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Pynchon and Philosophy radically reworks our readings of ThomasPynchon alongside the theoretical perspectives of Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno. Rigorous yet readable,Pynchon and Philosophy seeks to recover philosophical readings ofPynchon that work harmoniously,...
How can we design more sustainable industrial and urban systems that reduce environmental impacts while supporting a high quality of life for everyone? What progress has been made towards reducing resource use and waste, and what are the prospects for more resilient,...
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. At the heart of this volume are three trials held in...
This book focuses on central themes related to the conservation of bats. It details their response to land-use change and management practices, intensified urbanization and roost disturbance and loss. Increasing interactions between humans and bats as a result of...
DOMINION is the epic follow-up to CONQUEST and EMPIRE in the Chronicles of the Invaders series by John Connolly and Jennifer Ridyard. Fans of Pittacus Lore and Veronica Roth will be entranced.They have cheated death.Defied their people.Changed beyond recognition.Their...
*Features an exclusive extract from A Fever of the Blood - the brilliant new Case for Frey & McGray, which publishes in February 2016*Christmas, 1888. After a thoroughly trying time in Edinburgh, Inspector Ian Frey looks forward to a Christmas break at his family's...
This book presents good practices in Asia and ASEAN countries for effectively promoting advances in response to climate change, which can help to achieve sustainable development in Asia and around the world. As a proposal, the aim is to influence the discussions at COP...
An exclusive free sample from the exciting new debut, IN A LAND OF PAPER GODS. Jiangxi Province, China, 1941Atop the fabled mountain of Lushan, celebrated for its temples, capricious mists and plunging ravines, perches a boarding school for the children of British...
*THIS BOOK IS AVAILABLE AS OPEN ACCESS BOOK ON SPRINGERLINK*This book examines multiple facets of language diversity and mathematics education. It features renowned authors from around the world and explores the learning and teaching of mathematics in contexts that...
Introducing the Eternal Bad Boys for the holidays... From Katie Ashley, Kate Baxter, Jennifer Fusco, Karina Halle, Sophie Jackson, Jen McLaughlin and Monica Murphy.What better way to enjoy the holidays than with a Bad Boy. And we have the wildest, hottest Bad Boys for...
This book is open access under a CC-BY license. Policy-making to address grand challenges faces greater complexity than any previous project of modernization. Future scenarios are haunted by uncertainty and there is real ambivalence as to the values that policy should...
A heartbreaking and beautifully told short story about the meaning of Christmas, The Gift introduces characters from Mark Haysom's stunning new novel Imagine, available now in ebook and publishing in print in December 2015. Visit Mark's website at:...
Heart wrenching and heart warming, this is a beautifully told short story that sees the festive season in a different light.Visit Mark's website at: http://mark-haysom.co.uk/ to read an extract from the opening of Imagine and to read about Mark's other work, including...
Chapter 1 of this book is open access under a CC BY license.This is a chapter from Absence in Science, Security and Policy edited by Brian Rappert and Brian Balmer. This chapter is available open access under a CC BY license. Part reflection on the forthcoming...
This book is open access under a CC-BY licence. Part of the AHRC/British Library Academic Book of the Future Project, this book interrogates current and emerging contexts of academic books from the perspectives of thirteen expert voices from the connected communities of...
This volume deals with land degradation, which is occurring in almost all terrestrial biomes and agro-ecologies, in both low and high income countries and is stretching to about 30% of the total global land area. About three billion people reside in these degraded...
This book is open access under a CC-BY licence. Cancer is perhaps the modern world's most feared disease. Yet, we know relatively little about this malady's history before the nineteenth century.This book provides the first in-depth examination of perceptions of...
Jennifer Johnston has been described as 'the best writer in Ireland' by Roddy Doyle, 'one of our most impressive novelists' (Sunday Express) and 'a brilliant storyteller' (Literary Review). Tinder Press is very proud to be her publisher and we firmly believe that such...
New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis welcomes you to Cedar Ridge, Colorado, where the only thing more rugged than the glorious Rocky Mountains are the rough-and-tumble Kincaid brothers. Get an early peek at excerpts from the first three books in the series: ...
This book presents the results of the Interdisciplinary Research Group "Society – Water – Technology" of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. It describes interdisciplinary evaluation criteria for major water engineering projects (MWEPs) and...
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