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This 1838 autobiography ranks among the most important and authentic accounts of life in slavery, recounting the experiences of a North Carolina native who was sold or traded until his successful escape to New England. Roper's moving reminiscences offer a powerful first-hand account of the realities of life in bondage. Introduction.

Created by leading educators, these colorful, large-size dictionaries introduce beginning language learners to more than 1, 550 commonly taught basic words. Each Let's Learn Language Picture Dictionary in the series boasts 30 delightful two-page spreads that vividly illustrate the meanings of words. Fun-filled panoramas focus on scenes familiar to children aged three through eight, such as home life, the classroom, city life, sports, the zoo, ...

Children can learn more than 1500 basic English words.

From the Indian Wars of the seventeenth century to the military operations in Afghanistan, An Atlas of American Military History offers a fascinating account of every significant US military campaign and war, both domestically and internationally. Written by distinguished military historians, the atlas explores the personalities, strategies, and historical contexts of each conflict, taking into account both the American viewpoint and that of i...

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Drafted by sixteen theologians and ecumenists from various church traditions, who met over a period of three years in Princeton, New Jersey, this document seeks to steer contemporary efforts at church unity away from social and political agendas, which are themselves divisive, and back to the chief goal of the modern ecumenical movement.

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Cognitive Poetics is a new way of thinking about literature, involving the application of cognitive linguistics and psychology to literary texts. This student-friendly book provides a set of case studies to help students understand the theory and master the practice of cognitive poetics in analysis. Written by a range of well-known scholars from a variety of disciplines and countries, "Cognitive Poetics in Practice offers students a unique ins...

This report offers recommendations on how to speed deployment of forces and equipment to bases by streamlining support processes.

This collection examines the growing importance of online activism. The contributors show how online activists have not only incorporated recent technology as a tool for change, but also how they have changed the meaning of activism, what community means, and how they conceive of collective identity and democratic change.

Kalila and Dimna" ("The Fables of Bidpai") are a repository of wisdom and understanding of the human condition and the most commonly illustrated medieval Islamic text. This book focuses on seven late-14th-century Persian manuscripts, which contain several fine examples of Persian painting.

Supply logistics is no longer the domain of functional specialists, rather their performance has a great impact on all stakeholders. John Gattorna challenges executives to push the boundaries and take supply chain logistics into a new sphere of activity and opportunity.

Berlin, city of Bertolt Brecht, Marlene Dietrich, cabaret and German Expressionism, a city identified with a female sexuality - at first alluring but then dangerous. In this fascinating study, Dorothy Rowe turns our attention to Berlin as a sexual landscape. She investigates the processes by which women and femininity played a prominent role in depictions of the city at the end of the nineteenth and into the early twentieth centuries. She expl...

Policymakers have tried to combat gun-related violence and crime in various ways: including sentence enhancements, restricting access, and banning certain models and designs. Yet far too little is currently known about the efficacy of these policies. This book sheds light on what works by presenting rigorous empirical evaluations of a variety of current policies.

Mit Ernest Chausson verzeichnet der Henle-Katalog ein weiteres Mal einen bedeutsamen "Neuzugang". Sein "Poème" für Violine und Orchester war in Anlehnung an eine Novelle des russischen Dichters Iwan Turgeniew zunächst als Symphonische Dichtung gedacht, entwickelte sich dann jedoch mehr und mehr zu einem konzertanten Charakterstück - nach Chausson "ein Stück in sehr freier Form mit zahlreichen Passagen, wo die Geige allein [spielt]". Dass Chaus...

Questioning the commonplace view of the late nineteenth century as a period of passionless women and so-called Victorian sexuality, this study examines the spread of sex radical thought and notions of free love through American society in the second half of the nineteenth century. During this period a grass-roots movement of women and men, uncomfortable with the social, economic, and political inequalities they saw as inherent to the instituti...

This classic work has helped shape the field of international relations and especially influenced scholars interested in how foreign policy is made. At a time when conventional wisdom and traditional approaches are being questioned, and when there is increased interest in the importance of process, the insights of Snyder, Bruck and Sapin have continuing and increased relevance. Prescient in its focus on the effects on foreign policy of individ...

Wußten Sie, wo Einstein die Relativitätstheorie entwickelt und Nicole Ein bisschen Frieden getextet hat? Richtig - auf dem Klo.Alle wissen es, aber niemand redet darüber: Das stille Örtchen ist eine Oase der Kreativität. Endlich haben Ihre Gäste Platz, ihren genialen Ideen freien Lauf zu lassen. Angeregt durch viele Witze, Sprüche und Abbildungen zum Thema werden sie Unglaubliches zu Tage fördern. Die weniger Kreativen können in vorgegebene Ta...

Chinua Achebe was born in Nigeria in 1930, and in a long and distinguished career has published novels, stories, essays and poems.Cited in the Sunday Times as one of the 1, 000 Makers of the Twentieth Century for defining a modern African literature that was truly African and thereby making a major contribution to world literature. Achebe has received more than 30 honorary doctorates from universities around the world. In 2007 he was awarded t...

An important figure in the development of Nietzsche scholarship, Mazzino Montinari (1928-86) dedicated himself to the detailed study of the philosopher's writings. This lifetime of scholarship crystallized in Montinari's work as coeditor of the critical edition of Nietzsche's collected writings. Reading Nietzsche, now available in English for the first time, is a group of essays that grew out of this monumental work. In Reading Nietzsche Monti...