According to author Kirby Farrell, the concept of trauma has shaped some of the central narratives of the 1990s--from Vietnam war stories to the video farewells of Heaven's Gate cult members. In this unique study, Farrell explores the surprising uses of trauma as both an enabling fiction and an explanatory tool during periods of overwhelming cultural change.
[Thomson is] one of the finest film critics in the English language."--philip lopate, the new york times book review If most film critics write about movies, David Thomson creates their literary counterpart with essays that are as dazzling, haunting, and moving as the pictures they discuss. In this bravura new collection, the Esquire columnist trains his eye on Hollywood's ghosts, exploring their tendency to rise from the grave or descend from...
This book adds a valuable `Chinese voice' to the current Western-dominated forum on Chinese business negotiating style. The book provides the reader with an in-depth socio-cultural understanding of Chinese negotiating behaviour and tactics in the context of Sino-Western business negotiation. It addresses this fascinating and complex subject by looking systematically at various components of Chinese business culture which range from contemporar...
Ecological Education in Action celebrates the work of innovative educators in North America who explore ecological issues in school and non-school settings. These educators demonstrate how to reshape the thinking of children and adults to affirm the value of sufficiency, mutual support, and community.Courses in environmental education often focus on scientific analysis and social policy -- not cultural change. Children are exposed to informati...
Western civilization has witnessed the emergence of many social discourses on love and gender. Throughout each epoch, new dialogues reflect society as a whole, and these dialogues in turn create a communicative code which assigns social roles to the genders. The Discourses of Love treats the idea of love as a form of social dialogue that is recreated in every historical epoch and originates in a 'master grammar' of the Greco-Roman world. The a...
This will be a valuable resource for teachers, as technology plays an increasingly prominent role in education. The book explores, in depth, the issues raised by current efforts to infuse technology into education systems.
On May 21-24, 1997 the Second International Symposium on Algorithms for Macromolecular Modelling was held at the Konrad Zuse Zentrum in Berlin. The event brought together computational scientists in fields like biochemistry, biophysics, physical chemistry, or statistical physics and numerical analysts as well as computer scientists working on the advancement of algorithms, for a total of over 120 participants from 19 countries. In the course o...
Diagnose und Therapie der Venenthrombose gehören zur täglichen Praxis in der Inneren Medizin. Ein genaues Wissen über neueste Möglichkeiten in der Diagnostik und neue Therapieverfahren sind unerläßlich. Dieses Buch faßt den aktuellen Stand des Wissens zur Venenthrombose zusammen und geht außerdem ausführlich auf die speziellen Probleme der Venenthrombose ein. Es bietet damit eine Fortbildung für Internisten, Angiologen, Hämostaseologen.
The movies that document American history during the interwar years still hold relevance today. While we may be put off by the corny sentimentality popular at the time, we feel attracted, despite our 1990s veneer of sophistication, to healthy portions of unadulterated American spirit. Americans resist encumbering themselves with political labels, Kelley asserts, content to remain simultaneously fragmented between elitism and populism, isolatio...
Dieses Buch beschreibt in leicht verständlicher Weise Aufbau, Funktion, Eigenschaften und Anwendungsmöglichkeiten wichtiger Halbleiter-Bauelemente - von Leistungsdioden über Thyristoren und MOSFETs bis hin zu integrierten Systemen. Die Autoren verzichten dabei auf komplizierte Mathematik, sie stützen sich vielmehr auf grundlegende physikalische Modelle. (11/98)
