Product Description: The remains of snails in ancient soils and sediments are one of the most important biological indicators of past landscapes, and have attracted study for well over a century. In spite of this, the only English-language textbook was published in 1972 and is long since out of print...read more

Product Description: New Business in India is focused on how to enter the Indian domestic market, which is currently growing at nearly 10% per annum. The book is important as it is based on first-hand experience and real insights into the market in India, establishing a company and business, and developing the marketing and sales programme for both business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) companies...read more

This volume introduces readers to emergence theory, outlines the major arguments in its defence, and summarizes the most powerful objections against it. It provides the clearest explication yet of this exciting new theory of science, which challenges the reductionist approach by proposing the continuous emergence of novel phenomena.

Product Description: Es posible regresar al futuro? Se puede explorar el pasado? Que nos hace falta para viajar en el tiempo? Que ocurriria si lo lograramos? Este ensayo es una guia precisa para que el lector no especialista en astronomia o en fisica teorica y cuantica se lance, de una vez por todas, al maravilloso y paradojico viaje a traves del tiempo...read more

Product Description: This is a practical guide to a country of a billion people with a complex culture and vibrant business environment, offering proven strategies for working positively with Indian businesses. Paul Davies draws on his own experiences developing business partnerships in India to take you step-by-step through the planning and implementation stages, exposing the hidden costs and benefits, and carefully steering you away from the potential pitfalls involved in off-shoring...read more

Argues that recent developments in quantum physics, astronomy, and chaos theory have forced a reconsideration of the concepts of space, time, and matter. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Product Description: Dr Gregory Chaitin, one of the world's leading mathematicians, is best known for his discovery of the remarkable ? number, a concrete example of irreducible complexity in pure mathematics which shows that mathematics is infinitely complex...read more

Product Description: Oxbow says: From 1993, the North Somerset Levels Project sought to investigate the origins and development of this area of reclaimed coastal marshland during the first and second millennia AD. The inter-disciplinary approach taken has added archaeological (survey and excavation) data, palaeoenvironmental evidence, studies of documentary sources, architecture, cartography and field- and place-names, to what was already known about the historic landscape...read more

Taking as its starting point the authors' earlier work on Labour Legislation and Public Policy, this book provides a detailed account and critical analysis of British labor legislation and labor market regulation since the early 1990s. Referring back to the earlier history, and filling in the gaps in the early and mid-1990s, the work concentrates mainly on the legislation and policy measures in the employment sphere of the New Labour governments which have been in power since 1997, placing those developments in the context of the relevant aspects of European Community law.The work argues for an understanding of this body of legislation and regulatory activity as being directed towards the realization of a flexible labor market, and shows how this objective has been pursued in three intersecting areas, those of regulating personal or individual employment relations, regulating collective representation, and promoting work. It explores the methods of regulation which have been used, developing a taxonomy of regulation and a notion of 'light regulation' to characterize some recent legislative interventions. It considers how far the administration of Prime Minister Tony Blair has fulfilled its promises or claims of 'fairness at work,' 'welfare to work,' and 'success at work,' and is of interest to academics studying British and European labor or employment law, employee relations or human resource management, labor market economics, and contemporary politics.

The physicist-author of The Mind of God looks at cutting-edge scientific discoveries to explore why many of the fundamental features of the physical universe--from the speed of light to the carbon atom--seem tailor-made to produce life, offering a revealing study of the radical multiverse theory and its implications in terms of the nature of reality, time, life, and the cosmos. 35,000 first printing.

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A uniquely conceived novel weaves a stream of brief narratives together to answer the question: what happened to the Greek gods after Olympus--forming a death diary that covers eons of human and divine history. Original.

In a thought-provoking narrative, an acclaimed physicist explores the possibility of time travel by presenting a fascinating foray into the space-time continuum, explaining the many ways time travel could be possible and providing a theoretical foundation for assembling a working time machine. Reprint.

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Looks at the process that leads to solar eclipses, historical events that have been ascribed to times of eclipse, and the current theories and controversies surrounding eclipses. (view table of contents)

The decade since Beckett's death has seen new interests in the erotic sweeping through our culture, acting in uneasy counterpoint to its established humanistic infrastructure and opening new questions about the significance of sexuality. Surprisingly or not, Beckett has startling further light to throw on the erotic phenomenon variously but insistently recognised in our time. This book is the first to propose a 'mythopoetics of sex' with which to explore Beckett's work as a whole. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Down the centuries there have been various attempts to prove the existence of God, and to demonstrate God's action in the world. Russell Stannard, the distinguished physicist and author, looks at what modern science can bring to the discussion. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)