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This two-volume handbook provides important information concerning the development, implementation, evaluation, uses, advantages, and limitations of a wide variety of animal model of pulmonary disease. While the work focuses on stepwise procedures for inducing and quantifying disease, additional emphasis...

The Forensic Examination and Interpretation of Tool Marks brings together key techniques and developments in the field of tool marks in forensic science and explains clearly how tool mark analysis can be used within forensic investigation. The purpose of this book is to bring together as much...

After a health scare, Mitch starts a series of life changes that ultimately lead to the most unlikely of journeys: walking 800 kilometers across northern Spain along the Camino de Santiago. Setting out with his wife of thirty years Mary Lou, and a promise to "follow everything and every opportunity...

Volume 4 of the Punish and Pleasure series!  David and his wife Kathy work well together, but when it comes to play, David has a secret fantasy life that has become his obsession.  He needs certain things and wants to be treated in certain ways that he could never, ever ask his wife...

Mother Earth is destroyed when the sun mysteriously goes supernova and obliterates the solar system. Fortunately, the seeds of Old Earth when the animals and specially chosen groups of humans flee through unexplained portals that open all across the globe. These few lucky people emerge on a new world...

The spot where the lady is put off the train is wretched, over-heated and barren. It is high desert country, uninhabited, suitable only for the wild creatures that can live without water. Diane Kingsley is part-owner of the Cock's Crow Saloon in the distant town of Sand Hill, but she has rubbed some...

First published in 1842, this vintage book contains part one of Charles Darwin's “The Zoology of The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle”, a fascinating and detailed account of the research he did whilst aboard the HMS Beagle between 1832 and 1836—work that played a key role in the conception of his scientific...

About the Book In the 1960s, a group of University of Melbourne Science and Engineering students banded together to build a satellite in their spare time. Share the journey of those students as they built  Australis OSCAR 5 and had it launched into orbit by NASA in January 1970.  Australis operated...

An Introduction to Global Environmental Issues presents a comprehensive stimulating introduction to the key environmental issues presently threatening our global environment. Offering an authoritative introduction to the key topics, a source of latest environmental information, and an innovative stimulus...

This is a history of political parties in ten nations (with the sections on France and Germany limited to specific period), and a critique of the existing literature that emphasizes the importance of electoral rules as determinative of political party systems.

Slavery and the University is the first edited collection of scholarly essays devoted solely to the histories and legacies of this subject on North American campuses and in their Atlantic contexts. Gathering together contributions from scholars, activists, and administrators, the volume combines two...

Imaginary Friendship is the first in-depth study of the onset of the American Revolution through the prism of friendship, focusing on future US president John Adams and leading Loyalist Jonathan Sewall. The book is part biography, revealing how they shaped each other’s progress, and part political...

This volume contains some of the best, most unexpected and most gripping ­short stories ­– all with a devilish twist to keep the reader guessing. Such narratives are designed to keep even the most seasoned of bookworms engrossed right up until the final lines, with careful reading and an inquisitive...

L’autore documenta perché e come la città sia più sostenibile di altri tipi di insediamenti umani. Lo fa con uno stile narrativo che collega concetti a casi e talvolta ad aneddoti, che riguardano diverse aree del mondo: un percorso di ecologia urbana che ha influenzato il dibattito in senso non ideologico.