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Don't move a muscle--read all about them! Did you know that... Without muscles you couldn't blink--or even breathe!Nearly 700 muscles control your life.Big or small, a muscle is made up of just one cell.Exercise doesn't give you more muscles, but it strengthens the ones you have.Discover how muscles make us move--and see what it really looks like under your skin.Award winning author Seymour Simon continues his fantastic journey through the hum...

Award winning author Seymour Simon continues his fantastic journey through the human body with this stunning new addition. In Bones, youngsters will discover the amazing facts about the two hundred and six bones that make up their skeletons, ranging from the smallest, most intricate bones in their feet and hands to the largest, strongest bones in their legs. Blending spectacular full-color photographs and clear, concise text, BONES offers an i...

Suggesting that religion can be replaced by something better, that the human spirit can be the subject of scientific study, this text offers a scientific and humanist alternative, appealing to people's critical faculties. It challenges views of causation and the principle of sufficient reason.

The author's aim in this study is to examine the poetic and amorous aspects of Victorian love poetry.

Drawing on much contemporary material, including Auden's fascinating unpublished diary, this book places personal experience in the context of the life of a great city: not only its political, artistic and cultural life, but the life of the streets, bars and caf¿ It presents portraits of figures, often fascinating in their own right, with whom Auden and Isherwood came into contact, and it demonstrates how, especially in Isherwood's fiction, th...

Renaissance Configurations is a ground-breaking collection of essays on the structures and strategies of Early Modern culture - as embodied in issues of gender, sexuality and politics - by a group of critics from the new generation of Early Modern specialists. The essays focus on the relations of public and private, of verbal and spatial, of textual and material, reading and re-reading texts, both canonical and non-canonical, with a textual an...

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- Introduction / Disco, Cornelis / Meulen, Barend van der -- Chapter 1. Coordination of Ship Propeller Design: Technical Models and the Relation of T. Y. Draco with Queen Elizabeth ¿I / Meulen, Barend van der -- Chapter 2. Means of Coordination in Making Biological Science: On the Mapping of Plants, Animals, and Genes / Stemerding, Dirk / Hilgartner, Stephen -- Chapter 3. Coordination in Military S...

The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the information profession. The series IFLA Publications deals with many of the means through which libraries, information centres, and information professionals worldwide can formulate their goals, exert their influence as a gr...

There is hardly a science that is without the notion of "system". We have systems in mathematics, formal systems in logic, systems in physics, electrical and mechanical engineering, architectural-, operating-, infonnation-, programming systems in computer science, management-and PJoduction systems in industrial applications, economical-, ecological-, biological systems, and many more. In many of these disciplines formal tools for system specif...

Lila Wistrand-Robinson, who is an Adjunct Professor of Social Studies at Black River Technical College in Pocohontas, Arkansas, has taken the data from her doctoral thesis on Cashibo, a Panoan language, and revised it for general readership. The research for this work was done over a six-year period during which Dr. Wistrand-Robinson made several trips to the eastern slopes of the Cordillera Azul 'Blue Ridge' area of the Andes in Peru. The boo...

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Unmatched in the quality of its world-renowned contributors, this multidisciplinary companion serves as both a course text and a reference book across the broad spectrum of issues of concern to cognitive science.

Describes what services DCOM provides, both development and runtime. This book aims to explain what DCOM does to help readers become better able to use it more effectively, understand the options available when using DCOM, and understand the types of applications that can be built by using DCOM.

Das erfolgreiche französische Lehrbuch der Kristallographie jetzt in englischer Übersetzung! Der erste Teil bietet eine Einführung in die Grundprinzipien der geometrischen Kristallographie anhand der Diskussion von Gitterstrukturen, Symmetrieoperationen, Punkt- und Raumgruppen und der stereographischen Projektion als Hilfe zur Entwicklung des räumlichen Vorstellungsvermögens. Der zweite Teil widmet sich der Röntgenkristallographie einschließli...

This classic book allows readers to explore dozens of visual riddles, perform amazing optical experiments, and learn how artists use optical illusions to make their work more life-like--or create original worlds. Illustrations, many in color.

The proceedings of the VIIth International Symposium on the Scientific Bases for the Preparation of Heterogeneous Catalysts, are in line with the general scope of this series of events. Emphasis in all Symposia has been on the scientific aspects of the preparation of new and industrial catalysts, or on new methods of preparation, rather than on the catalytic reactions in which such solids are ultimately used. In the present context, the cataly...

Immunological Techniques Made Easy Edited by Olivier Cochet, Biotechnology and Antibody Laboratory, Jean-Luc Teillaud and Catherine Sautès, INSERM Laboratory of Cellular and Clinical Immunology, Institut Curie, Paris, France. Here, at last, is a clear and concise guide to 100 of the most commonly used immunological techniques that can easily be performed by non-immunologists, and which assumes no prior knowledge of the techniques described. Th...

A complete, up-to-date textbook on an increasingly important subject Robust Systems Theory and Applications covers both the techniques used in linear robust control analysis/synthesis and in robust (control-oriented) identification. The main analysis and design methods are complemented by elaborated examples and a group of worked-out applications that stress specific practical issues: nonlinearities, robustness against changes in operating con...

A Knot of Tears"--the story of a baroness and a sailor and his parrot, "Rusina, Not Quite in Love"--a "Beauty and the Beast" tale of a lovely young woman and a devastatingly ugly man who shows her the true meaning of beauty.