This novel of a young carpenter who leaves his rural English village to seek work in London in the late 19th century is an impressive description of unemployment and poverty. Radical Fiction Series.
This text examines Hitler's views on Roman imperialism, town planning and architecture, and analyses how the state architecture of Nazi Germany, both in design plans and reality, reflected an attempt
What do you get when you combine an all-time classic and a tiny format? The perfect gift for giving. Share the story of the little blue engine with your pint-sized reader.
This is the first book about Orlando, the famous marmalade cat whose "eyes reminded you of twin green gooseberries." He and Grace, his beautiful Tabby wife, have three kittens-Tortoiseshell Pansy, Whi
Born in 1830, Christina Rossetti began composing verse at the age of eleven and continued to write for the remaining fifty-three years of her life. By the time of her death in 1894, Christina had writ
Highlights the points of crises in continental thought from the foundational crisis of reason in Husserl's call for a rigorous science of phenomenology to the current crisis of postmodernism and its r
Drawing on his native heritage, Niatum interweaves the themes of aging and community, speaking powerfully of dislocation and banishment from "the country of my blood." Indelible images from the animal
Examines the theoretical and empirical characteristics of project-based forms of organization through an analysis of how the contractual mechanism binding the various parties engaged in construction p
This book represents the first annotated bibliography devoted to the life and work of Langston Hughes. Divided into four main sections, the volume cites all of the author's collectable published mater
A compilation of clinical, pathological, and experimental data pertinent to the enigmatic and pernicious problem of sudden, unexplainable death in people with epilepsy. Information on the subject is b
This is the first book to summarize the different instrumental approaches used to study surface reactions and interactions of geologic materials. Techniques useful for obtaining both qualitative and q
These essays, written by such distinguished scholars as C.M. Gowra, N.M. Horsfall, R.O.A.M. Lyne, D.A. West and R.D. Williams, constitute a broad range of twentieth-century and classic criticism on Ve
This unique contribution to social and urban history describes the struggle of prosperous German bourgeois leaders to bring order to their rapidly growing cities during the tumultuous age of industria
Geomedicine deals with the influence of ordinary environmental factors on the geographical distribution of health problems in man and animals. Contributors from medicine, geology, soil science, and ch
In this profoundly original and far-reaching study, Robert M. Polhemus shows how novels have helped to make erotic love a matter of faith in modern life. Erotic faith, Polhemus argues, is an emotional
The human is perhaps bestdubbed 'homo narrans', the story-teller. In our search for meanings we constantly tell stories and make accounts to explain events and frame relationships. This book presents
The author recounts his experiences in building collections of rare books and manuscripts of French literature, and reveals little-known facts about French artists, composers, and writers
This fourth selection of articles by Professor Kuttner complements the volumes previously published by Variorum. Its subject is the history of the Church law of the Middle Ages, and the manner in whic
With Biomechanics: Motion, Flow, Stress, and Growth, the premier bioengineering scientist Y.C. Fung concludes a discussion first introduced in his seminal work, Biomechanics: Mechanical Properties of
This is a collection of papers on the work of Leonid Kantorovich, a Russian mathematician and economist, and a leading contributor to the fields of optimization and mathematical economics. Kantorovich
From before the days of Moses up through the 1960s, slavery was a fact of life in the Middle East. Pagans, Jews, Christians, and Muslims bought and sold at the slave markets for millennia, trading th
The controversy has to do with the characterization of the strata of the UK, specifically the debate between geologists Sir Roderick Murchison (1792-1871) and James Nicol (1810-1879) concerning the in
D?gen Zenji was a Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher born in Ky?to, and the founder of the S?t? school of Zen in Japan after travelling to China and training under the Chinese Caodong lineage there. D?gen
"Vector Models for Data-Parallel Computing "describes a model of parallelism that extends and formalizes the Data-Parallel model on which the Connection Machine and other supercomputers are based. It
In 1946 Paul Halmos studied unbiased estimators of minimum variance, and planted the seed from which the subject matter of the present monograph sprang. The author has undertaken to provide experts an
Diagnosis of common symptoms is explained and the most frequently occurring clinical conditions in ophthalmology described. A section relates eye disease to general medicine, paediatrics, neurology an
What is artificial intelligence? At its essence, it is another way of answering a central question that has been debated by scientists, philosophers, and theologians for thousands of years: How does t
Although there is no international government, and no global police agency enforces the rules, nations obey international law. In this provocative study, Franck employs a broad range of historical, l
This is one of the first books to deal in a broader manner with all important elements described as main group non metals. It is especially useful for graduate students and researchers who need a conc
Dedicated to scientific visualization--the new approach in the field of numerical simulation--which focuses on basic geometric, animation and rendering techniques specific to visualization, as well as
The essays in this collection highlight some of the efforts made by both blacks and whites to promote adult education for the African American community from 1619 to the present.
One of the central problems in operations research and management science is how to quantify the effects of uncertainty about the future. This, the second volume in a series of handbooks, is devoted t
Defines the basic technical approaches to reproductive genetics, concentrating on the procedural and mechanical approaches to human prenatal diagnosis. Delineates screening techniques of alpha-fetopro
Germans to America provides both genealogists and researchers of family history with the first extensive, indexed source of German-surname immigrants who came to all ports in the United States between
The Cleveland Jewish Orphan Asylum was for fifty years (1868-1918) the home for some 3,500 boys and girls, most of them immigrants from Eastern Europe. Gary Polster’s study examines the efforts of th
A contemporary summary of the best space- and ground-based observations of these "cool" stars, as well as a critical assessment of the current theories for explaining a wealth of nonthermal phenomena
This guide to contemporary French vocabulary offers a complete word list, with a full range of formal and informal language encountered in French-speaking countries today, as well as many technical, s
