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The acclaimed International Review of Cytology series presents current advances and reviews in cell biology, both plant and animal. Articles address structure and control of gene expression, nucleocytoplasmic interactions, control of cell development and differentiation, and cell transformation and growth. Contributors to this volume include Giacomo Azzali, Annalena Civinini, Isabelle Creveaux, Bernard Dastugue, Arnold De Loof, Robert Didier, ...

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A collection of original essays, Saints, Sinners and Sisters showcases the diverse questions and methodologies currently being asked by gender scholars dealing with French, German, and Netherlandish art from the medieval and early modern periods. Saints, Sinners and Sisters begins by asking new questions of women who were positive exempla within their societies as well as those whose sexuality society sought to denounce and control. The book's...

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Named Best Culinary History Book at the Salon International du Livre Gourmand (Fifth World Cookbook Fair), Perigueux, France Winner, Bronze Ladle in the Best Food Book division, World Food Media Awards Never has there been so little need to cook. Yet Michael Symons maintains that to be truly human we need to become better cooks: practical and generous sharers of food. Fueled by James Boswell's definition of humans as cooking animals (for "no b...

Die bahnbrechende neue Schule in englischer Sprache eignet sich für den Einzel- und Gruppenunterricht. Viele Lehrer in Großbritannien gehen bereits zu dieser neuen Methode über, da sie alle Hilfen und vielfältig einsetzbaren Ressourcen bietet, die für die Herausforderungen modernen Lehrens unentbehrlich sind. Der studienplanmäßige Aufbau unterstützt den jungen Spieler bei seiner Entwicklung zum Musiker und bietet ihm anhand einer Auswahl von S...

Many have questioned FDR's record on race, suggesting that he had the opportunity but not the will to advance the civil rights of African Americans. Kevin J. McMahon challenges this view, arguing instead that Roosevelt's administration played a crucial role in the Supreme Court's increasing commitment to racial equality--which culminated in its landmark decision in "Brown v. Board of Education." McMahon shows how FDR's attempt to strengthen th...

Emmanuel Levinas placed ethics at the foundation of philosophy. During his life, which spanned almost the entire twentieth century, he witnessed devastating events that could not have been more demanding of that philosophical stance. Unforeseen History covers the years 1929-92, providing a wide overview of Levinas's work--especially his views on aesthetics and Judaism--and offering examples of his precise thinking in small essays, long essays,...

An ethnography of Filipino gay men in New York that explores their sexual and national identities.

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In The Sacred Monstrous author Wendy Hamblet traces the historical and social fact of violence through the work of Girard, Bloch, Lorenz and Burket. She takes up the charge advanced by social theorists, anthropologists and others that violence is steeped in our being, it pervades our generations and is imbedded in the ethos of our modern institutions. Hamblet's discussion of human history re-frames our understanding of how violence works in hi...

Reveals that the alchemical transformation of base metal into gold symbolizes the transformation of the current Iron Age into the Golden Age, and that the greatest secret of alchemy, the imminent date of the apocalypse, is coded into an obscure monument in southwestern France.

As straightforward as its title, How to Build Social Science Theories sidesteps the well-traveled road of theoretical examination by demonstrating how new theories originate and how they are elaborated. Essential reading for students of social science research, this book traces theories from their most rudimentary building blocks (terminology and definitions) through multivariable theoretical statements, models, the role of creativity in theor...

This second edition of The American College Novel cites and describes 648 novels that are set at American colleges and universities, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's Fanshawe (Bowdoin College, 1828) to William Hart's Never Fade Away (University of California, 2002). This revised and updated edition contains 225 new entries, most new novels published since 1981.

Nasenchirurgie in höchster Perfektion! Die Plastische Chirurgie und die Hals-Nasen-Ohrenheilkunde haben sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten weiterentwickelt. Dies ist das erste Buch, das sich mit dem dualen Charakter der komplexen Nasenchirurgie beschäftigt und sowohl funktionelle wie auch ästhetische Aspekte der Septorhinoplastik integriert. Herausgegeben von H. Behrbohm und M. E. Tardy Jr., unter Mitarbeit von internationalen Experten, beginnt...

Die Referenz für alle, die Dialysepatienten betreuen -Technik und Möglichkeiten der Dialyse -Alle Verfahren der Nierenersatztherapie -Physikalisch-technische Besonderheiten -Sicherheitsanforderungen, Quantifizierung, Biokompatibilität und Hygiene -Indikationen zur Dialyse, welches Verfahren ist wann am besten geeignet -Einzelheiten der praktischen Durchführung -Umsetzbare Handlungshilfen und konkrete Therapieempfehlungen -Dialysebegleitende A...

Every cowboy who has ever climbed over a bucking chute or backed into a roping box knows of the Christensen Brothers. Both brothers and many of their bucking horses and bulls are Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame inductees. But not many know the fascinating story behind the family. With only the meager start of a couple of workhorses, Hank and Bobby Christensen established one of the biggest Pro Rodeo companies in the history of rodeo. And over an expand...

How does an understanding of the behaviour of a given animal species contribute to its conservation? The answer to this question has profound consequences for our efforts to conserve endangered species. Behaviour and Conservation links the extraordinary advances that have been made in behavioural ecology over the last 30 years with the new discipline of conservation biology. It uses the power of an evolutionary approach to help solve problems ...