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This book, first published in 1965, provides an interdisciplinary approach to the work of I. A. Richards. This study is particularly concerned with ideas about education, literary theory, language, philosophy and psychology, and focuses on many of Richard’s most important works, including The Meaning of Meaning and The Philosophy of Rhetoric.

South American ecosystems suffered one of the greatest biogeographical events, after the establishment of the Panamian land bridge, called the “Great American Biotic Interchange” (GABI). This refers to the exchange, in several phases, of land mammals between the Americas; this event started during...

The new edition of this widely respected text provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the effects of biological–physical interactions in the oceans from the microscopic to the global scale. considers the influence of physical forcing on biological processes in a wide range of...

Griff's mum wants him to be a professional footballer. She wants him to live out the dream that his granddad wasn't allowed to. Griff isn't sure and when he gets selected to train with Rovers, his world begins to change. Will he adapt to life with his new teammates? Will his mum be too pushy?...

Extrait : "Dans le pays que nous parcourions, il règne une fécondité merveilleuse. Les hommes y sont rares. Le silence stagne autour de formidables marécages ; la Bête, libre de croître, s'est multipliée sur les terres et dans les eaux ; les oiseaux remplissent jusqu'aux nuages, les rivières bouillonnent d'une population grouillante et profonde."

Extrait : "Le samedi soir, les hommes de Tavesco se réunissent pour parler, jouer et boire, dans les deux cabarets du village. Ils ne connaissent guère qu'une seule boisson, un vin opaque, au goût fort et au bouquet presque nul, dont tous ceux qui l'ont pratiqué gardent un souvenir nostalgique."

Extrait : Daniel Valgraive soupira d’impatience, compta mentalement : « un, deux, trois, quatre…, » pendant que Cheyne disait une anecdote à une douzaine d’auditeurs. Il avait du succès, en verve, la voix nuancée, le geste impressif. Daniel, en chaque mot, en chaque...

This textbook lays out the state of the art for modeling of asphalt concrete as the major structural component of flexible pavements. The text adopts a pedagogy in which a scientific approach, based on materials science and continuum mechanics, predicts the performance of any configuration of flexible...

Applications of nuclear magnetic resonance span a wide range of scientific disciplines, from physics to medicine. This series has provided an essential digest of the NMR literature for more than four decades and each volume provides unrivalled coverage of the literature on this topic. Continuous coverage...

This volume is one in a series of monographs being issued under the general title of "Disorders of Human Communication". Each monograph deals in detail with a particular aspect of vocal communication and its disorders, and is written by internationally distinguished experts. Therefore, the...

Widely recognized as the gold standard text in hand, wrist, and elbow surgery, Green’s Operative Hand Surgery, 7th Edition, by Drs. Scott Wolfe, William Pederson, Robert Hotchkiss, Scott Kozin, and Mark Cohen, continues the tradition of excellence. High-resolution photos, innovative videos, new...

"The Elderly" is the third monograph in a series on management and treatment in major patient groups and subspecialties. Each book is complete in its own right. The whole series, however, has fill a gap between standard text-books of medicine been prepared to and therapeutics and research...

This handbook is intended for the advanced specialist and for the practitioner interested in the application of lasers in medicine. It provides summaries of all available medical laser systems and their clinical use. The first part introduces basic laser physics, including laser-tissue interactions...

It is easy to be confident that an appropriate body of advice is available to candidates about the content of an examination once you have passed it. Prospectively, the Primary and Final Examinations of the Royal College of Pathologists will appear to most to involve the assimilation of what seems...