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This is an intelligent, articulate, Cole Younger-not the blood-thirsty desperado of myth. Now he tells HIS side of the story." The Kansas-Missouri border was a bitter place in the 1850's, and no one knew that more than the Younger family. Southern sympathizers, the Younger brothers saw their father murdered, their mother burned out of her home, their cousins imprisoned, and their property pillaged. This led Cole Younger to join Quantrell's Rai...

Over 700 Biographical Listings. The Definitive Who's Who from the Golden Age of Piracy. They say "dead men tell no tales." That's certainly true, but it doesn't mean that tales can not be told about those men. In 1923 Philip Gosse found himself rummaging through his local library looking for information about pirates and buccaneers. To his amazement, there was little to be found about, as he puts it, "...this group of picturesque, if often uns...

The book provides a self-contained introduction to mathematical logic and computability theory for students of mathematics or computer science. It is organized around the failures and successes of Hilbert's programme for the formalization of Mathematics. It is widely known that the programme failed with Gödel's incompleteness theorems and related negative results about arithmetic. Unfortunately, the positive outcomes of the programme are less ...

Salsini spins a tale of both cruelty and courage and affirms, yet again, the ability of humans to endure."-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "Salsini's beautiful novel of Italy during World War II, peopled with a wide range of characters, deepens our knowledge of both Tuscan hill towns and the terrible effects of war on civilians."-Martha Bergland, author of A Farm Under a Lake "The Cielo is an unforgettable read. You won't be able to put it down, th...

Collected in this 3-in-one omnibus edition are Kant's ground breaking critiques. The Critique of Pure Reason, The Critique of Practical Reason, and The Critique of Judgement.The Critique of Pure Reason is one of the most influential philosophy books of all times. Kant's influence on modern perception of reason cannot be over estimated. Here Kant redefines reason and gives us the tools to understand reason on two levels: the empirical and the m...

The Critique of Pure Reason is one of the most influential philosophy books of all times. Kant's influence on modern perception of reason cannot be over estimated. Here Kant redefines reason and gives us the tools to understand reason on two levels: the empirical and the metaphysical.

Inspired by Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, " Natural Selection renders a vivid account of obsession, love, betrayal, and death on safari in East Africa. It is a novel in the classic mode of American fiction.

Si has sufrido abusos, es posible que al leer estas lineas sientas unas punzadas en el estomago. Quiza lo recuerdes bastante bien... y no tengas interes alguno en revivirlo. Es demasiado incomodo y turbador. Prefieres creer que no te ha afectado y que tu vida es tan normal como la de cualquier persona.Si no has sufrido abusos, puedes pensar que este no es tu problema y que nada tiene que ver contigo...La cuestion es que una de cada cuatro muje...

A volume in Research and Theory in Educational Administration Series Editors: Wayne K. Hoy, The Ohio State University and Michael DiPaola, The College of William and Mary Improving Schools: Studies in Leadership and Culture is the seventh in a series on research and theory dedicated to advancing our understanding of schools through empirical study and theoretical analysis. This book is organized around two broad concepts-leadership and cu...

A volume in TeachingLearning Indigenous, Intercultural Worldviews: International Perspectives on Social Justice and Human Rights Series Editor: Tonya Huber-Warring, St. Cloud State University, Minnesota For readers new to the field of multicultural education and human relations education, the recency of these publications heralded as seminal may be confusing, for certainly the concepts building the field of multicultural education and hum...

A volume in Education Policy in Practice: Critical Cultural Studies Series Editors Bradley A. U. Levinson, and Margaret Sutton, Indiana University Sally Anderson's book on sport, cultural policy, and "civil sociality" in Denmark has been a long time in coming, but it's well worth the wait. Based on many years of familiarity with Danish society, and countless hours of intensive fieldwork, Dr. Anderson provides us with a unique anthropologi...

Poland, 1943-Heinrich Himmler orders the mass deportation of Gypsies to concentration camps. Sasha Karmazin, a Gypsy woman living in Warsaw, Poland, is torn from her family by the Gestapo and must leave behind her Polish husband, Henryk, and her two teenage sons, Karl and Dimitri. After being transported to Auschwitz, Europe's largest Nazi concentration camp, Sasha is forced to work as an interpreter for the Nazis. Her survival depends on her ...

Making sense of higher education can confound the most stellar of students. Your college education isn't just about gaining knowledge but is an experience unlike any other you'll have in life. Navigating the college environment is about learning the language-if you know how the system works, you can understand and prepare for the complexities that college presents. College Sense gives you just that: an insider's view of our educational culture...

For years, clients and students of Jo Ann Romero have urged her to publish her proven methods and hard-earned lessons for making collaboration really work. The Art of Collaboration is the result of Romero's fifteen years of experience designing and facilitating workshops on collaborative efforts for businesses and individuals throughout the United States. Until now, little has been written on the most important business activity of all-working...

Brilliant scientist Aaron VanDieter has a promising future. If he can discover the means for DNA messengers to synthesize proteins, genetic mutation for behavioral modification could be possible, greatly affecting the mental health field. But VanDieter's less-than-moral research methods lead his employer to condemn his efforts. Undaunted, VanDieter forms his own behavioral modification institute in Louisiana. In his quest to discover the cause...

An ongoing journal unraveling the secrets we have had in us about the Universe, from ancient to contemporary times, an exploration the author calls "Cosmic Archeology", a search for why we are here, and where we are going, through chemistry, math, physics and astronomy at a classical level of natural investigation.

Great Eagle brings word to Claude Henry that the great white elephant wants to do away with the mouse world. Claude Henry travels to South Africa to deal out some old fashioned mouse justice. Claude Henry invites you to join him in his second great adventure as he explores the great and mysterious South Africa. Along the way Claude Henry meets some new and exciting friends. Seaweed, the little South American mouse Great Eagle plucks from the A...

Those Who Choose to be Chosen offers thought-provoking, inspirational lessons that encourage anyone on a spiritual journey to focus on awakening their divine life mission. At a young age, Virginia Ashmore's practicing religion prohibited her from attending a friend's church. In her young mind, she reasoned that her friend, and the members of her friend's church, must have prayed to a different God than the God she worshipped. That significant ...

For years, clients and students of Jo Ann Romero have urged her to publish her proven methods and hard-earned lessons for making collaboration really work. The Art of Collaboration is the result of Romero's fifteen years of experience designing and facilitating workshops on collaborative efforts for businesses and individuals throughout the United States. Until now, little has been written on the most important business activity of all-working...

Urban Nightmares Silent Screams is a radical story told through raw poetry and the camera's lens. It is a story full of questions about America, God, and life. Questions about war. Questions about poverty and what it means to grow up in urban America... The photographs and articles document one man's journey, while the drawings were commissioned from youth and family throughout his community. Urban Nightmares Silent Screams is a living example...