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Age gives us much For remembering. I like to call it Novembering. A wonderful collection of life's lessons.

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As America becomes more and more racially diverse, Rich Benjamin noticed a phenomenon: Some communities were actually getting less multicultural. So he got out a map, found the whitest towns in the USA -- and moved in. A journalist-adventurer, Benjamin packed his bags and embarked on a 26, 909-mile journey throughout the heart of white America, to some of the fastest-growing and whitest locales in our nation. Benjamin calls these enclaves "Whi...

This is not your typical guidebook, but Virginia is not your typical state. Virginia has been around for so long, as the place in America first settled by English adventurers, it is rich in historic sites, both the well known and the equally fascinating yet lesser known destinations every history traveler would find well worth a visit-if he could find them. As the guidebook says, "Some of these sites are very old, while others are of more rece...

This is not your typical guidebook, but Virginia is not your typical state. Virginia has been around for so long, as the place in America first settled by English adventurers, it is rich in historic sites, both the well known and the equally fascinating yet lesser known destinations every history traveler would find well worth a visit-if he could find them. As the guidebook says, "Some of these sites are very old, while others are of more rece...

Police Chief Brill Jessup is back! Discover high-tension suspense that will tug at your heart."--Lorena McCourtney, author of The Ivy Malone MysteriesA family crisis . . .A murderer on the loose . . . And heart-pounding suspense.When Vanessa Jessup returns home from her sophomore year of college, her mother, Police Chief Brill Jessup, is stunned to see that she's pregnant--by one of her professors. While Brill is glad her daughter rejected the...

Welche Marginalisierungsprozesse erfahren Migranten, die in der Zielgesellschaft bereits eine "Randgruppe" darstellen, homosexuell sind und zusätzlich noch an einer vor allem über Geschlechtsverkehr übertragbaren Krankheit leiden? Menschen mit anderem, nicht der Bevölkerungsmehrheit entsprechenden kulturellem Hintergrund werden allein aufgrund ihrer Herkunft vielfach mit ethnischen Vorurteilen und Stereotypen konfrontiert. Durch eine HIV-Infiz...

Geistiges Eigentum' ist für Unternehmer eine nicht zu unterschätzende Ressource. Dabei kann es sich um technische Erfindungen handeln, die als Patent angemeldet werden können, um Marken als spezielle Formen kaufmännischen Wissens oder um Geschmacksmuster, die sich durch ein individuelles Design auszeichnen. Björn Wiels betrachtet in seiner vorliegenden Studie die komplexe Thematik des Schutzes von 'geistigem Eigentum'. Dabei nimmt der Autor zw...

The coastal zone has always been an important frontier - for trade, food and the foundations of modern civilization. This same zone has also been exploited in one way or another, and sometimes without regard to the balance and schemes of Mother Nature. It is only when things go terribly wrong that we begin to react and attempt to undo the mistakes of the past. At times we have succeeded, but at a high price. At times, we have to retreat and co...

First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In a dying Pennsylvania coal town, three friends are looking for a way out. Mitch is a rebellious malcontent whose bad attitude gets him fired from a chain big box store. Doug can identify any pill by sight and any '80s rock song by the first three notes but doesn't understand credit scores. Kevin got married and had a kid too soon and is now on parole after serving jail time for growing marijuana. The three of them dabble in petty crime and b...

A combination of popular genres - science fiction and fantasy-and features strong male and female protagonists

In his search to understand Man, L. Ron Hubbard discovered that there is a single common denominator to existence: Survive! No matter the varied experiences or activities of individuals, everyone is seeking to survive and that is the only common denominator to all life. Then, examining life still more closely, he further discovered that survival subdivided into eight separate urges or drives, known as the Eight Dynamics. In brief, one seeks to...

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This Fall 2009 (VII, 4) issue of Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge entitled "Migrating Identities and Perspectives: Latin America and the Caribbean in Local and Global Contexts, " focuses on the complexity of identity formations experienced by migrants in the world-system, with a regional focus on Latin America and the Caribbean which have been at the heart of many recent scholarly debates in migration studies and ...

Sustainable development cannot be achieved solely at the international level. Without the creation of more sustainable livelihoods, it will remain a utopian and elusive goal. Yet given the huge differences in economic development and levels of consumption between North and South, how might this bebrought about?Taking the 1992 Rio Summit as its point of departure, Wasted examines what we now need to know, and what we need to do, to live within ...

This proceedings volume, for the symposium in honor of Edward Teller's 100th anniversary, focuses on Teller's scientific legacy. This legacy includes some of the most fundamental insights into the quantum behaviors of molecules, nuclei, surfaces, solid state and spin systems and plasmas. Many of these are ¿brand names¿ from the canon of 20th-century physics and chemistry, such as Gamow-Teller transitions, the Jahn-Teller effect, Goldhaber-Tell...

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