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An audio original from the New York Times bestselling creators of Welcome to Night Vale.Kiara Sloan has been one of the world's biggest pop stars since before she could legally drive, but now she is in her forties, and embarking on a big comeback tour after an embarrassing public incident almost ended her career.Neil Ritter is a small town boy from Texas, still in his twenties, and desperate for his big break as a music journalist. And her...

Induction of DNA damage by sunlight is a major deleterious event in living organisms. Recent developments have dramatically improved our understanding of the photochemical processes involved at the sub-picosecond time scale and along with next generation sequencing and data processing has generated a need for a complete up-to-date coverage of the field. Written in an accessible and comprehensive manner, DNA Photodamage will appeal to all scientists working in the area whether spec...

This insightful book provides a systematic and comprehensive analysis of government stability across democracies. Marco Improta draws on an original multilevel longitudinal dataset to investigate the factors influencing cabinet survival and identify policy recommendations to address the challenges facing contemporary governments.Adopting a comparative approach and proposing a novel explanatory framework, chapters tackle key theoretical and methodological issues in government stabil...

During a bright summer, a curious explorer decides to venture into the vast world of nature that surrounds her. Each day becomes a discovery: from the delicate petals of flowers to the joyful song of a sparrow, from the chirping of a cicada to the wondrous display of bioluminescence that lights up the nights. As the sun dives below the horizon and twilight turns to night, our protagonist learns to see and feel herself as a part of an incredible tapestry of life. 'Enchanting Summer' is an i...

Le lesioni delle componenti ambientali non possono che assumere una rilevanza straordinaria, in quanto determinano uno squilibrio del delicato sistema ecologico, ossia l’interrelazione tra le risorse biotiche e abiotiche ed i servizi di esse, di cui l’essere umano stesso è parte fondamentale. A tale riguardo, appare utile un raffronto tra la normativa europea e italiana in materia di prevenzione e riparazione dei danni all’ambiente. La critica offerta dal presente trattato, in particolare,...

CSS3 brings a mass of changes, additions, and improvements to CSS across a range of new modules. Web designers and developers now have a whole host of new techniques up their sleeves, from working with colors and fonts accurately, to using media queries to ensure correct styling across a multitude of devices. But all of these new technologies bring more tags to learn and more avenues for things to go wrong. CSS3 Solutions provides a collection of solutions to all of the most commo...

Standard medicinal chemistry courses and texts are organized by classes of drugs with an emphasis on descriptions of their biological and pharmacological effects. This book represents a new approach based on physical organic chemical principles and reaction mechanisms that allow the reader to extrapolate to many related classes of drug molecules. The Second Edition reflects the significant changes in the drug industry over the past decade, and includes chapter problems and other elements t...

What will gain the system's attention? "Explores the dynamics of a broad range of policy issues in different countries . . . an important scholarly contribution." — Political Studies ReviewBefore making significant policy decisions, political actors and parties must first craft an agenda designed to place certain issues at the center of political attention. The agenda-setting approach in political science holds that the amount of attention devoted by the v...

This book introduces and discusses the latest in biomedical research--Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology applied at the sub-cellular level.

The West is currently in the grip of a perfect storm: a lingering economic recession, a global refugee crisis, declining faith in multiculturalism, and the rise of populist anti-immigration parties. These developments seem to confirm the widely held view that hardship and poverty lead to social unrest and, more specifically, scapegoating of minorities. Yet in this provocative new book, Mols and Jetten present compelling evidence to show that prejudice and intergroup hostility can be equall...

Arsenic, antimony and bismuth, three related elements of group 15, are all found in trace quantities in nature and have interesting biological properties and uses. While arsenic is most well known as a poison - and indeed the contamination of groundwater by arsenic is becoming a major health problem in Asia - it also has uses for the treatment of blood cancer and has long been used in traditional chinese medicine. Antimony and bismuth compounds are used in the clinic for the treatment of p...

Extensively revised, the fourth edition of this highly successful book takes into account the many newly determined protein structures that provide molecular insight into chemiosmotic energy transduction, as well as reviewing the explosive advances in 'mitochondrial physiology'-the role of the mitochondria in the life and death of the cell. Covering mitochondria, bacteria and chloroplasts, the fourth edition of Bioenergetics provides a clear and comprehensive account of the chemiosmotic th...