The result of years of work by scholars from all over the world, "The UNESCO General History of Africa" reflects how the different people of Africa view their civilizations and shows the historical relationships between the various parts of the continent. Historical connections with other continents[...]
First published in 1888, A Practical Treatise upon Modern Printing Machinery and Letterpress Printing by Wilson and Grey remains an important work for those interested in the Victorian mechanisation of printing. They list, with illustrations, all the different machines in use in the printing trade, [...]
British history as we know it is a cluttered patchwork of questionable stories which have been re-written, re-evaluated and ridiculed, and yet there is still an unquestioned narrative thread which runs through the nation's historical record, accepted as fact. But final editorial control has always b[...]
Our dress is our identity. In dress, we live, move and have our social being. This book shows how the dressed body is central to the construction of a recognizable identity and provides accessible accounts of the particular dress "ways" associated with a considerable variety of lifestyles.[...]
Part of "Coulson and Richardson" series in chemical engineering, this volume contains worked solutions to the problems posed in volume 1. It is useful for students studying the material contained in "Chemical Engineering Volume 1".[...]
Richardson et al provide the student of chemical engineering with full worked solutions to the problems posed in "Chemical Engineering Volume 2" "Particle Technology and Separation Processes" 5th Edition, and "Chemical Engineering Volume 3" "Chemical and Biochemical Reactors & Process Control" 3rd E[...]
Det har gått tvåhundra år sedan Johan Ludvig Runeberg föddes, men ännu kan enskilda manuskript återuppväckas av en återvunnen kontext. De manuskript som diktaren av en eller annan anledning inte ansett sig kunna publicera under sin livstid kanske ter sig särskilt intressanta.
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We live in a world of networks, where everything is amazingly close to everything else. The notion of 'network' turns out to be central to our times: the Internet and WWW are changing our lives; our physical existence is based on various biological networks; we are involved in all-enveloping network[...]
Covers the field of solar system astrophysics beginning with basic tools of spherical astronomy and coordinate frames and celestial mechanics. This title features the atmospheres chapter that includes discussions of circulation, applicable also to the subsequent discussion of the gas giants.[...]
Ecological data has several special properties: the presence or absence of species on a semi-quantitative abundance scale; non-linear relationships between species and environmental factors; and high inter-correlations among species and among environmental variables. The analysis of such data is imp[...]
Today F. Scott Fitzgerald is better known for his novels, but in his own time, his fame rested squarely on his prolific achievement as one of America's most gifted writers of stories and novellas. Now, a half-century after the author's death, the premier Fitzgerald scholar and biographer, Matthew J.[...]
Im Zuge der Neugestaltung der Einzylinder-Baureihe brachte BMW zum Modelljahr 2002 die F 650 CS Scarver als eigenständiges Modell neben den Enduros F 650 GS/Dakar auf den Markt. Das pfiffige Bike kommt jugendlich-flott daher und verkauft sich entsprechend gut. Mit Benzineinspritzung, geregeltem Kat[...]
Pleural effusions, left and right heart dysfunction, mediastinal nodal pathology, and pulmonary embolism are just a few of the many thoracic diseases which can be diagnosed with the help of ultrasound techniques Chest sonography has become an established procedure in the stepwise imaging diagnosis [...]
An introduction for postgraduate and undergraduate students to the chemical and physical principles of flame and combustion phenomena. This book should be of interest to undergraduate/postgraduate chemists; chemical engineers; undergraduate/postgraduate mechanical engineers and environmental scienti[...]
British history as we know it is a cluttered patchwork of questionable stories which have been re-written, re-evaluated and ridiculed, and yet there is still an unquestioned narrative thread which runs through the nation's historical record, accepted as fact. But final editorial control has always b[...]