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This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. The field of textual criticism remains an exciting one. Thousands of manuscripts have been recovered in recent years. Using the methods of textual criticism, translators have been able to discern from these manuscripts a probably reading of the original New Testament text, a difficult but important task. Several scholarly books describing the process of textual criticism have alr...

Michelle Rosaldo presents an ethnographic interpretation of the life of the Ilongots, a group of some 3, 500 hunters and horticulturists in Northern Luzon, Philippines. Her study focuses on headhunting, a practice that remained active among the Ilongots until at least 1972. Indigenous notions of "knowledge" and "passion" are crucial to the Ilongots' perceptions of their own social practices of headhunting, oratory, marriage, and the organizati...

This collection of essays probes the values in a variety of authors who have had in common the fact of popularity and erstwhile reputation. Why were they esteemed? Who esteemed them? And what has become of their reputations, to readers, to the critic himself? No writer here has been asked to justify the work of his subject, and reports and conclusions about this wide variety of creative writers vary, sometimes emphasizing what the critic belie...

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The history of the Tularosa Basin--which includes White Sands Missile Range--from pioneer days through the atomic age.

Modal Logic" is a textbook on modal logic, intended for readers already acquainted with the elements of formal logic. Brian F. Chellas provides a systematic introduction to the principal ideas and results in contemporary treatments of modality, including theorems on completeness and decidability. Illustrative chapters focus on deontic logic and conditionality. There are nearly 500 exercises. This has been a rapidly expanding branch of logic ov...

A translation of Baldini's acclaimed study of verdi's operatic masterpieces, with new editorial additions.

Here is a popular biography for young and old of one of the most extraordinary Saints in the history of the Church, whose life is filled with surprises. She cut her hair to discourage suitors, had visitations from Our Lord and Our Lady, soon lived on the Eucharist alone, convinced the Pope to return to Rome, converted thousands of people by her holiness and example, was instrumental in electing a new Pope, and received and wrote down the famou...

This innovative and much needed handbook will enable mental health administrators and practitioners to design and implement effective services for disaster victims. Drawing upon their own experiences dealing with disaster victims and upon a wealth of research, the authors present a tightly packed compendium of practical information on three general topics: understanding disaster behavior, developing a crisis counseling program, and treatment t...

Cubierta posterior: En esta nueva obra, Paul Singer realiza una formulación original de los elementos necesarios para el análisis histórico-estructural del empleo y de la fuerza de trabajo en el desarrollo capitalista, especialmente en los países subdesarrollados.Aunque se pueda analizar aisladamente el modo de producción capitalista, abstrayendo los otros modos de producción articulados con él, este análisis halla sus límites precisamente en ...

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This is a completely revised and expanded edition of the Guidebook to Biochemistry. Every chapter has been reviewed and brought up to date. A new chapter, on the cell and membrane transport, has been included, and the single chapter on regulation in the previous edition has been greatly enlarged and divided into two chapters. Other topics that have received particular attention in this edition include lipids, cell membranes and the biochemical...

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An essential introduction to ethics and values, this comprehensive anthology places the perennial human search for ethical values into historical perspective. The philosophers included are: Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, Bentham, Cicero, Dewey, Hartman, Hume, James, Kant, Kierkegaard, Mill, Moore, Nietzsche, Plato, Sartre, Scheler, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Spinoza, St. Augustine, and Stevenson.

Wie die beiden Bände »Ich bin ein Bewohner des Elfenbeinturms« (st 56) und »Als das Wünschen noch geholfen hat« (st 208) zeigen, umfasst das Werk Peter Handkes von Anfang an eine intensive Auseinandersetzung mit den Werken andere Schriftsteller, mit Filmen, bestimmten politischen Ereignissen. Diese Beschäftigung geht, auch in den hier versammelten Texten, nicht von einem vorgegebenen, feststehenden System aus, in das die einzelnen Personen, Fi...