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First published in 1873, this biography of Sir Edward Codrington details his illustrious naval career through his own letters.

Chemist and scientific journalist William Crookes' reports on his controversial investigations into psychical phenomena, published in 1874.

Published in 1892, this two-volume biography of Thomas Paine (1737-1809) confirmed his importance in the American and French revolutions.

This 1889 publication describes a French explorer's attempts to reach India by travelling across Afghanistan, and his eventual success.

French explorer, author and legislator Gabriel Bonvalot (1853-1933) undertook several expeditions to Central Asia. This two-volume work, published in 1891, tells of Bonvalot's journey across Europe and Asia to French Indochina in 1889-90. In Volume 2 the expedition succeeds in entering Tibet and continues through China to Hanoi.

Indefatigable traveller Isabella Bird visited Korea at a time of increasing foreign influence, and published her observations in 1898.

Das Mathematik-Training zum Studienstart beinhaltet eine Fülle von Aufgaben zu Themen der mathematischen Grundlagen, Analysis und Linearen Algebra, die in vielen Bachelor-Studiengängen relevant sind und insbesondere in einführenden Mathematikveranstaltungen im Bereich der Wirtschaftswissenschaften behandelt werden. Die Lösungen der Aufgaben sind durchgehend sehr ausführlich und selbsterklärend dargestellt, daher eignet sich die Aufgabensammlun...

This collection of essays on the subject of theatre and various forms of censorship gathers in an original and stimulating manner the voices of academics, practitioners and artist-scholars, among them Chantal Bilodeau, Stephen Bottoms, Marvin Carlson, Tim Crouch, Stephen J. Duncombe, Rinde Eckert, Randy Gener, Matthew Goulish, Baz Kershaw, Joanna Laurens, Carl Lavery, Christopher Shinn, and Aleks Sierz. Edited by playwright, scholar and activi...

Titanium alloys are well known as materials for high temperature applications, especially in aero engines where weight is very important. These alloys were used in early 1940. Today in XXI century due to the high specific strength, light weight, TiAl - based alloys find increasing applications as structural materials in advanced engineering structures, as a bio compatible material (hip prosthesis). Unfortunately TiAl based materials show quite...

It has become increasingly obvious that people's actions and interactions with the environment affect not only living conditions now, but also those of many generations to follow. Humans must address the effect they have on the Earth's climate and how their choices today will have an impact on future generations. In many parts of the world climate change and extreme climatic events such as severe droughts, floods, storms, tropical cyclones, he...

First published in 1857, this is Robert Fortune's account of his fascinating and bizarre 1853-6 expedition to China.

Published in 1884, this remained the most detailed account of Chinese music in a Western language until the mid-twentieth century.

This two-volume work of 1830, compiled by his friend Thomas Moore, reveals Byron's character and provides a commentary on his writing.

This two-volume work of 1830, compiled by his friend Thomas Moore, reveals Byron's character and provides a commentary on his writing.

This 1889 publication describes a French explorer's attempts to reach India by travelling across Afghanistan, and his eventual success.

In this two-volume 1891 work, French explorer Bonvalot describes an expedition across Tibet to Hanoi in French Indochina.

This 1904 memoir of the Venn family, which produced clergymen and scholars for centuries, was written by the Cambridge historian.

This two-volume 1829 work, reissued here from the 1830 reprint, describes Buckingham's journey from Baghdad to the Persian Gulf.

This 1870 account of women travelling across Europe to the Middle East began an adventurous career for the Smith sisters.

A two-volume collection of reminiscences by one of Britain's most famous historians and critics, published posthumously in 1881.