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Many developing countries now exist in a "postconflict" environment, posing enormous development challenges for the societies affected, as well as for international actors." Postconflict Development" addresses these challenges and focus on the need to create new social and economic structures that can serve as the foundations for a lasting peace.

This book addresses the question of how health care teams function on a daily basis through an ethnography of communication in an interdisciplinary geriatric team. The presentation enables readers to explore the relationships among epistemology, methodology, and writing practices in health care.

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The writings collected here all testify to the complexity of Gunnars's literary visions as much as they testify to the sheer pleasures of reading her work. In her interview, Gunnars speaks both as a reader and a writer, describing the form and modes of address of her work, as well as the philosophical and literary traditions she draws from. The nine essays and two poems that follow, organised chronologically according to the publication dates ...

Visit the author's own website here! Juan Bornman's series of stories about children with disabilities accompanied by explanations of the nature and causes of their difficulties helps children to improve understanding and relationships with their peers. Stories about a looked after child and an asylum seeker are also included. Margaret Collins has provided accompanying: - information for adults about the disability or difference - Circle...

This is an intellectual biography of Max Wertheimer (1880-1943) whose ideas are recognized as of central importance to fields as varied as social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, problem solving, art, and visual neuroscience.

She's Ilka Weissnix, a young Jewish refugee from Hitler's Europe, newly arrived in the United States. He's Carter Bayoux, her first American: a middle-aged, hard-drinking black intellectual. Lore Segal's brilliant novel is the story of their love affair-one of the funniest and saddest in modern fiction.

A controversial national best seller upon its initial publication, The Book of J is an audacious work of literary restoration revealing one of the great narratives of all time and unveiling its mysterious author. J is the title that scholars ascribe to the nameless writer they believe is responsible for the text, written between 950 and 900 BCE, on which Genesis, Exodus, and Numbers is based. In The Book of J, accompanying David Rosenberg's tr...

This book provides a systematic economic assessment of the impact of biological resource centers through their role in facilitating cumulative knowledge in the life sciences and building on their roles as knowledge hubs.

The Tomato War and Theomachy is a tale of romance and history. Author Edmond Nicolas paints a portrait of life in Rasha, his small village that is located in the mountains of rural Lebanon. From there, he chronicles the yesteryears, tying together the repetitive effects of history and warfare in the Middle East. Nicolas moves through to 1975, when suddenly Lebanon was at war, and the Christian peoples were forced to defend their lives at the o...

Provides the first history of what engineers call electron devices--vacuum tubes, lasers, image displays, transistors, and computer chips--that form the hidden but increasingly important "guts" of modern technologies.

Quantum mechanics is one of the most fundamental yet difficult subjects in physics. Nonrelativistic quantum theory is presented here in a clear and systematic fashion, integrating Born's probabilistic interpretation with Schrodinger dynamics. Basic quantum principles are illustrated with simple examples requiring no mathematics beyond linear algebra and elementary probability theory. The quantum measurement process is consistently analyzed usi...

Texas' songs, tales, and traditions have lived and prospered on the other sides of Texas borders at one time or another before they crossed the rivers. "Both Sides of the Border" contains something foreveryone interested in Texas folklore.

This study is a test-case of the old poor law. In its exploration of the virtually unknown world of the aged poor in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, it asks how the elderly poor managed to survive in a pre-industrial economy, and answers through focusing on the many factors that make up the experience of old age - status, health, wealth, and local culture - in two Suffolk villages. Botelho demonstrates that the poor law did not, no...

Analyzes the ways national histories are told in public representations, with a particular focus on the impact of political transformations on national narratives.

The Palestinians have been at the center of Middle Eastern and world history for nearly a century. The core issues of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict are still the ones that emerged in 1948, after what Palestinians term al-Nakba, the destruction of historical Palestine and the dispossession and expulsion of its people. At the center of this vortex of politics, diplomacy, oppression, resistance, and struggle are the Palestinians. The Palestini...

- Features the history and geography of each river- Documents how these waterways were corridors for exploration, cultural exchange, conflict, migrations, trade, and economic development- Meets high school social studies standards.

In September 1998 Kyle Griesman departed for Paris. Six years and eight European trips later, his life has been drastically altered.Interspersed with his irreverent and unapologetic humor, Merci, Bonjour and More chronicles two of these sojourns to France. You'll experience how it feels to be stranded in a tunnel on a Paris subway train alone in the dark. Kyle explains why he never carries large denominations of cash. It seems no one can make ...

Norma stood shaking as she felt the large hand come down on her shoulder."Oh, God, not already" her mind screamed!"My Enemy haven't found me already."?A soft worried voice turned her toward him."Norma." "It's only me, " Henry."Where were you going?"Crying softly she went into Henry's arms."Oh, Henry you and Marie deserve a life of your own."Norma, we promised we'd watch out for each other when we were on the streets", come hell or high water.

From the untimely demise of the 52-year-old Peter the Great in 1725 to nearly the end of that century, the fate of the Russian empire would rest largely in the hands of five tsarinas. This book tells their stories. Peter's widow Catherine I (1725-27), an orphan and former laundress, would gain control of the ancestral throne, a victorious army, and formidable navy in a country that stretched from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean. Next, Anna...