Looks at both the regional and global effects of mountains on climate and ecosystems
Considers the value of mountains to humanity, as centres of biological and cultural diversity, religious sanct ... Read more
Explores the scientific, historical, cultural, and political significance of one of the world's most remote regions, providing the background to the physical geography of the continent
Considers ... Read more
I go about the street with water-creases crying, "Four bunches a penny, water-creases."'
London Labour and the London Poor is an extraordinary work of investigative journalism, a work of literatur ... Read more
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New paperback edition of Ian Donaldson's fascination biography
An accessible and generously illustrated biography of one of the great writers of the early modern period, whose eventful life hasn' ... Read more
Explores the concept of trust; a key social and cultural issue
Draws on a range of disciplines to show how trust is at the centre of many concepts, including biology, psychology, and even game th ... Read more
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Explores throughout the text - in the context of business ethics - the three major challenges that businesses face when making ethical decisions: globalization, sustainability, and corporate citize ... Read more
Considers the complex changes the Middle Ages brought on contemporary culture in Europe
Examines the people and their lifestyles, from kings to the ordinary man
Looks at the big ideas of the pe ... Read more
This edition presents a critically established text based on comparisons of every revised version. Hardy placed this tale among his Novels of Character and Environment, a group which is held to includ ... Read more
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Tracing its distant origins to the villa of the Roman emperor Hadrian in the second century AD, the eccentric phenomenon of the ornamental hermit enjoyed its heyday in the England of the eighteenth ce ... Read more
External beam therapy is the most common form of radiotherapy, delivering ionizing radiation such as high-energy x-rays, gamma rays or electron beams directly into the location of the patient's tumour ... Read more
