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Gunter Eich was one of the greatest postwar German poets. This title offers a collection of Eich's eighty poems, in which the ominousness of fairy tales meets the delicacy and suggestiveness of Far Eastern poetry.
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Though Greece is traditionally seen as an agrarian society, cattle were essential to Greek communal life. This title explores why... Læs mere
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Offering a comprehensive social history of the Bon Marche, the Parisian department store that was the largest in the world before 1914, this title explores the bourgeois identities, ambitions, and anxieties that the emporia so vividly dramatized.
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Japan and the United States became close political allies so quickly after the end of World War II, that it seemed as though the... Læs mere
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A collection of magical texts from ancient Egypt. It shows the exotic rituals, esoteric healing practices, and incantatory and supernatural dimensions... Læs mere
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Describes a revolutionary approach to determining low energy routes for spacecraft and comets by exploiting regions in space where motion is very sensitive. This work also represents an introductory text to celestial mechanics, dynamical systems, and dynamical astronomy.
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Through use of the models Professor Horn has devised, plant ecologists, foresters, and botanists will be able to predict the growth and productivity of a forest,... Læs mere
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"Ecosystem" is an intuitively appealing concept to ecologists, but, in spite of its widespread use, the term remains diffuse and ambiguous. This book... Læs mere
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Tells the story of both German and Czech-speaking Budweis/Budajovice, which belonged to the Habsburg Monarchy until 1918, and then to Czechoslovakia, Hitler's Third Reich, and Czechoslovakia again.
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Tells the story of Nabokov's life that continues with his arrival in the United States in 1940. He found that supporting himself and his family was not easy - until the astonishing success of Lolita catapulted him to world fame and financial security.
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Presents an introduction to the theory of algebraic curves over a finite field, a subject that has applications in areas such as finite geometry, number theory,... Læs mere
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A bilingual edition of the Qur'an, the Holy Book of Islam. It includes the original Arabic and the translated English that sit side by side on each page, encouraging... Læs mere