Authors:Jean-Michel Gobat, Michel Aragno, Willy Matthey,
Publisher: Science Publishers
Keywords: soil, biology, science, fundamentals, living
Number of Pages: 602
Published: 2004-06-30
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 1578082102
ISBN-13: 9781578082100

This study looks at the fundamentals of soil science and soil biology, encompassing topics such as the building blocks of the soil system and bioremediation of contaminated soils.

Authors:Julius Rowan Raper, Melody L. Enscore, Paige Matthey
Publisher: University of Missouri
Keywords: whole, comprehending, durrell, lawrence
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1995-02-01
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0826209823
ISBN-13: 9780826209825

Lawrence Durrell excelled in a great variety of genres:  poetry, drama, travel books, humorous writings, translations, critical essays, philosophical essays, character sketches, and, above all, genre- and culture-transforming experimental novels.  In keeping with Durrell’s multifaceted career and the centrality of his experiments, the essays in this collection use a variety of literary approaches to the diversity of Durrell’s contributions to literature, illuminating four major dimensions of Durrell’s writing. 

Author: Willy Wo-Lap Lam
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Keywords: new, east, gate, books, challenges, leaders, jintao, era, chinese, politics
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2006-12-30
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 0765617730
ISBN-13: 9780765617736

Drawing on hundreds of interviews with top Chinese officials, parliamentarians, scholars, and businessmen, Willy Lam, a renowned journalist and writer on Chinese affairs, presents a first-hand, multi-dimensional account of twenty-first century China and the impact of fourth generation leaders, including President Hu Jinato and Premier Wen Jiabao. Lam goes behind the glitzy facade of nouveau-riche Beijing and Shanghai to examine how the Hu leadership has tried to extend the Communist Party’s "mandate of heaven" by tackling an array of daunting problems: the weakening legitimacy of the Par

Author: Willy
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: sex, third
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 2007-08-13
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0252032160
ISBN-13: 9780252032165

A gold mine of information about a hidden queer culture Thirty-two years before Simone de Beauvoir’s classic The Second Sex, popular French novelist Willy published The Third Sex, a vivid description of the world of European homosexuals in France, Italy, and Germany during the late 1920s. Stepping directly into the heart of gay men’s culture, Willy follows homosexual nightlife into music halls, nightclubs, casinos, bars, and saunas. While he finds plenty of drug and alcohol abuse, he also discovers homosexual publishers, scientific societies, group rivalries, and opinions--both med

Author: Willy Lin
Publisher: Black Belt Communications
Keywords: links, orient, literary, vol, grappling, chin, chinese
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1981-01-01
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0897500768
ISBN-13: 9780897500760

An introduction to one of the most sophisticated forms of self-defense in China. Includes numerous pressure-point techniques, as well as joint locks and escapes

Author: Colette Willy
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: purrs, barks
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 2009-04-30
List price: $19.75
ISBN-10: 0559134134
ISBN-13: 9780559134135

Colette (1873-1954) is the pseudonym for Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. She is best known in English speaking countries for her novel Gigi, which was later made into a musical film and stage musical by Lerner & Loewe. In Barks and Purrs Colette gives her reader a glimpse into the lives of Kiki-the-Demure.

Author: Willy Sanse
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: engineering, computer, science, series, international, design, essentials, springer, analog
Number of Pages: 780
Published: 2006-05-22
List price: $129.00
ISBN-10: 0387257462
ISBN-13: 9780387257464

This book is entitled Analog Design Essentials because it contains all topics of importance to the analog designer which are essential to obtain sufficient insights to do a thorough job. The book starts with elementary stages in building up operational amplifiers. The synthesis of opamps is covered in great detail, such that lowest power consumption is always guaranteed. Many examples are included, operating at low supply voltages. Chapters on noise, distortion, filters, ADC/DACs and oscillators follow. These are all based on the extensive amount of teaching that the author has carried out bot