Plastics: Microstructure and Applications is a key text for senior students studying the science and engineering of plastics materials (or polymers) and will serve as a valuable introduction to the fundamentals of polymer properties for those new to the field. Starting from microstructure and physical properties, the book covers the mechanical, chemical, transport and electrical properties of plastics materials and also deals in detail with wider issues that today's engineers and materials sc...

After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding.

For a time, his daughter's influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his disco...

"A sharp, funny, and eccentric debut … Pond makes the case for Bennett as an innovative writer of real talent. … [It]reminds us that small things have great depths."-New York Times Book Review

"Dazzling…exquisitely written and daring ." -O, the Oprah Magazine

Immediately upon its publication in Ireland, Claire-Louise Bennett's debut began to attract attention well beyond the expectations of the tiny Irish press that published it. A deceptively slender volume, it captu...

If you are studying horse nutrition at an introductory level, then this is the ideal book for you. It covers the current syllabuses set out by equine science and management courses, and is particularly suitable for those who lack background knowledge in science. Nutrition has long been recognised as a vital part of horse care.

It is important for optimal horse health, reproduction, sustained performance and general well being. This book is invaluable for horse owners, trainers and breeders. F...

A freewheeling black comedy bound up in cultural confusion, political insanity, and environmental catastrophe.

In het Syrische Emesa (het huidige Homs) wordt in het jaar 170 een meisje geboren dat een opmerkelijke rol zal gaan spelen in de geschiedenis van het Romeinse Rijk. Domna, mooi en intelligent, is een dochter van de priester van zonnegod El-Gabal en bovendien van koninklijken bloede. Ze wordt opgemerkt door de ambitieuze Romeinse senator Lucius Septimius Severus. Septimius is een Noord-Afrikaan en, net als Domna, geboren aan de randen van het Rijk.

Met Domna aan zijn zijde wordt Septimius in ...

The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs...