Under the Literary Microscope. Science and Society in the Contemporary Novel, Hardback - ***

A collection of essays examining literary discussions of the role of science, focusing on the interactions between processes of knowledge formation...

Contemporary aesthetics is characterized by generic mixing on the level of both form and content. The barriers between different media and differen...

In this compelling and chilling memoir, a top forensic investigator lifts the lid on the most notable and notorious cases of his forty-year career.

Space and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds - Michael Scott

Contributor(s): Author: Jean-Philippe BouchaudAuthor: Julius BonartAuthor: Jonathan DonierThe widespread availability of high-quality, high-frequen...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr Josie (University of Bristol, UK) GillNumber of pages: 224Collection: Explorations in Science and...

Welcome to a micro-world full of HUGE possibilities. A place where the most familiar things look out of this world. Take a look through the microsc...

You Under the Microscope explores the unseen and unusual microscopic processes happening around us-and on us, and inside us!-every day.Publisher: T...

DescriptionIn popular imagination few phenomena are as strongly associated with medieval society as knighthood and chivalry. At the same time, and ...

In this compelling and chilling memoir, a top forensic investigator lifts the lid on the most notable and notorious cases of his forty-year career....

By 1940 going to the movies was the most popular form of public leisure in Britain's empire. This book explores the social and cultural impact of t...

DescriptionClimate change is becoming a major theme in the contemporary novel, as authors reflect concerns in wider society. Given the urgency and ...

This volume examines how the political, economic and social changes of the Great Depression impacted on Hollywood and how it responded to them.

Reducere. DescriptionThis study of politics and the role of the state in the Arab world is aimed at students of Middle East politics, political theory and po...

Expanded and updated, Charles Eisenstein's classic treatise on capitalism, currency, and the gift economy. This revised version traces the history ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr Alan R. H. (University of Cambridge, UK) BakerIllustration(s): 13 MapsNumber of pages: 248Publica...

A new understanding of the novel's cultural and political significance in the age of the global audience.

Reducere. Dr. Antoinette Day-a young, successful pathologist known to her friends and colleagues as Toni-has no idea what awaits her when Dr. Sally Shore arr...

The first volume to consider childhood over eight centuries of British writing, this book traces the literary child from medieval to contemporary t...

Reducere. The War for Independence touched virtually every American. It promised liberty, the opportunity for a better life, and the excitement of the battle...

The Kuwaiti population includes around 100, 000 people - approximately 10 per cent of the Kuwaiti nationals -whose legal status is contested. Often...

Reducere. The half century of European activity in the Caribbean that followed Columbus's first voyages brought enormous demographic, economic, and social ch...

The stateless (bidun) of Kuwait represent around 10 per cent of Kuwaiti nationals - approximately 100, 000 people. In this book, the author argues ...

Publisher: HAU Society Of Ethnographic TheoryAuthor(s): Marion FourcadeNumber of pages: 474Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 151 x 229 x 38Cover ty...

Recipient of the 2019 NAGC Curriculum AwardIt is a germy world out there, and students are naturally curious about this hidden world. Microscopic M...

This book consists of a series of chapters written together by scientists, art historians, conservators, curators and artists, dedicated to conserv...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Anthony GiddensModernity differs from all preceding forms of social order because of its dynamism, its deep undercutting of...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 226Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 174 x 244 x 19Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Tom O...

Analyses the successful stability of Oman despite very real social pressures

DescriptionAs recently as the 1970s, gay and lesbian history was a relatively unexplored field for serious scholars. The past quarter century, howe...

In Maimonides and the Merchants, Mark R. Cohen reveals the extent of pragmatic revisions to the halakha, or body of Jewish law, introduced by Moses...

By their social and material context as markers of graves, dedications and public signs of honour, inscriptions offer a distinct perspective on the...

A cultural study of an array of popular North American science fiction film and television texts, Excavating the Future explores the popular archae...

Today there are major Departments at the University of Melbourne, the University of New South Wales and the University of Wollongong, and smaller g...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 1 Tables, black and whiteNumber of pages: 236Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 157 x 234 x 22Cover ...

This book is a study of the British casino industry and how it has been shaped by criminality, prohibition, regulation and liberalization since the...

Give MINI-scientists MAXIMUM understanding of the MICROscopic - get to grips with millions of microscopic creaturesPublisher: Hachette Children's G...

This carefully researched collection of essays assesses the influence and legacy on the Labour Party of one of its most popular and yet divisive le...

A pioneering treatment of the development and importance of writing in ancient Cypriot society, throughout the second and first millennia BC. Explo...