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Thirteen essays on the U.S.-Mexico borderlands examine the cultural interplay between the two countries as representative of the interaction between Anglo and Hispanic America. They explore such topics as the evocation of the Southwest in the writings of Harvey Fergusson, Miguel Mendez, and Rudolfo Anaya, the role of the American writers John Dos Passos and Katherine Anne Porter in bringing contemporary Mexican painters to the attention of cri...

The true adventure of a WEC missionary family's ministry among the Carapana Indians in the wild jungles of Colombia.

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Three clever billy goats outwit a big, ugly troll who lives under the bridge they must cross on their way up the mountain.

This volume explores how the vocabulary choice of late 18th-century writers gave them a different force and moral value from Wordsworth, Coleridge and Shelley. It also examines the major theories of how syntax functions in poetry, using examples from Shakespeare to Paul Valery.

Forty-year-old Michael Saunders abandons his upscale lifestyle and shady consulting business for the wilds of northern Ontario when he inherits a run-down tourist lodge. In the course of renovating his boyhood home, he contends with wealthy mobsters, a series of natural disasters, and his growing desire for a stubbornly independent woman. Jake MacDonald's love of the wilderness and off-center sense of humour make thiscontemporary chronicle of ...

These essays provide both an overview of Bruno Bettelheim's contributions to psychoanalysis and education and a reflection on present issues confronting child psychiatry, education, and the social sciences. It will point to new directions for scholarly study and psychoanalytic intervention.

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This book brings together physicians, scientists and those concerned with the production and use of anti-inflammatory drugs to discuss basic issues affecting all aspects of side-effects, including their detection and treatment. The chapters cover a wide variety of topics including the epidemiology, clinical and experimental aspects of side-effects in the GI tract, liver, kidney, cartilage, bone and skin as well as the problems associated with ...

This volume contains the proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Numerical Integration that took place in Bergen, Norway, in June 1991. It includes papers for all invited talks and a selection of contributed talks. The papers are organized into four parts: numerical integration rules, numerical integration error analysis, numerical integration applications and numerical integration algorithms and software, many papers are relevan...

This volume posits two theories of behavioral pediatrics: that scientific and clinical study of organism--environment transactions requires investigators to alter recognize the importance of systemic models over mechanistic models, and that attention must be given to environmental contexts of development, and to the events in the environment that trigger and regulate the organization, development, and expression of human behavior.

The coverage in this series ranges from the experimental to the theoretical, providing something for all readers committed to the safe and useful development of nuclear power and its associated technologies.

The demand for safety in modern industrial processes has come to involve an increasing demand for teleoperated devices in order to avoid the exposure of humans to hazardous conditions during the operation, maintenance under normal or abnormal conditions, and decommissioning of equipment after its useful lifetime has terminated. An important landmark for teleoperations has been reached in the 1990s as the first commercial nuclear power stations...

This set of Building 2000 brochures illustrates how architects and other building designers can successfully apply passive solar principles to produce energy-efficient buildings. Building 2000 is a pilot project of the European Commission's R & D programme `Solar Energy Applications to Buildings', encouraging the adoption of solar architectures in large buildings. There was an enthusiastic response from project teams responsible for the design...