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Stimulating, thought-provoking utopian fantasy about a young man who's put into a hypnotic trance in the late 19th century and awakens in the year 2000 to find crime, war, and want nonexistent.

Professor Fiss examines contemporary free-speech issues in the context of the collision of liberal ideas of equality and freedom with modern social structures and speculates on what role the state might play in furthering robust public debate.

The workbook provides reinforcement of all grammar points with reading and recorded listening sections.

Presenting a novel view of spectrophotomagnetic analysis, this book provides a detailed classification of reactions used for the spectrophotometric determination of both inorganic and organic compounds based on the chemical properties of analytes, reagents, and reaction products. It considers the practical use of spectrophotomagnetic analysis in various disciplines such as pharmacology and environmental science, and suggests specific approache...

Let science set the stage The most valuable ally a change agent could want. Author Edwin Nevis and his coauthors leverage breakthrough behavioral and social science research to arrive at seven surefire methods for investing workers with an all-new mindset. The results: a powerful strategy for influencing behavior, minimizing resistance to change, and sustaining an organization that is continuously adapting and self-renewing. Filled with exampl...

Language Crimes" tells the story of some of the remarkable cases in which linguist Roger Shuy has served as an expert witness. These cases covered criminal acts such as solicitation to murder, bribery, threatening extortion, and perjury, all of which use language as a medium. These intriguing stories show the power of the study of language to assist the courts to achieve justice.

From the award-winning poet and novelist—a must-have collection of his four previous books of poetry plus a selection of new, unpublished work.

The key to the future of communications is convergence, the coming together of broadcasting, cable and telecommunications services to form the new media world. The first comprehensive analysis of the conditions that have prompted a convergence of the media and communication industries is contained in this book. The authors also examine the remaining obstacles to convergence and assess the consequences of convergence for society, the individual...

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This book addresses the seismic design and retrofit of bridges. It provides detailed information on the seismic considerations in the design of a wide range of substructures including beam and slab, box girder, arch, cable, stayed, and suspension bridges. Topics include damage and design philosophy, geotechnical considerations, design, modeling and analysis, seismic assessment and retrofit of existing bridges.

Something is wrong with Eddie Hobson Sr., father of four, sometime history teacher, quiz master, black humorist and virtuoso invalid. His recurring fainting spells have worsened, and with his ingrained aversion to doctors, his worried family tries to discover the nature of his sickness. Meanwhile, in private, Eddie puts the finishing touches on a secret project he calls Hobbstown, a place that he promises will save him, the world and everythin...

Read even the first chapter of this extraordinary book and you'll find yourself cheering, screaming, jumping up and down with excitement. The companies described in this book are decades ahead of the reengineers -- and you don't need to be a Bill Gates or a Jack Welch to put their ideas into practice today." -- George Gendron, editor in chief, "Inc."Companies that practice open-book management seem to have captured some sort of lightning in a ...

Henry Rush is spending the day at the Prairie Wildlife Refuge, determined to photograph a prairie dog doing a back flip. But while he whatches and waites at the edge of prairie dog town, he fails to notice the electricity humming through the air. Or the buffalo aniously pawing the ground. Or the purple-blue cloud building over the prairie grass. A tornado is forming to the west . And when the dark funnel touches down, it will wipe out everythi...

A wounded mountain lion moves from his mountain habitat to a Papago Indian hut in Arizona's Sonoran desert during a record-breaking July day. All creation adapts to the blistering heat until a cloudburst causes a flash flood. With a measured yet vivid style, this introduction to desert ecology makes a memorable impact".--School Library Journal.

Der vorliegende Band enthält 38 Beiträge renommierter Hispanisten aus Europa und Übersee. Das Themenspektrum umfaßt die ganze Breite der spanischen Literaturgeschichte vom Mittelalter bis in die unmittelbare Gegenwart. Im Mittelpunkt des Untersuchungsinteresses steht die Frage nach den Bezügen der spanischen zu anderen europäischen (oder amerikanischen) Literaturen. Im Gang durch die Epochen läßt sich nachvollziehen, wie eng die spanische Lite...

Die "Allgemeine Zeitung", die von den berühmten Stuttgarter Verlegern Johann Friedrich Cotta und seinem Sohn Georg von Cotta herausgegeben wurde, konnte sich in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts zu der bedeutendsten europäischen und zu einer in ihrer Art nahezu konkurrenzlosen Zeitung entwickeln. Die Voraussetzungen dazu sicherten der Standort des Cottaschen Zweigunternehmens in Augsburg, mit seinen traditionell günstigen Verkehrverbindun...

Die radikal neuen Textverfahren der literarischen Moderne von Naturalismus und Décadence bis heute operieren mit einem Sprachmaterial, das durch die gigantische Amplifikations- und Desemantisierungsmaschinerie des Historismus, besonders seiner positivistischen Wissenschaftspraxis im 19. Jahrhundert geprägt ist. Teil I der vorliegenden Studie diskutiert die wissenschaftliche Verwendung des Historismusbegriffs und erschließt den Zusammenhang vo...

This manual contains all the problems to Leonard Kleinrock's Queueing Systems, Volume One, and their solutions. The manual offers a concise introduction so that it can be used independently from the text. Contents include: * A Queueing Theory Primer * Random Processes * Birth-Death Queueing Systems * Markovian Queues * The Queue M/G/1 * The Queue G/M/m * The Queue G/G/1

Der sechste Band der Lindauer Texte setzt die Tradition fort, die Leitthemen der Lindauer Psychotherapiewochen (LPW) zu veröffentlichen. Teil 1 zum Thema "Spiel und Zusammenspiel in der Psychotherapie" reflektiert über die therapeutische Allianz als wesentliches Element einer erfolgreichen Therapeut-Patient-Beziehung. Teil 2 befaßt sich mit "Erinnern und Entwerfen im psychotherapeutischen Handeln". Dabei geht es um erinnerte Biographien, Narra...

Vision and the gaze are key issues in the analysis of racism, sexism and ethnocentrism. In recent radical theory, generally, and French theory in particular, vision has been seen as a means of control. But this view is often unnuanced. It bypasses questions such as: Why is it that contemporary theories have been so critical of vision, and generous towards listening (in psychoanalysis) and language (in philosophy)? This collection of original e...