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This book traces the development of employment relations in France since 1968 and analyzes the main forms of evolution and innovation in two areas; human resources management and industrial relations.

American things, American material culture, and American archaeology are the themes of this book. Contributors utilize data about everyday objects - from tin cans and bottles to namebrand items, from fish bones to machinery - to analyze the way American capitalism works.

An attempt to use archaeological materials to investigate the colonization of southeastern Africa during the period 1500 to 1900. Special attention is paid to the period of state formation in Swaziland and a critique of the `Settler Model', which the author finds to be invalid.

Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium held in Lausanne, Switzerland, August 9-11, 1996

These disciplines are designed to code, transmit, detect, decode, and process signals and related information, and can be broadly addressed as information science and technology. Information science and technology is the basis of a powerful industry that does not suffer the shortcomings of more traditional human enterprises.

This volume reflects, in part, an update of Clinical Application of Neuropsycho logical Test Batteries, edited by Theresa Incagnoli, Gerald Goldstein, and Charles Golden some 10 years ago.

Examines the road traveled by human rights movements in China, Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia when trying to create independent labor organizations free from governmental interference. This book covers: a worker's rights/labor standards model individumental interference; and comprehensive data tables on many aspects of the labor struggle.

Topics discussed include: language shift and code mixing speaker attitudes the role of schools and media in the maintenance of these languages and such language planning initiatives as the CODOFIL program to revive the sue of French in Louisiana.

The psychological body also becomes weaker, with unfulfilled promises and expectations, and with tragedies that visit individuals and families, and the prospect that whatever worlds remain to be conquered will most certainly not be met with success in the rapidly passing days and years that can only culminate in death.

Based in part on the symposium on Biodegradation of Nitroaromatic Compounds held in Las Vegas, Nevada, May 22-23, 1994

In 1967, Gordon Paul succinctly stated that the ultimate goal of treatment outcome research is to determine "What treatment, by whom, is most effective for this individual with that specific problem, and under which set of circumstances" (p.

The growth of clinical neuropsychology has been unprecedented. Despite these attacks, clinical neuropsychology con tinues to enjoy exceptional growth within psychology and acceptance by other health practitioners, insurance companies, legislators, judges, juries, and above all, consumers of our services.

The original objective of our book was to present to practitioners of psychotherapy, trainers of psychotherapists, and psychotherapy stu dents a model of conducting psychotherapy that actively acknowledges and builds upon the ethnic and racial heritage of both therapist and client.

Covering 17 commodity areas, this work describes the initial microbial flora and the prevalence of pathogens, the microbiological consequences of processing, typical spoilage patterns, episodes implicating those commodities with food borne illness, and measures to control pathogens and limit spoilage. It also includes a comprehensive index.

As a young man in New York City, he was a constant user of the New York City subway system. For a relatively small sum, one can spend the whole day and night in an underground world (growing up in New York often makes one think that the whole world is contained in its five boroughs).

It is clear that violence by youth is not to be found only on city streets, in city schools and among city youth but anywhere and everywhere wrathful, disenfranchised young people reside.

Presents a collection of transport-associated diseases. Each chapter focuses on a particular disease and describes the role of the transporter under physiologic conditions. This title includes short summaries on the physiological role of the transporters, structure, and pathophysiology.

Presents the progress in our understanding of various mechanisms involved in chemical communication between individual animals. The chapters in this book are derived from presentations and discussions at the Ninth International Symposium on Chemical Signals in Vertebrates, held at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, on July 25-29, 2000.

, produced evidence for the oldest burning of coal for fuel, while more recently the New York Times informed us that imprints in clay at Pavlov I attest to the oldest evidence for the making and use of textiles.

Providing fresh insights into the complex relationship between stress and mental health, internationally recognized contributors identifie emerging conceptual issues, highlight promising avenues for further study, and detail novel methodological techniques for addressing contemporary empirical problems.

What started as a graduate student' s curiosity about individual differ ences in need for personal control led to a personality scale, a few pub lications, some additional questions, and additional research.

This book discusses the rationale for community, the varieties of communities, the effect of social change on communities and many other factors, tying the concept to the various levels of human interaction, from the global to the individual.

This is the first truly global survey of the relationship between artifacts and texts from historiographical, methodological, and analytical perspectives.

Over the past several decades the seeming escalation of crimes involving sexually deviant, coercive, and aggressive behavior has become an increasingly serious problem, manifested in costs to both victims and society at large.

Proceedings of the Second Altschul Symposium held in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, May 20-23, 1992.

In this book I have concentrated on drawing attention to various conceptions of accountability that might be brought to bear in judging the practice of social research. I use my discussion of accountability as seen within positivist argumentation to explicate ways in which alternative positions have arisen as ways of treating accountability issues.

Both of these chapters address issues of risk for subsequent psychopathology and are deeply embedded in developmental theory. In Chapter 3/ Nottelmann and Jensen tackle the important issue of comorbidity in psychiatric diagnosis from a developmental perspective.

Five contributed chapters address mesionic nucleosides and heterobases; synthesis and properties of various disaccharide nucleosides; the synthesis, reactions, and properties of nucleoside mono-, di-, tri-, and tetraphosphates and nucleotides with changes in the phosphoryl residue; the synthesis and

the hallowed GC term 'FID' means free induction decay to NMR practi tione:ts, who may pardon the term 'Fid' as introduced editorially.

Africa's Sahel zone is one of the most sensitive climatic regions in the world and the events that have gripped that region beginning in the 1970's were the first indicator of a significant shift in global climatic conditions.