Proven from years of success at Princeton University, this comprehensive grammar and exercise book yields maximum results in 23 lessons covering all... essentials of grammar from alphabet to progressive verb forms. Enables students to quickly understand and use basic patterns of modern Turkish. Full glossary.

Newly revised, Elementary Vietnamese is a complete college-level language course. It uses examples from media and culture to teach the language and... provide a general introduction to modern Vietnamese society and culture. Elementary Vietnamese is essential for anyone planning to travel, study, or work in Vietnam.

Radiation, radioactivity, radon: these are words that, since Hiroshima, the Cold War, and Three Mile Island, have conjured fear and fascination for many... Americans. The threat of nuclear war, however, was always abstract at best, and the possibility of a meltdown was seen primarily as a localized catastrophe. Yet the danger of radon--an invisible, odorless gas that could seemingly attack any home and afflict its residents with a deadly cancer--struck home in the 1980s when whole neighborhoods were deemed unsafe and homeowners were forced to relocate, often at great expense. But how much of a threat does radon really pose to Americans? Is the government's aggressive policy toward this "silent killer" warranted? Indeed, is there a legitimate threat at all? These are the important questions Leonard A. Cole asks in this provocative and fascinating new book, and his answers are ones that all homeowners will want to understand.In clear, non-technical language, Cole dispels many of the myths surrounding radon as he makes recommendations for a coherent, reasonable environmental policy toward what is, certainly, a dangerous gas. But at what levels does radon become a health problem? From all the alarmist headlines ("Major Radon Peril Is Declared By U.S." screamed the New York Times in 1988), average Americans would never know that the threat of radon is much debated, among scientists as well as among government officials. They would never know that numerous European countries--with advanced environmental policies--see the radon levels found in homes and apartments as much less of a danger than we do. And they would never know that not even a single lung cancer death can be directly attributed to a radon-contaminated environment. As he carefully traces the development of the U.S.indoor radon policy, Cole illuminates the many scientific uncertainties that lie behind it, and challenges EPA's risk-cost assessment of radon levels. He shows, too, that no epidemiological study has confirmed that homeowners are at great risk, and exposes those who stand to gain from the policy decisions made in Washington. Since it is not caused by any industry, radon has been a politically convenient issue. Under the Reagan administration, for example, an aggressive radon policy proved an easy way to challenge the popular perception of an anti-environmental president. In the end, Cole convincingly argues for less strict radon regulations, and maintains that the average citizen must be involved in the decision-making process, and must be allowed to exercise her own informed judgment.Thoughtful and timely, Element of Risk illuminates one of the most important public policy issues of our time. It is a book homeowners and taxpayers, scientists and policymakers, will find essential reading.

This is a story of two Ontario towns, Hanover and Paris, that grew in many parallel ways. They were about the same size, and both were primarily... one-industry towns. But Hanover was a furniture-manufacturing centre; most of its workers were men, drawn from a community of ethnic German artisans and agriculturalists. In Paris the biggest employer was the textile industry; most of its wage earners were women, assisted in emigration from England by their Canadian employer.Joy Parr considers the impacy of these fundamental differences from a feminist perspective in her study of the towns' industrial, domestic, and community life. She combines interviews of women and men of the towns with analyses of a wide range of documents: records of the firms from which their families worked, newspapers, tax records, paintings, photographs, and government documents.Two surprising and contrasting narratives emerge. The effects of gender identities upon both women's and men's workplace experience and of economic roles upon familial relationships are starkly apparent.Extending through seventy crucial years, these closely textured case studies challenge conventional views about the distinctiveness of gender and class roles. They reconfigure the social and economic change accompanying the rise of industry. They insistently transcend the reflexive dichtomies drawn between womena dn men, public and privae, wage and non-wage work. They investigate industrial structure, technological change, domesticity, militance, and perceptions of personal power and worth, simultaneously as products of gender and class identities, recast through community sensibilities.

Denis Diderot (1713-1784), né à Langres, est un écrivain, philosophe et encyclopédiste français. Diderot fut un des grands animateurs intellectuels... du XVIIIe siècle par sa curiosité, sa vaste culture, sa connaissance des langues, son esprit critique et sa force de travail. L’année 1743 marque également le début de la carrière littéraire de Diderot, par le biais de la traduction. Il traduit The Grecian History de Temple Stanyan. En 1745 paraît sa traduction, largement augmentée de ses réflexions personnelles, d’ An Inquiry Concerning Virtue or Merit de Shaftesbury, sous le titre Essai sur le Mérite et la Vertu, premier manifeste du glissement de Diderot de la foi chrétienne vers le déisme, bient‘t confirmé par la publication de sa première oeuvre originale, les Pensées Philosophiques en 1746. De 1746 à 1748, il collabore avec Marc-Antoine Eidous et François-Vincent Toussaint à la traduction du Medicinal Dictionnary de Robert James.

Comprehensive in coverage, this book explores the principles of logic, the axioms for the real numbers, limits of sequences, limits of functions,... differentiation and integration, infinite series, convergence, and uniform convergence for sequences of real-valued functions. Concepts are presented slowly and include the details of calculations as well as substantial explanations as to how and why one proceeds in the given manner. Uses the words WHY? and HOW? throughout; inviting readers to become active participants and to supply a missing argument or a simple calculation. Contains more than 1000 individual exercises. Stresses and reviews elementary algebra and symbol manipulation as essential tools for success at the kind of computations required in dealing with limiting processes.

According to the author, America has more unchurched people than the entire populations of all but 11 of the world's 194 nations! Based on research... among several thousand unchurched people, the book discusses their values, attitudes, beliefs, religious practices, demographics, life goals, and spiritual expectations. Using additional research conducted among churches that have had great success in attracting and retaining unchurched people, the author also outlines perspectives and effective strategies for churches that wish to reach those who avoid churches. Understanding what makes the unchurched tick will give you a better chance of relating to them in meaningful ways.

Updated and expanded, this new edition is a thorough introduction to the acquisition, processing, and interpretation of 3-D seismic data. Developed from... university courses, the text teaches the fundamentals of 3-D seismic theory, techniques, and application. Includes free companion CD with related QuickTime(r) movies and SeisCom 7 for rapid calculation of 2-D and 3-D seismic quantities.

Helpful illustrations and exercises included throughout this lucid coverage of group theory, Galois theory and classical ideal theory stressing proof of... important theorems. Includes many historical notes. Mathematical proof is emphasized. Includes 24 tables and figures. Reprint of the 1971 edition.

The intriguing exploration of how our faith applies to every area of our lives. Each chapter is written by a different author who discusses how faith... interacts with an academic discipline, everyday life issues, or cultural issue. It encourages you to think about and cement your own worldview according to God's truths.

This revised and expanded edition of a classic textbook provides a concise introduction to basic concepts of acoustics and digital speech processing... that are important to linguists, phoneticians, and speech scientists. The second edition includes four new chapters that cover new experimental techniques in acoustic phonetics made possible by the use of computers. Assuming no background in physics or mathematics, Ladefoged explains concepts that must be understood in using modern laboratory techniques for acoustic analysis, including resonances of the vocal tract and the relation of formants to different cavities; digital speech processing and computer storage of sound waves; and Fourier analysis and Linear Predictive Coding, the equations used most frequently in the analysis of speech sounds. Incorporating recent developments in our knowledge of the nature of speech, Ladefoged also updates the original edition's discussion of the basic properties of sound waves; variations in loudness, pitch, and quality of speech sounds; wave analysis; and the hearing and production of speech.Like its predecessor, this edition of Elements of Acoustic Phonetics will serve as an invaluable textbook and reference for students and practitioners of linguistics and speech science, and for anyone who wants to understand the physics of speech.