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This book provides the first systematic historical analysis of Italian lexemes derived from proper names. The series will include six volumes and be completed by 2018. Four volumes are devoted to geographical names and the other two to the names of persons. The dictionary draws on a wide range of source materials including Italian dictionaries, literary and historical sources, as well as electronic text corpora from present-day newspapers. es...

This book explains why some missionaries are rejecting the models and methodologies most widely accepted by North American evangelical missionaries working in France. The author demonstrates that the witness by Protestant missionaries in Western Europe is often ineffective because of their paradigms and ministry methods.

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Studies the use of polyurethanes in implanted medical devices. This work describes the concepts of polymer science, the manufacture of polyurethanes, and the biological responses to implant polyurethanes, reflecting the developments in biomaterials science and the interdisciplinary nature of bioengineering.

A healthy attitude is the key to success, happiness, and growth. Just as nutrients in foods result in a healthy body, New Attitude Nutrients result in a healthy mind. Today! Grab It: 7 Vital Attitude Nutrients to Build the New You will show you how to bring about the changes you've been meaning to make in your life-TODAY.

The importance of capillary electrophoresis (CE) as an analytical tool has increased dramatically over the last ten years. It has changed from being an exploratory technique, mainly of academic interest, to one which is applied to solve "real" analytical problems. CE is easily adapted to its various modes of operation, often requiring little more than a change of the buffer solution, and is quickly becoming the preferred technique when analyzi...

This book addresses the importance of soil processes in the global carbon cycle, and on the mechanisms that influence carbon cycling in the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum. TOC:Soil carbon dynamics and processes, Aggregation and soil carbon, Soil quality indicators and carbon, Modelling SOC, Methods of SOC determinations, Future research in soil processes and greenhouse effect

The most comprehensive chronology of the antecedents and development of automobiles as well as how the car impacted economic, social, and cultural changes.

This is a survey of contemporary race-relations in the USA. The authors assess the part played by status struggles and anxieties in intergroup relations. They assert that the socio-economic advancement for blacks combine with frustration to create a sense of estrangement from whites.

A discussion of the interplay of diffusion processes and partial differential equations with an emphasis on probabilistic methods. It begins with stochastic differential equations, the probabilistic machinery needed to study PDE, and moves on to probabilistic representations of solutions for PDE, regularity of solutions and one dimensional diffusions. The author discusses in depth two main types of second order linear differential operators: n...

In his foreword to the book, Sidney Weintraub argues that the negotiations leading to the creation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) may be the most important between the United States and Mexico since the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago. This book examines those negotiations from the vantage point of one of the key Mexican officials, Hermann von Bertrab. As an insider, but as someone on the other side of the discussions, he ...

From the end of the eighteenth century to the late nineteenth century, a remarkable convergence takes place in Europe between theories of the modern state and theories of culture. Culture and the State explores that theoretical convergence in relation to the social functions of state and cultural institutions, showing how cultural education comes to play the role of forming citizens for the modern state. It critiques the way in which materiali...

A one-step cross-cultural selective guide to recent retellings of myths and hero tales for children and young adults.

Examines the original composition of China's oldest books, the Classic of Changes, the Venerated Documents, and the Classic of Poetry, and attempts to restore their original meanings.Edward L. Shaughnessy examines the original composition of China's oldest books, the Classic of Changes, the Venerated Documents, and the Classic of Poetry. By describing the original contexts in which these books were written and what they meant to their original...

Robert McKee's screenwriting workshops have earned him an international reputation for inspiring novices, refining works in progress and putting major screenwriting careers back on track. Quincy Jones, Diane Keaton, Gloria Steinem, Julia Roberts, John Cleese and David Bowie are just a few of his celebrity alumni. Writers, producers, development executives and agents all flock to his lecture series, praising it as a mesmerizing and intense lear...

A brilliant and powerful novel from the critically acclaimed author of Continental Drift that explores a small town's response to the inexplicable loss of its children in a school bus accident. "A novel of compelling moral suspense. . . ".--Los Angeles Times Book Review.

Der vorliegende Band vereinigt das lyrische Gesamtwerk der Dichterin: alle Gedichte, die Else Lasker-Schüler zu Lebzeiten veröffentlichte, von der frühesten Sammlung Styx (Berlin 1902) bis zu dem letzten Gedichtband Mein blaues Klavier, der 1943 in Jerusalem erschien.

Die Süddeutsche Zeitung schrieb seinerzeit über die Erzählungen: »Walsers Geschichten sind ironisch-aggressive Parabeln vom Dasein des Menschen in einer Gesellschaft, die Größe, Freiheit, Fülle des Lebens nicht aufkommen läßt, weil jeder spontane Impuls in einem Labyrinth von Schwierigkeiten und unmenschlichen Widerständen versickert.

Vor zwei Jahren, zum neunzigsten Geburtstag des Nestors der Schweizer Autoren Gerhard Meier (1917-2008), erschien dessen Amrainer Tetralogie Baur und Bindschädler - eines der bedeutendsten Werke der deutschsprachigen Literatur der letzten fünfzig Jahre - in der Bibliothek Suhrkamp zum ersten Mal komplett in Kassette. Ab September 2009 sind die vier Bände auch einzeln lieferbar.»Baur und Bindschädler, dies opus magnum Meiers, wächst ganz aus de...