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Wilton debunks the most persistently wrong word histories and gives the real stories behind perennial mis-etymologized words.

This is the second volume of a six volume compendium on the correspondences of John Wallis (1616-1703). Wallis was Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford from 1649 until his death, and was a founding member of the Royal Society and a central figure in the scientific and intellectual history of England. Along with his role as decipherer on the Parlimentary side during the Civil War, he prepared the ground for the discovery of infinitesimal ca...

The Field and the Forge offers an innovative approach to the pre-industrial history of Europe and the Mediterranean basin from Roman times through to the Industrial Revolution. This wide-ranging analysis demonstrates how technology changed the scope of state and empire building, and explores why this scope was realized in the ancient world rather than the medieval west. This work not only considers the who and what of history, but provides a c...

Richard Shelton headed the Freshwater Fisheries Laboratory at Pitlochry from 1982 to 2001, and was Research Director of the Atlantic Salmon Trust. The Longshoreman was his first book and was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award.

Chalk is the most important source of fresh water in North-West Europe, yielding some eight million cubic metres daily. The book reviews the origins and characteristics of this unique rock and the water it contains.

Eleven songs for tenor and piano

Eleven songs for contralto and piano

This collection brings together all of Rawsthorne's popular piano works, re-engraved, lightly edited, and with an introduction by John McCabe. Rawsthorne had an intuitive understanding of the piano and showed great brilliance in writing for it. This is a rich selection of original material with great appeal for all pianists seeking rewarding and imaginative contemporary repertoire.

Choose from more than 150 trips on over 500 miles of trails with this comprehensive guide to every park and preserve on the San Francisco Peninsula. From Fort Funston and San Bruno Mountain south to Saratoga Gap, and from the Bay west to the Pacific Ocean, the peninsula offers something for everyone. This updated edition includes 18 new trips covering newly acquired public lands. Also includes maps and a trips-by-theme appendix.

The subject matter of this book is to present the procedural steps required for modeling and simulating the basic dynamic system problems in SIMULINK (a supplementary part of MATLAB) which follow some definitive model. However, the key features of the text can be cited as follows: Þ The book is on the whole a guiding tool for the undergraduate and graduate students of science and engineering who want to work out or simulate the classroom model...

The sixteen stories collected in this remarkable book give firsthand accounts of daily life in contemporary China. From 250 interviews conducted in Hong Kong between 1972-1976, Frolic has created vignettes that show how individuals from all parts of China led their lives in the midst of rapid social change and political unrest.

In Pushkin's "Poltava, " Virginia M. Burns provides a detailed literary structural analysis and reading of Aleksandr Pushkin's long narrative poem "Poltava, " through analysis devices of characterization, narrative structure and poetic structure, providing a new interpretation of its meaning.

Ever been offered a promotion that seems too good to be true? The kind where you snap their arm off to accept, then wonder why all your long-serving colleagues look secretly relieved, as if they're off some strange and unpleasant hook? It's the kind of trick that deeply sinister companies like J.W. Wells & Co. pull all the time. Especially with employees who are too busy mooning over the office intern to think about what they're getting into. ...

We were successful because we were committed to becoming partners with a lot of people. Our partnerships included the relationships we built with customers as well as those with fellow workers, suppliers and our stock holders. Whatever the form of communicaton is, and we relied heavily on interpersonal contact, as long as a business creates a social contract for its activities then it can be vital and profitable. "We Were All Partners" describ...

Anyone who owns land, whether rancher, farmer or anyone in between-grassfires strike fear into the heart. Lani, the young-looking female communicator in the REACT T van, rides herd over a team of fire fighters and tries to rein in her infatuation with Cord Comstock, the rancher whose land is threatened. As if his rugged good looks weren't enough to lasso her heart, he loved children and animals, too. Lani was a goner when it came to Cord. Now,...

The 2005 issue of the International Workshop on Practice and Theory in Public Key Cryptography (PKC 2005) was held in Les Diablerets, Switzerland during January 23-26, 2005. It followed a series of successful PKC workshops which started in 1998 in Paci?co Yokohama, Japan. Previous workshops were succ- sively held in Kamakura (Japan), Melbourne (Australia), Cheju Island (South Korea), Paris(France), Miami(USA), andSingapore.Since 2003, PKChasbe...

Examines the "golden age" of the culture of the Ottoman empire in the 16th century, exploring sexuality, gender and literary society, as well as the demographics, economics, politics, society of love and other cultural productions of the Ottoman

Examines the "golden age" of the culture of the Ottoman empire in the 16th century, exploring sexuality, gender and literary society, as well as the demographics, economics, politics, society of love and other cultural productions of the Ottoman

Travel to Saudi Arabia for excitement and money. Work in a hospital in Ta'if, the summer capital, live in the community. Everything is fine until staff in the hospital begin to die mysteriously. Casey and Mike find each other but suffer in the finding. Now can the hospital survive?

Travel to Saudi Arabia for excitement and money. Work in a hospital in Ta'if, the summer capital, live in the community. Everything is fine until staff in the hospital begin to die mysteriously. Casey and Mike find each other but suffer in the finding. Now can the hospital survive?