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Owning Performance | Performing Ownership: Literary Property and the Eighteenth-Century British Stage
by Jane WesselIn 1710, England’s first copyright law gave authors the ability to own their works, but it was not until 1833 that literary property law was extended to protect dramatic performance. Between these dates, generations of playwrights grappled for control over their intellectual property in a cultural a... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2022 -
Making Stars: Biography and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Performing Celebrity)
by Glynis Ridley • Stuart Sherman • Jack Lynch • Rebecca Tierney-Hynes • Sarah Ailwood • Miriam L. Wallace • Sören Hammerschmidt • Jane Wessel • Heather McPherson • Elaine McGirr • Semane Parsons • Kevin Bourque • Anne Betty Weinshenker • Teri Doerksen • Kirsten Teresa SaxtonIn bringing biography and celebrity together, the essays in Making Stars interrogate contemporary and current understandings of each. Although biography was not invented in the eighteenth century, the period saw the emergence of works that focus on individuals who are interesting as much, if not mor... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2022 -
This Far, No Further
by John WesselHis boots are frozen. His hands are covered with sin: the blood and sweat of a trashed motel room where a wealthy Chicago doctor had been on a binge of sex, sadism, and drugs. Harding is just doing his job, an unlicensed PI running surveillance on a cheating husband. At stake is a woman's divorce... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 1996 -
Kiss It Goodbye
by John WesselUnusual novel based on a private detective, who really doesn't have a license because of a prison term. This book is set in Chicago.... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2002 -
Kiss It Goodbye: A Novel
by John WesselFor a perfectly executed mystery a reader need go no further," People magazine said of John Wessel's first novel. Now readers can revel in the highly anticipated third novel from Wessel -- a heart-racing story of secrets and suspense featuring hard-luck ex-PI Harding and his stunning and fearless gi... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2002 -
Haptics: Perception, Devices, Control, and Applications
The two-volume set LNCS 9774 and 9775 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference EuroHaptics 2016, held in London, UK, in July 2016. The 100 papers (36 oral presentations and 64 poster presentations) presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 162 submissions. ... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2016 -
Human Walking in Virtual Environments: Perception, Technology, and Applications
This book presents a survey of past and recent developments on human walking in virtual environments with an emphasis on human self-motion perception, the multisensory nature of experiences of walking, conceptual design approaches, current technologies, and applications. The use of Virtual Reality a... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2013 -
Tipping Points: Modelling Social Problems and Health (Wiley Series in Computational and Quantitative Social Science)
This book focuses on the modelling of contemporary health and social problems, especially those considered a major burden to communities, governments and taxpayers, such as smoking, alcoholism, drug use, and heart disease. Based on a series of papers presented at a recent conference hosted by the Le... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2015 -
What We Owe
A gut punch of a novel that asks us to consider: what do we pass on to our children? What do we owe those we love? And without roots, can you ever truly be free? Nahid has six months left to live. Or so the doctors say. At fifty, she is no stranger to loss. But now, as she stands on the precipice o... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2018 -
Next Generation Arithmetic: Third International Conference, CoNGA 2022, Singapore, March 1–3, 2022, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #13253)
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Next Generation Arithmetic, CoNGA 2022, which was held in Singapore, during March 1–3, 2022. The 8 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 12 submissions. They deal with emerg... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2022 -
We Are Coming Home: Repatriation and the Restoration of Blackfoot Cultural Confidence
by Allan Pard • Chris Mchugh • Frank Weasel Head • Gerald T. Conaty • Herman Yellow Old Woman • Jerry Potts • John W. Ives • Robert R. JanesIn 1990, Gerald Conaty was hired as senior curator of ethnology at the Glenbow Museum, with the particular mandate of improving the museum’s relationship with Aboriginal communities. That same year, the Glenbow had taken its first tentative steps toward repatriation by returning sacred objects to Fi... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2015 -
Essentials of Orthopedic Surgery
This concise third edition offers hands-on guidance for identifying and treating the most commonly seen orthopedic problems in children and adults. Convenient as a study source for medical students, its many photographs and illustrations will also serve as a useful clinical reference for young surge... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2011 -
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH
For over 50 years, the mission of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has been to conduct and support basic and applied research to better understand, treat, and prevent infectious, immunologic, and allergic diseases with the ultimate goal of improving the health of ind... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2008 -
Addicted: Notes from the Belly of the Beast
Is addiction a disease, a sin, a sign of hypersensitivity, a personal failing, or a unique resource for the creative mind? However it is defined, addiction can have devastating consequences, often shattering lives, sundering families, causing impoverishment, and even triggering suicide. Yet it can ... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2016 -
Flight or Fright: 17 Turbulent Tales Edited by Stephen King and Bev Vincent
by Ambrose Bierce • Stephen King • Roald Dahl • Ray Bradbury • John Varley • Dan Simmons • Michael Lewis • Richard Matheson • Joe Hill • Tom Bissell • Bev Vincent • Cody Goodfellow • E. C. Tubb • Arthur Conan Doyle • David Schow • Peter Treemayne • James L. DickeyFasten your seatbelts for an anthology of turbulent tales curated by Stephen King and Bev Vincent. This exciting new collection, perfect for airport or aeroplane reading, includes an original introduction and story notes for each story by Stephen King, and brand new stories from Stephen King and Joe... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2018 -
Flight or Fright: 17 Turbulent Tales Edited by Stephen King and Bev Vincent
by Ambrose Bierce • Stephen King • Roald Dahl • Ray Bradbury • John Varley • Dan Simmons • Michael Lewis • Richard Matheson • Joe Hill • Tom Bissell • Bev Vincent • Cody Goodfellow • E. C. Tubb • Arthur Conan Doyle • David Schow • Peter Treemayne • James L. DickeyFasten your seatbelts for an anthology of turbulent tales curated by Stephen King and Bev Vincent.This exciting new collection, perfect for airport or aeroplane reading, includes an original introduction and story notes for each story by Stephen King, and brand new stories from Stephen King and Joe ... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2018 -
Biotechnology of Fruit and Nut Crops
by Stephen Adkins • Nuria Alburquerque • Maria Luisa Badenes • Luciana Baldoni • Araceli Barceló-Muñoz • Pedro M. Barros • A. T. Basford • Muhammad Ajmal Bashir • Diego Silva Batista • Julianne Biddle • Manuel Blasco • J. R. Botella • Patrick Brown • Lorenzo Burgos • John E. Carlson • Luis A. Cañas • Elisabeth Carmona • David Chagné • Rekha Chaudhury • Elisabeth Chevreau • V. E. Chhatre • Yelda Özden Çiftçi • C. Claflin • Yuval Cohen • Elena Corredoira • Valerio Cristofori • Niccolò Cultrera • Abhaya Dandekar • Maurecilne Lemes da Silva • Sadanand A. Dhekney • Leo D’Souza • Ofere Francis Emeriewen • Kate Evans • M. Faize • Fábio Gelape Faleiro • Ana Paula Farinha • Vicente Vicente • Yolanda Ferradás • Antonio Figueira • Maureen M.M. Fitch • Henryk Flachowsky • M. Foale • Svetlana Y. Folimonova • María Victoria González • Isabel María González-Padilla • Julie Graham • Dennis J. Gray • Magda-Viola Hanke • Smitha Hegde • Professor Jose Ignacio Hormaza • Uma Jaiswal • Nikki Jennings • Hülya Akdemir Koç • Ossama Kodad • Nerea Larrañaga • Chuck Leslie • Z. J. Li • Amanda De Lopes • Carlos López-Encina • Rodolfo López-Gómez • Jorge Lora • Zheng-Rong Luo • S. K. Malik • Roberto Mariotti • Óscar Martínez • Pedro Martínez-Gómez • Antonio J. Matas • José Mercado • Scott Merkle • Sara Montanari • Gloria Moore • Soraya Mousavi • Isabel Narváez • María Del Naval • Q. T. Nguyen • Shashikiran Nivas • M. Margarida Oliveira • Ahmet Onay • Guillermo Padilla • Elena Palomo-Ríos • Andreas Peil • Leandro Pena • Rosa M. Pérez-Clemente • Cesar Petri • Paula M. Pijut • Marcos Vinícius Pinheiro • Clara Pliego • Fernando Pliego-Alfaro • Simon H.T. Raharjo • Manoj K Rai • Manuel Rey • Gabino Ríos • Alain Rival • Diego Ismael Rocha • M. B. Rosenberg • M. Rouard • Nicolas Roux • Eddo Rugini • D. Ruiz • J. Sardos • Danielle Camargo Scotton • Cristian Silvestri • Michael K Smith • Guo-Qing Song • Veysel Süzerer • Alicia Talavera • Ryutaro Tao • Takuya Tetsumura • Engin Tilkat • Pablo Ric Varas • Wagner Vendrame • Francisco Javier Viéitez • Hazel Wetzstein • Roxana Yockteng • Qing-Lin ZhangThis book covers the biotechnology of all the major perennial fruit and nut species. Since the publication of the first edition of this book in 2005, there has been significant progress in cell culture, genomics and genetic transformation for many of these species. This book covers these biotechnolo... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2020