Authors:Philip Lieberman, Sheila E. Blumstein,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: speech, studies, science, communication, cambridge, phonetics, physiology, perception, acoustic
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 1988-02-26
List price: $43.00
ISBN-10: 0521313570
ISBN-13: 9780521313575

This textbook has been carefully designed to provide a thorough introduction to the study of speech. It assumes no technical background, and students from a wide variety of disciplines contributing to this new and exciting field will find the exposition fully accessible. Each chapter progresses from simple examples to more detailed discussions of recent primary research and concludes with stimulating problem sets. All topics essential for a basic understanding of the field are included: the physiological, biological, and neurological bases of speech; the physics of sound; the source-filter the

Authors:Alfred Blumstein, Joel Wallman,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: studies, criminology, cambridge, america, drop, crime
Number of Pages: 374
Published: 2005-11-28
List price: $86.00
ISBN-10: 0521862795
ISBN-13: 9780521862790

Violent crime in America shot up sharply in the mid-1980s and continued to climb until 1991, after which something unprecedented occurred. The crime level declined to a level not seen since the 1960s. This revised edition of The Crime Drop in America focuses first on the dramatic drop in crime rates in America in the 1990s, and then, in a new epilogue, on the patterns since 2000. The separate chapters written by distinguished experts cover the many factors affecting crime rates: policing, incarceration, drug markets, gun control, economics, and demographics. Detailed analyses emphasize the mut

Authors:James F. Blumstein, Frank A. Sloan, Jeffrey M. Prott
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Keywords: policy, transplantation, organ
Number of Pages: 277
Published: 1989-01-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0822309394
ISBN-13: 9780822309390

Organ transplantation as a high-cost surgical and medical procedure poses an extraordinarily rich and complex set of social, ethical, and policy issues.A June 1988 symposium at Vanderbilt University gathered leaders in a wide variety of fields to synthesize the current state of knowledge concerning organ transplantation policy and to access policy options. Collected here are the revised papers presented at that symposium; also included is one influential earlier paper on the same topic. Together, they constitute a major contribution to the debate on organ transplantation policy and its moral,

Authors:Sheila Coates, John Richer, Sheila Coates, John Riche
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Keywords: coherence, search, autism
Number of Pages: 350
Published: 2001-04
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 1853028886
ISBN-13: 9781853028885

Autism: The Search for Coherence takes a multidisciplinary approach to autism, its causes and treatments, brining together contributors from different fields - psychology, medicine, education, biology - from around the world. The very latest in scientific and clinical research is presented and discussed by experts, and questions such as the structure of thought and the nature of autism analyzed. Parents and teachers describe practical strategies which have proved successful and give their views on treatment currently available. Autism: The Search for Coherence shares the knowledge accumulated

Author: Sheila A. Greibach
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: lecture, notes, computer, science, verification, semantics, program, structures, schemes, theory
Number of Pages: 388
Published: 1985-07-17
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 3540074155
ISBN-13: 9783540074151

Author: Sheila Davi
Publisher: Writer’s Digest Books / F & W Publicatio
Keywords: distinctive, songs, creative, flow, design, imagination, idea, book, strategies, excite, songwriters
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 1992-01-01
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0898795192
ISBN-13: 9780898795196

This book reveals the inherent relationship between personality type, brain function and writing style. Includes 40 proven songwriting strategies - guaranteed to spark songwritersÕ imaginations. 240 pages. 6x9.

Author: Sheila M. Rothma
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Pre
Keywords: illness, american, history, experience, social, shadow, death, tuberculosis, living
Number of Pages: 332
Published: 1995-11-01
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 0801851866
ISBN-13: 9780801851865

For more than 150 years, until well into the twentieth century, tuberculosis was the dreaded scourge that AIDS is for us today. Based on the diaries and letters of hundreds of individuals over five generations, Living in the Shadow of Death is the first book to present an intimate and evocative portrait of what it was like for patients as well as families and communities to struggle against this dreaded disease. "Consumption", as it used to be called, is one of the oldest known diseases. But it wasn’t until the beginning of the nineteenth century that it became pervasive and feared in th