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Just when the future looks bright for the people of Ember, a new darkness lurks. This highly acclaimed adventure series is a modern-day classic-with over 4 MILLION copies sold! Lina and Doon have led the citizens of Ember to an exciting new world. They've been given safe haven in a small village called Sparks, a place filled with color and life. But they're not out of danger yet. Although Sparks seems like the answer the long-suffering Emberit...

Cette étude a pour but d'analyser la pièce militaire. Ce type dramatique particulier s'est constitué dans le sillage de la comédie de Lessing, Minna von Barnhelm, et a occupé une place importante dans les répertoires des scènes germanophones pendant la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle. Malgré son succès, ce genre n'a que peu retenu l'attention de la recherche littéraire et théâtrale et la critique n'a jamais vraiment clarifié la question crucia...

These poems capture the romance, irony, and pathos of love, they movingly chronicle days in post-9/11 New York and bring a fresh perspective to an array of subjects -- from the Brooklyn Bridge to Gertrude Stein to Buddhism. "When a Woman Loves a Man" is playful, inventive, and as amusing as it is clever, it is the work of a poet at the height of his lyrical and reflective powers.

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Street gangs were rampant in the 1850s and nowhere more than Baltimore. Tracy Melton has gone back to the newspapers, court records and every conceivable original source to recreate this colorful period. Some of it is violent and grisly, but the reader also gets descriptions of clothing and everyday life of gang members, etc. And finally we have the spectacle of four men on the gallows in the jail yard (a yard still visible from I-83 North off...

Volume Three of Classics of Buddhism and Zen contains translations of works by the key figures of Zen, including the Japanese master Dogen, Chinul, the twelfth-century Korean master, and Hakuin, founder of the Rinzai school. Also included are selections from the Prajnaparamita, or "Perfection of Wisdom" sutras, a key source of the Zen tradition. The volume includes: The Sutra of Hui-neng: Grand Master of Zen Hui-neng was the sixth patriarch of...

International Federation for Information Processing The IFIP series publishes state-of-the-art results in the sciences and technologies of information and communication.  The scope of the series includes: foundations of computer science, software theory and practice, education, computer applications in technology, communication systems, systems modeling and optimization, information systems, computers and society, computer systems technology, ...

Nuclear Import and Export in Plants and Animals provides insight into the remarkable mechanisms of nuclear import and export. This book covers a range of topics from the nuclear pore structure, to nuclear import and export of macromolecules in plant and animal cells. In addition, the book covers the special cases of nuclear import of Agrobacterium T-DNA during plant genetic transformation, nuclear import and export of animal viruses, and nucle...

There's nothing like teamwork for making progress on a project, but sharing information and building on each other's successes can be challenging when your team is scattered across the miles. Microsoft's SharePoint helps teams and organizations close the distance. With SharePoint, groups construct web sites specifically for collaboration--sites where individuals can capture and share ideas, and work together on documents, tasks, contacts, and ...

Leading historians reconsider the American Revolution as a transnational event, with many sources and momentous implications for Ireland, Africa, the West Indies, Canada, and Britain itself.

Das Wahlfachskriptum, interessant auch für rechtswissenschaftliche Studienanfänger und politisch interessierte Leser, zitiert nahezu 110 Bücher und Aufsätze und gliedert sich in die Abschnitte: Wiener Kongress, Deutscher Bund, Norddeutscher Bund, Deutsches Kaiserreich, Weimarer Republik, Drittes Reich. Der wissenschaftliche Apparat enthält Verweisungen auf weiterführendes Schrifttum. In der 2. Auflage neu bearbeitet sind vor allem die rechtsge...

In the waning days of Venice's glory in the mid-1700s, Andrea Memmo was scion to one the city's oldest patrician families. At the age of twenty-four he fell passionately in love with sixteen-year-old Giustiniana Wynne, the beautiful, illegitimate daughter of a Venetian mother and British father. Because of their dramatically different positions in society, they could not marry. And Giustiniana's mother, afraid that an affair would ruin her dau...

But who could describe my fright when, on the next morning, I awoke and found myself feeling as if completely changed into a woman. -- Case 129, Autobiography, from Psychopathia Sexualis, a Medico-Forensic Study by Richard Von Krafft-Ebing At the time the passage above was written, people who felt trapped in the wrong gender automatically became case-studies. Today they become the men and women they always felt they were. Transsexuals test our...

In this unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history, James Bradley has captured the glory, the triumph, the heartbreak, and the legacy of the six men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima. Here is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and indomitable will of America. In February 1945, American Marines plunged into the surf at Iwo Jima-and into history. Through ...

Macmillan Readers series is one of the most popular simplified readers for learners of English. The information is controlled, with pictures explaining some vocabulary. This book for Beginner-level students explains how Paul wants to marry a rich lady called Maria but doesn't think he will be able to if he remains poor. Includes an Audio CD.

Schiedsgerichte sind eine effektive Alternative zu den überlasteten ordentlichen Gerichten. Dies gilt besonders für den internationalen Bereich. "Schwab/Walter" kommentieren das in der ZPO enthaltene Schiedsverfahren gestrafft und verständlich und erläutern zugleich die Schiedsverfahrensordnungen, die von den internationalen Handelsorganisationen zur Verfügung gestellt werden. Die Neuauflage dieses bewährten Kommentars umfasst nicht nur die Ei...