Focuses on the well-known genes, developmental processes and taxa. This book builds logically from developmental genetics and regulatory mechanisms to evolution at different genetic morphological levels.

Understand everything you need to know about our democratic system—from the Constitution to present-day elections—with The Everything American Government Book.

If the confusion following the last presidential election is any indication, the average citizen knows precious little about the democratic system and the laws that affect their daily lives. The Everything American Government Book unravels the complexities of our democracy and provides you with the knowledge necessary to make the r...

Annemarie Schimmel, one of the world's foremost authorities on Persian literature, provides a comprehensive introduction to the complicated and highly sophisticated system of rhetoric and imagery used by the poets of Iran, Ottoman Turkey, and Muslim India. She shows that these images have been used and refined over the centuries and reflect the changing conditions in the Muslim world.

According to Schimmel, Persian poetry does not aim to be spontaneous in spirit or highly personal in form. In...

An updated twentieth-anniversary edition of the classic culinary reference features ninety percent new material and provides a wealth of kitchen tips, food-preparation techniques, folklore, literary anecdotes, and health information, in a volume that features particular coverage of trends from the p

Set during World War I on an isolated country estate just outside London, Rebecca West's haunting novel The Return of the Soldier follows Chris Baldry, a shell-shocked captain suffering from amnesia, as he makes a bittersweet homecoming to the three women who have helped shape his life. Will the devoted wife he can no longer recollect, the favorite cousin he remembers only as a childhood friend, and the poor innkeeper's daughter he once courted leave Chris to languish in a safe, dreamy past--...

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Theologie in de oorspronkelijke betekenis van ‘spreken over God’ heeft geen vanzelfsprekende plaats aan de hedendaagse openbare universiteit. Vanwege haar geloofsmatig uitgangspunt zou deze theologie niet voldoen aan de academische eisen van wetenschappelijkheid. Hooguit kan zij vandaag nog bedreven worden in de private sfeer van bijzondere kerkelijke instellingen. Het is deze voorstelling die in Een publieke zaak kritisch wordt onderzocht tegen de achtergrond van de omslag naar een post...

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's Syndrome.

He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. He hates the colours yellow and brown and being touched.

He has never gone further than the end of the road on his own, but when he finds a neighbour's dog murdered he sets out on a terrif...

Comme il marchait la tete basse et les yeux fichés en terre, il sentit quelqu'un qui lui tapait l'épaule, et se retournant il vit la petite-fille de la mere Fadet, qu'on appelait dans le pays la petite Fadette, autant pour ce que c'était son nom de famille que pour ce qu'on voulait qu'elle fut un peu sorciere aussi. Vous savez tous que le fadet ou le farfadet, qu'en d'autres endroits on appelle aussi le follet, est un lutin fort gentil, mais un peu malicieux. On appelle aussi fades les fé...