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The "Blind African Slave" recounts the life of Jeffrey Brace (ne Boyrereau Brinch), who was born in West Africa around 1742. Captured by slave traders at the age of sixteen, Brace was transported to Barbados, where he experienced the shock and trauma of slave-breaking and was sold to a New England ship captain. After fighting as an enslaved sailor for two years in the Seven Years War, Brace was taken to New Haven, Connecticut, and sold into sl...

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This book describes the role of the obligate inhabitants of all vertebrate genomes--endogenous retroviruses, especially those emerged in genomes rather recently, during primate evolution. It specially focuses on human endogenous retroviruses as well as other retroelements.

Der angesehene Münchner Anwalt Friedrich Machmann erleidet nach der Feier zu seinem 65. Geburtstag einen Herzanfall. Die erzwungene Ruhezeit veranlaßt ihn, sein Leben jenseits von äußerem Erfolg und Lobesreden neu zu betrachten - und stürzt ihn in eine Sinnkrise, aus der ihm keiner seiner vermeintlichen Freunde heraushelfen kann. Machmanns geschiedene Frau lebt in Berlin, seine Tochter Ellen, die kaum noch in München auftaucht, arbeitet im süd...

Between getting caught up in the wild life and glamour of New Orleans and trying to live right, I Won't Complain follows the life of a young girl facing opprobrious challenges. The decisions she makes unconsciously shapes who she is and who she is trying to become. She falls in love with an abuser and experiences several years of her life in a diffident state. Though death becomes a way of life all around her, she is determined to overcome all...

Written by a group of distinguished philosophers, the Foundations of philosophy Series aims to exhibit some of the main problems in the various fields of philosophy at the present stage of philosophical inquiry. This book is written from the viewpoint that although justice is the most important concept in political philosophy, it is also one of the most contested concepts in philosophy. Coverage begins with an overview of the concept of justic...

During the last millennium B.C., before the coming of the Romans, the Etruscans built a thriving civilization in the western Mediterranean basin, which was rich in natural resources. From the eighth century B.C., Etruria became a destination on the Italian peninsula for refined works by artisans of the Hellenic regions, the Near East, and central Europe, and for masters from these regions, who emigrated and began to work for the local clientel...

This book presents a large collection of anecdotes and jokes from different periods of the twentieth century to provide an unusual perspective on Soviet and Russian history. Anecdotes and jokes were a hidden form of discursive communication in the Soviet era, lampooning official practices and acting as a confidential form of self-affirmation. They were not necessarily anti-Soviet, by their very nature both criticising existing reality and acti...

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An English translation of the series prepared by the Komarov Botanical Institute. Covers Altai, Khangai, Kentei Ranges in the North, Greater Khingan Range in the East, Pamir in the West, The Great Wall of China in the Southeast, and the Himalayas in the South. This volume of the illustrated synopsis of vascular plants of Central Asia provides a detailed account of 3 families Araliaceae, Umbelliferae, Cornaceae, within the People's Republics of...

A boy's annoying habits get him into trouble - until he helps catch a thief.

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Curriculum interventions, action research, professional development, and support for beginning teachers are among the important research areas explored in this textbook. This book will make classroom discussion come alive and inform classroom practice through case studies, examples, and suggested projects.

The Jump Aboard 6 Workbook has projects about the real world which tie in with the real world activity pages in the Student's Book. It also provides consolidation activities, projects, handwriting practice pages, a special phonics syllabus and a complete word list.

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