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Twentieth-Century British Political Facts is the definitive record of the who, the what and the when of British political history in the 1900s, providing reliable information which could not otherwise be found without many hours of digging in a library...

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This comprehensive overview of Mary Shelley's life as an author frequently reads like an anthology of extracts from some of the most lurid and sensationalist novels of the early 19th century. After the stormy years of her relationship with Percy Shelley...

At the peak of his career, after having established himself as an accomplished writer, astute moraliste, and the foremost spokesperson of his generation for personal freedom and self-realization, Gide became aware, first, that his particular brand of...

Larkin's work continues to yield fresh and sometimes surprising readings. This volume juxtaposes widely different essays by established commentators and younger critics from England, Northern Ireland, the USA, Canada, Belgium and Hungary. Individual...

When we look at the human understanding of beasts in the past what we see are not only the foundations of our own perception of animals but humans contemplating their own status. Perceiving Animals argues that what is revealed in a wide range of writing...

Between the 17th and 19th centuries auto-biographers and diarists invented new ways to write about childhood and children. At the same time, pedagogical ideas about child-rearing changed. This book looks at the connection between these developments...

This interdisciplinary and international collection explores the role of the arts in shaping contemporary religion and politics. The authors ask about the future of viable communities and democratic cultures in a postmodern world, looking for clues in...

In this volume, well-known experts analyze some of the most important problems of the rapid growth of international trade, foreign direct investment, and the problems related to the economic environment within which such trade and investment take place...

Eric Roman is the first scholar to be granted access to the vast, heretofore closed, archive of documents relating to the communist era in Hungary. This archive included the files of the Hungarian Communist Party, the Social Democratic Party and the...

The search for our elusive human origins and an understanding of the mysteries of the human body have challenged the most inquisitive and imaginative thinkers from Egyptian times through the twentieth century. In The Epic History of Biology, Anthony...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306444609Author Anthony SerafiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 361Imprint Kluwer Academic/Plenum PublishersPublisher Springer Science+Business...

Thirty years ago Albert Einstein died, his dream of a theory that would unify the universe unfulfilled. He spent the last decades of his life searching for such a theory-a theory that would explain everything from elementary particles and their interac­...

Biological diversity is considered one of today’s most urgent environmental concerns, yet the term was first coined only twenty-five years ago. Why did the concept of biological diversity so quickly capture public attention and emerge as a banner issue...

The ruby is the world's most precious and rare stone. For the ancient Hindus, the ruby was Rajnapura: the Gem of Gems, at whose heart surges an eternal, unquenchable flame. Yet, for all its rarity and beauty, the ruby has always been a slightly sinister...

Today, most people use prescription medications. Every year, the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry produces new medicines that treat everything from arthritis to AIDS, from high cholesterol to depression. But, despite recent controversies...

Dovring explores the limits of science as causes of ignorance. Some topics examined in these essays are problems with our ways of knowing and the impact of emotion on objectivity. He argues that reality consists of designs-of things and processes. While...

The editors present a collection of essays dealing with both the life and ideas of Charles Darwin as they relate to human sociobiology. They represent themes coming from evolutionary theory, cultural anthropology, political science, sociology, and...

Within business and government circles, attention has recently been given to the need to strengthen the ties between federal laboratories and the private sector. Federal Lab Technology Transfer examines current technology transfer efforts between these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780275917920Author Norman .D. NewellFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780275911003Author Paul W. WebbFormat HardbackPage Count 414Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Questions about the physical world, the mind, and technology in conversations that reveal a rich seam of interacting ideas. Science today is more a process of collaboration than moments of individual "eurekas." This book recreates that kind of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244953065Author Pietro GaiettoFormat PaperbackImprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244989989Author Secret PhilFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 150g

The Journal of Interdisciplinary Science Topics (JIST) forms part of the 'Interdisciplinary Research Journal' module in the third year of both the BSc and MSci Natural Science degrees. It is intended to provide students with hands-on experience of, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244923457Author Patrick NaughtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 136g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244913052Author Cheryl HurkettFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 210g

This book begins at the point where Professor Barry's text 'Geometry with Trigonometry' leaves off, and develops advanced elements of plane geometry. It culminates in an account of the geometry of conics in the complex projective plane. Along the way it...

A guide to a concise and accessible account of Einstein's world-shaking theory by a close colleague and expert . First published in 1920 this remarkable account gives the foundation for understanding more recent advances in cosmologyBook InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244621087Author Ernesto PlacidiFormat PaperbackImprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 189g

AutoRicerca is a journal whose mission is to publish writings of value on the topic of inner research (but not only). This seventh issue is dedicated to the theme of the articulation between science, reality and consciousness, and contains a long...

Want to learn about weight science in delicious bite-sized chunks? The Unpacking Weight Science Podcast provides 20-30 minute 'explainer' segments to help you understand weight-neutral perspectives, concepts and research, and to help you learn how to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244612498Author Alexander P M Van Den BoschFormat PaperbackImprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 236g

This book contains short philosophical reflections about consciousness, time, matter and mind, the universe and God. It is a compilation of the many blogs on my Facebook page that I wrote from 2015 to 2018 with 13000 followers mainly from India, USA and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244347840Author Andre LavironFormat HardbackImprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 553g

The central hypothesis of this book could be described as follows: "Drawing on natural (human) languages, we could benefit in terms of understanding and possibly management, by searching for languages everywhere in life sciences, and I suggest that...

The book offers an entry-level introduction to the more important points of intersection of Physics and Philosophy. Until the second half of the twentieth century, physics and philosophy enjoyed a harmonious and mutually beneficial relationship. The...

Ten years ago Greens (aka socialists) warned that unless we all did their bidding and paid excruciating taxes, stopped using gas, oil and electricity, and learned to love wind-farms and 'Green' alternatives like electric cars, the earth would die... in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244089009Author Antonin TuynmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 227g

This book introduces the elements of the theory of real-valued functions of a real variable. The book is aimed at young mathematicians and others who would like to see a coherent account of basic analysis as a rigorous mathematical theory. It aims to...