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Nyle H. Miller and Joseph W. Snell's Why the West Was Wild is the unabridged and unsurpassed collection of material assembled on the famous and infamous personalities of Kansas cowtowns, including legendary figures such as "Wild Bill" Hickok, Bat Masterson, and Doc Holliday, and such locales as Abilene, Wichita, Caldwell, and Dodge City. First published in the Kansas Historical Quarterly, these portraits are based on research in newspapers, le...

This book aims to examine the effects of globalization and economic and political transformations in the 'emerging regions' of Latin America and the Caribbean, East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union and East Asia by looking at development trajectories and the pathways of both economic and political change. This is a unique approach in terms of books published in both geography and the social sciences.

The existence of minorities will grow in most countries of the world because of sociopolitical upheaval and economic crisis, both of which result in waves of migration. Contributors to this volume discuss the task of education to alleviate the problems arising from the mix of peoples of various ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and religious backgrounds.

Thompson designed an empirical study to gather feedback from African-American parents on numerous issues pertaining to their children's schooling experiences. The results, discussed in this book, can be utilized to improve the schooling experiences of African-American children nationwide.

Environmental Change and Human Development focuses on environmental change and human fortunes. While there is a large and rapidly expanding literature dealing with how people affect the environment, less attention has been given in recent years to how the environment shapes human development.

This all-in-one reference guide to American railroads features essays, biographies, and primary documents.

This is the first book to comprehensively examine NGOs as institutional players in the formulation of public policy and the implementation of corporate strategy. The delicate balance between governments and the private sector in managing globalization and influencing broader societal interests is also explored.

Extends the original classic of landscape rephotography, with nearly three hundred photographs in triplicate sets portraying more than a century of ecosystem change in Arizona and Mexico.

Niccolò Machiavelli wird als Gesandter der Republik Florenz in die Höhle des Löwen Cesare Borgia geschickt. Der gefürchtete Fürst schickt sich an, Italien zu erobern, und schert sich weder um den Kaiser noch um den König von Frankreich. Aus einer Episode entsteht das prächtige Portrait der Renaissance. Eine Liebesintrige ist außerdem hineinverwoben, die Boccaccio nicht raffinierter eingefädelt hätte.

This handbook, first published in 1998, is now available as a 2 volume set. This one-stop reference brings together all the data needed in theoretical and experimental polymer research. "...one of the most useful references available to the community...[It] should be available to all in the polymer sciences."-Polymer News "Highly recommended for public, university, and special libraries with collections in polymer science"-New York Public Libr...

It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be is a handbook of how to succeed in the world: a pocket bible for the talented and timid alike to help make the unthinkable thinkable and the impossible possible.The world's top advertising guru, Paul Arden, offers up his wisdom on issues as diverse as problem solving, responding to a brief, communicating, playing your cards right, making mistakes, and creativity - all endeavours that can ...

Während einer Indienreportage wird einem New Yorker Journalisten vor laufender Kamera die linke Hand von einem hungrigen Zirkuslöwen aufgefressen, Millionen Fernsehzuschauer sind Zeugen des Unfalls. In Boston wartet ein verschrobener Handchirurg auf eine Gelegenheit, die erste amerikanische Handtransplantation vorzunehmen. Und eine junge Ehefrau in Wisconsin hat es sich in den Kopf gesetzt, dem einhändigen Reporter die linke Hand ihres Mannes ...

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Was als heiterer Ausflug beginnt, entpuppt sich für die langjährigen Freundinnen Dodo, Nora und Claire als Reise in eine Vergangenheit, die alles andere als unbelastet war. Katzenzungen erzählt die Geschichte dreier eng miteinander verbundener Frauen, aus jeweils wechselnder Perspektive. Aus den verschiedenen Sichtweisen setzt sich allmählich ein Bild zusammen, das so vielschichtig ist wie das Leben und die drei Protagonistinnen selbst - mal w...

The tragic and shocking story of a 10-year-old girl who was suffocated during a fringe therapy illuminates legal issues that make it difficult to ban such practices.

Die BMW R 1150 RT ist das Nachfolgemodell der R 1100 RT, von der zwischen 1995 und 2001 mehr als 54.000 Stück hergestellt und verkauft wurden. Die R 1150 RT kam im Frühjahr 2001 auf den Markt und ist mit dem 1130 ccm großen, 95 PS starken Motor ausgerüstet, der auch in den Schwestermodellen R 1150 R, R 1150 GS und R 1150 GS Adventure eingebaut ist. Bis Ende 2002 wurden schon weit mehr als 30.000 Einheiten der R 1150 RT im BMW-Werk Berlin herge...

This all-in-one reference guide will help students, researchers, and interested readers make sense of the infamous election of 2000. Following an overview of the 2000 presidential race, five essays spotlight separate issues related to the race and its outcome. Biographical entries cover major players in the story. Primary documents from court cases show the actual wording of the legal decisions.

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 ushered in a period of democratization and market reform extending across the East-Central European region, with one important exception: Belarus. Ironically, Belarus's fledgling attempts at democracy produced a leader who has suspended the post-Soviet constitution and its institutions and created a personal dictatorship. Located in the center of the European continent, Belarus lies at the crossroads of an e...

Examining wars from the allied victory in World War II to the conflict in Viet Nam, and finally to the operations in the Gulf and Kosovo, this book presents a comprehensive look at the evolution of strategic air attack theory and doctrine over the years.

With the same wit and perception that distinguished his stylish books on Paris, London, and Rome, M. Sasek pictures fabulous, big-hearted New York City in This Is New York, first published in 1960 and now updated for the 21st century. The Dutchman who bought the island of Manhattan from the Native Americnas in 1626 for twenty-four dollars' worth of handy housewares little knew that his was the biggest bargain in American history. For everythin...