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This irresistible guide serves up sex scandals, crimes, drugs, and financial chicanery that have rocked the world of basketball, and also includes obscure and offbeat stats-based records for the hardcore fan. Wickedly humorous, the book includes candid commentary, amazing anecdotes, comic quotes, fascinating biographical sketches, and little-known trivia. From the star who credited LSD with improving his game to the player charged with sexual ...

The famous 18th-century minister of Boston's Old North Church provides readers with guidelines for discovering witches, explains how good Christians are tempted, and describes how to resist such temptation. 15 woodcuts.

Just when the world thought we had enough data--proliferated via the Web--we now have the enormous amount of dynamic data that will be generated by GPS systems and RFID tags. Driven by trends in consumer electronics (the use of GPS-equipped devices such as PDAs, GPS in automobiles, and in mobile phones) as well as the trend in companies and retail stores to track their products (using RFID tags), this book focuses on data management techniques...

Miller challenges long-held assumptions about Eliot's poetry and his personal experience. Eliot himself always maintained that his poems should not be read personally, but Miller convincingly combines a reading of the early work-from his first poems in 1902 through 1922. Ultimately, Miller demonstrates that Eliot's poetry is filled with reflections of his personal experiences, his relationships with family, friends, and wives, his sexuality, h...

The geometry of the hyperbolic plane has been an active and fascinating field of mathematical inquiry for most of the past two centuries. This book provides a self-contained introduction to the subject, suitable for third or fourth year undergraduates. The basic approach taken is to define hyperbolic lines and develop a natural group of transformations preserving hyperbolic lines, and then study hyperbolic geometry as those quantities invarian...

Since the late 1990s, web-based collaboration technologies (a ~project extranetsa (TM)) have become increasingly widely used within the UK construction industry and are now routinely deployed on the design and construction of thousands of projects. The first book dedicated to the topic, this comprehensive guide will help current and future construction professionals understand, implement and use such systems more effectively. Cutting through t...

This little book covers anything you are likely to meet in a Travel Medicine Clinic. It includes problems associated with air travel, adventure travel and travel for special groups as well as the usual pre and post travel consultations. Since Tropical Medicine is intimately bound with Travel Medicine much attention is paid to common tropical diseases such as malaria and dengue as well as to less common ones such as leishmaniasis and filariasis...

Cytokines and cytokine receptors remain an area of great interest for the development of targeted therapies for cutaneous inflammatory diseases. Anti-TNF therapeutics have proven to be effective in the treatment of psoriasis, and clinical investigations have now begun for other cytokine-directed therapies, such as those targeting IFN-g, IL-12p40, and IL-18. In addition to therapeutics that target cytokines directly, strategies that target cyto...

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When young Fern finds out that she had been swapped at birth, she heads off with The Bone (her father) on a wild adventure into a world inhabited by the sinister Miser and the Great Realdo. Illustrations.

When seventeen-year-old Ginny receives a packet of mysterious envelopes from her favorite aunt, she leaves New Jersey to criss-cross Europe on a sort of scavenger hunt that transforms her life.

In prying nettles from her family tree, a Chinese-American finds a love triangle and twins separated at birth. As she looks for that happily-ever-after with her white devil Prince Charming, will she make peace with Chinatown and country?

Martin Nanther auf den Spuren seines berühmten Urgroßvaters, dem Leibarzt von Queen Victoria: Für seine Verdienste um die Erforschung der königlichen Krankheit hochgeehrt, führte Lord Henry Nanther ein vorbildliches Leben - scheinbar.

Gespenster und eine Psychiaterin, ein hängender Richter und empfindliche Gemüter mit viel Phantasie - das sind die Helden von Muriel Sparks durchtriebenen Geschichten.

Hugo Loetscher: Weltreisender, Verfasser essayistischer Prosa, Lyriker, Vollblutepiker und Citoyen - hochkarätige Beiträge illustrieren die verschiedenen Facetten von Person und Werk.

Peter Burke untersucht die Außenhaut eines Mythos: Die Geschichte Ludwigs XIV. erscheint hier als gigantische Werbekampagne, die den König über Frankreichs Grenzen hinaus als unvergleichliches Produkt anpries und durchsetzte - ein Ziel, dem Bevölkerung, Kultur und Politik bedenkenlos unterworfen wurden.

Elf Geschichten aus dem Alltagsleben, in denen die Normalität zur Groteske gerät, erzählt von einem Meister der satirischen Kurzprosa.

First published in 1927, "My Journey to Lhasa" tells of the first Western woman to enter the forbidden Tibetan city of Lhasa and to have been received by the Dalai Lama. Map.

The noted "Harper's" essayist explores the paradox that we are human only by helping others--and all too human when we try to help.

They call Gabriela Tree Girl. Gabi climbs trees to be within reach of the eagles and watch the sun rise into an empty sky. She is at home among the outstretched branches of the Guatemalan forests. Then one day from the safety of a tree, Gabi witnesses the sights and sounds of an unspeakable massacre. She vows to be Tree Girl no more and joins the hordes of refugees struggling to reach the Mexican border. She has lost her whole family, her enti...