From 1942 to his retirement in 1966, Carl Barks drew Donald Duck comic books (the seventh greatest comic of the twentieth century according to The Comics Journal) for Walt Disney. He took what should have been a bland franchise and turned it into a classic of comics. Drawing on his own experiences ([...]
A study of Carl Goerdeler, the German resistance leader who consistently engaged in efforts to protect the Jews against persecution.[...]
This 1882 book translates a series of concurrent chronological tables which chart the history of the ancient Greek world.[...]
Carl Locher har længe stået i skyggen af de øvrige Skagensmalere. Denne første omfattende biografi viser ham som en betydelig selvstændig kunstner med med en eventyrlig selvskabt karriere og et spændende liv. Locher var blandt vores største marinemalere og med et betydeligt grafisk værk, de[...]
Americans have always been the world's most anxiously enthusiastic consumers of "enhancement technologies." Prozac, Viagra, and Botox injections are only the latest manifestations of a familiar pattern: enthusiastic adoption, public hand-wringing, an occasional congressional hearing, and calls for s[...]
Capitalism has become strange. Ironically, while the 'age of work' seems to have come to an end, working has assumed a total presence - a 'worker's society' in the worst sense of the term - where everyone finds themselves obsessed with it. So what does the worker tell us today? "I feel drained, [...]
Gauss's theory of surfaces is among the purely mathematical achievements inspired by ideas that arose in connection with surveys of the surface of the earth. Long regarded as a masterpiece in content and form, this work features one of the author's most original contributions to mathematics--his pen[...]
Romanen Peter Artedi - Helenas Son är en bok om ångermanlänningen och prästsonen Petrus Arctaedius. Den handlar om hans uppväxtår och studier i Uppsala där han och Carl Linnaeus blev goda vänner. Ja, enligt Carl Linnaeus själv blev Petrus hans bästa vän under många år. Det som förde de[...]
This book represents the second of three volumes offering a complete reinterpretation and restructuring of Keynesian macroeconomics and a detailed investigation of the disequilibrium adjustment processes characterizing the financial, the goods and the labour markets and their interaction. The second[...]
THE SUCCESSFUL DISTANCE LEARNING STUDENT is designed to teach students the skills they need to succeed in distance learning courses and to become better students in general. Regardless of the type of distance learning course--Internet-based, telecourse, prerecorded video or interactive video--this b[...]
Since the 1980s, there has been explosive growth in the use of experimental methods in economics, leading to exciting developments in economic theory and policy. Despite this, the status of experimental economics remains controversial. This title offers an integrated look at the nature and reliabili[...]
Takes an interdisciplinary look at the effects of medications on recovering patients and assists rehabilitation professionals in designing patient-specific therapy plans. This title explains the necessary pharmacology and then focuses on the relationship between medications and the rehabilitation pr[...]
This is a student's guide to the life and thought of Thomas Aquinas, the most widely read and studied medieval thinker. Thomas Aquinas is the most widely read and arguably most influential of the medieval philosophers. He is famous for his impressive and coherent synthesis of Greek Philosophy and Ch[...]
The Swedish botanist Carl Peter Thunberg (1743-1828), a physician and pupil of Linnaeus, carried out his most important work in South Africa and Japan. Having studied in Amsterdam and Leiden, he was asked to go plant-hunting in areas where the Dutch East India Company's trading activities were openi[...]
I ett antal livfulla samtal möter vi Europas storstäder via de två resenärerna Carl-Henning Wijkmark och Ulf Peter Hallberg, som låter städerna sätta igång en resa inåt, där själens begär och hjärnans hunger blir vägledande.
Städernas svall skildrar via två författartemp[...]
I ett antal livfulla samtal möter vi Europas storstäder via de två resenärerna Carl-Henning Wijkmark och Ulf Peter Hallberg, som låter städerna sätta igång en resa inåt, där själens begär och hjärnans hunger blir vägledande.
Städernas svall skildrar via två författartemp[...]
Hur ser vetenskapen på människan 150 år efter Darwins Om arternas ursprung?
Är hon fortfarande skapelsens krona, eller bara ett djur som styrs av själviska gener?
Och hur är det med hennes förnuft? Är det dags att nedgradera dess betydelse?
Slår evolutionsl�[...]