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Explores a variety of safety issues in the areas of market and consumer preferences, driver assistance and modelling, active safety system, crash sensing and sensor fusion, communications, and road safety. It also includes a number of articles authored by renowned experts in the field of active safety.

A Brief History of Biographies considers the ways in which developments such as changing attitudes to subjectivity and the self, the cult of the artist and psychoanalysis have brought this most fascinating of forms from its early religious connotations to its present state.

Updated with new material, this tells the story of how the Church of England lost its place at the centre of English public life.

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That the works of the ancient tragedians still have an immediate and profound appeal surely needs no demonstration, yet the modern reader continually stumbles across concepts which are difficult to interpret or relate to ¿ moral pollution, the authority of oracles, classical ideas of geography ¿ as well as the names of unfamiliar legendary and mythological figures. A New Companion to Greek Tragedy provides a useful reference tool for the `Gree...

A real revolution is taking place in the way in which we conceptualise and practice education and learning. This text sets out to explore the immense imact which digital technology is having on education around the world and the ways in which it is used by a wide range of individuals and communities.

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Excerpt from Engineering Facts and Figures for 1865: An Annual Register of Progress in Mechanical Engineering and Construction The direct effects of the Pressure of Steam, Mechanical effects of' the Heat, Chemical Effects of the Incandescent Fuel, Chemical and physico-chemical Effects of the Feed-water, Hydraulic Testing of Boilers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at w...

Sie wird immer noch verehrt, ja vergöttert: Lady Diana, Princess of Wales. Auch 20 Jahre nach ihrem tragischen Tod in Paris. Wirklich gerecht wird ihr jedoch nur die definitive Biographie der international renommierten Journalistin Tina Brown. Ihr großartiges Porträt gewährt uns mitreißende neue Einblicke in das große Drama eines Frauenlebens und in die prunkvolle Welt der britischen Royals. Und wir begreifen, wie Diana noch heute als Königin ...

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This book is about the spectacles and ceremonies of society in the Low Countries. It is the first ever attempt to unite and translate some of the key texts which informed Johan Huizinga's famous study of the Burgundian court in The Waning of the Middle Ages, a work which has never gone out of print. -- .

What are the lost and dread Unseelie? Discover the dark side of the fairy world inside the chilling pages of this charming short tale to scare kidlings with before bedtime. The perfect introduction to the art of spooky storytelling.

The Odious Tale of Hulla Balloo is the dastardly story of a terrifying sea monster and his (almost) equally scary pet frog, Horace. They cast a shadow of fear over the oceans, but when Shelly, a small girl from Outer Mongolia, refuses to be a victim Balloo and Horace meet their match. Wickedly written and illustrated by Children's Bafta nominated interactive writer and director Andrew J Brown

Excerpt from The Perils of the Time, and the Purposes for Which They Are Appointed: A Sermon, Preached on the Last Sabbath of the Year 1794, and Published at the Request of the Hearers N. The ordinary couri'e of things time fieals away ham (1. The occurrence' of the hour engages atten. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproducti...

Health Geographies: A Critical Introduction explores critical approaches to health and biomedicine from geographical perspectives while engaging with social theory and issues of difference and inequality. It extends the focus of an already critically-oriented field to include topics such as biosecurity and bioprospecting, health and medical tourism, complexity theory and the evaluation of public health interventions. Key topics in health geog...

New medical technologies are increasingly at the centre of novel transformations in the human and social body. Whilst reproduction, health, ageing and dying have long been areas for technical intervention, the emergence of molecular biology and information technology raise far-reaching political, social and subjective questions.New Medical Technologies and Society provides a critical introduction to the role and cultural significance of techno...

New medical technologies are increasingly at the centre of novel transformations in the human and social body. Whilst reproduction, health, ageing and dying have long been areas for technical intervention, the emergence of molecular biology and information technology raise far-reaching political, social and subjective questions.New Medical Technologies and Society provides a critical introduction to the role and cultural significance of techno...

Eco awareness has had an enormous impact across all cultural and political spectrums, not least in the art world. This book presents an exploration of the ways in which contemporary artists are confronting nature, the environment, climate change and ecology.

Twenty-six "New York Times"-bestselling authors team up to create a first-rate serial novel--a collaboration of America's greatest storytellers with gripping, spellbinding results. Among the contributors: Alexander McCall Smith, Sandra Brown, Faye Kellerman, J.A. Jance. Jeffery Deaver, Kathy Reichs, Lisa Scottoline, and Jeff Lindsay.

In einer Synagoge wird die Leiche eines muslimischen Jungen in Gebetskleidern gefunden. Grausam hingerichtet in einer Opferzeremonie. Inspector Februarie soll den Fall klären. Und zwar schnell. Denn als die Öffentlichkeit davon erfährt, droht die Stadt von einer Woge der Gewalt überschwemmt zu werden. Plötzlich stehen sich Vertreter aller religiösen Gesinnungen feindlich gegenüber. Und auf den Straßen Kapstadts geraten die ersten Demonstration...