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M. H. Abrams's writings on the Romantics have had an incalculable influence on the literary history of his time. High Romantic Argument, treating as it does various aspects of Abrams's work, is in a sense an appraisal of that history. Arising from...

Covers specific topics including biometric systems development, military command and control, cellular phone interface design, methodologies for workplace design, medical device design, cockpit display and decision tool design for pilots, driver visual and cognitive processes, and performance of inspection tasks in manufacturing operations.

The wild land of Susquehanna County, traversed but not inhabited by the Lenape tribe, was first settled after the Revolutionary War, mostly by veterans in search of affordable land and willing to pioneer. Their families built homes, churches, and businesses and formed thriving agricultural communities, taking advantage of natural resources like timber and bluestone. Rolling hills, clear lakes, and mountain streams form a scenic and peaceful ba...

On Gratitude is the adventures of a schizophrenic recovering from tobacco who, ironically, is a chemical dependency counselor. This photo recovery book playfully works with recovery issues like unemployment, thinking errors, and addiction and shows that gratitude and humor, despite a psychiatric disability, are important in challenging the addictive logic of coyote, a powerful representation of addiction that can pull the rug out from undernea...

As in other cities, Cleveland has developed through the evolution of its European ethnic neighborhoods and their various religions. Many of these neighborhoods built their own churches, which became the focus of community development and unity. For decades, these churches thrived, but the new millennium has brought with it huge changes in the economy. Large "membership" institutions, like the Catholic Church, have had to make the toughest of d...

The story begins in 1848, when the Moravian Brethren sold 274 acres of farmland to investors who resold them as building lots. By 1855, Asa Packer had laid the tracks of his Lehigh Valley Railroad along the Lehigh River, bringing coal from Carbon County to markets in New York and Philadelphia. Industries rapidly grew, with the Pennsylvania and Lehigh Zinc Company in 1853 and the Saucona Iron Company in 1857. By 1865, South Bethlehem became a b...

Across the world, unpaid care work - unpaid housework, care of persons, and "volunteer" work - is done predominantly by women. This book presents and compares unpaid care work patterns in seven different countries. It analyzes data drawn from large-scale time use surveys carried out under the auspices of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD). With its in-depth concentration on time use patterns in developing nat...

Based on original academic research and first hand evidence, this book explores the interface between politics and international assistance within the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and peace process after 1993 to the present day.

Pneumatic conveying is one of the most popular methods of handling bulk powdered and granular materials in mining, chemical and agricultural industries. This 3rd edition of this successful book covers both theoretical and practical aspects of the subject. It is unique in its blending of academic materials and good industrial design techniques. Each topic is covered in depth, with emphasis placed on the latest techniques, hardware systems and d...

There is a lack of an exposition on interdisciplinary and innovative methods of data mining and visualization for biodata. This book fills the gap by introducing an interdisciplinary set of the most recent methods and references on novel techniques from artificial intelligence, data mining, engineering, pattern recognition, and ontological data mining fields that are applicable to bioinformatics. The latest novel approaches are explained in de...

Management and organization theories have, in the years, developed rich methodological paraphernalia to test hypotheses. Methods and techniques impinging on probability theory and econometrics allow researchers to rigorously test hypotheses and produce robust theories. This book addresses possible applications of computer simulation to theory building in management and organizational theory. The key hypothesis is that modelling and computer si...

Examining First, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights, this reference explains how public administrators must do their jobs and how administrative systems must operate in order to comply with constitutional law.

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While the history of American theatre has been widely documented, the history of its female reviewers has been routinely overlooked. This book seeks to correct that oversight by exploring the role of the great female American critics, thereby expanding their canonical status. The anthology provides a brief description of the women's lives, their working conditions, samples of their writing, and supporting analyses. For some readers, this will ...

When Amy discovers a trunk in her grandfather's attic, she magically travels through it, discovering strange new worlds and embarking on a series of fantastic adventures spanning both time and space. On her journey, Amy encounters dragons, ghosts, and dream-catching fairies who ask her to find the secret of the universe. As she continues her harrowing adventure, Amy is confronted by several opposing forces - the Tempter, Controller, Time-keep...

Das Buch bietet anhand von LEGO Mindstorms NXT-Robotern einen anschaulichen Einstieg in die Informatik. Nach einer allgemeinen Einführung in informationstechnische Prinzipien und Komponenten werden in Teil 2 die NXT-Elemente behandelt. Dazu gehören die Bauteile und ihre Funktionsweisen sowie die grafische Programmierumgebung. Teil 3 führt in die objektorientierte Programmiersprache JAVA und die Programmierung von LEGO-Robotern ein. Softwarepro...

This comprehensive and up-to-date 2nd edition of the Steroid Analysis handbook, written by a team of distinguished experts from around the world concentrates on the analysis of steroids in biological fluids. This edition is based on the same format as the first, primarily dealing with analysis of low levels of steroid analytes in biological fluids, but including an extra chapter on pharmaceutical aspects of steroid analysis. Spectroscopic and ...

A Twentieth-Century Collision explores intellectual culture in the United States during the twentieth century, a topic which cannot be understood without attention to the gradual narrowing of the scope of (academic) philosophy and its diminishing influence. This "narrowing" signifies a growing indifference to, and elimination of, genuinely metaphysical and prescriptively ethical questions, as well as the bifurcation of faith and reason. Americ...

The current global financial and economic crisis has called for the revival of Keynesian theory. This sixth volume in the International Papers in Political Economy (IPPE) series focuses on twenty first century Keynesian economics in terms of both theory and application.

Athanatos Christian Ministries hosted its second annual Christian writing contest (short stories and poems) and is releasing the winning entries in yet another anthology. "Swimming Blind" by Graham Kell is the winning short story entry for the adult category. Topics of the stories range from the serious to the comedic. They tackle 'climate change' and 'global warming, ' evolution, tragic events, and... vikings. More information is available at...