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A collection of photographs and essays focusing on postindustrial landscapes and abandoned buildings in Pennsylvania"--Provided by publisher.

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In this insightful and look at the practical challenges and possibilities for Christian life in the global age, Schweiker investigates Christianity's current relevance and discusses how the life of faith can be oriented. Explores the big religious themes of modern life, including religious identity in global times, the role of conscience, integrity, and versions of religious humanismWritten by an author who is internationally recognized as one...

The essays in this volume bring together a variety of new, classic, and contemporary criticism on Hemingway's masterpiece. Essay topics include an exploration of the novel's cultural context with a discussion of Hemingway's involvement in the Parisian expatriate community, the portrayal of masculinity and femininity within the novel against the cultural changes brought on by war, and perspectives on the kind of morality the novel offers and wh...

Essay selections offer readers a variety of perspectives on Dickinson through the eyes of some of today's best Dickinson scholars. One essay explores the influences of New England Puritanism, Romanticism, Transcendentalism, and the Civil War on Dickinson's work, while another offers a close reading of several poems to show how experiencing their sound patterns and syntax can inform our understanding of them. Previously published essays discuss...

Introductory essays include a brief biography on Williams and a quartet of original essays provide valuable context for understanding his achievements. One essay examines the plays within the context of twentieth century culture while another traces the playwright's expressionistic values from his early student play "Me, Vashya" up through Camino Real and appraises A Streetcar Named Desire as Williams's best realization of this aesthetic. Anot...

In Identity and Participation in Culturally Diverse Societies, the contributors present an original discussion of how the links between identity, political participation, radicalization, and integration can provide a scientific understanding of the complex issue of coexistence between groups in culturally diverse societies. Using state-of-the-art theory and the latest research findings, the book raises and answers a variety of questions, incl...

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A deterministic extractor is a function that extracts almost perfect random bits from a weak random source. In this research monograph the author constructs deterministic extractors for several types of sources. A basic theme in this work is a methodology of recycling randomness which enables increasing the output length of deterministic extractors to near optimal length. The author's main work examines deterministic extractors for bit-fixing...

Life in the World's Oceans is a true landmark publication, distilling the efforts of thousands of marine biologists, ecologists, oceanographers and statisticians worldwide who have been involved in the first decadal Census of Marine Life. Broadly divided into six parts, Life in the World's Oceans commences with a look at life in oceans past, followed by in-depth chapters covering the current oceans' realms, including coral reefs, seamounts, t...

This is a core text for one of the most important courses social work students take in any BSW and MSW program: Direct Practice. This course teaches the fundamental values, knowledge and actions that constitutes the practice of social work. It is the skills they learn in their various direct practice courses that become directly relevant to their work as social workers. This text offers basic generalist practice methods which emphasize the com...

Based on the authorsa (TM) dozens of years in the industry, this handbook provides gaming security professionals with the means to mitigate the myriad security threats facing the gaming world. Providing a complete resource for the professional, they detail the most common risks, threats, and scams a " both internal and externala " and supply the appropriate security response. They cover physical security techniques as well as statistical infor...

Das Lehrbuch behandelt in einer prägnanten Zusammenfassung die zivilrechtlichen Grundlagen des Verbraucherschutzrechts. Insbesondere Haustürgeschäfte, Fernabsatz, Verbraucherkredit, Verbrauchsgüterkauf, Gewinnspiele, Zusendung unbestellter Waren sowie das Reisevertrags- und Wettbewerbsrecht werden anhand zahlreicher Beispielfälle mit Kurzlösungen veranschaulicht. Jüngste Rechtsänderungen im Bereich des Verbraucherkreditrechts sind bereits eing...

This outstanding biography is the first to explore the fascinating life of Alan Swallow, a pioneering western publisher whose authors included such literary luminaries as Anaïs Nin, Allen Tate, and Yvor Winters. Moving to Colorado, he founded the Swallow Press and dedicated himself to bringing literary authors, both regionally and nationally recognized, to print in high-quality yet affordable books.

A Comprehensive Review of This New, Interdisciplinary Field of Biomedical Research The subcellular, organelle-specific delivery of drugs has become the new frontier for drug delivery. Volkmar Weissig helped to initiate this development when, in 1998, he proposed a completely novel approach to delivering drugs to particular cell organelles, namely to mitochondria. A few years later, he was joined by Gerard D'Souza, and since then, they have be...

It is a general trend in computing that computers are becoming ever smaller and more interconnected, and sensor networks - large networks of small, simple devices - represent a logical extreme of this trend. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are attracting an increasing degree of research interest, with a growing number of industrial applications starting to emerge. Two of these applications, personal health monitoring and emergency/disaster rec...

This brief survey text tells the story of Judaism. Through the lens of modern biblical scholarship, Christine Elizabeth Hayes explores the shifting cultural contextsthe Babylonian exile, the Roman Empire, the Byzantine period, the rise of Christianitythat affected Jewish thought and practice, and laid the groundwork for the Talmudic era and its modern legacy. Thematic chapters explore the evolution of Judaism through its beginnings in biblical...

This 1940 book for young readers offers ten short historical narratives, which follow different explorers in their adventures around the world.