Think of this atlas as the beginning of a journey and a kind of island guidebook, a rough guide to far-flung places, a Baedeker of make-believe, and a new page waiting to be filled. The cycle of Crusoes continues Huw Lewis-Jones Islomania is a recognized affliction. But what is it about islands that is so alluring, and why do so many people find these self-contained worlds...

fter World War II, the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) began mass-producing radioisotopes, sending out nearly 64,000 shipments of radioactive materials to scientists and physicians by 1955. Even as the atomic bomb became the focus of Cold War anxiety, radioisotopes represented the government’s efforts to harness the power of the atom for peace—advancing medicine, domestic energy, and foreign...

The outstanding work by Prof. Anna Młynarska-Sobaczewska devoted to an extremely important and pressing issue of the right to culture was based on an extensive source material, which consists of both international, regional (including European) and national normative acts, as well as judicatures of the European Court of Human Rights and national courts. At the same time, the book presents in...

Functiones et approximatio commentarii mathematici

Neben Paris ist Südfrankreich seit jeher das klassische Ziel einer Reise ins westliche Nachbarland. Über Lyon, die kulinarische Hauptstadt Frankreichs, geht es das Rhônetal hinunter dem Mittelmeer entgegen. Dort breiten sich nach Osten hin die Provence und die Côte d'Azur aus, während sich westlich der Rhône die Region Languedoc-Roussillon bis hinunter zu den Pyrenäen erstreckt. Das Angebot...

The book comprises nearly 50 texts written by Polish, American and Israeli researchers into the child's world and show the complexity of this world and underline the contemporary categories of its oscillation: discourses of communication, subjectivity and cyborgization. The texts are ordered into 3 parts, each of which devoted to a different contemporary axis of oscillation of the child's...

According to Yeats the fear gorta walks the earth during times of famine, seeking alms from passers-by. In this version the fear gorta can be a potential source of good luck for generous individuals. If you are a stranger, you will not readily get ghost and fairy legends, even in a western village. You must go adroitly to work, and make friends with the children and the old...

Le magazine de reportages photo et du voyage, partez à la découverte du monde.

eter Hatcher's little brother, Fudge, is four. And he's as monstrous as ever! When Fudge discovers that his new baby sister can't play with him, he tries to sell her. When that doesn't work, he tries giving her away. And on his first day at school he kicks his teacher and calls her Rat Face. Can his big brother help him out this time? Superfudge is the third book in the hilariously funny...

Taylor’s Clinical Nursing Skills: A Nursing Process Approach aims to help you learn the nursing skills necessary for safe and effective patient care. The text includes unexpected situations that you may encounter, along with related interventions for how to respond to these unexpected situations. With both basic and advanced skills, this text will be an essential resource to you across the...

Psychology in Practice For some, excessive workload is a source of satisfaction, while for others it stems from the desire to meet one's own and external expectations. Sometimes a fulfilling job fulfills one's life because it provides everything that is needed to be happy. Work can be an accepted way of escaping from one's emotional problems. In some cases excessive workload results from...

Unrecognized sleep disorders can shorten lives, promote hypertension, augment risk for diabetes, exacerbate metabolic syndrome, increase overall medical care costs, impair cognition, cause motor vehicle crashes, reduce workplace productivity, and greatly diminish quality of life. Sleep problems are among the most common complaints that patients bring to their clinicians, but little medical...

The January-February 2015 issue of New Eastern Europe has a specific focus on the current situation in the Baltic states which, despite being full-fledged members of NATO and the European Union, now find themselves on the frontlines of the ongoing crisis with Russia. Countries like Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are now having to deal with uncertainties surrounding many issues like...

Give your students everything they need to actively learn how to apply research to nursing practice. Updated to reflect the latest innovations in research methods, this worldwide bestseller helps students learn how to read and critique research reports, speak the language of nursing research, and develop an appreciation of research to enhance nursing practice. AJN award-winning...

Musulmans Fumants" ne vénerent pas La Mecque, mais la marijuana. Sonny, qui tirait a bout portant sur le consommateur blanc, n'était pas un assassin et le vitrioleur avait lancé a la figure de sa victime non pas de l'acide sulfurique mais du parfum d'oillet. Va donc y comprendre quelque chose ! Pourtant ils avaient tous du souci - les coupables, les suspects, les innocents et les flics - et...

Reports on Mathematical Physics publishes papers in theoretical physics which present a rigorous mathematical approach to problems of quantum and classical mechanics and field theories, relativity and gravitation, statistical physics and mathematical foundations of physical theories. Papers using modern methods of functional analysis, probability theory, differential geometry, algebra and...

Wersja w języku włoskim. Jedno z największych dzieł mistrza Adama Bujaka, efekt blisko 40 lat pracy rozmiłowanego w krakowskim grodzie artysty, wybór najlepszych spośród tysięcy ujęć, które ma w swoim dorobku. 350 artystycznych fotografii portretuje podwawelski gród o wszystkich porach dnia i roku; oddaje niezwykłość architektury i bogactwo niezliczonych dzieł sztuki królewskiego miasta:...

Profiles six "gurus" whose ideas on management helped create the modern business world, including Frederick Taylor, Alfred P. Sloan, Peter Drucker, Tom Peters, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, and Charles Handy.

Przedstawiamy kolejny z serii przewodników po Krakowie. Tym razem jest to angielska wersja przewodnika po Nowej Hucie, obejmująca cały obszar tej do niedawna największej dzielnicy Krakowa [przed podziałem na dielnice katastralne] położonej w dolinie Wisły i Dłubni. Urody krajobrazowi dodają łagodnie wypiętrzone Wzgórz Krzesławickie. Nie tylko ze względu na walory krajobrazowe ale...

Plan kieszonkowy Gdańska z przewodnikiem: - skala 1:16 000 - powiększone centrum - najciekawsze miejsca - opisy z fotografiami