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In the beginning, woman was truly the sun. An authentic person. Now she is the moon, a wan and sickly moon, dependent on another, reflecting another's brilliance."-Hiratsuku RaichoHiratsuka Raicho (1886-1971) was the most influential figure in the early women's movement in Japan. In 1911, she founded Bluestocking ( Seito), Japan's first literary journal run by women. In 1920, she founded the New Women's Association, Japan's first nationwide wo...

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Liz Goldwyn's lifelong fascination with the inimitable glamour of classic burlesque inspired her to spend the past eight years corresponding with, visiting, interviewing, receiving striptease lessons from, and forming close relationships with the last generation of the great American burlesque queeens. Goldwyn invites us to step back into an era when the hourglass figure was in vogue and striptease was a true art form. Meet Betty "Ball of Fire...

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Ruth Tweed attended a one room school in West Central Minnesota. Memories of the rural thirties help bring her fictional Sally's experiences to life.Miles from the nearest town, County School District 13 is not only the school but also the focal point of the community. Sally, the oldest student, is a frustrated eighth grader.Ruth's first novel uses this background to picture education in an era that seems foreign to children today. Although it...

The Underground Railroad began In the middle part of the 1800's and was an Intricate network of routes, trails, safe-houses and hideouts along which volunteer "conductors" helped slaves to escape the plantation, and become free. It often invloved dangerous travel over land, mountains, lakes, and rivers. The Underground Railroad used a complex system of communication between the slaves, Masons, Abolitionists, ship captains, ministers, writers, ...

This is an undergraduate textbook on the basic aspects of personal savings and investing with a balanced mix of mathematical rigor and economic intuition. It uses routine financial calculations as the motivation and basis for tools of elementary real analysis rather than taking the latter as given. Proofs using induction, recurrence relations and proofs by contradiction are covered. Inequalities such as the Arithmetic-Geometric Mean Inequality...

Set in the Japanese countryside of the lawless and chaotic Muromachi Period, PRINCESS MONONOKE is the story of a young man's quest to reconcile the powerful forces of human civilization and industry with the need to live harmoniously in the natural world. It is a time when Samurai warriors raid each others? territories whenever they sense weakness or advantage. Men and women driven from areas of conflict have begun to eke out their livings in ...

In ihrer so amüsanten wie erhellenden autobiografischen Erzählung berichtet sie von ihren Erfahrungen im Iran und ihrem Leben in Zürich. Wir erfahren von der Emigration ihrer Freunde und Verwandten, der Erniedrigung durch das Gericht der Mullahs, ihrer verhängnisvollen Ehe und der schmerzhaften Trennung ihrer Tochter.Ohne Überheblichkeit, mit Witz, Schärfe und Zuversicht zeichnet die Autorin ein reflektiertes Bild zweier Welten. Ihre Reise füh...

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, PCM 2006, held in Hangzhou, China in November 2006. The 116 revised papers presented cover a wide range of topics, including all aspects of multimedia, both technical and artistic perspectives and both theoretical and practical issues.

This two-volume set LNCS 4277/4278 constitutes the refereed proceedings of 14 international workshops held as part of OTM 2006 in Montpellier, France in October/November 2006. The 191 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 493 submissions to the workshops. The first volume begins with 26 additional revised short or poster papers of the OTM 2006 main conferences.

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Nature made Ash beautiful, Nurture made him a killer!