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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

The philosophy of this book is that organizations should provide "good work" in which people utilize their unique talents in a working environment conducive to mental and physical health. The book provides practical advice on managing work force diversity, the interface of family with the work place, and the impact of technology on workers. It explains the positive effects of training and participative planning. Appendices contain training out...

Commentary and Ideology" makes a timely appearance into the theoretical discussions of today. Parker's work is informed by such theorists as Jauss and Bakhtin and by new developments in bibliographic studies, and this offers a perspective on her material which is both original and truly exciting."--Craig William Kellendorf, Texas A & M University

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Published to wide acclaim in 1974, Thomas E. Skidmore's intellectual history of Brazilian racial ideology has become a classic in the field. Available for the first time in paperback, this edition has been updated to include a new preface and bibliography that surveys recent scholarship in the field. "Black into White" is a broad-ranging study of what the leading Brazilian intellectuals thought and propounded about race relations between 1870 ...

A description and analysis of the parts played by Argentina's major political actors: the political parties, armed forces, labour unions, the Catholic Church, and students. Their traditional roles are examined, but emphasis is placed upon the dramatic transition to democracy beginning in 1983.

»Die Hauptthematik von >Der Richter und sein Henker< findet man unter anderem bei Dashiell Hammett, Rex Stout, Raymond Chandler und Georges Simenon. Grundthema: der Kampf zweier Parteien, deren eine ein einzelner Detektiv ist. Die >gute< Partei, Inspektor Bärlach, ist todkrank, und es bleibt ihm nicht mehr viel Zeit, den Verbrecher Gastmann zu überführen.«

This book explores the formative period when Scotland acquired the characteristics that enabled it to enter fully into the comity of medieval Christendom. These included a monarchy of a recognizably continental type, a feudal organisation of aristocratic landholding and military service, national boundaries, and a body of settled law and custom.

In 1989, the First International Symposium on Cytokines in Hemopoiesis, Oncology, and AIDS was held in Hanover, FRG. Since then there has been an explosion of knowledge in this field. New cytokines have been discovered, on which data are presented in this book, and receptors have already been cloned for many cytokines. In clinical application, some cytokines such as TNF have almost completely left the stage, but this may not be for ever. Enorm...

Drawing upon a range of sources, this study examines US foreign trade policy in the 1960s. The text probes the Kennedy and Johnson presidencies as they faced the rise of what was then the six-nation EEC and Japan as major trade rivals.

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Blurb & Contents" "Marvelous reading, with few problems of the interaction between science/technology and society left untouched. One need not always agree, but one cannot come away without a better education....I found the parts on scientific administration and on the interaction of science and society excellent and provocative reading, and the parts on energy and nuclear energy very much to the point." American Journal of Physics Alvin Weinb...

Relatively few academics or practitioners have systematically explored growth stocks. Growth stocks usually involve exciting companies whose sales and earnings are growing significantly faster than other companies and the economy in general. This book finds that high expectation growth stocks or the ones that everyone loves have poor relative returns. Low expectation growth stocks, however, have strong performance. The author uses the PE/GROWT...

Shows how Supreme Court dissenting opinions later came to prevail in redefining the Constitution.

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An annotated guide to sources for the study of the literary small press, focusing on small press publishing since 1960 when the "Mimeo Revolution" occurred, allowing small presses in the United States to flourish. A number of sources concerning the small press from 1960 to 1990 is provided.

Links the formal linguistic study of Portuguese with the social context in which language is used. The studies cover a wide range of topics, including phonology, morphology, pragmatics, syntax and discourse, and challenge parts of widely recognized theoretical models of language.

Fifteen distinguished scholars contribute original essays that analyze A Streetcar Named Desire, one of the most significant plays in modern theatre, from various critical or cultural stances, methods, or modalities. Represented as individual points of view or touched upon in the analysis are the theories of Lacan and Foucault and the tenets of Marxism, the approaches of Feminism, Reader Response Criticism, Deconstructionism, Chaos and Anti-Ch...

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