Grimoires began simply as quick-reference "grammar books" for sorcerers, magicians, and priests before evolving into comprehensive guides to magic, complete with spell-casting rituals, magical alphabets, and instructions to create amulets and talismans. With the advent of the printing press, some gr[...]

In 1972, The Limits to Growth introduced the idea that world resources are limited. Soon after, people became aware of the threats to the world's rainforests, the biggest terrestrial repositories of biodiversity and essential regulators of global air and water cycles. Since that time, new research a[...]

A richly textured, melancholy investigation into the human comedy.

The work of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has emerged, over the last two decades, as one of the most substantial and innovative bodies of theory and research in contemporary social science. The Craft of Sociology, both a textbook and an original contribution to epistemology in social scienc[...]

Vi känner alla till schablonbilderna av "rödskinnen" från böcker och westernfilmer, men indianernas historia är betydligt mera mångfacetterad än så. Nordamerikas indianer berättar om denna folkgrupps öde, om deras kultur och om indianernas ställning i dagens nordamerika.[...]

A "flip book" featuring two classic novels about drugs, decadence--and Paris in the late 19th and early 20th centuries--translated from French by John Baxter (Immoveable Feast, We'll Always Have Paris): Morphine, a rollicking novel about a handsome cavalry officer who introduces morphine to the aris[...]

Today there is hardly any company that can claim that it is not involved in international business (IB). A huge body of literature is available on international business, but there are very few publications on the most important aspect of IB, namely negotiations. The purpose of this book is to enhan[...]

"The book is like the spoon: once invented, it cannot be bettered". (Umberto Eco). These days it is impossible to get away from discussions of whether the book will survive the digital revolution. Blogs, tweets and newspaper articles on the subject appear daily, many of them repetitive, most of them[...]

Offers an introduction to the phenomena of ultrashort laser pulses. This book describes how this technology can be applied in areas such as spectroscopy, medical imaging, electromagnetism, optics, and quantum physics. Combining the principles with experimental techniques, it serves as a guide to des[...]

Features a wide range of reviews on various aspects of plant genetics, biochemistry, cell biology, molecular biology, physiology and ecology. Of interest to postgraduates and researchers alike, this title includes multidisciplinary reviews written from a broad range of scientific perspectives.[...]

"Multiple Input-Multiple Output (MIMO) techniques were developed about a decade ago and have steadily invaded all aspects of wireless communications. The techniques promise to deliver vast improvements in radio network capacity, throughput and robustness - hugely important issues for wireless operat[...]

Ultrashort Laser Pulse Phenomena balances theory and applications of ultrafast optical pulses, with detailed descriptions of experimental configurations and surveys of relevant data from the literature, demonstrating how the technology can be applied in areas such as spectroscopy, medical imaging, e[...]