358 results for '"Nicholas Ryder'

The analysis of rural markets and the behaviour of those involved in them should be at the centre of the study of the economies of poor countries. This book is about such markets and its main purpose...

The International Bestselling memoir from award-winning author Amos Oz, "one of Isreal's most prolific writers and respected intellectuals" (The New York Times), about his turbulent upbringing in the...

Here is a balanced and up-to-date account of the whole field of enzymology, The authors discuss the properties of enzymes in systems of increasing complexity, placing extra emphasis throughout on...

An unprecedented art-historical account of practices of image ingestion from ancient Egypt to the twentieth centuryEating and drinking images may seem like an anomalous notion but, since antiquity,...

When Philip II ascended the throne in 359 BC, Macedonia was in danger of being engulfed by wild barbarian tribes to the north and wily Greek cities to the south. Philip had to expand the power of the...

This book, the flagship of the new Clarendon Ancient History Series, provides a complete translation of and historical commentary on the most important works of Cornelius Nepos (c.99-c.24 B.C.). In...

More than 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, the uncensored version of his novel appears here for the first time in a...

The dramatic career of the Irish playwright J.M. Synge, from his first plays in 1902 to his premature death in 1909, almost exactly coincided with the years of Edward VII's reign. Those years have...

Enzymes are biological catalysts that have a number of remarkable properties. This book builds on the previous two editions to show how we can understand these properties and explain how enzymes work...

An examination of some of the remarkable connections between group theory and arithmetic algebraic geometry over finite fieldsExponential sums have been of great interest ever since Gauss, and their...