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The Two Gentlemen of Verona

By: William Shakespeare

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The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. In this second edition of The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Kurt Schlueter approaches Shakespeare's early comedy as a parody of two types of Renaissance educational fiction: the love-quest story and the test-of-friendship story, which in combination show high-flown human ideals as incompatible with each other and with human nature. Since the first known production at David Garrick's Drury Lane Theatre, the play has tempted major directors and actors, though changing conceptions of the play often fail to recognise its subversive impetus. This updated edition includes a new introductory section by Lucy Munro on recent stage and critical interpretations, bringing the thoroughly researched, illustrated performance history up to date.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107004896

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9781107004894

Rockwood and Green's Fractures in Adults

By: Paul Tornetta, III,William Ricci,Charles M. Court-Brown,Margaret M. McQueen

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Rockwood and Green's Fractures in Adults

By: Paul Tornetta, III,William Ricci,Charles M. Court-Brown,Margaret M. McQueen

This exhaustive reference includes new chapters and pedagogical features, as well as—for the first time—content on managing fragility factures. To facilitate fast, easy absorption of the material, this edition has been streamlined and now includes more tables, charts, and treatment algorithms than ever before. Experts in their field share their experiences and offer insights and guidance on the latest technical developments for common orthopaedic procedures, including their preferred treatment options.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1496386523

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9781496386526

Perspectives in Biophysical Plant Ecophysiology

A Tribute to Park S. Nobel

By: William Kirby Smith

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Perspectives in Biophysical Plant Ecophysiology

A Tribute to Park S. Nobel

By: William Kirby Smith

Park S. Nobel pioneered the coupling of cellular physical chemistry with plant physiology, providing a sound physicochemical interpretation of the laws of diffusion to a rapidly expanding field of plant physiological ecology. His classical textbook is the only one of its kind to provide an extensive array of quantitative problems and solutions in the field of plant biophysics and ecophysiology, extending from the molecular to the ecological level. In this festschrift, former graduate students and postdocs, as well as colleagues of Prof. Nobel present a series of reviews that include scales from sub-cellular to global, and topics that range from desert succulent biology to the physiology of alpine plants, encompassing basic research and applications in agronomy and conservation biology. This state-of-the-field survey provides current and useful information for professionals and graduate students, while illustrating the broad span of the influence that Nobel's career has had on modern ecophysiology.

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442

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UNAM

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0578004216

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9780578004211

The Life and Typography of William Caxton, England's First Printer

By: William Blades

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The Life and Typography of William Caxton, England's First Printer

By: William Blades

A two-volume work by William Blades, published in 1861-3, on the life and activities of the printer William Caxton.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108073565

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9781108073561

Career Patterns in the Ch’ing Dynasty

The Office of the Governor General

By: Raymond Chu,William Saywell

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Career Patterns in the Ch’ing Dynasty

The Office of the Governor General

By: Raymond Chu,William Saywell

The office of governor general (tsung-tu) was the highest provincial post throughout the Ch’ing dynasty. As such, it was a vital link in the control of a vast empire by a very small and alien ruling elite. This is primarily a biographical and statistical analysis of the incumbents of that office. By analyzing the biographical data of those who held the position of governor-general, much may be learned about the nature of the office itself. However, the main objective of the study is to provide information on career patterns, that is, the variety of different posts held from the first official appointment to that of governor-general, of an important cross section of successful Ch’ing bureaucrats. By plotting and analyzing the different patterns their official careers took, we should be able to determine what kind of men reached the top of China’s provincial and national administration during the final centuries of China’s imperial history; the qualifications that were required; the factors which prompted rapid promotion or sudden disgrace. We should also be able to determine the extent to which these and other factors varied markedly among Manchu, Mongol, Chinese Bannerman, and Han incumbents and whether changes throughout the dynasty can be detected in policies concerning the office or in the career patterns of its personnel. If such detection is possible, this study may lend support to the view that late imperial China was not static, but a society undergoing significant changes. [xi]

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University of Michigan Press

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0472901745

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9780472901746

Recognition of Health Hazards in Industry

A Review of Materials Processes

By: William A. Burgess

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Recognition of Health Hazards in Industry

A Review of Materials Processes

By: William A. Burgess

An authoritative and practical guide to identifying major health issues in the workplace with an overview of common control approaches. Contains detailed surveys of work tasks in a wide range of industries, enabling readers to recognize health problems in facility design and operation and to relate medical symptoms to job exposure. New to this edition: discussion of microelectronics, chemical processing and plastics fabrication; increased coverage of published exposure information; epidemiologic and other health status studies.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471577162

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9780471577164

Who Saved the Parthenon?

A New History of the Acropolis Before, During and After the Greek Revolution

By: William St Clair

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Who Saved the Parthenon?

A New History of the Acropolis Before, During and After the Greek Revolution

By: William St Clair

In this magisterial book, William St Clair unfolds the history of the Parthenon throughout the modern era to the present day, with special emphasis on the period before, during, and after the Greek War of Independence of 1821–32. Focusing particularly on the question of who saved the Parthenon from destruction during this conflict, with the help of documents that shed a new light on this enduring question, he explores the contributions made by the Philhellenes, Ancient Athenians, Ottomans and the Great Powers. Marshalling a vast amount of primary evidence, much of it previously unexamined and published here for the first time, St Clair rigorously explores the multiple ways in which the Parthenon has served both as a cultural icon onto which meanings are projected and as a symbol of particular national, religious and racial identities, as well as how it illuminates larger questions about the uses of built heritage. This book has a companion volume with the classical Parthenon as its main focus, which offers new ways of recovering the monument and its meanings in ancient times. St Clair builds on the success of his classic text, The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period, to present this rich and authoritative account of the Parthenon’s presentation and reception throughout history. With weighty implications for the present life of the Parthenon, it is itself a monumental contribution to accounts of the Greek Revolution, to classical studies, and to intellectual history.

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502

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Open Book Publishers

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1783744642

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9781783744640

Simpson

The Turbulent Life of a Medical Pioneer

By: William Morrice McCrae

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Simpson

The Turbulent Life of a Medical Pioneer

By: William Morrice McCrae

This is the story of one of the great events in the history of medicine. In 1847, challenging the firmly held convictions of the medical profession of the time, James Young Simpson demonstrated for the first time that a woman could be safely relieved of the pains of difficult and traumatic labour by the administration of a general anaesthetic. He later added to his fame when he introduced a new and better anaesthetic, chloroform, which soon became the most popular general anaesthetic for use in general surgery as well as midwifery. Its use was endorsed by Queen Victoria when she asked for it to be administered during the birth of Prince Leopold in 1853. The book also gives a history of a time of rapid change in Scottish society that allowed the seventh son of a village baker in a rural apart of Scotland to go to university and then become a successful physician, a medical professor at one of the leading university medical schools in the world and Physician to the Queen, all before he had reached the age of forty.

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Birlinn

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0857900625

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9780857900623

Book's by William J. Munro

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Rockwood and Green's Fractures in Adults

Rockwood and Green's Fractures in Adults

Perspectives in Biophysical Plant Ecophysiology

Perspectives in Biophysical Plant Ecophysiology

The Life and Typography of William Caxton, England's First Printer

The Life and Typography of William Caxton, England's First Printer

Career Patterns in the Ch’ing Dynasty

Career Patterns in the Ch’ing Dynasty

Recognition of Health Hazards in Industry

Recognition of Health Hazards in Industry

Who Saved the Parthenon?

Who Saved the Parthenon?

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