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Temperate-zone forests have been shaped by fire, wind and grazing over thousands of years. This book provides a major contribution to the study of their dynamics by considering three important themes: The combined influence of wind, fire and herbivory on the successional trajectories and structural characteristics of forests The interaction of deciduous and evergreen tree species to form mosaics which, in turn, influence the environment and di...

Scientists in the laboratory often fail to take advantage of the commercial exploitation of their research. This is frequently because they simply do not know what to do. Technology Transfer is a careful account of how to start the process of commercialisation of technology, and describes in detail the difficulties, and amount of time needed, to carry the process through to a successful conclusion. This book provides a much needed step by step...

Video games have been a central feature of the cultural landscape for over twenty years and now rival older media like movies, television, and music in popularity and cultural influence. Yet there have been relatively few attempts to understand the video game as an independent medium. Most such efforts focus on the earliest generation of text-based adventures ("Zork, " for example) and have little to say about such visually and conceptually so...

Dr. Richard Duncan-Jones discusses coin minting and financial policy in the first three centuries of the Roman Empire, adding considerably to our body of knowledge about the period. Photos. Graphs. Tables.

A Labouring Experience makes a significant contribution...on several levels: theoretical, methodological and empirical. Locals in the region will no doubt find the book fascinating, but so will any reader interested in comparative and theoretical problems and questions in 19th century European history.-Marilyn Cohen

The philosophical concept of 'possible worlds' used to explain theoretical problems of fictionality and narrativity.

Martin Sproale is a mild-mannered assistant postmaster who lives with his mother, has dinner with his would-be fiancee once a week, and bicycles dutifully to work every morning. Martin has only one unconventional hobby: He is obsessed with the life of Ernest Hemingway, his brilliant and macho alter ego. His hobby is confined to collecting memorabilia and reading every biography he can find, until an ambitious outsider, Nick Marshall, is appoin...

From the Belgian coast, across the fields of Flanders, over the valley of the Somme and down the line to the Argonne, this title covers all the major battlefields of the First World War. It is suitable for those contemplating a tour of the battlefields in Belgium and France.

Does your heart race and your head ache when you look around your overcrowded home? That's a Stuff Attack! Do you feel overwhelmed by your possessions the minute you enter your front door? That's Stuff Overload! Does the standard advice from all those so-called organizing experts just make you want to crawl back under the bedcovers? Don't give up! Author Cynthia Friedlob tackles the issue of too much stuff head-on from a fresh, funny, and tota...

Engranajes, una colección que incluye algunos de los cuentos cortos que Adolfo Mazariegos escribió entre 1995 y 2000 y que han sido editados por primera vez en Editorial DuQuets. Algunos de los cuentos incluídos en este volumen, formaron parte del libro "Gotas" (1996).

Graduate textbook presenting the theory and applications of differential games, assuming no prior knowledge of game theory.

Literary and historical study of supernatural or Gothic fiction of the Romantic period.

In this wide-ranging book, Arnold Whittall considers a group of important composers of the twentieth century, including Debussy, Webern, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Bartok, Janacek, Britten, Carter, Birtwistle, Andriessen and Adams. He moves skilfully between the cultural and the technical, the general and the particular, to explore the various contexts and critical perspectives which illuminate certain works by these composers. Considering the ex...

Millikan provides the first in-depth discussion on the psychological act of reidentification.

The first ethnohistory of Siberia in English, analysing ethnographic and linguistic features of the native peoples.

The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan has been designed to explore the background to the decision to withdraw and its broader implications.

This is a major, collaborative study of organised military activity and its broad impact on Ireland over the last thousand years or so, from the middle of the first millennium AD to modern times. It integrates the best recent scholarship in military history into its social and political context to provide a comprehensive treatment of the Irish military experience. The eighteen chronologically-organised chapters are written by leading scholars ...

This major contribution to Ottoman history is now published in paperback in two volumes: the original single hardback volume (1994) has been widely acclaimed as a landmark in the study of one of the most enduring and influential empires of modern times. The authors provide a richly detailed account of the social and economic history of the Ottoman region, from the origins of the Empire around 1300 to the eve of its destruction during World War...

Differential equations are vital to science, engineering and mathematics, and this book enables the reader to develop the required skills needed to understand them thoroughly. The authors focus on constructing solutions analytically and interpreting their meaning and use MATLAB extensively to illustrate the material along with many examples based on interesting and unusual real world problems. A large selection of exercises is also provided.

Bolivia has experienced two decades of unprecedented mass popular resistance to the consequences of neoliberal policies, led by the indigenous Indian majority and resulting in the resignation and flight of the president in October 2003. This unusual book uncovers the reasons and processes behind the rising opposition - mirrored in country after country in Latin America - to this currently fashionable, internationally prescribed approach to eco...