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Innumerable Insects

The Story of the Most Diverse and Myriad Animals on Earth

by Michael S. Engel ...

Series series Natural Histories
The images . . . are the stars of this work, which will delight every entomophile who turns its pages.” — Publishers WeeklyA fascinating look at the world’s most numerous inhabitants, illustrated with stunning images from the American Museum of Natural History’s Rare Book Collection.To date, we have discovered and described or named around 1.1 million insect species, and thousands of new species ... Read more

$14.99 USD

The images . . . are the stars of this work, which will delight every entomophile who turns its pages.” — Publishers WeeklyA fascinating look at the world’s most numerous inhabitants, illustrated with stunning images from the American Museum of Natural History’s Rare Book Collection.To date, we have discovered and described or named around 1.1 million insect species, and thousands of new species
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Evolution of the Insects

by David Grimaldi, Michael S. Engel ...

Series series Cambridge Evolution Series
Insects are the most diverse group of organisms in the 3 billion-year history of life on Earth, and the most ecologically dominant animals on land. This book chronicles for the first time the complete evolutionary history of insects: their living diversity, relationships and 400 million years of fossils. Whereas other volumes have focused on either living species or fossils, this is the first ... Read more

$91.89 USD

Insects are the most diverse group of organisms in the 3 billion-year history of life on Earth, and the most ecologically dominant animals on land. This book chronicles for the first time the complete evolutionary history of insects: their living diversity, relationships and 400 million years of fossils. Whereas other volumes have focused on either living species or fossils, this is the first
... Read more
Insect Architecture

How Insects Build, Engineer, and Shape Their World

by Michael S. Engel, Tom Jackson ...

The essential illustrated guide to the ingenious techniques that insects use to construct an astounding array of natural structures, from nests to shelters to trapsInsect Architecture takes you inside the amazing structures that insects build, from the paper galleries of yellowjacket wasps to elaborate termite mounds complete with royal chambers and air-conditioning systems. Each chapter focuses ... Read more

$21.59 USD

The essential illustrated guide to the ingenious techniques that insects use to construct an astounding array of natural structures, from nests to shelters to trapsInsect Architecture takes you inside the amazing structures that insects build, from the paper galleries of yellowjacket wasps to elaborate termite mounds complete with royal chambers and air-conditioning systems. Each chapter focuses
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Elijah Del Medigo and Paduan Aristotelianism

Investigating the Human Intellect

by Michael Engel ...

Series series Bloomsbury Studies in the Aristotelian Tradition
Elijah Del Medigo (1458-1493) was a Jewish Aristotelian philosopher living in Padua, whose work influenced many of the leading philosophers of the early Renaissance. His Two Investigations on the Nature of the Human Soul uses Aristotle's De anima to theorize on two of the most discussed and most controversial philosophical debates of the Renaissance: the nature of human intellect and the obtaining ... Read more

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Elijah Del Medigo (1458-1493) was a Jewish Aristotelian philosopher living in Padua, whose work influenced many of the leading philosophers of the early Renaissance. His Two Investigations on the Nature of the Human Soul uses Aristotle's De anima to theorize on two of the most discussed and most controversial philosophical debates of the Renaissance: the nature of human intellect and the obtaining
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Earthly Engagements

Reading Sartre after the Holocene

by Joe Balay, Kiki Berk, Michael Butler, Kimberly Engels, Simon Gusman, Paul Gyllenhammer, Arjen Kleinherenbrink, Craig Matarrese, Joshua Tepley, Ronald Aronson, Elizabeth Butterfield, William L. McBride, Dane Sawyer, Austin Hayden Smidt ...

Earthly Engagements: Reading Sartre after the Holocene brings together scholars from the Sartre studies community to think through the planetary ecological crisis. Edited by Matthew C. Ally and Damon Boria, the collection explores ways in which Sartre’s existential thought can be read socio-ecologically, illuminating the tightly imbricated earthly and worldly crises of our post-Holocene epoch. ... Read more

$105.29 USD

Earthly Engagements: Reading Sartre after the Holocene brings together scholars from the Sartre studies community to think through the planetary ecological crisis. Edited by Matthew C. Ally and Damon Boria, the collection explores ways in which Sartre’s existential thought can be read socio-ecologically, illuminating the tightly imbricated earthly and worldly crises of our post-Holocene epoch.
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Energy Density Functional Methods for Atomic Nuclei

by Michael Bender, Aurel Bulgac, Thomas Duguet, Jean-Paul Ebran, Jon Engel, Michael McNeil Forbes, Markus Kortelainen, Takashi Nakatsukasa ...

Series series IOP Expanding Physics
In the past 20 years, energy density functional (EDF) approaches have become a powerful framework to study the structure and reactions of atomic nuclei. This book provides an updated presentation of non-relativistic and covariant energy functionals, single- and multi-reference methods, and techniques to describe small- and large-amplitude collective motion or nuclei at high excitation energy. ... Read more

$107.99 USD

In the past 20 years, energy density functional (EDF) approaches have become a powerful framework to study the structure and reactions of atomic nuclei. This book provides an updated presentation of non-relativistic and covariant energy functionals, single- and multi-reference methods, and techniques to describe small- and large-amplitude collective motion or nuclei at high excitation energy.
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EU Policy Making - How does everyday decision-making differ from constitutional bargaining and why?

by Michael Engels ...

Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - Topic: European Union, grade: 69%, London School of Economics (EU Institute), language: English, abstract: This essay present a short theory developement integrating the prespectives of neo-functionalism and liberal-intergovernmentalism with regard to EU policy making. ... Read more

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Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - Topic: European Union, grade: 69%, London School of Economics (EU Institute), language: English, abstract: This essay present a short theory developement integrating the prespectives of neo-functionalism and liberal-intergovernmentalism with regard to EU policy making.
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Baccano!, Vol. 1

The Rolling Bootlegs

by Ryohgo Narita, Katsumi Enami ...

Narrated by Michael Butler Murray ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Baccano!
Unabridged

6 hours 32 min

New York, 1931. The manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages is prohibited by law, but behind this prohibition, organized crime flourishes-so, too, do bank robbers, bootleggers, assassins, and homunculi. Some want money, some are chasing the secret to immortality, and others just want to have a really good time. You know what they say, though: You can't always get what you want. ... Read more

$25.99 USD

New York, 1931. The manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages is prohibited by law, but behind this prohibition, organized crime flourishes-so, too, do bank robbers, bootleggers, assassins, and homunculi. Some want money, some are chasing the secret to immortality, and others just want to have a really good time. You know what they say, though: You can't always get what you want.
... Read more
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Baccano!, Vol. 5

2001 The Children of Bottle

by Ryohgo Narita, Katsumi Enami ...

Narrated by Michael Butler Murray ...

Series Audiobook 5 - Baccano!
Unabridged

7 hours 12 min

The immortal Elmer C. Albatross is a Smile Junkie who'll do whatever it takes for his happy ending--despite not knowing the first thing about happiness. Three hundred years after the passengers of the Advena Avis parted ways, four of them have finally tracked Elmer to a village in Northern Europe where the inhabitants seem to be stuck in their old ways, fearing the visitors as "demons." During ... Read more

$25.99 USD

The immortal Elmer C. Albatross is a Smile Junkie who'll do whatever it takes for his happy ending--despite not knowing the first thing about happiness. Three hundred years after the passengers of the Advena Avis parted ways, four of them have finally tracked Elmer to a village in Northern Europe where the inhabitants seem to be stuck in their old ways, fearing the visitors as "demons." During
... Read more
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Baccano!, Vol. 2

1931 The Grand Punk Railroad: Local

by Ryohgo Narita, Katsumi Enami ...

Narrated by Michael Butler Murray ...

Series Audiobook 2 - Baccano!
Unabridged

6 hours 42 min

The place: America. The year: 1931. The setting: the transcontinental express train known as the "Flying Pussyfoot." Aboard the train are a gang aiming to make some extra cash, a group of revolutionary terrorists trying to recapture their leader, and a pair of thieves looking to meet up with an old friend in New York City. But drunk on the excitement of their departure, none of them are prepared ... Read more

$25.99 USD

The place: America. The year: 1931. The setting: the transcontinental express train known as the "Flying Pussyfoot." Aboard the train are a gang aiming to make some extra cash, a group of revolutionary terrorists trying to recapture their leader, and a pair of thieves looking to meet up with an old friend in New York City. But drunk on the excitement of their departure, none of them are prepared
... Read more
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The Communist Manifesto

by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels ...

Narrated by Michael Scott ...

Unabridged

45 min

The Communist Manifesto was first published on February 21, 1848, and is one of the world's most influential political tracts. Commissioned by the Communist League and written by communist theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, it laid out the League's purposes and program. The Manifesto suggested a course of action for a proletarian revolution to overthrow capitalism and, eventually, to bring ... Read more

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The Communist Manifesto was first published on February 21, 1848, and is one of the world's most influential political tracts. Commissioned by the Communist League and written by communist theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, it laid out the League's purposes and program. The Manifesto suggested a course of action for a proletarian revolution to overthrow capitalism and, eventually, to bring
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Fault Lines

Tort Law as Cultural Practice

Edited by David M. Engel, Michael McCann ...

Series series The Cultural Lives of Law
Tort law, a fundamental building block of every legal system, features prominently in mass culture and political debates. As this pioneering anthology reveals, tort law is not simply a collection of legal rules and procedures, but a set of cultural responses to the broader problems of risk, injury, assignment of responsibility, compensation, valuation, and obligation.Examining tort law as a ... Read more

$26.29 USD

Tort law, a fundamental building block of every legal system, features prominently in mass culture and political debates. As this pioneering anthology reveals, tort law is not simply a collection of legal rules and procedures, but a set of cultural responses to the broader problems of risk, injury, assignment of responsibility, compensation, valuation, and obligation.Examining tort law as a
... Read more

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