Gossie and Gertie are goslings. They are best friends. For weeks, they've been waiting for Ollie to come out of his egg. But, Ollie won't come out. So, Gossie and Gertie hatch a plan...[...]

Birds of the Indian Ocean islands is a comprehensive guide to the bird life of Madagascar, the Seychelles, the Comoros, and the Mascarenes - an area that boasts high levels of endemism. This new, expanded edition is fully updated to reflect taxonomic changes, and now describes and illustrates 502 sp[...]

Modern Bayesian methods have an important role to play in population ecology. This book presents Bayesian procedures, illustrated by a wide range of real examples and complemented by computer programs.[...]

This book is about guaranteed numerical methods based on interval analysis for approximating sets, and about the application of these methods to vast classes of engineering problems. Guaranteed means here that inner and outer approximations of the sets of interest are obtained, which can be made as [...]

Written with a diverse audience in mind, this book describes the current status, development, and future prospects for the critical technology of second-generation biorefineries, specifically with a focus on lignocellulosic materials as feedstock. It provides an overview of the issues behind this te[...]

The European Union is facing a profound crisis and is confronted with multiple challenges. Over the last two decades, it has experienced a series of dramatic changes to its powers, its institutional design, its constitutional framework and its borders. At the same time, the uneasy relationship betwe[...]

Take a "journey to the place of the heart." This book is a living proof that "the Romanian Orthodox spirituality is an original synthesis between the open, joyous and luminous Latin spirit, and the mystic spirituality, the profundity of Orthodoxy" (Fr. D. Staniloae). Hesychasm is not a spiritual tec[...]