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Throughout the Cold War, the United States felt impelled to respond to threats which were, or seemed to be, skirmishes in a global war against Communism. Castro's Cuba raised the spectre of a Soviet outpost at America's doorstep. Events in the Dominican Republic appeared to offer an additional opportunity for the Russians and their allies. The Congo, freed from Belgian rule, occupied the strategic center of the African continent, and the prosp...

How did a childhood fascination with 'war games' lead into lifelong participation in active community-making? logistics? an absorbing job and a colourful army career? Who are the 'gamers', how does 'gaming culture' work, and what can all that possibly have to do with 'community'? What is army life really like, not in pretty publicity pictures but at ground level?Read the startling new answers in this unique blow-by-blow account by a remarkable...

MEET THE SUNIn this enthralling little book anthropologist and novelist Ruth Finnegan adapts the work of the heliogeologist Claudio Vita-Finzi to introduce young (and older!) readers to the workings of the sun and its many threats and mysteries. In accessible language it tackles such difficult matters as neutrinos, cosmic rays and the solar corona in the belief that all its readers will thereby be better equipped to deal with our dangerous sta...

El regalu d'aldea" (1890) es un diálogo chispeante que nos presenta a un rentista, charadista de casino, que posterga el registro de sus cuentas, y recibe la visita de Bastián, un aldeano, cargado de buenas intenciones y mal pagador, que va inventando desgracias, hasta convertirse en pedigüeño desaforado, colmando así la paciencia de su huésped, que asiste al destrozo de su despacho. Con ello se pone en solfa la verdadera naturaleza campesina,...

War was easy. The battle with himself is another story... When Will returns to America after years overseas, he comes with high hopes of reconnecting with his younger brother. But being a disgruntled veteran and a struggling depressive, Will isn't easy to love. Misunderstood, homeless, and with little reason to live beyond his faithful companion, Maverick, Will must face his past to find peace with his family and himself. But when it comes to ...

The Spiritual is a book of dreams as to what I see to come pertaining to different people, the weather, and more.My thoughts are given as well as poetry.

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Carrie and Ed Simon cannot wait to open their new music shop Grooves. They just have one fluffy little problem. Their wild, bouncy kitten Lily creates mayhem at every opportunity . How will they open their store while keeping an eye on this crazy kitty? What in the world could calm a frantic feline like Lily?

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An exotic trip to a foreign land is interrupted by a crash into a mountain. Mark Stockdale and four friends are afraid they will die alone and freezing as they await help. Then they are terrified to discover they aren't alone.What begins as a tale of survival against the elements becomes a struggle against the worst paranoia and cruelty the human mind can conjure. But just when it all seems figured out, don't be surprised if the landscape shif...

Sierra On-Line was one of the very first computer game companies and at one time dominated the industry. The author, Ken Williams, founded Sierra On-Line Sierra with his wife Roberta who went on to create many of the company's best selling games. Sierra grew from just Ken and Roberta to over one thousand employees and a fan base that still exists today, despite the fact that the company was torn apart by criminal activities, scandal and corrup...

Der Familiennachzug gilt als wichtiger Baustein für die Integration von Zuwanderern. Dennoch erschweren ihn zahlreiche Nachzugsvoraussetzungen, u.a. um weitere staatliche Ziele zu erreichen. Dieses Buch geht der Frage nach, inwieweit die Nachzugsvoraussetzungen die Integration fördern und wie die Integration gegebenenfalls besser erreicht werden kann. Die Autorin entwickelt hierzu ein Untersuchungsmodell und bedient sich sozialwissenschaftlich...

Clever Dr. Sarah Cha studies the hormones of love in the lab. Handsome widower Ansel Poindexter saves animals from poachers. When Dr. Cha is forced to team up to save her brother in a Brazilian jungle, she'll learn more about the reality of emotions than she ever saw in her research. Will they survive long enough to admit their feelings for each other are real? Maybe she'll dare to fall for the charming man at her side when she realizes they'r...

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Mike hat eine Leidenschaft. Role-Play-Games, kurz RPGs. Und am liebsten spielt er zusammen mit Chain. Er kennt ihn schon seit eineinhalb Jahren, aber eigentlich weiß er überhaupt nichts von ihm. Das geplatzte Treffen auf einer Convention rückt immer weiter in den Hintergrund, denn in seinem Reallife hat sich in den letzten Wochen so einiges getan. Er und Leon kommen sich näher und näher und da Hannah inzwischen von ihnen weiß, könnte man doch ...