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Poems and Notes is an anthology of striking poems that touch on a variety of themes. N. S. A. Parsons has crafted for the reader an enchanting and moving series of poems reflecting the many facets of his experience.

This volume examines the foreign policy transition from George W. Bush to Barack H. Obama in relation to the countries of the Americas. In this work, contributors consider the major defining features of their respective policies in dealing with security-related issues. Specifically, they examine whether...

Jane Austen and the Arts: Elegance, Propriety, Harmony presents Jane Austen as a self-conscious artist, a woman keenly aware that literature and aesthetics were to play an important role in the education and development of British society. The scope of the book is interdisciplinary and international,...

Oil palm is widely cultivated in tropical countries for use in food processing, personal care products and other applications such as biodiesel. Cultivation faces a range of challenges such as its environmental impact (e.g. in deforestation and biodiversity loss) as well threats from pests and diseases....

In this second edition of Post-Genomic Cardiology, developing and new technologies such as translational genomics, next generation sequencing (NGS), bioinformatics, and systems biology in molecular cardiology are assessed in light of their therapeutic potential. As new methods of mutation screening...

This book outlines the transitions between cultured and natural land cover/vegetation types and their implications in the search for alternatives to reverse the trend of anthropogenic environmental degradation. It also elaborates on the proposed “standardized hierarchical Mexican vegetation classification...

John is spiritually trapped by his colleagues and works beside them without the slightest suspicion of what they really are. His situation degrades and gets worse to the point he hallucinates and receives help from the Invisible. Not understanding who is willing to rescue him, he makes no case however....

Dialogues Across Diasporas focuses on the shared historical legacies of members of the Africana and Latina diasporas, and the cultural impact of the African diaspora in the Americas. This book seeks to emphasize connections rather than divisions among different migratory ethnic communities via a reconfiguration...

Wolfgang Knoll is a former Directory of Polymer research at the Max Planck Institute. He is extremely well know for his research in this area. Zouheir Sekkat was a Postdoctoral researcher at Max Planck working under Professor Knoll. With Knoll's involvement, we can be confident that the best people in this field will be contributing to the reference.

Participatory Modelling for Resilient Futures: Action for Managing Our Environment from the Bottom-Up, Volume One provides an important contribution to environmental management by introducing an integrative framework for participatory research for better land use and natural resource planning, organized...

El linternista vagamundo y otros cuentos del cinematógrafo es un conjunto de relatos cortos en torno a los primeros años del cine y su distinta acogida por parte de los espectadores. En el cuento que da título al libro, una imagen de un erotismo ingenuo provoca todo un revuelo social, cuando las...

A raíz de que el gobierno democrático de izquierda despenalizó el aborto en el Distrito Federal, aprobó el matrimonio de parejas del mismo sexo y su derecho a la adopción, se publicaron estos trabajos que son el resultado del compromiso de activistas por la defensa de los derechos humanos.

Ancestral Cult is an ubiquitous tradition that is practice differently according to specific culture. This tradition teaches that dead forefathers are still presents in the surroundings of their descendants, providing them spiritual, social, affective and economical support. What about the truth?...

Juan Eduardo Zúñiga (Madrid, 1919) es un escritor fundamental en la literatura española de los siglos XX y XXI. Vinculado a la narrativa social de la generación del medio siglo, optó por un simbolismo a la vez realista y mágico para renovar el lenguaje de la novela y el cuento. En este volumen...