Discover the Living World Beneath the River SurfaceLife Shaped by Rivers brings together the complete Freshwater Species Collection in one immersive volume, exploring the extraordinary diversity of freshwater life found in riverbeds, flowing streams, muddy habitats, and rocky environments.
This illustrated guide adds 3 new chapters with 40,000 words and over 110 new Full-Color photos and diagrams to Long Range Shooting: An Illustrated Manual.
Explore the Species That Define Survival in Freshwater EcosystemsThis volume invites readers to discover the extraordinary freshwater organisms that have evolved remarkable strategies to survive in challenging environments.
This book presents the select contributions of the 2nd International Conference on Innovative, Sustainable materials and technologies and it provides an in-depth exploration of the most recent developments in sustainable engineering, emphasizing cutting-edge materials, techniques, and technologies that have paved the way to a more sustainable future.
Legal transplant in the Meiji Restoration gave birth to Taishinin, which is the former of today’s Supreme Court of Japan, but the objective of it was not solely for legal justice at the beginning.
From the herbal remedies of ancient civilizations to the precision technologies of modern hospitals, A Short History of Medicine offers a clear and engaging journey through the ideas, discoveries, and people that transformed human health.
This book offers a new examination of the so-called tragic historiographers Duris and Phylarchus, as well as the 2nd century BCE historiographer Agatharchides, using Polybius as a foil throughout.
A Murder That Shattered the Illusion of Victorian InnocenceIn 1860, the brutal killing of three-year-old Francis Saville Kent sent shockwaves through England—but it was the accused, his sixteen-year-old half-sister Constance Kent, who transformed the tragedy into a national obsession.
Spanning a thousand years of history and bringing the story to the present through ethnographic fieldwork in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania Rudolph Ware documents the profound significance of Qur'an schools for West African Muslim communities.
Since the early days of the republic, Americans have recognized Thomas Jeffersons distinctive role in helping to shape the American national character.
This fully illustrated book celebrates the captivating lives of legendary figures who revolutionised music, from Elvis and Hendrix to Bowie and Jagger.
This book - "e;Light Moments in Vienna"e; - contains selected anecdotes of my personal experience while undergoing KAICIID fellowship training in interreligious and intercultural dialogue in Vienna, Austria.
This collection of essays presents a study of migration cultures in the contemporary Mediterranean with a particular focus on Italy as a point of migratory convergence and pressure.
This book is about the Russian contribution to monasticism on Mount Athos and the Athonite contribution to Russian spirituality and marks the millennium of the Russian presence on Mount Athos.
This book brings together essays from scholars working on the first century of French print culture, with a particular focus on the networks formed by authors, editors, translators and printers in the earliest years of print technology.
This book is about the Russian contribution to monasticism on Mount Athos and the Athonite contribution to Russian spirituality and marks the millennium of the Russian presence on Mount Athos.
The GDR Today promotes interdisciplinary approaches to East Germany by gathering articles from a new generation of scholars in the fields of literary and visual studies, history, sociology, translation studies, political science, museum studies and curating practice.
This book brings together essays from scholars working on the first century of French print culture, with a particular focus on the networks formed by authors, editors, translators and printers in the earliest years of print technology.
The GDR Today promotes interdisciplinary approaches to East Germany by gathering articles from a new generation of scholars in the fields of literary and visual studies, history, sociology, translation studies, political science, museum studies and curating practice.
In February 2023, the world watched in shock as Italian mafia boss Marco Raduano scaled the walls of a Sardinian prison using nothing more than bedsheets.