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"Masterworks of 20th-Century Music" introduces more than one hundred of the greatest compositions by world-renowned composer that have entered the standard orchestral repertory. The author surveyed dozens of major American orchestras to focus on those...

The late Alec Nove explores the relationship between Marxist ideas and the Soviet reality and presents a methodology for understanding Soviet type societies.

Lance Taylor uses structuralist models to examine the issues of short-term fluctuations and long-term growth in developing economies.

This story of Cicero and the Catilinarian Conspiracy is set within and offers a case study of the political, military, economic and social crises besetting the late Roman Republic in the era of the "Roman Revolution." The book chronicles the efforts of...

Traditionally, architecture has been preoccupied with the resolution of form. That concern helps to make photogenic buildings, which have received a great deal of attention. This book looks instead at the idea of the flows, which connects things together...

Human Interaction with the Divine, the Sacred, and the Deceased brings together cutting-edge empirical and theoretical contributions from scholars in fields including psychology, theology, ethics, neuroscience, medicine, and philosophy, to examine how...

The existing literature on rural China characterizes socioeconomic diversity as a uniquely regional phenomenon: north versus south, coastal versus inland, urban versus rural. Unlike most work done at the village level, this book shows the large...

This study aims to fill the gap in the existing literature on China's Democratic development, by presenting a comprehensive and detailed examination of the key factors that have created and sustained state domination over society in China.

Weapons proliferation is one of the most pressing global concerns following the end of the Cold War. Despite the absence of an overarching superpower conflict, armaments and related technologies have continued to spread throughout the international...

This fully updated second edition is a selective annotated bibliography of all relevant published resources relating to church and worship music in the United States. Over the past decade, there has been a growth of literature covering everything from...

This classic dictionary answers questions such as these and explains the origins of over 16,000 names in current English use. It will be a source of fascination to everyone with an interest in names and their history.

This handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of the dynamics and prospects of democratization in East Asia. A team of leading experts in the field offers discussion at both the country and regional level, including analysis of democratic attitudes and...

This volume explores the mutually transformative relations between migrants and port cities. Throughout the ages of sail and steam, port cities served as nodes of long-distance transmissions and exchanges. Commercial goods, people, animals, seeds,...

Đức Phật dạy, người Phật tử không nên tin và y nương vào thiên thần quỷ vật. Không nên tin vào tổn hữu ác đản, mà nên tin rằng mọi vật không rời nhân duyên mà có, không rời nhân quả mà thành. Tu là không gieo nhân hạnh phẩm sân, ngược lại làm việc thiện...

LIÊN ĐOÀN TRƯỞNG: Anh là người chịu trách nhiệm về sự thịnh suy của Gia Ðình - Với nhiệm vụ cụ thể: Ðiều động Ban Huynh Trưởng - Thi hành chỉ thị của Ban Hướng Dẫn - Huấn luyện - Tổ chức sinh hoạt - Báo cáo v.v... Liên Ðoàn Trưởng đóng vai trò hết sức...

Tập khảo luận mà chúng ta đang cầm trên tay, có thể nói, là một trong những tài liệu quan trọng gắn liền với quá trình phát triển sôi nổi nhất của Gia đình Phật tử Việt Nam. Ra đời trong cuộc Chấn hưng Phật giáo đầu thế kỷ XX, từ đó đến nay, Gia đình...

Many owners of Microsoft Operating Systems Vista to Windows 10 are completely unaware of Microsoft Windows Speech Recognition.This is a free application on each of these operating systems. Many of those who have attempted to use this have given up...

TOP SECRET REPORT. JOINT WEAPONS SYSTEMS OF THE EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND THE UNITED STATES Published by Times Square Press® New York.It is hard to believe that our government has obtained mind-bending technology from extraterrestrials which led to the...

“This book showcases the breadth and value of online pedagogy for applied linguistics. The chapters offer informative, practical and inspirational insights into teaching and learning used at the Open University, and how these approaches extend to...

Un manuale completo, ricco di esempi e proposte operative, per lo studio dell'armonia tonale. Con una prefazione di Marina Leonardi.

Diese Publikation soll die Ergebnisse und Vorträge des Strategietags der Studierenden der FH Salzburg, Design und Produktmanagement dokumentieren und eine Übersicht über relevante Themen geben. Grundsätzlich werden alle vorgetragenen Strategiekonzepte...

Nineteenth century Romanticism. In-depth study of Jean Paul Richter.

És un llibre que recull visions, reflexions i dades al voltant d'això que s'anomena l'Animació i la Gestió Cultural. Hi ha capítols on el plantejament és descriptiu i en altres on es manifesta una posició teòrica concreta.Els primers vuit capítols...

Ocho décadas de aislamiento argentino no exento de cierta dosis de soberbia han virado abruptamente a una mirada cosmopolita y humilde, aunque enraizada en los mejores años de la historia argentina. La feliz circunstancia de pertenecer por tres años a la...

Il nostro territorio in termini di Alzheimer ha delle lacune abbastanza preoccupanti. L'incidenza della patologia è di molto aumentata nella nostra Regione, con conseguente mortalità, così come riportato dall'ultimo rapporto sulle cause di mortalità in...

"I'll bet it will tum out that brains use both mechanisms, in different centers. " Much of my waking life and that of many of my friends is spent racking our brains over how brains work. This book claims that good science is...

High blood pressure disease is one of the most prevalent pathological conditions in modem society with potentially serious consequences. During the last two decades major progress has been made in the development of rational...

The present collection is devoted to algorithmic methods, and computer algorithms, for the synthesis of digital computers and controlling machines. The work reported in the papers collected here was performed at the Institute...

This volume records the papers presented in Warsaw on the meeting of the International Society of Arterial Chemoreception (LS. A. C. ) organized as a Satellite Symposium of the XXXI International Congress of the Union of...

During the translation, the author had the opportunity to re­ view several chapters, taking into consideration the more recent literature. As far as possible all new theoretical concepts and experi­ mental data published before...

RajB KNRao Conference Director, Birmingham Polytechnic Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Engineering Management (COMADEM) is a relatively new field that has already made its mark in a wide range of industries. But all the...

This series was organized to provide a forum for review papers in the area of corrosion. The aim of these reviews is to bring certain areas of corrosion science and technology into a sharp focus. The volumes of this series are...

This volume contains the majority of the papers presented at the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, held in Lubbock, Texas, October 16-19, 1980. The varied styles topics, methodologies, and intellectual...

Plant breeding, the domestication and systematic improvement of crop species, is the basis of past and present agriculture. Our so­ called primitive progenitors selected practically all our present-day crop plants, and the...

The objective of this series is to provide medical researchers and libraries with single sources to scattered research results in selected disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields. The topics for these books have been chosen...

The techniques of tissue culture were introduced at the beginning of this century. They have become more and more popular as it is realized that they are not as difficult or as esoteric as some early protagonists liked to...

This edition of well over 50,000 entries not only updates its predecessor but considerably increases the coverage of Latin America and Eastern Europe. I have been aided in this work by two colleagues at Glasgow University...

This elegant book presents current evidence on the organization of the mammalian cerebral cortex. The focus on synapses and their function provides the basis for understanding how this critical part of the brain could work. Dr...

wcrd than surface because-unless the sclid is suspended in a vacuum-it is in ccntact with a gas, a liquid, cr ancther sclid, and it is the interface between the sclid and the cther body which is the fccus cf interest in surface...

The field of particle physics is developing very rapidly. During this past year, physicists added a new instrument to their arsenal for the study of quark-quark, quark-lepton, and lepton­ lepton interactions. This machine, the...

We define biomagnetism broadly as the science of processes and functions in living organisms induced by static magnetic fields. Biomagnetic research has greatly increased since the publication of the first volume of this series...

This book is about the behaviour of teleosts, a well-defined, highly successful, taxonomic group of vertebrate animals sharing a common body plan and forming the vast majority of living bony fishes. There are weH over 22000...

This volume follows and updates AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON DIVING AND SUBMARINE MEDICINE published by Gordon and Breach, Science Publishers, Inc., in 1971. The time period covered is primarily the calendar years 1970 and 1971...

Great advances have been made in the area of sensory physiology during the last few decades, and these developments seem to be asking for a comprehensive review that is manageable in size and cohesive in content. This volume...

Processing of fine particles has presented numerous challenges to scientists and engineers for many years. Considerable progress has al ready been made in meeting these challenges across various fields of applications around...

he very name application-specific integrated circuit, or ASIC, con­ T notes an ability to provide a dense package for a highly complex design targeted at a focused, often complex solution. The ability to create customized...