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A major English-language edition of five central texts in the history of the political thought of the Dutch Revolt.

Modern cosmology and its relationship to the development of human civilization is the subject of this book.

Reconstructs the structures that marked the history of Germany from the Thirty Years' War to the end of the Seven Years' War.

For three decades Dr. Howard H. Irving has championed the use of divorce mediation outside the adversarial court system to save couples and their children the bitterness of winner-takes-all custody battles. Here, he calls on his vast experience of mediating more than 2, 000 cases to help couples contemplating divorce.

Recent efforts to characterize genetic variation in the human genome, coupled with the rapidly developing field of genomics, have lead directly to the development of new and innovative approaches to the identification of genes contributing to complex human diseases. In Disease Gene Identification: Methods and Protocols, expert researchers in the field provide up-to-date molecular methodologies used in the process of identifying a disease gene,...

In "Murder, " the keenly researched chapters tell the stories behind some of Canada's most fascinating murder cases, from colonial times to the 20th century, and from the Atlantic provinces to the West Coast and up to the Arctic.

This book outlines the resources available for education from about 1785 to the early 20th century. Many historical resources are currently being digitized, and Ontario and education are no exception. These electronic repositories are examined here, along with traditional paper and archival sources.

In the spirit of Gilles Deleuze's Abecedaire, Passwordsoffers us twelve entry points into Baudrillard's thought.

A major philosophical intervention into contemporary cultural theory that challenges the terms of its understanding of time and history.

Stinging revolutionary critique of contemporary society.

Jameson's classic study of German playwright Bertolt Brecht

Classic work of geography analysing the new possibilities for spatial thought

This book describes the motions resulting from heating a fluid layer from below.

A wide-ranging review of sodium hunger and its physiological and neural basis.

What’s the central characteristic of socialism? That’s easy—it’s failure. From North Korea to the American public education system, from Venezuelan oil companies to ObamaCare, the reports of socialism’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. Although the Soviet Union collapsed in ignominy, the central planning impulse that guided it endures in countless industries and government policies throughout the world. As Kevin Williamson explains in th...

This handy introduction to English grammar covers all the basics of the subject, using a simple and straightforward style.

This book explores Friedrich Nietzsche's response to the debates sparked by Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species.

This book is a collection of essays written by the very scientists and engineers who have led, and continue to lead, the scientific quest known as SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Divided into three parts, the first section, ‘The Spirit of SETI Past’, written by the surviving pioneers of this then emerging discipline, reviews the major projects undertaken during the first 50 years of SETI science and the results of that rese...

During the 1880s, a great land boom was sweeping California. Two visionary entrepreneurs, Elisha Babcock and H. L. Story, imagined Coronado as a resort and brought their dream to reality by luring the wealthy and famous to their exclusive red-roofed hotel on the beach. John D. Spreckels continued to build upon that dream, leaving a legacy through his many gifts to the city. The U.S. Navy has played a prominent role in Coronado's development, w...

Gene therapy offers many conceptual advantages to treat muscle diseases, especially various forms of muscular dystrophies, however, it faces a number of unique challenges, including the need to deliver a therapeutic vector to all muscles throughout the body. In Muscle Gene Therapy: Methods and Protocols, expert researchers in the field present a collection of techniques aimed at bridging the translational gap in muscle gene therapy between the...