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This book puts South Africa's serious societal problems in perspective and provides fresh answers and recommendations. The book includes chapters on crime rates and criminal syndicates, the proliferation of conventional arms, illegal populations movements, drug trafficking, the South African army, and a concluding chapter on African armies and regional peacekeeping.

Excerpt from Guide to the National Executive Offices: And the Capitol of the United States The author of this little work has been induced to undertake it from its acknowledged utility. Every one having business with the Public Offices, or Capitol, whether stranger or resident, is sensible of the difficulty of locating the different bureaus in their buildings, and more particularly the officers and clerks attached to those bureaus. The nature...

Excerpt from Guide to the Capitol: And to the National Executive Offices of the United States HE area covered by the original building, as approved by General Washington, embraces square feet. The front extends feet, the depth at the ends feet, and in the centre, including the projection West and the portico steps East, feet. The height of the order to top of the balustrade 70 feet, and to the summit of the great Dome 145 feet. About the Pub...

Excerpt from The Southern States Hardened Until Ruined: A Sermon Preached in Salem on Fast Day, April 13th, 1865 "But the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart, so That he would not let the Children of Israel go." On the second Sabbath of April, 1861, at two o'clock in the afternoon, "the evacuation of Fort Sumter was completed." Such was the despatch which the Charleston correspondent of a New York daily journal sent by the telegraph. Within about ...

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At long last, a book that pays homage to television's unsung heroes -- those wit wizards who face a blank page every day and somehow manage to create something John Barrymore claimed was more difficult than dying: laughter. In his book, Bob Mills not only keeps the reader laughing, but -- like a comedic Houdini revealing his secrets -- shows us how it's done. The Laugh Makers is a "must read" for anyone even thinking about a career in comedy. ...

Presenting a comprehensive framework for conducting a scientifically grounded violence risk assessment, this book is authoritative, current, and practical. The essentials of doing this type of evaluation are reviewed and available risk appraisal instruments are described for general violence, sexual violence, and spousal violence. The authors provide expert advice on choosing suitable instruments and approaches for particular cases, interpreti...

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Excerpt from A Historical Discourse, Delivered on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Formation of the First Baptist Church, Salem, Mass., December 24, 1854 Book of Common Prayer led them to leave the Church of England. The principles of such persons, as Bishop Hall told John Robinson, required them to go on to Anabaptism. This claim never could be disproved. The Pilgrims were these Separatists. They were driven from England to Holland, and thenc...

Baseball---Then and Now is at once a memoir, history lesson, and opinion piece about the Great American Pastime. The author's only source material was his memory of past events.

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