“…The first part of the volume shows a detailed and fascinating descriptions of the history of this museum section's collections, the contribution of scholars who from the 17th century endeavoured to expand and study the Florentine geological-paleontological collections, and the importance of the collections to the development of modern geological-paleontological thinking. …”

“…The pervasive idea that madness and creativity are intricately linked is one that holds tremendous fascination for both scientists and the general public alike. …”

“…"This is a fascinating memoir written by Keith Woodward many years after he left the then New Hebrides where he worked for almost twenty-five years in the British Administration. …”

“…The content is accessible to advanced undergraduates and early year researchers fascinated by this topic. <br /><br /> <span style=""font-style: italic; font-size: 85%;""> The book is realized through the EU-funded ZEROPOWER project. …”

“…Ferroelectricity is a phenomenon exhibited by crystals with a spontaneous polarization and hysteresis effects associated with dielectric changes when an electric field is given. Our fascination with ferroelectricity is in recognition of a beautiful article by Itskovsky, in which he explains the kinetics of a ferroelectric phase transition in a thin ferroelectric layer (film). …”

“…This book contains well-written monographs within the broad spectrum of applied mathematics, offering an interesting reading of some of the current trends and problems in this fascinating and critically important field of science to a broad category of researchers and practitioners. …”

“…This volume combines path-breaking scholarship with discussion of existing research, making it an invaluable resource for all those interested in this fascinating and diverse group of men and women…”

“…The contributors discuss emerging masculinities and femininities in the Pacific in order to chart the development of these in their contexts. …”

“…The question of how to represent these new masses fascinated and plagued politicians and filmmakers alike.Michael Tratner examines the representations of masses—the crowd scenes—in Hollywood films from The Birth of a Nation through such popular love stories as Gone with the Wind, The Sound of Music, and Dr. …”

“…Citizenship and Democratization in Southeast Asia redirects the largely western-oriented study of citizenship to postcolonial states. Providing various fascinating first-hand accounts of how citizens interpret and realize the recognition of their property, identity, security and welfare in the context of a weak rule of law and clientelistic politics, this study highlights the importance of studying citizenship for understanding democratization processes in Southeast Asia. …”

“…In this fascinating study, Nico Randeraad vividly describes the turbulent history of statistics in nineteenth century Europe. …”

“…Este trabajo forma parte de una investigación más amplia sobre las tradiciones de índole popular que marcan la cultura contemporánea. Los autores presentan los análisis de las fiestas y celebraciones religiosas que día con día tienen lugar en Xochimilco. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Martin & J.R.C. McEwen Mason…”

“…From Sofia to Jaffa chronicles the fascinating saga of a population relocated, a story that has not been told until now. …”

“…The authors propose two motivations for this new LNM volume: (1) There are fascinating subtle differences between the properties of solutions of Schrödinger equations on manifolds on the one hand, and their discrete analogs on graphs. (2) "Geometric" properties of (cost) functions defined on the vertex sets of graphs are of practical interest for heuristic optimization algorithms. …”

“…The Iberian chivalric romance has long been thought of as an archaic, masculine genre and its popularity as an aberration in European literary history. …”

“…In this book, European scholars of the United States apply variations on the transnational discourse on modernity to unexpected dimensions of U.S. history, making this volume a fascinating example of the present-day enterprise of internationalizing American studies…”

“…Clinicians, nurses, volunteers, students and resident trainees, and other professionals can find this volume useful in their very difficult but extraordinarily fascinating mission…”

“…One of the most fascinating and controversial novels of the twentieth century, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is renown for its innovative style and notorious for its subject matter and influence on popular culture. …”

“…In the midst of Europe’s nineteenth-century industrial revolution, four men embarked on separate journeys to the wondrous Farangestan – a land of fascinating objects, mysterious technologies, heavenly women, and magical spaces. …”