A classic of radical literature, this revolutionary study has challenged conventional knowledge and assumptions for decades, offering unique perspectives on everything from alchemy, politics, history, and supernatural phenomena to magic, Nazi occultism, and mankind's place in the universe. Drawing from the work of Charles Fort and Carl Jung, among ...
Featuring three dimensional, color coded illustrations, this classic work show the twelve major nerve systems connect the brain to body systems they control. These drawings clearly show the course and position of each nerve, as well as the functional modalities of each nerve. This way, students can learn not only the location of each nerve system, ...
This groundbreaking, international bestseller popularized occultism, alchemy, and paranormal phenomena in the 1960s. It provides insights into our perceptions of reality, telepathy, mutants, and parallel universes, reveals occult influences on the Nazis and introduces the alchemist Fulcanelli.
Owning your own swimming pool is a dream that is coming true for more and more people. The first section in this book concentrates on outdoor swimming pools and pool houses, the garden and surrounding landscape, while part two is devoted to indoor pools. The third section deals with spaces that have increasingly become a natural extension of the ...
This book, beautifully illustrated and written by two authorities on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century art and architecture, leads the reader through the major styles and shifts of baroque architecture throughout Europe and beyond, and provides a fascinating account of how baroque developed in relation to the unique urban culture of each nation ...
This second edition presents a thorough revision of cranial nerves. The format reflects the shift in teaching methods from didactic lectures to problem-based learning. It maintains the first edition's approach of blending the neuro and gross anatomy of the cranial nerves as seen through color-coded functional drawings of the pathways from the ...
This authoritative, timely resource analyzes every important topic related to the most frequently prescribed anti-asthma medications - comprehensively examining the use of beta2-agonists from molecular interactions with the beta-receptor to clinical and therapeutic applications in acute and chronic conditions. It includes lively discussion ...
This second volume in the new "Handbook" series, "Contemporary Living" features brand new colour photography and reports on interiors arranged by theme. Included in this book are the most beautiful entrance halls, drawing rooms, dining rooms, kitchens, bathrooms, bedrooms and dressing rooms, spaces for relaxation and for work, and gardens. It also ...
A painter, on panel and in fresco, a sculptor, architect, and poet, Michelangelo Buonarroti was the first artist recognized by his contemporaries as a genius. "The Little Book of Michelangelo" provides an accessible introduction to the life and work of this most influential of artists. A biographical essay sets the scene, and the handy ...
This volume deals with challenges to the maintenance of minority (or community) languages in this era of globalization and increasing transnational movements of people. The contributors, experts in language policy, language maintenance and multilingualism offer complementary perspectives drawn from Australia and Europe on the maintenance of ...
How do boys from the major English-dominant communities of the world explain their apparent lack of interest in the foreign languages option? Is this a 'curriculum misalignment' issue? A reaction to language teaching approaches? Tension between performed masculinities and language practice? This book explores the boys-languages relationship as ...
This book is about the popular cinema of North India ("Bollywood") and how it recasts literary classics. It addresses questions about the interface of film and literature, such as how Bollywood movies rework literary themes, offer different (broader or narrower) interpretations, shift plots, stories, and characters to accommodate the medium and ...
This fourth volume in the new and successful "A&D (Architecture and Design) Series" is a compendium of stunning office projects created by leading architects and interior designers. This series as a whole explores the close connections between contemporary architecture and interior design, and includes monographs on leading architects, interior ...
Authored by the same team that created "Cranial Nerves", this book provides an easy-to-follow overview of autonomic nerves. The first part describes their structure and function. The second part addresses autonomic control of individual organ systems in a problem-based learning format. Throughout, "Autonomic Nerves" describes afferent pathways, ...
Reviewing current strategies and methods to treat and manage patients suffering with ventilatory dysfunction, this reference provides a critical overview of the epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis, and outcomes of COPD-describing techniques to prevent and reduce the development of symptoms, improve patient quality of life, and slow the ...
This study examines the process in Hinduism of reinterpreting classical texts and imbuing them with new inspiration. An example is Hariram Vras's "Ras-pancadhyayi", the earliest known Braj Bhasa version of the five chapters of "Bhagavatapurana" on Krsna's Dance with the Gopis. Hariram Vyas, a non-sectarian North Indian Krsna devotee (bkakta), ...
Few phenomena are as widely experienced across different individuals, cultures, and contexts as that of traumatic stress. Whether as victims, perpetrators, supporters or simply observers, most people can identify to some extent with the psychological and physical consequences produced by traumatic events. This text examines the nature of traumatic ...
The volume has four parts: part I (Language minorities and inequality) analyses language contact and linguistic diversity as a global phenomenon, part II (Language planning and language change) focuses on colonialism, imperialism and economics as factors that language policies and planning measures must account for, part III (Language variation ...
Antique building materials immediately give timeless, inimitable style to a new or restored home. Reclaimed wooden floors, old terracotta tiles, traditional Burgundy slabs, old roof tiling, antique fireplaces...these all fit perfectly into contemporary or classic surroundings. This book presents dozens of inspiring examples, each one beautifully ...
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