Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Nov 1992, 1992
ISBN 10: 0195079043 ISBN 13: 9780195079043
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - In Lone Star Rising, Robert Dallek offers a brilliant, definitive portrait of a great American politician. Based on seven years of research in over 450 manuscript collections and oral histories, as well as numerous personal interviews, this first of a two-volume biography follows Johnson's life from his childhood to his election as vice-president under Kennedy.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Nov 1992, 1992
ISBN 10: 019506934X ISBN 13: 9780195069341
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - Each year thousands of biomedical and behavioral researchers submit grant applications to the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) for support of their research or research training activities. The majority of these applications are submitted to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). By describing the inner workings of the NIH extramural programs and providing practical information about grant programs and processes, this authoritative work is designed to help investigators gain a more favorable edge in obtaining support for their research proposals. It offers practical insights into a broad spectrum of the basic and clinical research interests of the 21 NIH research granting components, and identifies the various mechanisms of support. Descriptions, guidance, and advice are also provided on specific areas including: how to prepare a grant application, the peer review system, the procedures leading to award decisions, the responsibilities of the NIH staff in managing the review and referral of applications, and managing grant programs. Other extramural policies and procedures are covered such as the appeals system, animal welfare, the privacy act, and research involving human subjects. Legislation, funding, and the NIH budget are also discussed. Written by two former senior-level managers at the National Institutes of Health and current consultants to several USPHS agencies, A Guide to NIH Grant Programs is a valuable reference source for members of the biomedical and behavioral research community.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Nov 1992, 1992
ISBN 10: 0195074246 ISBN 13: 9780195074246
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - When do you say mazal tov What is the English equivalent to the Talmudic expression Alya ve-kots ba ('a sheep's tail with a thorn in it') What is a get, a golem, a kibbutz, a chalutz What four plant species are waved during prayers on the harvest festival of Sukkot You'll find answers to these questions and hundreds of others - all in clear English - in this remarkable collection of the best known, most loved Hebrew words and phrases in the English-speaking world. From Acharon to Zohar, this informative and often humorous dictionary features over six hundred Hebrew words and expressions arranged in alphabetical order (as well as an appendix listing all entry words in their Hebrew form). The first such guide to Hebrew, this volume is more than a mere lexicon - it is a jubilant celebration of Hebrew itself, a treasure trove of Jewish wit, wisdom, culture, and tradition. Lewis Glinert provides a concise definition of each entry, and then illustrates the word's usage with generous passages from the Bible and the Talmud, the prayers and the sayings of famous rabbis, the razor's edge of Jewish humor, excerpts from the work of Elie Wiesel, Adin Steinsaltz, S.Y. Agnon, Martin Buber, Naomi Shemer and other distinguished writers, folklore from all over the Jewish world, and colorful slices of modern Israeli life. There are words directly related to the practice of religion, such as amida (a prayer said standing, under one's breath, essentially a cry for help - for wisdom, health, peace, prosperity, and so forth) as well as the names of all the Jewish holy days and religious customs; words from everyday Jewish experience, such as peot (the long sidecurls customarily worn by the Chasidim); manywords familiar from their use in Israel, such as rega (literally, 'one moment', it is the Israeli equivalent of Mexico's manana) or miluim (army reserve service); and many traditional sayings, such as Tsarat rabim chatsi nechama ('A public woe is half a comfort'). In addition, Glinert provides at the back of the book an alphabetical list of familiar biblical names in English, Sephardi/Israeli Hebrew, and Ashkenazi Hebrew. This celebration of Hebrew language and culture is a joy to read and to use. Everyone from Bible students to collectors of Judaica, from Jackie Mason fans to people planning a journey to the Holy Land, will be delighted by this informative volume.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Nov 1992, 1992
ISBN 10: 0198522541 ISBN 13: 9780198522546
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - A well-designed experiment is an efficient method for learning about the physical world, however since experiments in any setting cannot avoid random error, statistical methods are essential for their design and implementation, and for the analysis of results. In this book, the fundamentals ofoptimum experimental design theory are presented. In the first part, the advantages of a statistical approach to the design of experiments are discussed, and the ideas of models, least squares fitting, and optimum experimental designs are introduced. The second part presents a more detaileddiscussion of the general theory of optimum design and an evaluation of various criteria that may be appropriate for designing experiments. Specific experiments are detailed and algorithms for the construction of designs are given. Each chapter is a self-contained, illustrated with examples drawnfrom science and engineering. Little previous statistical knowledge is assumed, and the derivation of mathematical results has been avoided. This book should be of interest to everyone concerned with designing experiments that are practical, efficient, and accurate.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Nov 1992, 1992
ISBN 10: 0195076001 ISBN 13: 9780195076004
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - Newspaper columnist, sports writer, and author of short stories, Ring Lardner was one of the most popular personalities of the early twentieth century. Douglas Robinson combines careful psychological and cultural analysis to present an important reappraisal of this critically neglected American author. Robinson's study offers an exploration of Lardner's life and work. He presents a long, in-depth reading of a single short story, 'Who Dealt ', as well as a briefer look at several others. He explores the contradictions of Lardner's patriarchal masculinity - how such a dour, sexist alcoholic who hated humor and bad grammar could have created such a rich body of minoritarian writing, steeped in the emergent voices of women and the lower middle class - and the social functions served by Lardner's writing in twentieth-century America. Ring Lardner and the Other is so titled because it is also an investigation of the 'Other', in an expanded Lacanian sense: the speaking of various unconscious voices (mother and father and child, culture and anarchy, majority and minority) through literary characters and their authors and readers. Looking at this element in Lardner's work, Robinson exfoliates Lacan's germinal concept of the Other by interweaving it with a series of theoretical formulations by Bateson, Deleuze and Guattari, and others. Steeped in masculine psychology and the emancipatory agenda of the profeminist men's movement, the book also engages in dialogue with feminist voices and features in the Appendix an essay by Ellen Gardiner. The first postmodern reading of Ring Lardner, this study emphasizes the complexity and diversity of the voices upon which Lardner drew in his writing. Thus, inaddition to the expected literary-critical readership, it will interest Americanists concerned with modernism, with vernacular humor, and with the Chicago school, as well as literary theorists interested in integrating psychoanalytic with cultural criticism.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Nov 1992, 1992
ISBN 10: 0198156669 ISBN 13: 9780198156666
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - Although metafiction has been the subject of much critical and theoretical writing, this is the first full-length study of its place in Soviet literature. Focusing on metafictional works by Leonid Leonov, Marietta Shaginyan, Konstantin Vaginov, and Veniamin Kaverin, it examines, within a broadly Bakhtinian theoretical framework, the relationship between their self-consciousness and their cultural and political context. The texts are shown to challenge notions about the nature and function of literature fundamental to both Soviet and Anglo-American criticism. In particular, although metafictional strategies may seem designed to confirm assumptions about the aesthetic autonomy of the literary text, their effect is to reveal the shortcomings of such assumptions. The texts discussed take us beyond conventional understandings of metafiction by highlighting the need for a theoretically informed account of the history and reception of Soviet literature in which the inescapability of politics and ideology is no longer acknowledged grudgingly, but celebrated.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Nov 1992, 1992
ISBN 10: 0198239270 ISBN 13: 9780198239277
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - Richard Campbell elucidates the concept of truth by tracing its history, from the ancient Greek idea that truth is timeless, unchanging, and free from all relativism, up to the seventeenth-century crisis which led to the collapse of that idea, and then on through the emergence of historical consciousness to the existentialist, sociological, and linguistic approaches of our own time. He gives a scholarly but vivid and economical exposition of the views of a remarkably wide range of thinkers, always showing how their ideas engage with our contemporary concerns. He argues that current problems with truth arise from the way differing past conceptions continue to resound in our contemporary use of the word, and suggests that we must formulate a new conception of truth, compatible with awareness that through our actions we constitute who we are - with awareness of our own historicity.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Nov 1992, 1992
ISBN 10: 019820308X ISBN 13: 9780198203087
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Buch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - This is a study of the books of Salisbury Cathedral, and their scribes, in the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries. These manuscripts form the largest collection to have survived from any English centre in the period following the Norman Conquest, and they bear witness to the energetic scribal and scholarly activities of a community of intelligent and able men. Teresa Webber traces the interests and activities of the canons of Salisbury Cathedral from the evidence of their books. She reveals to us a lively Anglo-Norman centre of scholarship and religious devotion. This is a scholarly and original study, which combines detailed palaeographic research with an intelligent understanding of medieval cultural and intellectual life. It is a distinguished contribution to medieval studies.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Nov 1992, 1992
ISBN 10: 0198283482 ISBN 13: 9780198283485
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Buch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - Nicholas Kaldor (1908-1986) was one of this century's most original economic thinkers. His influence on British economic policy was second only to that of Keynes. This book traces the development of Kaldor's thought which underwent a remarkable evolution from his membership of the Austrian neoclassical school to his embracing of radical Keynesianism. He was quick to grasp essential changes in economic reality and to forge analytical tools to explain them. Although he was innovative from 1938 onwards, much of Kaldor's seminal work belongs to a coherent body of research which made him, together with Joan Robinson and Michael Kalecki, the leading representatives of the post-Keynesian school, an outstanding critic of the neoclassical theory of equilibrium, growth and distribution, and a convinced opponent of the monetarist school. The book also shows how economic policy and political economy were closely connected in Kaldor's work. It was this that made Kaldor one of the most lucid and radical champions of the economic policies which, by blending political freedom with social justice, have been the outstanding feature of the great European tradition of social democracy.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Nov 1992, 1992
ISBN 10: 0198202466 ISBN 13: 9780198202462
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Buch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - In this scholarly and original study of military thought during the nineteenth century Azar Gat continues and expands the themes he explored in his previous book, The Origins of Military Thought from the Enlightenment to Clausewitz (Oxford Historical Monographs, 1989). The present volume spans the period from the aftermath of the Napoleonic era to the outbreak of the First World War. Encompassing Prussia/Germany, France, Great Britain, the United States of America and the Marxist theory later to gain sway in Russia, The Development of Military Thought focuses on the wider conceptions of war, strategy, and military theory which dominated the West in this period. Dr. Gat's penetrating analysis uncovers the intellectual assumptions and picture of the past which underlay military policy and practice.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Nov 1992, 1992
ISBN 10: 0198122454 ISBN 13: 9780198122456
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - Included in this edition are ten stories, varying in length from sketch to novella, which were never collected into volumes during Hardy's lifetime. Some contained references to actual people, or plot elements that he reused elsewhere; others, such as his only stories for children, were simply too different from his other work in the short-story form; the longest, `An Indiscretion in the Life of an Heiress', was apparently left uncollected to allow for a possible reconstruction of the `lost' novel, The Poor Man and the Lady, from which it was drawn. The three final stories resulted from literary collaborations which were also emotional involvements, with Florence Henniker in `The Spectre of the Real', and with Florence Dugdale, later the second Mrs Hardy, in `Blue Jimmy: The Horse Stealer' and `The Unconquerable' (now published for the first time).Although all of these stories occupy significant positions within Hardy's career as a writer of fiction - extending that career, indeed, both earlier and later than the standard account would allow - none of them has previously received serious editorial treatment. For the most part they have also been ignored or lightly passed over by critics and biographers, and such discussion as they have aroused has frequently been based on false assumptions. This edition remedies some of these deficiencies in Hardy scholarship, both in its historical introductions and in its critically edited texts, which are based on full collations of all editions published before Hardy's death and all surviving manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs (many of which have gone almost entirely unexamined in the past). Complete lists of the variants in these pre-publication witnesses and in all authorially authorized printings supplement the edited texts.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Nov 1992, 1992
ISBN 10: 0198252978 ISBN 13: 9780198252979
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Buch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - This collection of essays results from a conference held in Jerusalem in 1988. Organized the West Bank affiliate of the International Commission of Jurists, al-Haq, its purpose was to examine legal problems arising out of Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Contributors include many internationally-renowned experts on international law and human rights as well as Palestinian lawyers and others actively engaged in addressing Palestinian rights. International concern over the future of the West Bank and Gaza Strip is as strong now as in 1988, and this book makes an important contribution to the legal literature on belligerent occupation, and on the Israeli-occupied territories.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Nov 1992, 1992
ISBN 10: 0198272553 ISBN 13: 9780198272557
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - Bargaining Power examines the balance of power between management and unions, showing why some managements- and some trade unions- are more powerful than others. Bargaining power has long been recognized as central to industrial relations, but no previous work has taken the issue as its central focus.