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This is the first of three volumes on the history of the Native people of Canada as revealed by archaeological evidence. Over 12, 000 years of Native history preceded the arrival of Europeans. This first volume begins with the spread of Ice Age hunters out of a land mass called Beringia that once joined Asia and North America. Most of the country was covered by glacial ice, and extinct animals such as mammoth and sabre toothed cats occupied th...

An Owner's Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet is the series to turn to when you want a basic reference that's reliable, up-to-date, and complete.These guides feature:Expert authors, plus renowned guest contributors on specialized topicsFull-color photos throughoutBasic information on the breed, species, or topicComplete coverage of care, health, grooming, training, and moreTips and techniques to make life with a pet more rewarding

Nothing goes wrong quite so dramatically as a disastrous military expedition.--from the IntroductionARROGANT ARMIESSpanning more than two hundred years of martial adventurism, aggression, and outright blundering, Arrogant Armies chronicles the profoundly misguided and utterly calamitous military expeditions of the great empire builders and overconfident expeditionary forces. From colonial America to South Africa, from Mesopotamia to Khartoum, ...

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This autobiography written for younger readers is illustrated throughout withmany photos of the author's childhood and years in Africa.

John Bowker aporta nuevas y sustanciales propuestas a los debates en torno al valor la muerte. Tras examinar la tematica de la amistad y el sacrificio dentro de cada una de las principales religiones, Bowker sostiene que existen numerosos puntos de contacto vital entre ellas respecto a la experiencia de la muerte, y que las actitudes religiosas y laicas pueden reforzarse mutuamente.

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Weaving ancient insights with contemporary teachings on sacred psychology, astrology, and subtle energy. Grasse shows readers how to understand the deeper meaning of the symbols and synchonicities of their everyday lives. This penetrating book opens readers to the world of meaningful coincidences hinted at in The Celestine Prophecy. Illustrations.

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This study presents the first general assessment in the English language of Rudolf Hilferding's life and work. Hilferding was born in Vienna in 1877 and died in the Gestapo prison La Sante in Paris in 1941. He is remembered as the author of Finance Capital (1910), as the theorist of "organized capitalism, " as the chief ideologist of Weimar Social Democracy, and as the theorist of the totalitarian state economy.

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This text addresses the relationship between what modern-day experts say to each other and to their constituencies and whether what they say and do relates to the larger culture and society. It challenges the social impact model by looking at science and technology as intellectual activities.

This report concentrates on the validation challenge and presents a framework that encompasses all of the potential uses of the DIS system.

The Lord's Dominion describes the development of mainstream Canadian Methodism, from its earliest days to its incorporation into the United Church of Canada in 1925. Neil Semple looks at the ways in which the church evolved to take its part in the crusade to Christianize the world and meet the complex needs of Canadian Protestants, especially in the face of the challenges of the twentieth century.

This work adopts a psychoanalytic approach in the interpretation of the decision making of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Dwight Eisenhower during the Vietnam War. It argues that personality traits like narcissism influenced critical decisions they made about American intervention in Vietnam.

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That Kircher's poems are private ones constitutes the strength and disadvantage of her first collection. The book reads like miniature portraits of the interiors of a life: what happens to us in rooms, before sleeping or in the quiet of an empty house. While sometimes too private, not speaking beyond the argument between lovers or the grandmother's death, her skillful images weave quotidian scenes into subtle and disturbing landscapes. These p...

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Winner! 1995 Best Instructional Nonfiction Book — Cat Writers' Association " This is a delightful, practical, well-written, sensible, and easy-to-follow book… about living with cats and enjoying them." — John E. Saidla, DVM, Director of Continuing Education, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University Is Your Cat Crazy? provides feline fans with a wealth of practical information and entertaining stories drawn from Dr. Wright' s long pra...