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Few historians have ever captured the drama, excitement, and tragedy of the War Between the States quite like Edwin Bearss. The acclaimed "Homer of the Civil War, " has won a huge, devoted following with his extraordinary battlefield tours and eloquent soliloquies about the heroes, scoundrels, and little-known moments of a conflict that still fascinates America. Antietam, Shiloh, Chickamauga, Gettysburg: these hallowed battles and more than a ...

When Microsoft releases Windows Vista, the new operating system will support applications that employ graphics now used by computer games--clear, stunning, and active. The cornerstone for building these new user interfaces is XAML ("Zammel"), the XML-based markup language that works with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Vista's new graphics subsystem. An acronym for Extensible Application Markup Language, XAML offers a wealth of new co...

The implementation of stored procedures in MySQL 5.0 a hugemilestone -- one that is expected to lead to widespread enterprise adoption ofthe already extremely popular MySQL database. If you are serious aboutbuilding the web-based database applications of the future, you need toget up to speed quickly on how stored procedures work -- and how tobuild them the right way. This book, destined to be the bible of storedprocedure development, is a res...

A unique personal story of a life lived in the highest court of China during the Great Leap Forward

In the tradition of James Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son, Robeson's A Black Way of Seeing melds history and analysis in a sweeping panorama of the present moment as we know it to be—scathing in its understanding of why Black empowerment has failed and prescient in its articulation of what it will take for Black Americans to be agents of change for the country as a whole.

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The rich atmosphere of South Carolina, Hilton Head and Charleston, is brought vividly to life by Dorothea Benton Frank, a South Carolina native who, with her exquisitely evocative prose, makes you smell the sea air, see the palmettos, and savor the sweet tea, but this time it comes with a side of antipasti.Hilton Head, a South Carolina retirement heaven—at least it's supposed to be, but for Big Al and Connie Russo, the move from New Jersey to ...

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When the star liner Gigantean hits a comet, the only survivors are The Magician, his assistant Gloria, a red-nosed comic called Betel and a feline princess from an important Federation planet. Stranded (and separated) on a primitive world, they discover that magic is a reality in this place. How will a ship's conjuror and his assistant fare when confronted by the real thing? This thoroughly good read combines science fiction and fantasy with...

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Christianity has endured for two thousand years, weathering the challenges of clerical corruption, religious wars, internal schism, and scientific criticism. Today, however, there is increasing evidence that institutional Christianity is succumbing to the growing secularism of contemporary society. Both church attendance and the number of clergy have noticeably declined. Will Christianity survive for another thousand years, or even a hundred y...

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg." With these words, Zoey Elita Chance, a lover of words, thus enters the 'real world' after college graduation. She is ready to try her hand at living in New York City, although she has lived most of her life in the quiet, naïve, little Colorado town of Pristine. On New Year's Eve 1998, she hears of the state quarters to be minted by the US Treasury starting in 1999 with the ...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Im Rahmen meines Studiums der Sozialarbeit/Sozialpädagogik wollte ich mein 1. Praxissemester in Russland ableisten. Aufgrund von Visumproblemen wurde nichts aus diesem Auslandspraktikum und in den folgenden Recherchen für das 2. Praktikum stieß ich durch Umwege auf Nepal und arbeitete dort auf der Leprastation ¿Shanti Sewa Griha¿. Ich fragte mich bei den Vorbereitungen oft, wie es wohl in der Fremde sein würde, wie ma...

Über die "Große Zeit" ist viel geschrieben worden. Wie aber hat sie ein Kind erlebt, das 1939 mit 10 Jahren zum "Jungvolk" geschickt, mit gerade 15 Jahren zur Flak einberufen wird und im März 1945 noch den "Reichsarbeitsdienst" und den Zusammenbruch oder besser: die Befreiung erlebt? Wie einst Simplizissimus windet sich der kleine Flakhelfer und Arbeitsmann durch die Welt der mächtigen Uniformträger, immer auf der Hut und immer scharf beobacht...

Within this book, you'll be able to "go inside" a baker's dozen companies and learn how they use Sales & Operations Planning to run their businesses better. You'll meet large companies and smaller ones, household names and names not widely known, companies whose products you use and companies whose products you've never heard of. You'll also hear from the consultant who helped them implement S&OP., The Best Practices Companies are:AgfaAmcorCas...

Toys are no longer just for kids--they are at the heart of a new pop culture movement. With dazzling imagery and interviews with the artists, this exploration of the hottest new collectible figures is the perfect source for inspiration and information for designers, graphic designers, and collectors alike.