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Enzyme Engineering: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology #2397)
This book provides comprehensive methods and protocols about enzyme design. The chapters are grouped by main topic, starting with methodologies describing library preparation and screening, state of the art techniques in directed evolution and rational design, followed by examples of immobilization ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Nanoporous Carbons for Soft and Flexible Energy Devices (Carbon Materials: Chemistry and Physics #11)
This book provides an interesting snapshot of new research within the fields of flexible and soft devices which use porous carbon-based materials. The increase in demand for soft and flexible electronics, electrochemical energy storage/conversion systems, piezoresistive pressure sensors has promoted... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Migration in the Mediterranean
Mediterranean states have developed various cooperation mechanisms in order to cope with the issues that arise from migration. This book critically analyses how institutional actors act and interact on the international scene in the control and management of migration in the Mediterranean. It high... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Made You Up
<P>This thought-provoking debut tells the story of Alex, a high school senior—and the ultimate unreliable narrator—unable to tell the difference between real life and delusion. <P>Alex fights a daily battle to figure out what is real and what is not. Armed with a take-no-prisoners attitude, her c... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Freedom is an Endless Meeting: Democracy in American Social Movements
Freedom Is an Endless Meeting offers vivid portraits of American experiments in participatory democracy throughout the twentieth century. Drawing on meticulous research and more than one hundred interviews with activists, Francesca Polletta challenges the conventional wisdom that participatory demo... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2002 -
Women and Patriotism in Jim Crow America
After the Civil War, many Americans did not identify strongly with the concept of a united nation. Francesca Morgan finds the first stirrings of a sense of national patriotism--of "these United States"--in the work of black and white clubwomen in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Mor... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005 -
The Presence of Men
A Vintage Shorts "Short Story Month" Selection Lara moved to a little undiscovered village in southern Italy to find a respite from her newly divorced life in Rome. She works hard to find approval and eventually befriends an elderly, local seamstress, Mina. But, when her brother comes to visit, he... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
The Translation of the Bones: A Novel
Faith or delusion? Fantasy or fact? From the winner of the 2009 Orange New Writers Award comes a profound meditation on the nature of faith and a riveting story of religious passion gone tragically wrong in London.When word gets out that Mary-Margaret O'Reilly, a somewhat slow-witted but apparently ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013
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Space, Number, and Geometry from Helmholtz to Cassirer
This book offers a reconstruction of the debate on non-Euclidean geometry in neo-Kantianism between the second half of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century. Kant famously characterized space and time as a priori forms of intuitions, which lie at the foundation of ma... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Choreographies of African Identities: Négritude, Dance, and the National Ballet of Senegal
Choreographies of African Identities traces interconnected interpretative frameworks around and about the National Ballet of Senegal. Using the metaphor of a dancing circle Castaldi's arguments cover the full spectrum of performance, from production to circulation and reception. Castaldi first situa... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2006 -
Innovation Processes in Business Networks
In today's networked economy, each organization is more and more shaped by the system of its long-term business interactions. Innovation processes cannot be successfully designed and managed unless the complex influences of business networking on innovation processes and innovation-related performa... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Luminous Emptiness: A Guide to the Tibetan Book of the Dead
The Tibetan Book of the Dead, a best-seller for three decades, is one of the most widely read texts of Tibetan Buddhism. Over the years, it has been studied and cherished by Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike. Luminous Emptiness is a detailed guide to this classic work, elucidating its mysterious ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2001 -
Luminous Emptiness: A Guide to the Tibetan Book of the Dead
The Tibetan Book of the Dead, a best-seller for three decades, is one of the most widely read texts of Tibetan Buddhism. Over the years, it has been studied and cherished by Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike. Luminous Emptiness is a detailed guide to this classic work, elucidating its mysterious ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2001 -
Gentzen Calculi for Modal Propositional Logic
The book is about Gentzen calculi for (the main systems of) modal logic. It is divided into three parts. In the first part we introduce and discuss the main philosophical ideas related to proof theory, and we try to identify criteria for distinguishing good sequent calculi. In the second part we pre... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Gene Correction
Gene correction is a technology that gives us the tools for both repairing and mutating DNA, for discovering gene functions and for engineering new genetic variants. Gene Correction: Methods and Protocols provides a user friendly, detailed and up-to-date collection of strategies and methodologies u... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Before Nature: Cuneiform Knowledge and the History of Science
In the modern West, we take for granted that what we call the “natural world” confronts us all and always has—but Before Nature explores that almost unimaginable time when there was no such conception of “nature”—no word, reference, or sense for it. Before the concept of nature formed over the lon... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
The Fanfiction Reader: Folk Tales for the Digital Age
Written originally as a fanfiction for the series Twilight, the popularity of Fifty Shades of Grey has made obvious what was always clear to fans and literary scholars alike: that it is an essential human activity to read and retell epic stories of famous heroic characters. The Fanfiction Reader sho... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Memory And Transitional Justice In Argentina And Uruguay
Existing memory studies literature has tended to focus on commemorative sites and dates while transitional justice scholarship has primarily centered on truth commissions, trials, and reparations. This book explores the interaction between memory and transitional justice and develops a theoretical ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Deposit Guarantee Schemes: A European Perspective
Arnaboldi highlights the importance of one of the three pillars of the Banking Union, the common mechanism for insuring deposits. She claims that integrated financial markets require a European solution with regard to deposit insurance and that the establishment of a pan-European scheme could addre... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Modern Women, Modern Work
Focusing on literary authors, social reformers, journalists, and anthropologists, Francesca Sawaya demonstrates how women intellectuals in early twentieth-century America combined and criticized ideas from both the Victorian "cult of domesticity" and the modern "culture of professionalism" to shape ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2004 -
A Spectrum of Light
The emotional trauma that families go through when they find out their child has an autism spectrum disorder can feel like being plunged into darkness. Francesca Bierens is here to show that there is also a light at the end of the tunnel. Over a period of fourteen years, Francesca Bierens intervie... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
The Long Room
Award-winning novelist Francesca Kay's new novel tells the story of a man who falls for the wrong woman. London. December 1981. The IRA is on the attack, a cold war is being waged, another war is just over the horizon, and Stephen Donaldson spends his days listening. When he first joined the Institu... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Everything But the Kitchen Sink: What Every Modern Woman Needs to Know
Twenty-first-century women are called upon to perform any manner of tasks, recall even the most random bits of information, and all the while carry on a charming conversation. Thankfully, from historian and British television personality Francesca Beauman comes this indispensable and authoritative ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
The Awkward Age: A Novel
“They've chosen the one thing that will make our family life impossible. It's genius really, when you think about it. It's the perfect sabotage.” “Francesca Segal is precise and funny, and The Awkward Age is brimming with keen observations of the highest order—the clever, the sore, and the sublime... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017