Why do tribal genealogies matter in modern-day Saudi Arabia? What compels the strivers and climbers of the new Saudi Arabia to want to prove their authentic descent from one or another prestigious Ara
This book provides an authoritative source of information on two-dimensional materials covering a plethora of fields and subjects and outlining all two-dimensional materials in terms of their fundamen
This collection explores the growing interface between Eastern and Western concepts of what it is to be human from analytical psychology, psychoanalytic and Buddhist perspectives. The relationship bet
The Garland Handbook of Latin American Music is comprised of essays from The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Volume 2, South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Carribean, (1998). Revised a
A New Architecture for the U.S. National Accounts brings together a distinguished group of contributors to initiate the development of a comprehensive and fully integrated set of United States nationa
Over the last 25 years, reading processes have been the focus of an enormous amount of research in experimental psychology as well as in other disciplines. The theories and models emerging from this r
This book explores aspects of William H. Poteat’s philosophical anthropology, which proposes a post-critical alternative to the prevailing dualistic conception of the person and opens a path to recove
The Historical Jesus in Context is a landmark collection that places the gospel narratives in their full literary, social, and archaeological context. More than twenty-five internationally recognized
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Essential for students, science and medical graduates who want to understand the basic science of Positron Emission Tomography (PET), this book describes the physics, chemistry, technology and overvie
A boy and his dog, girls and their horses ? the cliches click because they’re so often true. But some kids do more than play with their pets, and some animals do more than fetch and purr. These kids a
Editors in psychology, speech and hearing science, and language present this updated manual for professionals who assess language development in pre-K children using the MacArthur-Bates Communicative
This marvelous collection of Boas memorabilia contains not only the original article from the famous paper of 1938, 'A Contribution to the Mathematical Theory of Big Game Hunting', but also several ad
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The 43 papers discuss such topics as surfaces, interfaces, electronic materials, metal oxides, metal sulfides, radiation detector materials, thin films, carbides, polymers, alloys, nanoparticles, and
Proceedings of the title symposium, held at the 1994 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston, 28 November-2 December 1994. Selected papers that were presented in both oral and poster sessions are divided into six
