As a result of the Internet, new forms of selling and distributing music have developed that are increasingly replacing the traditional distribution channels. This development is a challenge not only to the music industry but to collecting societies as well. The cooperation between national and international collecting societies is constantly being tested by the growing significance of the Internet. This work examines the development and critically analyzes the past decisions and legal acts taken on the European level.

This new eighth edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect recent progress in the fields of biology, biophysics, and biochemistry, with particular expansion to the areas of research design and plant and animal development. Over 120 new entries include de-extinction, ecological footprint, rewilding, and Zika virus, now totalling over 5,600 authoritative and up-to-date entries. Numerous appendices include classifications of the animal and plant kingdoms, SI units, Nobel prizewinners, and a new appendix on anatomical terms. With new diagrams and updated web links, this remains the market-leading dictionary for students of biology, both at sixth form college and university level.

A study of "the ideological foundations" of the monarchical governments of Southeast Asia, specifically in Hindu-Buddhist cultures, this book examines political thought on the nature of rule.

An American college graduate becomes stranded in Thailand as a shady business deal goes awry. A wife must travel to Russia to solve the mystery of her missing husband. In 1929, bakery boys ponder the mysterious case of a female gangster known as "The Gagster." From the sex boat sexcapades of a drug runner to a possible alien encounter, three unflinching excerpts for the male and female reader from D. Davies Bradford.