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Latin America is attracting increasing interest due to the strong economic performance of the last decade and to the political changes that are taking place... Read more
What is Life? Decades of research have resulted in the full mapping of the human genome - three billion pairs of code whose functions are only now being understood... Read more
David Hume, philosopher, historian, economist, librarian, and essayist, was one of the great figures of the European Enlightenment... Read more
Offering unrivalled coverage of classical theories, contemporary approaches, and current issues, together with an exceptionally clear writing style, Introduction to International Relations provides a uniquely accessible and engaging introduction to the subject... Read more
The field of human nutrition has expanded hugely in recent years, to now encompass topics as diverse as nutritional genomics and food security... Read more
Music's ability to express and arouse emotions is a mystery that has fascinated both experts and laymen at least since ancient Greece... Read more
There are few stories more remarkable than the evolution of life on earth. This Very Short Introduction presents a succinct guide to the key episodes in that story - from the very origins of life four million years ago to the extraordinary diversity of species around the globe today... Read more
One hundred and ten years ago, Maria Montessori, the first female physician in Italy, devised a very different method of educating children, based on her observations of how they naturally learn... Read more
Bioinorganic chemistry lies at the interface of inorganic chemistry and biochemistry, and explores the function of inorganic species in living systems - from the iron that helps our red blood cells transport oxygen to our tissues, to the calcium that forms an integral part of our bones... Read more
As doctors and biologists have learned, to their dismay, infectious disease is a moving target: new diseases emerge every year, old diseases evolve into new forms, and ecological and socioeconomic upheavals change the transmission pathways by which disease spread... Read more
If you read the 'business pages' of a newspaper or if you listen to the financial news on the television or radio, you will often hear terms such as 'liability', 'balance sheet' or 'earnings'... Read more
China boasts a history of art lasting over 5,000 years and embracing a huge diversity of forms - objects of jade, lacquer and porcelain, painted scrolls and fans, sculptures in stone, bronze and wood, and murals... Read more
All living things on Earth are composed of cells. A cell is the simplest unit of a self-contained living organism, and the vast majority of life on Earth consists of single-celled microbes, mostly bacteria... Read more
Civil engineering produces the structures of all human settlements worldwide and is a vital discipline for many aspects modern life, underlying housing, transport, and our major areas and buildings related to work, study, and leisure... Read more
The third edition of the best-selling Cognitive Assessment for Clinicians provides readers with an up-to-date, practical guide to cognitive function and its assessment to ensure readers have a conceptual knowledge of normal psychological function and how to interpret their findings... Read more
The immigration of Muslims to Europe and the integration of later generations presents many challenges to European societies... Read more
Playing for Real is a problem-based textbook on game theory that has been widely used at both the undergraduate and graduate levels... Read more
Martin Heidegger, considered by some to be the greatest charlatan ever to claim the title of 'philosopher', by some as an apologist for Nazism, and by others as an acknowledged leader in continental philosophy, is probably the most divisive thinker of the twentieth century... Read more
'Instantly the spirit of hell awoke in me and raged...I was suddenly struck through the heart by a cold thrill of terror... Read more
This new edition of European Tort Law provides an extensive revision and update of the only English language handbook in this constantly evolving area... Read more