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Culture, Space and Power: Blurred Lines collects essays that study contemporary mutations of public and private space in multiple cultural contexts and media from a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches. The essays range from the general to the specific: the first section will explore...

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 booklet is intended to teach how to reduce the error that occur in the Sentence Correction Test for Admission to Foreign Universities. It also teaches us how to locate the various types of errors in sentences. The basic rules of Grammer have been explained briefly and systematically. The examples...

This book is intended for those who want to learn how to use R's capabilities to build models in quantitative finance at a more advanced level. If you wish to perfectly take up the rhythm of the chapters, you need to be at an intermediate level in quantitative finance and you also need to have a reasonable knowledge of R.

Discusses research on factors affecting carcass composition and meat quality;  Reviews advances in breeding such as the use of molecular markers;  Summarises key developments in understanding and improving the health and welfare of sheep

Vivimos en un país y en una región que, sin duda alguna, reclama a sus universidades públicas acciones y reflexiones que den respuesta a los grandes desafíos sociales, económicos, políticos y culturales propios de la región latinoamericana. Uno de estos desafíos corresponde a la construcción...

Do NOT read this material if you are an old liberal, a Democrat, an Obama supporter, or have HIGH Blood Pressure. I was raised as a staunch Democrat in the mid-West. I hated Ronald Regan. How Regan actually brought me into the Republican party. A forgotten story about Hillary & Beethoven. In defense...

Attorneys at large law firms today are experts in their fields, providing high-level advice to their clients. When it comes to managing their own finances, however, attorneys often fail to devote the time and resources nececessary for success. At the same time, the environment in large law firms is rapidly...

This book discusses building-integrated photovoltaic systems (BIPV) and provides solutions for solving problems related to designing, sizing and monitoring a BIPV that has been used to replace conventional building materials in parts of the building envelope such as the roof, skylights or facades....

Síntesis histórica del estado de Tamaulipas que abarca desde el pasado prehispánico como corredor de migración humana que pobló el continente americano; la llegada de los navegantes españoles en el siglo XVI y la vida colonial de la llamada Provincia de Oriente. Al término de la Independencia,...

This book aims to assist in the management of soil salinity by describing a range of species tolerant of saline soils. 60 species are listed with descriptions containing botanical features, growth characteristics, preferred soils, climates and more. The introductory sections of this book provide general...