Whether placed in a window, beside the bed, or illuminating the dining table as an elegant centerpiece, glass candle holders provoke a rich symboli...

This beautiful and comprehensive reference is an essential tool for all collectors and admirers of ornamental glass figurines, and for elephant fan...

Glass in Jewelry enables glass and jewelry lovers alike to enjoy the obvious glamour of such jewelry and for the first time to understand and appre...

Glass in the common sense refers to soda-lime glass, or any similar substance: a hard, brittle, transparent solid made by fusing soda with lime and...

Stunningly beautiful, high performance glass tiles are increasingly popular for walls, countertops, and floor coverings in kitchens and baths. As s...

In nature, green polymers (natural polymers) in plants and animals always coexist with water. The characteristic features of polymers organized in ...

The opening chapter of Glass-Ceramics: Properties, Applications and Technology offers an overview of glass-ceramics (GCs) from their discovery to t...

Glaucoma is an eye disorder in which the optic nerve suffers damage, permanently damaging vision in the affected eye(s) and progressing to complete...

The Republic dramatizes Socrates’ attempt to convince Plato’s brother Glaucon that the just life of philosophy is preferable to the unjust life of ...

Thirty treatises written by this influential Islamic scholar address key issues of humanity, as discussed in the Qur'an, that are equally applicabl...

Written in prose but with a verse-like flavour, this is a collection of maxims by Bediüzzaman Said Nursi. Very concisely articulated, these maxims ...

Sidney Godolphin Osborne’s eyewitness famine narrative Gleanings in the West of Ireland is a text that is currently both neglected and misunderstoo...

The brain has long been considered an immune privileged organ, meaning that inflammatory cells are excluded due to a relatively impenetrable blood ...

This book contains nine chapters which include contributions by different experts who have been very active in glia research over the past several ...

A behind-the-scenes collection of vignettes, as told by a professor of four decades, shares the story of life at America's second-oldest college fr...

Understanding a typical character or a particular behaviour and interpreting its components into homeopathic terminology to arrive at the simillium...

Neuroimaging plays a central role in the initial diagnosis and subsequent monitoring of multimodal therapies offered to patients with glioblastoma ...

Glioblastoma is the most common and lethal primary brain tumor which exhibits clinical, radiological and pathological heterogenity. Despite advance...

This book provides basic researchers and clinicians with a contemporary review of personalised medicine for the diagnosis and treatment of Glioblas...

In this book, the biology, current treatment modalities and new emerging therapeutic approaches and targets for glioma, a highly aggressive and inv...

Gliomas represent some of the most difficult tumours to understand and most challenging to treat. As illustrated in this book, the difficulty in un...

Kashetsky documents domestic life, street life, urban landscapes, nature, and the stories of Holocaust survivors in his affecting, meditative work....

This original book explores the nature and extent of global aging in contemporary society. It examines the impact of populational aging on differen...

While the global marketplace is cluttered with books and products about agriculture and related issues of development, very few speak specifically ...

Officials continue to assert that the U.S. food supply, including the portion imported, is among the safest in the world. One challenge has been th...

Growth in the productivity of the global food and agricultural system will be largely determined by today's investments in research and development...

This book provides projections for the agricultural sector through 2020. Projections cover agricultural commodities, agricultural trade, and aggreg...

This book explores the developments, issues and research outlook of global agriculture. Topics discussed include the trade and food security implic...

This book explores the developments, issues and research outlook of global agriculture. Topics discussed include the expansion of modern grocery re...

This book explores the developments, issues and research outlook of global agriculture. Topics discussed include classifying and measuring agricult...

This book explores the developments, issues and research outlook of global agriculture. Topics discussed in this compilation include the policy, te...

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This book explores the developments, issues and research outlook of global agriculture. Topics discussed in this compilation include growth and evo...

This book explores the developments, issues and research outlook of global agriculture. Topics discussed in this compilation include reviews of his...

In this book the results on set-valued dynamical systems (dynamical systems without uniqueness) and some adjoining problems are studied. A part of ...

We are witnessing a worldwide resurgence of reactionary ideologies and movements, combined with an escalating assault on democratic institutions an...

The past two decades have witnessed tremendous change and growth in the financial sector in countries across the globe. At the heart of this sector...

The past two decades have witnessed both tremendous change and tremendous growth in the financial sector in countries across the globe. At the same...

This book is an overview of the current U.S. and World Beef Trade. The 110th Congress has been monitoring U.S. efforts to regain foreign markets th...

This book explores the global challenge: understanding ageing as a medical concept, social concept and population term. The focus is on China and g...