This book reivews the field of physiology, emphasizing many clinical applications of basic concepts. The purpose of the book is to provide a concise summary of mammalian and, particularly, of human physiology for medical ...

The Facts On File Dictionary of Inorganic Chemistry provides quick access and complete reference definitions to more than 2,000 terms, concepts, and principles that make up a significant part of Section Four of the AP ...

In 16th century Europe, poetry had lost much of its cultural value. It became known as a narrow and frivolous activity, much like it is now, and it was under attack by religious authorities because it was seen as licentious ...

Considered lurid and shocking by mid-19th-century standards, Wuthering Heights was initially thought to be such a publishing risk that its author, Emily Brontë, was asked to pay some of the publication costs. A somber tale ...

Drawing on Charles Dickens's own, often difficult childhood, to create a compelling story of personal success, David Copperfield is edited with an introduction and notes by Jeremy Tambling in Penguin Classics. David ...

Walter Bagehot's The English Constitution (1867) is the best account of the history and workings of the British political system ever written.

Cotton Spinning: This book contains the questions that were set at the may examination of the city and guilds of London, 1889, with the answers. Also includes an appendix of useful rules and examples connected with the ...

This book is a complete desciption of the machines used in the prepartion of spinning jute yarns. It contains a number of illustrations and aslo shows the calculations, tables of speed, drafts, production and waste. ...

Excerpt from The Rape of the Lock, and Other Poems of Alexander Pope: Edited With Notes and Introduction By the beginning of the eighteenth century much had been accomplished by the poets of England: Chaucer had portrayed ...