanics will benefit from replacing the unfortunate, misleading and mysterious term ¿entropy¿ with a more familiar, meaningful and appropriate term such as information, missing information or uncertainty. This replacement would facilitate the interpretation of the ¿driving force¿ of many processes in terms of informational changes and dispel the mystery that has always...

Experience the tongue-in-cheek action adventure sensation that Newsarama called "some of the wittiest comic dialog ...in a long time." He's Alex Martin, the down-on-his-luck actor whose star is rising thanks to a roadside rescue caught on tape. She's Rachel Dodd, the bodyguard assigned to keep him alive after several mysterious attempts on his life. Will Rachel be able to keep Alex alive long enough to get to the bottom of the attacks on the a...

If you want to speed up the development of your .NET applications, you're ready for C# design patterns -- elegant, accepted and proven ways to tackle common programming problems. This practical guide offers you a clear introduction to the classic object-oriented design patterns, and explains how to use the latest features of C# 3.0 to code them. C# Design Patterns draws on new C# 3.0 language and .NET 3.5 framework features to implement the 2...

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On July 8-11, 2006, the first ever truly International Congress of Roman Catholic Ethicists occurred in Padua (see www.catholicethics.com). Four hundred Roman Catholic ethicists from all over the world met to exchange ideas, not under the aegis of the Roman Catholic Church, but under the patronage of a Dutch foundation and UNESCO. These ethicists, caught up in their own specific cultures, recognize the need to confront the challenge of plurali...

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As the most comprehensive reference work dealing with decision support systems (DSS), this book is essential for the library of every DSS practitioner, researcher, and educator. Written by an international array of DSS luminaries, its more than 70 chapters approach decision support systems from a wide variety of perspectives ranging from classic foundations to cutting-edge thought, informative to provocative, theoretical to practical, historic...

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Kompetenzdiagnostik: ein neues Schlagwort, mit dem viele Hoffnungen verbunden werden. Hintergrund für das Interesse am Thema sind zum einen Schwächen üblicher diagnostischer Verfahren, wie z.B. Probleme der Validität und Aussagekraft der bisherigen Erfassung von Lernvoraussetzungen und Lernergebnissen. Zum anderen aber gibt es etliche neue Methoden, neue Zugänge, über die zu informieren sich lohnt. Das Sonderheft der ZfE zielt auf die Klärun...

Integrative medicine strives to incorporate the best of complementary and conventional modalities. By examining five prestigious comprehensive cancer centers, the authors focus on the innovative ways in which integrative oncology is being incorporated into conventional cancer care in the United States. The authors discuss the field of integrative oncology, the potential harm and legal issues, and how to communicate concepts and treatment with ...

Celebrating the Spanish Renaissance's greatest poems and offering a new appreciation of Spain's "Golden Age, " Edith Grossman turns her passionate fervor and stylistic brilliance to the works of Jorge Manrique, Garcilaso de la Vega, a soldier and courtier who wrote love poetry, Fray Luis de León, a converso Jew, San Juan de la Cruz, whose poems are the finest exemplars of Christian mysticism, Luis de Góngora, a great sensualist, Lope de Vega, ...

Aims to change the way Americans think about their cities. This book provides an economic and social history of urban America, covering the 29 largest urban areas of that period. It draws on the concepts of the vicious circle and the virtuous circle to offer an explanation for the transition from urban crisis to urban rebirth.

The forces of globalization are shifting our world away from hierarchy and command and control toward one of collaboration and networks. The way public leadership is thought about and practiced must be, and is being, transformed. This volume explores what the shift looks like and also offers guidance on what it should look like.

Atheism Explained" explores the claims made both for and against the existence of God. On the pro side: that the wonders of the world can only be explained by an intelligent creator, that the universe had to start somewhere, telepathy, out-of-body experiences, and other paranormal phenomena demonstrate the existence of a spirit world, and that those who experience God directly provide evidence as real as any physical finding. After disputing t...

If you are thinking about fostering or adoption, this is a good book to start with. It doesn't offer beautiful pictures of waiting infants or angelic toddlers. Those, you can get from any agency. Instead, in fifty-two short chapters on different topics related to adoption and foster care, this book invites you to consider and prepare for realistic possibilities your agency may not think to mention. This book is written from the point of vie...

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The aim of the book is to clarify the concept of omniscience. This is done first by discussing basic questions on omniscience (chs.1-12) and secondly by offering a theory of omniscience as an axiomatic system in which also a definition of omniscience is given (ch.13). The twelve chapters deal with questions like whether everything is true what God knows, whether God¿s knowledge is bound to time, whether it concerns singular truths or only laws...