An alchemist, his family and his valet, Caliban, settle in an isolated village. After their deaths, their young son, Abel, who has read only fairy tales ...

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Higher education is characterized by ubiquitous digital technologies and e-learning that are inevitably influencing the development of core competencies ...

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This volume contains James Edmund Harting’s 1841 work; “A Short History of the Wolf in Britain”. With information on natural history ...

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