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A rewritten and enlarged version of the author's thesis, this study is concerned with Iraq's people--their social characteristics, population structure, and potentialities for population growth, and Iraq's resources--their present state of development, the level of living they provide, their potentialities, and the plans for fulfilling these potentialities.

?Incisive analysis of the caste system within the Soviet Army, concludes that the quality of officers is low and that problems of troop morale and discipline are severe.?-Orbis

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How does the old song go? "The strings were on the banjo and the fiddle was in tune/And we reveled in the plenty that we thought could never pass/And lingered at the julep in the ever-brimming glass..." The idyllic, indolent South, land of honey-toned hospitality or bone-lazy sloth? These stereotypes are analyzed in an amiable, modestly acute socio-historical inquiry extending from the sixteenth century to the Civil War, with some concluding r...

This book provides an account of Greek national religion and its decay. The following subjects are covered: Minoan-Mycenaean religion and its survival in Greek religion, Origins of Greek mythology, Primitive belief and ritual, Gods of nature and of human life, The Homeric anthropomorphism and rationalism, Legalism and mysticism, The civic religion, The religion of the cultured classes and the religion of the peasants.

?This book ranks high among the very few writings that can interest the reader in the cultural history of the Middle Eastern civilizations. In lucid bibliographic essays, Felix Reichmann brings together the literary masterpieces of the recorded knowledge of the Middle East and describes the influence of these creative, artistic, and scientific works on what became the Western civilization.?-American Reference Books Annual

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Scorpions of Medical Importance by Hugh L. Keegan This publication is an account of the distribution, morphology, biology and classification of those scorpions considered to be of medical importance. The book also contains information on the clinical aspects of scorpion envenomation, and on methods for scorpion control. Though the scope of the book is clearly delineated by its title, Scorpions of Medical Importance, Professor Keegan does cons...

An exploration of the great conflict going on between good and evil within the spiritual realm carefully traced back to the period before the beginning of recorded time can be found in this book.