1569 Ergebnisse - Zeige 61 von 80.

This book considers whether any generalisations can be made about word order in language. The chapters, written by international scholars, draw on data from several 'disharmonic' and typologically distinct languages, including Mandarin Chinese, Basque, French, English, Hixkaryana (a Cariban language), Khalkha Mongolian, Uyghur Turkic, and Afrikaans.

Keine Beschreibung.

A comprehensive illustrated history of classical and historical swordsmanship, this volume details uses of the broadsword, two-hander, and rapier as well as the dagger, bayonet, and halberd.

I'm not who I say I am.But somehow a rugged strangerCan see right into my heart…Experience what reviewers are calling "a brilliant continuation to the world created in His Wicked Games"...SECRETS. LIES. AND A DESIRE THAT CAN'T BE DENIED.Louisa Cunningham has lost everything. Burdened by grief and heartache, she does something desperate-she assumes a false identity and takes a job at Huntington Manor, the luxury tourist attraction that was once...

This award winning saga is set primarily in the American Southwest Territories where Americans settlers are coming after the Mexican-American War. The territories are undergoing unique and savage change as they shed 300 years of Spanish rule and move toward American statehood. The saga is told through the life of a young peasant, a fugitive on the run from Mexico riding a stolen Appaloosa stallion. He enters Texas in 1866 to find life on this ...

The definitive handbook for managing a company's brand and reputation.

This cookbook is unique. It strives to deliver the traditional flavor of Ethiopia, in the form of its distinctive cuisine while meticulously guiding the reader in moderate, yet complete instructions. Both nationally and internationally, there exists no comprehensive work on the cuisine of Ethiopia. Here, our focus is on tradition and on the native vegetables and spices that throughout the centuries have formed the basis of Ethiopian cooking. T...

This book is a must-have for anyone interested in obesity or the physiology of white or brown adipose tissues. It contains state-of-the-art methods from researchers that are world leaders in this field. Detailed lab protocols range from methods to visualize adipocytes and adipose tissues in humans and experimental models, to convert stem cells into white and brown adipocytes in vitro, to evaluate aspects of adipocyte metabolism, to inducibly k...

First published in 1943, Vitamins and Hormones is the longest-running serial published by Academic Press. The Series provides up-to-date information on vitamin and hormone research spanning data from molecular biology to the clinic. A volume can focus on a single molecule or on a disease that is related to vitamins or hormones. A hormone is interpreted broadly so that related substances, such as transmitters, cytokines, growth factors and othe...

This new volume of Current Topics in Developmental Biology covers the area of mechanisms in regeneration. With an international board of authors, it provides a comprehensive set of reviews covering such topics as control of growth during regeneration, skeletal muscle degeneration and regeneration in mammals and flies, and suppression of regeneration in mammals.

The journey and the experience. Life as we know it, and the world around us, continue to inspire an incredible amount of questions even after thousands of years of technical innovation. Discovering answers to those questions sometimes completely alter the understanding of who we are spiritually, where we came from, and what our future holds. From building amazingly complex structures to exploring personal enlightenment, unanswered questions ar...

Keine Beschreibung.

Den" is a cave installation by Mark Dion (born 1961) in the mountains of Norway. Dion installed a sleeping model bear on top of a pile of manmade detritus, allegorically posing the question of whether man or animal dominates the world.

Here is an annotated, scholarly, multilingual edition of the only lengthy text ever personally written by Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture: the memoirs he wrote shortly before his death in the French prison of Fort de Joux. The translation is based on an original copy in Louverture's hand never previously published.

In 2013, the Serpentine Gallery in London presents Fischli & Weiss' first public sculpture in the United Kingdom, "Rock on Top of another Rock, " installed in Hyde Park, near the Gallery. This work was undertaken in tandem with the duo's monumental rock project in Valdresflya, Norway, which was unveiled in the fall of 2012. The latter project was part of a nationwide effort by the National Tourist Routes in Norway, for which internationally re...

Investigates the phenomena of dogs used to confer status and as weapons.

Keine Beschreibung.

Tells stories of pharmaceutical drug discovery, and reveals how drugs are made, from the idea stage through public availability.

How far is Cody willing to go to keep his dragon?Kirit is lonely and he's sick of coming home from the king's assignments to a cold, empty cave. After searching for years for a mate, Kirit decides it's time to try a new approach. Against the advice of all his friends, he heads for the human side of the world. There he finds Cody, and the man is everything he could ever want. It takes a little bit of persuasion, but he manages to talk Cody into...

You were adopted'. Three simple words, in a letter accompanying her parent's will, tear Nisha's carefully ordered world apart. Raised in England, by her caring but emotionally reserved parents, Nisha has never been one to take risks. Now, with the scrawled address of an Indian convent begins a search for the mother and family she never knew and the awakening of childhood memories long forgotten. The secrets, culture and people that Nisha disco...