Mieszkańcy osiemnastowiecznej Wirginii, brytyjskiej kolonii w Ameryce Północnej, słynęli z upodobania do zabawy, rozrywki i wypoczynku. Festyny, bale, wyścigi konne, walki kogutów, pijackie biesiady, ...
Induced mutagenesis is a common and promising method for screening for new crops with improved properties. This title introduces the different methods and then focuses on the screening, detection and ...
Najpopularniejszy podręcznik do nauki gry na gitarze. Na początku uczeń poznaje instrument: jego części składowe, sposoby trzymania gitary, oznaczenia palców i strun. We wstępie Powroźniak przedstawia...
Plant neurobiology is an emerging field of plant sciences. It covers signalling and communication at all levels of biological organization - from molecules up to ecological communities. This book pres...
The resurgence of the nuclear power industry at a time when the nuclear plant I and C workforce is diminishing due to aging and retirements has been the motivation for writing this book. This book com...
The aim of this manual is to provide a comprehensive guide to the methods involved in collecting, preparing and screening plants for bioactive properties for manipulating key ruminal fermentation path...
This book, whose slashed part of the title refers to Allen Tate?s idea of poetic tension, ?derived from lopping the prefixes off the logical terms extension and intension? (Tate 1938: 283; italics in ...
Rozprawa pani Agaty Zarzyckiej jest udaną próbą wprzęgnięcia post strukturalistycznych narzędzi badawczych w analizę zjawiska narracyjnych gier fabularnych. Choć same gry są obecne w kulturze już dobr...
Passion and reason collide with explosive force in the newest installment of Nalini Singh’s “mesmerizing”* Psy/Changeling series. As a conflict with Pure Psy looms on the horizon, two powerful wolves ...
Review of the first edition"a fine and refreshing collection of articlesĹź Each chapter is integrated closely with the others, [making] The Excellence of Play easy to dip into as well as presenting re...
Knowledge of plant names can give insight into largely forgotten beliefs. For example, the common red poppy is known as "Blind Man" due to an old superstitious belief that if the poppy were put to the...
This is the 5th edition of a well-established book Principles of Plant Nutrition which was first published in 1978. The same format is maintained as in previous editions with the primary aim of the au...
The Oxford Handbook of Plato offers 20 chapters, newly commissioned and written by leading scholars, on Plato's dialogues and the basic philosophical issues of interest to Plato which remain central i...
In The Genesis of Animal Play, Gordon Burghardt examines the origins and evolution of play in humans and animals. He asks what play might mean in our understanding of evolution, the brain, behavioral ...
The year is 1434, and preparations are under way for the Corpus Christi festival in Oxford, England. Plays are a traditional part of the celebration, and Joliffe and the rest of his troupe are to perf...
In the spring of 1435, Joliffe and his fellow players are sent to the village of Ashewell not only to stage plays, but to uncover some dark secrets about the town’s three wealthy families: the Ashewel...
Joliffe and company play spies amongst the British aristocracy as lords and clergymen vie for the coveted position of regent to the young King Henry VI. But when men who know too much begin to die in ...
At the behest of his powerful patron, Joliffe journeys to France to act as a servant to the widowed duchess Jacquetta of Bedford - while actually training in spycraft. But when a member of the duchess...
In harvest time of 1436, Joliffe's troupe leader falls, leaving his players to find what work they can while he recovers. Joliffe finds work in a hospital where he unfortunately has to deal with Mistr...
From the pages of the national bestselling Dame Frevisse mysteries. While performing in the theatrical and religious festival of Corpus Christi Day in Coventry, Joliffe is summoned by Bishop Beaufort ...
This book is intended for people interested in plant ecophysiology research or related sciences. It will also be useful for scientists working in forestry or agronomy. Twenty-seven chapters cover a wi...
Phosphorus (P) is an essential macronutrient for plant growth. It is as phosphate that plants take up P from the soil solution. Since little phosphate is available to plants in most soils, plants have...
Arguably one of the oldest scientific traditions, plant breeding began in Neolithic times, with methods as simple as saving the seeds of desirable plants and sowing them later. It was not until the re...
Innovative formal structures challenge readers to reconsider their assumptions and beliefs about social issues.
This volume presents the text of a play that focuses on two gay lovers, one in an exhausting battle with AIDS, and two friends who join together to help the man with AIDS end his life.
A womanizing bad boy with a motorcycle and sexy-as-sin smile is not part of Emma’s life plan. She moved cross-country to be close to family and finally settle down in hippie, trippy, nosey Blue Moon...
Performing at the wedding of Sir Edmund Deneby's daughter, the player Joliffe has another task to perform—as a spy. As he uncovers the secrets of the Denebys' sordid history, it becomes clear that thi...
Economic restructuring has been a notable feature of so-called mature industrial economies such as the UK and Australia in the last two decades, with deregulation, privatisation, technological change ...
Plant Science, like the biological sciences in general, has undergone seismic shifts in the last thirty or so years. Of course science is always changing and metamorphosing, but these shifts have mean...
In 1949 two young Cuban musicians, brothers Cesar and Nestor, leave Havana for New York. By day they work hard, by night they are the Mambo Kings: packing out clubs, dance halls and theatres with thei...