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Rivals of the Ripper

Unsolved Murders of Women in Late Victorian London

By: Jan Bondeson

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Rivals of the Ripper

Unsolved Murders of Women in Late Victorian London

By: Jan Bondeson

When discussing unsolved murders of women in late Victorian London, most people think of the depredations of Jack the Ripper, the Whitechapel Murderer, whose sanguineous exploits have spawned the creation of a small library of books. But Jack the Ripper was just one of a string of phantom murderers whose unsolved slayings outraged late Victorian Britain. The mysterious Great Coram Street, Burton Crescent and Euston Square murders were talked about with bated breath, and the northern part of Bloomsbury got the unflattering nickname of the 'murder neighbourhood' for its profusion of unsolved mysteries. Marvel at the convoluted Kingswood Mystery, littered with fake names and mistaken identities; be puzzled by the blackmail and secret marriage in the Cannon Street Murder; and shudder at the vicious yet silent killing in St Giles that took place in a crowded house in the dead of night. This book is the first to resurrect these unsolved Victorian murder mysteries, and to highlight the ghoulish handiwork of the Rivals of the Ripper: the spectral killers of gas-lit London.

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The History Press

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0750968575

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9780750968577

A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities

By: Jan Bondeson

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A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities

By: Jan Bondeson

Discusses several strange diseases, remarkable malformations, uncommon and gruesome ways of death, and unlikely feats of fasting or gluttony, which proliferated in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries' medical literature, and shows that sometimes these curiosities did occur

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393318923

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9780393318920

Murder Houses of Greater London

By: Jan Bondeson

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Murder Houses of Greater London

By: Jan Bondeson

Which of Greater London’s most gruesome murders happened in your street? And were they committed by Graham Frederick Young, the Poisoner of the North Circular Road, by the murderous Donald Hume, or by that monster Dennis Nilsen? Armed with this book and a good London map, you will be able to do some murder house detection work of your own.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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178462974X

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9781784629748

The Two-headed Boy, and Other Medical Marvels

By: Jan Bondeson

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The Two-headed Boy, and Other Medical Marvels

By: Jan Bondeson

A successor to his popular book A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities, this new collection of essays by Jan Bondeson illustrates various anomalies of human development, the lives of the remarkable individuals concerned, and social reactions to their extraordinary bodies.Bondeson examines historical cases of dwarfism, extreme corpulence, giantism, conjoined twins, dicephaly, and extreme hairiness; his broader theme, however, is the infinite range of human experience. The dicephalous Tocci brothers and Lazarus Colloredo (from whose belly grew his malformed conjoined twin), the Swedish giant, and the king of Poland's dwarf--Bondeson considers these individuals not as "freaks" but as human beings born with sometimes appalling congenital deformities.He makes full use of original French, German, Dutch, Polish, and Scandinavian sources and explores elements of ethnology, literature, and cultural history in his diagnoses. Heavily illustrated with woodcuts, engravings, oil paintings, and photographs, The Two-Headed Boy and Other Medical Marvels combines a scientist's scrutiny with a humanist's wonder at the endurance of the human spirit. Contents: The Two Inseparable Brothers, and a PrefaceThe Hairy Maid at the HarpsichordThe Stone-childThe Woman Who Laid an EggThe Strangest Miracle in the WorldSome Words about Hog-faced GentlewomenHorned HumansThe Biddenden MaidsThe Tocci Brothers, and Other DicephaliThe King of Poland's CourtDwarf Daniel Cajanus, the Swedish GiantDaniel Lambert, the Human ColossusCat-eating Englishmen and French Frog-swallowers

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Cornell University Press

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080148958X

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9780801489587

The Lion Boy and Other Medical Curiosities

By: Jan Bondeson

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The Lion Boy and Other Medical Curiosities

By: Jan Bondeson

A historian’s research skills combined with a physician’s diagnostic flair, exploring our timeless fascination with the unusual and downright bizarre people, events and theories in the colourful history of medicine.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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144567629X

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9781445676296

Blood on the Snow

The Killing of Olof Palme

By: Jan Bondeson

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Blood on the Snow

The Killing of Olof Palme

By: Jan Bondeson

An investigative account of the still-unsolved assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, a major figure in world politics and an ardent opponent of apartheid, shot dead on the streets of Stockholm in February 1986.

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Cornell University Press

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0801442117

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9780801442117

Victorian Murders

By: Jan Bondeson

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Victorian Murders

By: Jan Bondeson

This book features fifty-six Victorian murder cases from the files of the Illustrated Police News.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445666316

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9781445666310

Blood on the Snow

The Killing of Olof Palme

By: Jan Bondeson

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Blood on the Snow

The Killing of Olof Palme

By: Jan Bondeson

The Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, a major figure in world politics and an ardent opponent of apartheid, was shot dead on the streets of Stockholm in February 1986. At the time of his death, Palme was deeply involved in Middle East diplomacy and was working under UN auspices to end the Iran–Iraq war. Across Scandinavia, Palme's killing had an impact similar to that of the Kennedy assassinations in the United States—and it ignited nearly as many conspiracy theories. Interest in the Palme slaying was most recently stirred by reports of the death of Christer Pettersson, who was tried for the murder twice, convicted the first time, and then acquitted on appeal. In his investigative account of Palme's still-unsolved murder, the historian Jan Bondeson meticulously recreates the assassination and its aftermath. Like the best works of crime fiction, this book puts the victim and his death into social context. Bondeson's work, however, is noteworthy for its dispassionate treatment of police incompetence: the police did not answer a witness’s phone call reporting the murder just 45 seconds after it occurred, and further time was lost as the police sought to confirm that someone had actually been shot. When the police arrived on the scene, they did not even recognize the victim as the Prime Minister. This early confusion was emblematic of the errors that were to follow. Bondeson demolishes the various conspiracy theories that have been devised to make sense of the killing, before suggesting a convincing explanation of his own. A brilliant piece of investigative journalism, Blood on the Snow includes crime-scene photographs and reconstructions that have never before been published and offers a gripping narrative of a crime that shocked a continent.

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Cornell University Press

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0801470129

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9780801470127

Membrane Fusion

By: Jan Wilschut

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Membrane Fusion

By: Jan Wilschut

This balanced volume provides a broad and coherent overview of recent progress in membrane fusion research—highlighting an interdisciplinary treatment of the subject from the fields of biophysics, biochemistry, cell biology, virology, and biotechnology—in a single volume., Featuring easy-access sections on the general properties of membranes and applications of membrane fusion techniques, this valuable sourcebook outlines membrane structure, lipid polymorphism, and intermembrane forces ... covers membrane fusion in model systems ... presents the fusogenic properties of enveloped viruses ... discusses the fusion and flow of intracellular membranes and cell-cell fusion occurring during fertilization and myogenesis ... offers applications of membrane fusion techniques in cell-biological research and biotechnology ... and more. Supplying a comprehensive view of this exciting topic, Membrane Fusion is a working resource for molecular, cell, and membrane biologists; biophysicists; biochemists; virologists; biotechnologists; microbiologists; immunologists; physiologists; and graduate and medical school students in biophysics, biochemistry, physiology, virology, cell biology, and biotechnology.

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CRC Press

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1000715620

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9781000715620

Amazing Dogs

A Cabinet of Canine Curiosities

By: Jan Bondeson

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Amazing Dogs

A Cabinet of Canine Curiosities

By: Jan Bondeson

Amazing Dogs tells the stories of some of the most extraordinary dogs in history.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445609649

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9781445609645

Buried Alive

The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear

By: Jan Bondeson

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Buried Alive

The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear

By: Jan Bondeson

During the 1800s, stories filled medical journals as well as fiction (Poe's "The Premature Burial") of people being buried before they actually died. Canvassing medical records of the time, the author presents an engrossing and witty history of the fear and facts of being buried alive. Illustrations.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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039332222X

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9780393322224

Buried Alive

The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear

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Buried Alive

The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear

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Great Pretenders

The True Stories Behind Famous Historical Mysteries

By: Jan Bondeson

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Great Pretenders

The True Stories Behind Famous Historical Mysteries

By: Jan Bondeson

Most countries have their own national mysteries that have never been solved, enigmatic figures who have disappeared, pretenders who have surfaced to claim their rights, and many of these are now in the realms of folklore and legend. However, in this study, six case studies are reopened and re-examined using modern historical and medical science, including DNA technology. Among those investigated by Bondeson are the fate of the son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, the identity of the German Kaspar Hauser, the faked death of Tsar Alexander I, and the alleged secret marriage of George III. A light-hearted read for the curious.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393326446

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9780393326444

The London Monster

A Sanguinary Tale

By: Jan Bondeson

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The London Monster

A Sanguinary Tale

By: Jan Bondeson

A century before Jack the Ripper there was the London Monster, whose knife attacks on women caused unprecedented alarm, terror, and uproar. Through chance combined with vigilante effort, a young Welshman, Rhynwick Williams, was arrested as the Monster and committed to prison after a sensational trial at the Old Bailey. However, doubts about Williams' guilt persisted, and some writers asserted that there never was a Monster at all. Over 200 years later, Bondeson (author of A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities and The Feejee Mermaid and Other Essays in Natural and Unnatural History) unearthed new clues to this fascinating case, which lies somewhere between fact and urban legend. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812235762

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9780812235760

The Lion Boy and Other Medical Curiosities

By: Jan Bondeson

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The Lion Boy and Other Medical Curiosities

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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144567629X

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9781445676296

Murder Houses of South London

By: Jan Bondeson

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Murder Houses of South London

By: Jan Bondeson

Which of South London’s most gruesome murders happened in your street? Armed with this book and a good London map, you will be able to do some murder house detection work of your own. South London has a long and blood-spattered history of capital crime, and many of its murder houses still stand.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1784629758

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9781784629755

Murder Houses of Edinburgh

By: Jan Bondeson

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Murder Houses of Edinburgh

By: Jan Bondeson

Which of Edinburgh’s most gruesome murders has happened in your street? And were they committed by Burke and Hare, by the Stockbridge Baby-Farmer, by the Demon Frenchman of George Street, by the Triple Killer of Falcon Avenue, or perhaps by one of the Capital’s many faceless, spectral slayers

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1800467818

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9781800467811

Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Literature and Theater

By: Jan Sjåvik

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Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Literature and Theater

By: Jan Sjåvik

The literature of Scandinavia is amazingly rich and varied, consisting of the works produced by the countries of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland, and stretching from the ancient Norse Sagas to the present day. While much of it is unknown outside of the region, some has gained worldwide popularity, including the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, the stories of Isak Dinesen, and the plays of Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg. While obviously including the area's most famous works, the Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Literature and Theater also provides information on lesser known authors and currents trends, literary circles and journals, and historical background. This is accomplished through a list of acronyms, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and several hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries, which together make this reference the most comprehensive and up to date work of its kind related to Scandinavian literature and theater available anywhere.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810865017

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9780810865013

Collective Modes in Inhomogeneous Plasmas

Kinetic and Advanced Fluid Theory

By: Jan Weiland

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Collective Modes in Inhomogeneous Plasmas

Kinetic and Advanced Fluid Theory

By: Jan Weiland

Collective Modes in Inhomogeneous Plasmas: Kinetic and Advanced Fluid Theory presents the collective drift and MHD-type modes in inhomogeneous plasmas from the point of view of two-fluid and kinetic theory. Written by an internationally respected plasma transport theoretician, this introductory monograph emphasizes the description of the plasma rather than the geometry to present a more general approach to a large class of plasma problems. Starting with generalized fluid equations for low frequency phenomena, the author shows how drift waves and MHD-type modes can arise from the effects of inhomogeneities in the plasma. The kinetic description is then presented to reveal a host of phenomena ranging from vortex modes and finite Larmor radius effects to trapped and fast particle instabilities, transport, diffusion, and other advanced fluid effects. Theoretical and computational plasma physicists modeling confined plasmas will find this illustrated book a very valuable addition to their collection.

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CRC Press

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0750305894

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9780750305891

Nodal Discontinuous Galerkin Methods

Algorithms, Analysis, and Applications

By: Jan S. Hesthaven,Tim Warburton

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Nodal Discontinuous Galerkin Methods

Algorithms, Analysis, and Applications

By: Jan S. Hesthaven,Tim Warburton

This book offers an introduction to the key ideas, basic analysis, and efficient implementation of discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods (DG-FEM) for the solution of partial differential equations. It covers all key theoretical results, including an overview of relevant results from approximation theory, convergence theory for numerical PDE’s, and orthogonal polynomials. Through embedded Matlab codes, coverage discusses and implements the algorithms for a number of classic systems of PDE’s: Maxwell’s equations, Euler equations, incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, and Poisson- and Helmholtz equations.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387720677

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9780387720678

The Two-headed Boy, and Other Medical Marvels

By: Jan Bondeson

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The Two-headed Boy, and Other Medical Marvels

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Cornell University Press

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080148958X

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9780801489587

A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities

By: Jan Bondeson

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A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities

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Long ago, curiosities were arranged in cabinets for display: a dried mermaid might be next to a giant's shinbone, the skeletons of conjoined twins beside an Egyptian mummy. In ten essays, Jan Bondeson brings a physician's diagnostic skills to various unexpected, gruesome, and extraordinary aspects of the history of medicine: spontaneous human combustion, colonies of snakes and frogs living in a person's stomach, kings and emperors devoured by lice, vicious tribes of tailed men, and the Two-Headed Boy of Bengal. Bondeson tells the story of Mary Toft, who gained notoriety in 1726 when she allegedly gave birth to seventeen rabbits. King George I, the Prince of Wales, and the court physicians attributed these monstrous births to a "maternal impression" because Mary had longed for a meal of rabbit while pregnant. Bondeson explains that the fallacy of maternal impressions, conspicuous in the novels of Goethe, Sir Walter Scott, and Charles Dickens, has ancient roots in Chinese and Babylonian manuscripts. Bondeson also presents the tragic case of Julia Pastrana, a Mexican Indian woman with thick hair growing over her body and a massive overgrowth of the gums that gave her a simian or ape-like appearance. Called the Ape Woman, she was exhibited all over the world. After her death in 1860, Julia's husband, who had also been her impresario, had her body mummified and continued to exhibit it throughout Europe. Bondeson tracked the mummy down and managed to diagnose Julia Pastrana's condition as the result of a rare genetic syndrome.

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Cornell University Press

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1501733451

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9781501733451

Phillimore's Edinburgh

By: Jan Bondeson

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Phillimore's Edinburgh

By: Jan Bondeson

The complete collection of the famous postcard artist Phillimore’s pictures of Edinburgh. It will appeal both to those who know and love Edinburgh and to postcard collectors.

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177

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445678322

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9781445678320

Stability and Transport in Magnetic Confinement Systems

By: Jan Weiland

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Stability and Transport in Magnetic Confinement Systems

By: Jan Weiland

Stability and Transport in Magnetic Confinement Systems provides an advanced introduction to the fields of stability and transport in tokamaks. It serves as a reference for researchers with its highly-detailed theoretical background, and contains new results in the areas of analytical nonlinear theory of transport using kinetic theory and fluid closure. The use of fluid descriptions for advanced stability and transport problems provide the reader with a better understanding of this topic. In addition, the areas of nonlinear kinetic theory and fluid closure gives the researcher the basic knowledge of a highly relevant area to the present development of transport physics.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461437431

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9781461437437

Murder Houses of London

By: Jan Bondeson

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Murder Houses of London

By: Jan Bondeson

Which of London's most gruesome murders happened in your street? And were they committed by Jack the Ripper, the Kray twins, the Blackout Ripper or ‘Acid Bath’ Haigh?

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144561491X

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9781445614915

Freaks

The Pig-faced Lady of Manchester Square & Other Medical Marvels

By: Jan Bondeson

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Freaks

The Pig-faced Lady of Manchester Square & Other Medical Marvels

By: Jan Bondeson

This is the remarkable story of the lives of individuals afflicted with severe deformities and how seventeenth and eighteenth-century British society reacted to their extraordinary bodies. From hog-faced women to dog-faced boys, Jan Bondeson examines historical cases of dwarfism, extreme corpulence, giantism, conjoined twins, and extreme hairiness. He considers these individuals not as 'freaks' but as human beings born with sometimes appalling congenital deformities

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