This textbook provides an introduction to the physics of life science, focusing on applying physics thinking to understanding biological systems such as whole organisms, organs, single cells, biomolecules, or materials of biological origin (e.g. foodstuffs).It is divided into three parts, the first explores macroscopic physics. Chapters discuss motion, force, and energy and apply these concepts to solid and liquid materials as well as organs and whole organisms. The second part of ...

Hegemony and Woke Strategy explores how wokeism functions as a distinct ideological force within the contemporary culture war, challenging liberal and socialist traditions through strategic uses of identity politics.Grounded in Gramscian theory and informed by post-structuralist and Marxist scholarship, Lars Erik L. Gjerde analyses how cultural struggle operates as a bid for hegemony. He moves beyond defining wokeism to examine its tactics, such as cancellations, language ...

In 1912, two brothers are sent into the forest to fend for themselves, forging a bond through hunger, freedom and endurance. Before the summer is over, a decision fractures that world, leaving a scar that will mark their family for generations. The wondrous, profound and deeply moving debut novel by one of Norway's finest artists, Lars Elling…'This gorgeous bildungsroman also delivers a gripping historical novel … as tactile and eternal as one of the autho...

Based on years of in-depth reporting and sources from every corner of his life, Brady is the definitive biography of the life, career, and retirement of one of football’s most legendary figures, Tom Brady.New York Times bestselling author and former Sports Illustrated journalist Lars Anderson plunges into Tom Brady’s childhood to discover the origins of what Brady later described as his “sickness”: his category-five obsession with the gam...

It began with an empty tomb.When Eliora discovers ancient writings that challenge everything she has been told, her search leads her into the forgotten history of a world built on fear and half-truths.Seeking answers, she leaves Bergvalla's walls and joins six companions, each carrying their own gifts, questions, and wounds. Together they enter cities of masks, silent passages, hidden orders, and places where truth has been buried for far too long.B...

The series that inspired NOCTURNE, coming soon to Apple TV, starring Live Schreiber, Zazie Beetz and Stephen Graham HE WILL TRAP YOU IN A WORLD OF TERRORThe groundbreaking first novel in the bestselling Joona Linna thriller series.A TRAUMATISED WITNESSKarolinska Hospital, Stockholm. Detective Inspector Joona Linna is faced with a boy who witnessed the gruesome murder of his family. He’s suffered more than one hundred...

These ships were numerous and played a very active role in Pacific naval combat but have never been the subject of a book in English until now.During the Second World War, the Imperial Japanese Navy used the term kaibōkan to refer to several classes of ships. The kaibōkans slotted below Imperial Japanese destroyers, comparable to the British Royal Navy's frigates and corvettes or American destroyer escorts. A total of 171 vessels were completed in ...

At last, an edition of the Bhagavad Gita that speaks with unprecedented fidelity and clarity, letting the profound beauty and depth of this classic shine through. It contains an unusually informative introduction, the Sanskrit text of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute's critical edition, an accurate and accessible English translation, a comprehensive glossary of names and epithets and a thorough index. From the Introduction: You are about to have the profound pleasure of reading o...

The first compete edition of the Kamasutra. It contains a crisp introduction; the original Sanskrit; a new, accurate and readable English translation; fifty full-page illustrations using period clothing, jewelry, and settings; and a thorough index. Composed almost two thousand years ago, it is surprisingly modern in its depiction of human nature and sexual practices. From the Introduction The Kamasutra is the most famous guide to sensual pleasure ever written—indeed, one of the most notori...

The Biggest Heroes are Sometimes UnsungCaleb's father is serving with Ethan Allen's Green Mountain Boys as the long-anticipated open war against the British rages up and down the length of Lake Champlain. Between his duties on the family farm and constant worry about his father's safety, the young man's attentions are already fully occupied when a fateful encounter with an unlikely neighbor changes everything. Pulled into new intrigues and new friendships,...

This is a novel on the Vatican, William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and the School of Night, based on research results and historical data.The story kicks off at the end of April,1982, when Beatrice Algheri - a young Latinist from Cambridge University doing research work in the Vatican manuscript reading room - by coincidence lays her hands on an officially unknown, thus never published, 11th century manuscript in Latin, revealing the blueprints of several Sh...

Coming soon to Apple TV: NOCTURNE, starring Live Schreiber, Zazie Beetz and Stephen GrahamHE’LL STEAL YOU IN YOUR SLEEPThe fourth gripping serial killer thriller in the No.1 bestselling Joona Linna series. Perfect for fans of Jo Nesbo.HE’S SWEDEN’S MOST PROLIFIC SERIAL KILLER.Jurek Walter is serving a life sentence. Kept in solitary confinement, he is still considered extremely dangerous by psychiatric staff...