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Twentieth-century research in the field of chemical pattern formation saw extraordinary progress due to the pathbreaking contributions of Nobel laureate Ilya Prigogine and his co-workers. Evidence exists that the dissipative structures studied by Prigogine and his colleagues may play a dominant role in the processes of self-organization of biological systems, the fundamental phenomena that govern all life forms.Brought together in this valuable volume are topical papers from the this research. Important aspects of nonlinear chemical pattern formation-dissipative structures-in chemical, biochemical, and geological systems are surveyed by leading scientists in the field of nonlinear chemistry. Topics covered include experimental observations of pattern formation in a variety of systems, bifurcation theory and analysis of nonlinear chemical rate equations, and the stochastic theory of nonlinear chemical reactions. Of particular interest are the studies of the effects of electric fields on the determination of nonequilibrium states of chemical systems.

This book examines how a relatively powerless ethnic group deals with the problems of economic inequality and racial discrimination and how they gain power in the community.

Using previously undiscovered primary source materials, Walker employs family history to analyze problems relating more generally to the development of state and society in newly independent Mexico.

A study of Chilean politics in the mid-twentieth century.

A study of a precedent-making Supreme Court decision regarding whether states or the federal government have ownership of the fishing and mineral rights of the marginal sea.

This comprehensive and compact volume is a field guide to all the native and naturalized trees of the north Texas zone, including the Blackland Prairies, the Cross Timbers region, and both the Rolling and High Plains.

How the wall paintings at the Augustinian monastery of Malinalco promoted the political and religious agendas of the Spanish conquerors while preserving a record of pre-Columbian rituals and imagery.

Believing that Milton has a vital message for the modern world, Whiting has abandoned the usual pattern for examining a poet-study of versification, meter, and other poetic devices-in favor of an exposition of the spiritual and moral meaning of Milton's

Describes a bygone way of life that has irreversibly disappeared. This title deals with various aspects of Arabian culture, including education, pilgrimages, styles of clothing, slavery, public executions, the status of women, and religion.

In nineteenth-century Brazil the power of the courts rivaled that of the central government, bringing to it during its first half century of independence a stability unique in Latin America. Thomas Flory analyzes the Brazilian lower-court system, where the private interests of society and the public interests of the state intersected.Justices of the peace-lay judges elected at the parish level-played a special role in the early years of independence, for the post represented the triumph of Brazilian liberalism's commitment to localism and decentralization. However, as Flory shows by tracing the social history and performance of parish judges, the institution actually intensified conflict within parishes to the point of destabilizing the local regime and proved to be so independent of national interests that it all but destroyed the state.By the 1840s the powers of the office were passed to state appointees, particularly the district judges. Flory recognizes these professional magistrates as a new elite who served as brokers between the state and the poorly articulated landowner elite, and his account of their rise reveals the mechanisms of state integration.In focusing on the judiciary, Flory has isolated a crucial aspect of Brazil's early history, one with broad implications for the study of nineteenth-century Latin America as a whole. He combines social, intellectual, and political perspectives-as well as national-level discussion with scrutiny of parish-level implementation-and so makes sense of a complicated, little-studied period. The study clearly shows the progression of Brazilian social thought from a serene liberal faith in the people as a nation to an abiding, very modern distrust of that nation as a threat to the state.

This comprehensive and compact field guide covers the richest plant-life region in the state-the Upper Gulf Coast Prairie, the Post Oak Savannah, and the Pineywoods of east Texas.

A comparison of different stages of Faulkner's novel.

This interdisciplinary work explores the complex intersections of technology, class, gender, and ecology in the transnational milieu of Mexico's maquiladoras.

A thorough source on Gulf coast marine life.

A masterly account of the events and people during a remarkable period in Paraguay's history.

These documents cover thirteen major peace contacts and initiatives that took place during the presidency of Lyndon Johnson.

A literary biography tracing Hamlin Garland's shift in mid-career from the harsh verisimilitude of Prairie Folks and Prairie Songs to a romanticizing of the Far West, and from ardent espousal of the principles of "veritism" to violent denunciations of nat

Henry Dietz investigates Lima's poor during the "revolution" of General Juan Velasco (1968-1975), examining both the structural conditions promoting poverty and the individual consequences of being poor.

The life of William Gilpin from the quiet comfort of his wealthy Quaker boyhood home through an exciting and turbulent career as Indian fighter, pioneer, newspaper editor, explorer, land promoter, and first governor of Colorado Territory.

John Hendrix drew upon his own varied experiences for this panoramic view of West Texas ranch life, presented here in an integral compilation of flavorful articles written originally for The Cattleman.

How average citizens on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict worked for peace in the late twentieth century.

A biography of the first native Texan to serve as the state's governor.

These essays were drawn from the papers presented at the Linguistic Society of America's Summer Institute at the State University of New York at Oswego in 1976.

This volume, originally published as a supplement to The Texas Quarterly in 1959, contains a collection of Mexican fiction, poetry, and art from the mid-twentieth century.

Laurence Walker chronicles the constant demands that people have made on forest resources in the South.

Essays on the conceptual issues underlying the battle for academic freedom.

An introduction to the study of the folksong of the Southern Appalachians, together with a selection of folksong texts collected by Combs.

An introduction to the Lyndon B. Johnson administration and to the LBJ Library's more than thirty million separate documents.

This book explores the intellectual and personal relations among John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, and Walter Pater, three figures important in the development of nineteenth-century English thought and culture.

This book presents the first authoritative and comprehensive account of the development of the Peruvian revolution of 1968.