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The history of the Black Country has a dark side, episodes of violent death and villainy run through it. This work contains a selection of 20 of the shocking and disturbing cases. The cases take the reader on a sinister journey from medieval to modern times, following a trail left by traitors, rapists, thieves, murderous husbands, and others.

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To have the courage to think outside the square, we need to be intrigued by a problem. Complex Numbers and Vectors draws on the power of intrigue and uses appealing applications from navigation, global positioning systems, earthquakes, circus acts and s

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Euler is one of the greatest and most prolific mathematicians of all time. This book examines his work and its relation to current mathematics. It also treats the progression of ideas regarding divergent series from Euler to many parts of modern analysis and quantum physics.

Islamism is often portrayed as a reaction against, or at best a belated accommodation to, modernization. Refuting this dismissive opinion, Bjørn Utvik explores the movement through the lens of its engagement with social and economic change in Egypt. Utvik provides a comprehensive picture of debates within mainstream Islamist groups that are grappling with concrete economic issues.

In this innovative contribution to the study of food, gender, and power, Helen Vallianatos meticulously documents cultural values and beliefs, dietary practaices, and the nutritional and health status of mothers in Indian squatter settlements. She explores both large-scale forcesaincorporating critical medical anthropology and feminist theory into a biocultural paradigmaand the local and individual choices New Delhi women make in interpreting ...

As the inscription on his tombstone reveals, Wilkie Collins wanted to be remembered as the "author of The Woman in White, " for it was this novel that secured his reputation during his lifetime. The novel begins with a drawing teacher's eerie late-night encounter with a mysterious woman in white, and then follows his love for Laura Fairlie, a young woman who is falsely incarcerated in an asylum by her husband, Sir Percival Glyde, and his sinis...

Rather than focusing on learning facts without direct experience or observing random objects on a table, Discovering Nature makes science the exploration of materials and phenomena. It then gives children opportunities to learn from that experience

A collection of strange stories, sightings and happenings in Suffolk

A history of Ramsgate & St Lawrence