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An autobiography of life and living, about love and despair, about loneliness, about the seemingly endless search for security, and eventually about survival.

How you can help your family, neighborhood and community prepare for Peak Oil, climate change, and economic collapse and live a more sustainable, money-saving lifestyle. A practical handbook of ideas, suggestions, and book and Internet resources.

Another great student edition of a classic text.

Love, emotion, natural gifts, ethnicity, everlasting friendship, everlasting violence, the overwhelming desire to break free... And a young Arabic man in the West destined to end fear and hate.

The Vampires of Malibu High is the first collection of Chris Bunch's short fiction. We've gathered the very best of his stories published in magazines such as Absolute Magnitude, Fantastic Stories, Dreams of Decadence, and Realms of Fantasy. Each story is a polished gem waiting to satisfy Bunch's legion of readers. Bunch is best known as a novelist, but these science fiction, fantasy, and horror short stories demonstrate Bunch's mastery of the...

This book offers a thoughtful analysis of the international and domestic political impact of the global war on terrorism through the prism of US security relations in the wake of 9/11. Focused on regional and country-specific responses and consequences, the book considers the change and continuity in the international system.

A collection of essays on early Christian, Jewish and Greco-Roman religious discourses in antiquity, focusing on the construction of gender in relationship to broader cultural and religious themes, argumentation and identity formation in the early centuries of the common era.

A modern man who had put his past behind him is forced by his family to face his "roots" in the Minnesota prairie. Weaver brings a powerful new voice to American fiction in the story of a land divided by conflict--and the bonds of human passion that can never be destroyed. Optioned for a CBS-TV miniseries.

The Colorado Desert lands that became Riverside County in the 19th century were home to diverse bands of California Indian people, including the Cahuilla, Gabrielino, Serrano, Luise-o, Chemehuevi, and Mojave tribes. Other Native Americans call the county home, including urban Indians who moved here in the 20th century. The tribes of Riverside County are survivors, descendants of sovereign people who left their mark on the county's history eons...

For 100 years, the Maryland State Forests and Parks Services have maintained and provided public access to Maryland's most beautiful and historic places. These include Assateague, Elk Neck, the first completed Washington Monument, Fort Frederick, Green Ridge, and Swallow Falls. Maryland's Forests and Parks: A Century of Progress captures the development of the state's forests and parks from their inception in 1906 to the present day. Take a jo...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich auf den folgenden Seiten mit dem zukünftigen Übertragungsstandard im automobilen Bereich, mit FlexRay. Dabei liegen die Schwerpunkte dieser Arbeit im Übertragungsprotokoll und den einzelnen Protokollfunktionen von FlexRay. Die technischen Spezifikationen und Leistungsdaten, sowie die Hauptanwendungsgebiete von FlexRay werden in dieser Arbeit nur sehr kurz und oberflächlich im Kapitel 2 a...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Diese Diplomarbeit entstand im Zusammenhang mit meiner Tätigkeit als freier Programmierer für ein reales Kundenprojekt. Mein Ein-Personen-Betrieb ist auf die Erstellung von Flash-Anwendungen spezialisiert, womit eine grundlegende Architekturentscheidung bereits vom Kunden noch vor der eigentlichen Anfrage getroffen wurde. Unabhängig von dieser Entscheidung, die ja immer noch revidiert werden könnte, da es zu Flash j...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Lange Zeit galt in Deutschland das Postulat von der Gleichheit der Hochschulen. Man war der Auffassung, dass die staatlichen Universitäten sich qualitativ nicht unterscheiden und somit den Studenten die gleiche Ausbildung vermitteln. Die Universitäten hatten einen guten Ruf und genossen das Vertrauen der allgemeinen Öffentlichkeit. Die Finanzierung der Bildungsinstitutionen war seitens des Staates abgesichert. Mittle...

David Frye's skillful translation and abridgment of Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's monumental First New Chronicle and Good Government (composed between 1600-1616) offers an unprecedented glimpse into pre-colonial Inca society and culture, the Spanish conquest of Peru (1532-1572), and life under the corrupt Spanish colonial administration. An Introduction provides essential historical and cultural background and discusses the author's literary a...

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Muriel Gane was just eighteen when war was declared on. 3 September 1939: Keen to enlist and help the war effort, she was nonetheless young, nervous and leaving home for the first time. "We All Wore Blue" is the story of Muriel's subsequent experiences with the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, her personal journey from the new recruit whose primary obsession was how well the blue of the uniform suited her, to a resolute and hard-working young woma...

In this book the leading sociologist Boaventura de Sousa Santos makes an impassioned case for the politicisation of the World Social Forum. Since its inception in Porto Alegre in 2001, the World Social Forum has refused to take political positions on world events, preferring instead to provide a platform for diverse social movements to come together. de Sousa Santos argues, however, that the Forum can only realise its full potential as a force...

Roman Polanski is a great maverick figure of world cinema who has lived a controversial and tragic life. Yet his notoriety has eclipsed the true importance of his long career, starting with his short films in the 1950s and continuing through to the recent Oliver Twist (2005). This collection highlights the bold and dazzling diversity of his work as well as recurrent themes and obsessions. Films discussed include Knife in the Water (1962), Repu...

The aim of this volume is to explore new approaches to the problem of the constitution of the various aspects of sociality and to confront these with received ideas. Therefore many of the contributions to this volume are devoted to a rather holistic and antireductionist conception of social objects, groups, joint actions and collective knowledge. The topics, that are dealt with are: a) the question of the ontological status of social objects a...

The study aims at exposing Meinong's ideas that may be of interest to analytic philosophers. It contains all the basic information concerning Meinong's theory of objects with a special focus upon 'objectives', which are Meinong's propositions. Meinong's theory of meaning and his epistemological views are discussed in detail. An outline of his conception of truth, which is classified as firmly realistic, is followed by a review of the critical ...