Authors:Diego Dominici, Robert S. Maier,
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Keywords: special, orthogonal, polynomials, functions, contemporary, mathematics, arizonia, session, ams, april, tucson
Number of Pages: 218
Published: 2008-11-15
List price: $69.00
ISBN-10: 0821846507
ISBN-13: 9780821846506

Authors:Diego Armus, Diego Armus, Nancy LewsStepan, Gabriela
Publisher: Duke University Press
Keywords: malaria, aids, america, latin, history, modern, disease
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2003-03
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0822330695
ISBN-13: 9780822330691

Challenging traditional approaches to medical history, Disease in the History of Modern Latin America advances understandings of disease as a social and cultural construction in Latin America. This innovative collection provides a vivid look at the latest research in the cultural history of medicine through insightful essays about how disease—whether it be cholera or aids, leprosy or mental illness—was experienced and managed in different Latin American countries and regions, at different times from the late nineteenth century to the present. Based on the idea that the meanings of sickn

Author: Diego F. Wyszynski
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: treatment, origin, palate, lip, cleft
Number of Pages: 548
Published: 2002-08-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0195139062
ISBN-13: 9780195139068

Majoradvances in the diagnosis and treatment of oral clefts have been made in the past 50 years, and recent genetics and epidemiological studies have led to new theories about the causes of cleft lip and palate. Addressing issues that are relevant to clinicians, researchers and family members, this book is a comprehensive, well-illustrated, and up-to-date account of the many facets of this common disorder. The authors describe the embryological and molecular mechanisms of cleft causation, present and illustrate the genetic and epidemiological methods used to identify risk factors for oral clef

Author: Diego de Landa
Publisher: Dover Publications
Keywords: conquest, yucatan
Number of Pages: 162
Published: 1978-05-01
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 0486236226
ISBN-13: 9780486236223

Only significant account done of Yucatan in post-Conquest era. Describes geography and natural history of the peninsula, gives brief history of Mayan life, discusses Spanish conquest and its effects and provides a long summary of Maya civilization. Translator William Gates has added appendices, 4 maps and over 120 illustrations.

Author: Diego Gambetta
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: protection, private, business, mafia, sicilian
Number of Pages: 346
Published: 1996-02-01
List price: $28.50
ISBN-10: 0674807421
ISBN-13: 9780674807426

In a society where trust is in short supply and democracy weak, the Mafia sells protection, a guarantee of safe conduct for parties to commercial transactions. Drawing on the confessions of eight Mafiosi, Diego Gambetta develops an elegant analysis of the economic and political role of the Sicilian Mafia.

Author: Diego Marconi
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: communication, speech, language, competence, lexical
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1997-04-01
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0262133334
ISBN-13: 9780262133333

"`Semantics’ is a very puzzling word. It acquires different meanings in such expressions as Model-theoretical Semantics, Lexical Semantics, Structural Semantics and so on. Marconi’s book is a remarkable attempt to make the meaning of meaning less meaningless." -- Umberto Eco "What does it take to understand a word? This exemplarily lucid and up-to-date book by one of the leaders of analytic philosophy’s current upsurge in continental Europe has plenty to teach philosophers, linguists and cognitive scientists about the answer. -- Timothy Williamson, University of Edinb

Author: Diego Gambetta
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: missions, suicide, sense, making
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2006-11-23
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 0199297975
ISBN-13: 9780199297979

Suicide attacks have become the defining act of political violence of our age. From New York City to Baghdad, from Sri Lanka to Israel, few can doubt that they are a pervasive and terrifying feature of our political landscape. Based on a wealth of original information and research, and containing contributions from internationally distinguished scholars, Making Sense of Suicide Missions furthers our understanding of this chilling feature of the contemporary world in radically new and unexpected ways.