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Two young look-alikes in 16th-century England decide to trade clothes and roles, a situation that drastically alters the lives of both. This timeless tale of transposed identities remains one of Twain's best-loved novels.

An American memoir, recounting nine decades of experiences, associations, fortunes and misfortunes of one small, unimportant, unremarkable person. Born half an orphan she tells of her lifelong struggle to find a niche for herself, how she dealt with failure and succeeded mainly in persistence to communicate her delight and wonder at having been given life on this planet. She can be tender and sentimental but always candid as she introduces the...

An American memoir, recounting nine decades of experiences, associations, fortunes and misfortunes of one small, unimportant, unremarkable person. Born half an orphan she tells of her lifelong struggle to find a niche for herself, how she dealt with failure and succeeded mainly in persistence to communicate her delight and wonder at having been given life on this planet. She can be tender and sentimental but always candid as she introduces the...

An anthology which gives the reader an insight into the ideas and actions of women in Scotland over two centuries. The selection ranges across the social spectrum, from the aristocratic advice of "Lady Grisell Baillie's Household" book to the reminiscences and moral reflections of Janet Hamilton, a shoemaker's daughter from Shotts.

By focusing on representations of combat and life in the battlefield, first-generation Vietnam literature strove to give testimony, to write history. Later writings reveal the war's deep and far-reaching impact on the American psyche. This text is divided in reflecting these two stages.

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Presents the relevant results related to the Generalized Lambda Distribution, the Generalized Bootstrap, and Monte Carlo simulation. This work provides the tables, algorithms, and computer programs needed for fitting continuous probability distributions to data in a variety of circumstances - covering bivariate as well as univariate distributions.

Obwohl Kant die Quelle der Grundbegriffe unserer Erkenntnis im Verstande sieht, ist bis heute umstritten, ob er auf das Denkvermögen oder auf die Einheit aller Erkenntniskräfte abzielte. Mit seiner Analyse der vorkritischen Schriften und der Kritik der reinen Vernunft sucht der Autor diese Fragen zu klären. Zudem erläutert er das System dieser Begriffe. Im Unterschied zu anderen Interpreten, die den Ursprung der Kategorien in der Einheit der ...

Die Beiträge des vorliegenden Bandes aus der Reihe "Suchtmedizin" basieren auf langjährigen Erfahrungen von Ärzten, Psychologen und Sozialarbeitern in der Behandlung Abhängiger. Die multiprofessionelle Ausrichtung macht deutlich, dass eine zeitgemäße Behandlung nicht ohne den Wissensaustausch verschiedener Professionen möglich ist. Ein wichtiger Schritt zur Sensibilisierung für diese Thematik im ärztlichen Bereich wurde durch die Bundesärzteka...

Paul Virilio is one of the most significant and stimulating French cultural theorists writing today. Increasingly hailed as the 'archaeologist of the future', Virilio is noted for his proclamation that the logic of ever increasing acceleration lies at the heart of the organization and transformation of the contemporary world. The first book to afford a properly critical evaluation of Virilio's cultural theory, it includes an interview with Vi...

The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) poses the single greatest threat to the national security of the United States. As Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has noted, "The greatest threat to our society at the moment are the weapons of mass destruction. Those are the weapons that know no boundaries." Yet efforts to stem the spread of these weapons suffered serious setbacks during the past year. Every week brought news of Ir...

The last chapter takes a psycholinguistic perspective and addresses the relation between storage and computation in the mental lexicon. The work should be helpful for advanced students and professional scientists working in the areas of computational linguistics and language and speech technology.

Die Nutzbarmachung der Elektrizitat hat zwar unser Leben erftillter, sicherer und bequemer gemacht. Sie ist aber auch mit einer Begleiter­ scheinung verbunden, namlich mit elektromagnetischen Feldern. Ob wir es wollen oder nicht: Ihnen kann sich in unserer technisierten Welt keiner mehr entziehen. Das vorliegende Buch gibt einen Oberblick tiber die heutigen Feld­ quellen und die Frage, Wann elektromagnetische Felder bedenklich wer­ den, ob uns...

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Distributional issues may not have always been among the main concerns of the economic profession. Today, in the beginning of the 2000s, the position is different. During the last quarter of a century, economic growth proved to be unsteady and rather slow on average. The situation of those at the bottom ceased to improve regularly as in the preceding fast growth and full-employment period. Europe has seen prolonged unemployment and there has b...

Now in paperback, "The View's" raciest co-host shares her views on life and womanhood in a side-splitting scrapbook of reflection, rage, and raw honesty. Photos throughout.

A provocative look at the way our culture dealswith menstruation. The Curse examines the culture of concealment that surrounds menstruation and the devastating impact such secrecy has on women's physical and psychological health. Karen Houppert combines reporting on the potential safety problems of sanitary products--such as dioxin-laced tampons--with an analysis of the way ads, movies, young-adult novels, and women's magazines foster a "menst...

Written by a leader in the growing field of ecological engineering, Heavy Metals in the Environment: Using Wetlands for Their Removal presents scientific studies that illustrate how natural systems use wetlands to adapt to changes in the ecosystem. It focuses primarily on lead, one of the first materials used by developing civilizations and a metal used heavily in the industrial era. The goal: to achieve a better fit of economics and the earth...

Raina uses the cases study method as a tool for examining the life work of a man who has devoted his life to creativity studies. Ellis Paul Torrance's methods could in fact be disseminated in every classroom the world over. This work provides a fine perspective from which to appreciate the nature of Torrance's creativity and evolution of some of his theoretical and empirical creative endeavors. Raina remains true to the goal of contributing to...

Raina uses the case study method as a tool for examining the life work of a man who has devoted his life to creativity studies. Ellis Paul Torrance's methods could in fact be disseminated in every classroom the world over. This work provides a fine perspective from which to appreciate the nature of