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Sixteen-year-old Anna is an unremarkable schoolgirl. She does her homework, and keeps out of trouble. At home she emotionally supports her depressive mother and occasionally goes out with friends, but she allows no one to get close. Then Craig Ritchie storms into her life, and nothing is the same again.

In "Intoxicated Identities, " Tim Mitchell provides a novel and well-grounded framework for understanding subjective drinking experiences from the Aztecs to the present day in areas as diverse as Chiapas, Chihuahua, Oaxaca, Mexico City, Texas and California. Power drinking plays a crucial role in Mexican religion, politics, fine arts and ritual spousal abuse. Mexico ranks number one in deaths from cirrhosis, and Mexican Americans are twice as ...

The art of posing riddles is possibly as old as mankind and spans two apparent extremes which, nevertheless, converge in the riddlic form: that of wisdom and that of play. With this perspective in mind, the author examines the poetic enigmas present in the culture of Anglo-Saxon England, exploring both the Anglo-Latin riddles of Aldhelm and those recorded in the Exeter Book. His study investigates the Old English riddlic texts from a variety o...

The Royal Navy at the start of the twenty-first century had undergone the most remarkable transformation. The Fleet is today the smallest since the start of the Napoleonic wars as surface vessels are no longer viable as a principal line of defence. That preserve is now in the hands of Britain's nuclear-armed submarine fleet, well chronicled in THE SILENT SERVICE and the Air Force, as outlined in STRIKE COMMAND. This book will complete the tria...

I piccoli comuni agricoli dell¿interno della Sicilia, sul finire del 1800 erano isolati ed immersi in uno spazio sconfinato costituito dai Feudi. Si trattava di grandi aziende agricole aventi notevolissima estensione: la maggior parte d¿esse contava dai 500 ai 1000 ettari, ma erano frequenti latifondi di 1000 e 2000 ettari, e più raramente di ben 6000 ettari ed oltre. Un vertiginoso mare coltivato prevalentemente a cereali, puntellato da rari ...

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It's All InMe is a look into the body, mind, and soul of a Man who does not apologize forhis being. In a world that focuses ontolerance, the words in this compilation encourage acceptance of all ideas andbeliefs. However, this is not accomplished by taking any political or religiousstand, but simply by accepting that we are Man, monster, and miracle. All in One.In this book, No-Man standsbefore the judgment of the readers proclaiming, "You Can...

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God has decided to have a trial in Heaven to decide whether Mankind should continue to exist. Metatron, a Cherub, is the Judge as he was appointed by God to oversee the visible Universe. Mr. Snake from - the Garden of Eden was appointed to be the Defense Attorney to save Mankind. The Angel Gabriel was appointed to Prosecuting Attorney. The Heavenly Trial is a play in 4 Acts which enlightens its reader for the reasons Mankind has been such ...

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EDEN is two stories: one fictional, one fact. The fiction: Calif De'Alsace, a man devoted to the dissemination of life across the galaxy, has taken a group of one hundred artists and scientists to a sterile world named Eden for the purpose of bioengineering living works of art. Calif, an Ankh idealist, has decreed that no weapons be brought and that the group create a "paradise of peace where beauty...not the law of tooth and claw...reigns."...

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The conductor of UCLAUs legendary graduate workshop--Screenwriting 434--guides readers through every stage of the screenwriting process by actually having them write an original screenplay. "I heartily recommend (this book) for beginners and pros alike."--Steven Bochco.

Zwanzig Jahre hat der Vater als Ingenieur im Betrieb gearbeitet, nun wird er entlassen. Alle Versuche, eine neue Arbeitstelle zu finden, scheitern. Für die zehnjährige Nina ist das Baumhaus im Garten ein Ort der Geborgenheit - nun muss sie es aufgeben.In Tagebuchform erzählt Nina von ihren Erlebnissen, welche die Veränderungen in ihrem Leben mit sich bringen, als ihr Vater seine Arbeit verliert. Die Empfindlichkeiten und Gereiztheiten nehmen z...

- Kompaktratgeber von A-Z für Studium, Weiterbildung, Forschung und Arbeit in den USA - Unentbehrlich zur Planung und Durchführung eines Studienaufenthaltes in den USA - Checklisten zum systematischen Abarbeiten - Infoboxen mit hilfreichen Tipps und Tricks - Umfangreiches Adressmaterial zur zeitsparenden Recherche - Vorformulierte Musterschreiben zur fehlerfreien Bewerbung - Empfehlungen zur optimalen Vorbereitungs- und Prüfungslit...

In dieser Zeittafel wird die Entfaltung der menschlichen Intelligenz von den Anfängen in der Steinzeit bis zu ihren Höchstleistungen moderner Genies wie Albert Einstein und Sigmund Freud dargestellt.Zeittafeln sind ein hochinteressantes und leistungsstarkes Tool für jeden geistig aktiven Menschen. Der Autor zeigt dies anhand des zentralen Gegenstands der psychologischen Forschung. Die Methode lässt sich - in Form der »Erzählenden Familienchron...

College student Nate Black is a top-notch computer hacker. But he's long since stopped the kind of hacking that could put him behind bars. Under the guise of his user i.d., Azrael, he has never been discovered. That is, until Nate gets an anonymous email, after which nothing will ever be the same. He's abducted to an alien world, where magic is the rule, the gods are all too real, and a twist of fate makes him the most valuable pawn in a terri...

In this sparkling and warm-hearted novel, Grace Tynan discovers that not everything in life can be planned