Written as a comprehensive reference textbook, this book provides graduate students, young postdocs and early-career scientists with practical computational tools and highlights major open questions in the field of high-energy-density (HED) science.
Prize-winning novelist, short-story writer, poet, and memoirist Michèle Roberts tells of her experience of reading the novels of French writer Colette, whose work has inspired and encouraged her throughout her own writing life.
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This indispensable handbook prevails as journalism's foremost authority on media law since its inception in 1954.
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Marco Girolamo Vida's The Epic of Christ is vivid retelling of the life of Christ, drawing on the tradition of Latin epic poetry. L. B. T. Houghton's prose translation into English is accompanied by an introduction and detailed explanatory notes.
The Tamil Realist Novel in South and Southeast Asia examines how Tamil writers from India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Singapore reimagined the realist novel between the 1940s and 1980s as a vehicle for political critique and cultural transformation.
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Emergencies in Cardiology, Third Edition offers a clear, concise, and accessible guide to the immediate assessment and treatment of urgent cardiovascular conditions.
This book highlights the emergent research exploring the complex ways in which humans and carnivores interact. It provides... Læs mere
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This Handbook explores the development and influence of H.G. Wells's intellectual ideas from the late nineteenth century until his death in 1946, as well as their... Læs mere