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As commonly understood, professional ethics consists of shared duties and episodic dilemmas--the responsibilities incumbent on all members of specific professions joined together with the dilemmas that arise when these responsibilities conflict. Martin challenges thi... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:39 | In this long-awaited sequel to his acclaimed Russias Road to the Cold War (1979), Vojtech Mastny offers a thorough history of the early years of the Cold War, drawing upon his extensive research in newly opened Soviet archives. Just as the earlier volume offered the ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:40 | In this volume, Gregory Matoesian uses the notorious 1991 rape trial of William Kennedy Smith to provide an in-depth analysis of language use and its role in that specific trial as well as in the law in general. He draws on the fields of conversation analysis, ethnom... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:40 | The Rabbis of the first five centuries of the Common Era loom large in the Jewish tradition. Until the modern period, Jews viewed the Rabbinic traditions as the authoritative contents of their covenant with God, and scholars debated the meanings of these ancient Sage... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:40 | America is fascinated by violence - where it comes from in ourselves, how it spreads through society, and what effect it has on the next generation. This collection of essays examines numerous facets of violence in contemporary American culture, ranging across litera... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:40 | Four Parts, No Waiting investigates the role that vernacular, barbershop-style close harmony has played in American musical history, in American life, and in the American imagination. Starting with a discussion of the first craze for Austrian four-part close harmony ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:40 | Uncovering the structures and functions of conversational narratives uttered within natural social networks, Laine Berman shows how working-class Javanese women discursively construct identity and meaning within the rigid constraints of an hierarchical social order. ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:41 | In this book Gerald Vision argues for a new causal theory, one that engages provocatively with direct realism and makes no use of a now discredited subjectivism. |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:41 | Filling a void in chemical engineering and optimization literature, this book presents the theory and methods for nonlinear and mixed-integer optimization, and their applications in the important area of process synthesis. Other topics include modeling issues in proc... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:41 | This first extensive study of Spinoza's philosophy of mind concentrates on two problems crucial to the philosopher's thoughts on the matter: the requirements for having a thought about a particular object, and the problem of the mind's relation to the body. Della Roc... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:41 | In Patriotic Games, historian Stephen Pope explores the ways sport was transformed from a mere amusement into a metaphor for American life. Between the 1890s and the 1920s, sport became the most pervasive popular cultural activity in American society. During these ye... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:41 | With each species lost to the mass extinction crisis, the natural economy of the nation and of the world is greatly diminished. An endangered animal may hold the cure for cancer; a threatened plant could someday become a major food crop; and even bacteria often provi... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:42 | The prefix operation on a set of data is one of the simplest and most useful building blocks in parallel algorithms. This introduction to those aspects of parallel programming and parallel algorithms that relate to the prefix problem emphasizes its use in a broad ran... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:42 | Alcohol and caffeine are deeply woven into the fabric of life for most of the worlds population, as close and as comfortable as a cup of coffee or a can of beer. Yet for most people they remain as mysterious and unpredictable as the spirits they were once thought to ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:42 | In this provocative new book, Michael Lucey examines the unstable convergence of sexual, political, and literary commitments in Andre Gide's writing of the 1920s and 1930s--the years in which Gide wrote most openly about his homosexuality and participated most active... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:42 | In Cold War Criticism and the Politics of Skepticism, Tobin Siebers claims that modern criticism is a Cold War criticism. Postwar literary theory has absorbed the skepticism, suspicion, and paranoia of the Cold War mentality, and it plays them out in debates about th... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:42 | In this new book, Foley defends an epistemology that takes seriously the perspectives of individual thinkers. He argues that having rational opinions is a matter of meeting our own internal standards rather than standards that are somehow imposed upon us from the out... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:43 | John Bryant's book is a strong and significant argument for the centrality of the comic and repose in Melville's novels. The purpose of Melville and Repose is dual: to ground the uses of romantic humor in Melville in sensitive readings of contemporaneous European and... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:43 | In much the same way that Japan has become the focus of contemporary American discussion about industrial restructuring, Germans in the economic reform in terms of Americanism and Fordism, seeing in the United States an intriguing vision for a revitalized economy and... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:43 | Drawing upon history, psychology, folklore, linguistics, anthropology, and the arts, this book challenges "e;wooden Indian"e; stereotypes to redefine negative attitudes and humorless approaches to Native American peoples. Moving from tribal culture to interet... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:43 | This book places oxygen on the center stage of chemistry in a manner that parallels the focus on carbon by 19th century chemists. One measure of the significance of oxygen chemistry is the greater diversity of oxygen-containing molecules than of carbon-containing mol... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:43 | Here, Morton White presents the first synoptic view of the major philosophical ideas in The Federalist. Using the tools of philosophy and intellectual history, White extracts and examines the interlocking theory of knowledge, doctrine of normative ethics, psychology ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:44 | Advocates of consumer safety regulation, an active and controversial area of public policy in the United States, contend that markets do not adequately protect the interests of vulnerable consumers; market traditionalists respond that public agencies increasingly mak... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:44 | This book brings together recent research on the ability of human listeners to discern changes in the shape of complex acoustic spectra. It systematically discusses issues surrounding the discrimination of a change in acoustic intensity and the physiological mechanis... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:44 | Schoenbaum's book is a history of one of the most remarkable liaisons in international experience, a portrait of the special relationship between the last remaining superpower and the tiny Jewish state between the Jordan and the Mediterranean, and a study of how that... Полное описание |
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