Author: Charles Schacht
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: marcell, dekker, engineering, mechanical, handbook, refractories
Number of Pages: 520
Published: 2004-08-11
List price: $219.95
ISBN-10: 0824756541
ISBN-13: 9780824756543

This comprehensive reference details the technical, chemical, and mechanical aspects of high-temperature refractory composite materials for step-by-step guidance on the selection of the most appropriate system for specific manufacturing processes. The book surveys a wide range of lining system geometries and material combinations and covers a broad range of tests for the determination of the thermal, mechanical, strength, and resistance properties of refractories. With contributions from international specialists with widespread experience in the field, Refractories Handbook provides examples

Author: Charles Schacht
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: engineering, mechanical, dekker, linings, refractory
Number of Pages: 479
Published: 1995-01-25
List price: $259.95
ISBN-10: 0824795601
ISBN-13: 9780824795603

Describing the technology necessary to optimize the performance of any refractory lining, this practical reference provides a state-of-the-art overview of the thermomechanical behavior and wear of refractory lining systems.

Author: Richard Schacht
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: alienation, future
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 1994-09-01
List price: $34.00
ISBN-10: 0252063864
ISBN-13: 9780252063862

Richard Schacht has long argued that alienation theory can shed important light upon aspects of life in the modern world and upon our human predicament. The essays here call for a rethinking of a variety of forms of alienation in light of contemporary dynamics and a clearer understanding of the dialectic of human selfhood and social participation. They call for a renewed interest in alienation theory; they counter the myth that, with the collapse of the Soviet empire, Marx’s thinking has been ’refuted’; and they argue for an enhanced sensitivity to the problem of how we descr

Authors:David Knox, Caroline Schacht,
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Keywords: family, marriage, introduction, relationships, choices
Number of Pages: 606
Published: 2007-01-31
List price: $159.95
ISBN-10: 0495091855
ISBN-13: 9780495091851

Because the right choice is an informed choice, CHOICES IN RELATIONSHIPS: AN INTRODUCTION TO MARRIAGE AND FAMILY, NINTH EDITION arms you with the knowledge and confidence you need to make wise decisions for a lifetime of positive relationships. CHOICES IN RELATIONSHIPS presents the information that you need to explore the tradeoffs that choices involve, view situations in a positive light, and to understand how even not making a choice is really a choice after all. By applying the concepts in this text to your own life, the authors show you how to approach every intimate relationship with the

Authors:David Knox, Caroline Schacht,
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Keywords: family, marriage, introduction, relationships, choices
Number of Pages: 663
Published: 2009-07-31
List price: $159.95
ISBN-10: 0495808431
ISBN-13: 9780495808435

This "choices" theme based marriage and family book supports the goals of most professors by applying research and theory to readers’ lives, and by encouraging lively classroom discussion. How? Through its interactive pedagogy (e.g. self assessments), currency of data, engaging writing style, and focus on social policy issues within the context of each chapter. The authors show users how positive outcomes in personal relationships depend on making intelligent choices. They accomplish this by encouraging readers to explore the tradeoffs that choices involve, how to view situations in a po

Authors:Philip Kitcher, Richard Schacht,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: ring, wagner, reflections, ending, finding
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2005-09-22
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0195183606
ISBN-13: 9780195183603

Few musical works loom as large in Western culture as Richard Wagner’s four-part Ring of the Nibelungs. In Finding an Ending, two eminent philosophers, Philip Kitcher and Richard Schacht, offer an illuminating look at this greatest of Wagner’s achievements, focusing on its far-reaching and subtle exploration of problems of meanings and endings in this life and world. Kitcher and Schacht plunge the reader into the heart of Wagner’s Ring, drawing out the philosophical and human significance of the text and the music. They show how different forms of love, freedom, heroism, auth

Authors:Linda A. Mooney, David Knox, Caroline Schacht,
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Keywords: problems, social, understanding
Number of Pages: 690
Published: 2008-03-06
List price: $136.95
ISBN-10: 0495504289
ISBN-13: 9780495504283

Mooney, Knox, and Schacht’s UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL PROBLEMS uses a theoretically balanced approach, student-centered approach to provide a comprehensive exploration of social problems. The text progresses from a micro- to macro-level of analysis, focusing first on such problems as illness and health care, drugs and alcohol, and family problems, and then broadening to the larger issues of poverty and inequality, population growth, environmental problems, and conflict around the world. The social problem in each chapter is framed in a global as well as U.S. context. In every chapter, the thr