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- catalog abstract "Perez views the various economic, political and diplomatic methods used by the United States government to exert hegemony over Cuba from 1913-1921. He also examines the political turmoil and collapse of the traditional Cuban party structure, as candidates were forced to forge alliances with the U.S.".
- catalog abstract "Religion is still something of a stepchild in the American University. In some major universities there is no department devoted to this aspect of human experience. In others the department is only uncertainty institutionalized and deals with but a fraction of man's religiousness. In a few places excellent programs exist that point the way to what can be done more generally. Like so many others I have come to the field of religion from a particular discipline, in my case, sociology. But I have in recent year become increasingly impatient with the sociology of religion as an isolated perspective. To be genuinely fruitful, it seems to me, the sociology of religion must join other approaches to the actual phenomena of religion. The study of religion seems at the moment to attract a number of mavericks and wanderers in the academy and I am grateful for the opportunities I have had in pursuing it to move outside the established structures and across the usual divisions of the university.".
- catalog abstract "The Anchor Bible Commentary is the collaborative effort of Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish scholars from around the world.".
- catalog abstract "Discusses the significance of totemism among primitive peoples and its interpretation by anthropologists and philosophies.".
- catalog abstract "The first volume of a multi-volume study of President Eisenhower, this book focuses on Eisenhower's conduct of the war and provides an extensively documented analysis of the political ramifications of the course of the war and Eisenhower's decisions.".
- catalog abstract "A collection of sixteen stories explores the mysteries and varieties of American experience and includes "Golden Gloves," the story of a would-be champion boxer whose career and marriage fall tragically short of his expectations.".
- catalog abstract "In a small Long Island town during the first months of World War II, Evan Shepard, a young machinist married for the second time, agrees to share a house with his wife's family and becomes torn by divided loyalties.".
- catalog abstract "The life and works of the father of American portraiture.".
- catalog abstract "Contains 56 maps, 329 illustrations, and accompanying text describing ancient American art, history, and archaeology.".
- catalog abstract "NORTHWEST.".
- catalog abstract "An introduction to the cooking of Israel including such traditional recipes as cheese blintzes, turkey schnitzel, felafel in pita, and poppyseed cake. Also includes information on the geography, customs, and people of the middle eastern country.".
- catalog abstract "Overview: Drawn from the original, uncensored journals of Anais Nin, Henry and June is an intimate account of a woman's sexual awakening. It covers a single momentous year - from late 1931 to the end of 1932 - during Nin's life in Paris, when she met Henry Miller and his wife, June. She fell in love with June's beauty and Henry's writing and, soon after June's departure for New York, began a fiery affair with Henry, which liberated her sexually and morally but undermined her marriage and led her into psychoanalysis. One question dominated her thoughts: what would happen when June returned to Paris? That event took place in October 1932, leaving Nin trapped between two loves - Henry and June. Drawn from the original, uncensored journals of Anais Nin, this is an intimate account of a woman's sexual awakening.".
- catalog abstract "A personal record of Wright's domestic masterpiece, a home which becomes an integral part of its natural setting.".
- catalog abstract "For the first time in English the world community of scholars is systematically assembling and presenting the results of recent research in the vast literature of Soren Kierkegaard. Based on the definitive English edition of Kierkegaard's works by Princeton University Press, this series of commentaries addresses all the published texts of the influential Danish philosopher and theologian.".
- catalog abstract "A biography of one of the founders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints who led the church to Utah.".
- catalog abstract "This is the fascinating story of 150 years of the musical theatre by one of the great legends of Broadway. Filled with inside stories and backstage anecdotes, this book traces the fascinating development of the musical, which had its origins in Offenbach's Vienna, came to Gilbert and Sullivan's London, and finally landed in America, where it found its finest flowering.".
- catalog abstract "Explores some hypotheses regarding the molecular basis of the pathogenesis of hepatic encephalopathy, a major cause of death in the Orient, focusing on the disruptive effects of too much ammonia on a wide range of biological processes, and how those may impact the liver. Other possibilities are also considered. Five of the 17 papers deal with the clinical treatment of the disease. The symposium was in Valencia, Spain, in November 1989.".
- catalog abstract "Study conducted in Lucknow City, Uttar Pradesh.".
- catalog abstract "This basic guide to parliamentary procedure tells how to conduct and participate in a meeting properly.".
- catalog abstract "Preserving the environment, saving the rain forests, and preventing the extinction of species may seem like fairly recent concerns, but in Man and the Natural World, Sir Keith Thomas explores how these ideas took root long ago. In this entertaining and illuminating history, Thomas aims not just to explain present interest in preserving the environment and protecting the rights of animals, but to reconstruct an earlier mental world as well. Throughout the ages humankind has attempted to rationalize its place in nature. At no time was the idea of exploiting the earth for our own advantage so sharply challenged as in England between the sixteenth and late eighteenth centuries. For it was during these years that there occurred a whole cluster of changes in the way in which men and women, at all social levels, perceived the natural world around them. Thomas seeks to expose the assumptions which underlay the views and feelings of the inhabitants of early modern England toward the animals, birds, vegetation, and physical landscape among which they spent their lives. The issues raised here are even more alive today than they were just ten years ago. This fascinating work deftly shows that it is impossible to disentangle what the people of the past thought about plants and animals from what they thought about themselves.".
- catalog abstract "Cet essai sur la méthodologie de l'enseignement du français langue étrangère en Afrique noire francophone se propose d'expliquer l'échec des expériences pédagogiques qui ont été tentées dans plusieurs pays africains entre 1965 et 1980 et d'en tirer toutes les conclusions utiles pour l'avenir de l'école africaine. L'Afrique noire peut-elle encore parler français ? jette les bases d'un véritable renouveau francophone fondé sur une analyse réactualisée de la réalité linguistique africaine caractérisée par le développement des langues nationales et le rôle particulier du français dans les sociétés africaines et sur l'émergence du français d'Afrique, expression d'une nouvelle norme locale. Français et langues africaines, pour longtemps encore, seront présents ensemble sur la scène scolaire. Il faut donc se remettre au travail pour que cette dualité soit un facteur de progrès et non de sous-développement.".
- catalog abstract "Generally reliable account of the life, character, and military operations of the great conqueror by the second-century A.D. Greek historian and military administrator for the Romans.".
- catalog abstract "Growing up in Atlantic City in the 1950s and 1960s, trapped in a suffocating family and suffering the agonies of being unpopular, Gina lives in a fantasy world peopled with figures from pop culture, until she finally gains the strength to face her life realistically.".
- catalog abstract "Human intuition and perception are basic and essential phenomena of consciousness. As such, they will never be replicated by computers. This is the challenging notion of Hubert Dreyfus, Ph. D., archcritic of the artificial intelligence establishment. It's important to emphasize that he doesn't believe that AI is fundamentally impossible, only that the current research program is fatally flawed. Instead, he argues that to get a device (or devices) with human-like intelligence would require them to have a human-like being in the world, which would require them to have bodies more or less like ours, and social acculturation (i.e. a society) more or less like ours. This helps to explain the practical problems in implementing artificial intelligence algorithms.".
- catalog abstract "This edition is compiled by Virginia B. Gerhardstein. It contains 3048 annotated entries classed by the subject period from colonial America through "The Turbulent Years, 1960 to 1977." Precise access is expedited by author-title and subject indices. Virtually all humanities libraries must have a copy.".
- catalog abstract "Safe in Palestine during World War II, Hannah Senesh volunteered for a mission to help rescue fellow Jews in her native Hungary. She was captured by the Nazis, endured imprisonment and torture, and was finally executed as a spy at the age of twenty-three.".
- catalog abstract "Jewish Political and Social Studies. Index.".
- catalog abstract "In a "continuous thread of revelation" Eudora Welty sketches her autobiography and tells us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writing.".
- catalog abstract ""The 'Uncensored war' provides a deeply detailed avvount of what Americans read and watched about Vietnam. Hallin draws on the complete body of the New York times coverage from 1961 to 1965, on hundreds of televison reports from 1965-73, including television footage filmed by the Defense Department during the early years of the war, and on interviews with many of the journalists who reported the war, to give a powerful critique of the conventional wisdom, both conservative and liberal, about the media and Vietnam"--Dust jacket.".
- catalog abstract ""The extraordinary story of the con job of the century-- the faking of the Hitler "diaries"--Jacket.".
- catalog abstract "Synopsis comprising excerpts from Myofascial pain and dysfunction: the trigger point manual, c1983. Each part is subtitled "Pain-and-muscle guide."".
- catalog abstract "Follows the difficult passage of the son of an angry storefront preacher and a stoically courageous mother to manhood amid the family's past from Deep South to Depression-era Harlem. Partially autobiographical.".
- catalog abstract "Index to the 62 volumes from the village hearings and the 33 volumes from the roundtable discussions relating to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971.".
- catalog abstract "Ike is very skeptical when his mother promises that he will have seven surprises in the month before his Bar Mitzvah, especially, with his father still hospitalized with tuberculosis and a newly-arrived, jobless cousin living in their small apartment.".
- catalog abstract "To escape the persecution of the Inquisition, the four members of Rabbi Zacuto's family leave Lisbon for Constantinople but become separated on the way and are only reunited after many years of harrowing adventures.".
- catalog abstract "Two short plays, dramatizations of the racial dilemma in America.".
- catalog abstract "Based on in-depth interviews with 135 women, explains why many, despite the progress of the women's movement, still feel silenced in their families and schools.".
- catalog abstract "The hilarious novel of the healing arts that reveals everything your doctor never wanted you to know. Six eager interns -- they saw themselves as modern saviors-to-be. They came from the top of their medical school class to the bottom of the hospital staff to serve a year in the time-honored tradition, racing to answer the flash of on-duty call lights and nubile nurses. But only the Fat Man --the Clam, all-knowing resident -- could sustain them in their struggle to survive, to stay sane, to love-and even to be doctors when their harrowing year was done.".
- catalog abstract ""At once a community study, a collective biography, and a statistical portrait of women residents of a Rocky Mountain mining town, historian Paula Petrik takes readers inside the world women created for themselves and their families in Helena, Montana, during the last decades of the nineteenth century. Using census records, tax rolls, county legal documents, personal letters, and newspapers, Petrik describes prostitutes, entrepreneurs, reformers suffragists, and middling women who lived in this dynamic commercial town on Montana's frontier."--Jacket.".
- catalog abstract ""This translation of Ins Leere gesprochen by Adolf Loos is based on the 1932 ed. published by Brenner Verlag in Austria."--Ed. note, p. vi.".
- catalog abstract "For more than a thousand years Roman civilization held sway over the ancient world; because of this long dominion, Roman ideas about law and government and human values remain basic to our civilization today. Dr. Starr's engrossing narrative brings ancient Rome to life again in ways that the general reader, student, or traveler can easily respond to. The many maps, full-color illustrations, chronological charts, and drawings accompanying the text emphasize the singular qualities of Roman civilization.".
- catalog abstract ""Studies the work of the Hudson River School artists, the Luminists and other mid-nineteenth century painters of the American landscape, setting the work of these artists into the broadest cultural context."--Amazon".
- catalog abstract "Examines Roman architecture as a party of overall urban design and looks at arches, public buildings, tombs, columns, stairs, plazas, and streets.".
- catalog abstract ""Patricia Crone reassesses one of the most widely accepted dogmas in contemporary accounts of the beginnings of Islam, the supposition that Mecca was a trading center thriving on the export of aromatic spices to the Mediterranean. Pointing out that the conventional opinion is based on classical accounts of the trade between south Arabia and the Mediterranean some 600 years earlier than the age of Muhammad, Dr. Crone argues that the land route described in these records was short-lived and that the Muslim sources make no mention of such goods. In addition to changing our view of the role of trade, the author reexamines the evidence for the religious status of pre-Islamic Mecca and seeks to elucidate the nature of the sources on which we should reconstruct our picture of the birth of the new religion in Arabia." http://books.google.com/books?id=VWL-_hRsm2IC.".
- catalog abstract "Critical edition of a classical verse work of Hindu law.".
- catalog abstract "An analysis and assessment at an international level of the problems of increasing concentrations in the atmosphere of carbon dioxide and other gases and the greenhouse effect these have on climate change throughout the world.".
- catalog abstract "In 1625, Martín de Arana built six Atlantic warships for the Spanish crown. The author traces the ships from their construction through a decade of service, incorporating a history of Spain's Golden Age.".
- catalog abstract "Though Wallace Stevens' shorter poems are perhaps his best known, his longer poems, Helen Hennessy Vendler suggests in this book, deserve equal fame and equal consideration. Stevens' central theme--the worth of the imagination--remained with him all his life, and Vendler therefore proposes that his development as a poet can best be seen, not in description--which must be repetitive--of the abstract bases of his work, but rather in a view of his changing styles. The author presents here a chronological account of fourteen longer poems that span a thirty-year period, showing, through Stevens' experiments in genre, diction, syntax, voice, imagery, and meter, the inventive variety of Stevens' work in long forms, and providing at the same time a coherent reading of these difficult poems.".
- catalog abstract "A vocabulary for museum work with equivalent terms in twenty languages.".
- catalog abstract "A biography of Auschwitz camp doctor Joseph Mengele, who sent thousands to the gas chambers and tortured hundreds more with experiments. Mengele went missing until his remains were discovered in 1985.".
- catalog abstract "Includes material on slang, jargon, neologisms, and readers' letters.".
- catalog abstract "Examines the relationships, mutual images, and stereotypes that have evolved between Arabs and Jews in Israel and in territorities under Israeli control.".
- catalog abstract "Study on the use of psychotropic substances in the Manipur South District, 1969-1984.".
- catalog abstract "This book has three major purposes: (1) to evaluate what has been done, (2) to suggest what still needs to be done, and (3) to recommend what should be done in the performance assessment of employees and students. It concentrates on methods, methodological issues, and practical applications.".
- catalog abstract "On the life and works of Nandalal Bose, 1882-1966, Indian artist.".
- catalog abstract "Introduces the 22 basic letters of the Yiddish alphabet and words that demonstrate each letter's sound.".
- catalog abstract "McCullough's epic tale of ancient Rome explores the power struggle between an ambitious military man and a man who lost his fortune to pleasure.".
- catalog abstract "Intended as a core text in history of psychology courses or as a supplemental text in experimental psychology methodology courses. In this text, the author explains how and why psychology has developed in its own distinctive fashion. Unlike most traditional texts, this one evaluates each system of psychological thought by employing a common methodological frame of reference.".
- catalog abstract "Articles, with reference to India.".
- catalog abstract "Summary in English.".
- catalog abstract "Biographical account of her personal and literary career. Includes 3 Pictorial essays.".
- catalog abstract "Presents statistics reported from the Master Facility Inventory Survey.".
- catalog abstract "Traces the growth and decline of the Mexican community in Tucson from the Gadsden Purchase to World War II.".
- catalog abstract "Discusses the origin and development of Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur, their major symbols, and ways of observing them in the world today and in different times in history.".
- catalog abstract "Presents a view of the Southwest that seeks to measure how rapid growth has taken its toll on the land.".
- catalog abstract "This book is a dramatic case history of a homicidal psychopath who confessed to killing five men in 1964.".
- catalog abstract "In his most brilliant and powerful novel, Pat Conroy tells the story of Tom Wingo, his twin sister, Savannah, and the dark and violent past of the family into which they were born. Set in New York City and the low country of South Carolina, the novel opens when Tom, a high school football coach whose marriage and career are crumbling, flies from South Carolina to New York after learning of his twin sister's suicide attempt. Savannah is one of the most gifted poets of her generation, and both the cadenced beauty of her art and the jumbled cries of her illness are clues to the too-long-hidden story of her wounded family. In the paneled offices and luxurious restaurants of New York City, Tom and Susan Lowenstein, Savannah's psychiatrist, unravel a history of violence, abandonment, commitment, and love. And Tom realizes that trying to save his sister is perhaps his last chance to save himself. With passion and a rare gift of language, the author moves from present to past, tracing the amazing history of the Wingos from World War II through the final days of the war in Vietnam and into the 1980's, drawing a rich range of characters: the lovable, crazy Mr. Fruit, who for decades has wordlessly directed traffic at the same intersection in the southern town of Colleton; Reese Newbury, the ruthless, patrician land speculator who threatens the Wingos' only secure worldly possession, Melrose Island; Herbert Woodruff, Susan Lowensteins's husband a world-famous violinist; Tolitha Wingo, Savannah's mentor and eccentric grandmother, the first real feminist in the Wingo family.".
- catalog abstract "The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) has been operating a reporting system for family planning clinic services since May 1969. Data are collected through this system about individuals who receive family planning services from participating family planning service sites throughout the U.S. and some of its territories. The information obtained is useful for research purposes and for program planning and evaluation, primarily at the national level. The information obtained through the National Reporting System may be divided into 4 general types: data about the participating facilities, data about the sociodemographic characteristics of the individuals being served, data about the types of services being provided, and data about the visits made. Information collected about the individuals being served consists of identification information and the sociodemographic characteristics of each person. Data about the family planning services provided refer to the medical, counseling, and referral services that each person receives at a particular visit and include information about the type of contraceptive method adopted by each person and previous contraceptive use. Focus here is on the legislative and historical background of the reporting system, the provisional reporting system (the report form, operational procedures, and output tabulations), and the national reporting system (the report forms, operational procedures, and output tabulations). The 100% family planning reporting system has grown rapidly during the 7 years of its operation. During 1970 some 800 service sites reported serving 415,000 patients who made 640,000 visits for family planning services; these figures have increased to 4940 service sites reporting 3,248,000 patients who made 5,853,000 visits during 1975.".
- catalog abstract "Surveys 65 novels that have been the basis of English-language motion pictures and offers an essay-review on each of these films.".
- catalog abstract ""Approximately 3,600 references, primarily from the journal literature, spanning more than 110 years of publication." Also includes foreign-language literature. Alphabetical listing by authors. Appendixes include glossary, sources, and instructions for online use of the Marfan database.".
- catalog abstract "" ... Andrew Forge's essay pays moving tribute to the artist's legacy; Robert Gordon's selections from Manet's intimate letters and from contemporary documents (all impeccably translated by the poet Richard Howard) add poignance to the reader's experience of the last works of one of the most innovative painters of the nineteenth century, whom many consider to be the first modern artist."--Inside jacket.".
- catalog abstract "This book sketches and illustrates in detail the range of understandings of the human condition and remedies for ills that prevailed when Jesus and the apostles - as well as their successors - were spreading the Christian message and launching Christian communities in the Graeco-Roman world. Healing played so prominent a part in Jesus' ministry as depicted in the New Testament that it is important to understand that aspect of his appeal in the context of the ways in which it was understood by Greeks, Romans and Jews of the time. Some saw sickness as the result of magic performed against the victims by enemies, others as the work of demons. Some saw health as the result of ordering life according to nature, emphasising the beneficial effects of natural substances. Jewish attitudes, for example, ranged widely over the centuries from hostility towards physicians to regard for them as men endowed by God with special knowledge for human benefit. - Provided by publisher.".
- catalog abstract "Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss came to know one another as young conductors in Leipzig in 1887. From then until Mahler's death in 1911--the year of the first performance of Der Rosenkavalier--they kept in touch. Mahler himself described their relationship as that of two miners tunneling from opposite directions with the hope of eventually meeting. This publication of their correspondence, which includes twenty-five previously unknown Strauss letters, offers a portrait of two men who were as antithetical in their musical means and goals as in their temperaments and personalities, but who exercised a strong fascination for one another. These sixty-three letters show both composers advancing in their careers as they battled against adverse conditions in the musical world at the turn of the century. They present Mahler's energetic support of Strauss's Symphonia Domestica, which Mahler conducted in 1904 and, in turn, Strauss's championing of Mahler's music, especially the Second and Third Symphonies. The correspondence is fully annotated and is supplemented with a major essay by Herta Blaukopf.".
- catalog abstract "Arguing that homosexuality of the classical era grew out of the prehistorical practice of initiatory homosexuality, Sergent examines initiation rites in a wide variety of ancient cultures, particularly in Crete and among a group of Germanic peoples. In these two cultures, a sexually active adult, the erastes, was the mentor/suitor of an adolescent boy, the eromenos. The boy was ritualistically kidnapped and then lived in the wild for a prescribed period, during which time the erastes taught him to hunt and slept with him. Killing a boar or bear - the final trial - qualified the eromenos as a hunter and signified his ascent to adult status. To illustrate his compelling thesis, Sergent provides an exhaustive survey of the Greek myths, demonstrating that the homosexual relationships of male gods and heroes follow a similar pattern of ritual initiation.".
- catalog abstract ""Consists of papers presented at the annual Notre Dame Law School symposium held on February 12, 1968, and first published in the Notre Dame lawyer, volume 43, number 6, 1968), and of a related student survey, 'The long, hot summer : a legal view,' published in the same issue of the Lawyer."".
- catalog abstract "This book is a medical detective story of the search for a killer. Pellagra, the disease of the four Ds: diarrhea, dermatitis, dementia, and death, was epidemic in the Southern United States in the early part of this century. The often fatal disease was characterized by the dramatic stigmata of an ugly red "butterfly" across the nose and a symmetrical skin rash on the extremities. Although it has been described and studied by European physicians as early as 1735, and pellagroid symptoms had long been identified in this country, pellagra was not acknowledged as a discrete disease until 1907. In that year an epidemic broke out in an asylum in Alabama. Reports of other cases quickly followed, and within a few years pellagra was pandemic in the South. The search for the killer was on, but it would be many years before the cause could be isolated and a cure found. In 1914, Dr. Joseph Goldberger, a United States Public Health Service physician, became director of the PHS pellagra research program. This book traces his efforts to identify the culprit responsible for this disease and ultimately to find the cure in 1937 that would help to eliminate it.".
- catalog abstract "Offers over 1400 poems by more than 200 poets written in English from early medieval time to the present.".
- catalog abstract ""Inside the National Security Agency, America's most secret intelligence organization"--Cover subtitle. The book the NSA tried to suppress -- with a startling new afterword on the Geoffrey Arthur Prime spy case. The National Security Agency is the largest, most secretive, and potentially most intrusive American intelligence agency. It dwarfs the CIA in budget, manpower, and influence. In the three decades it has existed, the NSA has demonstrated a shocking disregard for the law. Until now, the inner workings of this agency have eluded public scrutiny. In this remarkable tour de force of investigative reporting, however, James Bamford penetrates the NSA's vast network of power -- the acres of computers, the electronic listening posts worldwide, the intelligence-gathering satellites, and the people who control them. The Puzzle Palace is a brilliant account of the use and abuse of technological espionage and of the frightening Orwellian potential of today's intelligence communites. - Back cover.".
- catalog abstract "Compilation of economic forecasts for population, products, services, markets, and industry. The arrangement is by six digit SIC code.".
- catalog abstract ""Here is a poetry collection sure to delight and inspire the adventurous traveler and the armchair dreamer alike. As pilgrims, missionaries and explorers, as soldiers, diplomats, merchants and tourists, the British have for many centuries ventured forth to see the world. Among them have been great poets like Marvell, Shelley, Coleridge, and Rossetti, and some whose voices are less well-known, brought together for the first time in an anthology that charts the British abroad as reflected in their verse" -- publisher description (October 2006).".
- catalog abstract "This book offers an explanatory guide to the most widely used psychological tests in children. Although not meant to be comprehensive, it attempts to provide a meaningful overview and evaluation of numerous specific instruments as a useful tool for child health care professionals involved in the evaluation and treatment of children. This book is intended to aid the nonpsychologist in understanding psychological testing through: (1.) clarifying the needs of child health care providers with regard to psychological evaluations; (2.) explaining the concepts and assumptions of psychological testing in language which is clear and useful to those in other professions; (3.) discussing the findings, utility, and role of specific tests referred to on written reports or during verbal feedback; and (4.) detailing the relationship between psychological testing and medical and neurological evaluations. Finally, guidelines are provided for nonpsychologists in discussing with parents the results of psychological tests on children. -- from Preface.".
- catalog abstract "Focuses on the emotional and psychological aspects of premenstrual syndrome by presenting case histories, interpreting the dynamics, and explaining the counseling given.".
- catalog abstract "Smeeton asserts that the famed English theologian was not put to death because of his illegal English translation of the Bible for the British lay classes, but rather for his social and theological views of these lay classes as worthy of expressing such dissent to the greater church.".
- catalog abstract "A collection of motion pictures and videotape recordings documenting the social, political and cultural history of the 20th century.".
- catalog abstract "In this book you'll meet Barry's grandfather, "Big Mike," his uncle Morris, and his father, Baron Goldwater, who, like many on the frontier, came from poverty to indelibly shape our history. This book gives readers a unique local view of the influence of a national politician.".
- catalog abstract "A detailed examination of the world of dinosaurs, their appearance, behavior, and families, describing current theories about their extinction and explaining how paleontologists study their fossilized remains.".
- catalog abstract "There is no question that native cultures in the New World exhibit many forms of mathematical development. This Native American mathematics can best be described by considering the nature of the concepts found in a variety of individual New World cultures. Unlike modern mathematics in which numbers and concepts are expressed in universal mathematical notation, the numbers and concepts found in native cultures occur and are expressed in many distinctive ways. Native American Mathematics, edited by Michael P. Closs, is the first book to focus on mathematical development indigenous to the New World.".
- catalog abstract "In this Research Note the author brings together the body of known work and presents many recent results relating to nonlinear partial differential equations that give rise to a free boundary--usually the boundary of the set where the solution vanishes identically. The formation of such a boundary depends on an adequate balance between two of the terms of the equation that represent the particular characteristics of the phenomenon under consideration: diffusion, absorption, convection, evolution etc. These balances do not occur in the case of a linear equation or an arbitrary nonlinear equation. Their characterization is studied for several classes of nonlinear equations relating to applications such as chemical reactions, non-Newtonian fluids, flow through porous media and biological populations. In this first volume, the free boundary for nonlinear elliptic equations is discussed. A second volume dealing with parabolic and hyperbolic equations is in preparation.".
- catalog abstract "Papers presented at an international conference, 1983, organized by Harvard University.".
- catalog abstract "This is the book Frank Sinatra failed to stop, the unauthorized biography of one of the most elusive public figures of our time. Celebrated journalist Kitty Kelley spent three years researching government documents (Mafia-related material, wiretaps and secret testimony) and interviewing more than 800 people in Sinatra's life (family, colleagues, law-enforcement officers, personal friends). Fully documented, highly detailed and filled with revealing anecdotes, here is the penetrating story of the explosively controversial and undeniably multi-talented legend who ruled the entertainment industry for more than fifty years.".
- catalog abstract "Examines the mythology and religion of the Indians of South America, including the Inca.".
- catalog abstract "Insects counteract infection by a variety of reactions, partly humoral but principally cellular. This monograph considers their cellular reactions, especially the phagocytosis of micro-organisms and the encapsulation of larger parasites, from two main points of view: parasitological and cytologica. The first aspect involves description of the reactions and of their effects on parasites. This part of the subject is basic to the biological control of insect pests, because a better understanding of cellular defence reactions could lead to improved methods of using insect parasites to human advantage. The second aspect involves analysis of the stimuli that evoke cellular reactions. This part of the monograph attempts to relate the defensive activities of insect blood cells to general problems of cytology, such as the recognition of foreign bodies, the aggregation of cells and their adhesion to foreign surfaces and their extreme flattening on each other as they form capsules. Two final chapters discuss the efficiency and specificity of insect defence mechanisms and compare them with the immunity reactions of vertebrates.".
- catalog abstract "Rafael Chacón (1833-1925) recorded his memories and viewpoint as a Mexican-American of historic events in the history of New Mexico. He was at various times an Indian fighter and trader, and later participated in the New Mexico Civil War. Following discharge, Chacón served several terms in the territorial legislature.".
- catalog abstract "Compares and contrasts two companies, Ford and Nissan, from the founders and owners right down to the men on the assembly line.".
- catalog abstract "Follows three generations of the Linthorne family beginning with Thomas and Kate who run away together in 1866 to Ohio.".
- catalog abstract "Short stories.".
- catalog abstract "Presents samples from the works of eight women photographers, all of whom reside in Ecuador, along with a short summary of each artist's achievements.".
- catalog abstract "Swietlicki explores the works of three major writers of the Spanish Renaissance, and their relationship with the Jewish mystical tradition known as Cabala within the Christian tradition in sixteenth century Spain.".
- catalog abstract "In this articulate and insightful book, D. Michael Quinn, a professor of history at Brigham Young University, masterfully reconstructs the world view of an earlier age in America, finding ample evidence for treasure seeking and folk magic in Joseph Smith's formative years. Quinn discovers, for example, that Joseph's world was inhabited by supernatural creatures whose existence could be both symbolic and real. He explains that the involvement of the Joseph Smith family in folk magic was not unusual for the times and is important in attempting to understand how early Mormons may have interpreted developments in their history in ways that differ from modern, twentieth-century perceptions. Quinn's impressive research provides a much-needed background for the environment that produced Mormonism's founding prophet. -- from Book Jacket.".
- catalog abstract "Provides concise descriptions of all species and botanical varieties of cultivated plants.".