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When state legislator Stephen Cabarrus sought a compromise between quarreling Scotch-Irish and German settlers over the location of Cabarrus County's seat, his appeal led to a "concord" that gave birth to one of North Carolina's most charming cities. Not long after its 1796 founding, Concord began a transformation from an agricultural community into a textile-manufacturing mecca as captains of industry built empires exploiting the cotton that ...

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Sharice Cuthrell's debut novel, Never Too Far Gone, is a skillfully written tale of a family hanging on by a tattered thread as they each face their own demons. This novel will inspire you into a deeper relationship with God once you learn that no matter how far gone you may be, if there's breath left in your body then you're NEVER TOO FAR GONE!

Auf 80 Seiten mit 57 hochwertigen Farbfotos und 5 Illustrationen porträtieren die beiden Autoren drei Agamenarten für unterschiedliche große Terrarien. Neben der größten Art, Pogona vitticeps, und der zunehmend beliebten, kleineren Art, Pogona henrylawsoni, wird auch ein weniger bekannter, aber aufgrund der geringen Größe besonders für kleinere Terrarien geeigneter, Vertreter einer anderen Agamengattung, Tympanocryptis tetraporophora, beschrie...

Starting Treatment With Children and Adolescents provides therapists with a time-tested framework for treatment and a moment-by-moment guide to the first few sessions with a new patient. They¿ll also be guided through an exploration of common questions such as how else could I have handled that situation? What other paths could I have tried? Where might those other paths have led?

7 lectures, Prague & Paris, March 29 - May 25, 1924 (CW 239)Near the end of his life, Rudolf Steiner took up the task that was his special destiny--to bring knowledge of reincarnation and karma to the West. Consequently, he gave more than eighty lectures in 1924 to explicitly reveal the destinies of various individuals from one life to the next. He explained how the general laws of karma work in individual cases and revealed many details of th...

Plant pathogenic geminiviruses have been proliferating world-wide and have, therefore, attracted considerable scientific interest during the past three decades. A widespread occurrence and vast spreading of geminivirus, resulting in yield losses of economically important food and fibre crops, poses a serious threat to sustainable agriculture. The major concerns about the frequent evolution and recombination of new viruses or strains lead to fa...

The federal government is the nation's single largest energy consumer, spending approximately $17 billion in fiscal year 2007 on energy for buildings and vehicles. This total represents almost 1 percent of all federal expenditures and these costs have been rising in recent years. In light of these energy price increases, congressional interest in making the federal government more energy efficient has grown as well. Although the federal fleet ...

Autoimmune diseases arise from an overactive immune response of the body against substances and tissues normally present in the body. The immune system mistakes some part of the body as a pathogen and attacks it. The treatment of autoimmune diseases is typically with immunosuppression -- medication which decreases the immune response. This book presents and reviews important data gathered on autoimmune diseases and related topics such as: syst...

Since September 2001, the U.S. has increased focus on radical Islamist and terrorist groups in Southeast Asia, particularly those in the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Singapore. Al Qaeda penetrated the region by establishing local cells, training Southeast Asians in its camps in Afghanistan, and by financing and co-operating with indigenous radical Islamist groups. To combat the threat, the U.S. has pressed countries in the r...

Increasingly, the armed forces have a vision of security as emphasising hard rather than soft security, a view which has come to the forefront in Moscow's national security policy process. Due to this institutionally-driven vision, Russia sees itself facing increasing military-political and strategic threats all along its frontiers. Recent Russian policies reflect that perception and Moscow's adaptation to it. Russian and American perspectives...

Researchers conduct observational human exposure studies to understand how and the extent to which people come into contact with chemicals and environmental stressors in their everyday lives, through the air they breathe, the food and liquids they consume, and the things they touch. This book looks at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) National Exposure Research Laboratory (NERL) which has conducted observational human exposure...

Keramische Werkstoffe mit ultrafeinkörnigem Gefüge sind durch sehr gute mechanische Eigenschaften gekennzeichnet. Die Herstellung dieser Materialien ist allerdings oftmals noch eine Herausforderung, da Verdichtung und Kornwachstum während des Sinterns nicht unabhängig voneinander ablaufen.Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wurde die metastabile Prozessroute zur Herstellung ultrafeinkörniger Keramiken mit der Zusammensetzung ZrO2 (3mol% Y2O3) - 20 Gew.-% ...

This casebook covers a wide range of teaching-learning contexts and offers in-depth analyses of ESL/ELT language curriculum design issues. Each case draws on and is linked to the model presented in Nation and Macalister¿s Language Curriculum Design.

Rudolf Steiner, the founder of Anthroposophy, is a pivotal figure in contemporary esoteric thought. Through his books and lectures he provided an impetus for the spiritual renewal of many human activities, including education (Steiner Waldorf schools), agriculture, medicine, economics, the arts and religion. Steiner showed how mankind has been evolving and explained the role of the great spiritual world leaders in the process. Above all he sho...

Description: The story of Adam is the story of Israel writ small In this text-centered interpretation of Genesis 1-3, Seth Postell contends that the opening chapters of the Bible, when interpreted as a strategic literary introduction to the Torah and to the Tanakh, intentionally foreshadows Israel's failure to keep the Sinai Covenant and their exile from the Promised Land, in order to point the reader to a future work of God, whereby a kin...

Lhung is a celestial dragon trapped in mortal form - and no one can see him. That is, until he meets the girl in the garden who can see him very well indeed. They both with their secrets forge an intimate friendship that can never blossom farther, even though Lhung desperately wishes it could. His love for her forces him to linger on despite emotional adversity and angry rivals. And even though, he often reminds himself, if she found o...

Wissen zu managen steht auf Grund des enormen Wissenszuwachses und der stetig sinkenden Wissenshalbwertzeit in der Fort- und Weiterbildung vor schwierigen Anforderungen. Hinzu kommt, dass nahezu gleichzeitig alternative Wissensvermittlungsinstrumente, -prozesse und -methoden entstehen und damit Unternehmen und Bildungswillige vor immer neuen Herausforderungen stehen. So müssen Organisationen nicht nur die operative Qualifizierung in geeigneter...

The story of two unlikely teenagers whose worlds collide as they are forced to become travel compaions in order to complete a top secret mission. Will they solve the riddle? Will they let their feelings toward each other get in the way of their success? Or will they die trying.

Chickamauga and Chattanooga BattlefieldsThis is a reprint of the National Park Service Historical Handbook Series No. 25. This guide covers the battles for the control of Chattanooga. The guide will provided you with a brief background of the historic sites and events that took place on the Chickamauga and Chattanooga Battlefields.