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In the 1940s Henry J. Kaiser was a household name, as familiar then as Warren Buffett and Donald Trump are now. Like a Horatio Alger hero, Kaiser rose from lower-middle-class origins to become an enormously wealthy entrepreneur, building roads, bridges, dams, and housing. He established giant businesses in cement, aluminum, chemicals, steel, health care, and tourism. During World War II, his companies built cargo planes and Liberty ships. Afte...

Tocqueville: A Biography is a book of considerable importance, primarily because of its comprehensive treatment of both Tocqueville's public life and his private life--including many details necessarily absent from the two previous biographical essays."--John Lukacs, The New YorkerIn this first major biography of the author of Democracy in America, André Jardin traces Alexis de Tocqueville's eventful life from his birth in 1805 to aristocratic...

Finding Dr. Livingston was only one of many exploits in the remarkable life of the great African explorer Henry M. Stanley. In a narrative that reads like a novel, Byron Farwell tells the story of this complex man who made a major contribution o the world's knowledge. He describes his bitter childhood, his coming to America where he found a friend and a name, his service in the American Civil War, his African adventures, and his late but happy...

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Medieval Artistry and Exchange presents a fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of the economic, social, and political context of Medieval French epic, romance, and the Roman de la Rose. It examines the emergence of vernacular literature in medieval France in relationship to an unprecedented commercial revival which profoundly reshaped society. This work, which builds on literary, historical, anthropological, and linguistic studies, offers ...

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A study of novels by Chester Himes, Malcolm Braly, and others on the experience of doing time in American prisons. The authors are all convicts or ex-convicts who were not professional writers before their incarceration.

Complete user's manual for this all-mechanical Leica reflex, which gives the photographer complete control over all functions. The author explains how to take advantage of this.

Eyewitness accounts of the trial and execution of Charles I portray a revolutionary moment in English history.

The Story of Kwanzaa is a primary level reader offering a good, visual introduction to the origin and tradition of Kwanzaa.

The scholar-editors and eight accomplished colleagues together offer views of phonological research on American Spanish.

Christine de Pizan (c. 1364-1430), a celebrated author and early feminist, was one of the outstanding women of her time. Her present revival has focused new critical attention on her work and contributions to late medieval culture. This revised and enlarged second edition is an annotated, cross-referenced bibliography including both primary and secondary source material. With three indexes. Entries include primary and secondary sources about C...

Richard Courtney has extensively revised and updated his most famous work, Play, Drama & Thought, the definitive text on the intellectual and theoretical background to drama and the relevance of drama in education.

HIS BOOK IS INTENDED TO PROVIDE A COURSE IN PRACTICAL Geometry for engineering students who have already received some instruction in elementary plane geometry, graph plotting, and the use T of vectors. It also covers the requirements of Secondary School pupils taking Practical Geometry at the Advanced Level. The grouping adopted, in which Plane Geometry is dealt with in Part I, and Solid or Descriptive Geometry in Part II, is artificial, and ...

In six lectures aspects of modern non-equilibrium thermodynamics of discrete systems as well as continuum theoretical concepts are represented. Starting out with survey and introduction, state spaces are defined, the existence of internal energy is investigated, and Clausius inequality including negative absolute temperature is derived by diagram technique. Non-equilibrium contact quantities, such as contact temperature -- the dynamic analogue...

Mit der GERMANIA SACRA werden Handbücher zur Geschichte der alten deutschen Reichskirche (bis 1803/6 ) geschaffen. Das gesamte verfügbare gedruckte und ungedruckte Quellenmaterial sowie die Literatur der deutschen Bistümer, Domkapitel, Kollegiat- und Pfarrkirchen, Klöster und sonstigen kirchlichen Institutionen wird hier aufgearbeitet. Die Gliederung erfolgt nach den Bistümern und Erzbistümern. Die Handbücher sind im wesentlichen einheitlich ...

Frontmatter -- Vorwort zur 6. Auflage -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Abkürzungen und Schrifttum -- I. Warenzeichengesetz -- II. Erläuterungen zum Warenzeichengesetz -- § 1 Begriff des Warenzeichens -- § 2 Anmeldung, Gebühren -- § 3 Zeichenrolle, Akteneinsicht -- § 4 Absolute Versagungsgründe -- § 5 Widerspruchsverfahren -- § 6 Übereinstimmungsbeschluß , Gerichtl. Einwilligungsklage -- § 6 a Beschleunigte Eintragung -- § 7 Eintragungsgebühr, Druckkos...

This book presents the recent theoretical and experimental developments of neutron scattering by ferroelectrics. A Model description of lattice dynamics of structurally unstable crystals (self-consistent phonon approximation, pseudo-spin formalism, coherent potential approximation etc.) is formulated. The effects of nonlinear excitations and lattice defects in neutron scattering are also discussed.

Etwa 1983 begann der Siegeszug von TURBO-Pascal, als die ersten Sprachpakete um rund 250 Mark bei uns vertrieben wurden, in der Zwischenzeit hat BORLAND INT. die Version 4.0 herausgebracht. Die didaktischen Vorteile von Pascal waren nie umstritten, aber der endgültige Durchbruch konnte erst gelingen, als Pascal in der schnellen Version TURBO auf pes (insbesondere unter MS.DOS) implementiert worden ist ... Für den Anfänger bietet TURBO so viele...