experiments and observations on different kinds of air vol

Production and Exchange of Stone Tools: Prehistoric Obsidian

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Torrence, Robin, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, Originally published in , the aim of this important study was to develop methods for reconstructing the processes of prehistoric exchange. Previous archaeological work had concentrated on mapping obsidian finds relative to source areas using trace-element analysis ong>andong> on investigating the effect of trade on particular cultural groups. Dr Torrence, in contrast, drew extensively on ethnographic analogy to develop an approach that uses differences in the level of efficiency for the acquisition of raw materials ong>andong> the production of goods to infer the type of exchange. Regional patterns of tool manufacture, specialist craft production at central places ong>andong> quarrying are analysed in detail in the context of the prehistoric Aegean ong>andong> previous ideas about the importance of trade in the growth of civilisations are re-assessed. The methodology developed will be applicable to a wide range of artefact types ong>andong> the book will therefore be of value to archaeologists working in many different places ong>andong> periods.

The Politics of Anxiety in Nineteenth-Century American

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Murison, Justine S., PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, For much of the nineteenth century, the nervous system was a medical mystery, inspiring scientific studies ong>andong> exciting great public interest. Because of this widespread fascination, the nerves came to explain the means by which mind ong>andong> body related to each other. By the s, the nervous system helped Americans express the consequences on the body, ong>andong> for society, of major historical changes. Literary writers, including Nathaniel Hawthorne ong>andong> Harriet Beecher Stowe, used the nerves as a metaphor to re-imagine the role of the self amidst political, social ong>andong> religious tumults, including debates about slavery ong>andong> the revivals of the Second Great Awakening. Representing the 'romance' of the nervous system ong>andong> its cultural impact thoughtfully ong>andong>, at times, critically, the fictional ong>experimentsong> of this century helped construct ong>andong> explore a neurological vision of the body ong>andong> mind. Murison explains the impact of neurological medicine on nineteenth-century literature ong>andong> culture. Acquista Ora

E-Learning Theory and Practice

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Haythornthwaite, Caroline / ong>Andong>rews, Richard, PUBLISHER: Sage Publications (CA), In" "E-learning Theory ong>andong> Practice the authors set out different perspectives on e-learning. The book deals with the social implications of e-learning, its transformative effects, ong>andong> the social ong>andong> technical interplay that supports ong>andong> directs e-learning. The authors present new perspectives on the subject by exploring the way teaching ong>andong> learning are changing with the presence of the Internet ong>andong> participatory media; providing a theoretical grounding in new learning practices from education, communication ong>andong> information science; addressing e-learning in terms of existing learning theories, emerging online learning theories, new literacies, social networks, social worlds, community ong>andong> virtual communities, ong>andong> online resources; ong>andong> emphasizing the impact of everyday electronic practices on learning, literacy ong>andong> the classroom, locally ong>andong> globally.This book is for everyone involved in e-learning including teachers, educators, graduate students ong>andong> researchers.

Architektur In Deutschland/Architecture In Germany

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Prestel Publishing, PUBLISHER: Prestel Publishing, This volume focuses on the topic of reconstruction as it examines three recently completed projects in Berlin, Munich, ong>andong> Potsdam, ong>andong> three different approaches to the task of rebuilding. The pros ong>andong> cons of this ardently debated theme are explored ong>andong> questioned from various perspectives in essays written by leading critics. The comprehensive section on projects presents fifteen new building projects in Germany by Barkow Leibinger, Meck Architects, OMA/Rem Koolhaas, Sauerbruch Hutton Architects, ong>andong> others. More than two hundred color photographs ong>andong> drawings illustrate the newest edition of the DAM Yearbook.

Austria and Other Margins: Reading Culture

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Arens, Katherine, PUBLISHER: Camden House (NY), In this book Katherine Arens offers a series of case studies that redefine what 'reading culture' can mean in literary ong>andong> cultural studies. The first part traces the ways in which authors borrow ong>andong> rewrite literary traditions across national lines, in order to address problems in their own cultures' histories. In the second set of essays, Professor Arens illustrates how literature can cross other kinds of cultural boundaries, especially those between disciplines; for example, plotting a story as if it were on a stage allows Grillparzer to tell two simultaneous stories at odds with each other; ong>andong> two artists interested in large-group art (Christo ong>andong> Judy Chicago) manipulate their images as modernists to achieve different careers.

The Design of Animal Communication

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hauser, Marc D. / Konishi, Mark, PUBLISHER: MIT Press (MA), When animals, including humans, communicate, they convey information ong>andong> express their perceptions of the world. Because different organisms are able to produce ong>andong> perceive different signals, the animal world contains a diversity of communication systems. Based on the approach laid out in the s by Nobel laureate Nikolaas Tinbergen, this book looks at animal communication from the four perspectives of mechanisms, ontogeny, function, ong>andong> phylogeny. The book's great strength is its broad comparative perspective, which enables the reader to appreciate the diversity of solutions to particular problems of signal design ong>andong> perception. For example, although the neural circuitry underlying the production of acoustic signals is different in frogs, songbirds, bats, ong>andong> humans, each involves a set of dedicated pathways designed to solve particular problems of communicative efficiency. Such comparative findings form the basis of a conceptual framework for understong>andong>ing the mechanisms underlying communication systems ong>andong> their evolution.

The Navigation of Feeling: A Framework for the History of

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Reddy, William M., PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, The Navigation of Feeling critiques recent psychological ong>andong> anthropological research on emotions. William M. Reddy offers a new theory of emotions ong>andong> historical change, drawing on research from many academic disciplines. This new theory makes it possible to see how emotions change over time, how emotions have a very important impact on the shape of history, ong>andong> how different social orders either facilitate emotional life or make it more difficult. This theory is fully explored in a case study of the French Revolution.

Coglab 2.0 [With CDROM]

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Francis, Greg / Neath, Ian / VanHorn, Daniel, PUBLISHER: Wadsworth Publishing Company, CogLab gives both students ong>andong> instructors the chance to participate as subjects in classic ong>experimentsong> of cognitive psychology. CogLab on CD-ROM gives students access to complete the ong>experimentsong> without an Internet connection or a web browser, while CogLab online allows instructors to combine data across all of their students, to have class averages automatically calculated, ong>andong> to make those averages available to students. Instructors who choose the CD-ROM version can download a program that will allow them to combine ong>andong> calculate class averages of data generated by their students. (For a complete description of the online ong>andong> CD-ROM versions, visit the CogLab Web site at http://coglab.wadsworth.com/).

Between Faith and Doubt: Dialogues on Religion and Reason

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hick, John, PUBLISHER: Palgrave MacMillan, This short book is a lively dialogue between a religious believer ong>andong> a skeptic. It covers all the main issues including different ideas of God, the good ong>andong> bad in religion, religious experience ong>andong> neuroscience, pain ong>andong> suffering, death ong>andong> life after death, ong>andong> includes interesting autobiographical revelations.

Teaching and Its Predicaments

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Burbules, Nicholas C. / Hansen, David T. / *, Editor, PUBLISHER: Westview Press, Teaching is a complex ong>andong> challenging endeavor. Teachers are continually faced with difficult choices in which competing values are set in tension with one another. The interests of all students, ong>andong> of other groups ong>andong> constituencies, can rarely be served at the same time. Different educational goals, each desirable in ong>andong> of itself, often place incompatible demong>andong>s on teachers, especially in light of the limited resources ong>andong> time available to most of them. Of course, teaching does have its satisfactions ong>andong> fulfillments, but increasingly those rewards must be sought in the context of challenges that reflect the competing expectations society places upon educators.These essays tackle important aspects of the complex, often conflicted contexts of teaching. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of teaching, offering cong>andong>id analysis of the difficulties ong>andong> trade-offs inherent in teaching practice, while suggesting ways to productively address a given conflict. Together, the chapters speak honestly to the realities ong>andong> challenges of teaching, without downplaying the ideals that draw teachers into education in the first place.

Encyclopedia of Weather and Climate

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Allaby, Michael / Garratt, Richard, PUBLISHER: Facts on File, From the Introduction: The weather we experience today is different from that of the Little Ice Age of the 17th century ong>andong> of the Middle Ages...Today, though, there are fears that the climate may be changing faster than it has done for thousong>andong>s of years ong>andong> that the gases we release into the air, from our cars, factories, domestic fires, power stations, farming, ong>andong> forest clearance may be accelerating that change...If we are to make informed decisions about climate change ong>andong> the possibility that our activities may be partly responsible for it, we need to know something of the way the atmosphere works, of how our weather is produced.-Michael Allaby For most of history

Subverting America: Vol. 2

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Stich, Rodney, PUBLISHER: Silverpeak Publishing, Subverting America, in two volums, is a detailed ong>andong> documented book on corruption within the United States, in ong>andong> out of government. It covers a 50 year period as discovered ong>andong> documented by a former government agent ong>andong> his dozens of sources in ong>andong> out of government.

Slobodan Milosevic-CL

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Sell, Louis / Louis Sell / Sell, PUBLISHER: Duke University Press, In "Slobodan Milosevic ong>andong> the Destruction of Yugoslavia" former U.S. foreign service officer Louis Sell fills a gap in the literature on the Yugoslav conflicts by covering both the domestic Yugoslav side of the collapse ong>andong> the history ong>andong> consequences of international interventions in the wars in Slovenia ong>andong> Croatia in , Bosnia in , ong>andong> Kosovo from . Sell focuses on the life ong>andong> career of Milosevic, from the perspective of both a diplomatic insider intimately familiar with the region ong>andong> a scholar who has researched all the available English ong>andong> Serbo-Croatian sources. Sell spent much of his diplomatic career in Eastern Europe ong>andong> Russia, including eight years in Yugoslavia between ong>andong> , ong>andong> witnessed the events that contributed to the dissolution ong>andong> ultimate destruction of Yugoslavia. In "Slobodan Milosevic ong>andong> the Destruction of Yugoslavia "he provides first-hong>andong> ong>observationsong> of Milosevic from the heady days of his rise to power ong>andong>, later, in the endgame of the Bosnian war, including the Dayton Peace Conference. Drawing on a wide range of published material as well as interviews with Yugoslav ong>andong> foreign participants, Sell covers such areas as Milosevic's relationship to the military, his responsibility for war crimes, his methods of persuasion ong>andong> negotiation, ong>andong> his notoriously explosive personality.

Coming of Age

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ross, Mong>andong>y, PUBLISHER: Heinemann Library, This series explores the origin, historical practice, ong>andong> significance of rites of passage that are still celebrated today. Each book presents the differences ong>andong> similarities of how the rite of passage is acknowledged within different religious ong>andong> cultural groups around the world, including food, clothing, tools, rituals, ong>andong> celebrations.

Stories Out of School: Memories and Reflections on Care and

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Paul, James L. / Smith, Terry Jo / Paul, James L., PUBLISHER: Ablex Publishing Corporation, The changes in how we understong>andong> ong>andong> study teaching ong>andong> learning are uneven. Strongly held beliefs support the changes ong>andong> equally strongly held beliefs challenge them. However, the discourse about teaching ong>andong> learning ong>andong> our understong>andong>ings of the nature of educational research have changed rather dramatically in the last two decades. These changes form the context for the work described in this book on stories out of school-adult memories of their teachers. The authors have been guided by the work of Jackson (), Noddings (), Eisner (), Palmer (), Coles (), ong>andong> Lindley (), among others, who have focused on the qualities of life experienced by children, particularly in the classroom. Interests have centered on memory, meaning, ong>andong> the self in relationship. Using a database of letters written by adults (most of whom are teachers or are preparing to be teachers) to their former teachers, the authors examine the interpersonal spaces shared by teachers ong>andong> students ong>andong> the kinds of unacknowledged pedagogies created in those spaces. They are interested in the ethics of experienced pedagogies ong>andong> the implications of those pedagogies for educating teachers.

Small Groups in the Church: A Handbook for Creating

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kirkpatrick, Thomas G., PUBLISHER: Alban Institute, This planning ong>andong> leader training hong>andong>book offers a distinctive broad-based, small-group approach to building community. From the Jewish havurot to Christian koinonia, you will gain a thorough understong>andong>ing of community, learn how to plan an effective small-group ministry, how to select ong>andong> train leaders for all kinds of small groups, ong>andong> how to start small groups that are a part of ong>andong> not apart from their congregations. Appendices provide an overview of the sociological, psychological, ong>andong> biblical theological literature on community ong>andong> a wealth of presentation ong>andong> leader training resources.

Structural Concrete Structural Concrete: Theory and Design

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hassoun, Nadim M. / Hassoun, M. Nadim, PUBLISHER: Prentice Hall, Revised to adhere to the latest American Concrete Institute (ACI) Code requirements for the design of structural concrete. Presenting the analysis ong>andong> design of both reinforced ong>andong> prestressed concrete elements, Structural Concrete is exceptionally logical ong>andong> easy to read. Accuracy of calculations (Section 1.11) helps readers understong>andong> the accuracy of calculations in engineering design. Additional examples elaborate on the behavior of reinforced concrete beams at failure ong>andong> combine structural analysis with concrete design. Section on Coulomb theory for soil pressure provides an alternative approach to calculate the soil pressure considering the friction of soil on retaining walls. Section on partially prestressed concrete explains the range of partial prestressing between a lower limit of reinforced concrete ong>andong> an upper limit of full prestressing. In-depth treatment of the ultimate strength concept of reinforced concrete explains the concept of concrete beams behavior up to failure with mathematical analysis of forces developed in concrete ong>andong> steel. Discusses the design of different types of stairs ong>andong> the design of curved beams.

Forms of Power

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Poggi, Gianfranco, PUBLISHER: Polity Press, Political power is often viewed as the sole embodiment of 'social power', even while we recognize that social power manifests itself in different forms ong>andong> institutional spheres. This new book by Gianfranco Poggi suggests that the three principal forms of social power - the economic, the normative/ideological ong>andong> the political - are based on a group's privileged access to ong>andong> control over different resources. Against this general background, Poggi shows how various embodiments of normative/ideological ong>andong> economic power have both made claims on political power (considered chiefly as it is embodied in the state) ong>andong> responded in turn to the latter's attempt to control or to instrumentalize them. The embodiment of ideological power in religion ong>andong> in modern intellectual elites is examined in the context of their relations to the state. Poggi also explores both the demong>andong>s laid upon the state by the business elite ong>andong> the impact of the state's fiscal policies on the economic sphere. The final chapter considers the relationship between a state's political class ong>andong> its military elite, which tends to use the resource of organized coercion for its own ends. Forms of Power will be of interest to students ong>andong> scholars of sociology ong>andong> politics.

Molecular Variability of Fungal Pathogens

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bridge, Paul Dennis / Clarkson, John / Couteaudier, Yvonne, PUBLISHER: CABI Publishing, This volume collects important current research on molecular variability in fungal pathogens. The first section reviews the major mechanisms involved. This is followed by a series of specific studies on variability in populations of different fungal pathogens. The book concludes with chapters on methods for interpreting such variability. The volume brings together research on a wide range of fungal pathogens, ong>andong> case studies include pathogens of insects, nematodes, plants, ong>andong> humans. Combining mechanisms, characterization, ong>andong> interpretation across a wide range of applied mycology, this volume is a significant general text for those working on molecular characterization. Its broad spectrum of topics provides a multidisciplinary reference source within mycology, ong>andong> the book will be suitable for postgraduate students ong>andong> research scientists in applied mycology, including plant pathology, medical mycology ong>andong> biological control.

Organizing and Organizations: An Introduction

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Sims, David / Fineman, Stephen / Gabriel, Yiannis, PUBLISHER: Sage Publications (CA), This major textbook in organizational behaviour does what most other textbooks in the field do not: it captures ong>andong> conveys the lived experience' of being ong>andong> working in organizations while also introducing students to key concepts, research ong>andong> literature in organizational analysis. The book is in two main parts. The first explores the processes of organizing through a series of chapters each based on a different facet of organizational life. Theoretical concepts ong>andong> practical implications are woven into an engrossing ong>andong> accessible narrative which draws on a large number of first-hong>andong> accounts by members of organizations. The second part of the book, comprising a substantial thesaurus//dictionary, define

The edge of darkness

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Chase, Mary Ellen, PUBLISHER: Norton, How the mystery of the Bible's greatest story shaped geology: a MacArthur Fellow presents a surprising perspective on Noah's Flood.In Tibet, geologist David R. Montgomery heard a local story about a great flood that bore a striking similarity to Noah's Flood. Intrigued, Montgomery began investigating the world's flood stories ong>andong>--drawing from historic works by theologians, natural philosophers, ong>andong> scientists--discovered the counterintuitive role Noah's Flood played in the development of both geology ong>andong> creationism. Steno, the grong>andong>father of geology, even invoked the Flood in laying geology's founding principles based on his ong>observationsong> of northern Italian long>andong>scapes. Centuries later, the founders of modern creationism based their irrational view of a global flood on a perceptive critique of geology. With an explorer's eye ong>andong> a refreshing approach to both faith ong>andong> science, Montgomery takes readers on a journey across long>andong>scapes ong>andong> cultures. In the process we discover the illusive nature of truth, whether viewed through the lens of science or religion, ong>andong> how it changed through history ong>andong> continues changing, even today.

Empirically Based Assessment of Child and Adolescent

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Achenbach, Thomas M. / McConaughy, Stephanie H., PUBLISHER: Sage Publications (CA), The authors present an empirically based assessment approach that provides concrete guidelines for clinical work. Using ratings, direct ong>observationsong> ong>andong> interviews, they discuss methods for assessing childhood dysfunction based on a comprehensive integration of information from parents, teachers ong>andong> children. The material is presented with clinical illustrations that convey the use of specific assessment techniques for intake, case evaluation, decisions about treatment, management ong>andong> follow-up.

Buzon del Tiempo (Mailbox of Time)

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Benedetti, Mario, PUBLISHER: Santillana S.A. (Alfaguara), "Buzon de tiempo" covers various kinds of relationships ong>andong> self-knowledge: lost loves; hints of other times; unrequited love; coming to terms with failure, again, ong>andong> death; inside jokes; ong>andong> others. Benedetti evokes emotion using his best resources: intelligent wit, cutting irony, ong>andong> moving tenderness.

Max Ernst and Alchemy: A Magician in Search of Myth

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Warlick, M. E. / Rosemont, Franklin, PUBLISHER: University of Texas Press, Surrealist artist Max Ernst defined collage as the "alchemy of the visual image." Students of his work have often dismissed this comment as simply a metaphor for the transformative power of using found images in a new context. Taking a wholly different perspective on Ernst ong>andong> alchemy, however, M. E. Warlick persuasively demonstrates that the artist had a profound ong>andong> abiding interest in alchemical philosophy ong>andong> often used alchemical symbolism in works created throughout his career. A revival of interest in alchemy swept the artistic, psychoanalytic, historical, ong>andong> scientific circles of the late nineteenth ong>andong> early twentieth centuries, ong>andong> Warlick sets Ernst's work squarely within this movement. Looking at both his art (many of the works she discusses are reproduced in the book) ong>andong> his writings, she reveals how thoroughly alchemical philosophy ong>andong> symbolism pervade his early Dadaist ong>experimentsong>, his foundational work in surrealism, ong>andong> his many collages ong>andong> paintings of women ong>andong> long>andong>scapes, whose images exemplify the alchemical fusing of opposites. This pioneering research adds an essential key to understong>andong>ing the multilayered complexity of Ernst's works, as it affirms his stong>andong>ing as one of Germany's most significant artists of the twentieth century.

Cauldron of Transformation

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Sabrina, Lady / Sabrina, PUBLISHER: Llewellyn Publications, Explains the finer points of Paganism ong>andong> how to blend ong>andong> combine the wisdom of different traditions into a living spiritual system of your own. Explore the origins, customs ong>andong> beliefs of five religious traditions: Celtic Druidism, Buddhism, Christianity, Santeria ong>andong> Shamanism. This book also provides new ong>andong> dynamic tools to help extend ong>andong> expong>andong> personal spiritual awareness.

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