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TItis volume is the first effort to compile representative work in the emerging research area on the relationship of disability and physical environment since Barrier-Free Environments, edited by Michael Bednar, was published in 1977. Since that time, disability rights legislation like the Americans, with Disabilities Act in the United States, the worldwide growth of the independent-living move­ ment, rapid deinstitutionalization, and the matu...

Offers a clear and comprehensive analysis of the various methods early modern authors used to represent masculinity.

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Die Reihe »Reparaturanleitung« ist der professionelle Begleiter für jeden technisch versierten Schrauber. Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitungen machen Wartung und Reparatur an Motor, Fahrwerk und Fahrzeug-Elektronik zum Kinderspiel. Die Reparaturanleitung bietet Ihnen umfangreiche Informationen, mit denen Sie Ihr Motorrad richtig warten, pflegen und reparieren können. Die jeweiligen Arbeitsvorgänge sind mit Symbolen gekennzeichnet und zeigen Ihnen ...

Explores how and why small and medium-sized businesses are flourishing in the global marketplace

This annotated survey identifies and evaluates the published literature of chamber and concertante music originally conceived for wind instruments. Entries, arranged by instrument, are organized chronologically by genre to highlight the historical development of the works. Genres include single melody instrument with accompaniment, homogeneous groups, larger groupings with and without accompaniment, with and without other non-wind instruments,...

A synthesis of decades of research and practice, this seminal book presents and critically evaluates the scientific and empirical status of co-author Aaron Beck's revised cognitive theory and therapy of depression. The authors explore the evolution of cognitive theory and therapy of depression, and discuss the future directions for the treatment of depression.

The matador flourishes his cape, the bull charges, the crowd cheers: this is the image of Spain best known to the world. But while the bull has long been a symbol of Spanish culture, it carries more meaning than has previously been recognized.Carrie Douglass views bulls and bullfighting as a means of discussing fundamental oppositions in Spanish society and explains the political significance of those issues for one of Europe's most regionaliz...

The true tale of an unknown soldier found dead at Gettysburg, clutching a photograph of his children, and the wave of publicity that led to his eventual identification and celebration throughout the North.

In letters to his dear friend Atticus, Cicero reveals himself as to no other, except perhaps his brother. These letters, in a four-volume series, provide a vivid picture of a momentous period in Roman history--years marked by the rise of Julius Caesar and the downfall of the Republic.

In letters to his dear friend Atticus, Cicero reveals himself as to no other, except perhaps his brother. These letters, in a four-volume series, provide a vivid picture of a momentous period in Roman history--years marked by the rise of Julius Caesar and the downfall of the Republic.

In letters to his dear friend Atticus, Cicero reveals himself as to no other, except perhaps his brother. These letters, in a four-volume series, provide a vivid picture of a momentous period in Roman history--years marked by the rise of Julius Caesar and the downfall of the Republic.

Critical pedagogy refers to the means and methods of testing and attempting to change the structures of schools that allow inequities. It is a cultural-political tool that takes seriously the notion of human differences, particularly those related to race, class, and gender. Critical pedagogy seeks to release the oppressed and unite people in a shared language of critique, struggle, and hope, to end various forms of human suffering. In this re...

Since the Gulf War, Iraq has attempted to win through confrontation, diplomacy, and bluster what it could not achieve on the battlefield. Defense analyst Anthony Cordesman suggests that this war of sanctions may be a struggle that Iraq has begun to win. Saddam Hussein's regime remains aggressive and ambitious, and its military capabilities cannot be judged solely by the current state of Iraq's armed forces. Most dangerous of all is Iraq's cont...

This volume reexamines the events and personalities in the 1894 strike when the American Railway Union took action against the Pullman Palace Car Company. It also looks at related proceedings in the Chicago trial courts, and the decision which set important standards for labour injunctions.

Psychologists need to know about statistics but they can easily get bogged down in unfamiliar jargon. This new dictionary is an invaluable reference for all undergraduate and postgraduate students of psychology. It provides definitions of the statistical terms most commonly encountered in psychological literature.

This interesting book deals with the theory of convex and starlike biholomorphic mappings in several complex variables. The underly­ ing theme is the extension to several complex variables of geometric aspects of the classical theory of univalent functions. Because the author's introduction provides an excellent overview of the content of the book, I will not duplicate the effort here. Rather, I will place the book into historical context. The...

This book covers substantially the central ideas of a one semester course in automata theory. It is oriented towards a mathematical perspective that is understandable to non-mathematicians. Comprehension is greatly aided by many examples, especially on the Chomsky ¿ Sch¿tzenberger theorem, which is not found in most books in this field. Special attention is given to semiautomata theory: the relationship between semigroups and sequential machin...

Frontmatter -- Introduction -- Linguistic heterogeneity, civil strife and per capita gross national product in inter-polity perspective / Fishman, Joshua A. -- A reconsideration of the notion of loan translation in the analysis of U.S. Spanish / Otheguy, Ricardo -- The dialectics of Spanish language loyalty and maintenance on the U.S.-Mexico border: A two-generation study / Hidalgo, Margarita -- Spanish clitics in a contact situation / Gutiérr...

»Die Dependenzgrammatik mit ihrem Kernstück, der Valenztheorie, beruht im wesentlichen auf dem Werk des Franzosen Lucien Tesnière >Eléments de syntaxe structurale (Grundzüge der strukturalen Syntax)<. Im vorliegenden Band will der finnische Linguist dem deutschsprachigen Leser die Grundbegriffe vermitteln und >vom Verb ausgehend ein für mehrere Sprachen passendes Gerüst der Dependenzsyntax ... schaffen< (Vorwort). Der Schwerpunkt liegt entspre...