Author: Vigdis Songe-M?ller
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: contemporary, european, thinkers, series, athlone, thought, women, birth, sexism, western, philosophy
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2002-12-20
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0826458491
ISBN-13: 9780826458490

For most of its history, western philosophy has regarded woman as an imperfect version of man. Like so many aspects of European culture, this tradition builds on foundations laid in ancient Greece. Yet the first philosophers of antiquity were hardly agreed on first principles. Vigdis Songe-Muller examines the differences between Presocratic monists like Parmenides, and implicit pluralists such as Anaximander, and shows how the Greeks made intellectual choices that would prove fateful for half of humankind. The text re-evaluates Greek mythology, throws a harsh new light on the invention of demo

Authors:Vigdis Broch-Due, David M. Anderson,
Publisher: James Currey
Keywords: eastern, african, studies, africa, poor, pastoralism, poverty
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2000-01-20
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0852552653
ISBN-13: 9780852552650

This collection concerning East African pastoralists rejects the premise of pastoral egalitarianism and poses questions about the gradual creep of poverty, changing patterns of wealth and accumulation, the impact of diminishing resources on pastoral communities, and the impact of external values. North America: Ohio U Press

Authors:Vigdis Broch-due, Richard A Schroeder,
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
Keywords: africa, poverty, nature, producing
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2000-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 9171064524
ISBN-13: 9789171064523

Drawing on case studies from eight different countries, the con-tributors to this provocative collection of essays demonstrate quite clearly that environmental programmes often have direct and far-reaching consequences for the distribution of wealth and poverty and that they constitute one of the major forms of foreign and state intervention in contemporary African affairs.

Author: U. M?ller
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: inorganic, chemistry, series, textbook, structural
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2006-12-01
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0470018658
ISBN-13: 9780470018651

The essential introduction to the understanding of the structure of inorganic solids and materials. This revised and updated 2nd Edition looks at new developments and research results within Structural Inorganic Chemistry in a number of ways, special attention is paid to crystalline solids, elucidation and description of the spatial order of atoms within a chemical compound.  Structural principles of inorganic molecules and solids are described through traditional concepts, modern bond-theoretical theories, as well as taking symmetry as a leading principle.

Authors:Vigdis Broch-Due, Ingrid Rudie, Tone Bleie,
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Keywords: cross, practices, cultural, perspectives, women, social, symbols, flesh, cast, selves, gendered, carved
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1993-01-06
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0854968687
ISBN-13: 9780854968688

This volume, the first comprehensive overview of Scandinavian cross-cultural research on gender issues in the English language, addresses fundamental analytical issues currently debated within international feminist anthropology and beyond. Offering examples from a wide range of ethnographic settings, the essays show that gender comprises far more than sexual relationships: it takes on political significance insofar as it influences the distribution of resources and access to public and domestic spheres, to knowledge and to power.

Author: Alberto Weissm ller
Publisher: Grafiche Vianello Srl
Keywords: venice, palladio
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2006-08-04
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 8872001749
ISBN-13: 9788872001745

At a time of particular interest in Andrea Palladio’s life and works, this book illustrates in detail the great cycle of his Venetian projects and completed masterpieces. The artistic career of one the most influential architects of the Western world is presented in relation to the last thirty years of his life, which were concentrated in large measure on his activity in the city of the Lagoon. His efforts to be accepted by the Venetian committenza, his initial defeats, the decisive friendship with the illustrious Barbaro brothers and, finally, the projects that culminated with the lumi

Authors:C. N. R. Rao, Achim M?ller, Anthony K. Cheetham,
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
Keywords: applications, properties, synthesis, nanomaterials, chemistry
Number of Pages: 761
Published: 2004-04-09
List price: $500.00
ISBN-10: 3527306862
ISBN-13: 9783527306862

With this handbook the distinguished team of editors has combined the expertise of leading nanomaterials scientists to provide the latest overview of this field. The authors cover the whole spectrum of nanomaterials, ranging from theory, synthesis, properties, characterization to application, including such new developments as: quantum dots, nanoparticles, nanoporous materials, as well as nanowires, nanotubes and nanostructural polymers nanocatalysis, nanolithography, nanomanipulation methods for the synthesis of nanoparticles. The book can thus be recommended for everybody working in nanosc