No Purdy work has dazzled contemporary writers more than this haunting tale of unrequited love in an indifferent world. A seedy Depression-era boardinghouse in Chicago plays host to a game of...
Late in 1957 a huge explosion occurred in the disposal section of the Soviet atomic weapons industry located in the Southern Urals where atomic wastes had been stored for over ten years. The result...
Dieser Band enthält zum ersten Mal eine Darstellung der Mathematik Altägyptens und Mesopotamiens in deutscher Sprache. Einer der beiden Hochkulturen verdanken wir den Ursprung der Schrift und damit...
Stephen Greenblatt tells the life history of the account of the first man and the first woman - central to all three of the world's monotheistic religions and the object of innumerable...
At issue are the politics of language; the uses of scholarship; and the topics of racism, history, and motherhood among others called forth by Rich as "part of the effort to define a female...
This book focuses on clinical presentations that may be caused by inherited metabolic diseases. Its symptom- and system-based approach will help clinicians with and without detailed knowledge of...
This edition includes both part I and II of the drama. It represents a significant departure from its predecessor in terms of supporting apparatus and the "Interpretative Notes" have been...
It is precisely with the emergence of history as we know it today that Professor Gilbert s important book is concerned.... Instead of treating these two great figures in isolation, Professor...
Electrochemistry is an old branch of physical chemistry. Due to the development of surface sensitive techniques, and a technological interest in fuel cells and batteries, it has recently undergone...
Casablanca is "not one movie," Umberto Eco once quipped; "it is 'movies.'" Film historian Noah Isenberg's We'll Always Have Casablanca offers a rich account of the...
This book present up-to-date otoplasty techniques, describing new and modified procedures using a wealth of high-quality illustrations. Covers ear embryology and anatomy, psychological issues,...
The development of powerful new techniques and refmements of tech niques in molecular genetics in recent years, and the surge in interest in biotechnology based on genetic methods, have heralded a...
The increasing demands for internal combustion engines with regard to fuel consumption, emissions and driveability lead to more actuators, sensors and complex control functions. A systematic...
In wide-ranging essays on the American Civil War, and the South, "an extremely good writer" (Boston Globe) explores the sources of the nation's and his own history. In the title essay,...
Frank A. Worsley was the captain of the H.M.S. Endurance, the ship used by the legendary explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton in his 1914-16 expedition to the Antarctic. On its way to the Antarctic...