This book tells some of the most famous how and why stories, such as Why Rabbit has a Short Tail?, How the Horse was created?, and Why man has dogs? These stor...
I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation is a celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult - Oscar Wilde. Indeed, so...
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Knowledge Management and Acquisition for Intelligent Systems, PKAW 2018, held in Nan...
A mysterious hitchhiker, a lovelorn pig, and a backseat gangster are among the colorful characters that populate these spooky stories. Noted folklorist Maria Le...
byMaria Hlavajova,Sven Lütticken
Artists and writers consider a tactical desertion from the "culture wars"--a refusal to be distracted, an embrace of the emancipatory understanding of culture.D...
Lose Weight and Feel Great by Indulging in the World’s Healthiest and Most Delicious Diet!Ancient Greeks enjoyed wine and rich ingredients like olive oil and ...
At 278 pounds, Susan Maria Leach couldn't lie in bed without gasping for air, wasn't able to fit into a restaurant booth, and could barely buckle the belt on an...
This volume is a collection of detailed protocols describing state-of-art approaches that will facilitate the understanding of protein homeostasis in plant stre...
This second edition compiles state-of-art protocols to study the molecular mechanisms that determine proteome composition and contribute to maintaining protei...
byCheryl Mattingly,Rasmus Dyring,Maria Louw,Thomas Wentzer
In the past fifteen years, there has been a virtual explosion of anthropological literature arguing that morality should be considered central to human practice...
For decades now, scholars and politicians alike have argued that the concentration of poverty in city housing projects would produce distrust, alienation, apath...
When people are facing difficulties, they often feel the need for a confidant. How do they decide on whom to rely? In Someone To Talk To, Mario Luis Small follo...
A major work of contemporary Turkish literature, Istanbul Was a Fairy Tale tells the stories of three generations of a Jewish family from the 1920s to the 1980s...
A major work of contemporary Turkish literature, Istanbul Was a Fairy Tale tells the stories of three generations of a Jewish family from the 1920s to the 1980s...
This book provides readers with in-depth insights into the changes in the Pantanal wetland from its formation to the actual and likely future states. It reveal...