“No sistema capitalista, para que a Inglaterra possa viver em relativo conforto, 100 milhões de indianos têm que viver à beira da inanição — um estado de coisas perverso, mas você consente com tudo isso cada vez que entra num táxi ou comemorangos com...

Steel Pier / O.c.r.

Novo livro de poemas de Sérgio Alcides, 'Píer' tem como cenário recorrente o litoral, a praia, a marinha. Muitos textos são compostos como se fossem paisagens, mas o país que eles retratam não se prende completamente a nenhuma geografia exterior à...

Mysteriously murdered in 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini became famous—and infamous—not only for his groundbreaking films and literary works but also for his homosexuality and criticism of capitalism, colonialism, and Western materialism. In Pier Paolo...

More than thirty years after the tragic death of Pier Paolo Pasolini, this volume is intended to acknowledge the significance of his living memory. His artistic and cultural production continues to be a fundamental reference point in any discourse on...

Keely Moreno's foot reflexology courses never taught her how to deal with a corpse. After finally breaking free from her abusive ex-husband, Keely is pursuing a new career in Key West. All goes well until she reports to the home of her wealthy...

A pair of 1980s college sweethearts, separated by their insecurities, meet years later. Can they make it work this time

PI Gulliver Dowd rescues a street kid's dog, but when the kid is found badly beaten the next day, Gulliver uncovers a new mystery.

PI Gulliver Dowd rescues a street kid's dog, but when the kid is found badly beaten the next day, Gulliver uncovers a new mystery.

Nine dazzling stories from the beloved, bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.The stories that make up The Pier Falls take many forms—Victorian adventure, science fiction, morality tale, contemporary realism—but they...

An entertaining, abundantly illustrated history of a Chicago landmark, inspired by Daniel Burnham and a feat of engineering, now a grand locale for public recreation.

A searing account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact...

This book gives a focused, military biography of Heinz Guderian, perhaps the most highly respected tank commander of World War II. Guderian was a typical product of the Prussian military elite; the son of a general in the army, there was little doubt...

This book explores the experiences of the German Afrikakorps soldier during the North Africa campaign, from the Korps' arrival in-theatre in February 1941 to its eventual surrender in Tunisia in May 1943, with a particular focus on the intense period...

Excerpt from The Pier-Glass A simple nosegay l was that much to ask (winter still gloomed, with scarce a bud yet showing). He loved her ill, if he resigned the task. Somewhere, she cried, there must be blossom blowing. It seems my lady wept and the...

This volume provides a detailed examination on the late-war changes to the German Army Panzer forces and the formation of new units, from the collapse on the Eastern Front, through operations on the Western Front in Normandy and the Ardennes, to the...

Although he is mostly remembered for his part in the campaign in Italy from 1943 to 1945, Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring was also chief of staff of the Luftwaffe in 1936-37, playing a crucial role in the shaping of the service for the coming...

Despite the attention paid to the Afrikakorps over the years, it was the numerically far superior forces of the Italian Army that held the line and formed the bulk of the fighting power available to the Axis powers during the War in the Desert from...

On 22 June 1941 Germany attacked the Soviet Union and her Panzer divisions were to play a major role in this titanic struggle. Although overwhelmed by Soviet numbers, the superior skill and capability of the German Panzer divisions meant that in...

Italian military historian Pier Paolo Battistelli examines the elite and specialforces units of the Italian Army during World War II. This includes a vast array of troop types, including paratroopers, assault engineers, sea-landing and swimmer units,...

When Italy surrendered in 1943, it sparked a resistance movement of anti-German, anti-fascist partisans. This book explores the tactics, organizational structure and equipment of the brave Italian resistance fighters. Beginning with low-level...

To save a child, they would sacrifice everything . . . Comfortably settled into his expatriate life in post-war Britain, Headmaster Theodore'apos;s secrets are set to remain deeply buried. Until she breezes in. Tia Bellamy: vivacious, intriguing, a...

Affluent but unhappy John Ford is taking yet another lonely stroll around town one night when he sees a mysterious woman toss a bundle into the water from the Chain Pier. The next day, the ghastly contents of the bundle are revealed -- a discovery...

A stunning historical saga set in the early decades of the twentieth century which follows the lives and loves of one extraordinary family.We first meet the Goold Verschoyle children in 1915. Though there is a war going on in the world outside, they...

Vingança também é uma arte. Sim, por incrível que pareça, vingar-se de outrem, de uma forma sórdida e criativa, pode ser uma obra-prima.É caso do personagem principal desta história, Montescu, que preparou uma vingança no mínimo inusitada a um antigo...

In a resort town divided along socioeconomic lines, a waitress tries to hold onto her twenty-year-old son, and the sheriff is convinced that the murderer of three local women is still in town

When her fiancâe Mike is left paralyzed following a tragic accident, Carrie Bell begins to question her familiar world, from her everyday life in Wisconsin to her relationships, as she sets out to rediscover her own identity.

A origem da vida tem sido o foco de muitas pesquisas há décadas, do ponto de vista experimental ou filosófico. Neste livro, Pier Luigi Luisi leva o leitor através de estágios consecutivos da química prebiótica até a biologia sintética, combinando as...

In the 1930s Orwell was sent by a socialist book club to investigate the appalling mass unemployment in the industrial north of England. He went beyond his assignment to investigate the employed as well-”to see the most typical section of the English...

Immobilized pH gradients (IPG) represent the most advanced development of isoelectric focusing (IEF). Originally developed to overcome all the problems of IEF in soluble amphoteric buffers (CA) (such as pH gradient instability, complexation with CA...

This book deals with theoretical and practical developments of IEF and offers detailed methodology for many of the commonly used procedures, such as IEF in gels. It is intended both as a reference guide and a practical manual.

'No sistema capitalista, para que a Inglaterra possa viver em relativo conforto, 100 milhões de indianos têm que viver à beira da inanição - um estado de coisas perverso, mas você consente com tudo isso cada vez que entra num táxi ou come morangos...

Low-Abundance Proteome Discovery addresses the most critical challenge in biomarker discovery and progress: the identification of low-abundance proteins. The book describes an original strategy developed by the authors that permits the detection of...

The book deals with the theory and practice of all electrophoretic steps leading to proteome analysis, i.e. isoelectric focusing (including immobilized pH gradients), sodium dodecyl sulphate electrophoresis (SADS-PAGE) and finally two-dimensional...

At seventy-five, Terry and Monica Darlington had done everything they could think of doing, including starting a business and becoming athletes and running a literary society.Lately they had become boating adventurers and Terry a bestselling writer....

In The Venetian Qur'apos;an, Pier Mattia Tommasino uncovers the author, origin, and lasting influence of the Alcorano di Macometto, a book that purported to be the first printed European vernacular translation of the Qur'apos;an.

Katie Morag And the New Pier

The Emergence of Life

The advent of wireless sensor technology and ad-hoc networks has made DSC a major field of interest. Edited and written by the leading players in the field, this book presents the latest theory, algorithms and applications, making it the definitive...

Panzer Divisions 1944-45

Over the past thirty years, a new systemic conception of life has emerged at the forefront of science. New emphasis has been given to complexity, networks, and patterns of organisation leading to a novel kind of 'systemic' thinking. This volume...

This two-volume reference serves as a handbook containing a wealth of information for all isotope chemists working in a wide range of disciplines including anthropology to ecology; drug detection methodology to toxicology; nutrition to food science;...