“d a buell”

Global Strategies presents a compelling vision of competitive strategy in an increasingly borderless world. Renowned thinkers--among them Gary Hamel, C.K. Prehalad, Michael Porter, Christopher Bartlett, Sumantra Ghoshal and Kenichi Ohmae--discuss the myriad aspects of today's global issues, while in... More

"Why This New Race" offers a radical new way of thinking about the origins of Christian identity. Conventional histories have understood Christianity as a religion that from its beginnings sought to transcend ethnic and racial distinctions. Denise Kimber Buell challenges this view by revealing the c... More

This Dictionary, the first work of its kind written in English, examines the history of the Mongol Empire, the pre-imperial era of Mongolian history that preceded it, and the various Mongol successor states that continued to dominate Eurasia long after the breakdown of Mongol unity.... More

"A very well-conceived and well-executed project. This groundbreaking and elegantly argued book will make a crucial contribution to interdisciplinary discussions in early Christian studies, ancient studies, and gender studies."--Elizabeth A. Castelli, Barnard College"Buell's scholarship meets the hi... More

Over the past twenty years, paleontologists have made tremendous fossil discoveries, including fossils that mark the growth of whales, manatees, and seals from land mammals and the origins of elephants, horses, and rhinos. Today there exists an amazing diversity of fossil humans, suggesting we walke... More

""Shades of the Planet" is a distinguished and challenging contribution to a growing body of criticism that seeks to internationalize the study of American writing. When English departments throughout the United States forsake old national coordinates to devote themselves to the study of all, or at ... More

View the Table of Contents. Read the Introduction."After reading and hearing so many epitaphs to political discourse in a polarized nation in the wake of 9/11, I take heart from Tom De Luca's and John Buell's realistic but hopeful argument for one last mighty effort to pull democracy back from the b... More

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Algorithmic Number Theory Symposium, ANTS 2004, held in Burlington, VT, USA, in June 2004. The 30 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. Among... More

Details the complete Splash 2 project - the hardware and software systems, their architecture and implementation, and the design process by which the architecture evolved from an earlier version machine. In addition to the description of the machine, this book explains why Splash 2 was engineered. I... More

Table of contents 1. Introduction. 2. The Basic Television System and Scanning Principles. 3. Composite Video Signal and Television Standards. 4. Television Pick-up Devices and Cameras. 5. Colour Television Signals and Systems. 6. Studio Equipment, Organisation and Control. 7. Television Transmiss... More