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In Menergy, author Louis Niebur offers a fascinating new look at gay history through the sounds of San Francisco's queer nightlife. In doing so he also reveals new insights in the history of electronic music and dance music.

Explores the scope and character of religious freedom for Russia's diverse non-Orthodox religions during the tzarist regime.

In Scientists as Prophets, Lynda Walsh argues that our science advisors manufacture certainty for us in the face of the unknown. Through a series of cases reaching from the Delphic oracle to seventeenth-century London to Climategate, Walsh elucidates many of the problems with our current science-advising system.

Digital controllers are part of nearly all modern personal, industrial, and transportation systems. This book covers the fundamental principles and applications of digital control engineering, with emphasis on engineering design.

One week, red wine is good for the heart. The next week, new reports say it's bad for the health. So which is true? Taking a look at some true to life contemporary news stories, this book assesses studies on topics ranging from vitamin C and caffeine to pollution and cancer.

Addresses the future for the African black rhino, and describes the author's own experiences of ecological fieldwork in Africa while accompanied by a small child. The text displays a mixture of practical conservation issues, economic considerations and personal commitment.

This lively account of the Roaring 20s' in America embraces all the major personalities in jazz and popular music - singers, composers and instrumentalists - together with a detailed discography and lists of songs and films.