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Clinical chemistry, however, is a topic in which many senior medical students and pathology residents face challenges. This book meets this challenge head on with a clear and easy-to-read presentation of core topics and detailed case studies that illustrate the application of clinical chemistry knowledge to everyday patient care.

Sounding Roman narrates the vibrant use of music to challenge long-term marginalization of Turkish Roman ("Gypsies"). Descriptions of weddings, recording studios, rehearsals and concerts enable readers to witness the emergence of new social identities and political responses as Roman musicians bring new musical forms and styles into local and world music markets.

This book equips music educators with everything they need to know to prevent common injuries. Using principles of ergonomics and body mechanics, it approaches teaching music from the standpoint of wellness, giving music educators practical advice on how to intervene before pain interferes with performance.

Using elementary game theory, Transnational Cooperation examines a wide variety of pressing issues that will require cooperation among multiple actors to solve.

How does a telecommunications company function when its right hand doesn't know what its left hand is doing? Spinuzzi draws on two competing theories of activity to examine the networks of activity that make a telecommunications company work and thrive, examining the texts, trades, and technologies at play at Telecorp.

A thoughtful retrospective of America's wars of the 20th century, this text examines the process of going to war and seeks patterns showing how and why the nation becomes involved in hostilities.

Fox News, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Rush Limbaugh Show, National Public Radio - with so many options, where do people turn for news? This book examines the extent to which our political leanings guide our news selections and whether likeminded news use is democratically consequential.

This book examines the nature of the interface between word meaning and syntax, one of the most controversial and elusive issues in contemporary linguistics. It approaches the interface from both sides of the relation, and surveys a range of views on the mapping between them, with an emphasis on lexical approaches to argument structure.

Why do transnational advocacy movements for global causes succeed in some cases but fail in others? This book covers the successes and failures of four campaigns - climate change, HIV/AIDS, the International Criminal Court, and the Jubilee 2000 campaign for debt relief - in the G-7 advanced industrialized countries.

Based on field research in nine cities across China, this fascinating study considers the fate of the 35 million workers laid off from the state-owned sector. The book explains why these lay-offs occurred, how workers are coping with unemployment, and what actions the state is taking to provide for them.

Shows how pervasive and influential Left politics were in children's book writing, illustrating, publishing, and dissemination during the middle third of the twentieth century - precisely the time when Americans were most concerned about protecting their children against Communist influences.

In an ethnographic study of a remote community in the Auvergne, Dr Reed-Danahay challenges conventional views about the French school system and demonstrates how parents subvert and resist the ideological messages of the teachers. This book offers fresh insights into the ways in which French culture is transmitted to the coming generation.

A study of the welfare system in the Weimar Republic. Crew examines both high-level policy and ordinary Germans' daily experiences and encounters with the welfare state. One of the pillars of the Weimar social republic, the collapse of the welfare system is shown to have speeded the rise of the Nazi racial state after 1933.

The author argues that the imperialist ideology and policies adopted by the Nazis must be seen as the result of a complex evolution of imperialist thinking in Germany which had its roots in the nineteenth century.