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Vietnam still haunts the American conscience. Not only did nearly 58,000 Americans die there, but--by some estimates--1.5 million veterans returned with war-induced Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This psychological syndrome, responsible for anxiety, depression, and a wide array of social pathologies, has never before been placed in historical context. Eric Dean does just that as he relates the psychological problems of veterans of the Vietnam War to the mental and readjustment problems experienced by veterans of the Civil War. Employing a multidisciplinary approach that merges military, medical, and social history, Dean draws on individual case analyses and quantitative methods to tr...
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Since the 1980s, arguments for a multicultural Japan have gained considerable currency against an entrenched myth of national homogeneity. Working Skin enters this conversation with an ethnography of JapanÕs ÒBurakuÓ people. Touted as JapanÕs largest minority, the Buraku are stigmatized because of associations with labor considered unclean, such as leather and meat production. That labor, however, is vanishing from Japan: Liberalized markets have sent these jobs overseas, and changes in family and residential record-keeping have made it harder to track connections to these industries. Multiculturalism, as a project of managing difference, comes into ascendancy and relief just as the labo...
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Centennial issue for 1884 includes the text of a sermon preached for the occasion: The marvel of spiritual life by Robert Allyn and a "Centennial historical manual of the Southern Illinois Conference 1784 - 1852 - 1884" prepared by Edwin A. Hoyt.
The present title Networks and Systems has been designed for the undergraduate students of Engineering of all streams. It is a comprehensive book dealing with the basics with clear and easy understandable illustrations. Subject matter has been dealt in straight forward manner. It has been the content endeavour of the author to furnish maximum substance keeping in view of the limitations of the size of the volume. Efforts have been made to condense the matter as for as practicable. It is hoped that this book will not only meet the requirements of Indian students but will also be useful as a guideline to the teachers in their teaching. Contents: Introduction, Circuit Concepts, Signals and Systems, Network Functions; Poles and Zeros, Network Theorems, Two-Port Networks, Fourier Transforms, The Laplace Transformation, Elements of Network Synthesis.