Rarely has an artist been so closely associated with a single work as is Jay Defeo with her painting The Rose. In this major study of The Rose in particular and of Jay DeFeo in general, 11 art and cultural historians and writers unfold the story of the creation and rescue of her masterpiece. [...]

An exciting new book that covers all the latest buzzwords within marketing and consumer behavior: building brand cultures; gender; ethics; sustainable marketing; the green and the global consumer among many more. Importantly, Contemporary Issues in Marketing and Consumer Behaviour makes clear links between theory and practice in marketing. It also locates the recent development [...]

Substantially revising and updating the classic reference in the field, this handbook offers a valuable overview and myriad details on current chemical processes, products, and practices. No other source offers as much data on the chemistry, engineering, economics, and infrastructure of the industry.The Handbook serves a spectrum of individuals, from those who are directly [...]

This book argues that race and ethnic relationships must be understood in new ways; that the analytical frameworks provided by constructivist thought and post-colonial writing must be interrogated to provide more comprehensive methodological resources to examine these relationships. Recent events, such as attacks on New York, Madrid and London, and riots in Paris and [...]

Encouraging a new attitude and approach to chemistry, experts from around the globe present over 40 real-life teaching experiments, divided into the five main principles of catalysis, solvents, high yield and one-pot synthesis, limiting waste and exposure, plus special topics. Verlag Wiley-VCH…mehr Infos zu diesem Produkt

Metric theory has undergone a dramatic phase transition in the last decades when its focus moved from the foundations of real analysis to Riemannian geometry and algebraic topology, to the theory of infinite groups and probability theory. The new wave began with seminal papers by Svarc and Milnor on the growth of groups and [...]

This text is a comprehensive overview of the historical use of green tea and a description of its beneficial effects against certain diseases such as cancer, hypertension, diabetes, obesity, arteriosclerosis, and various forms of senile dementia. It reviews scientific and clinical data, including in vitro and in vivo animal experiments and epidemiologic and clinical [...]

Biorefineries combine the necessary technologies of the biological raw materials with those of chemical intermediates and final products. In this book the focus is directed to the technological principles of biorefineries, green processes, plants, concepts, current and forthcoming biobased product lines and the economic aspects. Verlag Wiley-VCH…mehr Infos zu diesem Produkt

Totally Wired features 32 interviews with the eras most innovative musicians and colourful personalities. From Ari Up, Jah Wobble, David Byrne, Green Gartside, Edwyn Collins, it also includes conversations with the most influential of label bosses, managers, record producers, deejays and journalists - such as John Peel and Paul Morley. Crackling with argument and [...]

Preserved on a single surviving manuscript dating from around 1400, composed by an anonymous master, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was rediscovered only 200 years ago, and published for the first time in 1839. One of the earliest great stories of English literature, after Beowulf, the poem narrates the strange tale of a [...]