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The City of Plague - And Other Poems is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1873. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks new...

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How the cerebellum accomplishes its highly complex feats of coordination has been the subject of much inquiry, one of the preeminent theories places adaptive control at the forefront. This book reinforces the view that the cerebellum functions as an adaptive control system, that is, it automatically adjusts its output as needed for such eventualities as temporary or lasting weakness of muscle. It is the first text to synthesize the substantial...

Excel Models for Business and Operations Management, Second Edition, adopts a structured approach to management decision-making by integrating the activities of a manufacturing organization. The text is entirely assignment-based and uses Microsoft's Excel software to develop over eighty models. Everyday examples from finance, marketing and operations management form the basis of the book's 'hands-on' development models. As in the previous edit...

Returning home from his wool mill in France in 1869, self-made Yorkshire businessman Isaac Brookes never suspects that a chance encounter on a train will alter the world's gastronomical landscape. But when he meets, and almost kills, Rodrigo Vermilion- a hunchback midget dressed in rags- Vermilion recognizes in Isaac a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Determined to go into business with the pragmatic Yorkshireman, Vermilion soon convinces Isaac...

In the tradition of T. C. Boyle, Steven Millhauser, and Michel Faber -- with a penchant forthe macabre worthy of Irvine Welsh -- comes Eating Mammals. Gypsies, businessmen, servants, masters, and unwise children come together in three mythical tales from Victorian England. Eating Mammals evokes a lost time and place in which the realm of the magical seems almost too possible: a winged cat wreaks havoc in a Yorkshire workhouse and then in the m...

Inspiration Point"speaks about life on a small Maritime reservation and the constant struggle for cultural survival.

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The great majority of papers on brain research that have been published in Mainland China in recent years have appeared in the Chinese language (only a small fraction of the work has appeared in English in the journal Scientia Sinica), and hence they have remained inacces­ sible to other workers, since there have been no translation programs of publications in this field in Chinese of the types that have existed, for example, for Russian-langu...

Excerpt from The Charge of the Bean Brigade: A Description of the Grand Bean-Eating Journament for the Tonawanda News Gold Badge and Championship of New York, at Tonawanda, April 15, 1884, Under Auspies of Scott Post No, 129, G. A. R Change of the Bean Brigade. For years among the savants It was a mooted theme Whether as a fruit or berry, Should be classed the goodly bean, But while the question lingered In controversial mist, It was must...

Excerpt from The Maiden of the Mist: An Indian Legend of Niagara, Origin of the Great Paintings, the Red Man's Fact and the White Man's Fancy The Maid of the Mist There's an ancient Indian Legend By their weird old women told, Of a deed of love and daring, By a maiden brave and bold, Where Niagara's waters sparkled, And Niagara's thunders rolled, In their days of vanished glory In their pristine days of old. In the valley of the Mohawk...

Excerpt from John's Trip: Or a Visit to Niagara, a Serio-Comic Poem, in Four Cantos A Visit to Niagara. Bright dreams of what may sometimes be But "castles in the air, " - Though ye full often disappoint, Ye are of life a share! Ye lead us on to deeds, which may By age be sore condemned, But who, in youthful years, e'er thought Of what might be the end! Thus thought a youth, who long had lived A life of happy dreams, Whose dearest wish w...

Excerpt from The City of Plague: And Other Poems My Boyhood's Pride! Companion of youthful glee! While memory dwells mid scenes of yore, My heart goes back to thee, And youthful hours, when innocence Ruled every thought and word, Come to my heart and make it beat, As when in youth it stirred In throbbing answer to the tones Of Friendship, Love and Truth, Oh, happy hours! oh, joyous scenes! Oh, grand, immortal youth! Y ar after year may ...

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