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What is the source of a book's perceived greatness and why do certain books become part of the accepted canon? This book presents a fresh perspective on these questions: against prevalent approaches, it explains a work's reputation in terms of its aesthetic qualities ("the beauty view") or as the result of dictates by social hegemonies ("the power view"). Fishelov argues that the number and variety of echoes and dialogues a book generates with...

The life of Paul Metzger is in disrepair. As he travels across New York to visit three people, a violent encounter changes his life, and the lives of those around him, forever.

Microfluidics is a young discipline which enables scientists and engineers to handle fluids in the biochips of the future.The book is an introduction to this discipline. It presents in simple terms the most important notions of the domain: how fluids move on the chip, conveying materials, molecules, electrical charges, and heat.

Ryoichi Sasakawa has been variously cast as a Japanese don, the last power broker, a political fixer, and a right-wing godfather. This diary reveals a different image, one of a man who built his life firmly on his convictions, an ethical system that placed Japan at the centre.

The Handbook on Syntheses of Amino Acids provides a comprehensive treatise on the synthesis of amino acids, covering methods ranging from the first racemic sytheses in the mid 1800s to the most recent developments in asymmetric techniques.

A personal report on postwar Austria's economic and social success story and on its turbulent political history.

This book consists of questions, solutions and comments on topics in undergraduate and graduate courses in classical mechanics. Both analytical and numerical (computer) techniques are used to obtain and analyze solutions. Computer calculations use Mathematica, with code provided in the text, including that for interactive, time-dependent studies.

At head of title: Union academique internationale.

Bugs Britannica is a unique natural history of British insects and other invertebrates. It is not a biological guide but a cultural one, seen through the eyes of writers, poets, musicians, artists and naturalists, as well as ordinary men and women, who have been fascinated and inspired by our 'small life'. Hence, like its distinguished predecessors, Flora Britannica and Birds Britannica, Bugs Britannica is concerned as much with us as with wil...

Economic sanctions are becoming increasingly central to shaping strategic outcomes in the twenty-first century. They afford great powers a means by which to seek to influence the behaviour of states, to demonstrate international leadership and to express common values for the benefit of the international community at large. Closer to home, they can also offer a 'middle way' for governments that apply them, satisfying moderates and hardliners a...

A new cover look for the number one bestselling CHERUB series! In the eleventh title, James discovers a love for high-speed motorcycle riding ...

The dramatic conclusion to this compulsively fast-paced fantasy adventure, set in a world where courage and ingenuity vie with magic and power.

Die Hirnforschung, genauer gesagt die Neurobiologie, hat in den letzten Jahren die Behauptung aufgestellt, dass der Geist nichts anderes sei als das Gehirn. Medial sehr wirksam, werden Resultate aus dem Gebiet der Hirnforschung referiert, die zeigen sollen, dass der Mensch und sein Verhalten letztlich nur durch sein Gehirn bestimmt seien und Begriffe wie der 'Geist', das 'Bewusstsein', das 'Ich' und der 'freie Wille' nur Fehlkonstrukte unserer...

An Everyman who expressed the defiant spirit of freedom, Charlie Chaplin was first lauded and later reviled in the America that made him Hollywood's richest man. He was a figure of multiple paradoxes, and many studies have sought to unveil 'the man behind the mask'. This title charts the tale of the Tramp himself through his films.

Trevor Byrne was born in 1981 and brought up in Clondalkin in south Dublin. He attended Trinity College and the University of Glamorgan, where he is currently teaches creative writing.

OUTCOMES ist ein fünfbändiger völlig neuer Englischkurs für Erwachsene und junge Erwachsene. Die authentische Lexik und die kontextbezogene Grammatik von OUTCOMES helfen Lernern, in sozialen, beruflichen und akademischen Situationen zu bestehen. Basierend auf dem Europäischen Referenzrahmen (CEF) und seinen Zielen wird diejenige Sprache vermittelt, die Lerner für ihre Konversation in der englischen Sprache wirklich benötigen. Klare Ergebnisse ...

Nil Nil, Don Paterson's first volume of poetry, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 1993 and heralded the arrival of a major new talent. The book presented a new and urgent poetry of dream-life, mystery and music, sexual obsession and the consolations of drink - all delivered with great formal skill and imaginative daring.

John Grigsby Geiger was born in Ithaca, New York, and graduated in history from the University of Alberta. The author of five non-fiction books, including the international bestseller Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition, his work has been translated into ten languages. He also authored, with Dr Peter Suedfeld, the scholarly study 'The Sensed Presence as a Coping Resource in Extreme Environments'. He is editorial board editor at...

In a world of sea monsters, mermaids and lost islands, ghost ships, leviathans and weather witches, two opposing cultures have warred for centuries . . .

Examination of the classic album, with interviews with all the band members and record label staff.