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G.A. Aiken Dragon Bundle
Kensington Publishing Corp. 2012; US$ 21.99Only for those I love would I traipse into the merciless Northlands to risk life, limb, and my exquisite beauty. But do they appreciate it? Do they say, "Gwenvael the Handsome, you are the best among us--the most loved of all dragons?" No! For centuries my family has refused to acknowledge my magnificence as well as my innate humility. Yet... more...
Plural Medicine, Tradition and Modernity, 1800-2000
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 178.00Research into 'colonial' or 'imperial' medicine has made considerable progress in recent years, whilst the study of what is usually referred to as 'indigenous' or 'folk' medicine in colonized societies has received much less attention. This book redresses the balance by bringing together current critical research into medical pluralism during the last... more...
Constitution and Erosion of a Monetary Economy
Taylor and Francis 1996; US$ 84.95Ever since Shaw and McKinnon published their path-breaking works on financial development in 1973, there has been extensive research on the effects of monetary and financial policies on economic growth of developing countries. This book puts forward a new paradigm of monetary development theory along Keynesian lines. The approach is substantiated by... more...
Histories of the Normal and the Abnormal
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 44.95This fascinating volume tackles the history of the terms 'normal' and 'abnormal'. Originally meaning 'as occurring in nature', normality has taken on significant cultural gravitas and this book recognizes and explores that fact. The essays engage with the concepts of the normal and the abnormal from the perspectives of a variety of academic disciplines... more...
Multivariate Datenanalyse
Wiley 2007; US$ 155.00In vielen Fachgebieten, wie z. B. der Lebensmittelchemie, der pharmazeutischen oder biotechnologischen Industrie fallen immer mehr Daten an, die ausgewertet werden müssen. Klassische Verfahren gelangen hierbei schnell an ihre Grenzen. Die multivariate Datenanalyse beschäftigt sich mit Verfahren, mit denen man aus einer Fülle von Daten... more...
Projekt Körper
Campus Verlag 2009; US$ 22.64Hauptbeschreibung Der moderne Mensch gestaltet nicht nur sein Leben, er gestaltet auch seinen Körper. Noch nie hatte die Perfektion des äußeren Erscheinungsbildes einen derartigen Stellenwert wie in der Gegenwart. Der Körper ist zu einem Projekt geworden und zu einer Baustelle der Selbstoptimierung. In diesem Wunsch nach Optimierung spielt die Suche... more...
Control and Ability
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1982; US$ 102.00This is the first of the two volumes ? the second volume being Thomas Ballmer?s Biological Foundations of Linguistic Communication (P&B III:7) ? treating biocybernetical questions of language. This book starts from a cybernetic explication of some action theoretic notions, like control and ability. These notions are used in order to provide adequate... more...









