The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…

Vast and diverse, Brooklyn is often portrayed in literature as a place of traditional community values and face-to-face relations, distinct from anonymous, capital-driven Manhattan. Brooklyn Fictions discovers what such representations…

A natural draughtsman, master of colour and hugely influential artist, Klee’s art appeals to our primary instincts and makes us look beyond the ordinary. This beautiful new book brings together…

This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach…

This book focuses on the genetic resources of plants which form part of the world’s biological diversity. This diversity is diminishing as the result of human activity and the book…

Little One has just finished her bath and now it’s time to tackle her soft, curly, tangled locks…every little girls dream, right? For Little One it is torture unimaginable as…

Twenty-three papers review recent advances in experimental studies on microorganisms, plants and animals. They are taken from a symposium organized at Cologne University, in April 1983 by the Committee on…

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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