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Verlag: Oxford University Press Jul 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0198804458ISBN 13: 9780198804451
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ranging across the 4.6 billion year history of the planet, geology is the subject that encompasses almost all that we see around us, in one way or another, and also much that we cannot see, beneath our feet, and on other planets. The fruits of geology provide most of the materials that give us shelter, and most of the energy that drives our modern lives. Within the study of geology lie some of the clues to the extraordinary impact our species is going to play out on the planet, in centuries and millennia to come.In this Very Short Introduction Jan Zalasiewicz gives a brief introduction to the fascinating field of geology. Describing how the science developed from its early beginnings, he looks at some of the key discoveries that have transformed it, before delving into its various subfields, such as sedimentology, tectonics, and stratigraphy. Analysing the geological foundations of the Earth, Zalasiewicz explains the interlocking studies of tectonics, geophysics, and igneous and metamorphic petrology and geochemistry; and describes how rocks are dated by radiometric dating. Considering the role and importance of geology in the finding and exploitation of resources (including fracking), he also discusses its place in environmental issues, such as foundations for urban structures and sites for landfill, and in tackling issues associated with climate change. Zalasiewicz concludes by discussing the exciting future and frontiers of the field, such as the exploration of the geology of Mars.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Jul 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0198716478ISBN 13: 9780198716471
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - No one wants to live in poverty. Few people would want others to do so. Yet, millions of people worldwide live in poverty. According to the World Bank, over 700 million people lived on less than US $2 a day in 2013. Why is that What has been done about it in the past And what is being done about it now In this Very Short Introduction Philip N. Jefferson explores how the answers to these questions lie in the social, political, economic, educational, and technological processes that impact all of us throughout our lives. The degree of vulnerability is all that differentiates us. He shows how a person's level of vulnerability to adverse changes in their life is very much dependent on the circumstances of their birth, including where their family lived, the schools they attended, whether it was peacetime or wartime, whether they had access to clean water, and whether they are male or female. Arguing that whilst poverty is ancient and enduring, the conversation about it is always new and evolving, Jefferson looks at the history of poverty, and the practical and analytical efforts we have made to eradicate it, and the prospects for further poverty alleviation in the future.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Jul 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0198748760ISBN 13: 9780198748762
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Voltaire's description of the Holy Roman Empire as 'neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire' is often cited to underline its worthlessness. German historians traditionally despised it because it had allegedly impeded German unification. Since 1945 scholars have been more positive but the empire's history and significance is still largely misunderstood.In this Very Short Introduction Joachim Whaley outlines the fascinating thousand-year history of the Holy Roman Empire. Founded in 800 on the basis of Charlemagne's Frankish kingdom, its imperial title went to the German monarchy which became established in the ninth and ten centuries. They claimed Charlemagne's legacy, including his role as protector of the papacy and guardian of the Church. Around 1500 the title Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation was adopted. An electivemonarchy, the empire gradually developed from a feudal monarchy into a legal system that pacified the territories and cities of German-speaking Europe. By 1519 it had a supreme court and a regional enforcement system ended feuding. Throughout its lifetime, the empire's growth and history was shaped by the majordevelopments in Europe, from the Reformation, to the Thirty Years War, to the French revolutionary wars, which led to Napoleon destroying the empire in 1806. The sense of a common history over a thousand years and the legal traditions established by the empire have shaped the history of German-speaking Europe ever since. Joachim Whaley analyses the empire's crucial impact and role in the history of European power and politics, and shows that there has never been a more durable political systemin German history.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Jul 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0198803494ISBN 13: 9780198803492
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Synthetic biology is one of the 21st century's fastest growing fields of research, as important for technology as for basic science. Building on traditional genetic engineering, which was restricted to changing one or two genes, synthetic biology uses multi-gene modules and pathways to make very significant changes to what cells can do. Synthetic biologists aim to have an impact in fields as diverse as drug manufacture, biofuel production, tackling pollution, and medical diagnostics. Further ahead, synthetic biology may even make possible the long-standing goal of creating new life from non-living starting materials.This Very Short Introduction provides a concise explanation of what synthetic biology is, and how it is beginning to affect many fields of technology. Jamie Davies also discusses the considerable controversies surrounding synthetic biology, from questions over the assumption that engineering concepts can be applied to living systems easily, to scepticism over the claims for commercial promise, fears that the dangers of engineering life are worse than its benefits, and concerns over whether humans should be designing living systems at all.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Jul 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0190867213ISBN 13: 9780190867218
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This concise book by the eminent philosopher Simon Blackburn provides an accessible explanation of what truth is and how we might think about it. Blackburn's overall message is that truth is often best thought of not as a product or an end point that is 'finally' achieved, but as an ongoing process of inquiry.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Jul 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0192767739ISBN 13: 9780192767738
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An easy-to-use family thesaurus to boost wordpower and spark creative writing with new vocabulary-building activities, over 40,000 synonyms and examples to help you pick the best words. Packed with high-quality photos, word webs on key topics to help with project work, overused word panels and writing tips - it is the perfect homework help.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Jul 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0192767720ISBN 13: 9780192767721
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - New edition of this family dictionary to boost spelling and improve vocabulary. With over 50,000 words (including school subject vocabulary), puzzles and artwork and photographs to support entries, child-friendly and relevant examples and help with pronunciation for tricky words - it is the perfect homework help.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Jul 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0198822510ISBN 13: 9780198822516
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What are philosophers trying to achieve How can they succeed Does philosophy make progress Is it in competition with science, or doing something completely different, or neither Timothy Williamson tackles some of the key questions surrounding philosophy in new and provocative ways, showing how philosophy begins in common sense curiosity, and develops through our capacity to dispute rationally with each other. Discussing philosophy's ability to clarify our thoughts, he explains why such clarification depends on the development of philosophical theories, and how those theories can be tested by imaginative thought experiments, and compared against each other by standardssimilar to those used in the natural and social sciences. He also shows how logical rigour can be understood as a way of enhancing the explanatory power of philosophical theories. Drawing on the history of philosophy to provide a track record of philosophical thinking's successes and failures,Williamson overturns widely held dogmas about the distinctive nature of philosophy in comparison to the sciences, demystifies its methods, and considers the future of the discipline.From thought experiments, to deduction, to theories, this little book will cause you to totally rethink what philosophy is.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Jul 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0190627123ISBN 13: 9780190627126
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Using plentiful examples from politics, popular culture, and everyday life, Sinnott-Armstrong introduces the reader to topics such as: what defines an argument; the role that reasons play in arguments; the pieces that make up good arguments; what arguments can accomplish effectively; the difference between essential terms like deductive, inductive, and abductive in creating an argument; and how to spot fallacies in others' arguments. Armed with these tools, Sinnott-Armstrong wants readers to be able to spot bad reasoning and bad arguments, and to advance their own view in a forceful and logical way-with an eye toward effective resolution of disputes.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Jul 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0198714718ISBN 13: 9780198714712
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The story of the panoply of exotic animals that were brought into Britain from time immemorial until the foundation of the London Zoo. A tale replete with the extravagant, the eccentric, and ¿ on occasion ¿ the downright bizarre.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Jul 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0198734832ISBN 13: 9780198734833
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Russian Revolution of 1917 transformed the face of the Russian empire, politically, economically, socially, and culturally, and also profoundly affected the course of world history for the rest of the twentieth century. Historian S. A. Smith presents a panoramic account of the history of the Russian empire, from the last years of the nineteenth century, through the First World War and the revolutions of 1917 and the establishment of the Bolshevik regime, to the end of the 1920s, when Stalin simultaneously unleashed violent collectivization of agriculture and crash industrialization upon Russian society. Drawing on recent archivally-based scholarship, Russia in Revolution pays particular attention to the varying impact of the Revolution on the various groups that made up society: peasants, workers, non-Russian nationalities, the army, women and the family, young people, and the Church. In doing so, it provides a fresh way into the big, perennial questions about the Revolution and its consequences: why did the attempt by the tsarist government to implement political reform after the 1905 Revolution fail; why did the First World War bring about the collapse of the tsarist system; why did the attempt to create a democratic system after the February Revolution of 1917 not get off the ground; why did the Bolsheviks succeed in seizing and holding on to power; why did they come out victorious from a punishing civil war; why did the New Economic Policy they introduced in 1921 fail; and why did Stalin come out on top in the power struggle inside the Bolshevik party after Lenin's death in 1924. A final chapter then reflects on the larger significance of 1917 for the history of the twentieth century -- and, for all its terrible flaws, what the promise of the Revolution might mean for us today.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Jul 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0190696125ISBN 13: 9780190696122
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When Deng Xiaoping introduced market reforms in the late 1970s, few would have imagined what the next four decades would bring. China's GDP has grown on average nearly 10 percent annually since, and its economy is now the second largest in the world. Forty years ago, the Flying Pigeon bicycle ruled the roads; today, China is the world's largest car market. And if forty years ago you looked out across the Huangpu River from the Bund in Shanghai, you would have seen farmland and a few warehouses and wharves; now you see the stunning, futuristic cityscape of Pudong. The material progress of the past forty years has been staggering-a source of pride for the Chinese people, as well as a source of legitimacy for the ruling Chinese Communist Party. But that progress has come at great cost: the extreme pollution of China's air, water, and soil has taken a stark toll on human health. In Environmental Pollution in China: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Daniel K. Gardner examines the range of factors-economic, social, political, and historical-contributing to the degradation of China's environment. He also covers the public response to the widespread pollution; the measures the government is taking to clean up the environment; and the country's efforts to lessen its dependence on fossil fuels and develop clean sources of energy. Concise, accessible, and authoritative, this book serves as an ideal primer on one of the world's most challenging environmental crises.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Jul 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0193401193ISBN 13: 9780193401198
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Notenblatt. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is a collection of practical repertoire for organists playing at funerals, memorial services, and services of thanksgiving. Covering a broad range of music for players of intermediate ability, it includes a mixture of established repertoire, attractive new arrangements of well-known works, and newly commissioned pieces.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, OUP Oxford Jul 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0198821220ISBN 13: 9780198821229
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Impressive statistics are thrown at us every day - the cost of health care; the size of an earthquake; the distance to the nearest star; the number of giraffes in the world. We know all these numbers are important - some more than others - and it's vaguely unsettling when we don't really have a clear sense of how remarkable or how ordinary they are. How do we work out what these figures actually mean Are they significant, should we be worried, or excited, or impressed How big is big, how small is small With this entertaining and engaging book, help is at hand. Andrew Elliott gives us the tips and tools to make sense of numbers, to get a sense of proportion, to decipher what matters. It is a celebration of a numerate way of understanding the world. It shows how number skills help us to understand the everyday world close at hand, and how the same skills can be stretched to demystify the bigger numbers that we find in the wider contexts of science, politics, and the universe.Entertaining, full of practical examples, and memorable concepts, Is That A Big Number renews our relationship with figures. If numbers are the musical notes with which the symphony of the universe is written, and you're struggling to hear the tune, then this is the book to get you humming again.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc Jul 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0190602694ISBN 13: 9780190602697
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam tells the darkly humorous story of the French colonial state's failed efforts to impose its vision of modernity upon the colonial city of Hanoi, Vietnam.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Jul 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0190613548ISBN 13: 9780190613549
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A timely update of the authoritative, engaging history of Wall Street and its role in the economic history of the United States and the world.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Jul 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0198425155ISBN 13: 9780198425151
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Providing complete syllabus support (9709), this stretching and practice-focused course builds the advanced skills needed for the latest Cambridge assessments and the transition to higher education. Engaging, real world examples make mathematics relevant to real life.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Jul 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0198425198ISBN 13: 9780198425199
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Providing complete syllabus support (9709), this stretching and practice-focused course builds the advanced skills needed for the latest Cambridge assessments and the transition to higher education. Engaging, real world examples make mathematics relevant to real life.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Jul 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0190914815ISBN 13: 9780190914813
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book provides a ringing endorsement of international adoption based on comprehensive evidence from social and biological sciences paired with the author's first-hand experience visiting a Kazakhstani orphanage for nearly a year. A balanced account of the evidence supports international adoption as a viable means of promoting child welfare.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Jul 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0198425171ISBN 13: 9780198425175
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Providing complete syllabus support (9709), this stretching and practice-focused course builds the advanced skills needed for the latest Cambridge assessments and the transition to higher education. Engaging, real world examples make mathematics relevant to real life.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Jul 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0198804938ISBN 13: 9780198804932
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Since its first publication to mark the bicentenary of the French Revolution in 1989, this Oxford History has established itself as the Revolution's most authoritative and comprehensive one-volume history in English, and has recently been translated into Chinese. Running from the accession of Louis XVI in 1774, it traces the history of France through revolution, terror, and counter-revolution to the final triumph of Napoleon in 1802. It also analyses the impact of events in France upon the rest of Europe and the world beyond. The study shows how a movement which began with optimism and general enthusiasm soon became a tragedy, not only for the ruling orders, but also for the millions of ordinary people whose lives were disrupted by religious upheaval, economic chaos, and civil and international war.Now in its third edition, this volume has been fully updated in the light of current research, and includes an appendix surveying the past and present historiography of the revolutionary period.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Jul 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0190912510ISBN 13: 9780190912512
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book investigates Ibn Taymiyya's approach to some of the core ethical and theological questions of the classical period of Islam and, in doing so, sheds new light on his intellectual identity.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Jul 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0190629428ISBN 13: 9780190629427
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Humans--even those who consider themselves secular or atheists--are utterly seduced by supernatural beliefs. Clay Routledge, an experimental social psychologist who grew up in a deeply religious environment, argues that belief or trust in forces beyond our understanding is natural and rooted in our fears of death. In Supernatural: Death, Meaning, and the Power of the Invisible World, Routledge argues that supernatural thinking is adaptive, even healthy, and that it should unite and not divide us.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Jul 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 019882047XISBN 13: 9780198820475
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The first monograph devoted to the concept of dystopia: redefining the central concepts and chronology of the genre, and offering a theoretical overview and prehistory of the concept; an account of twentieth-century totalitarian regimes as dystopias; and a brief history of the literary dystopia from the early nineteenth century to the present.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Jul 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0193519712ISBN 13: 9780193519718
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Notenblatt. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Originally the title for Vaughan Williams's opera Sir John in Love, Fat Knight was conceived as a seven-movement orchestral suite that drew upon the opera and had, as its central character, Shakespeare's Falstaff. Vaughan Williams never completed the work and left only a two-piano score, the basis of this realisation.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Jul 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0190244437ISBN 13: 9780190244439
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Patent Wars, one of America's leading patent scholars provides an accessible overview of U.S. patent law; the arguments for and against patents; and the ongoing debates over topics including the patentability of genes, software, and business methods, the impact of patents on drug prices, 'patent trolls,' and the smartphone wars.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Jul 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0190683910ISBN 13: 9780190683917
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This 50th anniversary edition of Cornelius L. Reid's The Free Voice approaches the teaching of singing in a functional, as opposed to mechanistic, way. Through exercises based on an understanding of the vocal registers and how specific patterns of pitch, intensity, and vowel affect the vocal folds, the singer can develop a well-balanced and coordinated voice and sing without force.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Jul 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0190692154ISBN 13: 9780190692155
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Today, politics is big business. In Building a Business of Politics, a lively history of political consulting, Adam Sheingate examines the origins of the industry and its consequences for American democracy. He traces the history of political consultants from its origins in the publicity experts and pollsters of the 1920s and 1930s to the strategists and media specialists of the 1970s who transformed political campaigns into a highly profitablebusiness.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Jul 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0198425139ISBN 13: 9780198425137
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Providing complete syllabus support (9709), this stretching and practice-focused course builds the advanced skills needed for the latest Cambridge assessments and the transition to higher education. Engaging, real world examples make mathematics relevant to real life.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Jul 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0198425104ISBN 13: 9780198425106
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Providing complete syllabus support (9709), this stretching and practice-focused course builds the advanced skills needed for the latest Cambridge assessments and the transition to higher education. Engaging, real world examples make mathematics relevant to real life.