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The inspirational story of grassland riversーand the people who paddle and protect them. The North American grasslands that once covered vast areas of the central United States are now our most enda……続きを見る

Nesta obra procuramos mostrar ao leitor as biografias dos escritores em versos e prosa nas idos ou radicados no Paraná. 続きを見る

Here, for the first time in English, is Georges Cuvier’s extraordinary “History of the Natural Sciences from Its Origin to the Present Day.” Based on a series of public lectures presented by Cuvier ……続きを見る

Here, for the first time in English, is Georges Cuvier’s extraordinary “History of the Natural Sciences from Its Origin to the Present Day.” Based on a series of public lectures presented by Cuvier ……続きを見る

"It's over. You'd have to be Ray Charles not to see it." ーformer New Jersey capo Ron Previte, on the mob today As a cop, Ron Previte was corrupt. As a mobster he was brutal. And in his final role, ……続きを見る

In "History of Astronomy," George Forbes meticulously traces the evolution of astronomical thought from ancient civilizations through to the dawn of modern science. This groundbreaking work employs ……続きを見る

Here, for the first time in English, is Georges Cuvier’s extraordinary “History of the Natural Sciences from Its Origin to the Present Day.” Based on a series of public lectures presented by Cuvier ……続きを見る

A founder of comparative anatomy and a giant of nineteenth-century biology, Georges Cuvier, and his student and colleague Achille Valenciennes, brought together all that was known about fishes in th……続きを見る

Esta obra apresenta, entre salgados e doces, trinta e quatro pratos da culinária polonesa com as suas receitas e respectivas fotos. 続きを見る

O poema madrigal é uma forma poética que está relacionada com a música, cujos versos denotam delicadeza e lirismo. Os vinte e cinco madrigais compilados por George Abrão, e que compõem esta obra, fo……続きを見る

A distinguished physicist and teacher, George Gamow also possessed a special gift for making the intricacies of science accessible to a wide audience. In Gravity, he takes an enlightening look at th……続きを見る

The central theme of this volume lies in the medieval consciousness of mathematics, and the variety of strategies adopted to apply it in other areas, notably natural philosophy. In diachromic terms,……続きを見る

At its core, economics is about making decisions. In the history of economic thought, great intellectual prowess has been exerted toward devising exquisite theories of optimal decision making in sit……続きを見る

Computability and Logic has become a classic because of its accessibility to students without a mathematical background and because it covers not simply the staple topics of an intermediate logic co……続きを見る

George F. Chambers' "The Story of Eclipses" is an enlightening exploration of one of nature's most spectacular phenomena. Written in the late 19th century, Chambers employs a blend of scientific rig……続きを見る

Why does it always seem like the elevator is going down when you need to go up? Is it really true that 0.99999 . . . with an infinite number of 9s after the decimal point, is equal to 1? What do tea……続きを見る

Acclaimed science writer George Johnson brings his formidable reporting skills to the first biography of Nobel Prize-winner Murray Gell-Mann, the brilliant, irascible man who revolutionized modern p……続きを見る

At its core, economics is about making decisions. In the history of economic thought, great intellectual prowess has been exerted toward devising exquisite theories of optimal decision making in sit……続きを見る

Grand European Expresses (1962) examines the trains de luxe of the International Sleeping Car and European Express Trains Company, from the Orient Express of the 1880s to the car-sleepers of the 196……続きを見る

A comprehensive intellectual history of America's century-old debate over teaching evolution in public schools. For well over a century, the United States has witnessed a prolonged debate over the t……続きを見る

Les relations entre l'Église et la médecine furent longtemps conflictuelles. Au Moyen Age, l'impuissance de la médecine face aux maladies garantissait la suprématie du prêtre : la vie humaine, disai……続きを見る

Le papier est une merveilleuse invention, qui est d’un si grand usage dans la vie, qui fixe la mémoire des faits, et immortalise les hommes. « Semblables à l’enfant qui parle avant d’écrire, les hom……続きを見る

'Forget geek stereotypes. Parsons' life seems straight out of a Hollywood thriller ... Pendle's book leaves us with a taste of genius's energy and fragility' Los Angeles Magazine 'You couldn't make ……続きを見る

Indigenous Sustainable Wisdom: First Nation Know-how for Global Flourishing's contributors describe ways of being in the world that reflect a worldview that guided humanity for 99% of human history:……続きを見る

Charles Darwin is well-known throughout the world for his revolutionary work from 1859; The Origin of Species, the foundational study of evolution which greatly challenged the near-universal belief ……続きを見る

Fresh examinations of the role of medicinal plants in medieval thought and practice and how they contributed to broader ideas concerning the body, religion and identity. The important and ever-shift……続きを見る

The important and ever-shifting role of medicinal plants in medieval science, art, culture, and thought, both in the Latin Western medical tradition and in Byzantine and medieval Arabic medicine, is……続きを見る

This book offers a comprehensive introduction in to the various theories of colour and how they developed over the centuries and millennia. As colour is the perception of light by our brains, the bo……続きを見る

The rise and fall of the Islamic scientific tradition, and the relationship of Islamic science to European science during the Renaissance. The Islamic scientific tradition has been described many ti……続きを見る

This is a self-contained exposition by one of the leading experts in lattice theory, George Grätzer, presenting the major results of the last 70 years on congruence lattices of finite lattices, feat……続きを見る