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Using many previously unpublished letters and photographs--together with introductions, notes, and biographies of his friends and relatives--volume one illuminates Rogers's complex relationship with his father, his Cherokee heritage, his early education, first encounters with his future wife, his voyage to Argentina, and his fledging years in Wild West shows and circuses in South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia.

Managing for Accountability is an invaluable guide for organizations struggling with issues of accountability and for managers who want to maintain their outstanding record in serving the public trust. Shows how to take a proactive approach to accountability and offers a range of practical, proven strategic management approaches, advice on implementing strategic tools, illustrative examples, useful checklists, and diagnostic tools. Helps ident...

The hilarious, take-no-prisoners novel about a cynical, sex-obsessed teenager's pining love for an intelligent girl--the basis for the major motion picture starring Michael CeraYouth in Revolt is the journals of Nick Twisp, California's most precocious diarist, whose ongoing struggles to make sense out of high school, deal with his divorced parents, and lose his virginity result in his transformation from an unassuming fourteen-year-old to a m...

This Convention constitutes a special agreement within the meaning of Article 19 of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property of March 20, 1883 and a regional patent agreement within the meaning of Article 45(1) of the Patent Cooperation Treaty of June 19, 1970.

A. Kirk Grayson presents the texts of the royal inscriptions from the earlier phase of the Neo-Assyrian period, a time in which the Assyrian kings campaigned as far as the Mediterranean and came into direct contact with biblical lands.

Lustige, absurde und auch nachdenkliche Geschichten vom Hamburger Feinmotorik­Humoristen. Mittlerweile gilt Rocko Schamoni als Vorreiter des feinen, absurden Humors und darf ruhig mal in einem Atemzug mit anderen Feinmotorik­Humoristen wie Funny van Dannen und Helge Schneider genant werden. Zu einer liebenswerten musikalischen Mischung aus 80er Jahre Plastikpop und Beatpunk erzählt er auf seinem 1996-er Albm "Galerie Tolerance" lustige, absurd...

A good guitar repairman is hard to find, and when found, a long waiting list seems inevitable. Those who have confronted this problem may now turn to Don E. Teeter's encyclopedic treatment of guitar adjustment, maintenance, and repair. Profusely illustrated with line drawings and photographs and written in a clear and straightforward style, this book takes the reader on a guided tour of the acoustic guitar's various parts and their functions. ...

This book is based on the workshop on New Approaches to Learning for Natural Language Processing, held in conjunction with the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI'95, in Montreal, Canada in August 1995. Most of the 32 papers included in the book are revised selected workshop presentations, some papers were individually solicited from members of the workshop program committee to give the book an overall completeness...

Reading these accounts, we can travel again through vanished landscapes and recover lost worlds". -- James P. Ronda, Barnard Professor of Western American History, University of Tulsa. "An outstanding contribution to the field of natural history study in the 19th century West". -- Dan Flores, Texas Tech University.

The latest word from the nutrition front is that green leafy vegetables may be our most powerful weapon against cancer and other diseases of aging. Plus, most dark leafy greens are high in nutrients such as beta-carotene, anti-oxidants, folic acid, and fiber. In Greens Glorious Greens! Johnna Albi and Catherine Walthers, both gourmet natural-foods chefs, unlock the mysteries of buying and preparing these delicious vegetables. In an easy-to-use...

An inclusive, multicultural portrait of a thrilling day in the completion of America's first transcontinental railroad. "In her well-researched text, Fraser incorporates fascinating detail . . . while honestly addressing the prejudice faced by Chinese laborers".--Kirkus. Full color.

Steigender Kapitalbedarf in Verbindung mit einer meist geringen Eigenkapitalausstattung erfordert bei Investitionen eine intensive Auseinandersetzung mit Fragen der Finanzierung. Das Buch beschreibt ein System zur Unterstützung der Entscheidung.

Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, den State-of-the-Art auf dem Gebiet der Wertsteigerungsanalyse näher zu beleuchten, konzeptionelle Lücken zu schließen und dieses Steuerungssystem im Hinblick auf seine praktische Verwendung weiterzuentwickeln.