Ideology and Educational Reform traces the underlying ideological problems that make genuine educational reform difficult. It describes three major themes in public education: common school, human capital, and clientelism.

Written by pioneers in the study and analysis of very high cycle fatigue, Gigacycle Fatigue in Mechanical Practice compiles the most recent findings on gigacycle fatigue phenomena, focusing on improving the reliability and performance of key engine and machine components. This reference reflects the explosion of new concepts, testing methods, and data on very high cycle fatigue and collects the latest analytical methods and results from renowned authorities on the subject. About the authors: Claude Bathias is Director of the Institut des Technologies et des Matriaux Avancs, Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, Paris, France. Previously, he was director of a research center of CNRS at the University of Compiegne, France, and an advisor on material science and mechanics for the French government (1978-1982). He is a Fellow of the American Society of Materials, among other organizations, and is the author or coauthor of six books on materials and mechanics. He holds a Doctorate in mechanical engineering and completed graduate studies at the University of Poitiers, France, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. PAUL C. Missouri. World-renowned for his contributions to fracture mechanics, he is the third recipient of the Crichlow Trust Prize from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics for lifetime contributions to aircraft structural analysis, as well as a recipient of the Charles B. Dudley Medal from the American Society for Testing Materials. He received the B.S. degree (1953) in engineering mechanics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the M.S. (1955) and Ph.D. (1962) degrees in applied mechanics from Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

A detailed tracing, from acceptable sources, of archaeological and paleontologi cal discoveries made up to the present time leads us to suppose that approximate ly in 8000 y B. C., in Southern Turkestan, man succeeded in domesticating the first cattle, which he later took with him as he migrated from this remote region of Central Asia. Step by step, Europe and Asia have been gradually inhabited by domesticated cattle which have been incorporated into man's economy, both as a source of food and work. The same happened in America and Australasia, continents where cattle were taken by the European colonizing groups during the course of the 16th to the 18th centuries. Possibly the common cattle tick also reached these continents at the same time, accompanying its most frequent host. The cattle tick, Boophilus microplus, parasitizes Asiatic cattle races (with spe cial reference to the zebu, Bos indicus), but generally the level of infestation is not high, only a few engorged females being detected, generally no more than ten. When cattle of European races are infested by Boophilus microplus, how ever, the level of parasitism is higher, sometimes reaching limits incompatible with the life of the host."

Nearly double the size of the previous edition, the third edition of the classic reference provides a comprehensive, easy-to-access collection of elastic stress solutions for crack configurations. For each configuration, The Stress Analysis of Cracks Handbook presents crack-tip stress intensity formulas along with other relevant information, such as displacements, crack opening areas, basic stress functions source references, accuracy of solutions, and more. Throughout, it stresses formulas for application to test configurations. The introductory section details the methods of developing the information. A series of appendices presents special methods and special applications. The authors also provide 30 new solution pages, plus modifications of older solutions.

Le present ouvrage est le tome I (en deux volumes) d'un ensemble de deux tomes formant le Dictionnaire abzakh (tcherkesse occidental). Ce tome I, qui constitue le dictionnaire proprement dit, vient completer les Phrases et textes illustratifs (tome II, volumes 1 a 4), precedemment publies. Plus qu'un simple dictionnaire bilingue classique, cet ouvrage est structure comme un dictionnaire analytique puisque, pour chacun des quelque dix mille entrees, l'accent est mis de facon tres detaillee tant sur le "profil" lexical et grammatical du mot que sur sa traduction en francais. Des examples renvoyant aux phrases et textes du corpus (Tome II) viennent illustrer chaque rubrique. L'ouvrage est complete par un lexique francais-abzakh et une bibliographie. L'ensemble du Dictionnaire abzakh constitue une savante, mais neanmoins passionnante, introduction a la langue et a la culture tcherkesse, accessible aussi bien au linguiste caucasologue qu'au lecteur averti, qu'ils soient animes par la simple curiosite ou par une veritable passion des langues.