Category: Non Fiction

As the flaws of purely synthetic approaches to biochemical discovery and development are becoming more obvious, a resurgence of interest in the chemistry of natural products as sources for new compounds is occurring. An exclusive approach to natural products chemistry, Botanical Miracles: Chemistry of Plants That Changed the World (PDF)

This new Design and Construction of Modern Steel Railway Bridges 2nd edition (PDF) encompasses current design methods used for steel railway bridges in both Imperial (US Customary) and SI units. It discusses the planning of railway bridges and the appropriate types of bridges based on planning considerations.

Race, Immigration, and Social Control, (PDF) discusses the issues surrounding ethnicity, race and immigrant status in U.S. policing, with an exceptional focus on immigrant groups’ perceptions of the police and factors that form their attitudes toward the police. It focuses on the views of three rapidly growing yet understudied ethnic

International criminal law has become one of the most important fields of international legal theory and practise in the last two decades. The evolution of international criminal tribunals, the elements of basic international crimes, the applicable forms of culpability and defences, and the role of governments in pursuing international crimes

Artistic Visions and the Promise of Beauty (PDF) examines the motives behind rejections of beauty regularly found within modern art practice, where much critically acclaimed art is deliberately alienating and ugly. It shows the nature and value of beauty, asking whether beauty still has a future in art and what