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This is an important resource to all those interested in the history of modern astronomy and visual deep-sky observing.

This new edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Dance provides the information necessary for dance fans to navigate the diverse dance forms in the 21st century, with new coverage of dance forms that have grown in prominence over the last 10 years, many new biographical entries, and a greater emphasis on the international dance scene.

Film ist bekanntlich ein sehr komplexes, über Bild, Ton und die vorgegebene Zeitstruktur argumentierendes System. Am Anfang einer jeden Analyse steht zunächst einmal das eigene Filmerlebnis. Wie lässt es sich aber in eine wissenschaftliche Analyse überführen und wodurch unterscheidet sich diese von der Filmkritik? Worauf ist bei der Erarbeitung eigener Filmanalysen zu achten und welche inhaltlichen Dimensionen sollten darin enthalten sein? Wie...

Volume 2 (1899) is dedicated to the Greek history of the fifth century BCE, particularly to Cimon, Attica and Thucydides.

Volume 1 (1892) of Meyer's work on ancient history focuses on the Pelasgians, the Ionians and Herodotus.

A view of the major legal challenges of post-Civil War America as seen from the highest court in the land

A ground-breaking, agenda-setting book that reveals the business model that has propelled the likes of YouTube, Google, Facebook and MySpace to global success.

It is essential for nursing students to access current and reliable information to succeed in academic assignments and nursing practice, yet there are increasingly diverse information sources available, which can raise questions about the authenticity and reliability of information provided. This book presents a practical and clear guide to mastering information skills. It shows the reader how to effectively plan and implement a search for inf...

In "Water Skiing and Wakeboarding, " water skiing champion Ben Favret provides instruction for everything from the essential skills of each event to the pros' training secrets. This full-color book is jam-packed with action photos showing techniques and learning progressions for mastering each maneuver on the water.

In 1861, Charleston, South Carolina, was the focal point of war between the United and Confederate States, to Southerners, Charleston was a symbol of freedom, to Northerners, it represented rebellion. Revisit one of our nation's greatest conflicts through this tour guide. Explore the cemeteries and gaze at the homes of blockade runners and Confederate soldiers. Visit the site where the Hunley passed before sinking the Housatonic. Walk the batt...

Revolution threatens to break out on the planet Bolshevik. Once touted as humanity's workers paradise, this world is overwhelmed with roving vigilantes, ambitious politicians, and renegade military officers. Seeking an answer to the problem, the government hires Outbound Ventures, Inc. Captain Michel Luthien, CO of the SS Obsidian, leads a mixed crew comprised of exiles, naval officers, private investigators, aliens, bounty hunters and former ...

As an iconic symbol of the American GI, the dog tag has gained considerable cultural recognition. This book returns to the origins of the dog tag with an in-depth look at all 49 styles of Civil War era Union identification discs, including detailed photographs and histories for individual discs as well as a general history of the origin and production of identification discs. This work also provides a general guide to the authentication of ide...

Reinterpreting the Bible through Family Systems Theory, this fascinating exploration shows how the theology of creation, restoration, and salvation can be meaningfully and uniquely understood through the lens of the biblical family. It is not possible to recreate a "biblical" family in the modern world. Thus, we must think of the principles of faithful family life demonstrated in the Bible and express them in a new way. That is the idea underl...

Three women, smart and successful, working in the fast and furious world of magazines, meet for cocktails and gossip once a month.Roxanne: glamorous, self-confident, with a secret lover - and hoping that one day he will leave his wife and marry her.Maggie:capable and high-achieving, until she finds the one thing she can't cope with - motherhood.Candice:honest, decent, or so she believes - until a ghost from her past turns up, and almost ruins ...

Argues that the Founders intended the Constitution to be interpreted according to the text's meaning and its framers' original intentions.

When one nation becomes two, or when two nations become one, what does national affiliation mean or require? Loyal Subjects answers this question by demonstrating how loyalty was used during the U.S. Civil War to define proper allegiance to the Union. Through an analysis of literary works written during and after the conflict, Elizabeth Duquette reveals that although American literary criticism has tended to dismiss the Civil War's impact, pos...

Essays offering a gendered approach to the study of the move from manuscript to early printed book show how much women were involved in the process.

First full examination of the phenomenon of the medieval political pamphlet.

This volume is one of few surveys in English of the whole of Lorca's poetry and the first to concentrate entirely on self-consciousness, a subject which it sees as central to our understanding of the work of a poet writing in the most self-conscious of literary periods: the Modernist era. Focusing on poems which have the poet, art and creativity as their subject, or which draw attention at a formal level to issues of practice or style, it show...

A new investigation of the saints' cults which flourished in medieval Scotland, fruitfully combining archaeological, historical, and literary perspectives.