Hur gör han? Kanske i högre grad än någon annan samtida svensk romanförfattare förmår Klas Östergren väcka den frågan hos sina läsare: undret inför illusionistens tricks. I denna intervjubok leder oss Stephen Farran-Lee initierat och vetgirigt genom Östergrens hela författarskap, bok f[...]
A complete Oracle Press guide to Oracle Fusion Middleware 11gR1 Featuring best practices for deploying, securing, virtualizing, and managing enterprise-grade Oracle Fusion Middleware applications throughout all life-cycle phases, Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Architecture and Management is organized [...]
The only mechanics textbook aimed at undergraduate engineering students to acknowledge the effect of changes to A-Level mathematics specifications in 2000 and 2004.[...]
This guide from the founder of Kombucha Wonder Drink demystifies the process of brewing kombucha at home and offers recipes for using it in infusions, smoothies, cocktails, and more.
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Most of the invasive plant species under attack for disruption of local ecosystems in the United States and Europe are from Asia, where they play an important role in traditional healing. In opposition to the loud chorus of those clamouring for the eradication of all these plants that, to the casual[...]
Born in the rural American south, James Boggs lived nearly his entire adult life in Detroit and worked as a factory worker for twenty-eight years while immersing himself in the political struggles of the industrial urban north. During and after the years he spent in the auto industry, Boggs wrote tw[...]
In March 1941, after a year of unbroken and devastating U-boat onslaughts, the British War Cabinet decided to try a new strategy in the foundering naval campaign. To do so, they hired an intensely private, bohemian physicist who was also an ardent socialist. Patrick Blackett was a former navy office[...]
Going far beyond the standard imagery of Rasta -- ganja, reggae, and dreadlocks -- this cultural history offers an uncensored vision of a movement with complex roots and the exceptional journey of a man who taught an enslaved people how to be proud and impose their culture on the world. In the 1920s[...]
This work is designed for a one-semester introductory course in Animal Behavior. Animal behavior is a broad discipline with investigators and contributions from diverse perspectives, including anthropology, comparative psychology, ecology, ethology, physiology, and zoology. The author's goal in this[...]
Public health surveillance is the systematic, ongoing assessment of the health of a community, based on the collection, interpretation, and use of health data. Surveillance provides information necessary for public health decision making and interventions. In the third edition of Principles and Prac[...]
Research has shown the important role of religious social networks in fostering benevolence, but some questions have remained: Why are people who frequently pray or attend church more generous with their time and money? Why does one religious group rather than another get involved in certain forms o[...]
Stephen Lee charts the most commonly encountered topics of nineteenth and twentieth century European history, from the origins of the French Revolution, through the social and political reforms of the last two centuries to the present.[...]
This text examines all the major themes, personalities and issues of this important period in British politics in an accessible form. It introduces fresh angles to long-studied topics, analyzing views of different historians.[...]
Stalin examines the Soviet leader's domestic and foreign policy, covering core topics such as his rise to power, the economy, society, culture and the Cold War. It provides students with a clear backgroud and a guide to exam success.[...]
Lenin and the Bolsheviks, 1903-1924 examines the background to and the course of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and Lenin's regime. It explores all the key aspects such as the development of the Bolsheviks as a revolutionary party, the 1905 Revolution, the collapse of the Tsarists, the Russian Civil[...]
Covers various aspects of the reign of Elizabeth. This book looks at the period 1558-1603, and explores the religious settlement government and foreign policy the economy; and, Elizabeth's relationship with Parliament society and culture. Including a glossary of key terms, it is useful for any stude[...]
"Gladstone and Disraeli "surveys and compares the careers of these two influential Prime Ministers. Stephen J. Lee examines how Gladstone and Disraeli emerged as leaders of the two leading parties and goes on to consider their time in power, analysing many different aspects of their careers. Using a[...]
Looks at the many different aspects of the period 1855-1991 in Russian history that are covered in A-level history. This book examines and compares: the ideologies of Tsarist autocracy and Soviet Communism; parties and opposition to these regimes; the use of repression and terror; agriculture; the c[...]
Surveys the circumstances leading to, and arising from, the transformation of over half of Europe's states to dictatorships between the first and the second World Wars. This title describes the course of dictatorship before and during the Second World War and examines the phenomenon of dictatorship [...]
European Dictatorships 1918-1945 surveys the extraordinary circumstances leading to, and arising from, the transformation of over half of Europe's states to dictatorships between the first and the second World Wars. It describes the course of dictatorship in Europe before and during the Second World[...]
Presents a comprehensive introduction to Germany in the aftermath of the First World War. This book explores themes including the formation of the Republic, the impact of the Treaty of Versailles and the Republic's problems and achievements. It provides students with an understanding and a foundatio[...]