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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Without the baby boom, the United States would be a different place. The Vietnam War would have lasted longer. Rock and roll would be less pervasive. The civil rights movement would have changed laws and attitudes more slowly. But women might be further ahead in job status and pay if there had been no baby boorr. Hous ing would be cheaper. The economy would have done better in the 1970s, and people now in their 20s, 30s, and 40s would be making more money. For the past 30 years, the baby boom generation all those born between 1946 and 1964-shook American economics, politics, and culture. But the full impact of 7 8 PREFACE the baby boom is yet to come because the generation is just now gaining the economic and political power to de termine events. Though the baby boom is a diverse generation linked only by its date of birth, that link is critical. The gener ation spans 19 years, which means many boomers ex perience the same things at the same time-going to col lege, getting a job, marrying, divorcing, buying a house, starting a family. Because of this, the baby boom in fluences what America's businesses produce, what the media write about, and what the politicans support. It focuses the nation's attention on itself; its concerns be come the nation's concerns. Whatever age the baby boom is becomes the nation's age.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - THE AMERICAN CATHOLIC church is a remarkable institu tion. Its people worship in numbers that dwarf figures from elsewhere. It has one of the most vibrant of Cath olic school systems, perhaps the most vibrant. It is by and large an obedient church, some would say docile controversies of recent years notwithstanding. It is a church characterized by great loyalty to the pope and by unstinting financial generosity to Rome. Still, the Ameri can church is a church in transition. There has been ero sion in areas of church life. Yet more is likely. The vii viii PREFACE American Catholic church, in sum, is a ready-made sub ject for analysis and study. When this book project on American Catholicism was first broached, no particular time urgency seemed to be involved. In recent years, nuns and priests had ex ited the religious life by the thousands, and their ranks were not being refilled. Many seminaries and convents had been closed for lack of need, then sold off to meet the financial imperatives of the respective religious com munities. The administration of Catholic hospitals in several cities had been turned over to lay boards, and a few Catholic colleges had shut their gates. A number of Catholic publications had disappeared from view, and in many Catholic parishes, focuses shifted, often to ac tivities of apostolic inconsequence, as emphases drained away from diocesan schools, very many of which had closed for good.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Statistics published by the U. S. Department of Commerce (1980) indicate that in 1977 we spent 8. 1% of our gross national product (GNP) on life, health, property-casualty, and other forms of insurance. An additional 5. 7% was used to pay the Social Security tax, which is another form of insurance premium, for a total of 14. 8% of the GNP. Although insurance had its historical origin in marine insurance, it has now developed into one of the major industries of the American economy and extends into many areas of economic activity. One area where growth has been particularly strong is the medical sector. Health insurance is a major institution in all industrialized countries. It became a government responsibility in 1883 when Bismarck intro duced a compulsory program of health insurance for industrial workers in Germany. Programs for workers in various industrial and income categories soon followed in other European countries-Austria (1888), Hungary (1891), Norway (1909), Servia (1910), Great Britain (1911), and Russia and Romania (1912) (Rubinow, 1913:250). Programs in these countries were extended in subsequent years, and other countries in Europe followed with their own programs. Consequently, today most industrial countries have universal or near-universal health insurance coverage. In the United States the issue of national health insurance has been seriously debated since just prior to World War I, and polling data since the 1930s show that a substantial majority of the public has been supportive of such a program (Erskine, 1975).…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction - THE LOGIC OF EDUCATIONAL AIMS AND ACHIEVEMENTS - Education and Magic; D.Z.Phillips - Examination not Attempted; A.Flew - Education as a Positional Good; M.Hollis - RATIONALITY, UNDERSTANDING AND EDUCATION - The Transmission of Knowledge; N.Cooper - On Having a Mind of One's Own; R.S.Downie - Humanistic Education: Some Philosophical Considerations; G.H.R.Parkinson - REASON IN RELIGIOUS AND MORAL EDUCATION - Two Questions about Religious Education; W.D.Hudson - Attitudes to Evidence and Argument in the Field of Religion; R.W.Hepburn - Moral Developments as the Goal of Moral Education; D.Locke - The Roots of Moral Reason; R.Bambrough - Index. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -My introduction to the fascinating phenomena associated with detonation waves came through appointments as an external fellow at the Department of Physics, University College of Wales, and at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds. Very special thanks for his accurate guidance through the large body of information on gaseous detonations are due to Professor D. H. Edwards of University College of Wales. Indeed, the onerous task of concisely enumerating the key features of unidimensional theories of detonations was undertaken by him, and Chapter 2 is based on his initial draft. When the text strays to the use of we, it is a deserved acknow ledgement of his contribution. Again, I should like to thank Professor D. Bradley of Leeds University for his enthusiastic encouragement of my efforts at developing a model of the composition limits of detonability through a relationship between run-up distance and composition of the mixture. The text has been prepared in the context of these fellowships, and I am grateful to the Central Electricity Generating Board for its permission to accept these appointments. 256 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume contains the papers and abstracts of the posters given at the symposium on Long-term Changes in Coastal Benthic Communities organized by the Commission of the European Communities in Brussels, Belgium from 9 till 12 December 1985. The organization of this symposium came to conclude five years of activities in the COST 647 project on Coastal Benthic Ecology, the rationale of which is explained in the foreword by B. F. Keegan. The importance of this volume is that for the first time special attention is given to long-term data series of relevant biological variables collected in different marine benthic habitats. Many of the data presented here are the result of years of careful data collection by some of the leading scientists in the field of benthic ecology. Some of the series, such as the Macoma balthica data from the Wadden Sea or the macrofauna data from Loch Linnhe, to name just those two, are already classics in the marine biological literature. Other data were collected in the framework of a monitoring programme and are now analyzed for the first time in the different perspective of the COST 647 project. Several papers are from related fields where they represent well known case studies; they were chosen in order to see how problems have been tackled elsewhere.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - I. In honour of Prof. Dr. D. E. Frey and Prof. Dr. S. R. Brown, the organizer of the paleolimnological symposia.- 1. A biographical sketch of David G. Frey.- 2. A biographical sketch of Seward R. (Ted) Brown.- 3. The PIRLA project: Paleoecological investigation of recent lake acidification.- 4. 210Pb dating by low background gamma counting.- 5. 137Cs as a tracer of recent sedimentary processes in Lake Michigan.- 6. The chemistry of lake sediments in time and space.- 7. Calculating net annual accumulation rates of sediment components exemplified by pollen.- 8. Sedimentary records of accelerated nutrient loading in Florida lakes.- 9. Material transfer from water to sediment in Florida lakes.- 10. Pollen as a chronometer and sediment tracer, Burrinjuck Reservoir, Australia.- 11. Sedimentary pigments as an index of the trophic status of Lake Mead.- 12. Biogenic silica and phosphorus accumulation in sediments as indices of eutrophication in the Laurentian Great Lakes.- 13. Mallomonadacea (Chrysophyceae) Scales: Early biotic paleoindicators of lake acidification.- 14. The relationship between surface sediment diatom assemblages and pH in 33 Galloway lakes.- 15. Diatom biostratigraphy and comparative core correlation within a small lake basin.- 16. Interpretation of bryozoan microfossils in lacustrine sediment cores.- 17. On the relationship between the Bosmina taxa coregoni and thersites (Cladocera), as indicated by sub fossil remains.- 18. Ecological correlates of net accumulation rates of Cladocera remains in lake sediments.- 19. Cladoceran remains as indicators of lake acidification.- 20. Magnesium and strontium in non-marine ostracod shells as indicators of palaeosaliniy and palaeotemperature.- 21. On the preservation of carapaces of some limnic ostracods: An exercise inactuopalaeontology.- 22. Information value of chironomid remains in the uppermost sediment layers of complex lake basin.- II. Regional Paleolimnology.- 23. Paleolimnology of mid-elevation lakes in the Kenya Rift Valley.- 24. Upper Pleistocene and Holocene lakes in the An Nafud, Saudi Arabia.- 25. Late Quaternary palaeohydrology of Lake Huinaymarca (Bolivia).- 26. The Pleistocene lake deposits of the NE Baza Basin (Spain).- 27. Organic microscopic remains in Miocene lacustrine sediments near Libros (Teruel, Spain).- 28. Non-siliceous algae in a five meter core from Lake Kinneret (Israel).- 29. Limnologic consequences of the decline in hemlock 4800 years ago in the three Southern Ontario lakes.- 30. Geology and sedimentary history of Lake Traunsee (Salzkammergut, Austria).- 31. Sediments and sedimentary history of Lake Attersee (Salzkammergut, Austria).- 32. Diatom distribution and diatom inferred pH in the sediment of four alpine lakes.- 33. Late Quaternary diatoms in the sediments of Przedni Staw Lake (Polish Tatra Mountains).- 34. Scandinavian limnochronology of sediments and heavy metals.- 35. A geographical survey of littoral crustacea in Norway and their use in paleolimnology.- 36. Preliminary study of the development of the subfossil chironomid fauna (Diptera) of Lake Taylor, South Island, New Zealand, during the younger Holocene.- III. Lake Changes Related to the Influence of Man.- 37. Biogenic silica records in the sediments of Little Round Lake, Ontario.- 38. Litho- and palynostratigraphy at Lobsigensee: Evidences for trophic changes during the Holocene.- 39. An early meromictic stage in Lobsigensee (Switzerland) as evidenced by ostracods and Chaoborus.- 40. Carotenoids from plankton and photosynthetic bacteria in sediments as indicators of trophic changes in Lake Lobsigen during the last 14000 years.- 41. Stratigraphy of specific algal and bacterial carotenoids in the sediments of Lake Varese (N. Italy).- 42. The content of chlorophyll in the sediment of the volcanic maar lakes in the Eifel region (Germany) as an indicator for eutrophication.- 43. Phosphorus budgets and forms of phosphorus in the Sau reservoir sediment: An interpretation of the limnologi.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The main objective of writing the three volume 'Advances in Solar Energy Technology' is to consolidate all the relevant latest information available in the field of solar energy (applied and theoretical in nature) and to as sist both the students ( i. e. undergraduate, postgraduate, research scholars etc.) and the professionals (i.e. consulting, design and contracting firms). I have discussed each and every topic in depth rather than a cursory overview. All the material required on a particular topic is included in the chapter and I have wherever possible given useful relationships in equation, graphical and tabular form. It is hoped that this completed Solar Energy Technol ogy will serve the best source material in this field. The first chapter deals with the evacuated tubular col lecors suitable to operate at a temperature of about 150°C with a daily energy collector efficiency in excess of 40 per cent. These collectors thus would be useful for efficient operation of Solar Airconditioning System, Power Generation and Process Heat System. Various advanced features like vacuum insulation, selective black coating, anti-reflective coating, heat pipe, cusp reflector, etc., used in designing this advanced type of collector are discussed separately in this chapter. Transient mathematical model for its perfor mance prediction and different designs of evacuated tubular collectors commercially produced in different countries of the world are described in brief to give the reader a good picture about their scopr and working. …

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