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Thomas Jefferson defined, at the moment of our nation's birth, the issues that still direct our political life. Displaying his extraordinary variety of interests and powerful and precise style, Jefferson's writings are an invaluable and incisive record of the landscape, inhabitants, life, and daily customs of America in the Revolutionary and early national eras, as well as a testimony to the brilliance of one of the most influential and contro...

The 'Orphic' gold tablets are some of the most fascinating and baffling pieces of evidence for ancient Greek religion. This volume examines some of the new methodologies employed in their study and includes an updated edition and translation of the tablet texts.

A witty and reflective look at a society driven by social ambition and lust for riches-in a brilliant new translation. Eugene wants to get on in the world. So he has come to Paris, where the streets teem with chancers, criminals, and social climbers-and everyone is out for what he can get. When he finds a place to stay at a shabby boarding house, he sees the potential to make a fortune in two beautiful, aristocratic women who visit the lonely ...

The shattering novel of one man swept away in the turmoil of emotional, financial and moral boom and bust. Charlie Wales is a young man who wants everything. He's seduced by the excitement of a new life in London and all that it promises: love, art, and also the promise of fast money in the City. It is a heartbreaking love story, a withering study of the years of excess, and a timely reminder of how good people end up doing terrible things.

Chase Insteadman is a handsome former child-star, living a routine of dinner parties and glamorous engagements on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Meanwhile, his astronaut fiancée, trapped on the International Space Station, sends him rapturous love letters. Into Chase's life enters Perkus Tooth, a pop-critic, whose conspiratorial riffs are fueled by high-grade marijuana, mammoth cheeseburgers and a desperate ache for meaning. Together, Chase and ...

Showcases the latest thinking and cutting-edge research of scholars working on topics at the intersection of gender and conversation analysis.

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The commercial availability and decreasing cost of polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes in recent years has opened up the field to everybody who wishes to apply these unique properties in their own technologies. This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of these applications, and covers the synthesis, characterization and history of polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes, their use as metallasilsesquioxane catalysts, their eff...

Business cases are at the heart of business ethics as a discipline. Analysis and reflection on the morality of business often is triggered by concrete cases. After four introductory chapters into recent developments within business ethics and the value of case analysis, the present volume offers extensive description of eight recent European cases, mainly stemming from The Netherlands and Belgium and all of them with a clear moral impact. Amon...

”Ambulatory Impedance Cardiography” gives the reader the necessary physical background of impedance cardiography (ICG) and currently available systems for hemodynamics holter monitoring. It compares ambulatory ICG and other clinically accepted methods through an updated state-of-the-art. The book is divided in 4 parts. In the first one, the importance of the analysis of the cardiac dynamics using the ambulatory monitoring technique is presente...

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Devoted to exploring questions about the origin and evolution of life in our Universe, this interdisciplinary book has widespread appeal.

A full grammatical account of preposition placement in English, combining experimental and corpus-based approaches, and exploring first- and second-language data.

The first textbook on mathematical methods applied to optical science and engineering. Ideal for upper division undergraduates and graduates.

Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for T audiences. Final Volume! Miku and Kyohei are dating now, but soon they must make decisions about their future after high school. But just when Miku starts to make plans for attending university, it seems Kyohei wants to break up.

One of the greatest plays of all time, the compelling tragedy of the tormented young prince of Denmark continues to capture the imaginations of modern audiences worldwide. Confronted with evidence that his uncle murdered his father, and with his mother's infidelity, Hamlet must find a means of reconciling his longing for oblivion with his duty as avenger. The ghost, Hamlet's feigned madness, Ophelia's death and burial, the play within a play, ...

This book provides the rationale, state-of-the-art studies and practical applications, proof-of-concepts, experimental studies, and future development on the use of emerging technologies in wireless ad-hoc networks"--

2009 saw the centenary of the Society of Legal Scholars and the transition from the House of Lords to the new Supreme Court. The papers presented in this volume arise from a seminar organised jointly by the Society of Legal Scholars and the University of Birmingham to celebrate and consider these historic events. The papers examine judicial reasoning and the interaction between judges, academics and the professions in their shared task of inte...