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Throughout their evolutionary history, humans have affected the natural environment, sometimes with a promise of sustainable balance, but also in a destructive manner. This book investigates the ways in which environmental changes, often the result of human actions, have caused historical trends in human societies.

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This annual review considers the basics of marine research, special topics, and emerging new areas. Regarding the marine sciences as a unified field, the text features contributors who are actively engaged in biological, chemical, geological, and physical aspects of marine science.

Welsh Reformers - Biographical Sketches of Eminent Welshmen, Foremost in Promoting... is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1867. 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...

Now almost forgotten, Oliver Chase Quick (1885-1944) was one of the foremost and most widely read British theologians of his day. The first major study of his work, this book gives extensive attention to Quick's understanding of the task of theology, his christology, sacramental theology and doctrine of God. Expanding the narrative of twentieth-century historical theology, Hughes draws conclusions about longer-term shifts in English theology i...

Millionaire Daniel Dukes, has never been a man to take 'no' lying down. After losing the love of his life, his future hangs in the balance, but not the one he originally predicted for himself. Now, everything has changed. Without Sophia, money and power are inconsequential. He will stop at nothing to win her heart back even if it means losing it all. The last thing Sophia Lewis needs is for her ex to come barrelling back into her life. Moving ...

Daniel Dukes, millionaire extraordinaire, has it all. A thriving business, good looks, power, money and women whoÕll drop their drawers at the click of his skilled fingers. Just how he likes it. Everything changes when his deceased uncleÕs will scuppers his plans, and he has to marry. Who? It doesnÕt matter, because he will stop at nothing to get whatÕs rightfully his. Sophia Lewis had nothing until she started working for Daniel. Having grown...

How might Proust's work be understood in relation to issues of class and nation? A la recherche du temps perdu was produced in momentous times - the Dreyfus Affair and the Separation of Church and State, the First World War and the consequent Germanophobia, and the continuing polarization in class politics - which all find echoes in the novel.

J. Fred Hughes entered the University of Cincinnati by competitive academic scholarship. The US Air Force was o¿ering ¿ight training and an o¿cer's rating to two-year math/science majors. Hughes was accepted into¿ight school in Waco, Texas, but a growing conviction against murder forced him to abandon that o¿er. He graduated at UC with a ¿ve-year degree in mechanical engineering and took his ¿rst professional employment with Mullins Manufactur...

A description of the theoretical foundations of inelasticity, its numerical formulation and implementation, constituting a representative sample of state-of-the-art methodology currently used in inelastic calculations. Among the numerous topics covered are small deformation plasticity and viscoplasticity, convex optimisation theory, integration algorithms for the constitutive equation of plasticity and viscoplasticity, the variational setting ...

Highly respected for its scholarship and straightforward approach, this text covers core sociological concepts with a brief and accessible presentation at an affordable price. In the eleventh edition, Sociology once again comes alive as a vital and exciting field to relate sociological principles to real-world circumstances.

Clinical Problem Solving in Periodontics and Implantology - a new title in the successful Churchill Livingstone's Clinical Problem Solving in Dentistry series - provides a highly visual step-by-step guide to the practical management of a wide variety of clinical problems commonly seen in practice. Containing over 400 high-quality photographs, many in full colour, the book is written in an easy-to read ¿how to' style and contains a large number...

Basic magmatic rocks make up approximately three-quarters of the crust ofthe present day Earth. Because we can observe and study the volcanic products of present day tectonic regimes comprehensively, we can shed light on ancient tectono-magmatic provinces, and thereby deduce the petrogenesis and evolution of the oldest basic rocks. This is the primary objective of this book. The book was conceived in order to provide a comprehensive review of ...

The optimisation of economic systems over time, and in an uncertain environment, is central to the study of economic behaviour. The behaviour of rational decision makers, whether they are market agents, firms, or governments and their agencies, is governed by decisions designed to seeure the best outcomes subject to the perceived information and economic responses (inlcuding those of other agents). Economic behaviour has therefore to be analys...

For those who have discovered his books, in particular The Meaning and End of Religion, published in 1963 but overshadowed by the furore surrounding Honest to God, which appeared in the same year, Wilfred Cantwell Smith is one of the most important and attractive figures on the contemporary theological scene. Challenging assumptions about the nature of religion, and concerned always with the nature of authentic faith in the modern world, he ha...

This 1983 book attempted to address the dearth of analysis of the crisis of hypersensitivity in many of Proust's characters.

In Fidelity without Fundamentalism Gerard J. Hughes shows that in fact being a truly faithful Christian involves avoiding fundamentalism, to be faithful is to express our faith in a way that respects contemporary knowledge.