Cambodia is home to an ancient city. For over five centuries, Angkor, ancient seat of the Buddhist god-kings, was the capital of the Khmer empire. Abandoned in the 15th century, this city was swallowe
This resource book for teachers contains an exciting collection of activities which present and practise vital grammatical content in an original way. Each game is clearly introduced with a summary sp
A sketch of new financial revolutionaries reveals how an influential group of private investors has outmaneuvered the world's most powerful nations in the burgeoning global financial markets.
This acclaimed book is a master teacher's tested program for turning clumsy prose into clear, powerful, and effective writing. A logical, expert, easy-to-use plan for achieving excellence in expressio
This important book describes as accurately as possible the religious situation of Great Britain at the end of the twentieth century, and evaluates this evidence within a sociological framework. Two k
This edition marks the first complete English translation of Louis Bertrand's work. It is based on the text of the 1925 edition edited by Bertrand Guegan after Bertrand's manuscript, which after being
In the Middle East, not only were the 12th and 13th centuries punctuated by European Crusades but, even more significantly, the mid-11th century saw the invasion of the Saljuq Turks and the mid-13th c
In David Sedaris's world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. Sedaris's collection of essays and stories is a rollicking tour through the national Zeitgeist: a do-it-yourself suburban dad saves money
The common fruit fly, Drosophila, has long been one of the most productive of all laboratory animals. From 1910 to 1940, the center of Drosophila culture in America was the school of Thomas Hunt Morga
The eighth of Aharon Appelfeld's brilliantly original novels to be published in English, The Healer is a remarkable story about faith and faithlessness among European Jews on the eve of World War II.
foreword by Oliver Sacks Kurt Goldstein (1878-1965) was already an established neuropsychologist when he emigrated from Germany to the United States in the 1930s. This book, his magnum opus and widely
The American Heritage(R) High School Dictionary features more than 200,000 clear, understandable definitions enhnaced by 2,500 photographs and illustrations. Unparalleled in design and ease of use, it
Local telephone companies have long been extensively regulated as natural monopolies. Technological innovation and the prospect for lifting regulatory barriers to entry, however, now expose at least s
This catalogue focuses on numismatic gold jewelry, from pendants set with coins and medallions to stamped pseudo-medallions, or a combination of both. Special attention is given to the technical issue
This book brings together the work of pioneering scholars in the field- critics who are exploring the psychosexual tensions within Bishop's vision and the uncanny way her poetics of dislocation challe
Sports injuries are very common and their incidence is rising. Prevention will play an increasingly important role in sports medicine.Sports Injuries: Basic Principles of Prevention and Care covers bo
Provides the history of the use and interpretation of time. Suitable for students and researchers in social and cultural history, this title examines the various ways that time has been calculated by
Picasso's name has become synonymous with creative genius, but who was he - a public figure who lived his life in the headlines, or a private person, unpredictable and filled with secrets? This portra
Ross Chambers, an eminent critic of French literature, proposes an original theory of the development of French modernism. His bold rereading of mid-nineteenth-century texts, from Madame Bovary to Les
The literature on the work of Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) abounds in specialized studies of various aspects of his philosophy - that is, transcendental phenomenology. Yet there have been few attempts t
A revised edition of the state-of-the-art atlas originally published in 1985. Much more space is devoted to a detailed presentation of all the major approaches to the regions of the cranium relevant
