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For more than half a century, a deadly viral disease known as poliomyelitis, or infantile paralysis, caused permanent crippling injury to thousands of Americans. Many died from polio, others were disabled for life. Summertime epidemics brought fear to anxious parents who tried to protect their children during "polio season." Although a cure was never found, protection came in the form of a vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, a grantee of the ...

This textbook provides a thorough introduction to the sustainable, productive use of land resources vital in maintaining healthy rivers and good groundwater qualities. Calvin Rose develops a quantitative approach to studying these growing environmental concerns and makes the textbook suitable for introductory university courses, as well as a useful primer for research and management staff in environmental organizations. Each chapter ends with ...

This textbook provides a thorough introduction to the sustainable, productive use of land resources vital in maintaining healthy rivers and good groundwater qualities. Calvin Rose develops a quantitative approach to studying these growing environmental concerns and makes the textbook suitable for introductory university courses, as well as a useful primer for research and management staff in environmental organizations. Each chapter ends with ...

On their separate journeys of discovery, exotic dancer Ruby Clarisse Kale and naval officer Charlie McGurn encounter love, betrayal, disaster, tragedy ... and one another. From heinous child molesters to gentleman liars, from joyous ecstasy, profound friendships, and ultimate heartbreak, the compelling story of Charlie and Ruby will draw you in, twist you around, and won't let you go. Set in Memphis, Tennessee and other parts of the world,  Bo...

Excerpt from With the Greeks in Thessaly This book is based on the despatches which I sent from Greece to reuter's as their special war-correspondent. These were received with so much favour by the press and the public in this country and America, that I have been induced to embody them in a connected narrative of my experiences during the very brief but deeply interesting campaign. In the descriptions of the various engagements of which I wa...

Excerpt from Mathematics for Engineers, Vol. 2 Concerning the aim and Scope of this work nothing need be added here to the statement made in the Preface to the former volume It is there asserted that the subject-matter has been so chosen, and, through the examples, so applied to practical problems, that the two volumes embrace all the mathematical work needed by engineers in their practice, and by students in all branches of engineering scien...

Excerpt from Canada in 1849, Vol. 2 of 2: Pictures of Canadian Life, or the Emigrant Churchman 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 i...

Fabulously entertaining, and featuring more than 100 delightful illustrations, this encyclopedic work contains over 2, 000 alphabetically arranged entries covering angels, demons, elves, fairies, nats, nymphs, and other strange beings from around the world.

Some books show you how to structure experiential learning. Other books give you a showcase of experiential initiatives. Few books have effectively combined experiential theory and practice. Until now! Ed Rose assembles a framework for learning-by-doing, then he gives you active, practical exercises you'll use right away. Rose enables you to: Evaluate team-development needs Build an environment of trust and recognition Encourage adaptability a...

This magnificent, handsome, handful of an anthology . . ."* includes sixty-one substantial selections from the twentieth-century literature of women's lives: autobiographies, journals, and memoirs. "As varied in humanity as in geography, "** the women whose life stories are collected here include the famous-Maya Angelou, Maxine Hong Kingston, Anne Frank, Virginia Woolf-and the surprising-Emma Mashinini, a black South African labor organizer, O...

Not long ago we were spectators, passive consumers of mass media. Now, on YouTube and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, we are media. And while we watch more television than ever before, how we watch it is changing in ways we have barely slowed down to register. No longer content in our traditional role as couch potatoes, we approach television shows, movies, even advertising as invitations to participate-as experiences to immerse ourselves in a...

We have always conjured up creatures never seen in nature, from flying horses and two-headed birds to fire-breathing dragons and enormous killer skunks, as well as fantastic distortions of our own image, from giants to nubile maidens. In these pages you will meet extraordinary beings from Hindu and Navajo religions, Scandinavian tales, Russian folklore, Lithuanian stories, Irish oral history, American tall tales, and Aztec myth. Just some of t...

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With richness of experience and expression, this treasury of 20th-century literature of women's lives--autobiographies, memoirs and journals--is a celebration of life. It includes famous writers, from Woolf to Angelou, as well as women from other walks of life whose experiences make for great literature.

Excerpt from Travels in Europe and Northern Africa: A Woman's ViewAnd when the test of knowledge comes, it is so much better to be able to say, Yes, I remember what it is, than simply, I have studied about it. Actual sight will give the mind more understanding in a year than mere descriptions will in four.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book i...

An eclectic Marxist approach reveals the centrality of conflict and ideological struggle in the socio-political and cultural changes in Archaic Greece.

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This book is based on a series of articles, which appeared in the Oxford Times during the summer of 1919. The project, of which this volume is the outcome, was assisted by that newspaper and by the courtesy of its staff. It describes the doings of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry during the Great War, written by Captain Geoffrey Keith Rose (1889-1959).

This is the story of a full life in an English community, lived first and told afterwards, from within.