No detailed description available for "The United States and Israel".
'Video Kids' raises significant questions about the role of video games and their impact on the lives and values of young people. It delivers a mandate to researchers who are investigating ways in which video games can be used in the classroom.
Examines the role of space in the writings of Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, George Crabbe, William Cobbett, and John Clare.
No detailed description available for "The State, the Investor, and the Railroad".
No detailed description available for "The Endocrine Function of Iodine".
No detailed description available for "Bibliography of Nonparametric Statistics".
Using the data from the National Longitudinal Study of the Class of 1972, the authors present a set of interrelated analyses of student and institutional behavior, each focused on a particular aspect of the process of choosing and being chosen by a college.
Poor health habits (drinking, smoking, lack of exercise) obviously take their toll on individuals and their families. The costs to society are less obvious but certainly more far-reaching. This investigation is the first to quantify the financial burden these detrimental habits place on American taxpayers. Willard Manning and his colleagues measure the direct costs of poor health habits (fire damage, motor vehicle accidents, legal fees), as well as collectively financed costs (medical care, employee sick leave, group health and life insurance, nursing home care, retirement pensions, liability insurance). Consider two co-workers covered by their employer's health plan: both pay the same premium, yet if one drinks heavily, the other--through their mutual insurance program--involuntarily funds the resulting health problems. After laying out their conceptual framework, methods, and analytical approach, the authors describe precisely how and to what extent drinking, smoking, and lack of exercise are currently subsidized, and make recommendations for reducing or reallocating the expense. They present, for example, a persuasive case for raising excise taxes on alcohol. The authors correlate their data to make costs comparable, to avoid double counting, and to determine the exact costs of each of these poor health habits and some of their findings are quite surprising. This unique study will be indispensable to public health policy specialists and researchers, as well as to health economists.
This volume brings together two previously unpublished works by the late George Scatchard. One of the most eminent physical chemists of this century, Scatchard, in collaboration with Edwin Cohn, had enormous influence on the development of protein chemistry
No detailed description available for "A History of Spanish Painting, Volume XIV".
Arthur M. Schlesinger was one of America's most distinguished and influential historians. This volume brings together eleven of Professor Schlesinger's essays not previously collected in book form. Written between 1929 and 1965, they fall into two sections--"The Scholar," which includes essays dealing with historical questions, and "The Citizen," which includes those dealing with public affairs.
No detailed description available for "A History of Spanish Painting, Volume XIII".
No detailed description available for "Technologies without Boundaries".
No detailed description available for "Hofmannsthal and Calderon".
No detailed description available for "Automatic Language Translation".
"This is the fifth edition of The United States and the Arab world."--Title page verso.
No detailed description available for "The Theodotionic Revision of the Book of Exodus".
No detailed description available for "Federal Conflict of Interest Law".
No detailed description available for "The Poets of Russia, 1890-1930".
This volume, fourth in the series of Vital and Health Statistics Monographs sponsored by the American Public Health Association, is the first nongovernmental study to deal jointly with infant, maternal, and childhood mortality. In their investigation of the circumstances leading to the current situation, the authors used special tabulations of national vital statistics prepared by the National Center for Health.
No detailed description available for "The Phoenix and the Spider".
Corn is among the most familiar of grains; it is also one of the most mysterious. In this handsomely illustrated book, Mangelsdorf summarizes the work of a lifetime devoted to unraveling the enigma of corn.
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