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A sophisticated study of transnational migration from the Balkans to Western Australia

Bitter Freedom is an evaluation of the pivotal role of the Freedmens Bureau during Reconstruction in war-torn South Carolina as written by a young bureau agent eager to do his part in rebuilding a divided nation. In early 1866 Major William Stone of the 19th Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteers, having survived four major Civil War battles and three combat wounds, arrived in South Carolina to serve in the newly formed Freedmens Bureau. Spa...

Product Realization: A Comprehensive Approach is based on selected papers presented at the International Conference on Comprehensive Product Realization 2007 (ICCPR2007). The extended papers will provide the opportunity for scholars from all around the world to discuss their academic programs, identify research opportunities, and initiate joint research programs in the area of comprehensive product realization. Engineering design has evolved f...

Analyzes the practice of informal adoption and child circulation between communities in Peru, showing how these historical practices respond to and are constrained by state and international efforts to concretize family and love.

A grand portrait of early opera's use of Roman history, from the perspectives of classical literature and musical history

Monumental!' - Bob Ross, Australian SailingHigh Performance Sailing isnow regarded as the bible of racing sailors and carries a string ofendorsements from high achievers. Since its publication in 1984, racingyachts and dinghies have developed out of all recognition - a newhigh-tech breed of 'apparent wind' fast racers has claimed the waterand so far no-one has applied themselves seriously to analysing whatmakes these boats sail fast (and what ...

The first book-length consideration of musical narrative

Poems reflecting the rich panoply of personal and public life in modern America, from the Poet Laureate of Illinois

Poems reflecting the rich panoply of personal and public life in modern America, from the Poet Laureate of Illinois

C.C.Cash and Carry Pyle made several fortunes representing professional football and tennis players--before losing everything and disappearing into history's dustbin. This work reevaluates Pyle's fast life and times while analyzing his extraordinary and enduring legacy.In 1925, Pyle rocked the sports world by inducing Red Grange to abandon the leafy confines of the University of Illinois for pro football, in essence thumbing his nose at protes...

The past decade has seen the emergence of plants as a viable alternative to the current production systems for therapeutic proteins. In Recombinant Proteins from Plants, expert researchers explore plants and their potential for the production of increasingly safe, high quality and biologically active complex recombinant pharmaceutical proteins. Chapters present several production platforms, focusing on the largest and most important group of b...

Stroke Essentials for Primary Care: A Practical Guide is a must-have resource, offering the essential, practical knowledge required to evaluate and treat stroke patients. While an indispensable guide for primary care clinicians, including family practitioners and medical internists who often assume the care of stroke patients without the aid of a neurologist (primarily in underserved areas), the information contained herein is also an invaluab...

«Ninive» erschien erstmals 1977. Der Text ist eine Mischung aus poetischen Erinnerungen an die Kindheit, Traumsequenzen, Beschwörung der Natur, Beschreibung all täglicher Ereignisse und dem leisen, gerade deshalb unüberhörbaren Protest gegen den Zustand der Welt...

Luisa de la Cuevas, die auf der kleinen Karibik-Insel San Pedro zur Welt kommt, ist die Tochter des Sohns einer reichen Plantagenbesitzerin und einer Küchenhilfe. In ihren ersten Lebensjahren ist sie erfüllt von der Schönheit der Insel, dem Leben in der Stadt, der Liebe ihrer Großmutter mütterlicherseits, aber sie erlebt auch die Machtkämpfe zwischen den wenigen Reichen und dem Heer der Abhängigen, die harschen Gesetze sozialer Hierarchien. Ih...