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Black Magic, Sweeney Todd, The Vampyre, Dracula, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Frankenstein, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Tell-Tale Heart, A Haunted Island, Northanger Abbey, The Horla, The Willows…
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
This meticulously edited horror collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Mortal Immortal… John William Polidori: The Vampyre Bram Stoker: Dracula The Jewel of Seven Stars… Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera Marjorie...
by A. J. S. Spawforth
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
This book examines the impact of the Roman cultural revolution under Augustus on the Roman province of Greece. It argues that the transformation of Roman Greece into a classicizing 'museum' was a specific response of the provincial Greek elites to the cultural politics of the Roman imperial monarchy....
Religion and Regimes
Support, Separation, and Opposition
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
This work is a collection of essays that describe and analyze religion and regime relations in various nations in the contemporary world. The contributors examine patterns of interaction between religious actors and national governments that include separation, support, and opposition. In general,...
The Image of the River in Latin/o American Literature
Written in the Water
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Although fictional—and often fantastic—representations of nature have been a distinguishing feature of Latin American literature for centuries, ecocriticism, understood as the study of literature as it relates to depictions of the natural world, environmental issues, and the ways in which human...
by Funso Adesola, I. D. David, A. O. Ologunde
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Globally, women are oppressed and this book introduces the perspective of African women and especially that of Nigerian women. This book looks at the major themes that drive the women's empowerment programs in Nigeria. Feminists in Nigeria are shaped by the institutions, values, ideologies, and since...
by S. A. Richards, J. C. Hollerton
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
This book describes the use of NMR spectroscopy for dealing with problems of small organic molecule structural elucidation. It features a significant amount of vital chemical shift and coupling information but more importantly, it presents sound principles for the selection of the techniques relevant...
Urbanism in the Preindustrial World
Cross-Cultural Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2009
A baseline study of the growth of preindustrial cities worldwide.
This work employs a subset of preindustrial cities on many continents to answer questions archaeologists grapple with concerning the populating and growth of cities before industrialization. It further explores how scholars differently...
Lost City, Found Pyramid
Understanding Alternative Archaeologies and Pseudoscientific Practices
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
*Lost City, Found Pyramid delves into the fascinating world of sensational “pseudoarchaeology,” from perennial discoveries of lost pyramids or civilizations to contemporary ghost-hunting and reality TV. It examines how nonscientific pursuit of myths and legends warps both public perceptions of...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of oil palm Volume 1
Introduction, breeding and cultivation techniques
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Oil palm is widely cultivated in tropical countries for use in food processing, personal care products and other applications such as biodiesel. Cultivation faces a range of challenges such as its environmental impact (e.g. in deforestation and biodiversity loss) as well threats from pests and diseases....
by Laurent Borgmann, Anne Burke, João M. S. Carvalho
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
As a result of the industrialization, urbanization, and population increase during the last two centuries, the global landscape has been irreversibly damaged. These anthropological pressures have create endless problems on the global level, and individuals and organizations are beginning to realize...
by Buddy D. Ratner, Allan S. Hoffman, Frederick J. Schoen
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
A one-stop Desk Reference, for Biomedical Engineers involved in the ever expanding and very fast moving area; this is a book that will not gather dust on the shelf. It brings together the essential professional reference content from leading international contributors in the biomedical engineering...
by Antonio Segura Serrano, Diego Javier Liñán Nogueras, Caterina García Segura
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Las crisis políticas y económicas: Nuevos escenarios internacionales es una obra que recoge las reflexiones que fueron objeto de un interesante Seminario que, bajo el mismo título, se desarrolló en la primavera de 2013 en la Universidad de Granada. El libro, como el Seminario que le dio vida,...
Querida España
A los muchachos españoles de hoy
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Este libro está dedicado a los chicos y chicas españoles de hoy, que pronto serán adolescentes, y quizá desconozcan la historia reciente de su patria porque nadie se la ha contado bien. En estas páginas, tres españoles ilustres, Agustín Serrano de Haro, Leónides Gonzalo Calavia y José Mª Sánchez Silva, les dan la pista para conocer mejor y amar mejor a España
by Francisco M. Sánchez-Margallo, José Moreno del Pozo, Enrique J. Gómez Agui
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2014 in the subject Medicine - Biomedical Engineering, grade: Excellent 'cum laude', , language: English, abstract: Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has become in many surgical specialties and procedures the gold-standard choice due to its efficiency and...