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Nestled at the sourthern tip of New Jersey, beautiful Cape May is the perfect historical backdrop for some very ghostly haunts! Psychic Laurie Hull gives her impressions of Cape Mays top beach sites and interacts with its ghostly past. Meet talkative gho

The role that the German Police Battalions played in the destruction of the Jews and the Eastern European nationalities that the Third Reich had deemed superfluous or dangerous is little known. Only in the last fifteen years with the opening of the Soviet archives has their role in the deaths of millions become known. The German Police, often aided by local auxiliaries shot at close range over a million people in less than two years. Later in ...

In its evolution from a synthetic to an analytic language, Bulgarian acquired a grammaticalized category of definiteness. The book presents the first attempt to explore in detail how this happened by comparing the earliest Modern Bulgarian texts with contemporary dialect and standard Bulgarian data. The basic units of analysis are the various types of nominal structures headed by nouns or pronouns. The analysis requires the strict terminologic...

This book is the first to explore how much ofknowledge based on research on spoken languages needs to be refined in the light of the growing field of sign linguistics. Drawing upon a broad cross-linguistic perspective, the contributors focus on topics of general theoretical interest: linearity and arbitrariness principles, definition of units and levels of analysis, expression of grammatical categories, semantic relations, and cohesion mechani...

These ten girls grew up to become women who didn't give in. Living as a Christian for them was difficult. They chose to do the right thing instead of the easy thing. Would you give in or would you resist?Blandina became a Christian and then a martyr, Perpetua was forced to give up her child and then died in a Roman amphitheatre, Lady Jane Grey did as she was told but in the end would not deny her Lord, Anne Askew lost her home and family but n...

These ten boys grew up to become men who didn't give in. Living as a Christian for them was difficult but they chose to do the right thing instead of the easy thing. Would you give in or would you resist?Polycarp was freed from slavery but then gave up his freedom for Christ, Alban was in danger from Roman soldiers but still would not bow down to their gods, John Oldcastle's home was a hiding place, but he would not hide his faith, Cranmer was...

The Customer is the ultimate driver of a business. Customers buy products and services that give them more value and this value is what gives one company the winning edge over another. Using the unique Customer-in-Center concept, this pathbreaking book explains how investing in Customer Value can increase the market share and profitability of a company. It shows companies how they can be driven by Customers and their needs, and how sustained b...

As punishment for slacking on the job, the shinigami Lapan is ordered to go to the Human Realm in the body of a skeleton to retrieve a wandering soul. However, much to Lapan's lecherous delight, a slip-up lands his soul in the body of the young Alice, a buxom student at a local all-girls' school. With the skirt-chasing shinigami (as Alice) leaving a storm of sexual harassment allegations in his wake, whatever is poor, beskeletoned Alice to do?!

In the third hilarious Heather Wells mystery, life finally seems to be settling down for the pop-star-turned-amateur sleuth--until she finds her third boss in one year facedown in his morning latte. Its back to business as usual as she must find her bosss killer and keep from getting killed.

When it comes to money, are you controlled by fear? Do you underestimate your worth? Are you ready to go to the next level, but can't seem to get there?If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may be an underearner. Underearners are self-saboteurs who don't live up to their earnings potential, says Barbara Stanny, a financial educator, motivational speaker, and career counselor. Whether they make $10 an hour or six figures a year, th...

Limitierte Sonderausgabe Die Geschenkausgabe mit CD: Papst Benedikt XVI. "Wenn du Gottes Sohn bist..." Joseph Ratzinger - Benedikt XVI. liest in einem Sendungsmitschnitt von Radio Vatikan aus dem Jahre 1998 Meditationen über die Versuchungen Jesu. Eine brillante Auslegung.

Archivalische Quellen und Tagebücher verraten, was im Laufe der Jahrhunderte in Klöstern und Zunftstuben sowie im Haushalt von Buchdruckern, Gelehrten, Stadtärzten und Handelsleuten an leiblichen Genüssen zu Tische kam. Die einfachen Leute hinterliessen keine schriftlichen Nachrichten. Von ihrer bescheidenen Nahrung erfahren wir nur dann, wenn sie im Spital lagen, armengenössig wurden oder vor Gericht standen. Strikte kirchliche Essgebote befl...

In the "The Misunderstood Jew, " scholar Amy-Jill Levine helps Christians and Jews understand the "Jewishness" of Jesus so that their appreciation of him deepens and a greater interfaith dialogue can take place. Levine's humor and informed truth-telling provokes honest conversation and debate about how Christians and Jews should understand Jesus, the New Testament, and each other.

Papers from The American Ceramic Society's 31st International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, held in Daytona Beach, Florida, January 21-26, 2007. Content includes papers on recent technical progress by national laboratories, universities and private industries on solid oxide fuel cell technology including SOFC component materials, processing, cell/stack fabrication and design, electrochemical performance and stability, long-te...

More than a century has passed since the mighty struggle between the wizards and the mages ended in their mutual destruction, and more than forty years since the Empress Ouriana became the Divine Incarnation of the Devouring Moon. Appointing twelve deadly sorcerers as her priests, she rules the land in darkness unending. Yet there is a small chance for hope, if one foreordained princess can survive. But she has vanished behind enemy lines, and...

A delightful excursion through the Yiddish language, the culture it defines and serves, and the fine art of complaintThroughout history, Jews around the world have had plenty of reasons to lament. And for a thousand years, they've had the perfect language for it. Rich in color, expressiveness, and complexity, Yiddish has proven incredibly useful and durable. Its wonderful phrases and idioms impeccably reflect the mind-set that has enabled the ...

From "Hamlet" to "King Lear, " the great plays of the Bard are examined from aphilosopher's unique perspective.

It was a single, short book, discovered in a Hong Kong bookshop, that prompted Ramón Rodamiláns to establish contact with its author, an expatriate Englishman, Orientalist and former special magistrate. And so a new, brilliant and illuminating chapter opened in their lives, revealed in this elegant and amusing exchange of letters, which cover a decade of great change, and only cease with Austin's death in 1997. We witness Hong Kong at the c...

From Americas #1 true crime writer and "New York Times" bestselling author comes her most engrossing book ever: a 14-year saga of treachery, jealousy, and murder, about two women who learned the truth too late about Dr. Bart Corbin of Atlanta.

Alexander's behavior was conditioned along certain lines -- heroism, courage, strength, superstition, bisexuality, intoxication, cruelty. He bestrode Europe and Asia like a supernatural figure."In this succinct portrait of Alexander the Great, distinguished scholar and historian Norman Cantor illuminates the personal life and military conquests of this most legendary of men. Cantor draws from the major writings of Alexander's contemporaries co...