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Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal Novelization: The Novelization (Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal)
by Brian Froud Jim Henson A.C.H. SmithFinally back in print and for the first time in hardcover, the novelization of The Dark Crystal adapted by A.C.H. Smith and personally overseen by Jim Henson, features an exclusive peek into Jim Henson’s creative process with over twenty never-before-seen pages of his detailed notes on an early draft of the adaptation. This beautiful hardcover includes illustrations and concept designs by legendary illustrator and concept artist Brian Froud (The Goblins of Labyrinth, Faeries) that have never been published.
Anatomie, fysiologie en pathologie
by K. Kok J. Houweling A.C.L.M. Zuiderwijk Y.G. van Ingen M. KarelsEen helder geschreven en goed geïllustreerd leerboek over anatomie, fysiologie en pathologie is onmisbaar voor mbo- en hbo-studenten. Anatomie, fysiologie en pathologie helpt de student zich de als moeilijk ervaren leerstof eigen te maken Dit leerboek is logisch opgebouwd. Het bestaat uit twee delen. Deel A behandelt de anatomie en fysiologie en deel 2 de pathologie. Elk hoofdstuk begint met een aantal leerdoelen. Trefwoorden in de marge helpen de student de leerstof makkelijker op te nemen. Het boek is uitvoerig geïllustreerd met anatomische afbeeldingen. Via de onlinetoevoeging StudieCloud is bovendien extra studiemateriaal beschikbaar. De achttiende druk van Anatomie, fysiologie en pathologie is gelijk aan de zeventiende druk. Beide drukken zijn herzien ten opzichte van de zestiende druk: Het taalgebruik is aangepast aan de doelgroep. Bij de terminologie is de focus gelegd op de Nederlandse begrippen. De Latijnse termen zijn tussen haakjes gehandhaafd en in het register als zoekterm opgenomen. Nieuwe illustraties zijn toegevoegd of waar nodig aangepast. Anatomie, fysiologie en pathologie is bedoeld voor mbo-opleidingen voor verzorgenden, maar ook zeer geschikt voor hbo. De oorspronkelijke tekst van K. Kok is herzien en bewerkt door J. Houweling en A. C. L. M. Zuiderwijk. Beiden zijn specialist ouderengeneeskunde en hebben ruime ervaring in onderwijs. Zij hebben op hun beurt voor de 17e druk twee nieuwe auteurs aangetrokken: specialist ouderengeneeskunde Y. G. van Ingen en verpleegkundig specialist M. M. Karels De 18e druk is inhoudelijk niet gewijzigd ten opzichte van de 17e druk.
Microbiologie en infectieziekten
by R. W. Sauerwein A.I.M. Hoepelman A.C.M. Kroes H. A. VerbrughMicrobiologie en infectieziekten behandelt alle soorten infecties en alle aandachtsgebieden binnen de medische microbiologie. De indeling van dit boek is gebaseerd op klinisch relevante groepen van infectieziekten, waarbij de nadruk is gelegd op die infectieziekten die een in Nederland en Vlaanderen werkzame arts regelmatig tegenkomt. In vergelijking met de voorgaande drukken worden veel ziektebeelden uitgebreider besproken, zijn nieuwe verwekkers (bijv. het Ebola en Zika virus) opgenomen en is er een hoofdstuk over ooginfecties toegevoegd. Het inleidende hoofdstuk is geactualiseerd en op diverse plaatsen is meer aandacht besteed aan aspecten van het menselijke afweersysteem. De hoofdstukken zijn in ruime mate van illustraties voorzien en vrijwel alle ziektebeelden worden toegelicht aan de hand van pati#65533;ntencasus. Daarnaast is er een website ontwikkeld met toetsvragen en verwijzingen naar discussie over actuele onderwerpen. Microbiologie en infectieziekten is primair bedoeld als leerboek voor studenten geneeskunde en medische biologie. Daarnaast is het boek geschikt voor individuele bestudering en als naslagwerk. Aan deze geactualiseerde en uitgebreide druk hebben specialisten van alle Nederlandse geneeskundefaculteiten meegewerkt.
Early Seljuq History: A New Interpretation (Routledge Studies in the History of Iran and Turkey)
by A.C.S. PeacockThis book investigates the early history of the Seljuq Turks, founders of one of the most important empires of the mediaeval Islamic world, from their origins in the Eurasian steppe to their conquest of Iran, Iraq and Anatolia. The first work available in a western language on this important episode in Turkish and Islamic history, this book offers a new understanding of the emergence of this major nomadic empire Focusing on perhaps the most important and least understood phase, the transformation of the Seljuqs from tribesmen in Central Asia to rulers of a great Muslim Empire, the author examines previously neglected sources to demonstrate the central role of tribalism in the evolution of their state. The book also seeks to understand the impact of the invasions on the settled peoples of the Middle East and the beginnings of Turkish settlement in the region, which was to transform it demographically forever. Arguing that the nomadic, steppe origins of the Seljuqs were of much greater importance in determining the early development of the empire than is usually believed, this book sheds new light on the arrival of the Turks in the Islamic world. A significant contribution to our understanding of the history of the Middle East, this book will be of interest to scholars of Byzantium as well as Islamic history, as well as Islamic studies and anthropology.
Islam and Christianity in Medieval Anatolia
by Bruno De Nicola A.C.S. PeacockIslam and Christianity in Medieval Anatolia offers a comparative approach to understanding the spread of Islam and Muslim culture in medieval Anatolia. It aims to reassess work in the field since the 1971 classic by Speros Vryonis, The Decline of Hellenism in Asia Minor and the Process of Islamization which treats the process of transformation from a Byzantinist perspective. Since then, research has offered insights into individual aspects of Christian-Muslim relations, but no overview has appeared. Moreover, very few scholars of Islamic studies have examined the problem, meaning evidence in Arabic, Persian and Turkish has been somewhat neglected at the expense of Christian sources, and too little attention has been given to material culture. The essays in this volume examine the interaction between Christianity and Islam in medieval Anatolia through three distinct angles, opening with a substantial introduction by the editors to explain both the research background and the historical problem, making the work accessible to scholars from other fields. The first group of essays examines the Christian experience of living under Muslim rule, comparing their experiences in several of the major Islamic states of Anatolia between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries, especially the Seljuks and the Ottomans. The second set of essays examines encounters between Christianity and Islam in art and intellectual life. They highlight the ways in which some traditions were shared across confessional divides, suggesting the existence of a common artistic and hence cultural vocabulary. The final section focusses on the process of Islamisation, above all as seen from the Arabic, Persian and Turkish textual evidence with special attention to the role of Sufism.
Apropos of Africa: Sentiments of Negro American Leaders on Africa from the 1800s to the 1950s
by Martin Kilson A.Cromwell HillFirst published in 1969
Sinews of War: The Logistical Battle to Keep the 53rd Welsh Division on the Move During Operation Overlord
by A.D. BollandA fascinating account of the feat of logistics which it took to supply of the hard fighting 53rd Welsh division from Normandy to Hamburg. A limited run Divisional publication out of print since the 50s with a new introduction and overview of the actions of the Division.
The Caledonian Canal: In The Great Glen
by A.D. CameronAn exploration of the history of the sixty-mile, Scottish Highland canal and its significance to the region&’s transportation and tourism. Thomas Telford&’s plan, to connect Loch Ness, Loch Oich, and Loch Lochy with each other and the sea, was a huge undertaking that brought civil engineering to the Highlands on a heroic scale. Deep in the Highlands, far from the canal network of England, engineers forged their way through the Great Glen to construct the biggest canal of its day: twenty-two miles of artificial cutting and no fewer than twenty-eight locks. A.D. (Sandy) Cameron&’s book has long been recognized as the authoritative work on the canal as well as a reliable and useful guide to the surrounding area. There are intriguing old plans, not discovered until 1992, and a survey of the dramatic rise in pleasure-craft traffic during the last two decades. But the highlight of the recent past was undoubtedly the Tall Ships passing through the canal in stately procession in 1991. Impossible, then, not to feel the fascination of this beautiful waterway: a working piece of industrial history and a remarkable engineering achievement. This book is a fitting celebration of this remarkable feat of engineering.
Mythologies of Internal Exile in Elizabethan Verse: Six Studies (Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)
by A.D. CousinsWriters of the English Renaissance, like their European contemporaries, frequently reflect on the phenomenon of exile—an experience that forces the individual to establish a new personal identity in an alien environment. Although there has been much commentary on this phenomenon as represented in English Renaissance literature, there has been nothing written at length about its counterpart, namely, internal exile: marginalization, or estrangement, within the homeland. This volume considers internal exile as a simultaneously twofold experience. It studies estrangement from one’s society and, correlatively, from one’s normative sense of self. In doing so, it focuses initially on the sonnet sequences by Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare (which is to say, the problematics of romance); then it examines the verse satires of Donne, Hall, and Marston (likewise, the problematics of anti-romance). This book argues that the authors of these major texts create mythologies—via the myths of (and accumulated mythographies about) Cupid, satyrs, and Proteus—through which to reflect on the doubleness of exile within one’s own community. These mythologies, at times accompanied by theologies, of alienation suggest that internal exile is a fluid and complex experience demanding multifarious reinterpretation of the incongruously expatriate self. The monograph thus establishes a new framework for understanding texts at once diverse yet central to the Elizabethan literary achievement.
The Donna Angelica and the British Enlightenment Poets: Six Studies from Butler to Crabbe (21st Century Perspectives on British Literature and Society)
by A.D. CousinsThe aim of the book is to propose new interpretations of poets who are among the most valued and discussed in the British Enlightenment. In fulfilling its aim, the book covers English poetry—and intellectual history—from the Restoration to the later eighteenth century. It examines how the myth of the donna angelica (the angelic lady), ancient in origin but given its best-known form within the medieval literature of fin’amor, lives on beyond the Middle Ages and the Renaissance into the Enlightenment. To be more precise, it studies how some major Augustan poets appropriate and recreate what, for convenience, can be called the donna angelica topos (or, the angelic lady motif). They do so for a great many reasons linked with quite diverse circumstances. Nevertheless, the myth’s intellectual richness, emotional intensity, and inherent ambiguities mean that it offers each of them a powerful way for articulating, interpreting, exploring refractions of eros—whether singly or diversely directed, concerned with sexuality or spirituality, informing personal or public experience. The myth has as many faces, so to speak, as does desire; it is one and yet many. Thus, the book pursues a particular fable of eros that appears in a multiplicity of texts in a multiplicity of guises. It studies how some of the most interesting poets from Dryden to Crabbe bring the angelic lady motif into modernity.
Samuel Johnson and the Powers of Friendship (Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature)
by A.D. Cousins, Daniel Derrin, and Dani NaptonThis book is the first to assess Johnson’s diverse insights into friendship—that is to say, his profound as well as widely ranging appreciation of it—over the course of his long literary career. It examines his engagements with ancient philosophies of friendship and with subsequent reformulations of or departures from that diverse inheritance. The volume explores and illuminates Johnson’s understanding of friendship in the private and public spheres—in particular, friendship’s therapeutic amelioration of personal experience and transformative impact upon civil life. Doing so, it considers both his portrayals of interaction with his friends and his more overtly fictional representations of friendship across the many genres in which he wrote. It presents at once an original re-assessment of Johnson’s writings and new interpretations of friendship as an element of civility in mid-eighteenth-century British culture.
Thermal Transport Characteristics of Phase Change Materials and Nanofluids (Emerging Materials and Technologies)
by S. Harikrishnan A.D. DhassThis book provides detailed information related to nanofluids, synthesis and preparation, morphologies of nanoparticles, selection of base fluids and thermophysical properties of nanofluids. The advantage of various conduits, the improvement of the heat transfer performance of phase change materials (PCMs), and the base PCMs for diverse applications are also discussed. Crucial difficulties like stability, aggregation, and clogging of nanoparticles are detailed including factors like the size, shape, and motion of nanoparticles that influence the heat transfer performance of nanofluids. Challenges, applications, and scope of the future works in the subject area are included. Features: Covers heat transfer techniques in utilization of base fluids application of phase change materials (PCMs) Describes preparation and characterization of nanofluids and nano-based PCMs Explains how nanoscience can be utilized in heat transfer studies Reviews conventional heat transfer fluids This volume is aimed at graduate students and researchers in thermal engineering, heat transfer, material science and engineering, and heat transfer enhancement.
Biotechnology of Penaeid Shrimps: Perspectives on Physiology of Growth, Reproduction and Disease Therapeutics
by A.D. DiwanThe main objective of this book is to collect comprehensive information on various aspects of physiology and biotechnology focusing mainly on reproduction, growth, disease control and therapeutics of penaeid shrimps. The book covers fundamental aspects and few applied aspects of biotechnology concerning basic genomics and proteomics, reproduction, growth and disease control and therapeutics of shrimp. This information will be quite useful not only to the aqua-farmers/mariculture experts of the shrimp industry to augment quality shrimp production in captive condition but also to the faculties and students working in different organizations involved in teaching and research activities in shrimp biotechnology.Note: T&F does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
Believe No One (DI Kate Simms)
by A.D. GarrettForensic expert Professor Nick Fennimore has engineered lectures in Chicago and St Louis – a ploy to get to Detective Chief Inspector Kate Simms. She’s in the United States on sabbatical with St Louis PD, and he’s keen to see her again. Simms is working with a ‘method swap’ team, reviewing cold cases, sharing expertise. But Simms came to the US to escape the fallout from their previous case – the last thing she needs is Fennimore complicating her life.A call for help from a sheriff’s deputy in Oklahoma seems like a welcome distraction for the professor – until he hears the details: a mother dead, her child gone – echoes of Fennimore’s own tragedy.Nine-year-old Red, adventuring in Oklahoma’s backwoods, has no clue that he and his mom are in the killer’s sights. Back in St Louis, investigators discover a pattern: victims – all of them young mothers – dumped along a 600 mile stretch of I-44. The Oklahoma and St Louis investigations converge, uncovering serial murders across two continents and two decades. Under pressure, the killer begins to unravel, and when a fresh body surfaces, the race is on to catch the I-44 killer and save the boy.
Everyone Lies (DI Kate Simms)
by A.D. GarrettDI Kate Simms is on the fast track to nowhere. Five years ago she helped a colleague when she shouldn't have. She's been clawing her way back from a demotion ever since. Professor Nick Fennimore is a failed genetics student, successful gambler, betting agent, crime scene officer, chemistry graduate, toxicology specialist and one-time scientific advisor to the National Crime Faculty. He is the best there is, but ever since his wife and daughter disappeared he's been hiding away in Scotland, working as a forensics lecturer.In Manchester, drug addicts are turning up dead and Simms' superior is only too pleased to hand the problem to her. Then a celebrity dies and the media gets interested. Another overdose victim shows up, but this time the woman has been systematically beaten and all identifying features removed. The evidence doesn't add up; Simms' superiors seem to be obstructing her investigation; and the one person she can't afford to associate with is the one man who can help: Fennimore.
Truth Will Out (Fennimore and Simms #3)
by A.D. GarrettA mother and daughter are snatched on their drive home from a cinema. The crime has a number of chilling similarities to a cold case Professor Nick Fennimore had been lecturing on. Then Fennimore begins receiving taunting messages - is he being targeted by the kidnapper?Meanwhile, a photograph emailed from Paris could bring Fennimore closer to discovering the fate of Suzie, his own daughter, now missing for six years. He seeks help from his old friend, DCI Kate Simms, recently returned from the US. But Kate is soon blocked from the investigation... A mother and child's lives hang in the balance as Fennimore and Simms try to break through police bureaucracy to identify their abductor.Atmospheric, chilling, and full of suspense, the dynamic pairing of AD Garrett's acclaimed duo, Fennimore and Simms, delivers a pulse-pounding plot that will keep you guessing until the very end.
Porto Bello Gold
by A.D. Howden SmithWritten in 1924, this thrilling prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic pirate tale Treasure Island imagines how Captain Flint and Murray sacked the Spanish galleon and buried their ill-gotten treasure on the Dead Man's Chest and on Treasure Island. In the pages of this bloodcurdling story, the reader re-encounters smooth-tongued Long John Silver, the villainous blind pirate Pew, poor Ben Gunn, and many other unforgettable characters.
El deshielo
by A.D. MillerUn joven abogado de inglés narra en esta novela cómo vendió su alma al diablo en el magma corrupto y seductor de las dachas y los clubs nocturnos de Moscú. Nick Platt es un joven abogado que lleva una vida anodina en Moscú. Su trabajo consiste en actuar de enlace entre bancos y conglomerados rusos que quieren llevar a cabo extracciones de crudo en Siberia. Todo tiene cierto aire turbio, pero Nick se convence de que, con él o sin él, los acuerdos seguirían adelante. Un día de septiembre, Nick conoce a Masha y a Tatiana, dos bellezas con las que se entregará a la vida nocturna decadente de la capital rusa. A medida que frecuenta a las chicas, Nick se enamora de la seductora Masha, que se comporta de manera extraña y caprichosa, algo a lo que, con sus sentidos embotados por el amor, resta importancia. Cuando llega la primavera y comienza el deshielo un cadáver sale a la luz. Nick no podrá seguir obviando sus presentimientos.Es el momento de enfrentarse a la verdad. El deshielo narra la historia de cómo un joven abogado vendió su alma al diablo en el magma corrupto y seductor de las dachas y los clubes nocturnos de Moscú, una ciudad en la que extranjeros y nativos, gánsteres y amantes, parecen haberse embarcado en una suerte de caída libre amoral, en la que los cadáveres salen a luz con el deshielo primaveral. Reseñas:«Una novela sólida, compleja, serena, que se saborea lentamente, y un crudo retrato magníficamente atmosférico de la Rusia moderna.»William Boyd «El deshielo invade tus sentidos con su fuerza y su poesía, y te deja aturdido y con ganas de más.»The Independent «Se lee como un Graham Greene a lo grande.»Daily Mail
Making Scientific Instruments in the Industrial Revolution (Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945)
by A.D. Morrison-LowAt the start of the Industrial Revolution, it appeared that most scientific instruments were made and sold in London, but by the time of the Great Exhibition in 1851, a number of provincial firms had the self-confidence to exhibit their products in London to an international audience. How had this change come about, and why? This book looks at the four main, and two lesser, English centres known for instrument production outside the capital: Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and Sheffield, along with the older population centres in Bristol and York. Making wide use of new sources, Dr Morrison-Low, curator of history of science at the National Museums of Scotland, charts the growth of these centres and provides a characterisation of their products. New information is provided on aspects of the trade, especially marketing techniques, sources of materials, tools and customer relationships. From contemporary evidence, she argues that the principal output of the provincial trade (with some notable exceptions) must have been into the London marketplace, anonymously, and at the cheaper end of the market. She also discusses the structure and organization of the provincial trade, and looks at the impact of new technology imported from other closely-allied trades. By virtue of its approach and subject matter the book considers aspects of economic and business history, gender and the family, the history of science and technology, material culture, and patterns of migration. It contains a myriad of stories of families and firms, of entrepreneurs and customers, and of organizations and arms of government. In bringing together this wide range of interests, Dr Morrison-Low enables us to appreciate how central the making, selling and distribution of scientific instruments was for the Industrial Revolution.
A Common Sky: Philosophy and the Literary Imagination
by A.D. NuttallThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.
Scientific method: An Inquiry into the Character and Validity of Natural Laws (International Library of Philosophy)
by A.D. RitchieFirst published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Husserl and the Cartesian Meditations (Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks)
by A.D. SmithHusserl is one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century and his contribution to the phenomenology movement is widely recognised. The Cartesian Meditations is his most famous, and most widely studied work. The book introduces and assesses: Husserl's life and background to the Cartesian Meditations, the ideas and text of the Cartesian Meditations and the continuing imporance of Husserl's work to Philosophy.
Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: The Qing Period, 1644-1911 (Biographical Dictionary Of Chinese Women Ser. #Vol. 1)
by Sue Wiles Lily Xiao Lee A.D. StefanowskaThis new volume of the "Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women" spans more than 2,000 years from antiquity to the early seventh century. It recovers the stories of more than 200 women, nearly all of them unknown in the West. The contributors have sifted carefully through the available sources, from the oracle bones to the earliest legends, from Liu Xiang's didactic Biographies to official and unofficial histories, for glimpses and insights into the lives of women. Empresses and consorts, nuns and shamans, women of notoriety or exemplary virtue, women of daring and women of artistic or scholarly accomplishment - all are to be found here. The editors have assembled the stories of women high born and low, representing the full range of female endeavor. The biographies are organized alphabetically within three historical groupings, to give some context to lives lived in changing circumstances over two millennia. A glossary, a chronology, and a finding list that identifies women of each period by background or field of endeavor are also provided.
Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: The Qing Period, 1644-1911 (Biographical Dictionary Of Chinese Women Ser. #Vol. 1)
by Lily Xiao Lee A.D. Stefanowska Clara LauThe first biographical dictionary in any Western language devoted solely to Chinese women, this reference is the product of years of research, translation, and writing by a team of over 60 China scholars from around the world. Compiled from a wide array of original sources, these detailed biographies present the lives, work, and significance of more than 200 Chinese women from many different backgrounds and areas of interest.
Fundable Knowledge: The Marketing of Defense Technology (Rhetoric, Knowledge, and Society Series)
by A.D. Van NostrandKnowledge is the basic output of the defense technology establishment in the United States; it is what enables the development of weapon systems. From this premise, this volume explores the process of knowledge production in defense technology from the beginnings of the Cold War to the present time. Produced through the process of research and development (R&D), technical knowledge for defense is an economic commodity. It is "fundable" in the sense of having future value. Like other commodities in the futures market, it is purchased before it is produced. But unlike those other commodities, this knowledge is typically produced through the joint efforts of the customer and the vendor. This study highlights two polar aspects of knowledge production: technology development and technology transfer. It centers on the present, shifting concept of defense conversion that is redefining defense technology policy. The book also includes cited documents pertaining to the transactions that engage customers and vendors in the process of knowledge production. The documents constitute a literature of needs and claims, and they reveal two chief properties: problem formulation and tactical positioning. Apart from the substantive yield of these particular documents, the strategy of evidence in this volume has broad implications for further study, suggesting a means of analyzing knowledge production in other large social systems.