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I WOULD LIKE to thank the following people who in innumerable ways have made this book possible. First, to all of the brilliant contributors without whom this book would not be what it is, Margaret Janik for being my mirror, Stephen Perrella for his…

This is a book about using phonics to teach reading and spelling to children and adults. It is not an evangelical tract, and does not pretend that phonics are all that we need. English spelling is not an exact match for English speech, and therefore…

On March 31st, 2014, the United Nations report
entitled “Climate Change 2014, Impacts Adaptation
and Vulnerability” was published by the Working Group
II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC). The panel, meeting in Yokohama,…

During the past years the “mystery” of emotions has increasingly attracted
interest in research on human–computer interaction. In this work we investigate
the problem of how to incorporate the user’s emotional state into a spoken…

As early as over 400 years ago, the first helical compression springs (coil springs) were already used for wheel suspensions of a wagon body, and at the very latest since the invention of the wheel suspension strut (McPherson), they have represented…

As early as over 400 years ago, the first helical compression
springs (coil springs) were already used for wheel
suspensions of a wagon body, and at the very latest since
the invention of the wheel suspension strut (McPherson),
they have…

The great Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky writing in the 1930s maintained that scholars in the discipline of psychology were drifting into the polar camps of behaviorism and phenomenology. There was no doubt that Vygotsky clearly saw into the…

Defenders of economic orthodoxy often argue that asset inflation results from emotional intrusions into a rational world. But emotions are unavoidable. Rational calculations can be based only on the past. Instability continually arises, especially…

France is a country so rich in architecture that it is not surprising that some of her fine buildings remain
unstudied and even, for the purposes of the history of art, unseen.

In an ef fort to make stu dents aware of the world in which they live, an em pha sis has re cently been placed on global ed u ca tion. Ed u ca tors have seen the need for a deeper un der stand ing of the in ter de pen dence of peo ples and na tions…