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This monograph has two main objectives. The first one is to give a self-contained exposition of the relevant facts about set operads, in the context of combinatorial species and its operations. This approach has various advantages: one of them is that the definition of combinatorial operations...

Sons need their fathers more than ever, but often they cannot find them. That’s because they’ve left their families, and all of us should be concerned: When sons don’t have fathers, it has far-reaching consequences for all of us—not just the children left behind. Evangelist Dr. Wendy Lyle-Jones...

This volume is one in a series of monographs being issued under the general title of "Disorders of Human Communication". Each monograph deals in detail with a particular aspect of vocal communication and its disorders, and is written by internationally distinguished experts. Therefore, the...

Public health activity, and the state’s public health responsibilities to assure the conditions in which people can be healthy, can only be achieved through different means of social coordination. This places law and regulation at the heart of public health. They are fundamental both to methods...

'sense too definite cancels your indistinct literature' Stéphane Mallarmé was the most radically innovative of nineteenth-century poets. His writings, with their richly sensuous texture and air of slyly intangible mystery, perplexed or outraged many early readers; yet no writer has more profoundly...

As the governments and peoples of the world come to face the global impact of the technological revolution, it is appropriate to consider the future of world energy supplies. This conference approached the task not only of developing the means of tapping renewable energy sources, but also of showing...

Meet Ronnie. He is obsessed with a particular game called RUMBLE LEAGUE and loses sight of other important things and people in his life. His friends begin to distance themselves from him because he loses control of himself in this game and doesn’t consider their feelings. Ronnie learns the...

The year is 1991, and Antonia “Toni” Moskowitz is caught in the middle, always having to pick a side. Whether it’s between her family’s two religions or in her relationships, she has choices to make. Does her heart belong to the outgoing boy with the lime-green nails or the girl in the black...

Diego hid something magic. Just being next to him in the car – during the journey from the coffee bar to the country house, the destination of our afternoon together – just feeling his gaze over me, or the way he undressed me with his eyes, all that was giving me an unexpected and pleasant sensation....

Immigration has been a contested issue for decades. This distinctive volume of essays on Southern Californian immigration is inspired by Michael Burawoy’s call for academic consideration to be more open and accessible to people in what he calls “public sociology.” The essays in Scholars and...

As the Regia Aeronautica and the Luftwaffe unleashed their full might against the island of Malta, the civilian population was in the eye of the storm. Faced with the terror of the unexploded bomb, the Maltese people looked for help to the Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal Section, who dealt with all...

This book explores the structural features of Indian society, such as caste, tribe, sect, rural-urban relations, sanskritization and untouchability. Based on a wealth of field research as well as archival material, the book Interrogates the prevailing thinking in Indian sociology on these structures; Studies...

In 1885, Vicente Mart�nez Ybor purchased 40 acres of land northeast of Tampa, and there he began the cigar industry that would soon draw thousands of immigrants to Ybor City. The diverse population of the area, known as Tampa�s �Latin Quarter,� came from Cuba, Spain, Italy, Germany, and Eastern...

A group of people are sitting together enjoying good conversation when the topic turns to religion. Conversation on Organized Religions is a transcript of that conversation that is rather revealing when it comes to what people really think.