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Sleep Deprivation and Cognition, Volume 247, the latest release in the Progress in Brain Research series, covers the effects of sleep deprivation, with this new release featuring sections on the Impact of sleep deprivation on long-term memory, Adolescent sleep restriction effects on cognition and...

A best seller since 1966, Purification of Laboratory Chemicals keeps engineers, scientists, chemists, biochemists and students up to date with the purification of the chemical reagents with which they work, the processes for their purification, and guides readerd on critical safety and hazards for...

This title was first published in 2002: Why are rates of suicidal behaviour in Chinese adolescents so high? What factors in school, community, family and interpersonal relationships cause this tragedy? Using key new research from leading researchers and social workers with first hand knowledge of...

In this highly original and ground-breaking work, the author brings together discussions in the philosophy of time and space, philosophy of language, phenomenology, philosophy of science, Special and General Relativity, classical cosmology, quantum mechanics, and so forth, with the concerns of philosophy...

The unavoidable question! Life can be lived two ways. One way is to walk WITH God. The other way is to walk WITHOUT Him. Which way do YOU walk? ‘U turn to Jesus’ is the nuts and bolts story of Bull, an ordinary bloke completely oblivious to both the question...

This is about a fictional characters struggle to extricate himself from the negative effects of easy credit/debit. It had a harsh psychosocial impact on his life. His journey was a rapid descent straight down into hell to the underworld of crime. He wound up with a house full of women, involved in...

The Nosferu draw nearer to achieving their dark ends in the fantastic Realm of Weir, with Earth soon to follow. War looms across the ill-prepared Realm, threatening the eternal soul of every creature. Human Kenneth McNary has been transported to Weir by the First Mother, tasked with uniting...

Yes, Sir; No, Sir Two highland lads from rival clans find themselves sharing a small island where they are grazing cattle for the summer. Hostilities quickly decline into tolerance, and eventually, over the summer, a firm and strong and loving relationship. On leaving the island, each lad goes back...

"Internal" hyperthermia is a type of thermotherapy by which heat is sup­ plied to tumor tissue in situ. There are three different techniques for pro­ viding internal hyperthermia: (1) interstitial hyperthermia using implanted needle probes, (2) intracavitary hyperthermia using probes introduced...

Principles of Optics is one of the classic science books of the twentieth century, and probably the most influential book in optics published in the past 40 years. The new edition is the first ever thoroughly revised and expanded edition of this standard text. Among the new material, much of which...

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

CONTENTS PREFACE FOREWORD THE TRANSITION OF TOTEMISM INDIAN BASKETS THE ARISTOCRATIC ABORIGINES STICK GAME THE THUNDER BIRD EENA, THE BEAVER OL-HIYO, THE SEAL KUTZE-CE-TE-UT, THE WOOD WORM KEE-WAR-KOW, THE SUN SISUITH OR SE-SOOK, THE TWO-HEADED SNAKE THE ILL-JOW HO-XHOK, (HO-HOOK), THE CRANE SHWAH...

This vintage book contains the thirteenth edition of "First Lessons in Maori", a practical and comprehensive coursebook for learning the Maori language. Covering everything from prepositions to relative clauses, this volume will be of considerable utility to modern readers with an interest in the...

Purification of Laboratory Chemicals, Eighth Edition, tabulates methods taken from literature for purifying thousands of individual commercially available chemicals. To help in applying this information, the more common processes currently used for purification in chemical laboratories and new methods...