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Filled with delightful photographs, this beautiful book recaptures the thrill of childhood Christmases. Recall the excitement and happiness of long-ago Christmases through a wonderful assortment of Santa Clauses, tree ornaments, table decorations, storybooks, stockings, and toys. 350 full-color illustrations.

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Provides a historical look at Egypt through illustrations of paintings, drawings, and prints produced during Napoleon's Egyptian campaign.

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This book aims to bridge the gap between the descriptive methods of the geologist and the analytical methods of the rock mechanics engineer as applied to discontinuity characteristics. It does not pretend to be the final word on the topic, but rather seeks to explain in simple terms, basic ideas that can be built upon.

Written seven years after publication of his Search after Truth, Malebranche's Treatise on Ethics develops a detailed, `experimental' science of ethics in two parts, the ethics of virtue and the ethics of duty. Part One distinguishes six sources of motivation: sense perceptions, passions, imagination, and `inner feelings' of love as-respect, as-goodwill and as-esteem. He examines how each is to be evaluated. This is interwoven with an Aristote...

This volume is the fourth in a series on quantitative coronary arteriography (QCA) published over the last seven years. Every two years the advances in this exciting field are presented by their leading experts. There is a significant growth in this field which has translated into the increasing sizes of the volumes published over the years. In addition to covering the developments in the more traditional items such as QCA and other modalities...

America faces a crisis in education and its accompanying effects on the nation's economic and social life. Educators and policy makers need to document the extent of this crisis, to gauge its potential impact, and to develop educational strategies that would boost achievement, this has turned the spotlight on educational assessment - the procedures, practices, and tools that educators use to measure the progress of students, both as individual...

This volume documents the latest advances in condition monitoring. Particular emphasis is given to the profitability issues which can be gained by introducing condition monitoring technology in manufacturing systems. The book will be essential reading for engineers and management involved in manufacturing and production.

The 35th OHOLO Conference, which provided the basis for the present book covered a broad range of topics. Basic studies and newly developed methods in modeling atmospheric flows are discussed, besides analyses of concentration fluctuations in different atmospheric conditions, and techniques of data acquisition. The book gives an excellent state-of-the-art impression of the situation in turbulent diffusion and transport.

The papers in this book are organized as follows: insect-plant communities, host-plant selection, genetics and evolution, host-plant resistance and application of transgenic plants, and multitrophic interactions. Besides seven invited papers and a paper with concluding remarks, this volume also contains the short communications of all 115 oral presentations and posters. Included too, are the summaries of four European Science Foundation worksh...

This book provides an authoritative review of developments in the chemistry of Beta-lactams: in particular the synthesis, reactivity and mechanisms of reaction, including novel Beta-lactam structures and non-Beta-lactam analogues.

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This book reviews current methodology for assessing the health status of patients -- their `quality of life' -- and shows how this methodology can be applied to specific diseases such as cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, angina and Parkinson's disease.

This new edition maintains the simplicity of approach with easy reading, for those who need an introduction to cosmetic science and technology. The edition contains up-to-date information on new safety regulations and products.

The increasing complexity of economic problems, coupled with advances in numerical methods and computer architectures, have stimulated the growth and interest in computational economics. Accompanying this activity is the need for the unification, documentation and presentation of fundamental methodologies for use by researchers and practitioners. Network Economics: A Variational Inequality Approach makes a contribution in this direction by pro...

Electrical Power System Protection provides practising engineers with the most up-to-date and comprehensive one -volume reference and tutorial on power system protection available. Concentrating on fundamental methods and technology and with extensive examples drawn from current practice internationally, this book will be a major reference tool for engineers involved with and affected by power system protection.