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A pop-up book of interesting facts about the moon with stylish artwork from Annabelle Buxton, featuring four intricately crafted pop-ups along the way designed by paper engineer Olivier Charbonnel.

Three friends, united by their love of flying, torn apart by different origins. Amidst the madness of WW2, what will prove strongest: friendship, or loyalty?

An updated edition of the acclaimed history of Scotland, extending the attention to devolution and independence with coverage of the 2014 Scottish referendum.

A taciturn and solitary Mountie. A beautiful, determined young woman. The savage beauty of the Canadian wilderness. Trent: an authentic western ... up north.

Using illustrative clinical cases, this volume in the Problem-Based Learning series reviews key topics in Anesthesia frequently encountered in clinical practice and on examinations. It highlights practical issues that arise in the operating room and solutions for them. With real-world clinical cases and discussion questions that guide case progression, this book facilitates both individual and small-group learning. Each case is further broken ...

Living with the Stars describes the many fascinating connections between the universe and the human body, which range from the makeup of DNA and human cells, growth and aging, to stellar evolution and the beginning of the universe.

The first Vlautin in four years is set for release just ahead of the film adaptation of IMPAC-shortlisted Vlautin book "Lean On Pete". Explores a mixed-race man's possibly deluded boxing dream, chased at the margins of contemporary America.

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Robert Macfarlane (Author) Robert Macfarlane is the author of Mountains of the Mind, The Wild Places, The Old Ways, Landmarks, and The Lost Words, co-created with Jackie Morris. Mountains of the Mind won the Guardian First Book Award and the Somerset Maugham Award and The Wild Places won the Boardman-Tasker Award. Both books have been adapted for television by the BBC. The Lost Words won the Books Are My Bag Beautiful Book Award and the Hay Fe...

This book discusses medicine from an ethical perspective, whereas books on medical ethics more commonly present ethics from a bio-medical standpoint.The book is divided into 23 chapters. The introductory chapters present some basic concepts of medical ethics, such as the relation between the legal system and ethics, ethical documents, ethical theories, and ethical analysis. The following chapters address issues of importance in all fields of m...

This book focuses on irrigation sources together with water management for agricultural development in Uttar Pradesh state of India. Being the most populous state of the country, it bears a burden of feeding about 199 million people of which major section relies on agriculture for their subsistence. This study makes comparison in the growth trends in the irrigated area, crop land use patterns and crop productivity at the district level in diff...

This book presents the theoretical research and application results of a study on flexible mechatronics (flexonics). Formulating distributed models in both time and spatial domains using a geometric approach, it presents a simple yet practical field-based sensing method for robotics and manufacturing, and illustrates its applications with examples such as exoskeletons, mobile sensor network and intelligent sensing.The book is of interest to re...

This edition provides a detailed, up-to-date overview of methods used in the field of immune tolerance. Chapters guide readers through tolerogenic cell types, isolating tolerogenic cell populations for study and therapeutic utility, multiple methods to study the mechanisms underpinning tolerance, methods to induce tolerance through thymus progenitors, and methods to assess the breakdown of immune tolerance in specific pathological conditions. ...

Rural granaries in northern Gaul (sixth century BCE - fourth century CE) offers a comprehensive account of rural grain storage and its role in the economy of a key region of the Roman Empire.

Hannah Matis examines how a biblical text was read by the most important figures within the ninth-century Carolingian Reform to think about the nature of Christ and the church.

The authors focus on four major thematic areas - the reform of church, the reform of theology, the reform of perspective, and the reform of method - which together encompasses the breadth and depth of Cusanus' own reform initiatives.

This highly-praised and authoritative account surveys the history of the Ottoman Empire from its obscure origins in the fourteenth century, through its rise to world-power status in the sixteenth century, to the troubled times of the seventeenth century. Going beyond a simple narrative of Ottoman achievements and key events, Colin Imber uses original sources and research, as well as the rapidly growing body of modern scholarship on the subject...

It is simply no longer possible to understand coming of age in the inner city without an appreciation of both the face-to-face and online relations that structure neighborhood life. In The Digital Street, Jeffrey Lane takes readers on- and offline with black teenagers navigating Harlem's rapidly-changing streets to examine how digital social media alters neighborhood life in poor, minority communities.

Youth, Jobs and the Future: Problems and Prospects features original essays by well-known sociologists, economists, educators, and labor leaders that investigate the multiple structural and cultural dimensions of youth unemployment and worsening socio-economic precarity. The volume offers a variety of analyses and suggestions for redressing the problem going forward including better school-to-work transitions, shorter hours, shared work, full ...

The Psychology of Globalization: Identity, Ideology, and Action underpins the necessity to focus on the psychological dimensions of globalization. Overviewing the theory and empirical research as it relates to globalization and psychology, the book focuses on two key domains: social identity and collective action, and political ideology and attitudes. These provide frameworks for addressing four specific topics: (a) environmental challenges, (...