In these studies Roman Ingarden investigates the nature and mode of being of four kinds of art works: the musical work, the picture, the architectural work, and the film. He establishes that the work of art is a purely intentional object but considers also its connections to the real world. By analyzing a work of art in its constitutive heterogeneous strata, Ingarden demonstrates that a work of art will reveal, when examined in the appropriate way, its own inherent structure. Further, he shows that in consequence of the art work s structure, we must distinguish between the work itself and the...

The Road to Power has often been described as one of Karl Kautsky's most important and revolutionary works. The book also gained prominence as a result of its reception. As Kautsky's last major attack on those who hoped for a gradual "growth into socialism" by means of reforms and coalitions in the autocratic Wilhelmine Empire, it outraged Revisionists in the Social Democratic Party as well as certain trade union leaders.

We have needed this book for some time. There is a very wide spectrum of management personnel, engineers in continuing education, specifiers, designers, graduate students--not to omit investors-who need this material as an intensive short course and reference work permanently at hand. Even in recession conditions the pultruded product business has grown by double-digit percentages, and this level of demand will continue as the U. S. infrastructure is renovated. Demand has stirred competition, in turn leading to product refinement. This technology development is taking place in materials, such...

Land managers depend on reliable natural resource information in the development and implementation of conservation strategies and in making decisions regarding resource use. Biological inventories are one of the most basic and important components of that information. The National Park Service (NPS) has undertaken a service-wide initiative to assess and monitor the condition of natural resources in its parks. To achieve this, the Service implemented an Inventory and Monitoring Program among networks of parks in similar settings. The Chihuahuan Desert Network (CHDN) that includes seven parks...