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Excerpt from More "Alarming Developments", Life and "Times in Groton, " or One Way for Lawyers and Clients to Raise the Wind: Containing a Report of a Trial in the Supreme Judicial Court, Holden at Cambridge, County of Middlesex, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, October 23d, 24th, and 25th, 1850, Before His Honor, Judge FletcherThe defendant to this hour deems all the plaintiffs as mere instruments in the hands of heartless and unprincipled ...

Excerpt from The Development of the Railway System in Northumberland and Durham: 7th November, 1901In 1767 the plate-rail was introduced. It consisted of a short cast-iron plate with a vertical ¿ange projecting upwards to retain the wheels in position, the wheels being without ¿anges these were fastened direct on to the sleepers An improvement was afterwards made by the addition of a curved ¿ange on the underside to give additional strength. T...

Excerpt from The Development of the Railway System in Northumberland and Durham: 7th November, 1901In 1767 the plate-rail was introduced. It consisted of a short cast-iron plate with a vertical ¿ange projecting upwards to retain the wheels in position, the wheels being without ¿anges these were fastened direct on to the sleepers An improvement was afterwards made by the addition of a curved ¿ange on the underside to give additional strength. T...

Like the facts of a legal case, the veracity of a Biblical story is irrelevant to its role of adding depth to a legal rule or axiom. Like the facts in a seminal Supreme Court case, the stories of the people in the Bible provide the context necessary to fully comprehend the values they adhered to and incorporated into law. As you read the ten chapters in this volume, experience them with others, stopping frequently to discuss the ideas prese...

The Devil's Hole. Four men who went through college together go on hunting and fishing trip to the wilds of Wyoming. They are taken to a mountain lake ten thousand feet in the mountains called the Devil's Hole by the local residents. A helicopter takes them up and will return to bring them down. The men experience wild animalsgrizzlies, cougars, and wolves, one is killed by a wild animal. One man finds out another in the party was having an af...

Eagle Down. This story is a political thriller. It's about murder and assassination. During a severe recession, a new president puts a bill before Congress to spend a trillion and a half dollars to help the economy recover. The other political party strongly objects to this bill, so much so that a plot is hatched to assassinate the president and the vice president and take over the government and kill the bill. The plot is called Eagle Down. A...

Excerpt from More "Alarming Developments", Life and "Times in Groton, " or One Way for Lawyers and Clients to Raise the Wind: Containing a Report of a Trial in the Supreme Judicial Court, Holden at Cambridge, County of Middlesex, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, October 23d, 24th, and 25th, 1850, Before His Honor, Judge Fletcher The defendant to this hour deems all the plaintiffs as mere instruments in the hands of heartless and unprinciple...

A Western tale of a greedy land baron who, after the war, tries to force small ranch owners to sell their ranches and cattle to him at below market prices when land and cattle prices are depressed right after the Civil War. Clint, an officer in the Union army, returns from the war and finds out about the land baron's tactics. He organizes a six-hundred-mile cattle drive to help the ranchers survive. The drive goes from northern Texas to Cheyen...

The first exploration of the idiosyncratic brand of Platonism in the multifarious literary corpus of Apuleius of Madauros (c.AD 120-180).

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Rodrigo Diaz, the legendary warrior-knight of eleventh-century Castile known as El Cid, is remembered today as the Christian hero of the Spanish crusade who waged wars of re-conquest for the triumph of the Cross over the Crescent. He is still honored in Spain as a national hero for liberatingthe fatherland from the occupying Moors. Yet, as Richard Fletcher shows in this award-winning book, there are many contradictions between eleventh-century...

A story of an aircraft carrier, her pilots, and the men from the time her keel is laid until she is decommissioned after the war. This story covers actual battles that took place in the Pacific theatre during World War II. While the battles are real, the men and their ship are made from the mind of the writer. These brace pilots fly off the deck of a carrier and go to meet the enemy to shoot them out of the sky, just like the actual men did du...

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The first exploration of the idiosyncratic brand of Platonism in the multifarious literary corpus of Apuleius of Madauros (c.AD 120-180).

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Babys suchen Kontakt, bereits am ersten Tag ihres Lebens. An der faszinierenden Entwicklung ihrer Kinder hautnah teilhaben zu wollen, ist längst auch Sache der Väter. Und das zu Recht: denn die Bedeutung des Vaters ist enorm, Kinder brauchen - vom frühen Säuglingsalter an - stärkende Vaterbeziehungen, um zu emotional stabilen Persönlichkeiten zu reifen. Wie entsteht eine gute, vertrauensvolle Beziehung zwischen Vater und Kind, wie innige, echt...

In this immensely readable history that couldn?t be more timely, award-winning historian Richard Fletcher chronicles the relationship between Islam and Christianity from the time of Muhammad to the Reformation. With lucidity and sound scholarship, Fletcher demonstrates that though there were fruitful trading and cultural interactions between Muslims and Christians during the period when the Arabs controlled most of the Mediterranean world, eac...

A clear, intelligently-written guide to a crucial period of Spanish history

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