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Junichiro Tanizaki's Some Prefer Nettles is an exquisitely nuanced exploration of the allure of ancient Japanese tradition-and the profound disquiet that accompanied its passing. It is the 1920s in Tokyo, and Kaname and his wife Misako are trapped in a parody of a progressive Western marriage. No longer attracted to one another, they have long since stopped sleeping together and Kaname has sanctioned his wife's liaisons with another man. But a...

This unique reference examines the modern pharmaceutical compacting techniques used to form tablets out of powders-describing the physical structure of pharmaceutical compacts, the bonding phenomena that occur during powder compaction, and the compression mechanisms of pharmaceutical particles.

This book examines a variety of psychological intervention strategies used in counseling and therapy to bring about change. It is a handbook of strategies which reviews major forms of interventions, reviews research evidence of effectiveness, and challenges existing theoretical boundaries. In contrast to existing handbooks, Ballou offers interventions identified by their goal of change, rather than by a particular theoretical orientation or th...

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This up-to-date collection of documents, essential for understanding the evolution of the conflict and efforts to resolve it, avoids presenting one perspective or another. A brief introductory essay is followed by a chronology of major events and developments over the last century. The more than 100 documents or their extracts are arranged chronologically, and short introductions briefly discuss the place of the document in the history and evo...

This study explores the purpose behind Herodotus' writings. It reveals how, in the "History of the Persian Wars", he shaped his narrative to advise the troubled Greek world of his day. Focusing on Book One, this work examines the philosophical, literary and historical richness of the "History".

This text charts the always controversial life and career of Liberace, from his birth in America's heartland to his death as one of the most flamboyant entertainers of his generation. A short biography and chronology present his life in capsule form.

consciousness and action and confirms their quintessential role in American democracy.

By piecing together diaries, letters, scrapbooks, and rare privately printed memoirs, the author has created a story which tells how America's ragtag navy-composed mainly of converted yachts, steamers and tugboats-was able to fight and win against the more powerful Spanish gunboats. The naval battles fought in places like Santiago, Cardenas, Cienfuegos, Manzanillo, Port Nipe, Guantanamo, San Juan, Guanica, and Ponce come alive in this book. Th...

A guide to the available material on issues of sexual harassment. This bibliography contains books, articles and dissertations arranged in topical chapters. A chronology traces major developments in sexual harassment legislation in the United States from 1963 to 1993.

Willa Cather's novel of seventeenth-century Quebec is a luminous evocation of North American origins, and of the men and women who struggled to adapt to a new world even as they clung to the artifacts and manners of one they left behind.In 1697, Quebec is an island of French civilization perched on a bare gray rock amid a wilderness of trackless forests. For many of its settlers, Quebec is a place of exile, so remote that an entire winter pass...

Wenn Sexualität in der Literatur eine Frage ihrer zureichenden Darstellung ist, so ist sie in der Wett-bewerbsgesellschaft das Problem der immer noch stärkeren Darstellung. Dabei stößt diese an ihre quasi natürlichen Grenzen. Die Organe und Requisiten nackter Menschen sind limitiert, ihre Kombinationsfähigkeit endlich. Wir sind keine lustvolle Gesellschaft, davon zeugen die Repräsentanten unserer Lust. Die Konventionen sterben aus, welche die ...

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Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The development of stereochemical concepts -- 3 Techniques used in the analysis of optically active compounds. 3.1 Chiroptical methods -- 3 Techniques used in the analysis of optically active compounds. 3.2 Nuclear magnetic resonance -- 3 Techniques used in the analysis of optically active compounds. 3.3 General aspects of chromatography -- 3 Techniques used in the analysis...