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Detailing a country rife with corruption, poverty and rampant extortion, Arthur Carlisle's Letters from Nigeria is his account of being transplanted from his comfortable home in South Africa to live and work in a country that is forever falling apart. During his two years in Nigeria, Carlisle writes letters home to his family and friends describing his daily life: his weeks-long struggle to simply get his possessions from customs, his daily ba...

Charlie has this little sister Lola.Sometimes he has to try and get her to go to bed.Lola says, "I am NOT sleepy at 6 or 7 or 8. I am still wide awake at 9 and not at all tired at 10, 11 and 12 and I will probably still be perky at even 13 o'clock in the morning."Lola says she NEVER gets tired.

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A comprehensive synthesis of Caribbean prehistory from the earliest settlement by humans more than 4000 years BC, to the time of European conquest of the islands. The Caribbean was the last large area in the Americas to be populated, and its relative isolation allowed unique cultures to develop. Samuel Wilson reviews the evidence for migration and cultural change throughout the archipelago, dealing in particular with periods of cultural intera...

The publication of this book, I believe, is a milestone. . .Kennedy and Gentle have done an outstanding job of assembling the best techniques from a great variety of sources, establishing a benchmark for the field of statistical computing." ---Mathematics of Computation ." . .a very impressive text. . .highly readable and well illustrated with examples. . . .the reader who intends to take a hand in designing his own regression and multivariate...

On the solution of an optimal search problem with an exponential detection function. Covers one- and two-sided detection problems by furnishing continuous and discret time strategies, examines two-sided search strategies with solutions in hide and seek games in many discrete and continuous bounded

Peter Harris is senior fellow of the Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand in Victoria University of Wellington.

Schmidt is closely associated in Germany with the cross-disciplinary research programme of Radical Constructivism. In Histories and Discourses he carries out a change of perspective from media and communication studies to studies of culture and the philosophy of language.

Nitsan Chorev is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Brown University.

The book describes the main physical processes and phenomena in pulsed electric breakdown. The knowledge and the control of the electric breakdown of liquids is important not only for the insulation inside power systems but it is also used for the creation and information of high voltage and high current pulses. Such high-voltage micro- and nanosecond pulses find wide application in experimental physics, electro discharge technology, physics o...

This book publishes detailed scientific review articles on all aspects of environmental contamination and associated toxicological consequences. The book will facilitate the task of accessing and interpreting cogent scientific data. It is likely to be of interest to researchers, resource managers, and policy administrators.

Just in time for the holidays, this box set contains the first four books in the classic Encyclopedia Brown series. Whether Encyclopedia Brown is solving cases for his neighborhood friends or his chief-of-police dad, he always has an intriguing mystery to crack. Illustrations. Pkg.

Hermux Tantamoq is an average mouse who works in his watch shop by day and spends his evenings at home with Terfle, his pet ladybug. But all that changes when Linka Perflinger, daredevil aviatrix, steps into his shop, drops off her watch for repair, and walks out with Hermux's heart. When a shady-looking rat tries to claim Linka's watch, Hermux knows that something must be terribly wrong, and embarks on a dramatic quest to find her . . .

From the Coretta Scott King Honor-winning author of "The Red Rose Box" comes the unforgettable story of a slave girl who finds refuge with a tribe of Seminoles.

Sixteen-year-old Chastity and her mother have been on the run ever since she can remember. They've just settled down in San Francisco, where Chass is reclaiming her phenomenal musical talent and finally starting up her own band. But then Chass witnesses the murder of pop star Josh Emmit and gets involved in the secret and dangerous underground club scene in San Francisco. If Chass can solve Josh's murder and prove to the police that she's not ...

This book takes a fresh and thorough look at the House of Lords, the upper chamber of the British Parliament, in the critical period from 1811 to 1846.

Plump, juicy oranges are one of the great pleasures of winter?and one that is usually taken for granted. Now here?s an eloquent, celebratory picture of how those oranges have found their way to the grocery store shelves, and then into kids? tummies! With vivid, glowing paintings, this unique picture book offers a poetic lesson about a plant?s growth cycle and about the produce industry. We follow an orange from blossom to ripe fruit, from tree...

Everyone?s favorito Siamese kitty boy with big ears has never looked as appealing as in this very special book and toy package. A soft, fuzzy 4¿-inch doll, complete with maskito, and a slightly smaller but complete hardcover edition of Skippyjon Jones make up this gift set, perfect for Skippy?s fantastico fans, young and old.

The International Law Reports is the only publication in the world wholly devoted to the regular and systematic reporting in English of decisions of international courts and arbitrators as well as judgments of national courts. Volume 129 reports on, amongst others, the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice in the Wall Case together with two related Israeli Supreme Court decisions, the decisions in SGS v. Pakistan and SGS v. Ph...