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Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's ability.

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities.

These essays explore some of the most significant current issues concerning the terrain of the Gothic perspective, offering a variety of possible answers to the crucial question: What is Gothic? The collection begins by addressing general issues about the locations and structure of Gothic, this is followed by various considerations of Gothic as a specific historical phenomenon, linked with specific aspects of British, American, and European so...

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Written from a continental perspective, these essays reveal dimensions of Platonic texts that remain undiscovered by traditional philosophy. Particular emphasis is placed on interpretations of the Platonic dialogue as a whole, which challenges contemporary philosphical assumptions.

Residential Open Building, the result of a CIB Task Group 'Open Building Implementation', provides a state-of-the-art review of open building, fundamental principles, recent developments, and international coverage of current projects on both the public and private arena. Open Building is a highly flexible and economical method of building which has far reaching advantages for urban designers, architects, contractors, developers and end users.

Set partly in the United States, this novel includes a searing satire on mid-nineteenth-century America. Martin Chuzzlewit is the story of two Chuzzlewits, Martin and Jonas, who have inherited the characteristic Chuzzlewit selfishness. It contrasts their diverse fates: moral redemption and worldly success for one and increasingly desperate crime for the other. In her Introduction to this new edition, Patricia Ingham discusses how, in writing a...

Diese Arbeit versucht, die klassische Disziplin der Erkenntnistheorie, welche heute in Wissenschaftstheorien aufzugehen droht, wiederzubeleben durch Rückgriff auf tiefenpsychologische Methoden und aphoristische "Gnome" (griechisch: "Erkenntnisvermögen") - die den philosophischen Mainstream unterirdisch begleiten - am phänomenologischen Leitfaden von Heidegger, Sartre und Conrad-Martius. Das Unbewusste gilt seit Freud als missing link zwischen ...

Crime and Social Policy discusses the criminal justice system in England and Wales in an accessible and engaging manner.

An exciting new history of the civil war, which recounts the effects of the civil war on 'the common people'. This engaging survey throws new light onto a century of violence and political and social upheaval.

Inhaltsangabe:Gang der Untersuchung: Die vorliegende Arbeit gliedert sich in sieben Kapitel. Nach einer Einleitung im ersten Kapitel werden im zweiten Abschnitt die konzeptionellen Grundlagen erörtert. Neben einer allgemeinen Definition von strategischen Unternehmensnetzwerken sollen hier die konstitutiven Merkmale dieser interorganisationalen Strukturen dargelegt werden. Ausgehend von diesen Begriffsbestimmungen werden die Anforderungen an e...

Inhaltsangabe:Gang der Untersuchung: Zunächst werde ich einen allgemeinen Überblick über die Verbreitung des Internet in Deutschland und die Zusammensetzung des Online-Publikums geben. In diesem Zusammenhang werden die aktuellsten Studien zu diesem Thema kurz vorgestellt und die Kernaussagen der unterschiedlichen Studien zusammengefaßt. Hieran schließt sich eine Vorstellung und Zusammenfassung der (bislang nur sehr wenigen) Forschungsergebni...

Puzzle fans have bought more than 650, 000 copies of the Mensa Genius Quiz series, the only books that let readers match wits with Mensa, " comparing how well they do against members of the famous high-IQ society. Here, in a giant omnibus edition, are four best-selling titles: The Mensa Genius Quiz Books 1 & 2 , The Mensa Genius Quiz-A-Day Book , and The Mensa Genius ABC Book . Here are more than 800 fun mindbenders to exercise every part of y...

This newest edition to the Laboratory Techniques Series gives current state of the art use of synthetic peptides in molecular biology and practical protocols on how to conjugate peptides, immunize animals with peptides and monitor immune responses to peptides in vitro. It gives background information on antigenic specificity, prediction of antigenic sites in proteins and applications of peptides in immunology and virology, as probes in diagnos...

With its highly topical focus on the social, political and economic development of the Asia Pacific region this book represents a vital, up-to-date analysis for students and resesearchers in Asian Studies, International Relations, International Political Economy, as well as policy makers and professionals working in, or with, Pacific Asia. Bringing together experts in the field, this volume suggests that recovery in this region is by no means ...

Women often appear invisible in what is widely perceived as the male-oriented society of Islam. Women in the Medieval Islamic World seeks to redress the balance with a series of original essays on women in the pre-modern phase of Islamic history. The reader will encounter here a colourful portrait gallery of rulers, politicians, poets and patrons, as well as some larger than life fictitious females from the pages of Arabic, Persian and Turkish...

Transforming Management in Central and Eastern Europe provides an overview of the changing business environment in seven Central and Eastern European countries, linking macro and micro developments, exploring the differing institutional and regional contexts, and the changing role of western companies and their management practices. The book will be an important resource for students on the growing number of MBA and graduate programmes now cov...

This book provides a non-technical introduction to High Performance Computing applications together with advice about how beginners can start to write parallel programs. The authors show what HPC can offer geographers and social scientists and how it can be used in GIS. They provide examples of where it has already been used and suggestions for other areas of application in geography and the social sciences. Case studies drawn from geography e...

In this ground-breaking contribution to social theory, John Urry argues that, if sociology is to make a pertinent contribution to the global era, it must abandon its original aim--the study of society as a set of institutions--and switch focus instead to the study of both physical and virtual movement.

This volume is a collection of papers on the application of operational research approaches and methods to problems in the health services.