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The aim of this book is to present a picture of past and present Polynesian medicinal plants. Although several books have been published on herbal medicine in Polynesia, these are either limited in geographic scope (mostly to Hawai'i) or are unscientific in basis. Restricting the study of herbal medicine to a single Polynesian island or archipelago is a disadvantage because the early accounts of medicinal practices are so sketchy. A more compr...

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Dian Layton has undertaken to retell Hannah Hurnard's timeless classic in an adaptation that makes it easier for children to understand, while at the same time remaining faithful to the original story

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A collection of the best English short fiction features stories by Fay Weldon, Alice Munro, Brian Aldiss, Angela Carter, Seamus Deane, Mavis Gallant, Edna O'Brien, and Salman Rushdie, as well as unknown writers.

Bivectors occur naturally in the description of elliptically polarized homogeneous and inhomogeneous plane waves. This text presents a treatment of the properties of bivectors and shows how these may be applied to the theory of homogeneous and inhomogeneous plane waves.

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Analyzing the struggle by evangelical Protestants for the mind and soul of America in the decades before the Civil War, Johnson lucidly explores the nature of the evangelical message, the conflict of ideas within the movement, and the influence of these forces--both immediate and far-reaching--on American culture.

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This volume is a direct result of a conference held at Princeton University to honor George A. Miller, an extraordinary psychologist. A distinguished panel of speakers from various disciplines -- psychology, philosophy, neuroscience and artificial intelligence -- were challenged to respond to Dr. Miller's query: "What has happened to cognition? In other words, what has the past 30 years contributed to our understanding of the mind? Do we real...

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First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Detailed readings of 10, and lighter discussions of many others, of the 150 medieval French bawdy poems that scholars generally find it necessary to discuss as a whole, thereby missing important individual characteristics. Considers such elements as the conservatism, courtliness, women, language, t

A book which sets out the latest national law relating to time bars on the most common maritime claims in over 30 countries. It includes new jurisdictions and additional information. It provides the answers to such questions as what is the time-bar period for a particular type of claim.

This novel, set in 1985 at the height of South African township violence, presents the lives of families from different backgrounds.

This monograph presents a radical approach to the problems of evaluating and optimizing the performance of continuous-time stochastic processes, based on the use of a family of Markov processes, called piecewise-deterministic, as a general class of stochastic system models.

The Tale of Old Mortality describes the lives - and often violent deaths - the hopes, and the struggles, of the Covenanters in late seventeenth-century Scotland.

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