From the editor of the award-winning anthology Unfettered comes the newest installment in the science fiction and fantasy series, Unfettered III.Lacking health insurance when he was diagnosed with cancer, Shawn Speakman asked friends in the science fiction and fantasy writing community to donate short stories he could use to counter mounting medical debt. The result was Unfettered, an anthology offering tales from some of the best authors...

In questo saggio sostanzialmente inedito del 1906 – ritrovato per questa edizione italiana – Tolstoj delinea il suo programma d’azione politico e denuncia la tirannia degli stati e la cecità morale della società. Egli si fa profeta di una nuova era e con grande lucidità invita alla insubordinazione verso ogni forma di governo. Lo spunto è offerto dalla convulsa dinamica della Rivoluzione russa del 1905, emersa sulla scorta della sconfitta della Russia nel conflitto con il Giappone. è tra l...

Wanneer Hannahs familie in 1933 vanuit nazi-Duitsland naar Amsterdam vlucht, raakt ze al snel bevriend met haar uitgesproken en vrolijke buurmeisje. Haar naam is Anne Frank en gedurende zeven onbezorgde jaren zijn de vriendinnen onafscheidelijk op school en thuis in de Rivierenbuurt. Maar dan breekt de Tweede Wereldoorlog uit en worden ze op een dag in 1942 zonder waarschuwing van elkaar gescheiden. Anne en haar familie zijn verdwenen, er wordt gezegd dat ze naar Zwitserland zijn gevlucht....

With A to Z Classics, discover or rediscover all the classics of literature.Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML)The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.This book contains the following w...

Arthropods as pests in crops, vectors of diseases, pollinators, and natural enemies of pests are of huge economic importance. They affect livestock, human health and food supplies around the world. This unique book examines and reviews how light and colour can be used to enhance pest management in agricultural and medical applications by manipulating the optical responses of arthropods. Arthropods use optical cues to find food, oviposition sites and to navigate. Light also regulates their ...

Finding the right criteria to use when judging Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) is essential if it is to stand up to criticism from those concerned about the importance of evidence-based medicine. This edited volume highlights how CAM requires different research tools and techniques from conventional medicine, and examines effective methodologies for accurately assessing CAM.Addressing a problem which is often cited as the reason for a failure to appreciate the potentia...

This book offers an overview of the clinical applications of PET/MR imaging through a case-based format. Hybrid PET/MRI provides functional and anatomical information via one setting offering superior imaging quality with lower radiation dose being administered to the patient. The cases in this book focus on the use of this technique in the diagnosis of oncologic, neurologic, cardiovascular, infectious and inflammatory, and pediatric diseases. Each case is presented with the patient histor...

Isaac Babel, Dmitry Shostakovich, and Anna Akhmatova star in this series of portraits of some of the greatest writers, artists, and composers of the twentieth century."We stopped and Shklovsky told me / quietly, but clearly, / 'Remember, we are on our way out. / On our way out.' And I recalled / ... the wall of books, / all written by a man / who lived / in times that were hard to bear."Lev Ozerov’s Portraits Without Frames offers fifty shrewd and ...

We werken allemaal. En we houden allemaal van lachen. Dit boek laat zien hoe je deze twee kunt combineren – en waarom dat zo krachtig en waardevol is. Je leert hoe je van je werkplek een plek maakt waar jij en je collega's samen van humor kunnen genieten. Want humor op het werk is niet alleen leuker voor jou, je team en je bedrijf, het verbetert ook de kwaliteit van jullie werk. Humor verbindt mensen, zelfs als ze in eerste instantie niet zo goed met elkaar overweg kunnen. Het maakt commun...

Expanding the risk assessment toolbox, this book provides a comprehensive and practical evaluation of specific ecological models for potential use in risk assessment. Ecological Modeling in Risk Assessment: Chemical Effects on Populations, Ecosystems, and Landscapes goes beyond current risk assessment practices for toxic chemicals as applied to individual-organism endpoints to describe ecological effects models useful at the population, ecosystem, and landscape levels. The authors demonstr...

Det er en almindelig antagelse, at vi mennesker grundlæggende er selviske, men den britiske forfatter David Hamilton påpeger omvendt, at vi genetisk er disponerede for at være venlige. I sin nye bog fremlægger han adskillige videnskabelige undersøgelser, der viser, i hvor høj grad og hvordan det at være venlig påvirker både vores krop og sind. Venlighed har indflydelse på vores hjerte og immunsystem, og det bevirker, at vi er gladere og i det hele taget føler os bedre tilpas. Det at være v...