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In 1982 the Kanazawa Institute of Technology Library Center inaugurated an seminar program and invited scholars from all over the world to participate. This volume brings together papers presented between 1982 and 1992 on topics like research libraries and information access in the new era.

Here is the song of the train. Listen as it rushes past big cities and small towns. Listen as it sweeps through forests and fields and into tunnels. Hear the whistle wailing, brakes squealing, wheels rolling, r-o-l-l-i-n-g, stop. Now the train is homeward bound. All aboard! Notable Children's Books of 1991 (ALA)Best Books of 1991 (SLJ)100 Favorite Paperbacks 1994 (IRA/CBC)Notable 1990 Childrens' Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC)Children...

Insightful and humorous profiles of more than 125 of the Bible's holiest and most profane people--and one whale--from the celebrated author of Listening to Your Life. "Frederick Buechner is one of our finest writers".--Annie Dillard. 107 line drawings.

In 1930 Al Capone was the most famous American alive. Now, the bestselling author of Geneen, the acclaimed biography of ITT founder Harold Geneen, reveals the real Capone and how he ran his operation. Schoenberg's scrupulous research shows that Capone was a man as calculating and brutal as his legend. Photos.

Twas the night before Christmas" begins Clement C. Now the tradition continues in a new All Aboard Book, with gem-like illustrations capturing all the magic of this special season. Full color.

A humble shoemaker hears the bells ringing at Lexington and responds to a call to battle. An aide to George Washington recounts his feelings as he crosses the Delaware. A young surgeon describes in his diary the horror of an army camp, where the spread of smallpox, frostbite, and starvation are deadlier than any sword. These are the voices of the American Revolutionaries.Most of us know about the American Revolution only from secondhand accoun...

A critical case study of the press coverage of the corruption trial of former Guam governor, Ricardo Bordallo. Besides analysis of the media produced during the trial, this book includes interviews conducted with key personnel, trial participants, Bordallo's press secretary and cultural critics.

When I was little, I could hardly do anything.But now I can do lots of things, like braid my own hair and go to nmusery school. I'm not a baby anymore. I'm me!"Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell perfectly capture a little girl's simple, childlike celebration of herself, as she looks back on her childhood from the lofty height of four and a half years. This spirited view of growing up is perfect for the youngest readers.

Following the publication of the Handbook of the Brief Psychotherapies (Wells & Giannetti, 1990), the editors began to conceptualize the idea of a collection of case studies encompassing a number of the commonly en­ countered clinical problems that have been treated with such ap­ proaches. The Casebook of the Brief Psychotherapies is the result. The Case­ book details clinical interventions with client populations as diverse as substance abuse...

Im Zentrum dieses Buches steht die Frage nach geeigneten Planungs- und Steuerungsinstrumenten für das strategische Qualitätsmanagement. Dabei werden erstmals konsequent und durchgängig die Grundsätze des Total Quality Management (TQM) berücksichtigt. Ausgehend von einem umfassenden Qualitätsverständnis werden dazu zunächst die Komponenten und Prinzipien des TQM herausgestellt. Diese bilden dann den Rahmen für die Entwicklung zweier qualitätsor...

In dieser Arbeit werden im Rahmen eines neuen systemtheoretischen Ansatzes fortdauernde Effekte im Außenhandel analysiert. Die völlige Analogie von magnetischer und außenwirtschaftlicher Hysteresis wird aufgezeigt, hierbei wird die Veränderung in dem Charakter der Hysteresis bei der Aggregation von der Mikro- zur Makro-Ebene betont: Auf Mikro-Ebene müssen bestimmte Schwellenwerte überschritten werden, um dauerhafte Wirkungen nur temporärer Stö...

Jeder niedergelassene Arzt f}hrt einen Betrieb. Er ist weder im Studium nochin seiner weiteren klinischen Ausbildung auf diese wichtige Aufgabe vorbereitet worden. Personal und Personalf}hrung sind ein besonders wichtiger Teil der Betriebsf}hrung. Das Personal pr{gt entscheidend das Bild und Klima der Praxis. Auswahl und Einstellung des Personals wollen genau }berlegt sein. Personal mu~ gef}hrt und betreut werden, das hei~t auch, da~ de...

The current volume focuses on behavioral similarities and differences within individual animals, larger populations, and species as a whole. Research from ecological, social ontogenetic, physiological, and other perspectives is presented to explicate specific behaviors, as well as to provide a more profound understanding of how behavior work influences thought about evolutionary processes.

A satellite passes. It dips lower in its orbit to have a closer look at Central Asia. The sweep of its vision glosses the Celestial Mountains and the Mountains of Chaos. Its prying lenses probe the Taklamakhan, the Himalaya and the headwaters of Asia's greatest rivers. Mother Ganges, the Brahmaputra and the Yellow River, the Salween, Yangtze and Mekong all lie exposed beneath its arc. It's focus is Tibet. At least a few satellites pass over Ti...

In this volume of Methods in Pharmacology we have brought together experts in the field of ion channels to provide the reader with an in-depth view of current biochemical and electrophysiological methods. The focus is on cation-selective ion channels (voltage controlled Of ligand controlled) that are of special pharmacological interest. The con­ tents are divided into three sections that exemplify {I) molecular and biochemical characterization...

A valuable addition to the repertory of Asian American plays, this outstanding collection of six plays by Genny Lim, Wakako Yamauchi, Momoko Iko, Velina Hasu Houston, Jeannie Barroga, and Elizabeth Wong provides some of the most significant work to date from women in this group". -- Choice

Preface Editor's Introduction Author's Introduction to the Pearl of Mysteries and the Treasure of the Righteous 1. His Noble Lineage, Travels, and Rank Testimony of Ibn Futuh: Alchemy, and Divine Protection Story of the Woodcutter Al-Habibi, First Companion Testimony of al-Ibri: Mount Zaghawan, Birds, and the Spring Intervention of Ibn al-Bara' and Abu Zakariya Narration of Madi Testimony of Abu 'Abd Allah, the Copyist 'Izz al-Din a...

This work provides a selection of underground documents of the two leading bodies of the Intifada: the United National Command and the Islamic Resistance Movement, known as Hamas. Mishal analyses these documents in order to understand the forces that turned the wheels of the Palestinian uprising.

In the autumn of 1990 there was a sense of change taking place in the world economy. Readiness for war was occurrin~ in the Middle East and a recession was already underway in a few major countries. The forces of reform and political re-shaping were visible in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. We economists, gathering in Osaka, Japan, under the auspices of the International Institute for Advanced Studies (Kyoto) could recognize that the Col...

Traces the development of the documentary films produced for presidential candidates from Calvin Coolidge in 1923 to George Bush and Bill Clinton in 1992. The work analyses the production of candidates' images as the films evolve from classical to modern forms.