Feroces, crueles, valientes y apasionados, los cosacos hacen temblar la estepa bajo los cascos de sus caballos. Y entre ellos se encuentra Taras Bulba, un anciano lleno aún de fuerza e inteligencia que junto a sus hijos, Ostap y Andrí, avanzará por tierras polacas con intención de vengar su fe ortodoxa burlada por los católicos. Ninguna guarnición, ciudad amurallada o iglesia podrán detenerlos, hasta que la desgracia se cierna sobre ellos y el apuesto y enamoradizo Andrí haga que su padre maldiga el día en que lo engendró. Taras Bulba, una anomalía entre la obra más conocida de Gogol, es una aventura trepidante, una sinfonía en perpetuo crescendo, en la que cada capítulo es más intenso y sorprendente que el anterior. un fresco tan afinadamente dibujado y tan vívido que resulta absolutamente intemporal.

Providing a comprehensive outline of the tribological behavior of electrical contacts rarely discussed in existing literature, the authors of Electrical Contacts: Fundamentals, Applications, and Technology examine detailed analytical models and state-of-the-art techniques, as well as the methodologies and tools used to assess and maintain the reliability of a broad class of moving and permanent electrical contacts in many technological devices. Combining recent research and development in mechanical engineering and tribology with new data on electrical current transfer-especially at the micro/nanoscale-they take a practical applications approach, presenting valuable design information for researchers and designers.
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> Completely rewritten, Cytokines: Stress and Immunity, Second Edition offers 16 entirely new chapters, which document developments across a number of fields, including immunology, pharmacology, and psychiatry. Delving into the cytokine relation to stress and depression, this seminal work details all clinically relevant cytokines, including interleukins, interferons, enkephalins, and endorphins. It explores cytokine-hormone interactions and the clinical implications of those interactions on the immune, endocrine, and central nervous systems, clearly documenting how cytokine activity is implicated in fueling the vicious circle of depression and illness in a variety of mental and physical diseases.
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Written by leading experts in the physics, development, and implementation of brachytherapy, The Physics of Modern Brachytherapy for Oncology discusses the basic physics behind modern brachytherapy and addresses all practical issues, such as production, calibration, and dosimetry of sources. Beginning with fundamental atomic and nuclear physics, the book discusses the radionuclides used in brachytherapy, reflecting upon past (radium), present (iodine, palladium, iridium, or cobalt), and future (ytterbium or thulium) methods. It proceeds to examine source calibration and dosimetry protocols for dose rate calculation while the final chapters explore more recent processes, including Monte Carlo-aided, experimental, and gel dosimetry.
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Integral transforms, operational calculus, and generalized functions are the backbone of many branches of pure and applied mathematics.  Combining the best features of a textbook and a monograph, Operational Calculus and Related Topics provides an introduction to these subjects. The book includes a comprehensive survey of classical results and highlights recent advances in the field. Including applications to various disciplines, this text considers both the analytical as well as the algebraic aspects of operational calculus, making it ideal for mathematicians, physicists, students, scientists, and engineers applying such mathematical methods and performing research in a wide range of areas.
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El aventurero Chichikov, ávido por aumentar su riqueza, recorre varias regiones de Rusia para adquirir ilegalmente un elevado número de "almas muertas", es decir, para hacer pasar a su lista de propiedades nombres de siervosmuertos, cuya defunción no ha sido constatada todavía por las autoridades oficiales. La novela, una de las cumrbes de la narrativa rusa, se nos ofrece como un profundo estudio psicológico de caracteres de todas las clases sociales, desde el más humilde siervo al más influyente funcionario.

El inspector de Nikolái Gógol es una de las más brillantes comedias de la dramaturgia universal. Su actualidad es tan absoluta que todos los años se la representa con éxito de público en los grandes escenarios del mundo. Aunque los hechos transcurren en la Rusia del XIX, todos nos vemos reflejados en sus personajes: políticos, funcionarios, empleados, ricachones, hosteleros, mujeres maduras y jóvenes trepadores, etc. como si los hechos sucedieran en cualquier pueblo de la España autonómica. Con El inspector podemos reírnos de nuestras miserias sociales y de la hipocresía que ponemos cada día en escena al salir a la calle. No somos más que un personaje de esta farsa genial de Gógol, que cada día tiene más vigencia y actualidad.

A valuable addition to the Lecture Notes in Pure and Applied Mathematics series, this reference results from a conference held in St. Petersburg, Russia, in honor of Dr. Z. Borevich. This volume is mainly devoted to the contributions related to the European Science Foundation workshop, organized under the framework of noncommuntative geometry and integrated in the Borevich meeting. The topics presented, including algebraic groups and representations, algebraic number theory, rings, and modules, are a timely distillation of recent work in the field. Featuring a wide range of international experts as contributors, this book is an ideal reference for mathematicians in algebra and algebraic geometry.
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This volume focuses on topics in nonlinear analysis pertinent to the theory of boundary value problems and their application in areas such as control theory and the calculus of variations. It complements the many other books on nonlinear analysis by addressing topics previously discussed fully only in scattered research papers. These include recent results on critical point theory, nonlinear differential operators, and related regularity and comparison principles. The rich variety of topics, both theoretical and applied, make Nonlinear Analysis useful to a broad audience. An appendix contains the background material needed, and a detailed bibliography forms a guide for further study.
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