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The extensive coverage and detailed commentary has been extensively market tested to ensure that the contents are aligned with the needs of university courses in commercial law.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I. Agency\u003cbr\u003e1. Agency\u003cbr\u003ean introduction\u003cbr\u003e2. The authority of an agent\u003cbr\u003e3. Relations between a principal and agent\u003cbr\u003ePart II. Sale of Goods and Services\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e4. Sale of goods policy\u003cbr\u003e5. The implied conditions in sale of goods contracts\u003cbr\u003e6. Passage of title, delivery and payment\u003cbr\u003e7. The supply of goods and services\u003cbr\u003e8. E-commerce and distance selling\u003cbr\u003ePart III. International Trade and Sales\u003cbr\u003e9. Standard trade terms\u003cbr\u003e10. The Vienna Convention on the International Sales of Goods (1980)\u003cbr\u003e11. Payment in international sales\u003cbr\u003e12. 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The second edition of this acclaimed textbook has been revised to bring the content fully up-to-date and to reflect the most recent advances in geophysical research. It is designed for undergraduates on introductory geophysics courses who have a general background in the physical sciences, including introductory calculus. It can also be used as a reference book for graduate students and other researchers in geology and geophysics. Each chapter ends with exercises of various degrees of complexity, for which solutions are available to instructors from www.cambridge.org\/9780521893077. The book contains an extensive glossary of geological and physical terms, as well as appendices that develop more advanced mathematical topics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eSources\u003cbr\u003e1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e2. Tectonics on a sphere\u003cbr\u003ethe geometry of plate tectonics\u003cbr\u003e3. 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It fully covers the key topics of the course and is clearly structured to include the history and framework in which international environmental law exists, key areas of regulation and implementation, links to other areas of law and future developments. It has been updated to incorporate all the latest developments in treaty and case law. Extensive feedback on previous editions results in a restructuring of material, including a new part focused on linkage to other areas of international law including human rights, international trade and foreign investment. There is also a new chapter on future developments charting the directions in which the subject is moving. 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Sources of pre-analytical variability in the measurement of biochemical markers of bone turnover\u003cbr\u003e3.6. Genetic approaches to the study of complex diseases\u003cbr\u003eosteoporosis\u003cbr\u003ePart IV. Biomarkers of Liver Disease and Dysfunction\u003cbr\u003e4.1. Biomarkers of hepatic disease\u003cbr\u003e4.2. The immunogenetics of metabolic liver disease\u003cbr\u003e4.3. Toxicogenetics of liver dysfunction\u003cbr\u003e4.4. Prognosis and management of patients with acute liver failure\u003cbr\u003e4.5. Biomarkers in artificial and bioartificial support\u003cbr\u003e4.6. Prognostic markers in liver disease\u003cbr\u003e4.7. Apoptosis\u003cbr\u003ebiomarkers and the key role of mitochondria\u003cbr\u003e4.8. Liver regeneration\u003cbr\u003emechanism and markers\u003cbr\u003e4.9. Determinants of response to viruses and self in liver disease\u003cbr\u003e5.0 IL-6-type cytokines and signalling in inflammation\u003cbr\u003ePart V. 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