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As Africans and descendants of slaves have sought to expand an understanding of their history, focus on the African diaspora - the global dispersal of a people and their culture - has increased. African studies have assumed a prominent place in historical scholarship, and a growing number of non-African scholars has helped revise a discipline established over several decades. The six contributions in this volume were compiled as a result of th...

These words are written for both traditional and contemporary minds. It is the opinion of the author that the ancient poets of Israel, if they were alive today, would embrace both our traditional and contemporary styles of worship. There would be no reason for either one to reject the other. There is only one God. Our praise and worship is dependent on attitude, motivation, integrity, and sincerity rather than instruments, rhythm, volume, and ...

These words are written for both traditional and contemporary minds. It is the opinion of the author that the ancient poets of Israel, if they were alive today, would embrace both our traditional and contemporary styles of worship. There would be no reason for either one to reject the other. There is only one God. Our praise and worship is dependent on attitude, motivation, integrity, and sincerity rather than instruments, rhythm, volume, and ...

An amalgam of artificial intelligence, systems theory and operations research, intelligent control is experiential based, using most recent evidence to improve its performance. This book shows that a wide class of fuzzy logic and neural net based learning algorithms satisfy these conditions.

In Broken Patterns, Anita Harris reveals how a powerful mother-daughter dynamic has shaped the experience of professional women in America. Using a unique approach that integrates personal interviews and historical and psychological research, she examines the complex relationships women share with their mothers and grandmothers and considers how those relationships and society's changing attitudes affect women's roles. Tracing the roles of wor...

The Anthology is based not only about life, but topics and people in my past and present. As you flip through the pages, you will read about my opinions on current events and past experiences. The topics are serious and funny. They range from politics to erectile dysfunction to dementia. I have also written columns about my experience as a doctor, and I have taken potshots on suburban life and life in the inner city. What I hope readers will e...

The Anthology is based not only about life, but topics and people in my past and present. As you flip through the pages, you will read about my opinions on current events and past experiences. The topics are serious and funny. They range from politics to erectile dysfunction to dementia. I have also written columns about my experience as a doctor, and I have taken potshots on suburban life and life in the inner city. What I hope readers will e...

2014 was no doubt unusual year for New Zealand Maori writer K.M. Harris. Deciding to write on eight subjects who had secret lives, associations, or employment in Sydney's sex industry by putting herself in the similar perilous situations as the subjects themselves was her way of telling their stories with authenticity about a frequently judged community. Join her on a roller-coaster journey featuring snippets of songs related to each story whe...

As a modern composite scientific discipline, Cell Biology has expanded and moved forward rapidly in recent years. Cell Biologists now require a wide range of techniques, including those of analytical biochemistry and microscopy in all its diverse forms. These are often used alongside the techniques of molecular biology and molecular genetics. This book contains numerous useful protocols, covering light and electron microscopy, cell culture, ce...

Excerpt from A Challenge to Life ServiceIn the midst Of our modern world, where confusion is made more confused by the immense publicity that is given to all our problems and shortcomings, the individual Christian man or woman wonders in a kind Of amazed perplexity, What can one Of us possibly do in the face of a situation like this?These studies are intended to indicate the lines along which each individual may work out the answer for himself...

A subtle and powerful evocation of one man's military and intelligence life, a gripping autobiography.

After spending a summer abroad ghost hunting, Erin and Jeremy return to the states unsure of what they have discovered. Erin's new boyfriend turns out to be more trouble than she bargained for. She begins to learn all the fairy tales her father told her were more than just a tall tale. Will she be able to escape the clutches of Bastian or will she be indebted to him forever?

Excerpt from Robert Harris and His Descendents: With Notices of the Morey and Metcalf FamiliesAlthough scattering notices of individuals of the name of Harris in England have been collected, as well as of persons in this country, it does not seem worth while to insert any not identified as belonging to this family, as several other Harris families exist, which cannot be shown to be allied with that of Robert Harris, although some connection ma...

The Ancient Greek Economy: Markets, Households and City-States brings together sixteen essays by leading scholars of the ancient Greek economy. The essays investigate the role of market-exchange in the economy of the ancient Greek world in the Classical and Hellenistic periods.

Excerpt from Thompson of the Varsity: A College Comedy in Three Acts Thompson, blaming himself for the defeat that his team has suffered, is preparing to leave college when the Gym catches fire. He learns that Wood is trapped in the burning building, rushes into the burning building, and saves him. Wood, realizing the nobility of Thompson's act, confesses to the theft of the examination paper and then leaves col lege. Thompson is exonerated ...

Excerpt from Ancient, Curious and Famous Wills "Let's choose executors, and talk of wills, And yet not so, -for what can we bequeath, Save our deposed bodies to the ground?" An addition to the fifteen millions of books of which the world is now possessed demands an explanation, if not an apology. In my experience as a lecturer on the Law of Wills, and in the practical administration of estates controlled by wills, in which I have been eng...

Excerpt from Assassination of Lincoln: A History of the Great Conspiracy, Trial of the Conspirators by a Military Commission, and a Review of the Trial of John H. Surratt It is now more than twenty-seven years since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, - an event of the greatest importance at the time, not only to the people of the United States, but to the civilized world. The trial of the conspirators by a m...

Excerpt from Letters to a Young Lawyer I trust that you will not be found too presumptuous in supposing that young lawyers generally will value as much as you seem to those discursive disquisitions of mine. 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 techno...

Melanie L. Harris dives into the spirituality and life work of Alice Walker, literary genius and poet. Through the lens of Womanist ethics, Harris takes an inside look into the virtues and values that can be lifted from a study of Walker s non-fiction work. This work enlivens the debate in African and African American religious thought about the fluidity of spirituality and widens the conversation to encourage readers to embrace religious trad...

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