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This book is based on a workshop entitled "Robust Control workshop 2000". The workshop was held in Newcastle, Australia, from the 6th to the 8th December 2000. Chapters of the book are written by some of the leading researchers in the field of Robust Control. They cover a variety of topics all related to Robust Control and analysis of uncertain systems.

A study of the literature of imperialism in the Victorian and Edwardian periods, showing how an image of empire was created and how it developed such strength. Major writers such as Rudyard Kipling and H. Rider Haggard are examined, along with less familiar writers such as Robert Ballantyne.

Reviews the requirements of treatment planning, clinical assessment, and the historical antecedents of chemical dependency. Drawn from thirty years of experience in the treatment of chemical dependency, Dr. Ottomanelli describes clinical interventions in the context of established clinical research in addition to the presentation of predictors of relapse and relapse models which are derived from empirical studies. The interdisciplinary organiz...

A critical introduction to Louisiana's literature. It focuses on how Louisiana's literature and culture converge with and depart from the rest of the South, and discusses writers from the 1930s to the beginning of the 21st century, including Ernest J. Gaines, Anne Rice and Rebecca Wells.

Presents strategies for surmounting the challenges confronting business researchers embarking on international research within their specialties and explores the opportunities afforded by such research.

Melvin B. Tolson (1898-1966) was both a participant in and historian of the Harlem Renaissance, probably the most significant movement in African American literature and culture. Known mostly for his poetry, and an unduly neglected figure in American literary history, Tolson was one of the first African American critics of the Harlem Renaissance. This book is an edition of his 1940 MA thesis, the first academic study of the Harlem Renaissance ...

Jüngste Fortschritte bei der Erkundung der Zusammenhänge zwischen Habitaten und der Dynamik des Ökosystems werden sich mit Sicherheit auf Belange des Naturschutz-Managements auswirken. In welcher Weise sich solche Wechselbeziehungen bemerkbar machen, erläutert in diesem Band ein kompetentes, interdisziplinär zusammengesetztes Team von Geomorphologen, Hydrologen, Limnologen und Klimatologen. Ein Bericht mit vielen Fallstudien, der zum Nach- und...

Search engines, subject gateways, descriptive metadata, Web cataloging--everyone is looking for ways to support information discovery and retrieval on the Internet. To become full partners in new digital access ventures, library and information professionals need to be familar with effective tools and stategies, and need to make decisions about what is appropriate for different resources, settings and communities. This book takes a look at wha...

Search engines, subject gateways, descriptive metadata, Web cataloging--everyone is looking for ways to support information discovery and retrieval on the Internet. To become full partners in new digital access ventures, library and information professionals need to be familar with effective tools and stategies, and need to make decisions about what is appropriate for different resources, settings and communities. This book takes a look at wha...

Examines the impact and implications of religious fundamentalism in developing countries.

Written in honor of one of the foremost observers of nationalism and culture in Central and Eastern Europe, this volume brings together 35 eminent scholars from the United States, Canada, Ukraine, and Poland.Supplemented by a bibliography of the work of Roman Szporluk, these fresh, urgent essays mirror Szporluk's broad and comparativist approach. Topics range from the rise of Ukrainian national consciousness in Galicia, to nationalism in conte...

This book provides insight into the emotion of anger from a theoretical and empirical standpoint and from the viewpoint of fifty ordinary women and men who share their experiences, beliefs, and perceptions of anger in their own and others' lives. The author's main goal is to explore the extent and sources of anger that women and men feel toward members of the other sex and their perceptions of what angers other men and women. Respondents' gene...

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Sometimes the losses of childhood can be recovered only in the flight of the dragonfly.Native American children have long been subject to removal from their homes for placement in residential schools and, more recently, in foster or adoptive homes. The governments of both the United States and Canada, having reduced Native nations to the legal status of dependent children, historically have asserted a surrogate parentalism over Native children...

This work presents important sources ? many previously unpublished in any language, and almost none previously available in English ? for the history of the city-state of Venice from its zenith to its decline.

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For students and practitioners of gerontology, this indispensable text examines all aspects of administering services to older adults. Jeffrey A. Giordano and Thomas A. Rich, both professors of gerontology with extensive experience in administration, surveyed practicing administrators over a two-year period. The resulting integration of administrative theory and practice is evident throughout this book's 13 chapters, which address everything f...

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Advances in Group Processes" publishes theoretical analyses, reviews and theory based empirical chapters on group phenomena. Volume 18 addresses a broad range of theoretical and empirical questions that cut across sociology, psychology, economics, and political science.

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