Trollope and the Magazines examines the serial publication of several of Trollope's novels in the context of the gendered discourses in a range of Victorian magazines - including Cornhill, Good Words, Saint Pauls, and the Fortnightly Review . It highlights the importance of the periodical press in the literary culture of Victorian Britain, and argues that readers today need to engage with the lively cultural debates in the magazines, in order better to appreciate the complexity of Trollope's popular fiction.

Jean Baudrillard is a central figure in the area of sociology and cultural studies today, but his writings infuriate as many people as they intoxicate. This collection aims to provide a wide-ranging, measured assessment of Baudrillard's work.

Max Weber: The Lawyer as Social Thinker aims to relate the categories of Weber's social thinking to the intellectual context of legal thinking and theory in which he was educated. Its interpretive aim is to show how knowledge of these relations illuminates our understanding of Weber's own intentions. By comparing Weber's social theory of the teleological kind favoured by his contemporaries, which sought to identify social purposes and their effects and realization in history, but rather to radically undermine the project of teleological social theory by replacing categories of description...

Immunology: A Comparative Approach discusses the immunological features of a wide range of living organisms. It considers the merits of the laboratory mouse as an immunological representative; opportunities for bypassing technical obstacles in one model by using another; the immunological implications of changes in overall structure, physiology and way of life; and progress made in the study of defence mechanisms in animals and plants of commercial importance. This book is written for students and research workers with some knowledge of mainstream immunology who are curious about the...

Metal Speciation and Bioavailability in Aquatic Systems is the first comprehensive review to deal with fundamental concepts and models, speciation measurements and field applications in metal speciation and bioavailability in aquatic environments. This volume provides a thorough review of current developments concerning the interactions between trace metals and aquatic organisms. Metal Speciation and Bioavailability in Aquatic Systems provides:
* The first comprehensive approach to the subject covering all aspects of trace metal ecotoxicology in the environment.
* Essential...

The papers presented here communicate the range and diversity of work in the sociology of emotions, with a particular focus on how culture and social structure interact with the activation of emotions in people.

This text presents a theory of creativity that addresses some of the problems which must be solved to build a creative computer. It also presents an exploration of the goals and plans needed to write simple short stories.

A self-contained introduction to Statistics, presented in the context of clinical trials and pharmaceutical drug development. This title focuses on the statistical analyses most commonly used in drug development. It emphasises the importance of descriptive statistics as well as inferential statistics.

This series presents a compendium of research papers in which specialists in the field of biosensors provide an overview of their laboratory's contribution, summarizing the primary research as it has appeared in the journal and conference literature, and reflecting on their findings.