The EU legal order sits above a diverse mix of 27 national legal systems, with some 23 different languages. Amongst such diversity, how can the unity and coherence of the European legal system be guaranteed? Is there a common understanding between lawyers from different national backgrounds as to t[...]

A study of the major U.S. military interventions in unconventional war, this book looks at four wars that occurred while the U.S. was a superpower in the post-war WW II period and one in the Philippines in 1898.[...]

Edited by the 1991 winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, this Second Edition includes new chapters covering such applications as capacitance measurements; single-cell PCR measurements; whole-cell recording from brain slices in combination with imaging techniques; atomic force microsc[...]

Beading experts, teachers, and jewellery designers Bert and Dana Freed share their techniques and complete step-by-step directions for a delightful array of bead crochet jewellery projects. Using a wide range of stunning beads in lovely colour combinations, the 27 bead crochet pieces may look compli[...]

TOAD(R) Handbook, Second Edition, is the definitive, completely up-to-date guide to the newest version of TOAD, the world's premier third-party Oracle utility. Packed with step-by-step recipes, screen snapshots, and hands-on exercises, this book brings together everything developers and DBAs need to[...]

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of The Ants comes this dynamic and visually spectacular portrait of Earth's ultimate superorganism. With a text suitable for both a lay and a scientific audience, The Leafcutter Ants is the most detailed and authoritative description of an ant species ever pro[...]

The disciplines of school effectiveness research and school improvement practice and research have been apart for too long. This book is the first major attempt, by leading writers and practitioners in these fields, to bring the areas together in a coherent way. Existing knowledge about the charact[...]

Presents a snapshot of the methodology of Educational Effectiveness Research (EER) and demonstrates the way it is applied in both research and evaluation.[...]

The "Heinemann Plays" series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in durable classroom editions. Many have large casts and an equal mix of boy and girl parts. This play is a dramatization of Daniel Keyes's story about a retarded adult who desperately wants to be able to read and write.[...]

Highly regarded for its exceptional clarity, imaginative and instructive exercises, and fine writing style, this concise book offers an ideal introduction to the fundamentals of topology. It provides a simple, thorough survey of elementary topics, starting with set theory and advancing to metric and[...]