This monograph series is commissioned by the Phytochemical Society of North America (PSNA). The volumes in this series contain articles on developing topics of interest to scientists, students and individuals interested in recent developments in the biochemistry, chemistry and molecular biology of plants. Volume 36 centers on the role of phytochemistry in the rapid developments in biology brought about by the application of large-scale genomic...
It is widely recognized that Roman law is an important source of information about women in the Roman world, and can present a more rounded and accurate picture than literary sources. This sourcebook fully exploits the rich legal material of the imperial period - from Augustus (31 BCE - 14 CE) to the end of the western Roman Empire (476 CE), incorporating both pagan and Christian eras, and explaining the rights women held under Roman law, the ...
Der erste Arbeitstag als Undercover Cop läuft für Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawke) völlig anders als erwartet. Sein neuer Vorgesetzter Alonzo Harris (Denzel Washington) interpretiert das Gesetz auf seine eigene Weise und hält sich dabei nicht immer an die Vorschriften. Sein Motto: "Nur wenn du selbst ein Wolf bist, kannst Du einen Wolf fangen". Immer tiefer wird Jake in die zweifelhaften Machenschaften von Harris hineingezogen. Als die Gewalt eskaliert...
Understanding Capitalism combines the essays of seven leading economists, including Robin Hahnel and John Bellamy Foster, in a critical assessment of the relationship between economic thought and the dominance of capitalism. With analyses of economists ranging from Karl Marx to Amartya Sen, the book traces the growth of the capitalist system over the past two hundred years and how economic theory has, in fact, become capitalist ideology. Relat...
This study of women and gender in a Muslim society draws on archival and literary sources as well as the life stories of women to offer a unique ethnographic and historical account of the lives of urban women in contemporary Azerbaijan.
The role of law, networks and civil society are examined and key theoretical and meta-theoretical questions on how to analyse and theorise the global polity, what drives it forward, and whether it can be democratised are discussed.
This book uses historical analytical tools in order to shed light on how policymaking takes place in contemporary China. A valuable resource for students of contemporary Chinese society and for an understanding of Chinese labour reform.
Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder" is based on unique research study conducted in the three English high security hospitals - Ashworth, Rampton and Broadmoor. Through in-depth analysis of an extensive questionnaire survey followed by personal interviews, Len Bowers shows how positive or negative attitudes to PD patients arise and are maintained over time, as well as discusses what impact they have upon nurses and the care they provide ...
This edition of Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals combines the complete text of the Groundwork with a selection of key articles and a general editor's introduction.
EM Forster's most challenging work, "A Passage to India" has since 1924 provoked debate on topics from imperialism to modernism to ethnicity, sexuality and symbolism. This book introduces not only the novel but the key issues which surround it. It offers a contextual and biographical overview, with a chronology of important dates.
Although the task remains unfinished, the end of the road for fusion research could be in sight if society makes the right decisions. This book is a careful, scholarly account of the course of fusion energy research over the past fifty years. The authors outline the different paths followed by fusion research from initial ignorance to present understanding. They explore why a particular scheme would not work and why it was more profitable to c...
This Sourcebook introduces readers not only to Forster's text, but to the contexts within which the novel was written and to crucial trends in the interpretation of the work.
The collapse of the Soviet Union has unleashed a new and distinctive form of organized crime, dominated by networks of autonomous criminal entrepreneurs. This book features articles on this phenomenon.
Der Mythos des versunkenen Kontinents Atlantis wird von dem preisgekrönten Produzenten Don Hahn (Der König der Löwen) zum Leben erweckt! Der junge Milo Thatch, ein tollpatschiger Sprachwissenschaftler, begibt sich auf die gefährliche Suche nach dem lange verlorenen Atlantis. Bei ihm ist ein Team etwas sonderbarer Experten: der „durchgeknallte“ Sprengmeister Vinny, die schlagfertige Anna, der Spaßmacher Boudelaire, Erd-Buddler aus Leidenschaft,...
