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The book is about Americans in love in Peru in 1973-74, when Watergate preoccupied everybody back home, when Allende had just been overthrown in Chile, and things weren't very stable around or between the characters. The title refers to their garden gate in Cuzco, which had a stone lintel with twin...

A Tibetan monk tries to cope with life after his dominating mother dies. He chooses to leave the monastery to find his American father in the United States. He becomes friends with a beautiful Indian woman who guides him along the way. They take on San Francisco, CA. They find a clue given by, The...

The Silver Llama is the final novel of the Tihuantinsuyo Quartet, and though it stands alone like each of the previous three, it has many of the same characters and winds up plot threads from the previous three books. The title refers to a llama statuette that the narrator and his friend discovered...

Jay Fields bekommt immer, was er will: Nicht nur engagiert er Mathildas Vater mit einem Augenzwinkern allein für seinen Rechtsstreit - er zieht auch sofort in das freistehende Zimmer ihres Hauses ein. Und Mathilda ahnt schon, dass sie seinem Charme nicht lange widerstehen wird. Doch Jay Fields hat...

This book is the most comprehensive introductory text on the chemistry and biochemistry of milk. It provides a comprehensive description of the principal constituents of milk (water, lipids, proteins, lactose, salts, vitamins, indigenous enzymes) and of the chemical aspects of cheese and fermented...

Written with undergraduate students in mind, the new edition of this classic textbook provides a compact introduction to the physiology of nerve and muscle. It gives a straightforward account of the fundamentals accompanied by some of the experimental evidence upon which this understanding is based....

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the scientific aspects of cheese, emphasizing fundamental principles. The book's updated 22 chapters cover the chemistry and microbiology of milk for cheesemaking, starter cultures, coagulation of milk by enzymes or by acidification, the microbiology and...

with contributions by Pathologists in 5 Countries

Although this second edition retains the concise format of the first edition, the number of tumours described has increased considerably, especially in the melanocytic, adnexal, fibrous tissue and lymphoid neoplasms. Care has been taken to avoid needless subclassification, so as to limit the expansion...

All aspects of training the vine are dealt with in this handy volume written by an expert on the subject. Thoroughly recommended reading for the budding vintner, it contains a wealth of information forming a complete how-to guide. Extensively illustrated with black and white drawings and diagrams.This...

This second edition updates the "WHO Classification of Endocrine Tumours" proposed in 1980 and incorporates many new tumour entities and pertinent concepts that have developed since that time. It is the result of a collaborative effort between 9 pathologists from different countries, in...

Unaccompanied migrant children are the most vulnerable group of migrants and refugees. Their experiences, their contested legal status in the host countries, and their treatment before, during, and after migration call for an ethics of child migration that places unaccompanied migrant children at...

Seitdem Jack McCabe als kleiner Junge mit ansehen musste, wie das Haus seiner Eltern niederbrannte und seine Familie von einem Tag auf den anderen ausgelöscht wurde, bestimmt das Feuer sein Leben. Jeden Abend nimmt er im großen Spiegelzelt des legendären Zirkus Spektakulär erneut den Kampf gegen...