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INDO-CHINA 1941Cruising somewhere off Saigon is the world's largest and most dangerous submarine - the French Soufriere. He must take the foreign submarine and use her against the enemy in the defence of Singapore .

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There are very few parts of biology that remain free from the influence of Genetic Engineering developed in the early 1970s. Disciplines as wide apart as Brewing, Forensic Science and Population Genetics have all been affected in some way. The major impact, however, has been to create a new science of Biotechnology - a part of which is the production of proteins in a variety of cellular systems. Initially, bacterial systems such as E. coli wer...

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Part slave narrative, part memoir, and part sentimental fiction, Behind the Scenes depicts Elizabeth Keckley's years as a slave and subsequent four years in Abraham Lincoln's White House during the Civil War. As public drama privately experienced, Keckley's work presents Jefferson Davis and his wife, Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln, and even Stephen Douglas and "Mrs. Senator Douglas" in the foreground, with the war, and slavery as the is...

Six Women's Slave narratives contains stories that embody most of the predominant themes and narrative forms found in African-American women's autobiographies from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Beginning with the first female slave narrative from the Americas, The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave (1831), the collection includes writings by 'Old Elizabeth, ' Mattie J. Jackson, Lucy A. Delaney, Kate Drumgoold, and Anni...

In this second edition every chapter of the first edition of Pattern Analysis has been updated and expanded. The general view of a system for pattern analysis and understanding has remained unchanged, but many details have been revised. A short account of light and sound has been added to the introduction, some normalization techniques and a basic introduction to morphological operations have been added to the second chapter. Chapter 3 has bee...

The author examines Gorbachev's reforms in terms of economic relations with the Third World and presents a statistical analysis of Soviet economic assistance and trade.

This collection of essays examines the effect of glasnost and perestroika on a representative selection of socialist countries. They show how the reforms have been applied directly in some cases and indirectly assimilated in others. The countries covered include Poland, China, Cuba and Vietnam.

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Thomas Walker, Neuankömmling in einer exklusiven Privatschule, wird von älteren Schülern schikaniert. Als er entdeckt, dass diese in illegale Machenschaften verwickelt sind, gerät er in einen inneren Konflikt. Soll er sein Wissen weitergeben oder lieber schweigen? Lesen macht Spaß! Mit spannenden, informativen, kontroversen Lektüren führt die Reihe Cornelsen English Library die Schüler/-innen schrittweise in den Umgang mit längere...

This is the author's response to the "conceptual crisis" in clinical psychology, which is made up of over 250 psychotherapies and needs a theoretical thread to bind it together. He proposes a model for a theoretical foundation to psychotherapy.

The history of the United States Consular Sevice is told through stories, anecdotes and vignettes of some of the men who comprised it. The book assesses their contribution to the expansion of American interests in the world until 1914 when the diplomatic service took over this role.

By the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias GraceElaine Risley, a painter, returns to Toronto to find herself overwhelmed by her past. Memories of childhood - unbearable betrayals and cruelties - surface relentlessly, forcing her to confront the spectre of Cordelia, once her best friend and tormentor, who has haunted her for forty years.'Not since Graham Greene has a novelist captured so forcefully the relationship between school bully and ...

Das Buch geht über die Beschreibung der Methode oder spezieller Programme weit hinaus: Es bietet einen relativ einfachen Zugang, indem lediglich geringe mathematische Vorkenntnisse (Differentialgleichungen und Matrizenrechnung) erwartet und die Voraussetzungen der schubweichen Plattentheorie und einer speziellen Schalentheorie so weit dargestellt werden, wie man sie zum Aufstellen der finiten Gleichungen benötigt. Die hergeleiteten Bezeichnung...

This reference handbook surveys research on the central issue associated with the teaching of unprepared writers. Though basic writing has only been recognized as a distinct area of teaching and research since 1975, the existing bibliographic texts already seem limited due to their age or lack of annotation. This volume provides current and extensive bibliographic essays and will help to define this new field of study for teachers and research...

CONTENTS - Conditioners, Emollients, and Lubricants - Tradename Products and Generic Equivalents - Generic Chemical Synonyms and Cross References - Tradename Product Manufacturers - PREFACE - This compendium serves a unique function for those involved in the chemical industry-it provides the necessary information for making the decision as to which trademark chemical product is most suitable for a particular application. The chemicals included...

Radioaktivität, natürliche und künstliche, ist ein Teil unseres täglichen Lebens, Fragen der Radioaktivität sind ein wichtiger Gegenstand öffentlicher Diskussion. Dieses Buch bringt gut verständlich und nüchtern die Fakten: zur Entstehung der unterschiedlichen radioaktiven Strahlen, zu ihren Eigenschaften und zu ihren Wirkungen auf Mensch und Materie. Strahlungsmessung und -meßgeräte sowie wesentliche Radioaktivitätsmethoden aus Forschung, Med...

A feminist study of Chaucer's poetry, this book shows how Chaucer correlates amatory acts with literary acts. The author suggests that gendered relations such as courtship, marriage and betrayal are central to an understanding of Chaucer's poetics.

Die vollständig neu verfaßte 6. Auflage des erfolgreichen Lehrbuches berücksichtigt die neusten Entwicklungen in den verschiedenen Fachdisziplinen. Es wurden eine Vielzahl neuer Untersuchungsverfahren aufgenommen und durch Herstellung klinischer Bezüge die Grundlagen für die Interpretation der Analysedaten wesentlich erweitert. Auch die Neuauflage besticht durch die verständliche und didaktisch durchdachte Art der Darstellung, die Medizinstude...