Рассмотрены существующие концепции и теории адгезии и поверхностных явлений, методы обработки поверхностей, свойства адгезионных соединений, их типовые конструкции и эксплуатационные характеристики

This book delivers a telling critique of the behavioral explanation of epidemic AIDS and the stereotypes that lie beneath it. It also shows how the methodologies applied in recent epidemiology and health economics are based on a one-risk-fits-all model that ignores the greater vulnerability of poor people and gives rise to narrow, shortsighted, and dead-end policies

This book includes a comprehensive overview of the research, practical advice for designing tasks and scoring procedures for writing tests, how writing is assessed in major second language tests, consideration of the effects of technology on writing tests

In this book the author builds a comprehensive framework for the assessment of young language learners in both foreign language and second language learning situations. She begins by considering why we need a special book on young learner assessment, and describes the nature of young learner language learning

This is a Guide to what an airline passenger sees out the window while flying over the United States. With its ingenious design and a map of preferred flight paths, it's easy to find those pages that correspond to a passenger's particular flight, and then to identify features that can be seen from the air

No other introductory book presents the diversity and complexity of postwar American art from Abstract Expressionism to the present as clearly and succinctly as this groundbreaking survey. D. Joselit traces and analyzes the often contradictory formal, ideological and political conditions during this period that made American art predominant throughout the world

This book is as much a tribute to the people living today who have so much to share about a time and a way of life, as it is to the man who helped record it in so much detail

В монографии дан анализ существующей системы социалистического хозяйства с позиций политической экономии. Рассматриваются отношения собственности и система производственных отношений, структура социалистической экономики, принципы взаимодейсвия субъектов экономической жизни, особенности товарно-рыночных связей

This book offers an entertaining and enthralling historical tour of a city to which American writers brought all their capacity for close observation and all their passion for personal and literary experimentation