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From a small city college in the sixteenth century the University of Edinburgh grew to be one of the world's greatest centers of scholarship, research and learning. Its history is told here by three of its leading historians with wit, verve and style. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white, this is a book for everyone concerned with the university or the city of Edinburgh to read and enjoy. The authors consider the impacts of Refo...

Excerpt from The Mississippi and Its Forty-Four Navigable Tributaries: A Descriptive, Commercial, and Statistical Review, Illustrated With Three Diagrams In the early days of European discoveries and rivalries in the Mississippi Valley its comprehensive river system played a prominent part on the stage of public affairs. The discovery of the river, in 1541, by De Soto and his Spanish troops, was about a century later followed by explorations ...

The author fully understands that our schools, colleges, and universities have a full supply of books about God and spirituality for the common folks. However, if there is a little bit of extra space on their library shelves, he would love to see these books like Stepping Out of Glory find their way into a global educational system. This way, all the older ones and brand-new ones could have a head start in figuring out this country schoolboy. ...

The author fully understands that our schools, colleges, and universities have a full supply of books about God and spirituality for the common folks. However, if there is a little bit of extra space on their library shelves, he would love to see these books like Stepping Out of Glory find their way into a global educational system. This way, all the older ones and brand-new ones could have a head start in figuring out this country schoolboy. ...

Leaders of congregations want to foster change but how is rarely obvious. Some pursue top-down approaches while others think bottom-up. Either approach assumes some control by the leader, but effective leadership of change needs more than control, it requires influencing the ongoing change that is naturally occurring. In the organizational literature this matter is understood in terms of systems and more specifically complex adaptive systems o...

The volume offers a description of the history and linguistic consequences of Russian-Turkic contacts in two adjacent republics in the Altai-Sayan region of south central Siberia, viz. Khakasia and Tuva. First an overview of Russian-Turkic contacts is offered. Next follows a lengthy outline of the standardized form of Khakas to serve as a basis of comparison for the data discussed in subsequent chapters. The complex linguistic history of Abaka...

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Excerpt from Reminiscences and Incidents: Connected With the Life and Pastoral Labors of the Reverend John Anderson For many years I have had an impression that it was my duty to put on record some of God's wonderful dealings in connection with my life, and some brief but remarkable sketches of incidents occurring during my pastoral ministrations. This impression has been deepened through the urgent requests of brethren who have heard some o...

Excerpt from The Vale of Anwoth: And Other Essays About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfecti...

Excerpt from The Primer of Irrigation To John McALPINE of Duluth, Minnesota, a man who has devoted years of his life to assisting the toiler and wage-earner, to better their condition, and who is now fighting for a clean administration of The Irrigation Law, this work is affectionately dedicated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a...

This book provides a vision for environmentalism's future, based on the success of environmental entrepreneurs around the world. The work provides the next generation of environmental market ideas and the chapters are co-authored with young scholars and policy analysts who represent the next generation of environmental leaders.

Blending unconventional film theory with nontraditional psychology the fifteen essays and forty-one illustrations gathered here by editors Joseph D. Anderson and Barbara Fisher Anderson offer a new understanding of how moving images are seen and understood.

The Munda group of languages of the Austroasiatic family are spoken within central and eastern India by almost ten million people. This work presents assessments of a range of typological and comparative-historical issues, providing agendas for research.

This Technical Brief summarizes the information that is currently available from scientific research on Endocrine Disrupting Compounds (EDCs), sometimes known as hormonally active agents. It was prepared in response to concerns over the potential for EDCs to enter the environment in treated wastewater and reuse of biosolids. This document provides a primer on the endocrine system, the nature and sources of EDCs, and their potential effects on ...

This story is about a boy named Sam, who unexpectedly encounters a boy with a strange name (Dew Boy), who comes from a place even stranger than his name. Before Sam's unexpected encounter, he had a love-hate relationship with school...he loved to hate it! In Sam's eyes, learning to read and write was such a chore and a bore! As far as Sam was concerned, play, play, play was the lesson for the day...that is, until he met Dew Boy. This chance en...

After a disastrous descent mission to earth, astronaut James Holden finds himself stranded in a world of a different America! A world where his wife doesn't know him, where 9/11 never happened and where his other 'self' still exists! Trapped like a fugitive and struggling to keep his sanity, can an enigmatic shaman convince him of his mystical powers? Or, will he look to science to find a way to return?Can our beleaguered spaceman finally find...

Part of a series which discusses the foundations of library and information science, this volume focuses on library service in mathematics. Topics covered include mathematics library service in academic and public libraries, as well as in special libraries.

Surveys the debates over British university history. Among the topics covered are the special character of universities in Scotland, Wales and Ireland and their contribution to national consciousness, the dispute over the "decline of the industrial spirit" and the composition of the British elite.

Leaders of congregations want to foster change but how is rarely obvious. Some pursue top-down approaches while others think bottom-up. Either approach assumes some control by the leader, but effective leadership of change needs more than control, it requires influencing the ongoing change that is naturally occurring. In the organizational literature this matter is understood in terms of systems and more specifically complex adaptive systems o...

SAP Implementation UnleashedA Business and Technical Roadmap to Deploying SAP George W. AndersonCharles D. NilsonTim Rhodes SAP can help you capture better information and deliver it more quickly, allowing you to make better decisions and maximize the business value of everything you do. However, SAP implementations require massive effort, total buy-in, and significant change throughout the organization. In SAP Implementation Unleashed, 10 exp...