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International Law Reports is the only publication in the world wholly devoted to the regular and systematic reporting in English of courts and arbitrators, as well as judgements of national courts.

The Anatomy Lesson is a ferocious, heartfelt book - lavish with laughs and flamboyant inventions' John UpdikeWith his fortieth birthday receding into the distance, along with his hairline and his most successful novel, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction - pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his spirit. Zuckerman, whose work was his life, finds himself phy...

Wessex Tales was the first collection of Hardy's short stories, and they reflect the experience of a novelist at the height of his powers.

In these five long stories, written specifically for Christmas, Dickens combines his concern for social ills with the myths and memories of childhood and traditional seasonal lore.A Christmas Carol, the first of the selection, has become a touchstone of English festive fiction and an enduring favourite internationally. Repeatedly adapted, parodied, staged and filmed, this richly influential tale is powerfully vivid and moving.The other stories...

Presents a description of the basic toxicological concepts and methodologies used in aquatic toxicity testing. This work discusses various factors that affect transport, transformation, ultimate distribution and accumulation of chemicals in the aquatic environment, along with the use of modeling to predict fate.

The bestselling author of The Teachings of Don Juan and A Separate Reality once again enlightens readers through the teachings of the great Mexican-Indian sorcerer Don Juan, and reveals the remarkable spiritual adventures that can be achieved only through dreams.

States and Firms" is a study in the political economy of the multinational enterprise, looking at how and why the internationalisation of twelve leading French - and German owned MNEs has interacted with the domestic environment.

Geographies of Exclusion" identifies forms of social and spatial exclusion and subsequently examines the fate of knowledge of space and society which has been produced by members of excluded groups. Evaluating writing on urban society by women and black writers, David Sibley asks why such work is neglected by the academic establishment, suggesting that both the practices which result in the exclusion of minorities and those which result in the...

The relationship between marginalism and socialism is complex and variable: this book pays equal attention to the differences and the common themes and highlights innovative contributions to 'classical' political economy.

This is a study of the impact of the economic crisis and subsequent adjustment policies in the African economies on the scientific and technological capabilities in those countries. It includes studies of Ghana, Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda.

Effective management is becoming increasingly important in all aspects of archaeology. Archaeologists must manage the artefacts thay deal with, their funding, ancient sites, as well as the practice of archaeology itself. Managing Archaeology is a collecton of outstanding papers from experts involved in these many areas. The contributors focus on the principles and practice of management in the 1990s, covering such crucial aeas as the managemen...

How does the sexual identity that anthropologists have in their "home" society affect the kind of sexuality they are allowed to express in other cultures? "Taboo looks at the ethnographer and sexuality in anthropological fieldwork and considers the many roles that sexuality plays in the anthropological production of knowledge and texts. "Taboo looks at how the anthropologist's sexuality is perceived by the people with whom he or she does resea...

The decline of the Roman Empire encouraged the spread westwards of tribes from eastern Europe, settling areas from which the indigenous people had been cleared by the spread of the power of Rome, such populations, notably the Celts, were themselves pushed to the fringes of the former empire. The studies in this book focus on the customs and beliefs of these migrations of barbarian peoples.

For 29 years, Progress in Psychobiology and Physiological Psychology has provided cutting-edge literature to behavioral neuroscience research. Honoring the late Alan Epstein, founding co-editor of the series, Volume 16 presents essays in the area of the neurobiology of motivation. Contents include research in ingestive behavior, dopamine and food reward, the effect of insulin in the brain, and mechanisms of thirst and salt appetite.

Contains studies of women's roles in the secular literary world, as patrons, authors, readers, and characters in secular literature.

In this, the twentieth Brother Cadfael mystery, it is 1145 and Cadfael has asked for leave to attend a conference aimed at resolving the fight for the throne. But Cadfael has a mission of his own - to find out what happened to his son who was taken prisoner at the siege of Faringdon Castle.

The essays in this volume have a common theme and preoccupation: an intention to present medieval women - in life, literature, hagiography and art - as they thought of themselves, teased from the work of theirintermediaries (Hildegard of Bingen, Christine of Pisan) or from the works, words and social milieux of men (Chaucer's women, Chretien's patrons, the empress Theodora and others). Feminea Mediaevalia is designed to foreground feminine and...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Algorithmic Learning Theory, ALT '95, held in Fukuoka, Japan, in October 1995. The book contains 21 revised full papers selected from 46 submissions together with three invited contributions. It covers all current areas related to algorithmic learning theory, in particular the theory of machine learning, design and analysis of learning algorithms, computational...

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference in Broadband Services and Networks, IS&N, '95, held in Heraclion, Greece, in October 1995, this book summarizes at the same time the main results of a group of RACE projects sponsored by the European Commission for several years. To meet the new challenges in broadband communication, service engineering has now emerged as a new discipline strongly related to software...

This book presents a selection of topics from probability theory. Essentially, the topics chosen are those that are likely to be the most useful to someone planning to pursue research in the modern theory of stochastic processes. The prospective reader is assumed to have good mathematical maturity. In particular, he should have prior exposure to basic probability theory at the level of, say, K.L. Chung's 'Elementary probability theory with sto...