Thermonuclear reactions in stars is a major topic in the field of nuclear astrophysics, and deals with the topics of how precisely stars generate their energy through nuclear reactions, and how these ...
Shopping is an event which implies much more than just the act of purchasing. Unusual design concepts and immaculate shapes engage all of our senses, making shopping a unique experience. The range is ...
Niniejsza monografia zrodziła się z przekonania o tym, ze wiedza o Stanach Zjednoczonych Ameryki, ich instytucjach, polityce jest coraz bardziej przydatna do zrozumienia mechanizmów polityki zagranicz...
National practice, law, and jurisprudence on state aid are developing rapidly in the present context of EU decentralization. Although the EU rules governing state aid are widely discussed, there has b...
A hardbound compendium of Volume 20, Numbers 1 and 2 of the journal, Seminars in Liver Disease, this new volume brings together an international group of distinguished authors to present 16 current, i...
West and Central Asia have for centuries contributed to shaping the identity of Europe by constituting a significant other. This work aims to explore the diverse facets of this contribution, looking a...
Modelling Fluid Flow presents invited lectures, workshop summaries and a selection of papers from a recent international conference CMFF '03 on fluid technology. The lectures follow the current evolut...
This text provides an introduction, at the level of an advanced student in engineering or physics, to the field of nanomechanics and nanomechanical devices. It provides a unified discussion of solid m...
The book explores the many legal and economic challenges emerging from the liberalization process engaged by the European Community with respect to state monopolies. It is divided into three parts. Ta...
A reprieve from post-war austerity, the 1950s epitomized a time of glamour with its film icons and automobiles, which are admired and emulated to this day. Nothing said, "You've made it," quite like g...
Publikacja w języku angielskim przedstawia zapisy historyczne na temat Finlandii z lat 1917-1918 w dokumentach Departamentu Stanu.
The Russian State Archive of Literature and Art is one of Russia's largest archive collections. This CD-ROM edition describes 2,902 record groups containing almost 1.5 million individual documents; 90...
Album z pocztówkami ukazującymi Łódź z przełomu XIX i XX wieku. Pocztówki pochodzą z kolekcji Jerzego Rosiaka. Ambicją kolekcjonera było zgromadzenie najstarszych, a przez to najcenniejszych kart ukaz...
While no single theory of integration is able to explain the functioning of the European Union, member state remains the most powerful element of the EU decision-making system. Three approaches of dif...
Okres wielkiej konfrontacji to czas, w którym Stany Zjednoczone stawały się mocarstwem, a w polityce zagranicznej przejawiały coraz większą aktywność. Głównym obiektem ich zainteresowania byt Związek...
The dissertation is a novel study on the Polish literature market. In an interesting manner, it presents an important issue in terms of economy and state institutions, namely, public procurement. Her ...
The book continues investigations presented in The Concept of State in Polish Political Thought in the Period 1918-1939 by Jerzy Juchnowski and Jan Ryszard Sielezin. It presents the development of Pol...
Snook po panice towarzyszącej zbliżaniu się do Ziemi planety z antymaterii, ląduje w Afryce na posadzie nauczyciela języka angielskiego. Po pewnym czasie jego uczniowie zaczynają widzieć duchy.
In this edition of "State of the World", Lester R. Brown and the other researchers at Worldwatch identify and describe the rapid acceleration of trends that is driving human experimentation across the...
Raidon Kane survived his clash against the eldest aboleth, but came away with his mind shattered. Destiny hands Raidon one last chance to avert the Abolethic Sovereignty's agenda, but only if he can f...
Tattoos with hearts, minds, and dreams. Created to be the armor that protects my body, these obsidian shadows come alive at night—demons made flesh. After the Aetar nearly kill Maxine’s unborn child,...
The sequel to the international bestseller City of Masks . The time periodis the same - C16 Talia as a parallel world version of Italy - but thesetting has moved from Bellezza (Venice) to Remora (Sien...
Premier Zhao Ziyang reveals the secret workings of China's government behind the Tiananmen massacre--and recounts why he was deposed for trying to stop it.
A vivid full-colour atlas, presenting a visual survey of the profound economic, political and social changes taking place in China, as well as their implications for the world at large.
This unique encyclopedia provides a fascinating and fully comprehensive description of stars and their natures and is filled with beautiful color images. The book begins by telling the story of astron...
In State of the World 2004, the Worldwatch Institute's award-winning research team focuses on consumption, pointing to the many ways in which our consumption habits drive ecological and social deterio...
What should we expect from democracy, and how likely is it that democracies will live up to those expectations? In "The State of Democratic Theory", Ian Shapiro offers a critical assessment of contemp...
Tracing the rise of two great theories, relativity and quantum mechanics, which meet head on in black holes, "Empire of the Stars" is the dramatic story of an intellectual feud and its implications fo...