In essays covering everything from art and common sense to charisma and constructions of the self, the eminent cultural anthropologist and author of T ...
THE ART OF NEW YORK is an extraordinary homage to the vitality, power, beauty and magic of a great city For the first time, paintings, drawings, sculp ...
Herbicides are part of modern agricultural production systems and therefore contribute significantly to the economy of agricultural products. At the s ...
Volume 25 of this authoritative review series continues the high standard set by the editors in the past. Marine biologists everywhere have come to va ...
What exotic creatures does tomorrow hold? Dougal Dixon's classic work of speculative anthropology blends science and fantasy in a stunning zoology of ...
Humans falling by the wayside? Impossible! Or is it? Dougal Dixon answered that question 15 years ago with this fascinating "zoology of the future"--a ...
THIS BOOK HAS BEEN WRITTEN BECAUSE WE FEEL THAT THERE IS A NEED FOR AN up-to-date compact book on cell organelles that transmits the excitement and ch ...
In 400 B.C., when Hippocrates wrote a book claiming that epilepsy, the “sacred disease,” was a natural disorder and not a visitation of demons, the sc ...
This volume in a series on genetics, emphasizes the diversity of genetic studies. Articles cover the filamentous fungus neurospora, biogenesis of yeas ...
Silicon chemistry was initiated in 1823 by Berzelius who prepared elemental silicon. In many ways silicon was considered a typical opposite of carbon, ...
A thorough analysis of the human body's vital points and how to use them to your advantage in combat handgunning and all types of hand-to-hand combat ...
designs for workable projects: abstract patterns in both straight-line and curve; men and women in characteristic 1920s garb; geometrically stylized b ...
connective tissues are essential for the physical functioning of the animals's body. The condition of the various connective tissues is governed by bi ...
