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Moira Fiorelli, an upper-middle class girl in post-war Edinburgh, yearns to become a mountaineer-an awkward choice at a time when there are very few women climbers. Entering this machismo universe, she encounters prejudice, not because she is of Italian descent, not even because she is a woman, but because she is an inveterate snob. On her route to her summits she faces the ups and downs of romance, falling precipitously and disastrously for t...

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Christopher G. Anderson is an assistant professor inthe Department of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Displacements and Diasporas explores the transnational Asian American experience - one that crosses the Pacific and traverses the Americas from Canada to Brazil, from New York to the Caribbean. With an emphasis on anthropological and historical contexts, the essays show how the experiences of Asians have been shaped.

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This book is the first to assess emerging market-based social change approaches comparatively, focusing specifically on social entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility, fair trade, and private sustainable development

Explains how, within the medical faculty in Edinburgh, chemistry flourished and gained a world-wide reputation in the eighteenth century. A key resource for students of history of science and Scottish history, medical historians and Enlightenment scholars.

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This book provides a comprehensive, step-by-step approach to organic process research and development in the pharmaceutical, finechemical, and agricultural chemical industries. Process R&D, describes the steps taken, following synthesis and evaluation, to bring keycompounds to market in a cost-effective manner. More people are being hired for work in this area as increasing numbers of drug candidates areidentified through combinatorial chemist...

This volume documents healing traditions in Eastern Siberia in an area extending from Lake Baikal to the Arctic Ocean. The region shows an interesting unity in healing traditions across a wide range of landscape types and culture areas: from the taiga-steppe borderlands influenced by Tibetan and Russian practices in the south, to the north where regional shamanic traditions prevail. There are broad similarities in using unrefined natural mater...

Now available with state-of-the-art digital enhancements, the highly anticipated 4th edition of this classic 38 % is even more relevant and accessible for daily practice. A sure grasp of cross sectional anatomy is essential for accurate radiologic interpretation, and this atlas provides exactly the information needed in a practical, quick 38 % format. New color coding of anatomic structures and new scroll and zoom capabilities on photos in the...

This volume provides a comprehensive, broad-based overview, including first-person accounts, of the development and conduct of archaeology in the Southeast over the past three decades.

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I personaggi di un libro come "Winesburg, Ohio", una volta trovati, ti accompagnano come un coro di voci. Ti parlano del loro luogo d'origine, come i viaggiatori che capita di incontrare in treno ti parlano del loro paese, ma bisogna avere anche la fortuna di imbattersi in qualcuno che te la sappia raccontare bene quella storia. Nello stile di Sherwood Anderson c'è la grande letteratura americana, c'è tutto quello che si ama del mestiere di sc...