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A brilliant portrayal of Russians in the post-Soviet era--from ordinary people to politicians and rock stars.

This book is designed to help people identify their true goals and meet their personal potentials.

We all want to be successful--personally, financially, romantically--but many of us are not sure how to attain our goals. In this motivational manual, the author, convinced that everyone has the potential to achieve success, addresses readers directly. Each letter, like advice from a wise old uncle, covers a different tool for self-improvement: positive thinking, goal setting, time management, and many more. Drawing on lessons he learned durin...

The beautiful and mysterious Princess Agnes Salm-Salm captivated East Coast society for a decade after 1861. She played a sometimes controversial, often conspicuous, and always colorful role in three of the century's major events: the American Civil War, the fall of Maximilian's empire in Mexico, and the Franco-Prussian War.An alluring American woman with an unknown past, she married a German soldier of fortune who served in the Union army and...

Loneliness pervaded the lives of pioneers on the American plains, including those in the empty expanses of West Texas. In The Lonesome Plains, Louis Fairchild mines the letters and journals of West Texas settlers, as well as contemporary fiction and poetry, to record the emotions attending solitude and the ways people sought relief.Hungering for neighborliness, people came together in times of misfortune -- sickness, accident, and death -- and...

A veteran of the American Revolutionary War, the Philadelphia is the oldest intact warship on display in North America. After its recovery from the bottom of Lake Champlain in 1935, the fifty-four foot long vessel, armed with three cannon and eight swivel guns, was moved to the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution.The Philadelphia testifies to the heroic struggle between a hastily built fleet of American warships ...

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Rome continues to be the monumental expression of a legend. It is the eternal city where all roads of the ancient world converged, and through the millennia has been the model for the very concept of a universal empire. Through art, architecture, and urban planning, the empire expanded with an exceptional synthesis of technology, politics, law, and propaganda, conquering Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Near East. Accompanied by masterpieces...

Minerals of the World" is an attractive and up-to-date guide to more than 500 minerals from around the world. The succinct text--covering crystallography, properties, names and varieties, structure, diagnostic features, and occurrence--and the discussion of less common minerals not found in other guides make this an invaluable resource. With over 600 exquisite color photographs and crystallographic diagrams, this book is unequalled. It is set ...

An award-winning investigative journalist and former New York bureau chief for The Miami Herald, Joe Starita is now an associate professor of journalism at the University of Nebraska.

The dictator is dead and suddenly the exiles can return. So begins Pablo Medina's most compelling work to date, a novel set on Barata, the imaginary Caribbean island (not unlike Cuba). Sent to the United States at the age of twelve, Felix Nogara has remained attached to his native land through dissident fellow exiles and through his family legacy. Thirty-eight years later, he returns, and with a wise and sardonic cab driver as his guide, he tr...

Two professors present a guide to better communication for singles and couples that shows better ways to talk and listen.

A whopping collection of 73 classic hits from the '50s and '60s for piano/vocal/guitar. Songs include: All My Loving * Barbara Ann * Be-Bop-A-Lula * Can't Take My Eyes off of You * Crimson and Clover * Crying * Donna * For Once in My Life * Get a Job * Good Vibrations * Great Balls of Fire * Green Onions * I Think We're Alone Now * Jailhouse Rock * Kansas City * La Bamba * Mellow Yellow * Mony, Mony * Rag Doll * Respect * Soldier Boy * Stagger...

The fiddle has been popular in Scotland for over 500 years as an accompanying instrument for dance and song. Bonnie Rideout has been playing traditional Scottish fiddle music since the 1980s. This collection presents favorite tunes which Bonnie had stashed away over the years while awaiting the perfect opportunity to record them. The music written here ranges from J. Scott Skinner's "Dr. Gordon Stable" (a wonderful fiery reel she once played t...

The themes of the second book in this series are Missionary tales and remarkable conversions. Other themes covered in the series are Living for God and the value of scripture Missionary Tales and Remarkable Conversions, Honouring God and Dramatic Deliverances, Faithful Witnesses and Childhood Faith.Joel Beeke and Diana Kleyn have taken a selection of real life incidents and fictional narratives and developed them into a series of devotional bo...

THE GODS OF PEGANA is a rich tapestry of imaginative fantasy, one of the landmark collections of short stories from the early 20th century, and a tremendous influence on writers ranging from H.P. Lovecraft to Ursula K. LeGuin. "Dunsany was the second writer (William Morris in the 1880s being the first) fully to exploit the possibilities of . . . adventurous fantasy laid in imaginary lands, with gods, witches, spirits, and magic, like childr...

The themes of the second book in this series are Missionary tales and remarkable conversions. Other themes covered in the series are Living for God and the value of scripture Missionary Tales and Remarkable Conversions, Honouring God and Dramatic Deliverances, Faithful Witnesses and Childhood Faith.Joel Beeke and Diana Kleyn have taken a selection of real life incidents and fictional narratives and developed them into a series of devotional bo...

Indice: Ecología de los organismos. Ecología de poblaciones y comunidades. Estructura y funcionamiento de los ecosistemas. Ecología del paisaje y biodiversi dad. Los grandes medios terrestres y marinos¿Esta nueva edición incluye numerosas investigacione s contemporáneas sobre temas tales como la historiade la biosfera, las relaciones animal-planta, la biología evolutiva y la historia natural de las especies, la ecología de las metapoblaciones ...

Ever wish you could look at someone's hand and know right away if they'd make a good business partner, or for that matter, a good lover? When properly understood, the human hand is an unsurpassed tool for character and emotional analysis. Crossing Paths serves as an illustrated guide for those seeking a quick, accurate way to assess their potential partner's talents, abilities, psychology and emotional personality in both business and romance....