Fa: 67 books

CLICK HERE to download the sample chapter "Basic Care" from Medicine for Mountaineering * The best-selling backcountry medical guide of its kind * This edition includes new chapters on avalanche injuries, drowning, eye disorders, medical evacuations, and lightning * Provides expert...

When did China make the decisive turn from tradition to modernity? For decades, the received wisdom would have pointed to the May Fourth movement, with its titanic battles between the champions of iconoclasm and the traditionalists, and its shift to more populist forms of politics. A growing body...

Nanosized Tubular Clay Minerals provides the latest coverage from leading scientists on a wide field of expertise regarding the current state of knowledge about nanosized tubular clay minerals. All chapters have been carefully edited and coordinated, and readers will find a resource that provides...

The Secrets of Hickory Hollow revolves around the history of the lives of rugged Scottish pioneers that settle in an isolated southern Appalachian Mountain valley. Over the years their little settlement grows and establishes itself as an independent community complete with a church, a school, and...

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0 (A), University of Heidelberg, course: Second Language Acquisition, 17 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Interest in second language vocabulary (SLV) significantly...

This invaluable book provides a broad introduction to a rapidly growing area of nonequilibrium statistical physics. The first part of the book complements the classical book on the Langevin and Fokker–Planck equations (H. Risken, The Fokker–Planck Equation: Methods of Solution and Applications...

This book is devoted to an idea of a second round of codification of certain new rules for treaty interpretation. Currently, treaty interpretation is guided by Articles 31 through 33 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT). The fundamental rule is that a treaty shall be interpreted...

The first edition of the Handbook of Clay Science published in 2006 assembled the scattered literature on the varied and diverse aspects that make up the discipline of clay science. The topics covered range from the fundamental structures (including textures) and properties of clays and clay minerals,...

This book introduces a new logic-based multi-paradigm programming language that integrates logic programming, functional programming, dynamic programming with tabling, and scripting, for use in solving combinatorial search problems, including CP, SAT, and MIP (mixed integer programming) based solver...

Le féminin dans les lettres francophones est un complexe de métadiscours et de représentations parfois engagées, parfois ambivalentes, mais toutes très parlantes : ces rhétoriques pointent à l’horizon des nouvelles productions littéraires les enjeux d’une partie des littératures francophones...

Infrared and Raman Spectroscopies of Clay Minerals, Volume 8 in the Developments in Clay Science series*,* is an up-to-date overview of spectroscopic techniques used in the study of clay minerals. The methods include infrared spectroscopy, covering near-IR (NIR), mid-IR (MIR), far-IR (FIR) and IR...

«  Le monde a changé à partir du forfait Millénium. Désormais, on se parlerait sans limites. On pourrait se dire autre chose que l’essentiel. La jeunesse devenait Millénium, le monde, sous nos yeux, était en train de devenir Millénium. J’ai le Millénium Blues. Vous l’avez aussi  ?...

Eurydice is a Scottish girl about to head off to college, an exciting time when everything should be happy. Her life isn't perfect -- not even close -- but she has people who love her, including Axel, that strange boy she can't quite figure out. A twist of fate traps Eurydice in an eerie world much...

Une collection-friandise pour une première introduction aux contes classiques et aux grands récits traditionnels. Des textes très fidèles aux contes d’origine où l’on retrouve toute l’histoire, mais adaptée à la tranche d’âge 3-6 ans. Des illustrations modernes et proches des univers graphiques des enfants.