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Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784-1817) Swiss by birth, travelled to London in 1806 with an introduction to Joseph Banks, leading member of the African Association. Burckhardt thereafter devoted himself to the language and customs of Arabic peoples in order to pass through Islamic countries then hostile to Christians. Indeed, so proficient he became in the vulgar Arabic, and in his knowledge of the Qu'ran, that he was not only accepted as a true ...

John Alfred Gray was a practising London doctor in 1888 when he was approached by Sir Salter Payne who had returned from Kabul on the orders of the Amir to procure an English surgeon. During intervals in his professional work at the Court, Gray recorded his daily experiences and events in the Afghanistan of the period. Much of his writing is compiled from the regular letters which he sent to his fiancée in England providing the work with a fre...

In From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon, Jules Verne turned the ancient fantasy of space flight into a believable technological possibility. Directly inspired by Verne's story, enthusiasts worked successfully at overcoming the practical difficulties, and within a century, human beings did indeed fly to the Moon. Curiously, however, Verne is unlikely to have thought it possible that a manned projectile could actually be fired out of a...

To make success in anything, you must be able to concentrate your entire thought upon the idea you are working out. Do not become discouraged, if you are unable to hold your thought on the subject very long at first, There are very few that can. Bending the entire power of your mind and focusing it on the thing you want to achieve apparently creates cosmic energies that will manifest the goal. The power of visualization, self-dialog, self-awar...

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Keine Frage! Zu einem modernen, komfortabel ausgestatteten Keyboard gehören auch zeitgemäße, ansprechende Notenausgaben. Diese Serie ist für die Keyboards der neuen Generation maßgeschneidert, die die leicht spielbaren Arrangements im Supersound erklingen lassen. Die Ausstattung der Hefte dürfte alle Erwartungen eines Keyboarders erfüllen. Sie finden: Vorschläge zur Registrierung, zum Tempo, zur Begleitautomatik, zum Einsatz von Effekten, leic...

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This revised and expanded edition of You're Our Child brings current a contemporary classic in the adoption field. Among the topics covered by Smith and Miroff are: entitlement, genetic aspects of adoption, the adopted adolescent, the telling, confidentiality, birth parents, the telling process, psychological development, sealed records findings, medical history, the law, and nature/history.

First published in 1895, Palmyra and Zenobia tells of the author's travels on horseback throughout the region of the Middle East centring on the oasis of Palmyra. Though largely a narrative of the author's travels the true value of the work lies in the wealth of detailed information on the archaeological features of the area, and particularly important are the large number of plates and engravings of historical sites and artefacts, many of whi...

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Unifies the various approaches used to characterize the interaction of signals with systems. Stresses their commonality, and contrasts difference/differential equation models, convolution, and state variable formulations in presenting continuous- and discrete-time systems. Transform methods are also discussed as they relate to corresponding time-domain techniques. This edition expands discussion of applications of the theoretical material in p...