In the years before Indian Independence in 1947, the Nagas of Northeast India came to exemplify an exotic society. Peoples of the Hills, radically different in culture and beliefs from the better-known Hindu peoples of the plains, they were renowned for their fierce resistance to British rule and fo[...]
From the creator of "Family Guy" and director of "Ted" comes a hilarious first novel that reinvents the Western.
Mild-mannered sheep farmer Albert Stark is fed up with the harsh life of the American frontier, where it seems everything and anything can kill you: Duels at high noon. Barroom brawl[...]
Holloway - a hollow way, a sunken path. A route that centuries of foot-fall, hoof-hit, wheel-roll and rain-run have harrowed deep down into bedrock. This book is about those journeys and that landscape.[...]
'Marriage and Love in England' has been awarded the American Sociological Association, Family Section, William J. Goode Award for 1987.[...]
From the acclaimed author of "The Wild Places," an exploration of walking and thinking
In this exquisitely written book, Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge, England, home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove roads, and sea paths that crisscross both the British landscape and[...]
In the 1960s, The Beatles would address like no other musical act a radical shift in the cultural mindset of the late twentieth century. Through tools of "electric technology," this shift encompassed the decline of visual modes of perception and the emergence of a "way-of-knowing" based increasingly[...]
This innovative guide to research in early childhood takes you step-by-step through the research process.[...]
Urology House Officer Series is a clinical guide to essential information on the diagnosis, management and treatment of urologic disease. It uniquely approaches essential clinical information by both presenting symptoms and disease-based chapters. It is popular among medical students, urology reside[...]
Women have always written powerful, important science fiction stories. This anthology showcases the most exceptional stories written by women in recent decades, from classic stars Ursula K. Le Guin and James Tiptree Jr, science fiction greats Nancy Kress, Lois McMaster Bujold and Karen Joy Fowler, n[...]
Pays homage to the traditional Western with a modern comic spin, following a cowardly farmer who seeks the help of a gunslinger's wife to win back the woman who left him.[...]
Explores our ideas of the wild. This book also tells the story of a friendship, and of a loss. It mixes history, memory and landscape in a strange and beautiful evocation of wildness and its vital importance.[...]
Why do so many feel compelled to risk their lives climbing mountains? During the climbing season, one person a day dies in the Alps, and more people die climbing in this season in Scotland than they do on the roads. This title pursues an investigation into our responses to mountains, and how these h[...]
Covers various classes of ionic liquids thus far in existence. This work contains chapters written by internationally recognized experts. It is written to suit several levels of difficulty, containing information on basic physical chemistry in ionic liquids, a theory on the conductivity as well as p[...]
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Kiinnostus Japania kohtaan kasvaa vuosi vuodelta. Tiedämme Japanista enemmän kuin koskaan, luemme mangasarjakuvia ja harjoittelemme piirtämään kanji-merkkejä, mutta tiedämmekö oikeasti, mitä on japanilaisuus ja keitä ovat japanilaiset?
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