LAHTI

läˈtē, läkhˈ–, city (1998 pop. 96,227), Southern Finland prov., S central Finland. Connected with the southern end of the Päijänne lake system, it is an important lake port as well as a transportation center. It has many large factories and is a center of the Finnish wood-products industry. Other industries include glassworks, breweries, and clothing factories. The city, founded in 1878, was incorporated in 1905. Many Karelians came to Lahti after the Finnish-Soviet armistice of 1944. The city hall (1912) was designed by Eliel Saarinen.

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books on: Lahti  - 268 results

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When Women Lead: Integrative Leadership in State Legislatures
Book by Cindy Simon Rosenthal; Oxford University Press, 1998
Subjects: Leadership In Women--United States--States, Legislative Bodies--United States--States--Committees, Legislative Bodies--United States--States--Leadership, Women In Politics--United States--States, Women Legislators--United States--States
...indebted to Rita Mae Kelly, Georgia Duerst- Lahti, Sue Thomas, Lyn Kathlene, and the staff...disadvantage." 24 Similarly, Duerst-Lahti and Kelly note the ideological consequences...their sex. 45 Thus, conclude Duerst-Lahti and Kelly: "Using the gender lens, it...
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Quantum Mechanics: An Empiricist View
Book by Bas C. Van Fraassen; Oxford University Press, 1991
Subjects: Quantum Theory, Science--Philosophy
...and to Jeffrey Bub, Nancy Cartwright, Roger Cooke, Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara, Arthur Fine, Clifford Hooker, Simon Kochen, Pekka Lahti, James McGrath, Peter Mittelstaedt, and Brian Skyrms, among others. Alan Hajek and R. I. G. Hughes read large parts of the manuscript...
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The Other Elites: Women, Politics, and Power in the Executive Branch
Book by MaryAnne Borrelli, Janet M. Martin; Lynne Rienner, 1997
Subjects: Women Government Executives--United States
...in the Executive Branch Georgia Duerst-Lahti 11 3...of specialization e.g., Georgia Duerst-Lahti, feminist theory; Piper A. Hodson, comparative...Executive Branch Georgia Duerst-Lahti More than any other kind of human activity...
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The President's Cabinet: Gender, Power, and Representation
Book by Maryanne Borrelli; Lynne Rienner, 2002
Subjects: Cabinet Officers--Selection And Appointment--United States, Cabinet Officers--United States, Women Cabinet Officers--United States
...47 Masculinism, as Georgia Duerst-Lahti explains, is a meta-ideology, a set...p. A10. 13 Georgia Duerst-Lahti, Reconceiving Theories of Power: Consequences...Rienner Publishers, 1997); Georgia Duerst-Lahti and Rita Mae Kelly, eds., Gender Power...
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Competitiveness, Localised Learning and Regional Development: Specialisation and Prosperity in Small Open Economies
Book by Peter Maskell, Heikki Eskelinen, Ingjaldur Hannibalsson, Anders Malmberg, Eirik Vatne; Routledge, 1998
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journal articles on: Lahti  - 74 results

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Piloting Participatory Designing within a Collaborative Learning Environment
Journal article by Henna Lahti, Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, Kai Hakkarainen; Journal of Interactive Learning Research, Vol. 14, 2003
...Learning Environment. by Henna Lahti , Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen , Kai...Dillenbourg, Baker, Blaye, OMalley, 1996; Lahti, Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, Hakkarainen, 2001...Maher et al., 2000; Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, Lahti, Muukkonen, Hakkarainen, 2000). A central...
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Effects of Age and Duration of Reading Instruction on the Development of Phonological Awareness, Rapid Naming, and Verbal Memory Span
Journal article by Marit Korkman, Sarianna Barron-Linnankoski, Pekka Lahti-Nuuttila; Developmental Neuropsychology, Vol. 16, 1999
Subjects: Neuropsychology--Periodicals
...Adolescents, Finland Sarianna Barron-Linnankoski Neuropsychological Rehabilitation Center Nekku Helsinki, Finland Pekka Lahti-Nuuttila Department of Psychology University of Helsinki, Finland The aim of this study was to assess developmental changes...
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William C. Meadows, the Comanche Code Talkers of World War II
Journal article by Janne Lahti; American Studies International, Vol. 42, 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Comanche Code Talkers of World War II (Book)--Book reviews
...Meadows, the Comanche Code Talkers of World War II. by Janne Lahti (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002), xxvi + 280 pp., $24...history of the twentieth century and deserves wide attention. Janne Lahti, University of Helsinki
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Andrew C. Isenberg, the Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920
Journal article by Janne Lahti; American Studies International, Vol. 42, 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920 (Book)--Book reviews
...of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920. by Janne Lahti Andrew C. Isenberg, The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental...specialist, the student, and the general public. Reviewed by Janne Lahti, University of Helsinki.
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Sex-Based Occupational Segregation in U.S. State Bureaucracies, 1987-97
Journal article by Brinck Kerr, Will Miller, Margaret Reid; Public Administration Review, Vol. 62, 2002
Subjects: Employment discrimination--Research, Public administration--Social aspects, Public employees--Demographic aspects
...1987; Kellough 1989, 1990; Guy and Duerst-Lahti 1992; Bullard and Wright 1993; Cornwell...Burgess 1989; Kelly et al. 1991; Duerst-Lahti and Johnson 1992; Guy 1992; Newman 1994...Tolleson-Rinehart 1991; Guy and Duerst-Lahti 1992). Greater representation for women...
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magazine articles on: Lahti  - 15 results

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Cynthia Lahti: PDX Contemporary
Magazine article by Jon Raymond; Artforum International, Vol. 46, September 2007
Subjects: Art, Modern--Exhibitions, Lahti, Cynthia--Exhibitions, Modern art--Exhibitions, Modernism (Art)--Exhibitions
Cynthia Lahti: PDX Contemporary. by Jon Raymond "Daughter," a recent exhibition by Cynthia Lahti, a long-underrecognized artists artist based...cartoonist Lynda Barry--all artists, like Lahti, who make rough-hewn imperfection an eloquent...
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The Fourteenth Colony
Magazine article by Scott Lahti; National Review, Vol. 38, December 31, 1986
Subjects: Book reviewing--Public opinion, Book reviews--Public opinion, Criticism--Public opinion, Journalism--Public opinion, Mencken, H.L.--Criticism and interpretation, Publishing industry--United Kingdom
The Fourteenth Colony. by Scott Lahti NIEBUHR WAS RIGHT," sighed Goethe from the twilit retrospection of high old age, "when he saw a barbarous age coming. It...
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City Stepping
Magazine article by Robert Paehlke; Alternatives Journal, Vol. 31, January 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Natural Step for Communities: How Cities and Towns can Change to Sustainable Practices (Book)--Book reviews
...Paehlke The Natural Step for Communities: How Cities and Towns can Change to Sustainable Practices, Sarah James and Torbjorn Lahti, Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 2004. This book is aimed very clearly at municipal practitioners and will be...
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The Character Issue
Magazine article by Jane Rosenzweig; The American Prospect, Vol. 11, June 19, 2000
Subjects: Dramatists--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Motion pictures--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Television programs--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Wasserstein, Wendy--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...the life of Lyssa Dent Hughes (Christine Lahti), a descendant of Ulysses S. Grant, daughter...her. In spite of their valiant efforts, Lahti, who convincingly cornered the market on...die because she cant conceive a child, Lahti makes the strain on the resources of friendship...
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Wendy Wasserstein's the Heidi Chronicles
Magazine article by Helen Arthur; The Nation, Vol. 261, October 16, 1995
Subjects: Television programs, Television programs--Television program reviews
...long series, the women of ER, Kathy Baker on Picket Fences, JoBeth Williams on The Client and, in all likelihood, Christine Lahti on this seasons Chicago Hope. TV movies are another matter entirely. With the exception of an occasional Margarethe Cammermeyer...
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Best Fest for Female Filmmakers
Newspaper article by Christian Toto; The Washington Times, March 16, 2001
Subjects: Lahti, Christine, Sundance Institute
...Institute and women in the arts. Miss Lahti said her film, a heartwarming yarn about...matter the tragic consequences, said Miss Lahti, towering over her peers courtesy of her...from my kids and my day job," said Miss Lahti, an Emmy winner who also earned an Oscar...
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Obituaries
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), February 19, 2005
...Obituaries. Byline: The Register-Guard LaVonne Lahti SPRINGFIELD - The funeral will be held Feb. 21 for LaVonne C. Lahti of Springfield, who died Feb. 17 of age-related causes. She was 80. Lahti was born Feb. 9, 1925, in Springfield, to Leslie...
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Put Hands on History: PEIRCE MILL
Newspaper article by Mark Stewart; The Washington Times, May 8, 2001
...question is always the same, and Russell Lahti, a park ranger at Rock Creek Park, smiles...literature inside the mill itself. Mr. Lahti pulls out maps from the 19th century that...often think about it even being here," Mr. Lahti says. "Its small and kind of out of the...
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First Harper President Dies at 76 in California
Newspaper article by Sara Faiwell; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), November 23, 2006
...College from the ground up has died. Robert Lahti, the community colleges first president...vice president of student affairs, called Lahti a tremendous mentor. "Bob taught me a lot...current Harper President Robert Breuder, Lahti helped Harper first gain national prominence...
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I'M NO FLASH HARRI; but I Can Put Well in Europe
Newspaper article by Stewart Weir; The Mirror (London, England), February 26, 1998
...is my minimum target" said the former FC Lahti coach. "Motherwell could play every season...with nice people. I asked my chairman at Lahti if I could speak to them and he said yes...but I had to return to Finland and tell Lahti I was leaving them." Kampman, under contract...
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encyclopedia articles on: Lahti  - 3 results

 
 
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Lahti
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LAHTI la te, lakh , city (1998 pop. 96,227), Southern Finland prov., S central Finland. Connected with the southern end of...glassworks, breweries, and clothing factories. The city, founded in 1878, was incorporated in 1905. Many Karelians came to Lahti after the Finnish-Soviet armistice of 1944. The city hall (1912) was designed by Eliel Saarinen...
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PÄijÄnne
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PAIJANNE pa eyan na, lake c.560 sq mi (1,450 sq km), S central Finland, stretching c.85 mi (130 km) from Lahti, the chief port, N to Jyvaskyla. One of the largest lakes of the Finnish plateau, it consists of several long rocky basins dotted...
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Finland
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Helsinki, other important cities include Espoo , Hameenlinna , Joensuu , Jyvaskyla , Kemi , Kotka , Kuopio , Lahti , Lappeenranta , Oulu , Pori , Tampere , Turku , Vaasa , and Vantaa . Finnish and Swedish are both official languages...


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