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Londres 1892. Une femme est sauvagement assassinée dans le quartier pauvre de Whitechapel. Désemparée par l'inefficacité de la police, la mère de la victime engage Sidney Grice, le plus célèbre détective privé de Londres. D'une intelligence acérée, l'homme est d'une efficacité redoutable....

Experts describe current perspectives and experimental approaches to understanding the neural bases of creativity. This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the latest neuroscientific approaches to the scientific study of creativity. In chapters that progress logically from neurobiological...

The Historian behind the History brings together a collection of valuable interviews with prominent southern historians conducted over the course of a decade by graduate students in the University of Alabama’s history program for the journal Southern History. In the interviews, ten notable southern...

Il est tatoué ; elle est BCBG. Il vit à la campagne ; elle ne jure que par les grandes villes. Il est une rockstar connue dans le monde entier ; elle est vétérinaire de campagne. Ce qu’ils ont en commun ? Rien. Et pourtant, une fois qu’ils se seront rencontrés, ils ne pourront plus se quitter. A...

Building on the work of his 1989 book, The Loyalist Perception and Other Essays, accomplished historian Robert M. Calhoon returns to the subject of internal strife in the American Revolution with Tory Insurgents. This volume collects revised, updated versions of eighteen groundbreaking articles, essays,...

Como devemos nos dirigir a um Rei? Um Sultão é a mesma coisa que um Califa? Quem era mais importante, um Duque ou um Barão? Que cargos havia nas cortes da Idade Média? Para responder a essas e a outras perguntas de curiosos pelas organizações sociais e militares através do tempo, a Editora...

"A Dictionary of Biology" is an up-to-date reference work explains several thousand specialized words that allow for empirical approaches to the biological sciences. It includes more than bare definitions, including information about most of the things named so as to convey their significance...

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Sorghum is one of the world’s major cereals, cultivated in the semi-arid tropics for a growing range of uses. Like other crops it faces the need to meet rising demand whilst reducing its environmental impact and adapting to the challenges of climate change. This volume summarises the wealth of research...

Ein schottischer Schuft landet in den ewigen Jagdgründen Als Priscilla Halburton-Smythe ihren Verlobten nach Lochdubh mitbringt, sind alle verzückt - bis auf Constable Hamish Macbeth, der selbst in Priscilla verliebt ist. Doch derlei Herzensangelegenheiten müssen warten, als Captain Bartlett,...

In recent years there has been steadily increasing interest in motor behavior and a growing awareness that a person not only has to know what to do in a particular situation, but also how to do it. The question of how actions are performed is of central concern in the area of motor control. This volume...

Convicted. Imprisoned. At only nineteen. Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse... I met him.  Cohen Shephard. The Warden. With his sexy eyes, controlling demeanor, and badass attitude, I was his for the taking. And he wants me... To...

President Ronald Reagan’s famous address to the Houses of Parliament is now considered—in its spirit if not in its actual words—to be the initial enunciation of his “Evil Empire” stance. In this important volume by two experienced rhetorical scholars, Robert C. Rowland and John M. Jones...

Scientific Bases of Acupuncture summarizes the major scientific advances from 1976 - 1988 on the mechanisms of acupuncture. Outstanding researchers from Western countries, Japan and China report their findings in the format of review articles. The individual reviews summarize each author's personal research while also referring to the overall literature in the field of acupuncture and TENS.