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Mosses and Liverworts of Rainforest in Tasmania and South-eastern Australia
CSIRO Publishing 1995; US$ 23.95Mosses and liverworts inhabit a miniature world hidden in our rainforests and often go unnoticed. This book seeks to raise the reader's awareness of these plants and reveals their beauty in the book's many high quality colour photographs. A comprehensive introduction is provided along with specific notes on these plants. more...
In Your Face
Pearson Education 2004; US$ 24.95Globalization, commercialization and Americanization are changing the lives of almost everybody on the planet. The uniqueness of this book is that it tackles these trends together, and head-on. The balance of knowledge and feeling makes it an important book in a field plagued by one-sided pro- and anti- pieces. ?David Arnold, author of The Mirage... more...
The Transformation of Sexuality
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2007; US$ 99.95This book combines the work of key authors such as Elias and Foucault with original and revealing empirical material drawn from 1,300 young people. Looking beyond media images and popular prejudices, the book illustrates how young people of both genders, of different nationalities and of different group allegiances view and relate to their own sexuality. more...
Property Rights in Investment Securities and the Doctrine of Specificity
Springer 2009; US$ 139.99The swift developments within the financial markets over the years conflict with traditional property law structures and have caused a great degree of legal uncertainty. This book evaluates the requirement for specificity as a criterion for property rights in securities evidenced by electronic entries made on securities accounts. more...
Origins of Language
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2005; US$ 143.00Sverker Johansson has written an unusual book on language origins, with its emphasis on empirical evidence rather than theory-building. This is a book for the student or researcher who prefers solid data and well-supported conclusions, over speculative scenarios. Much that has been written on the origins of language is characterized by hypothesizing... more...
Seeing through Multilingual Corpora
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2007; US$ 165.00Through electronic corpora we can observe patterns which we were unaware of before or only vaguely glimpsed. The availability of multilingual corpora has led to a renewal of contrastive studies. We gain new insight into similarities and differences between languages, at the same time as the characteristics of each language are brought into relief.... more...
DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Sweden
DK Publishing 2011; US$ 25.00Few European countries offer such diversity as Sweden, with its mountains, virgin forests and lakes, and the cosmopolitan cities of Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö. This expanded and updated edition in the award-winning Eyewitness series covers every aspect of this varied country, from the simplicity of world-famous Swedish design to the exuberant... more...
Saluting the Yellow Emperor
BRILL 2012; US$ 144.00Saluting the Yellow Emperor tells the fascinating story of a group of Swedish scholars who rediscovered the pronunciation of the Chinese classics, buried Silk Road cities, and a Chinese Stone Age, while spiriting antiquities out of Asia. more...
The Click Moment
Penguin Group US 2012; US$ 12.99On the one hand we aren?t surprised by the uncertainty of everyday life, but on the other we believe that success can be analyzed and planned for. It is a revealing paradox. The implications are explosive and they obliterate every common-sense notion we have about strategy and planning. The Click Moment is about two very simple but highly... more...
The Click Moment
Penguin Books Ltd 2012; Not AvailableIn The Click Moment , Frans Johansson, author of The Medici Effect , shows how to stay ahead when you can't predict the future Success is random. And there are a number of things that we can do to capture this randomness and focus it in our favour. According to bestselling author Frans Johansson strategy, planning, and careful analysis... more...









