* An important second volume on the assault artillery of the German Army in World War II The Sturmartillerie came about due to the efforts of celebrated German commander Erich von Manstein, with this new branch designed to support infantry assaults with self-propelled vehicles. It was distinct from[...]
Rolling, floating, flying, digging, harvesting-vehicles on the go! Oversized and filled with exquisite details from cars to space ships, dump trucks to tug boats. Flaps, pop-ups, pull-tabs and rotating wheels bring nearly one hundred vehicles to life. Features more than 60 movable parts![...]
World-renowned French chef Alain Ducasse believes that food arouses all the senses. In this sumptuous book, he takes us on a culinary journey for both eye and palate. Here he shares the culinary experience, knowledge and love of ingredients he has refined over the past 25 years. Today, Ducassse feed[...]
The Battle of Kursk was one of the greatest confrontations of the Eastern Front of World War II. It remains the largest armoured engagement of all time, and included the most costly single day of aerial conflict in history. This was large scale warfare: the manpower used and area covered in the batt[...]
Clemence and Didier Krzentowski--the founders and directors of the leading contemporary design gallery Kreo, whose program includes designers such as the Bouroullec brothers, Martin Szekely and Konstantin Grcic--have been collecting lights for 30 years. Focusing particularly on Italian and French de[...]
Didier Carre lives in Paris, a stone's throw from the Quartier Pigalle. After studying classic and photography, he became an assistant to the official photographer of the French National opera. His passion for photographing women developed so strongly that he decided to devote himself full-time to h[...]
Creating a computer model of a molecule with known or unknown structure that can then be studied by computational means is a key skill for biochemists, molecular biologists and aspiring drug developers. Increasingly sophisticated modeling software requires at least a basic understanding of the metho[...]
Written by international experts, this monograph combines two of the most important aspects of modern chemistry, presenting the latest knowledge on these environmental friendly applications. This result is a comprehensive overview of the application of nanoparticles in catalysis, focusing on synthe[...]
The result of a fruitful, on-going collaboration between academia and industry, this book reviews recent advances in research on oxide scale behavior in high-temperature forming processes. Presenting novel, previously neglected approaches, the authors emphasize the pivotal role of reproducible exper[...]
Concepts, methods and techniques of statistical physics in the study of correlated, as well as uncorrelated, phenomena are being applied ever increasingly in the natural sciences, biology and economics in an attempt to understand and model the large variability and risks of phenomena. This is the fi[...]
This volume covers both basic and advanced aspects of organometallic chemistry of all metals and catalysis. In order to present a comprehensive view of the subject, it provides broad coverage of organometallic chemistry itself. The catalysis section includes the challenging activation and fictionali[...]
Originally a special issue of Chemistry & Biodiversity, the first part of this volume focuses on the plant Cannabis sativa, its active ingredients, and the discovery of cannabinoid receptors as well as the therapeutic applications of activating, or blocking, the receptors. Following an overview of t[...]
En morsom kroppenbok for de yngste, med masse luker og klaffer som viser deg hvordan kroppen fungerer. "Løft" huden for å se skjelettet, og se hvordan blodet sirkulerer. Utforsk de ulike følelsene og hva de gjør med kroppen din - hva skjer når du er lei deg? Hvordan ser du ut når du er sint? E[...]
The present book brings together the contributions of the foremost specialists on the relationship of the New Testament and Rabbinic Literature. It contains the proceedings of a Symposium held at the K.U.Leuven in January 2006. The contributors, from different European countries as well as from Isra[...]
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"Eva" är en mörk "psykothriller" i Hitchcocks anda. Comès, med sitt enkla och raffinerade bildberätta[...]