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Why implement service quality? Is it possible to ensure reliable service quality in multi-service IP networks? Which technologies help in making end-to-end quality of service a realistic business proposition? In Implementing Service Quality in IP Networks, Vilho Räisänen answers these questions and more. The author discusses the business drivers for multi-service IP networks from various different angles. He defines service quality, explains ...

Set on September 12, 2001, "The Mercy Seat" continues Neil LaBute's unflinching fascination with the often-brutal realities of the war between the sexes. In a time of national tragedy, the world changes overnight. A man and a woman explore the choices now available to them in an existence different from the one they had lived just the day before. Can one be opportunistic in a time of universal selflessness?

Ein Hauch Chanel No. 5, ein Honigbrötchen zum Frühstück, das Bier zum Abendessen und, wenn es ein Glas zuviel war, eine Kopfschmerztablette am nächsten Morgen... Was haben diese Dinge gemeinsam? Richtig, es sind Gemische chemischer Substanzen! Ob wir sie als Genuß empfinden oder ob sie uns suspekt sind, wie PVC, Nitrat oder Kohlendioxid, sie gehören zu unserem Alltag. John Emsley vermittelt fundiertes Hintergrundwissen zu Chemikalien, mit den...

In this magisterial book, J. D. Y. Peel contends that it is through their encounter with Christian missions in the mid-19th century that the Yoruba came to know themselves as a distinctive people. Peel's detailed study of the encounter is based on the rich archives of the Anglican Church Missionary Society, which contain the journals written by the African agents of mission, who, as the first generation of literate Yoruba, played a key role in...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: J.R.R. Tolkien und Michael Ende zählen zu den bekanntesten Autoren phantastischer Literatur. Die Höhepunkte ihrer schriftstellerischen Arbeit waren Der Herr der Ringe (Tolkien) und Die unendliche Geschichte (Ende), wobei zwischen der Entstehung dieser beiden phantastischen Romane mehr als vierzig Jahre liegen. Diese große Zeitspanne bedingt einen jeweils völlig anderen gesellschafts-politischen Hintergrund der Autoren...

To see the foreword, the introduction, a generous selection of sample pages, and more, visit the website The Wehrmacht website. In this unique volume, expert Tim Ripley introduces the reader to the world of the German army, covering in detail concepts such as mobile defense and the formidable Blitzkrieg, and explains why the Wehrmacht was able to fight so long, with such fearsome effectiveness. Also includes 180 color and black and white maps...

Lourdes Torres is Associate Professor of Latin American/Latino studies at De Paul University.Inmaculada Perpetusa-Seva is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Kentucky.Contributors: Mar¿Claudia Andr¿Janis Breckenridge, Regina M. Buccola, Karina Lisette Cespedes, Sara E. Cooper, Catri¿na Rueda Esquibel, Salvador C. Fern¿ez, Elisa A. Garza, Wilfredo Hern¿ez, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Gema P¿z-S¿hez, Christina Sharpe, Sherry Vel...

This unique study interprets forty major French films, their texts and intertexts, analyzing them both as windows on their subject, projections of the imagination, and as frames or mirrors reflecting the cultural contexts that produced them. They are grouped in three major categories, foregrounding their relationship to history, literature or the filmmaking process itself, in ascending order of opacity and modernity. This much needed work offe...

Frameworks must be lived with and explored before they can be broken." Thomas Kuhn Discovery is a scientific process that must unfold in time. Oxygen was first described as 'air itself entire', and Uranus was assumed to be a comet because all the planets were known and named. It takes time for us to realise that something has arrived that did not previously exist, and to stop imposing old terminology and expectations upon it. Using a host of v...

Ever since European settlers stumbled upon the eighteenth-century mounds, explanations and interpretations of them - often ridiculous and seldom Native American - have appeared as sober scholarship. Today, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 (NAGPRA) has intensified the debate over who «owns» the mounds - modern descendants of the Mound builders or Western archaeologists. Native Americans, Archaeologists, and the...

Speech, Conduct, and the First Amendment offers a concise yet thorough review of all areas of First Amendment jurisprudence, including historical background and the most recent developments. Points of difference - as well as agreement - among justices of the Supreme Court are connected to broader theories of First Amendment and constitutional interpretation and politics. The presentation of substantial case excerpts and selected secondary mate...

Zora Neale Hurston produced some of the most provocative literature of the twentieth century. This book examines the numerous scenes of violence against women in her fictional works and the development of her feminist ideals. This groundbreaking book is the first full-length discussion of Hurston's repetitive rendering of violently controlled women. It gives significant insight into why Hurston's themes often questioned the power dynamics of h...

When critics initially attacked textbook publishers for selfishly pursuing profits and employing flawed models of pedagogy, zealous advocates were able to rebut these philosophical arguments. Additional disputes erupted about the ways textbooks depicted nationalism, religion, race, and gender. Armed with precise examples of offensive textbook features, confrontational opponents could not be easily dismissed. Although publishers who wished to a...

Most secondary school, college, and university students no longer fit into the «traditional» mold. Although they are from a variety of ethnic, language, and social backgrounds, each with different needs, writing can provide a key to success for them all. A New World of Writers offers teaching methodologies that can be adapted to these new and changing student populations, enabling them to approach writing tasks with confidence and enthusiasm.

What is the adolescent's experience of amorous love? In seeking an answer to this question, Wendy Austin gathered descriptions from individuals who were in love as teenagers, explored literary texts, movies, and songs, and reflected on personal experience. To understand the influences that shape her own pre-understandings of love and that of her society, Austin examined the psychological research, reviewed the explanatory theories of scholars ...

Destroying the Other's Collective Memory addresses education as the violence that constitutes the passions, conceptual apparatuses, consciousnesses, possibilities, limitations, and aims of subjects and collectives. The mutual quests for control, productivization, and destruction of the Israeli and Palestinian passions, concepts, identities, and potentials are reconstructed. This reconstruction serves as a test case for counter-education, addre...

Using an analysis of the history of Los Angeles's streetcar and highway systems, Sikivu Hutchinson argues that the cultural geography of transportation has had a compelling influence upon the construction of race, gender, and urban subjectivity in the postmodern city. She highlights the influence of American anti-urbanism upon visions of the city during the Great Migration and World War II eras. Proceeding from the premise that the creation of...

Curriculum Intertext addresses the spaces between - between disciplines, between different theoretical perspectives, and between getting there/being there and living in current curricular discourse and practice. It is an invitation to curricular scholars to be at home in displacement, to imagine the possibilities of curricular languages that open onto meadowland spaces and mountain terrain spaces, and borderland spaces and in-between coulee sp...

In retrieving neglected African-American thinkers, reestablishing the European intellectual background to American racial theory, and demonstrating the deep confusion "race" caused for thinkers black and white, "A Hideous Monster of the Mind" offers an engaging and enlightening new perspective on modern American racial thought.

Offering new and unique approaches bridging the gap between cultural analysis and governmentality studies in the United States, this book opens up new lines of inquiry into cultural practices and offers fresh perspectives on Foucault's writings and their implications for cultural studies. It provides critical frameworks to analyze cultural practices and strategies of governing as ways of understanding the present. It also broadens the theater ...