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A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. "Doc" Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross-- and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays!

This book explores the history and global expansion of AB Volvo, one of the hundred largest corporations in the world, through the experiences of its workers in Sweden, Mexico, South Africa, and India. It investigates how neo-liberalisation has transformed the company into a promoter of lean production, at the expense of the workers' needs.

Contributed presentations were given by over 50 researchers representing the state of parallel CFD art and architecture from Asia, Europe, and North America. Major developments at the 1999 meeting were: (1) the effective use of as many as 2048 processors in implicit computations in CFD, (2) the acceptance...

There have been many advances in the field of gastrointestinal pa­ thology which are of considerable clinical significance during the 13 years since the last publication of a volume of Current Topics in Pathology devoted to this subject. Many have arisen from the app­ lication of new techniques...

It will be a long time before the quality of this profusely illustrated book is overtaken and the present spate of books on the subject of obstetric ultrasound may, as a result, suffer a numerical set-back - especially with translation into English which will "deliver the milk on everyone's doorstep"....

Volume 1 presents the texts in new translations by the authors, and these are accompanied by a philosophical and historical commentary designed for use by all readers, including those with no background in the classical world. With its glossary and indexes, this volume can stand alone as an independent tool of study.

The Seraphs Call It starts as a clandestine military program.  On its face, the experiment creates a black-ops team of super soldiers known as Long-Reach.  Aided by cutting edge cybernetic and adaptive nanotechnology they are meant to be undetectable and unstoppable, relentless tools that...

ÍNDICE Adelardo López de Ayala Alfonso Álvarez de Villasandino Alfonso Onceno Alfredo Espino Álvaro de Luna Ana María Chouhy Aguirre Anastasio de Ochoa VIII.Andrés Bello IX.Ángel Saavedra, Duque de Rivas X.Antón de Montoro XI.Antonio de Villegas XII.Abu Ahmad ben Hayyun XIII.Adela Zamudio...

Esta obra surge de la necesidad de contar con evidencias científicas sociales con una mirada crítica de los estudios rurales sobre la importancia que tiene el maíz nativo en México en sus múltiples dimensiones y realidades. En este sentir, la Red sobre Maíz, Alimentación, Tecnología y Cultura...

En 1959 la ONU aprobó la Declaración Universal de los Derechos del Niño. Diez principios que persiguen garantizar a todos los niños y niñas los cuidados, la protección y la educación necesarios. Entre otros, el derecho a ser iguales sin distinción de raza o religión, a recibir protección...

Las enormes disparidades en la renta por habitante entre países han fascinado desde hace siglos a los economistas. Aunque no contamos con una comprensión rigurosa de sus causas que permita, por ejemplo, ampliar el número de países desarrollados, la perspectiva histórica permite comprender por...

Desde su primera aparición, fieles al propósito de ofrecer un instrumento auxiliar para el estudio de un curso básico de Derecho Mercantil, estas Lecciones exponen los contenidos esenciales de la materia contemplada con concisión en su desarrollo, rigor en su exposición y actualidad en su contenido....

Studies challenging the idea that technology and science flow only from global North to South. The essays in this volume study the creation, adaptation, and use of science and technology in Latin America. They challenge the view that scientific ideas and technology travel unchanged from the...