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Reprint des Originals von 1907 über die Radioaktivität vom Nobelpreisträger Ernest Rutherford.

Argues that hunger is a deeply social issue and that without strengthening communities, there is little prospect for ending world hunger.

A carefully researched history of the political achievements of the 1960s including a valuable dateline for activists, journalists and historians.

Airline industry has played an important role in transporting passengers in the U.S. In terms of the number of passengers, air service recorded the largest market share among the for-hire passenger transportation services in 2004. This study addresses three important issues in the U.S. airline industry: demand, pricing behaviors, and carrier's price strategies. The first essay discusses the demand for U.S. air-passenger service by employing ma...

Background: Previous studies have reported on the patterns of use of first-line chemotherapy with platinum doublets in advanced NSCLC. There are no studies of patterns of use of newer agents in advanced NSCLC. We evaluated the nationwide incidence and predictors of use of new agents including bevacizumab, erlotinib, and pemetrexed. Methods: We retrospectively selected patients with stage IIIB/IV NSCLC diagnosed in 2005 from a random sample dra...

In "Gaming Matters, " McAllister and Ruggill turn from the broader discussion of video game rhetoric to study the video game itself as a medium and the specific features that give rise to games as similar and yet diverse as Pong, Tomb Raider, and Halo.

Bitter Water presents the narrative of four Dine women forced to relocate from their native lands. This is the first book that centers on the stories of the women who have lived during this period - in their own words and in the Navajo language. It is a chronicle of resistance and lifeways spoken from the hearts of those who have lived it.

The second edition of Consumer Culture explores the nature and role of consumption in modern societies. Celia Lury's revision of this classic establishes the importance of new object-based studies for consumer culture, and incorporates new chapters on branding and the rise of ethical consumption. Drawing on a wide range of studies, and using contemporary illustrations, the emergence of consumer culture and the changing relations between the pr...

Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but also a dominant figure in post-World War II British writing as a novelist, poet, critic, and polemicist. Zachary Leader's definitive, authorized biography conjures in vivid detail the life of one of the most controversial figures of twentieth-century literature, renowned for his blistering intelligence, savage wit, and belligerent fierceness of opinion.

Almost half of new teachers leave the profession within their first year. New teachers need support, mentoring, encouragement, and, most importantly, hope in order to survive the challenges of their first years of teaching. Burned In features essays from todays most visionary educators, including Jim Burke, Peter Elbow, James Loewen, Gregory Michie, Sonia Nieto, Kirsten Olson, and Parker Palmer. Their personal stories will help fuel new and ve...

In The Real Dope, Edgar-Andre Montigny brings together leading scholars from a diverse range of fields--including history, law, political science, criminology, and psychology--to examine the relationship between moral judgment and legal regulation in the debate surrounding the potential decriminalization of marijuana.

Signs" is a noun (as in DO NOT DISTURB), "Wonders" (as in "with furrowed brows"), a verb. The couplet that leads into Charles Martin's fifth collection of richly inventive poems suggests that the world is to be read into and wondered over. The signs in this new work from the prize-winning American poet of formal brilliance and darkly comic sensibility are as stark as the one on a cage at the zoo that says ENDANGERED SPECIES, as surprising as t...

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Available for the first time in one volume, Daniel Heath Justice's acclaimed Thorn and Thunder novels take Indigenous fantasy fiction beyond its stereotypes.

This book looks at the problem of design verification with a view towards speeding up the process of verification by developing methods that apply to levels of abstraction above RTL or synchronous logic descriptions. Typically such descriptions capture design functionality at the system level, hence the topic area is also referred to as system level verification. Since such descriptions can also capture software, especially device drivers or o...

Poet Brian Barker attempts to make sense of some of the darkest chapters in history while peering forward to what lies ahead as the world totters in the wake of human complacence. Unveiled here are ruminations on human torture, the Chernobyl disaster, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and genocide against Native Americans.

In this cultural history of Cuba during the United States' brief but influential occupation from 1898 to 1902--a key transitional period following the Spanish-American War--Marial Iglesias Utset sheds light on the complex set of pressures that guided the formation and production of a burgeoning Cuban nationalism. Drawing on archival and published sources, Iglesias illustrates the process by which Cubans maintained and created their own cultura...

For most musicians and musicologists in the West, traditional Albanian music remains an obscure subject. In reality, Albania has produced a monumental cultural and corresponding musical heritage. This book examines the distinct musical culture of southeastern Europe, both monophonic and polyphonic, by delineating its four main musical dialects: Gheg, Tosk, Lab and Urban. The origins, fundamental features, musical styles and genres of the four ...

In its rich history, cinematic animation has developed from silent monochrome images to sound-filled shorts that ran theatrically with newsreels and aventure serials, and ultimately to prestigious feature films like Disney's Fantasia. This expanded update of Graham Webb's The Animated Film Encyclopedia: 1900-1979 (McFarland, 2000) is a compehensive listing of theatrical animated cartoons throughout the 20th Century, as well as significant anim...

In this first-ever popular introduction to "maglev"-- the use of magnetic forces to overcome gravity and friction--Livingston takes lay readers on a journey of discovery, from maglev nanotechnology to Chinese trains that travel at 250 mph without touching the tracks. He finds magic in "fighting friction by fighting gravity.