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Examines heroines appearing in literature by John Dryden, Aphra Behn, Catharine Trotter, Delariviere Manley, and Daniel Defoe. This title places the female libertine within her cultural, philosophical, and literary contexts and suggests fresh ways of considering women's participation and the early novel.

A sequel to Emsley's "Crime and Society in England, 1750-1900, " this 20th century volume covers the history of crime in 20th century England. It is a much needed general survey text on the history of crime and policing during the period for the growing number of courses in this area.

Shortlisted in the 2012 Angouleme Official Selection Meet Marshall. Divorced, middle-aged, newly unemployed, with next to no prospects, Marshall isn't exactly what you'd call a catch. Then, after nearly an hour, when he's long since given up hope, Natalie appears - breathless, apologising profusely that she went to the wrong place.

Die Hydrolyse von cellulosehaltigem Material lässt sich durch die Wahl der Versuchsbedingungengezielt steuern. Bei der enzymatischen Hydrolyse von Zuckerrübenpellets wirddurch intensive Vorbehandlungen wie Mahlung, Quellung, Gefriertrocknung oder Ammoniak-Behandlung eine Erhöhung der Zugänglichkeit des Substrates und somit ein vergleichbarerAbbau wie bei unbehandelten Rübenschnitzeln erreicht. Geschickte Wahl vonEnzympräparation, pH-Wert und T...

Pearson English Readers bring language learning to life through the joy of reading. Well-written stories entertain us, make us think, and keep our interest page after page. Pearson English Readers offer teenage and adult learners a huge range of titles, all featuring carefully graded language to make them accessible to learners of all abilities. Through the imagination of some of the world's greatest authors, the English language comes to life...

The first of its kind in Canada, Child Development: Perspectives in Developmental Psychology is a new topical introduction to child development, focusing on the psychological development of infants and children, with some treatment of adolescents. Written by Canadian professor M.D. Rutherford, the text covers all of the classic areas of developmental psychology, including a historical look at developmental psychology, important theories and me...

The WTO is often accused of not paying enough attention to human rights. This book weighs these criticisms and examines their validity, both from a legal and from political and economic points of views. It asks whether the WTO is under an obligation to construct a fairer trade system and discusses suggestions for reform.

One of a series, this one concentrating on poems by Robert Frost

This is the first detailed ethnography of rural Mongolian life since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Based on fieldwork with migrant herding families who traverse the Northern Mongolian-Russian border, the volume explores how intimate social relationships and identities are drawn upon to engage with new political and economic uncertainties.

Over the last few decades, non-point source (NPS) pollution has grown into a global environmental issue. The Annualized Agricultural Non-Point Source pollutant model (AnnAGNPS) is a watershed modelling tool to predict runoff, peak flow, sediment loading and nutrient loadings. The present study has been carried out in Seberang Perai Selatan to develop regional models for rainfall erosivity (EI30) values, to evaluate the performance of AnnAGNPS ...

Through The Performance of 16th-Century Music, today's musicians will gain fundamental insight into how 16th-century polyphony functions, and the tools necessary to perform this repertoire to its fullest and glorious potential.

The Oxford Handbook of Children's Literature is at once a literary history, an introduction to various theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches, a review of genres, and a selection of original, cutting-edge, and interdisciplinary critical essays on canonical and popular works for children in the Anglo-American tradition.

Extraordinary Measures studies the impact of disability and concepts of disability on composers, performers, and listeners with disabilities, as well as on discourse about music and works of music themselves. It shows that music (its composers, performers, listeners, critical traditions, and exemplary works) both embodies and constructs disability.

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Islamophobia has been on the rise since September 11, as seen in countless cases of discrimination, racism, hate speeches, physical attacks, and anti-Muslim campaigns. This collection of essays takes a multidisciplinary approach to the problem, bringing together the expertise and experience of Muslim, American, and European scholars. Contributors discuss and evaluate good practices already in place and offer new methods for dealing with discri...

Andre Bazin remains one of the most read, most studied, and most engaging figures ever to have written about film. Fifty years after his death, he is still widely recognized as cinema's most significant philosopher-critic. Always an important presence within cinema theory, Bazin has seen a massive resurgence of interest among critics, scholars, and students now that an electronic archive of his entire critical output has been catalogued. Openi...

In this collaboration between the Brookings Institution and the Asian Development Bank Institute, eminent international economists examine the increased influence of Asian nations in the governance of global economic affairs, from the changing role of the G-20 to the reform of multilateral organizations such as the International Monetary Fund.

Deals with the dramatic history of the War Between the States. This title includes the biographies of fifty famed commanders from both the Union and the Confederacy, accompanied by lifelike portraits and more than seventy full-page battle scenes, including images from Currier and Ives and the treasured Kurz and Allison series.

Step down a little closer, you don't want to miss a thing. Join fifty-year sideshow veteran, Rick West, on a strange and wonderful trip through behind-the-scenes tales of his life as a showman. The strange, the bizarre, the unusual comprise this engaging memoir bursting at the seams with rare images of two-headed cows, Bigfoot creatures, pickled punks, showgirls, humongous hogs, 3, 500-pound steers, and much, much more. From attending the Ozar...