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A short story for every day of the year. Written during 2000 - 2001, one story each day. These stories are sometimes disturbing, sometimes hilarious, always memorable and are short enough to be enjoyed while waiting for your coffee.

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This is a unique and accessible reference guide to the work of figures who have played an important role in the development of ideas about language. It includes 80 entries on individual thinkers in the Western tradition, ranging from antiquity to the present day, chosen because of their impact on the description or theory of language.

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What are leading scientists working on now? What do they think about the working of the brain, climate change, animal experimentation, cancer, and mental illness? Is science progressing or in retreat? Is this century humankind's last? These are just some of the compelling questions discussed by twelve of world's leading scientists and scientific thinkers in this fascinating book. In engaging and lucid discussion, they clarify many of the compl...

Khedive Ismail's Army examines military failure in the age of age of imperialism. On paper, the mid-nineteenth century Egyptian army seems a formidable regional power. It had a tradition of success, modern weapons, and mercenary officers with experience in major wars. Egypt's ruler, Khedive Ismail, hoped to combine the imported technology and brains with native manpower, and establish an Egyptian dominated Horn of Africa. His soldiers did conq...

Drawing insights from conceptual semantics, cognitive semantics, generative lexicon, construction grammar and formal syntax, this book is the first attempt at a comparative account of lexical semantic issues in Mandarin Chinese.

Of great interest to practitioners, policymakers and academics this work addresses all important legal and practical issues that arise in connection with online trading.

The theory of Hilbert spaces plays a central role in contemporary mathematics with numerous applications for Linear Operators, Partial Differential Equations, in Nonlinear Analysis, Approximation Theory, Optimisation Theory, Numerical Analysis, Probability Theory, Statistics and other fields. The Schwarz, triangle, Bessel, Gram and most recently, Grüss type inequalities have been frequently used as powerful tools in obtaining bounds or estimat...

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The Road Ahead" covers the full set of challenges confronting President Bush in his second term: from fighting Binladenism to promoting Arab reform, from achieving Middle East peace to saving Iraq, and from tackling Iran to engaging Syria and Saudi Arabia.

The Polyimagical Realm I must note that as primarily a painter at the time of composing this work (1986) I was also painting "angels." They were in figure what I have called personatypes and simulated, imitated realities, yet arché and beyond typification (typos) in content. This ambiguity is in fact the subject of this book. The simultaneity of image and immanence is not a problem, except we have no credible concept for simultaneity, or compl...

The Polyimagical Realm I must note that as primarily a painter at the time of composing this work (1986) I was also painting "angels." They were in figure what I have called personatypes and simulated, imitated realities, yet arché and beyond typification (typos) in content. This ambiguity is in fact the subject of this book. The simultaneity of image and immanence is not a problem, except we have no credible concept for simultaneity, or compl...

Access the industry's premier print study guide and the industry's premier online test-prep materials with this unique package. The study guide consists of seven chapters, which parallel the content of the exams. Each chapter includes review questions and provides the core knowledge necessary to pass the exams. The associated test-prep Web course provides sample test questions and tips that will help you get a better feel for the actual exams....

Ever been tempted to chuck it all and try something different? Give up the life you know and wing it in another place?Here are two people who did it. Find out first how not to do it and then learn from their mistakes and get it right the next time.The author gives you pointers on how to go from being a sissy to becoming your brave and true self-in Vermont or anywhere else.

I hope that this book can bring America's youth to the realization of the dangers of the wrong lifestyle and mentality. I never thought that what happened to me or any other tragedy that could have happened was possible. I some how felt that I was an exception. I now realize that life is not only not granted to me, but it's not granted to any of us. Sometimes I'm still shocked by what happened to me. However, I now understand why it happened. ...