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This engrossing collection of prison memoirs by Russian women is the first to portray the direct experiences of the wide range of women who were incarcerated in Soviet prisons and camps. Comprising the stories of women from all classes and backgrounds, this book covers the entire span of the Gulag's existence from the 1920s to the 1980s, including the little-known periods of political repression of the 1960s and 1980s.

Famous Fables of Economics "critiques some of our most cherished stories of market failure.

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How computer technology can transform science education for children.

This engaging study tells the fascinating story of the only European empire to relocate its capital to the New World.

Over the centuries, the original Arabic-based Islam of the Hui has absorbed a proportion of Chinese words. This work takes terms from a variety of local gazetteers and archives, newspapers, books and periodicals, matching the Chinese term to its Arabic or Persian counterpart.

Based on the NZASIA conference held at the University of Otago in November 1999, this volume contains some 30 out of over 100 papers presented. The papers are divided into two groupings: "Globalization in Asia" and "Nationalist Responses".

This book offers market-fundamental explanations for the three most famous bubbles: the Dutch Tulipmania (1634-1637), the Mississippi Bubble (1719-1720), and the closely connected South Sea Bubble (1720).

Suspensions of Perception decisively relocates the problem of aesthetic contemplation within a broader collective encounter with the unstable nature of perception--in psychology, philosophy, neurology, early cinema, and photography.

This interdisciplinary history and theory of sound in the arts reads the twentieth century by listening to it--to the emphatic and exceptional sounds of modernism and those on the cusp of postmodernism, recorded sound, noise, silence, the fluid sounds of immersion and dripping, and the meat voices of viruses, screams, and bestial cries.

This book is a study in the methodology of philosophical inquiry. It expounds and defends the thesis that systematization is the proper instrument of philosophical inquiry and that the effective pursuit of philosophy's mission calls for constructing a doctrinal system that answers our questions in a coherent and comprehensive manner.

Recent, dramatic changes in local and global economies have profoundly affected the lives of millions and have demanded that students of economy rethink their analytical approaches. In "The Anthropology of Economy, " noted anthropologist Steve Gudeman presents a model and lexicon for thinking about and discussing "things economic.

Former BBC Head of Religious Broadcasting and now Anglican priest reflects on 40 years of change in the BBC and the Church

Das Buch spannt einen weiten Bogen über die Transplantationsmedizin und gibt einen Überblick über Immunologie, Chirurgie, Vorbereitung und Nachsorge sowie die Randbereiche der Transplantationschirurgie. Es dient Chirurgen, Internisten, Allgemeinmedizinern als auch Medizinstudenten als Nachschlagewerk für die thorakale und abdominelle Organtransplantation und soll Grundlagen der Transplantationschirurgie bzw. -medizin vermitteln. Ausserdem info...

Written by leading statisticians and probabilists, this volume consists of 104 biographical articles on eminent contributors to statistical and probabilistic ideas born prior to the 20th Century. Among the statisticians covered are Fermat, Pascal, Huygens, Neumann, Bernoulli, Bayes, Laplace, Legendre, Gauss, Poisson, Pareto, Markov, Bachelier, Borel, and many more.

Dosierung: 2-10 Seiten täglich, je nach Bedarf, auch gerne in der Mittagspause, damit die Stunden bis zum Feierabend schneller vergehen. Besonders wirksam, wenn laut gelesen. Auf eine mögliche Ansteckung durch den Lachbazillus wird ausdrücklich hingewiesen! Dieses Buch kann krampfartige Lachanfälle hervorrufen. Gegenanzeigen: Humorlosigkeit. Besserwisserei. Begriffsstutzigkeit. Stumpfsinn. Zu Risiken und Nebenwirkungen fragen Sie bitte Ihren B...

Since the Common Worship Lectionary first came into use, many short preaching aids have been published. They have ranged from brief notes to almost complete sermons. This new companion offers an understanding of some points of significance in each lection for every Sunday and for other major days. It combines the latest scholarship with the conviction that the text should address today's world, squarely facing up to the difficulties that some ...