Typee is a fast-moving adventure tale, an autobiographical account of the author's Polynesian stay, an examination of the nature of good and evil, and a frank exploration of sensuality and exotic ritual.[...]

Explores the physical and mental challenge that lies at the very heart of marathon running. From the legend of Pheidippides and Spiridon Louis - who won the first modern Olympic marathon in 1896 - to Paula Radcliffe, reduced to tears on the long road to Athens more than a century later, this is a st[...]

Theorists, scholars, and critics usually consider literary works to be fixed objects, assuming that any variations in the text of a work should be stabilized, reduced, eliminated. John Bryant urges that these variations create valuable records of the interactions between the artist and society. Prep[...]

"Functional Biology of Plants" provides students and researchers with a clearly written, well structured whole plant physiology text. Early in the text, it provides essential information on molecular and cellular processes so that the reader can understand how they are integrated into the developmen[...]

Understanding plant nuclear structure - the spatial and dynamic organisation of the plant nucleus and the function and interactions of its components (e.g. RNA, proteins, nuclear envelope) -- is vital in determining an integrated structural, physical and functional map of the genome.[...]

In this Oscar Wilde's entire three-act play presented as a full color graphic novel, two young gentlemen living in 1890's England use imaginary friends to inject some excitement into their seemingly dull lives. Jack Worthing invents a brother, "Ernest," whom he pretends to be in order to visit his b[...]