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Peasant silver buttons are the kind that are worn with traditional costume. This book is the first to identify and date all the main kinds in one compact volume. It illustrates in meticulous detail around 600 different peasant and souvenir buttons, from Europe, Asia and America. It shows the reader how to distinguish between old and modern buttons, with detailed pictures of backs and shanks as well as the different patterns and methods of cons...

The book edition of Constitutions of the World from the late 18th Century to the middle of the 19th Century is the most complete and academically thorough collection of its kind. It contains constitutional documents from all over the world, written from 1776 to the end of the year 1849. This collection includes about 1, 600 constitutions, amendments, human rights declarations, and draughts of constitutions that never came into force, from this...

The 285 letters contained in this volume of the Correspondance générale date from the years following Constant's exclusion from the Tribunal. They reflect his work on religious issues, his dreams of literary success, and his travels in France, Germany, and Switzerland. In addition, they provide an impression of political life at the beginning of the Napoleonic empire and the emotional vicissitudes undergone by their author.

Covers neural networks with special emphasis on advanced learning methodologies and applications. This book includes practical issues of weight initializations, stalling of learning, and escape from a local minima. It also contains several IT, engineering and bioinformatics applications.

Software is more than a set of instructions for computers: it enables (and disables) political imperatives and policies. This title provides a synoptic perspective on the relationships between free software and freedom.

Includes essays on an expansive list of subjects, among them the literary correspondence of William Maxwell, the meaning of the author's own role as poet laureate of the state of Maryland, the journals of Louise Bogan, and how they reveal Bogan's struggle with her own personal fears as well as the reconstruction of herself as a writer, and more.

This book stresses the human side of leadership as the central feature regarding credibility in the public forums where leadership is really tested. As such, leadership is an art because it involves performance as a form of public theater. No other text on this topic demonstrates so ably how the field has been lopsidedly dominated by science to the detriment of art. Leadership cannot be improved by simply defining it better, it has to be pra...

This text engages preservice and practicing teachers in considering some of the complex issues related to religion and teaching that all educators face in their interactions with students, parents, administrators, and fellow teachers. The questions are not just about what is legal and what is not, but how a teacher should act in the best interests of all students, both those who are religious and those who are not. This book does not provide a...

A full treatment of Condorcet's politics, and a major contribution to enlightenment studies from a senior scholar.

An interesting interpretation of the arcane world of the early modern legal community.

Der Index zum Südosteuropäischen Biographischen Archiv enthält biographische Kurzinformationen zu etwa 80.000 Personen vom 9. Jahrhundert bis in die 90er Jahre des 20. Jahrhunderts. Für das Archiv wurden etwa 150 der wichtigsten Nachschlagewerke über Albanien, Bulgarien, Rumänien und die Gebiete des ehemaligen Jugoslawien herangezogen - erschienen zwischen 1711 und 1996. ischen 1711 und 1996.

Le «DAO» est le premier dictionnaire onomasiologique de l'ancien occitan. Il suit un classement par concepts (d'après le système conceptuel de Hallig-Wartburg) du lexique de la France méridionale sur la base de textes s'étalant des premiers documents jusqu'au milieu du 16e siècle. Il réunit de manière systématique, tant sur le plan lexical que morphologique, les moyens d'expression de l'ancien occitan correspondant à une notion donnée. Clé ono...

Le «DAO» est le premier dictionnaire onomasiologique de l'ancien occitan. Il suit un classement par concepts (d'après le système conceptuel de Hallig-Wartburg) du lexique de la France méridionale sur la base de textes s'étalant des premiers documents jusqu'au milieu du 16e siècle. Il réunit de manière systématique, tant sur le plan lexical que morphologique, les moyens d'expression de l'ancien occitan correspondant à une notion donnée. Clé ono...

Ernest Hemingway is one of the most gifted, oft-taught, and frequently criticized authors of the short story in the English language. An introduction and four original scholarly essays here constitute a survey of Hemingway's career as a short story writer and offer an overview of practical problems involved in reading his work. Includes bibliography. 2 photos.

Cassandra walked to the dressing table and sat down on the wooden stool before it. A large oval mirror attached to the table showed that Darcy had entered the room as well, but Cassandra's attention was focused on the clasp of her bracelet. At length, the bracelet opened, and she began to loosen her hair. Next, she leaned forward to remove her shoes and then raised her gown to strip off her stockings. By this time, Darcy's lust so overpowered ...

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Millions have visited the museums that bear her name yet most know little about Madame Marie Tussaud. Drawing upon a wealth of primary sources, including Tussaud's memoirs and historical archives, as well as interviews with her direct descendants, Berrige relates this fascinating woman's complete story for the first time.

Best Friends ForeverThere are lots of children on Hill Street, but no little girls Betsy's age. So when a new family moves into the house across the street, Betsy hopes they will have a little girl she can play with. Sure enough, they do—a little girl named Tacy. And from the moment they meet at Betsy's fifth birthday party, Betsy and Tacy becoms such good friends that everyone starts to think of them as one person—Betsy-Tacy.Betsy and Tacy ha...