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Ever since Ponce de' Leon set to sail to discover the “Fountain of Youth” modern science has closed the gap to one of nature's miracle wonders. In this book you will discover the age-erasing secrets that can help you lead a longer and healthier life!Discover the “keys” to...

This is the third edition of an established and successful university textbook. The original structure and philosophy of the book continue in this new edition, providing a genuine synthesis of modern ecological and physiological thinking, while entirely updating the detailed content. New features...

This book addresses the needs of professional and amateur taxonomists on the subject of ascidians in Asia. This is the first book of its kind and features color illustrations done by the authors in Asia. This book provides a brief overview of ascidians in addition to both the taxonomy and distribution...

A spellbinding travel book, The Sea and the Jungle is an account of the author’s journey on the tramp steamer Capella—which was bringing supplies to a railroad construction site—on the Amazon and Madeira rivers. Tomlinson’s experiences on the trip and his stories about the events at the construction site are the stuff of true adventure; it was hailed as an instant classic.

Between Bodies Lie Attempting to flee his declining literary career and failing relationship, Cristobal Porter travels to an island in the tropics to research his latest novel. There he meets Ana Kaplan, the wife of an American diplomat, and is immediately drawn to her by what he perceives as the...

This book offers a non-Western feminist perspective on world politics and international relations. Creative, innovative, and challenging, it seeks completely to transform contemporary Eurocentric and masculinist IR by re-presenting it in non-Western, non-masculinist, and non-academic terms. Drawing...

Smart and Flexible Digital-to-Analog Converters proposes new concepts and implementations for flexibility and self-correction of current-steering digital-to-analog converters (DACs) which allow the attainment of a wide range of functional and performance specifications, with a much reduced dependence...

Long shadows of late afternoon lay straight and thin across the garden path; shadows of beech trees that ranged themselves in an undeviating line, like an inner wall within the convent wall of brick; and the soaring trees were very old, as old perhaps as the convent itself, whose stone had the same soft tints of faded red and brown as the autumn leaves which sparsely jewelled the beeches' silver.

The U.S.-India relationship has fluctuated from mutual suspicion to the current high-water mark of cooperation embodied in the seemingly close relationship between U.S. president Barack Obama and Indian prime minister Narendra Modi. This study seeks to identify the opportunities to deepen security...

These separate but related essays owe their existence to a combined concern for the workings of text criticism and historical linguistics and for the history of scholarship in these fields. On earlier occasions I have suggested certain views on the development of the so-called comparative method....

Lawerence Pencey left England as a sailor in the British Navy for the shores of India. He did not return to England until three years afterward, leaving no record of his travels. When he had returned, he had lost all human capability to reason, overcome with severe illness of the mind and left to...

Singles K é uma série de ebooks semanais que trazem para o leitor cotidiano as melhores crônicas de colunistas e escritores da KBR publicadas no blog da editora. Nesta edição, entre outros assuntos, a vanguarda da arte no Brasil, Paris, política, ecologia e o amor em família. Singles K não só...

Although no great Civil War battles were fought in Lexington, Kentucky, the city afforded some of the greatest military and political leaders on each side. It produced the Honorable Henry Clay, whose efforts postponed the war by at least a decade. The city touched the lives of both Jefferson Davis and...

The story of an old man succumbing to the effects of cancer and the toll it takes on his mind, body, and family.