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These timely reflective essays, written by ground-breaking and influential women psychologists, offer a historical record of individual academic journeys of persistence, resilience, and change. The contributors share their inspirational life stories candidly as they reflect on the challenges and...
Collects the most important writings on viticulture by Nicholas Herbemont (1771-1839), who is widely considered the finest practicing winemaker of the early United States. Included are his two major treatises on viticulture, thirty-one other published pieces on vine growing and wine making, and...
Three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee Dr. Scilla Elworthy, a realist with 40 years’ experience at the sharp end of politics and conflict, presents a bold but realistic vision for the future in Pioneering the Possible. Human beings worldwide are anxious, afraid for their children’s futures,...
If you are a fan of the silent film pioneers like Buster Keaton, you’ll know that everything you saw on the screen in those films, actually happened.
Women’s sport is finally flourishing in Britain. But still largely unrecognised are the pioneering efforts of the Victorian era ‘pedestriennes’ who laid the foundations for modern woman to participate in professional sport.
By the turn of the 20th century, Paris was the capital of the art world. While this is usually understood to mean that Paris was the center of art production and trading, this book examines a phenomenon that has received little attention thus far: Paris-based dealers relied on an ever-expanding...
The Doctor meets many remarkable people on his travels – those at the forefront ofinnovation and exploration. From a deep-space colony ship seeking safe haven, to the frozenArctic wastes, and the foundation of ideas which will touch the lives of millions – the Doctor isthere to lend a hand to the...
Inspired by the popular SYFY WIRE podcast “Forgotten Women of Genre” and with a foreword from comic book writer Gail Simone, this timely anthology explores the lives and influential work of female creators and artists — from the 70s to 2010 — who have played a crucial role in shaping modern day...
An illuminating collection of biographies of Colorado’s governors, from 1876 to present.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe #1 New York Times bestselling author and Food Network favorite The Pioneer Woman Ree Drummond returns with an exciting new cookbook filled with no-fuss family recipes for dinners, desserts, and more.Cook smarter, not harder!After seventeen years of sharing recipes in my...
The story of how the 6th Duke of Bedford and his second wife, Georgina Gordon, became intimately involved with the scientific discoveries of the Enlightenment, the joys of Romantic poetry and painting – and the leading figures of both worlds
The book presents about 100 current examples of how energy and materials can be saved in manufacturing companies. They serve to show which measures can be used in modern companies to exploit the potential for resource efficiency. The book is aimed at practitioners in companies and consulting firms,...
The emerging Jewish national consciousness in Europe toward the end of the 19th century claims many spiritual fathers, some of which have been seriously underestimated so far. Zionist intellectuals such as Moses Hess, Leon Pinsker and Isaac Rülf were already committed to the self-liberation of the...
A STUNNING NEW AND COMPLETELY REVISED EDITION OF THE RICKENBACKER BIBLE FOR 2023’Knowing Martin and Paul Kelly’s perfectionism and attention to detail it’s no surprise that this is the ultimate and complete story of all things Rickenbacker.’ – Johnny Marr ’A wonderful history of my favourite...
This book presents the state of the art in extreme value theory, with a collection of articles related to a seminal paper on the bivariate extreme value distribution written by Professor Masaaki Sibuya in 1960, demonstrating various developments of the original idea over the last half-century....
This book is a truly remarkable account that captures the atmosphere, thrills and danger of the pioneering days of aviation. Howard Pixton was flying for A V Roe at Brooklands in 1910 when S F Cody at Laffan’s Plain tried to persuade him to join him. But in 1911 he test flew A V Roe’s ‘tractor...
The Peckham Experiment, conducted between 1935 and 1950 in the London Pioneer Health Centre, was one of the most talked-about social experiments of the 20th century. Families from the South London neighbourhood of Peckham were invited to use the facilities of a radiantly modern building. They were...
The first unequivocal success for Gene Therapy was reported in April 2000 for X-SCID patients. Pioneering stem cell/gene therapy clinical trials are the focus of this book. Therapy successes such as the X-SCID trial and improved ADA-SCID ones are presented together with pioneering...
An important and interesting work for academics and professionals in YA librarianship, this book presents a coherent look at the past, present, and future of the field.