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Campbell-Walsh Urology

Expert Consult Premium Edition: Enhanced Online Features and Print, 4-Volume Set

By: Alan J. Wein,Louis R. Kavoussi,Andrew C. Novick,Alan W. Partin,Craig A. Peters

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Campbell-Walsh Urology

Expert Consult Premium Edition: Enhanced Online Features and Print, 4-Volume Set

By: Alan J. Wein,Louis R. Kavoussi,Andrew C. Novick,Alan W. Partin,Craig A. Peters

Since 1954, Campbell-Walsh Urology has been internationally recognized as the pre-eminent text in its field. Edited by Alan J. Wein, MD, PhD(hon), Louis R. Kavoussi, MD, Alan W. Partin, MD, PhD, Craig A. Peters, MD, FACS, FAAP, and the late Andrew C. Novick, MD, it provides you with everything you need to know at every stage of your career, covering the entire breadth and depth of urology - from anatomy and physiology through the latest diagnostic approaches and medical and surgical treatments. Be certain with expert, dependable, accurate answers for every stage of your career from the most comprehensive, definitive text in the field! Required reading for all urology residents, Campbell-Walsh Urology is the predominant reference used by The American Board of Urology for its board examination questions. Visually grasp and better understand critical information with the aid of algorithms, photographs, radiographs, and line drawings to illustrate essential concepts, nuances of clinical presentation and technique, and decision making. Stay on the cutting edge with online updates. Get trusted perspectives and insights from hundreds of well-respected global contributors, all of whom are at the top and the cutting edge of their respective fields. Stay current with the latest knowledge and practices. Brand-new chapters and comprehensive updates throughout include new information on perioperative care in adults and children, premature ejaculation, retroperitoneal tumors, nocturia, and more! Meticulously revised chapters cover the most recent advancements in robotic and laparoscopic bladder surgery, open surgery of the kidney, management of metastic and invasive bladder cancer, and many other hot topics!Reference information quickly thanks to a new, streamlined print format and easily searchable online access to supplemental figures, tables, additional references, and expanded discussions as well as procedural videos and more at www.expertconsult.com. The new edition of Campbell-Walsh Urology is the must have reference for practitioners and residents!

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Introduction to Engineering Design

By: Andrew Samuel,John Weir

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Introduction to Engineering Design

By: Andrew Samuel,John Weir

Introduction to Engineering Design is a completely novel text covering the basic elements of engineering design for structural integrity. Some of the most important concepts that students must grasp are those relating to 'design thinking' and reasoning, and not just those that relate to simple theoretical and analytical approaches. This is what will enable them to get to grips with *practical* design problems, and the starting point is thinking about problems in a 'deconstructionist' sense.By analysing design problems as sophisticated systems made up of simpler constituents, and evolving a solution from known experience of such building blocks, it is possible to develop an approach that will enable the student to tackle even completely alien design scenarios with confidence. The other essential aspect of the design process - the concept of failure, and its avoidance - is also examined in detail, and the importance not only of contemplating expected failure conditions at the design stage but also checking those conditions as they apply to the completed design is stressed.These facets in combination offer a systematic method of considering the design process and one that will undoubtedly find favour with many students, teaching staff and practising engineers alike.

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0080509142

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Nanotechnology Cookbook

Practical, Reliable and Jargon-free Experimental Procedures

By: Andrew Collins

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Nanotechnology Cookbook

Practical, Reliable and Jargon-free Experimental Procedures

By: Andrew Collins

Handbook containing more than 100 of the most common experimental procedures in nanoscience.

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The End of Youth Ministry? (Theology for the Life of the World)

Why Parents Don't Really Care about Youth Groups and What Youth Workers Should Do about It

By: Andrew Root

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The End of Youth Ministry? (Theology for the Life of the World)

Why Parents Don't Really Care about Youth Groups and What Youth Workers Should Do about It

By: Andrew Root

What is youth ministry actually for? And does it have a future? Andrew Root, a leading scholar in youth ministry and practical theology, went on a one-year journey to answer these questions. In this book, Root weaves together an innovative first-person fictional narrative to diagnose the challenges facing the church today and to offer a new vision for youth ministry in the 21st century. Informed by interviews that Root conducted with parents, this book explores how parents' perspectives of what constitutes a good life are affecting youth ministry. In today's culture, youth ministry can't compete with sports, test prep, and the myriad other activities in which young people participate. Through a unique parable-style story, Root offers a new way to think about the purpose of youth ministry: not happiness, but joy. Joy is a sense of experiencing the good. For youth ministry to be about joy, it must move beyond the youth group model and rework the assumptions of how identity and happiness are imagined by parents in American society.

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Baker Academic

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1493420178

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SNOWBLIND: The Michael Varen Saga

By: Andrew T. Shapter

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SNOWBLIND: The Michael Varen Saga

By: Andrew T. Shapter

Corruption. Deception. Betrayal. Violence. Welcome to New Melbourne. Welcome to a place where trust is a luxury few can afford and where power is the greatest currency. Welcome to the world of the Judicial Enforcers, agents of the Courts, a well trained division of men and women who bring in the worst criminals, dig into the darkest corners and they don't need a warrant to do it. Welcome to the world of Michael Varen, the greatest Enforcer of them all. When an extortion case explodes into a conspiracy that threatens death to anyone who gets too close, Varen must take a dangerous course of action that he could never have imagined, and from which there is no turning back...

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TIBCO Spotfire: A Comprehensive Primer

Building enterprise-grade data analytics and visualization solutions, 2nd Edition

By: Andrew Berridge,Michael Phillips

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TIBCO Spotfire: A Comprehensive Primer

Building enterprise-grade data analytics and visualization solutions, 2nd Edition

By: Andrew Berridge,Michael Phillips

Create innovative informatics solutions with TIBCO Spotfire Key FeaturesGet to grips with a variety of TIBCO Spotfire features to create professional applicationsUse different data and visualization techniques to build interactive analyses.Simplify BI processes and understand data analysis and visualizationBook Description The need for agile business intelligence (BI) is growing daily, and TIBCO Spotfire® combines self-service features with essential enterprise governance and scaling capabilities to provide best-practice analytics solutions. Spotfire is easy and intuitive to use and is a rewarding environment for all BI users and analytics developers. Starting with data and visualization concepts, this book takes you on a journey through increasingly advanced topics to help you work toward becoming a professional analytics solution provider. Examples of analyzing real-world data are used to illustrate how to work with Spotfire. Once you've covered the AI-driven recommendations engine, you'll move on to understanding Spotfire's rich suite of visualizations and when, why and how you should use each of them. In later chapters, you'll work with location analytics, advanced analytics using TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R®, how to decide whether to use in-database or in-memory analytics, and how to work with streaming (live) data in Spotfire. You'll also explore key product integrations that significantly enhance Spotfire's capabilities.This book will enable you to exploit the advantages of the Spotfire serve topology and learn how to make practical use of scheduling and routing rules. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to build and use powerful analytics dashboards and applications, perform spatial analytics, and be able to administer your Spotfire environment efficiently What you will learnWork with Spotfire on its web, Cloud, PC, Mac and mobile clientsDeploy Spotfire's suite of visualization types effectively and intelligentlyBuild user-friendly analytics frameworks and analytics applicationsExplore Spotfire's predictive analytics capabilitiesUse Spotfire's location analytics capabilities to create interactive spatial analysesWrite IronPython scripts with the Spotfire APILearn the different ways Spotfire can be deployed and administeredWho this book is for If you are a business intelligence or data professional, this book will give you a solid grounding in the use of TIBCO Spotfire. This book requires no prior knowledge of Spotfire or any basic data and visualization concepts.

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Campbell-Walsh Urology 10th Edition Review E-Book

By: W. Scott McDougal,Alan J. Wein,Louis R. Kavoussi,Andrew C. Novick,Alan W. Partin,Craig A. Peters,Parvati Ramchandani

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Campbell-Walsh Urology 10th Edition Review E-Book

By: W. Scott McDougal,Alan J. Wein,Louis R. Kavoussi,Andrew C. Novick,Alan W. Partin,Craig A. Peters,Parvati Ramchandani

Master the full range of colorectal procedures performed today with Atlas of Surgical Techniques for the Colon, Rectum, and Anus. In this volume in the Surgical Techniques Atlas Series, top authorities provide expert, step-by-step guidance on surgery of the large bowel, rectum, and anus - including both open and closed approaches for many procedures - to help you expand your repertoire and hone your clinical skills. Rely on definitive, expert guidance from the same respected authorities that made Campbell-Walsh Urology the most trusted clinical reference source in the field. Assess and deepen your understanding of key information with answers and rationales for more than 2,800 board-style multiple-choice study questions. Over 2,800 board-style multiple-choice questions provide a realistic simulation of the actual board experience. Deepen your grasp of critical concepts by studying supporting pathology and radiologic images and understanding their correlation to key points. Benefit from the consistency of all questions, answers, and rationales re-written by a single author. Measure your proficiency with interactive self-assessment questions online. Get the most from your board prep by pairing this review with its parent text, Campbell-Walsh Urology, for detailed explanations and an enhanced learning experience.

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Entrepreneurship

By: William D. Bygrave,Andrew Zacharakis,Sean Wise,Andrew C. Corbett

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Entrepreneurship

By: William D. Bygrave,Andrew Zacharakis,Sean Wise,Andrew C. Corbett

A balanced and practical combination of entrepreneurial theory and cases from a Canadian perspective In the newly revised second Canadian edition of Entrepreneurship, a team of entrepreneurs, professors, researchers, and mentors delivers an accessible and insightful combination of business concepts and cases illustrating contemporary entrepreneurial theory. Exploring every stage of the entrepreneurial process, this comprehensive textbook covers everything aspiring Canadian founders and future entrepreneurs need to know, from ideation to funding, launch, marketing, and more. Throughout the introductory text, a wealth of engaging case studies and examples demonstrate the real-world application of business theory. Perfect for students of business administration, management, and entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship offers a hands-on learning experience that will appeal to learners who benefit from an abundance of contemporary real-world cases and practical examples.

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1394169256

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1965

The Most Revolutionary Year in Music

By: Andrew Grant Jackson

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1965

The Most Revolutionary Year in Music

By: Andrew Grant Jackson

“For music lovers who were there and for those who wish they were, the book is a well-researched cultural history that leaves no rolling stone unturned.” —Huffington Post Friendly rivalry between musicians turned 1965 into the year rock evolved into the premier art form of its time and accelerated the drive for personal freedom throughout the Western world. The Beatles made their first artistic statement with Rubber Soul. Bob Dylan released “Like a Rolling Stone, arguably the greatest song of all time, and went electric at the Newport Folk Festival. The Rolling Stones’s “Satisfaction” catapulted the band to world-wide success. New genres such as funk, psychedelia, folk rock, proto-punk, and baroque pop were born. Soul music became a prime force of desegregation as Motown crossed over from the R&B charts to the top of the Billboard Hot 100. Country music reached new heights with Nashville and the Bakersfield sound. Musicians raced to innovate sonically and lyrically against the backdrop of seismic cultural shifts wrought by the Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam, psychedelics, the Pill, long hair for men, and designer Mary Quant’s introduction of the miniskirt. In 1965, Andrew Grant Jackson combines fascinating and often surprising personal stories with a panoramic historical narrative. “Jackson has a better ear than a lot of music writers, and one of the best parts of this book is his many casual citings of songs that echo others . . . [He] show[s] us the familiar through fresh eyes, as . . . he returns us to a year when a lot of us were young and poor and not as happy as we thought we were, yet there was always a great song on the radio.” —Washington Post

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1466864974

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Berkshire Center for Weight Loss Surgery Patient Guide

By: Andrew Lederman

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Berkshire Center for Weight Loss Surgery Patient Guide

By: Andrew Lederman

Patient guide for weight loss surgery patients of Dr. Andrew B. Lederman. This is intended as a resource for patient who are considering or have had gastric bypass surgery, or sleeve gastrectomy. It is a practical guide to bariatric surgery, including recipes, nutritional guidelines and details about surgery.

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For the Term of His Natural Life Book III

By: Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke

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For the Term of His Natural Life Book III

By: Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke

For the Term of His Natural Life book III" by Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke is a seminal work in Australian literature, capturing the harsh realities of convict life in the colonial era. Set in the unforgiving penal colony of Tasmania, Clarke's historical fiction delves deep into the intricate web of the prison system, portraying the injustice endured by its inhabitants. Through vivid prose and meticulous attention to detail, Clarke paints a poignant picture of survival amidst brutal conditions, offering a narrative of redemption amidst despair. The novel serves as a powerful social commentary, shedding light on the harsh realities faced by convicts and the systemic injustices that permeate their lives. Against the backdrop of Tasmania's rugged landscapes, Clarke weaves an escape narrative that grips readers from the very beginning, immersing them in a world where hope flickers dimly amidst the darkness of confinement. "For the Term of His Natural Life III" stands as a testament to Clarke's literary talent, offering a haunting portrayal of human resilience in the face of adversity, making it an enduring classic in Australian literature.

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Current Surgical Therapy E-Book

By: John L. Cameron,Andrew M. Cameron

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Current Surgical Therapy E-Book

By: John L. Cameron,Andrew M. Cameron

Minimize the risks and maximize your surgical success with Current Surgical Therapy! Hundreds of preeminent general surgeons present you with today’s best treatment and management advice for a number of diseases and associated surgeries, discussing which approach to take, how to avoid or minimize complications, and what outcomes to expect. Current Surgical Therapy is indispensable for quick, efficient review prior to surgery, as well as when preparing for surgical boards and ABSITEs! Find the answers you need quickly inside the user-friendly book. Obtain dependable advice on patient selection, contraindications, techniques, pitfalls, and more from this best-selling surgical resource, trusted by generations of surgeons for decades as the definitive source on the most current surgical approaches.

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For the Term of His Natural Life

By: Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke

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For the Term of His Natural Life

By: Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke

This is the story of the convict Rufus Dawes, transported to Australia for a crime which he didn't commit.

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Eating Well for Optimum Health

The Essential Guide to Bringing Health and Pleasure Back to Eating

By: Andrew Weil, M.D.

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Eating Well for Optimum Health

The Essential Guide to Bringing Health and Pleasure Back to Eating

By: Andrew Weil, M.D.

At last, a book about eating (and eating well) for health -- from Dr. Andrew Weil, the brilliantly innovative and greatly respected doctor who has been instrumental in transforming the way Americans think about health. Now Dr. Weil -- whose nationwide best-sellers Spontaneous Healing and Eight Weeks to Optimum Health have made us aware of the body's capacity to heal itself -- provides us with a program for improving our well-being by making informed choices about how and what we eat. He gives us all the basic facts about human nutrition. Here is everything we need to know about fats, protein, carbohydrates, minerals, and vitamins, and their effects on our health. He equips us to make decisions about the latest miracle diet or reducing aid. At the heart of his book, he presents in easy-to-follow detail his recommended OPTIMUM DIET, including complete weekly menus for use both at home and in restaurants. He provides eighty-five recipes accompanied by a rigorous and reliable nutritional breakdown -- delicious recipes reminding us that we can eat for health without giving up the essential pleasures of eating. Customized dietary advice is included for dozens of common ailments, among them asthma, allergies, heart disease, migraines, and thyroid problems. Dr. Weil helps us to read labels on all food products and thereby become much wiser consumers. Throughout he makes clear how an optimal diet can both supply the basic needs of the body and fortify the body's defenses and mechanisms of healing. And he always stresses that good food -- and the good feeling it engenders at the table -- is not only a delight but also necessary to our well-being, so that eating for health means enjoyable eating. In sum, a hugely practical and inspiring book about food, diet, and nutrition that stands to change -- for the better and the healthier -- our most fundamental ideas about eating.

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Meanderings of a Soul Drenched Mind

Poems by Andrew Packard

By: Andrew Packard

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Meanderings of a Soul Drenched Mind

Poems by Andrew Packard

By: Andrew Packard

You won’t find poetry like this anywhere else, believe it, I’ve looked. Packard’s poetry rifles through several different styles of genre from the dreamy Shakespearean, to the Poe-like macabre. His poetry has been called, “Grisly and dark without being trite or cliché.” ~Tony Myles ...has a real command for rhyming language. This collection of 33 poems has proven once and for all that poetry is back and alive and well in mid-America. The author hits on such subjects as the direction our society is heading, gratitude, love, death, apathy, the afterlife, dogs, domestic violence, hoarding, old age, and sin. If you are one that doesn’t care for poetry, you will have a new appreciation for it after reading “Meanderings of a Soul Drenched Mind.”

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Surf Survival

The Surfer's Health Handbook

By: Andrew Nathanson,Clayton Everline,Mark Renneker

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Surf Survival

The Surfer's Health Handbook

By: Andrew Nathanson,Clayton Everline,Mark Renneker

Explains everything necessary to stay safe in the waves for surfers of all abilities, including dangerous marine animals, nutrition and hydration, and first aid and prevention for common injuries.

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The Bishop in the Old Neighborhood

A Bishop Blackie Ryan Novel

By: Andrew M. Greeley

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The Bishop in the Old Neighborhood

A Bishop Blackie Ryan Novel

By: Andrew M. Greeley

When three people are murdered in a church that has long represented a bulwark against change in its venerable Chicago neighborhood, Bishop "Blackie" Ryan enlists a psychic cop and a Sicilian attorney in what he believes is a campaign of terror.

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0765342359

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Chop Suey

A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States

By: Andrew Coe

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Chop Suey

A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States

By: Andrew Coe

In 1784, passengers on the ship Empress of China became the first Americans to land in China, and the first to eat Chinese food. Today there are over 40,000 Chinese restaurants across the United States--by far the most plentiful among all our ethnic eateries. Now, in Chop Suey Andrew Coe provides the authoritative history of the American infatuation with Chinese food, telling its fascinating story for the first time. It's a tale that moves from curiosity to disgust and then desire. From China, Coe's story travels to the American West, where Chinese immigrants drawn by the 1848 Gold Rush struggled against racism and culinary prejudice but still established restaurants and farms and imported an array of Asian ingredients. He traces the Chinese migration to the East Coast, highlighting that crucial moment when New York "Bohemians" discovered Chinese cuisine--and for better or worse, chop suey. Along the way, Coe shows how the peasant food of an obscure part of China came to dominate Chinese-American restaurants; unravels the truth of chop suey's origins; reveals why American Jews fell in love with egg rolls and chow mein; shows how President Nixon's 1972 trip to China opened our palates to a new range of cuisine; and explains why we still can't get dishes like those served in Beijing or Shanghai. The book also explores how American tastes have been shaped by our relationship with the outside world, and how we've relentlessly changed foreign foods to adapt to them our own deep-down conservative culinary preferences. Andrew Coe's Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States is a fascinating tour of America's centuries-long appetite for Chinese food. Always illuminating, often exploding long-held culinary myths, this book opens a new window into defining what is American cuisine.

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Oxford University Press

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0199716099

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Making Muskoka

Tourism, Rural Identity, and Sustainability, 1870–1920

By: Andrew Watson

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Making Muskoka

Tourism, Rural Identity, and Sustainability, 1870–1920

By: Andrew Watson

Muskoka. Now a magnet for nature tourists and wealthy cottagers, the region underwent a profound transition at the turn of the twentieth century. Making Muskoka traces the evolution of the region from 1870 to 1920. Over this period, settler colonialism upended Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee communities, but the land was unsuited to farming, and within the first generation of resettlement, tourism became an integral feature of life. Andrew Watson considers issues such as rural identity, tensions between large- and household-scale logging operations, and the dramatic effects of consumer culture and the global shift toward fossil fuels on settlers’ ability to control the tourism economy after 1900. Making Muskoka uncovers the lived experience of rural communities shaped by tourism at a time when sustainable opportunities for a sedentary life were few on the Canadian Shield, and reveals the consequences for those living there year-round.

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Siren Feasts

A History of Food and Gastronomy in Greece

By: Andrew Dalby

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Siren Feasts

A History of Food and Gastronomy in Greece

By: Andrew Dalby

Cheese, wine, honey and olive oil - four of Greece's best known contributions to culinary culture - were already well known four thousand years ago. Remains of honeycombs and of cheeses have been found under the volcanic ash of the Santorini eruption of 1627 BC. Over the millennia, Greek food diversified and absorbed neighbouring traditions, yet retained its own distinctive character. In Siren Feasts, Andrew Dalby provides the first serious social history of Greek food. He begins with the tunny fishers of the neolithic age, and traces the story through the repertoire of classical Greece, the reputations of Lydia for luxury and of Sicily and South Italy for sybaritism, to the Imperial synthesis of varying traditions, with a look forward to the Byzantine cuisine and the development of the modern Greek menu. The apples of the Hesperides turn out to be lemons, and great favour attaches to Byzantine biscuits. Fully documented and comprehensively illustrated, scholarly yet immensely readable, Siren Feasts demonstrates the social construction placed upon different types of food at different periods (was fish a luxury item in classical Athens, though disdained by Homeric heroes?). It places diet in an economic and agricultural context; and it provides a history of mentalities in relation to a subject which no human being can ignore.

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1134969856

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Lonely Planet Los Angeles, San Diego & Southern California

By: Lonely Planet,Andrea Schulte-Peevers,Andrew Bender,Cristian Bonetto,Benedict Walker,Jade Bremner,Clifton Wilkinson

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Lonely Planet Los Angeles, San Diego & Southern California

By: Lonely Planet,Andrea Schulte-Peevers,Andrew Bender,Cristian Bonetto,Benedict Walker,Jade Bremner,Clifton Wilkinson

Lonely Planet: The world’s leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Los Angeles, San Diego & Southern California is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Cruise the slow lanes of the Pacific Coast Highway, ride in spinning teacups at Disneyland Resort, or hit the trails in Joshua Tree National Park; all with your trusted travel companion. Begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planet Los Angeles, San Diego & Southern California Travel Guide: Full-color maps and images throughout Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - history, music, arts, architecture, wildlife Free, convenient pull-out Los Angeles map (included in print version), plus over 50 color maps Covers Los Angeles, Orange County, Palm Springs, Joshua Tree National Park, Death Valley National Park, Las Vegas, Santa Barbara, San Diego and more eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones) Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews Add notes to personalise your guidebook experience Seamlessly flip between pages Bookmarks and speedy search capabilities get you to key pages in a flash Embedded links to recommendations' websites Zoom-in maps and images Inbuilt dictionary for quick referencing The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet Los Angeles, San Diego & Southern California, our most comprehensive guide to Southern California, is perfect for both exploring top sights and taking roads less traveled. Looking for a guide focused on Los Angeles? Check out Lonely Planet Pocket Los Angeles, a handy-sized guide focused on the can’t-miss sights for a quick trip. About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the world’s number one travel guidebook brand, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveller since 1973. Over the past four decades, we’ve printed over 145 million guidebooks and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travellers. You’ll also find our content online, on mobile, video and in 14 languages, 12 international magazines, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.

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The Transition to Late Antiquity on the lower Danube

Excavations and survey at Dichin, a Late Roman to early Byzantine Fort and a Roman aqueduct

By: Andrew Poulter

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The Transition to Late Antiquity on the lower Danube

Excavations and survey at Dichin, a Late Roman to early Byzantine Fort and a Roman aqueduct

By: Andrew Poulter

Excavations on the site of this remarkable fort in northern Bulgaria (1996–2005) formed part of a long-term program of excavation and intensive field survey, aimed at tracing the economic as well as physical changes which mark the transition from the Roman Empire to the Middle Ages, a program that commenced with the excavation and full publication of the early Byzantine fortress/city of Nicopolis ad Istrum. The analysis of well-dated finds and their full publication provides a unique database for the late Roman period in the Balkans; they include metal-work, pottery (local and imported fine ware), glass, copper alloy finds, inscriptions and dipinti (on amphorae), as well as quantified environmental reports on animal, birds, and fish with specialist reports on the archaeobotanical material, glass analysis, and querns. The report also details the results of site-specific intensive survey, a new method developed for use in the rich farmland of the central Balkans. In addition, there is a detailed report on a most remarkable and well-preserved aqueduct, which employed the largest siphon ever discovered in the Roman Empire. This publication will provide a substantial database of material and environmental finds, an invaluable resource for the region and for the Roman Empire: material invaluable for studies, which seeks to place the late Roman urban and military identity within its regional and extra-regional economic setting.

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Playgoing in Shakespeare's London

By: Andrew Gurr

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Playgoing in Shakespeare's London

By: Andrew Gurr

This is a new edition of Andrew Gurr's classic account of the people for whom Shakespeare wrote his plays. Gurr assembles all the evidence from the writings of the time to describe the physical structure of the different types of playhouse, the services provided in the auditorium, the cost of a ticket and a cushion, the size of the crowds, the smells, the pickpockets, and the collective feelings generated by the plays. Since 1987 there have been many new discoveries about Shakespeare's theatres. Gurr introduces fresh evidence about the experience of attending a play in Shakespeare's time, adds more than thirty new entries to his account of the early playgoers and provides a select bibliography.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521574498

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Voices from the Comproom

A Diary

By: Andrew Bell-Fastov

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Voices from the Comproom

A Diary

By: Andrew Bell-Fastov

Did you ever wonder what's going on behind the closed doors of a data center? If so, read this book and find out. Join the new and exciting world of high-tech—and old-fashioned love.

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iUniverse

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0595216188

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Image Transfer on Clay

Screen, Relief, Decal & Monoprint Techniques

By: Paul Andrew Wandless

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Image Transfer on Clay

Screen, Relief, Decal & Monoprint Techniques

By: Paul Andrew Wandless

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Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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1579906354

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Panama at the Crossroads

Economic Development and Political Change in the Twentieth Century

By: Andrew Zimbalist,John Weeks

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Panama at the Crossroads

Economic Development and Political Change in the Twentieth Century

By: Andrew Zimbalist,John Weeks

In December 1989, the United States invaded Panama, deposed its government, and established another in its place. While this act of violent intervention brought Panama to public attention, the justifications for it obscured the underlying instabilities that have plagued the country throughout its history. Although a stated purpose of the invasion was to remove one man, Manuel Noriega, from power, Panama at the Crossroads demonstrates that the crisis sweeping Panama in the late 1980s was not caused by one man, but in fact derived from the history of U.S. domination and the nature of Panamanian society itself. Panama is located at a crucial geographic crossroads, a fact that has greatly influenced the country's history since the sixteenth century. Labor scarcity and inhospitable terrain, joined with its location, contributed to the mercantile orientation of Panama's economy. Accordingly, the country's politics and economics have been consistently dominated by foreign trading interests, first from Spain, then Colombia and the United States. Now in the 1990s, Panama stands at a historical and economic crossroads, and according to Zimbalist and Weeks its traditional entrepôt institutions are no longer able to promote and sustain growth. Before building the basis for long-term economic expansion, Panama must first undo the devastating economic and political damage engendered by nearly three years of U.S. economic sanctions and the U.S. invasion. In this timely book, Zimbalist and Weeks document the origins and characteristics of this crossroads. Their analysis points the way to a more encompassing and equitable strategy for Panama's economic development. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.

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