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Excerpt from Treatise on the Art of Measuring, Containing All That Is Useful in Bonnycastle, Hutton, Hawney, Ingram, and Several Other Modern Works on Mensuration, To Which Are Added Trigonometry, With Its Application to Heights and Distances, Surveying, Gauging, 1831 The art of Measuring, like all other useful inventions, appears to have been the offspring of want and necessity, and to have had its origin in those remote ages of antiquity, w...

Earl Browder was the preeminent Communist party leader in the United States in the 20th century. A Kansas native and veteran of numerous radical movements, Browder was peculiarly fitted by circumstance and temperament to head "the cause" during its heyday, the critical years of the Great Depression and World War II. In this new biography James Ryan shows Browder as a man of many contradictions. He was shy but sought publicity. He prided himsel...

NOWHERE ist der letzte Teil der sogenannten ''Teen Apocalypse Trilogy'' des amerikanischen Kult-Regisseurs Gregg Araki (Kaboom). Eine Jugendkultur am Rande der Gesellschaft im modernen Los Angeles. Der smarte, 18-jährige Dark Smith (James Duval) ist auf der Suche nach Liebe, und zusammen mit seinen Freunden bereitet er sich auf die grösste Party des Jahres vor. Die Gruppe von gut 20 Jugendlichen driftet durch ein buntes, aber umso böseres Para...

My memoirs are rather slanted. They include only the successes and none of the failures. Clinical vignettes that illustrate the healing process follow my career from a medical internship at Georgetown, through a fellowship in Psychiatry at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital. The discovery of the warming point in schizophrenia at D.C. General was followed by the almost miraculous healing of several thousand acutely ill schizophrenics during two year...

The organization of Shakespeare's plays has baffled audiences and critics since the 17th century. It is not the narrative arc alone that organises the plays but a complex structure of interwoven narratives and thematic actions. While the narrative varies from play to play, thematic actions are invariably designed in mirroring pairs around the central scene: A-B-C-B-A.

Extraordinary in its detail, this year-by-year account chronicles the tenure of Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim as he struggled to lead the United Nations through the veritable diplomatic minefield of the Vietnam conflict. Includes a narrative overview which highlights Waldheim's strengths while making clear why his unprecedented bid for a third term at the UN's helm ended in failure.

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Excerpt from The Mathematical Diary, Vol. 1: Containing New Researches and Improvements in the Mathematics, With Collections of Questions, Proposed and Resolved by Ingenious Correspondents Tm: principal Object Of the present little work is to excite the genius and industry Of those who have a taste for mathematical stuo dies, by affording them an opportunity of laying their Speculations before the public in an advantageous manner, and thus to...

This text explores the development of Lenin's thinking on violence throughout his career, from the last years of the Tsarist regime in Russia through to the 1920s and the New Economic Policy.

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Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine - A Practical Guide provides a framework for use by health professionals visiting a resource-constrained environment. Encompassing problems brought about by local conflict or natural disasters, the book covers preparation, organisation, logistics, treatment of major trauma and medical emergencies, and the special problems of delivering medicine in a hostile environment. Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine - A Pr...

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Spanning four centuries, Imaginary Friends takes readers through the shifting representations of Quaker life in a wide range of literary and visual genres, from theological debates, missionary work records, political theory, and biography to fiction, poetry, theatre, and film.