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Excerpt from Semiconductor Microelectronics and Nanoelectronics ProgramsI We have performed additional measurements of the effect of dissolved air on the refractive in dex of water at several wavelengths in the visible and UV and compared the results with predictions based on the equation of state of water and the known partial molar volumes and polarizabilities of the soluble components of air. The data and model calculations are in reasonabl...

Excerpt from The Medical Counselor, Vol. 6The choroid coat of the eye is subject to sarcomatous, tubercular, and carcinomatous neoplasms, but the former are by far the most numerous. Sarcoma of the choroid is unilateral as a rule. It originates in the larger blood vessels, is composed of round or spindle cells, and is usually pigmented (melano-sar-coma), although in a small percentage of cases the pigment is absent leuco-sarcoma). The latter d...

In this book Stephen Knight, long-established as an authority on the genre and now back in Melbourne, tells in detail and with analytic coherence the story of a rich but previously little-known national crime fiction.

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Jack l'Éventreur… Un nom d'anthologie qui brille au noir panthéon des criminels de légende - probablement le meurtrier anonyme le plus connu de la planète. Sa célébrité durable repose sur son anonymat bien gardé. Plus d'encre a été répandue à son sujet qu'il n'a versé de sang dans tous ses meurtres , des millions et millions de mots qui, si nous les mettions ensemble, nous conduiraient… nulle part. Oui, nulle parte, parce que, quand tout a été...

Studies nine figures still vividly alive, all of them appearing in twenty-first century film and TV. Analysing how they relate to the major themes of power, resistance and knowledge, Stephen Knight shows how fact and fiction interweave to help us explore and understand the complexities of our world.

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Explores and explains stories about the mythic outlaw, who from the middle ages to the present stands up for the values of natural law and true justice. -- .

London, 1902. A string of murders committed by a killer dubbed 'The Deptford Strangler' has the police mystified. The victims seem to have nothing in common, and the crimes appear random and motiveless. Meanwhile, retired Inspector Brough and his nephew, Nicholas Calvin, researching a book on the history of murder, unearth a series of killings committed in Rogano, Italy in 1454 identical in pattern to the present-day crimes. What possible conn...

Nickolai Luzhin ist ein geheimnisvoller und unbarmherziger Killer, der für Londons bekannteste Verbrecherorganisation arbeitet. Er handelt gut überlegt und vorsichtig, doch als sich seine Wege mit der unschuldigen Hebamme Anna Khitrova kreuzen, die ungewollt Beweise gegen die Machenschaften seines Syndikats in Händen hält, will er ihr Leben nicht zerstören, muss aber gleichzeitig die Beweise vernichten.

Bei einer Geburt in einem Londoner Krankenhaus stirbt die junge russische Mutter in den Armen der Hebamme Anna. Da die Identität der Toten, einer offensichtlich illegalen osteuropäischen Prostituierten, unbekannt ist, setzt Anna alles daran, die Angehörigen des verwaisten Säuglings zu finden. Ihre einzigen Hinweise sind ein in russisch geschriebenes Tagebuch und ein Streichholzbriefchen mit dem Namen eines russischen Restaurants. Anna folgt de...

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The first collection of major scholarly studies of aspects of the Robin Hood tradition.

A popular crime genre in the nineteenth century, urban mysteries have largely been ignored ever since. This historical and critical text examines the origins of the innovative genre, which sought to grapple with the rise of enormous, anonymous cities, beginning in France in 1842, then spreading rapidly across the continent and into America and Australia. Writers covered include Eugene Sue, George Reynolds, George Lippard, "Ned Buntline" and Do...

This is the story of the African experience as a historical narrative told through a priestess in poetry. Visualize and follow the Ancestors' story from the community, through the middle passage and plantation slavery, and to freedom. Take a peep into the present and future of Africa and the diaspora through the eyes of the Ancestors. 'The Ancestors Spoke' is a great companion book for African and American history students, a valuable gift for...

Stephen Knight's book is a full analytic survey of crime fiction from its origins in the nineteenth century to the most recent developments. Knight explains how and why the various forms of the genre evolved, explores major authors and movements, and argues that the genre as a whole has three parts: the early development of Detection, the growing emphasis on Death, and the modern celebration of Diversity. The best criticism is cited and the bo...

This exploration and analysis of 20th-century English fiction in Wales surveys major periods and genres and the significance of authors like Allen Raine and Christopher Meredith. Welsh fiction is considered from a cultural viewpoint, relating authors and texts to the determining forces of their period and contexts, such as economy, politics, religion, and gender issues. In addition, special attention is paid to the pressure of modern-day Welsh...

Discusses in detail the books selected as the most popular and influential mysteries across time. Starting with Caleb Williams (William Godwin) and Edgar Huntly (Charles Brockden Brown), the series moves through the great detective authors, considers lesser-known important early books, and examines more recent titles to show the increasing variety in the mystery genre.

Comprehensive collection of materials that deal with Robin Hood and such other outlaw figures as Hereward the Wake. In this text the figure of Robin can be viewed in historical perspective, from the early accounts in the chronicles through the ballads, plays and romances that grew and impressed him on our fictional and historical imaginations.