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As the Palestinian Liberation Organization engages in negotiations withIsrael toward an interim period of limited Palestinian self-rule, this timely bookprovides an insider's view of how the growing hold of Islamic fundamentalism in theWest Bank and Gaza challenges the peace process. Working from interviews withleaders of the movement and from primary documents, Ziad Abu-Amr traces the originand evolution of the fundamentalist organizations Mu...

Reading Myron Sharaf's passionate biography of his charismatic mentor and colleague is like being engulfed in an ancient drama about heroic intention. True to its literary analog and human source, Fury on Earth ends in catharsis. I felt like crying upon closing it.'--Webster Schott, Washington Post Book World

Calvinus Sacrae Scripturae Professor collects the paper presentations and seminar reports by the following prominent international Calvin scholars: Heiko A. Oberman, James A. DeJong, James B. Torrance, Wilhelm H. Neuser, Paul E. Rorem, Richard C. Gamble, Richard Hörcsik, Cornelis Augustijn, Luke Anderson, Erik A. de Boer, I. John Hesselink, Francis M. Higman, Nobuo Watanabe, Irena Backus, Adrianus D. Pont, Mitsuru Shimura, Jeffrey R. Watt, and...

This book is the proceedings of a workshop held at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh in August 1993. The central theme of the workshop was rules in database systems, and the papers presented covered a range of different aspects of database rule systems. These aspects are reflected in the sessions of the workshop, which are the same as the sections in this proceedings: Active Databases Architectures Incorporating Temporal Rules Rules and Tran...

Presents a formulation of the kinematics, dynamics, and control of robot manipulators. This book emphasizes the geometry of robot motion and allows a large class of robotic manipulation problems to be analyzed within a unified framework.

Joseph T. Wilson was not only a historian of the fighting black spirit in the Civil War, but was one of its soldiers. His fellow veterans recruited him to write a complete and accurate record of the g

This book examines the pervasive cultural influence of Walt Disney and his imaginary empire. Drawing both on the humanities and social sciences, the contributors read through Disney's domestic cultural production - 'innocent' national icons, as well as theme parks, cartoons and television - to analyze the global impact of American popular culture, the politics of Disney, and the complex reception of Disney productions around the world.

Dux, Günter: Überlegungen zu einer empirischen Grundlegung des Geistes und der Geistesgeschichte. Eine Einleitung. Eßbach, Wolfgang: Der Mittelpunkt außerhalb. Helmuth Plessners philosophische Anthropologie. Pietrowicz, Stephan: Philosophische Anthropologie und Geschichte. Helmuth Plessners Geschichtsverständnis der Moderne und der Begriff der exzentrischen Positionalität. Fahrenbach, Helmut: "Phänomenologisch-transzendentale" oder "historisch...

In An Open Book, this veteran of five marriages, innumerable friendships, practical jokes, horses, love affairs, and intellectual obsessions tells his own story in his own way. It is direct, unadorned

Illus. in full color. Unlike other crocodiles, Cornelius walks upright, sees things, and does tricks no other crocodile can. His friends aren't impressed--or are they?

General Abner Doubleday (1819-1893) is best known as the man who "invented" baseball, but his admirable service on behalf of the Union earned him a reputation as a solid commander and patriot. He saw

Arnold Rothstein (1882-1928) was described in the newspapers of the 1920s as "a sportsman, " "a gambler, " and "the man who fixed the 1919 World Series." But he was much more than that. A bootlegger and

This book is the moving story of nine American soldiers and pilots who were captured and held prisoner for five years. It could only be told in their own words, so author Zalin Grant interviewed each

This volume contains the proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning 1994, which continues the tradition of earlier meetings and which is a major forum for the presentation of the latest and most significant results in machine learning. Machine learning is one of the most important subfields of artificial intelligence and computer science, as it is concerned with the automation of learning processes. This volume contains two i...

This book explores the writer's narrative journey into the inner depths of the human being through the study of the most important themes and aspects of her work.

Most histories of Reconstruction deal primarily with political issues and the larger conflicts between Democrats and Republicans, notherners and southerners. The Trouble They Seen departs from this ap

Teaching for Spiritual Growth deals with two important questions: 1) What does it mean to be spiritually mature ? and 2) What can the church do to help people grow spiritually? These questions are explored from the perspectives of theology, developmental psychology, and educational learning theory. The book integrates the three perspectives into a unified view of the teaching-learning process based on a biblical view of persons: 1. Theology: t...

Sugar Ray Robinson (1921-1989) was hailed as the finest boxer to ever enter a ring. Muhammad Ali once called him "the king, my master, my idol"--and indeed, he was the idol of everyone who had anything

History will remember Roy Wilkins (1901-1981) as one of the great leaders of the twentieth century for his contributions to the advancement of civil rights in America. For nearly half a century--first

This chapter book in Newbery Honor-winning and bestselling author Louis Sachar's Marvin Redpost series shows what happens when Marvin gets his first job. Marvin is really excited to take care of his teacher's dog while she's away. He'll even earn a bonus if he does a good job! And he gets to be alone in his teacher's house! But when Mrs. North's dog starts to look sick, Marvin isn't sure he'll get that bonus. In fact, Mrs. North may never talk...