Get up close and personal with some of the world's most terrifying and dangerous predators Amazing 3D pop-ups swing off the page, bringing to life spiders, polar bears, crocodiles, and more. Filled with interesting facts and vibrant artwork, Predators takes readers on an interactive and imaginative journey into the wild.
Every Sunday, Juanito helps his grandmother sell old clothes at the flea market. Romping from booth to booth among the rainbow-colored tents under the sun, Juanito and his friends fulfill Grandma's vision of the flea market as a sharing community of friendly give and take. Full-color illustrations.
Water scarcity affects the African, Asian, European and American continents, causing serious problems of social welfare and stability. This book of the "NATO Science Series" presents the state of the art of Desalination Technologies driven by Renewable Energies, highlighting the results achieved in the research field and presenting the ...
'One of the finest and subtlest books ever written on an American frontier...[A] many layered and ironical masterpiece' - Malcolm Deas, "Times Literary Supplement". 'I find Eva Gillies' translation of Mansilla's work simply superb...[It] provides an excellent reconstruction of Mansilla's momentous journey as well as of his times' - Saul Sosnowski, ...
Many chemical compounds present in workplace settings can produce a number of impairments in the human nervous system. As the situations in which neurotoxic agents have been recognized in exposed workers has grown, so has the importance of occupational neurotoxicology as a specialty. This book addresses some of the most vital concerns in the field.
The third and second centuries BC witnessed, in the Greek world, a scientific and technological explosion. Greek culture had reached great heights in art, literature and philosophy already in the earlier classical era, but it was in the age of Archimedes and Euclid that science as we know it was born, and gave rise to sophisticated technology that ...
Including more than 140 carefully selected Italian recipes, from hors d'oeuvres, to main courses to sumptuous desserts by Australia's famous restaurateur Lucio Galletto, owner of Sydney's most celebrated restaurant, one deeply connected with the artistic community in the Australian capital. Located in a former art gallery, Lucio's is richly ...
A monograph on the artist/sculptor Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) published to celebrate the centenary of his birth. In 1930, Fontana was the first to exhibit non-figurative sculpture in Italy and later he introduced the concept of spatialism, merging art and science using techniques such as television
Computer-mediated communication (CMC) technologies such as electronic mail, bulletin board services, computer conferencing systems, and the World Wide Web are having a profound effect on education. This text provides a complete guide to the use of these technologies at primary, secondary, university and adult education levels. Drawing on the ...
In the last few decades exchange rate economics has seen a number of developments, with substantial contributions to both the theory and empirics of exchange rate determination. Important developments in econometrics and the increasingly large availability of high-quality data have also been responsible for stimulating the large amount of ...
This volume is a compendium of papers presented during the international workshop on modelling and simulation in Air Traffic Management (ATM) that took place in Capri, Italy, on October 2-6, 1995. The papers contained in the volume deal with a wide range of topics and cover different aspects which are currently important in ATM. Particular ...
The book focuses on the recent experience of Latin America economies with designing, announcing, and implementing monetary policies with different internal and external anchors. Given the often dismal track record of monetary stabilization in Latin America, it deals primarily with the conditions of the economies such as their exposure to real ...
The aim of this book is to analyse specific sets of macro and structural policies in selected Eastern European countries. The book includes studies on the major Western CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) countries, Belarus, Russia and Ukraine, plus a set of cross-country and regional studies. The focus is on the link between sustained ...
This volume brings together a comprehensive assessment of the partnership approach to employment relations. Partnership represents an attempt to shift the culture of employment relations away from zero-sum and adversarial relationships. Within the British context, it has formed a critical part of the Labour government's new employment policy and ...
Throughout Virginia Woolf's life and fiction, interruptions arouse inventive impulses, and such disorienting moments constitute, in the author's view, a key aspect of Woolf's experimental intention. To remain open to the shock of unmediated experience, what Woolf calls its "anarchy and newness," is to recognize and celebrate the random diversity ...
This volume presents new concepts and methods in Air Traffic Management, in particular: Collaborative Decision Making, as it incorporates for the first time airline companies in the management process; Congestion Pricing, as many part of the systems are and will remain saturated, hence only leveling of demand can contribute to global efficiency; ...
Lucio Buratto, MD and Stephen F. Brint, MD have collaborated to develop an authoritative resource on LASIK. They have developed this textbook to bring together the very latest information in a clear and comprehensive format. Throughout this book you should gain a solid foundation and understanding of the LASIK procedure, as well as numerous ...
A Microchip insider tells all on the newest, most powerful PICs ever! This title features a free CD-ROM that includes source code in C, the Microchip C30 compiler, and MPLAB SIM software. It includes handy checklists to help readers perform the most common programming and debugging tasks. The new 16-bit PIC24 chip provides embedded programmers ...
Nowadays, there is tremendous interest in an integrated imaging approach to urogenital diseases. This interest is tightly linked to the recent technological advances in ultrasound, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging and nuclear medicine. Significant improvements in image quality have brought numerous clinical and diagnostic benefits ...
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