Properties of Solvents
The Properties of Solvents Yizhak Marcus Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel The Properties of Solvents contains extensively annotated tables of physical, chemical and related properties for over 250 solvents. Factual knowledge of solvent effec...
Supercritical Water
Discover the many new and emerging applications of supercritical water as a green solvent Drawing from thousands of original research articles, this book reviews and summarizes what is currently known about the properties and uses of supercritical...
Solvent Mixtures
Compiling, comparing, and analyzing research from a wide range of abstracts, journal articles, and Web sites, this reference examines the properties, function, and behavior of binary, ternary, and multicomponent mixtures in the presence and absenc...
The Japanese Employment System
The stagnation of the Japanese economy and the ageing of Japanese society has led to major changes in the labour market in Japan. This comprehensive study looks at how the Japanese employment system is adapting to its new economic environment. Usi...
Eyewitness and Crusade Narrative
The idea of what an "eyewitness" account is here scrutinised through examination of key Crusading texts. Eyewitness is a familiar label that historians apply to numerous pieces of evidence. It carries compelling connotations of trustwort...
The Tenth Muse
The Tenth Muse explores writings on the cinema in the first decades of the twentieth century. Laura Marcus examines the impact of cinema on early twentieth-century literary and, more broadly, aesthetic and cultural consciousness, by bringing toget...
Different Every Time
Robert Wyatt started out as the drummer and singer for Soft Machine, who shared a residency at Middle Earth with Pink Floyd and toured America with Jimi Hendrix. He brought a Bohemian and jazz outlook to the 60s rock scene, having honed his drummi...
Black Milk
Black Milk is the first in-depth analysis of the visual archives that effloresced around slavery in Brazil and North America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In its latter stages the book also explores the ways in which the museum cultu...
Political Ecology of Climate Change Adaptation
This book provides the first systematic critique of the concept of climate change adaptation within the field of international development. Drawing on a reworked political ecology framework, it argues that climate is not something 'out there' that...
Political Ecology of Climate Change Adaptation
This book provides the first systematic critique of the concept of climate change adaptation within the field of international development. Drawing on a reworked political ecology framework, it argues that climate is not something 'out there' that...
The Search for Certainty
Marcus Giaquinto traces the story of the search for firm foundations for mathematics. The nineteenth century saw a movement to make higher mathematics rigorous; this seemed to be on the brink of success when it was thrown into confusion by the dis...
Dreams of Modernity
Laura Marcus is one of the leading literary critics of modernist literature and culture. Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema covers the period from around 1880 to 1930, when modernity as a form of social and cultural life fed i...
The Principle of Loyalty in EU Law
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Despite its seemingl...
Meditations (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
Meditations (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
Meditations
Meditations
The Grammar of Time
Kreuzer offers guidance to scholars looking to comparative historical analysis (CHA) for the tools to analyze macro-historical questions. Like history, CHA uses the past to formulate research questions, describe social transformations, and generat...
Don't Eat The Yellow Snow
When times are particularly difficult, and you are likely to slip into despair, some of the greatest pop songs can provide true comfort to make it through the pain. The problem with advice in general is that we often don't take it. The great thing...
Corrosion Mechanisms in Theory and Practice
Updated to include recent results from intensive worldwide research efforts in materials science, surface science, and corrosion science, Corrosion Mechanisms in Theory and Practice, Third Edition explores the latest advances in corrosion and prot...
Strategic Foresight
This book provides students and line managers in organizations with the means to create better scenarios and to use them to create winning business strategies. The book covers scenarios such as: economic outlooks; political environments; acquisiti...
Autobiography
Autobiography is one of the most popular of written forms. From Casanova to Benjamin Franklin to the Kardashians, individuals throughout history have recorded their own lives and experiences. These personal writings are central to the work of lite...
Introduction to Islamic Archaeology
This book offers an introduction to the archaeology of the Islamic world. It traces the history of the discipline from its earliest manifestations through to the present and evaluates the contribution made by archaeology to the understanding of ke...
The Poetry of Slavery
Collects the most important works of poetry generated by English and North American slavery. Mixing poetry by the major Anglo-American Romantic poets (Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Whittier, Longfellow, Lowell, Whitman, Melville, D...
Political Resurgence of the Military in Southeast Asia
In the late 1990s, prominent scholars of civil-military relations detected a decline in the political significance of the armed forces across Southeast Asia. A decade later, however, this trend seems to have been reversed. The Thai military launch...
I Am
Bold claims. Answers which many are searching for today. This is Jesus in his own words, using metaphors and pictures which are concrete, simple and profound. Meaning: what is the meaning of life? I am the bread of life. Enlightenment: where can I...
Corrosion Mechanisms in Theory and Practice
Updated to include recent results from intensive worldwide research efforts in materials science, surface science, and corrosion science, Corrosion Mechanisms in Theory and Practice, Third Edition explores the latest advances in corrosion and prot...
Stranded
In 1978, Greil Marcus asked twenty writers on rock-including Dave Marsh, Lester Bangs, Nick Tosches, Ellen Willis, and Robert Christgau-a question: What one rock-and-roll album would you take to a desert island? The resulting essays were collected...
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea focuses upon the seamen's experience in order to illuminate larger historical issues such as the rise of capitalism, the genesis of free wage labor, and the growth of an international working class. These ep...
Thawan Duchanee
Thai national artist Thawan Duchanee has spent his life creating art that deeply reflects Buddhist philosophy. He is internationally renowned, and his art is masterful both for its intricacy and for its subtle portrayal of Buddhism. The book exami...
Don't Talk Just Kiss
When times are particularly difficult, and you are likely to slip into despair, some of the greatest pop songs about love can provide true comfort to make it through the pain. The problem with advice in general is that we often don't take it. The ...
Typografins väg Vol. 1 : en guide för morgondagens typografer
Känsla, nedärvd tradition och förra seklets modernistiska erfarenheter är huvudingredienser i vår förmedling av konsten att hantera typografisk form. Men där finns även inslag som för tillbaka till såväl geometri som matematik. Marcus Gärde repres...
Typografins väg Vol. 2 : i alfabetets fotspår
"Tänk om jag hade varit ung i dag. Då skulle jag bums skaffa mig den här kompakta kunskapskällan, snarlik den som jag i ungdomen drömde om: en typografisk bibel, matad till bristningsgränsen med fakta och illustrationer. Ändå inte större än a...
Det stora sökandet
Något binder samman oss människor - vi är alla sökare. Det här häftet passar för den som har ärliga frågor om Gud. Min tro har inte varit en verklighetsflykt för mig utan en källa till kraft, styrka, frid, hopp och syfte i ett l...
Revive : 40 inspirerande andakter utifrån väckelsehistorien
Låt dig beröras av gripande berättelser om modiga väckelsebärare, från Apostlagärningarna och ända fram till våra dagar. Följ med till några av världshistoriens mest kraftfulla väckelseskeenden där mörkret övervanns av ljuset och skaror av människ...
Schlemklumpfs illustrerade poem. Volym 1
Schlemklumpfs illustrerade poem är en samling burleska dikter som berör och upprör.