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It's a cliche that the world is shrinking. As Gene Santoro sees it in his second collection of essays, music is one arena where that cliche takes on a real, but paradoxical, life: while music crisscrosses the globe with ever greater speed, musicians seize what's usef... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:41 | This book provides an overview of the dominant philosophical approaches and practices in handling status offenders--those children who habitually resist the control of their parents and schools, who run away from home, who drink and stay out after curfew. The three b... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:41 | Although primarily known as an eminent historian of Russia, Nicholas Riasanovsky has been a longtime student of European Romanticism. In this book, Riasanovsky offers a refreshing and appealing new interpretation of Romanticism's goals and influence. He searches for ... 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 | Twentieth-century America has witnessed the most widespread and sustained movement of African-Americans from the South to urban centers in the North. Who Set You Flowin? examines the impact of this dislocation and urbanization, identifying the resulting Migration Nar... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:42 | For over twenty years the abortion debate has raged, with each side entrenched in unyielding positions. This book breaks the impasse by using pro-life premises to reach pro-choice conclusions. While it is commonly assumed that state protection of the fetus as a form ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:42 | Arguing that Americans make political choices in terms of a general notion of right and wrong, yet lack a sound, objective foundation for such values, evangelical scholar Stephen Mott formulates a Christian political theory that supplies such norms. Drawing on theolo... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:42 | This book focuses on the analysis of manufacturing processes and the integration of this analysis into the design cycle. Uniquely, the boundary element method (BEM) is the computational model of choice. This versatile and powerful method has undergone extensive devel... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:42 | Large, diversified firms face unique challenges as they compete worldwide, and corporate restructuring is one way multinationals strive for competitive advantage. Weighing the pros and cons of a variety of approaches to restructuring, Downscoping offers executives a ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:42 | The 19th century saw dramatic changes in the legal education system in the United States. Before the Civil War, lawyers learned their trade primarily through apprenticeship and self-directed study. By the end of the 19th century, the modern legal education system whi... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:42 | The New Industrializing Countries (NICs) of the Pacific Basin--Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Singapore--differ in many ways such as their languages, cultures, political and economic systems. What is interesting is what economic characteristic they hold in commo... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:42 | Over the past twenty years, a revolution has occurred in relations between the American executive and legislative branches. Once a passive observer of the President's decisions on defense policy, the Congress has assumed a more aggressive role in decisions on the def... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:43 | In this book, Blustein presents the first study of an ethics of care, offering a detailed exploration of human "e;care"e; in its various guises: concern for and commitment to individuals, ideals, and causes. Blustein focuses on the nature and value of persona... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:44 | Between 1870 and 1920, two generations of European and American intellectuals created a transatlantic community of philosophical and political discourse. Uncertain Victory, the first comparative study of ideas and politics in France, Germany, the U.S., and Great Brit... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:44 | The scope and significance of cytoplasmic inheritance has been the subject of one of the longest controversies in the history of genetics. In the first major book on the history of this subject, Jan Sapp analyses the persistent attempts of investigators of non-Mendel... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:44 | The biologist Jacques Loeb (1859-1924) helped to shape the practice of modern biological research through his radical emphasis on reductionist experimentation. This biography traces his career and convincingly argues that Loeb's desire to control organisms, manifeste... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:45 | Buddhism is deeply attractive to many in the West. Its ideals of serenity and compassion seem to supply a dimension of personal spirituality that they don't find in their own traditions. For those raised in the Christian Church, Buddhism can appear to exemplify the b... Полное описание |
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{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:45 | Throughout the history of the African American people there has been no stronger resource for overcoming adversity than the black church. From its role in leading a group of free Blacks to form a colony in Sierra Leone in the 1790s to helping ex-slaves after the Civi... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:45 | Written by a leading scholar of juvenile justice, this book examines the social and legal changes that have transformed the juvenile court in the last three decades from a nominally rehabilitative welfare agency into a scaled-down criminal court for young offenders. ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:46 | Dont expect to find here the usual cliches about suicide bombers and what drives them. In this unique study, Anne Marie Oliver and Paul Steinberg render the story of two intertwining, often clashing journeys. The authors lived for six months with a Palestinian refuge... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:46 | This is a thorough revision of a successful introductory text on psychophysiological recording. The authors include information on the most up-to-date equipment used today to do brain scanning and discuss other equipment not available in 1980. A new chapter on signal... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:47 | An excellent critical analysis and scientific assessment of the nature and actual level of risk leading environmental health hazards pose to the public. Issues such as radiation from nuclear testing, radon in the home, and the connection between electromagnetic field... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:47 | From the author of the classic Human Anatomy for Artists comes this user-friendly reference guide featuring over five hundred original drawings and over seventy photographs. Designed for painters, sculptors, and illustrators who use animal imagery in their work, Anim... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:47 | In Here Be Dragons, astronomer David Koerner and neurobiologist Simon LeVay offer a scientifically compelling and colorful account of the search for life beyond Earth. The authors survey the work of biologists, cosmologists, computer theorists, NASA engineers, SETI r... Полное описание |
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