A wonderful field guidebook to wild plants of Russia. Color illustrations of the plants.

In recent years, a remarkable flourishing of works on the postwar history of social science and humanities disciplines led to the growing configuration of a field of “Cold War social science” research. Yet in spite of its thematic diversity, and with few exceptions, the geography of the field remains overwhelmingly North American and Western European. This volume brings in the perspective of...

In Bonk, the best-selling author of Stiff turns her outrageous curiosity and insight on the most alluring scientific subject of all: sex. Can a person think herself to orgasm? Why doesn't Viagra help women-or, for that matter, pandas? Can a dead man get an erection? Is vaginal orgasm a myth? Mary Roach shows us how and why sexual arousal and orgasm-two of the most complex, delightful, and...

Монография содержит результаты многолетних исследований автора по совершенствованию тепловой подготовки строительных машин в зимний период Приведен обзор и дан анализ устройств, перспективных для использования в системах тепловой подготовки. Предложено делить зимний период на временные отрезки, для каждого из которых характерны свои средства подготовки. Предложена комплексная система...

Over 24 000 entries on oil and gas. Over 4 000 abbreviations. Dictionary contains all the major lexicon used in this industry.

Modern English-Russian technical dictionary. Contains about 125 000 entries!