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In Hot Blood

A Casebook of Historic British Crimes of Passion

By: Nicola Sly

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In Hot Blood

A Casebook of Historic British Crimes of Passion

By: Nicola Sly

This chilling compendium of historic crimes features 28 cases that shocked the nation during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Among the cases featured here are the shooting of Bessie Cross, after she fell pregnant while her husband was away serving his country in 1917, and the 1869 murders of Maria Death and her alleged lover by Maria’s partner, Frederick Hinson. It also recalls the tragic stories of Elvira Barney and Ruth Ellis, who shot and killed their lovers in 1932 and 1955 respectively, with very different consequences. Along with the most notorious cases, this book also features many that did not make national headlines, examining not only the methods and motives but also the real stories of the perpetrators and their victims. This book is a must for true-crime fans everywhere.

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354

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The History Press

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0752492217

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9780752492216

Tellurium in Organic Synthesis

Second, Updated and Enlarged Edition

By: Nicola Petragnani,Hélio A. Stefani

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Tellurium in Organic Synthesis

Second, Updated and Enlarged Edition

By: Nicola Petragnani,Hélio A. Stefani

The increasing number of publications that use tellurium clearly demonstrates the important role of tellurium compounds as unique and powerful tools in a broad range of organic chemical manipulations, often characterized by their selective behavior. Tellurium in Organic Synthesis provides an overview of the principal aspects of organic tellurium chemistry. Many chapters have been enriched and updated in this second edition. New chapters include overviews of toxicology and pharmacology and a review on the preparation and reactivity of several tellurium heterocycles. The first part of the book focuses on the preparation of selected inorganic tellurium compounds and on the main classes of organotellurium compounds. The second part, and main interest of the book, details the use of these inorganic and organic compounds as reagents to perform specific organic manipulations and synthesis. Reactions covered include reduction, formation and reaction of anionic species, deprotection, tellurium cyclizations, formation of alkenes, use of vinyllic tellurides, free radical chemistry, transmetallations, and removal of tellurium. - Overview of inorganic and organic tellurium chemistry - Synthetic applications of tellurium compounds - All topics accompanied by detailed experimental procedures

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400

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Elsevier

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0080474926

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9780080474922

Machiavelli’s Prince

Traditions, Text and Translations

By: Nicola Gardini,Martin McLaughlin

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Machiavelli’s Prince

Traditions, Text and Translations

By: Nicola Gardini,Martin McLaughlin

One of the high-points of Italian Renaissance humanism, Machiavelli’s The Prince immediately transcended the time and culture from which it had sprung, circulating throughout Europe and paving the road to an astonishing variety of discussions on power and liberty for centuries to come. Indeed, one could hardly think of a literary work whose reception has been more controversial and arguably more crucial to the fashioning of modernity. This volume gathers together the proceedings of a conference held in Oxford, in November 2013, to mark the 500th anniversary of the composition of The Prince. It explores pivotal aspects of the text’s complex identity, focusing on three interrelated areas: 1. The Prince’s own ways of appropriating ancient and modern traditions of political thought and ethics; 2. the textual history and interpretive details of the work; 3. translations of the treatise into foreign languages (including English and other translations), with their cultural adaptations and reconceptualizations of the original. All chapters offer highly original insights by leading experts on The Prince, shedding light on hitherto neglected topics and locating Machiavelli’s masterpiece in an intriguing network of intersecting perspectives.

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211

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Viella Libreria Editrice

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8867289543

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9788867289547

The National Childhood Encephalopathy Study

A 10-Year Follow Up

By: Nicola Madge,David Millar

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The National Childhood Encephalopathy Study

A 10-Year Follow Up

By: Nicola Madge,David Millar

This book presents the findings from an extensive follow-up report of 1,182 children from the National Childhood Encephalopathy Study conducted in Britain. Each of these children had an early neurological illness, and each was matched according to age, sex, and geographical location with two control children. For the present follow-up, the researchers evaluated the survival, development, and capabilities of 80% of the children from the original study. They found that the children's outcomes varied considerably: while some appeared fully recovered, others were severely impaired. The size of the study enabled the researchers to identify those factors that most reliably predicted outcome, such as early diagnosis, continuing convulsions, and age at onset of the illness, as well as those factors that did not prove predictive of outcome, such as sex and social conditions. The researchers also examined the question of whether or not early neurological illness predicted a single syndrome of subsequent impairment. They found that, on the contrary, the children displayed different patterns of longer-term difficulties. This is a special issue of Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology.

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126

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Cambridge University Press

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0521458838

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9780521458832

Disrupted Networks

From Physics to Climate Change

By: Bruce J. West,Nicola Scafetta

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Disrupted Networks

From Physics to Climate Change

By: Bruce J. West,Nicola Scafetta

This book provides a lens through which modern society is shown to depend on complex networks for its stability. One way to achieve this understanding is through the development of a new kind of science, one that is not explicitly dependent on the traditional disciplines of biology, economics, physics, sociology and so on; a science of networks. This text reviews, in non-mathematical language, what we know about the development of science in the twenty-first century and how that knowledge influences our world. In addition, it distinguishes the two-tiered science of the twentieth century, based on experiment and theory (data and knowledge) from the three-tiered science of experiment, computation and theory (data, information and knowledge) of the twenty-first century in everything from psychophysics to climate change. This book is unique in that it addresses two parallel lines of argument. The first line is general and intended for a lay audience, but one that is scientifically sophisticated, explaining how the paradigm of science has been changed to accommodate the computer and large-scale computation. The second line of argument addresses what some consider the seminal scientific problem of climate change. The authors show how a misunderstanding of the change in the scientific paradigm has led to a misunderstanding of complex phenomena in general, and the causes of global warming in particular.

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314

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World Scientific

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9814304301

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9789814304306

Metal Oxide Nanoparticles in Organic Solvents

Synthesis, Formation, Assembly and Application

By: Markus Niederberger,Nicola Pinna

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Metal Oxide Nanoparticles in Organic Solvents

Synthesis, Formation, Assembly and Application

By: Markus Niederberger,Nicola Pinna

Metal Oxide Nanoparticles in Organic Solvents discusses recent advances in the chemistry involved for the controlled synthesis and assembly of metal oxide nanoparticles, the characterizations required by such nanoobjects, and their size and shape depending properties. In the last few years, a valuable alternative to the well-known aqueous sol-gel processes was developed in the form of nonaqueous solution routes. Metal Oxide Nanoparticles in Organic Solvents reviews and compares surfactant- and solvent-controlled routes, as well as providing an overview of techniques for the characterization of metal oxide nanoparticles, crystallization pathways, the physical properties of metal oxide nanoparticles, their applications in diverse fields of technology, and their assembly into larger nano- and mesostructures. Researchers and postgraduates in the fields of nanomaterials and sol-gel chemistry will appreciate this book’s informative approach to chemical formation mechanisms in relation to metal oxides.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1848826710

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9781848826717

Evolutionary Gerontology and Geriatrics

Why and How We Age

By: Giacinto Libertini,Graziamaria Corbi,Valeria Conti,Olga Shubernetskaya,Nicola Ferrara

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Evolutionary Gerontology and Geriatrics

Why and How We Age

By: Giacinto Libertini,Graziamaria Corbi,Valeria Conti,Olga Shubernetskaya,Nicola Ferrara

This book provides concrete scientific basis that we can conceive the possibility of modifying or even completely canceling aging process, despite the fact that aging is commonly regarded as the result of the overall effects of many uncontrollable degenerative phenomena. The authors illustrate in detail the mechanisms by which cells and the whole organism age. Actions by which it is possible, or will be possible within a limited time, to operate for modifying aging are also debated. The discussion is conducted within the frame and the concepts of evolutionary medicine, which is also indispensable for distinguishing between the manifestations of aging and: (i) diseases that worsen with age, and (ii) acceleration of normal aging rates, caused by unhealthy lifestyle habits and other avoidable factors. The book also discusses the impact of aging on overall mortality and the strange situation that, according to official statistics, aging does not exist as cause of death. This book is a turning point between a gerontology and geriatrics conceived as the study and vain treatment of an incurable condition and one in which these disciplines examine the how and why of a physiological phenomenon that can be modified up to a possible total control. This means transforming the medical prevention and treatment of physiological aging from the greatest failure to the greatest success of medicine.

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413

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Springer Nature

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3030737748

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9783030737740

Navigate Elementary

By: Fiona Aish,Nicola Meldrum,Gabrielle Lambrick,Jane Welberry Smith,Rawdon Wyatt

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Navigate Elementary

By: Fiona Aish,Nicola Meldrum,Gabrielle Lambrick,Jane Welberry Smith,Rawdon Wyatt

Information-rich topics and texts immerse adult learners in themes and issues from around the world so that English is more relevant.

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0194566412

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9780194566414

Book's by Nicola Meldrum

In Hot Blood

In Hot Blood

Tellurium in Organic Synthesis

Tellurium in Organic Synthesis

Machiavelli’s Prince

Machiavelli’s Prince

The National Childhood Encephalopathy Study

The National Childhood Encephalopathy Study

Disrupted Networks

Disrupted Networks

Metal Oxide Nanoparticles in Organic Solvents

Metal Oxide Nanoparticles in Organic Solvents

Evolutionary Gerontology and Geriatrics

Evolutionary Gerontology and Geriatrics

Navigate Elementary

Navigate Elementary

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