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Principles of Chemical Kinetics, Second Edition
James E. House
James House's revised Principles of Chemical Kinetics provides a clear and logical description of chemical kinetics in a manner unlike any other book of its kind. Clearly written with detailed derivations, the text allows students to move rapidly from theoretical concepts of rates of reaction to concrete applications.
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China's Inevitable Revolution: Rethinking America's Loss to the Communists
Thomas Lutze
The pivotal years in the Chinese civil war, 1947-8, found America locked in battle with Mao Zedong and the Communists for the allegiance of China's democratic middle forces. The stakes were high for both sides. As the clouds of Cold War gathered, the US needed the liberals to provide legitimacy to Chiang Kai-shek's increasingly discredited-but staunchly anti-Communist-Nationalist government; the Communists needed the democrats so that the revolution under their leadership could advance from the countryside to the cities. In the polarized atmosphere then engulfing China, whoever lost the battle for the middle forces would face political isolation-and, ultimately, defeat.China's Inevitable Revolutionexplores this tumultuous and decisive battle. It tells the compelling story of assassination, repression, and protest in urban China. It reveals how America's fixation wtih the containing of Communism led in China to the constraining of democracy. In so doing, it demonstrates how America alienated the very democratic forces on which it pinned its hopes, thereby, ironically, contributing to the Communist victory. Content Provided by Syndetics.
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The Welfare Debate
Greg M. Shaw
"Welfare politics" have now been part of American life for four centuries. Beyond a persistent general idea that Americans have a collective obligation to provide for the poorest among us, there has been little common ground on which to forge political and philosophical consensus. Are poor people poor because of their own shortcomings and moral failings, or because of systemic societal and economic obstacles? That is, does poverty have individual or structural causes? This book demonstrates why neither of these two polemical stances has been able to prevail permanently over the other and explores the public policy--and real-life--consequences of the stalemate. Author Greg M. Shaw pays special attention to the outcome of the 1996 act that was heralded as having "ended welfare as we know it."
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Open Fire: Understanding Global Gun Cultures
Charles F. Springwood
Guns are everywhere: three quarters of a billion guns - from pistols to machine guns - exist in the world today. And guns are everything: a hard-won symbol of individual freedom, an index of crime and disorder, a whole industry legitimately contributing to an economy, a popular piece of sports equipment, and an object of desire, endlessly duplicated by toys, video games and films. Open Fire presents a broad analysis of the social, cultural and political significance of firearms and the worlds they create. Illustrated with a wide range of case material - from North and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa - Open Fire explores and questions this global icon of our times. Why do guns proliferate? What does it mean to shoot or to be shot? Who owns guns and who does not? How is a firearm, a manufactured thing, very different from any other object? Is there such a thing as a "gun psychology"? How are firearms regarded in places where they are largely non-existent? Is a gun a different thing when held by a white man?
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Structure and Surprise: Engaging Poetic Turns
Michael Theune
In a market replete with handbooks of poetic forms and anthologies of free verse, Structure & Surprise: Engaging Poetic Turns is situated between these approaches, extending and elevating conversation about each. Beginning with an extensive introduction to the power of poetic structure, the book offers examples of, models for, and extensive commentary on specific structures, as well as ideas for individual writers and writing teachers to use in exploring the range of poetic possibilities. (Book jacket.)
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Moss Hart: A Prince of the Theater
Jared Brown
Moss Hart: A Prince of the Theatre (Back Stage Books, 2006) is an account of the playwright who collaborated with George S. Kaufman on two of America’s most beloved plays, You Can’t Take It With You (winner of the Pulitzer Prize) and The Man Who Came to Dinner. In addition to writing many other outstanding plays and screenplays (such as Gentleman’s Agreement and the Judy Garland version of A Star Is Born), Hart directed the original New York productions of several milestones of the American musical theatre, including My Fair Lady and Camelot. The critic for Publishers Weekly concluded his review of this book: “With exhaustive research (indicated by 40 pages of bibliographic notes) and access to Hart’s diary and letters, plus interviews with family and friends, the book is bursting with backstage anecdotes. Theater buffs will applaud this penetrating portrait of the stylish, incandescent Broadway legend.”
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Recapturing the Personal: Essays on Education and Embodied Knowledge in Comparative Perspective
Irving Epstein
In this volume, contributors discuss both the theoretical and practical applications of an embodied knowledge perspective, using the field of education as an exemplar. It should be noted that while the theorists whose writings are discussed in these pages, have made seminal contributions to the sociology of the body literature, it is not possible nor is it our goal to comprehensively review the theoretical discourse of everyone who has written in the area. Our more modest aim is to give our audience a sampling of what some of the important theoretical positions entail. To that end, we turn to the writings of the three social and cultural theorists whose work is given the greatest degree of attention in the volume, Foucault, Bourdieu, and Butler, and will briefly summarize their views.
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Science Fiction Literature in East Germany
Sonja Fritzsche
East German science fiction enabled its authors to create a subversive space in another time and place. One of the country's most popular genres, it outlined futures that often went beyond the party's official version. Many utopian stories provided a corrective vision, intended to preserve and improve upon East German communism. This study is an introduction to East German science fiction. The book begins with a chapter on German science fiction before 1949. It then spans the entire existence of the country (1949-1990) and outlines key topics essential to understanding the genre.
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Prokofiev's Ballets for Diaghilev
Stephen D. Yaness (Press)
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Ballet impresario Sergey Pavlovich Diaghilev and composer Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev are eminent figures in twentieth-century cultural history, yet this is the first detailed account of their fifteen-year collaboration. The beginning was not trouble-free, but despite two false starts (Ala i Lolli and the first version of its successor, Chout) Diaghilev maintained his confidence in the composer. With his guidance and encouragement Prokofiev established his mature balletic style. After some years of estrangement during which Prokofiev wrote for choreographer Boris Romanov and conductor/publisher Serge Koussevitsky, Diaghilev came to the composer's rescue at a low point in his Western career. The impresario encouraged Prokofiev's turn towards 'a new simplicity' and offered him a great opportunity for career renewal with a topical ballet on Soviet life (Le Pas d'acier). Even as late as 1928-29 Diaghilev compelled Prokofiev to achieve new heights of expressivity in his characterizations (L'Enfant prodigue). Although Western scholars have investigated Prokofiev's operas, piano works, and symphonies, little attention has been paid to his early ballets written for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Despite Prokofiev's devotion to opera, it was his ballets for Diaghilev as much as his concertos and solo piano works that earned his renown in Western Europe in the 1920s. Stephen D. Press discusses the genesis of each ballet, including the important contributions of the scenic designers (Mikhail Larionov, Georgy Yakulov and Georges Rouault) and the choreographer/dancers (Léonid Massine, Serge Lifar and George Balanchine), and the special relationship between the ballets' progenitors.
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Politicizing Magic: An Anthology of Russian and Soviet Fairy Tales
Marina Balina, Helena Goscilo, and Mark Lipovetsky
Introducing Western readers to the most representative texts of Russian folkloric and literary tales, this book documents a rich exploration of this colorful genre through all periods of Soviet literary production (1920-1985) by authors with varied political and aesthetic allegiances. Here are traditional Russian folkloric tales and transformations of these tales that, adopting the didacticism of Soviet ideology, proved significant for the official discourse of Socialist Realism. Here, too, are narratives produced during the same era that use the fairy-tale paradigm as a deconstructive device aimed at the very underpinnings of the Soviet system. The editors' introductory essays acquaint readers with the fairy-tale paradigm and the permutations it underwent within the utopian dream of Soviet culture, deftly placing each-from traditional folklore to fairy tales of Socialist Realism, to real-life events recast as fairy tales for ironic effect-in its literary, historical, and political context.
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Peter Cartwright, Legendary Frontier Preacher
Robert Bray
Believing deeply that the gospel touched every aspect of a person's life, Peter Cartwright was a man who held fast to his principles, resulting in a life of itinerant preaching and thirty years of political quarrels with Abraham Lincoln. Peter Cartwright, Legendary Frontier Preacher is the first full-length biography of this most famous of the early nineteenth-century Methodist circuit-riding preachers. Robert Bray tells the full story of the long relationship between Cartwright and Lincoln, including their political campaigns against each other, their social antagonisms, and their radical disagreements on the Christian religion, as well as their shared views on slavery and the central fact of their being "self-made." In addition, the biography examines in close detail Cartwright's instrumental role in Methodism's bitter "divorce" of 1844, in which the southern conferences seceded in a remarkable prefigurement of the United States a decade later. Finally, Peter Cartwright attempts to place the man in his appropriate national context: as a potent "man of words" on the frontier, a self-authorizing "legend in his own time," and, surprisingly, an enduring western literary figure. Robert Bray is R. Forrest Colwell Professor of American Literature in the English department at Illinois Wesleyan University. He is the author of Rediscoveries: Literature and Place in Illinois. Content Provided by Syndetics.
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Alan J. Pakula: His Films and His Life
Jared Brown
To Kill a Mockingbird, Klute, All the President's Men, Sophie's Choice, Presumed Innocent: Alan J. Pakula was the creative force behind these great films and dozens more. Here at last is the definitive biography of this film genius, based on interviews with more than 40 friends, including Jane Fonda, Robert Redford, and Meryl Streep, and unrestricted access to Pakula's own family and archives.
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John Wesley Powell: An Annotated Bibliography
Marcia L. Thomas
This bibliography provides citations and annotations for the works by and about John Wesley Powell.
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Dictionary of Literary Biography: Russian Writers Since 1980
Marina Balina and Mark Lipovetsky
This award-winning, multivolume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars. The series systematically presents career biographies of writers from all eras and all genres through volumes dedicated to specific types of literature and time periods. Entries are written by experts in the field and include detailed primary and secondary bibliographies and illustrations.
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Analysis, Combinatorics and Computing
Tian-Xiao He, Peter J.S. Shiue, and Zhongkai Li
A collection of refereed proceedings that contain a selection of papers presented at the International Symposium on Analysis, Combinatorics and Computing (ISAAC'2000), held at the Dalian University of Technology, P.R. China, August 5-8, 2000.
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Women of the Prologue: Imitation, Myth, and Magic in Don Quixote I
Carolyn A. Nadeau
Investigating Cervantes' view of female roles in the contexts of early 17th century Spain and the Renaissance artistic method of , Nadeau analyzes the classical models for his portrayal of women cited in the famous work's prologue. Noting that Medea and the other mythic figures featured were all powerful but socially unacceptable women, she reads Cervantes as transforming these tales toward greater freedom for his female characters and himself. Based on a 1994 doctoral dissertation from Pennsylvania State U.
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Weaving a Website : Programming in HTML, JavaScript, Perl and Java
Susan Anderson-Freed
A comprehensive introduction to web programming, requiring no prior programming experience, this book begins with HTML and moves to progressively more difficult programming languages—JavaScript, Perl, and Java. It emphasizes a hands-on approach, and contains clear instructions for carefully chosen visual examples from a wide variety of topics that will appeal to most individuals—encouraging them to find ways to capture their interests in creative web pages.Chapter topics include fonts and colors; lists; tables; anchors and images; frames and image maps; cascading style sheets; arithmetic, selection, and iteration statements; functions and objects; arrays; forms and form elements; elementary data types; and graphics.For Web Masters, Web Page Developers, and Graphic Designer for Web pages.
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Dimensionality Reducing Expansion of Multivariate Integration
Tian-Xiao He
This book focuses primarily on a powerful tool: dimensionality reducing expansion (DRE). The method of DRE is a technique for changing a higher dimensional integration to a lower dimensional one with or without remainder. This work will appeal to a broad audience of students and researchers in pure and applied mathematics, statistics, and physics. Content Provided by Syndetics.
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Wavelet Analysis and Multiresolution Methods (Lecture Notes in Pure and Applied Mathematics)
Tian-Xiao He
Proceedings of a conference held at the University of Illinois-Urbana- Champaign, focusing on the use of wavelet analysis to solve a range of signal, time series, and image problems. Papers introduce major topics in wavelet analysis, present recent research results, and analyze key historical developments.
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