Hardcover Books

Expanding the Rainbow brings together cutting-edge empirical research with compelling personal narratives about the experiences and relationships of individuals of diverse gender and sexual identities, focusing on the experiences of bi+, poly, kinky, ace, intersex, and trans people.Author: Brandy L. SimulaISBN-10: 9004414096ISBN-13: 9789004414099Publisher: BrillLanguage:...

A set of essays intended to recognize the scholarship of Professor Cynthia Neville, the papers gathered here explore borders and boundaries in medieval and early modern Britain. Over her career, Cynthia has excavated the history of border law and social life on the frontier...

The rise of Pentecostalism is one of the most important changes in Christianity in the past century. Growing rapidly, it has expanded throughout the world. How many Pentecostals are there in the world? How did Pentecostalism grow so fast? What do Pentecostals believe? What...

In contrast with the growing belief in society that traditional religious institutions are losing credibility, there has been renewed interest in monasteries going beyond what is strictly defined as religious. There are, for example, increasingly numerous requests for cooking and gardening courses as well...

Nine case studies on the artistic representation of earthquakes, fires and other natural disasters in European towns, from the late Middle Ages to the end of the 20th century.Author: Marco FolinISBN-10: 9004284915ISBN-13: 9789004284913Publisher: BrillLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/05/2015Pages: 206Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 9.50h x 6.30w x 0.60d

In Cosmology and Fate in Gnosticism and Graeco-Roman Antiquity, Nicola Denzey Lewis dismisses Hans Jonas' mischaracterization of second-century Gnosticism as a philosophically-oriented religious movement built on the perception of the cosmos as negative or enslaving. A focused study on the concept of astrological fate...

This is the first book-length collection in English of letters from the ancient kingdom of the Hittites. All known well-preserved examples, including the important corpus of letters from the provincial capital of Tapikka, are reproduced here in romanized transcription and English translation, accompanied by...

The World Trade Organisation plays the primary role in regulating international trade in goods, services and intellectual property. Traditionally, international trade law and regulation has been analysed primarily from the trade-in-goods perspective. Services are becoming an important competence for the WTO. The institutional, legal...

At the beginning of the eleventh century in northwestern Italy builders created a comprehensive system of architecture, integrating the square edges of stacked bricks on the exterior with arches, vaults, and niches inside the wall. They used the continuous verticality of bands to plan...

The art of wax modelling or ceroplastics has an ancient origin, from early Egyptian, Greek and Roman times. It was re-discovered between the 13th - 14th centuries in Florence with the cult of votive offerings; with the advent of Neoclassicism it extended into a...

A book that shares the timeless magic of Italian fairy tale weddings. With its stunning vistas and undeniable charm, Italy is the perfect setting for breathtaking weddings. And each region boasts its own culture, traditions, and landscapes: the delicacy of a lake contrasting with...

(CRITICAL EDITIONS). 3 hardcover volumes + critical commentary.Author: Vincenzo BelliniISBN-10: 8875929238ISBN-13: 9788875929237Publisher: RicordiLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2014Pages: 1594Format: HardcoverWeight: 16.79lbsSize: 13.87h x 9.93w x 5.21d

Wang Zhiyuan was born in 1958 in Tianjin, China, and graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing. He moved to Australia in 1989 to earn his Master of Fine Arts in Sydney and worked there for over a decade, also...

Tracing a fundamental chapter in global interior design through examination of the Borsani brothers' influential firmWriting the history of Tecno, a company founded in 1953 by the Borsani brothers, does not mean just investigating the evolution of a significant player in the industrial production...

Smart Planet is a secondary-level course which appeals to students' curiosity about the world around them. Stimulating materials complemented by fascinating videos from Discovery Education help bring classes to life and are the ideal starting point for successful language learning. The Student's Book includes:...

A commemorative book in honour of professor Jolanta Mlynarczyk, a long-time worker of the Institute of Archaeology at Warsaw University, a distinguished scholar, whose main fields of study were the archaeology of the Middle East in the Hellenistic-Roman and Byzantine periods and ceramics. The...

- This book takes the reader on an immersive journey through landscapes and situations of modern-day agriculture - The authors tell you intimate stories of diverse stakeholders and provide an insight into complex scientific, political, legal and philosophic ideas - Agriculture is the single...

With peoplealbum 04, the 23th book in the series of thematically organized photography yearbooks is now available. More than 100 of the best german and international people photographers present themselves in the usual magnificent coffeetable format on 300 pages of high print quality. The...

The collection of contributions to this volume addresses such burning issues as natural resource management, conflict transformation, and co-operation in sub-regions of the Horn of Africa. The individual pieces of action-oriented field research constitute the final report of the international research project on Environmental...

This book is dedicated to various aspects of contemporary Chinese place names, their structural and semantic features, as well as naming phenomena present in Chinese toponymy. The structural analysis deals with the division of placename words into generic and specific, and the classification of...

This book deals with the issue of the fundamental principle of equality of trade tax in connection with the so-called mixed activities of professionals. Only business enterprises are subject to trade tax. Professionals, whose work is based on a higher calling (lawyers etc.) are...

North Warning System is Donovan Wylie's third and final book of photographs on the themes of vision and power in military architecture, and draws a close to his Tower Series. Surveying a radar station just inside the Canadian Arctic, Wylie examines the detection of...

Mainly consisting of portraits of people and animals and still lifes, the black-and-white photographs of François-Marie Banier (born 1947) take us to the streets, abodes and worktables in cities all over the world. The photos, often adorned with Banier's handwriting, are ordered into a...

Since 1985, Alan Luft has been documenting the city and its inhabitants: "Berlin today is a diverse mix of people, and I think it represents what the future will look like elsewhere. History is about individuals adapting, changing, and moving from one place to...

Give your ideation inspiration and boost your innovation with sparks of craziness. Inspiration Wild Cards are 50x food for thought. They bring in unexpected solution spaces and disrupt common thought patterns. Do you want rad product ideas? Here you have 5x10 directions you didn't...

In Futuruins, Dimitri Ozerkov, Russian art historian and curator at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, investigates the historic complexity of ruins over the centuries--from the first mythologies of destruction and divine wrath to the ruins of war in the 20th and 21st...

English summary: Brought together for the first time in a large-format volume these 160 images - including engravings and paintings as well as historical and modern site plans and photos - splendidly illustrate the development of the former Imperial Abbey of Lorsch from Carolingian...

Among the great Danish designers, Finn Juhl (1912-89) ranks alongside such giants as Hans J. Wegner and Arne Jacobsen. He was particularly well known for his sculptural, seemingly organic tables, chairs and sofas, but the complex interior designs that he developed in the 1940s...

The algebra of primary cohomology operations computed by the well-known Steenrod algebra is one of the most powerful tools of algebraic topology. This book computes the algebra of secondary cohomology operations which enriches the structure of the Steenrod algebra in a new and unexpected...

Reproduction of the original: Soap-Bubbles by C.V BoysAuthor: C. V. BoysISBN-10: 3752379103ISBN-13: 9783752379105Publisher: Outlook VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/31/2020Pages: 92Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.68lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d

Reproduction of the original: Heart of Europe by Ralph Adams CramAuthor: Ralph Adams CramISBN-10: 3734062632ISBN-13: 9783734062636Publisher: Outlook VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/25/2019Pages: 174Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d

The contributions in this anthology explore the linkage between two very prominently debated topics: migration on the one hand and memory on the other. It addresses the question of how (im)migration histories as well as(im)migrants themselves and their histories are collectively remembered and represented...

This handbook provides a comprehensive and systematic introduction to the Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) from the aspects of fundamental concepts, major challenges, and effective solutions. The focuses are on: infrastructure and design methodology, communication protocol, embedded systems, real-time CPS, time synchronization in CPS, CPS collaborative...

Author: Bing ChenISBN-10: 3662537761ISBN-13: 9783662537763Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/10/2024Pages: 600Format: Hardcover

The second edition of this book is intended as a definitive text on biliary tract and gallbladder cancers. Specifically, it will serve as a single-source reference on the current knowledge base for the multidisciplinary management of such cancers and thus covers epidemiological, surgical, radiotherapy,...

This volume contains description of experimental and numerical results obtained in the UFAST project. The goal of the project was to generate experiment data bank providing unsteady characteristics of the shock boundary layer interaction. The experiments concerned basic-reference cases and the cases with application...

The phenomena of global ageing and intensive population movements overlap. Both migrants and older people are heterogeneous groups and this multiplied heterogeneity of older migrants causes them to be invisible when gathering various data types. Their needs are not recognised, leaving them vulnerable to...

The three-part work provides a first synthetic account of the history of the Polish intelligentsia from the days of its formation to World War I. Part one (1750-1831) traces the formation of the intelligentsia as a social class in the epoch of Enlightenment. Part...

This is a comprehensive descriptive grammar of Trio, a Cariban language, spoken in the remote rainforest of Suriname and along the border in Brazil. Typologically interesting features of Trio include a basic word order Object-Verb-Subject and a system of evidentiality that expresses whether or...

This is a study about the cultural importation process of popular genres into a literature on the periphery of the European literary polysystem, the case of science fiction and fantasy in Hungary between 1989 and 1995. This book deals with science fiction and translation,...

This study reconstructs Brittain's feminist theory, which mainly refutes assumptions made about women, supports companionate marriage, and demands the communal reorganization of child care and domestic work to enable a married woman to work outside her home. It compares her theory to her five...

Author: Pardeep SinghISBN-10: 3527354557ISBN-13: 9783527354559Publisher: Wiley-VchLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/04/2025Pages: 432Format: Hardcover

This bibliography documents English-speaking and German-speaking books and articles concerning the subject reference and some related topics that belong to the field of Analytical Philosophy. More than 2000 monographs, articles, and collections (from the beginning of Analytical Philosophy up to 1995/96) have been recorded...

Among the many scenes and texts that occur for the first time in the Nineteenth Dynasty cenotaph of Seti I at Abydos is a representation of the awakening of Osiris by Horus, which appears directly beneath a vignette depicting the transit of the solar...

At the outbreak of the Reformations, the need for stable and authoritative support was acutely felt on all sides, engaged as they were in a conflict of interpretations of the core of Christianity. Patristic anthologies were the perfect tool for the roles of polemical...

Author: Reuben Post HalleckISBN-10: 3368352431ISBN-13: 9783368352431Publisher: Outlook VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/10/2023Pages: 544Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.12lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.38d

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.Author: William and Ellen CraftISBN-10: 3387000650ISBN-13: 9783387000658Publisher: Megali VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/25/2023Pages: 112Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

This book presents a historiographical and theorical analysis of how Husserlian Phenomenology arrived and developed in North America. The chapters analyze the different phases of the reception of Edmund Husserl's thought in the USA and Canada. The volume discusses the authors and universities that...

Refinement is one of the cornerstones of a formal approach to software engineering. Refinement is all about turning an abstract description (of a soft or hardware system) into something closer to implementation. It provides that essential bridge between higher level requirements and an implementation...

Author: Edward J. M. ColbertISBN-10: 3319321234ISBN-13: 9783319321233Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/31/2016Pages: 355Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.55lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.88d