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Contesting Culture : Ethnicity and Community in West London
Published in Hardcover by Cambridge University Press (June, 1996)
Author: Gerd Baumann
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A Great Step Forward in Social and Cultural Analysis.
This is the first truly comprehensive and truly analytical account of urban multicultural processes: comprehensive because it locates all groups within the total socvial field of the London sururb Southall, and analytical because it distinguishes the dominant discourse ABOUT minorities from the demotic discourse about and AMONG minorities. I recommend this book to anyone engaged in the study and / or politics of cultural, ethnic, religious etc. minorities.


The Multicultural Riddle: Rethinking National, Ethnic and Religious Identities (Zones of Religion)
Published in Library Binding by Routledge (March, 1999)
Author: Gerd Baumann
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Baumann boldly rethinks current multicultural theory.
The Multicultural Riddle is a bold rethinking of current multicultural theory. Baumann identifies the three points of the multicultural triangle as national culture, ethnic culture, and religious culture, and calls into question essentialist notions of these three identities. Looking cross-categorically and rethinking reified categories as processes are the goals of Baumann's theory, and he incorporates the means to these goals into his interpretive analyses. The book is a fresh and well-thought response to current multicultural theory, and is definitely a recommended read for those interested in multiculturalism, sociology, politics and governmnet, philosophy, and religion.


Symmetry Analysis of Differential Equations With Mathematica
Published in Hardcover by Springer Verlag (January, 2000)
Author: Gerd Baumann
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Incoherent
I regret the time and money expended in acquiring the following information. In no way can I recommend this book to any reader.

This work is incoherent and reflects the incoherence of the design of the MathLie Mathematica Package. The text is neither an adequate introduction to the package nor a suitable reference. Descriptions of functions are locally incomplete and globally scattered throughout the book. Only after considerable searching does one find that, in fact, there is little functionality for the solution of any but the most trivial systems.
As a tool to learn applications of Lie Groups to Differential Equations, this text is useful only insofar as it represents the thinnest introduction to the material, suitable neither for the expert nor the novice.
As a tool to expand the capabilities of Mathematica, it is a pointless exercise in using essentially undocumented encrypted code with no evident organizational principle. One may well do better to seek help from a divining rod.

A good book
A good book. If you know Mathematica 3 or later, a little of differential geometry, is a good way to do symmetries in differential equations.


Civil Enculturation in Europe: Nation State, School and Ethnic Defference in the Netherlands, Britain, Germany, and France
Published in Hardcover by Berghahn Books (August, 2003)
Authors: Werner Schiffauer, Gerd Baumann, and Riva Kastoriyano
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Enigma Multicultural, El
Published in Paperback by Paidos Iberica, Ediciones S. A. (August, 2001)
Author: Gerd Baumann
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Juan Maria Schuver's Travels in North East Africa 1880-1883 (Hakluyt Society. Second Series, No 184)
Published in Hardcover by Hakluyt Society (October, 1996)
Authors: Juan Maria Schuver, Gerd Baumann, Douglas H. Johnson, and Wendy James
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Mathematica in Der Theoretischen Physik: Ausgewahlte Beispiele/Book and Disk
Published in Hardcover by Springer Verlag (March, 1993)
Author: Gerd Baumann
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Mathematica in Theoretical Physics: Selected Examples from Classical Mechanics to Fractals
Published in Hardcover by Springer Verlag (January, 1996)
Author: Gerd Baumann
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National Integration and Local Integrity: The Miri of the Nuba Mountains in the Sudan
Published in Hardcover by Clarendon Pr (August, 1996)
Author: Gerd Baumann
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The Written Word: Literacy in Transition (Wolfson College Lectures ; 1985)
Published in Hardcover by Clarendon Pr (March, 1995)
Author: Gerd Baumann
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