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Examining Calvino's literary experiments as a young artist in search of his narrative voice, Ricci explores the psychological and existential motivations intrinsically linked to the writer's need for textual and systemic patterning. I racconti contains some of Calvino's least-read works, yet these early stories address issues, present scenarios and generate a growing variation of themes that form the heart of Calvino's narrative discourse. Ric...

A book about teamwork and effective management in the context of long-term care administration. It is designed for student practitioners and educators who are seeking to develop and improve their managerial skills and effectiveness in eliciting quality performance from all members in a team.

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Für die Umformungspraxis wird in dieser Publikation eine verbesserte Methode zur Fließkurvenaufnahme und die Möglichkeit vorgestellt, durch bewußt gewählte anisotrope Werkstoffe das Umformvermögen oder die Festigkeit von Bauteilen rictungsabhängig zu steigern. Ausgangsbasis ist der Zylinderstauchversuch mit Schmiertaschen nach Rastegaev. Er ermöglicht bei günstiger Dimensionierung der Schmiertaschenabmessung eine weitgehend homogene Stauchung ...

Beyond question Shelley scholars and 19th-century specialists will value this usefully annotated and carefully produced edition." -- Washington Post

Marin Harris tells how we evolved from apes, acquired powers of speech, and went on to fill the world with a dazzling diversity of societies and cultures. Writing with the same wit, humor and style of his earlier bestsellers, this noted anthropologist traces our roots and views our eventual destiny.

Two acclaimed addiction experts offer their sure-fire program for getting clean to the more than thirty million Americans whosuffer addictions to drugs, fo od, alcohol, or obsessive work, shopping, and sex behavior.

Wade Whitehouse is an unlikely protagonist of a tragedy. Wade looms in one's mind as a bluecollar American Everyman afflicted by the dark secret of the macho tradition, his tale told by his articulate, equally-scarred younger brother. "Part thriller, part psychological study, part indictment of the American way of violence."...--Newsday.

In these essays the pre-eminent historian of early modern Spain and its world looks at the character of the Spanish Habsburg court, the ties between sixteenth-and seventeenth-century Spain, the rest of Europe, and the New World, and the decline of Spanish world power.

Rheumatoid arthritis demands intensive interdisciplinary cooperation between the orthopaedic surgeon and internist, and this monograph provides all the information necessary for the specialist dealing with inflammatory changes of the hip joint in rheumatoid arthritis. The reaction of the joint to rheumatoid arthritis is generally uniform, but the diagnoses may vary. For this reason, particular attention is paid to the differential diagnosis of...

Twenty-four Vietnam veterans from the American South tell their most daring and dramatic combat stories. An expression of both a region's pride and an experience universal among those who fought in the jungles of Vietnam, this is a fascinating testament to the thousands who gave so much for so little.

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Illus. in full color. "Mr. Piggott and his sons are a male chauvinist lot who, outside of yelling for their dinner, don't exercise themselves much around the house. When Mrs. Piggott finally tires of the endless chores that sandwich her workday, she leaves the menfolk on their own, with a note saying, 'You are pigs.' With the cooking and housework untended, they soon turn genuinely porcine, a transformation Browne foreshadows with pig faces on...

(White) has clearly made significant advances in laying a foundation for a better understanding of the intricate interaction between narrative representation and what it purports to represent in both history and literature." -- "American Historical Review.

This volume contains the papers presented at the International Scientific Symposium "Natural Language and Logic" held in Hamburg in May 1989. The aim of the papers is to present and discuss latest developments in the application of logic-based meth- ods for natural language understanding. Logic-based methods have gained in importance in the field of computational linguistics as well as for representing various types of knowledge in natural lan...

Advances in Taxation publishes relevant, quality manuscripts from around the world on any aspect of federal, state, local, or international taxation including tax compliance, tax planning, tax policy issues, and current issues in tax.

These proceedings of the workshop on quantum probability held in Heidelberg, September 26-30, 1988 contains a representative selection of research articles on quantum stochastic processes, quantum stochastic calculus, quantum noise, geometry, quantum probability, quantum central limit theorems and quantum statistical mechanics.

The Second Silivri Workshop functioned as a short summer school and a working conference, producing lecture notes and research papers on recent developments of Stochastic Analysis on Wiener space. The topics of the lectures concern short time asymptotic problems and anticipative stochastic differential equations. Research papers are mostly extensions and applications of the techniques of anticipative stochastic calculus.

In John Updike's fourth and final novel about ex-basketball player Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, the hero has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo, and a second grandchild. His son, Nelson, is behaving erratically, his daughter-in-law, Pru, is sending out mixed signals, and his wife, Janice, decides in midlife to become a working girl. As, through the winter, spring, and summer of 1989, Reagan's debt-ridden, AIDS-plagued America yields to that o...