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The collection of natural mineral crystals housed at the Houston Museum of Natural Science is the ?nest and best known in the world. Now the treasures of this singular collection are shown in resplendent photographs that will seduce both the connoisseur of beauty and the student of natural history. ... More

Symmetry has a strong impact on the number and shape of solutions to variational problems. This has been observed, for instance, in the search for periodic solutions of Hamiltonian systems or of the nonlinear wave equation; when one is interested in elliptic equations on symmetric domains or in the ... More

This book tells a personal story of a child driven away from his homeland under life-threatening circumstances. Having to endure unbearable cold, thirst, hunger, pains, being tired, soooo tired....This book tells a personal story of a child driven away from his homeland under life-threatening circum... More

Get details about your collectible post-World War II toys from the same place dealers and auctioneers turn to for reliable pricing and details, reflective of current trends in the toy-collecting hobby, plus, a compilation of new toys to come out in the last year and 2,000+ photos to aid in achieving... More

A father and his two young children die in a Cholera epidemic in 1854. A 13-year-old son is shot and killed during an 1864 Civil War raid by the Confederate army. A blacksmith in the Oklahoma Indian Territory in the 1890s recounts his experiences among the outlaws and Indians. A man sustains a head ... More

Ten hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor, "another Pearl Harbor" of perhaps more devastating consequence for American arms occurred in the Philippines, forty-five hundred miles to the west. On December 8, 1941, at 12.35 P.M., 196 Japanese Navy bombers and fighters crippled the largest force of B-1... More

Reviews a variety of liquid membrane configurations, transport mechanisms, and experimental techniques. Describes separations of metal ions, anionic species, organic molecules, and gas mixtures that involve liquid membrane processes. Provides coverage of theory, including mechanisms, carrier design ... More

People in the ancient world thought of vision as both an ethical tool and a tactile sense, akin to touch. Gazing upon someone--or oneself--was treated as a path to philosophical self-knowledge, but the question of tactility introduced an erotic element as well. In "The Mirror of the Self," Shadi Bar... More