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At the age of ten, Charley Chase was singing and dancing on the street corners of Baltimore. Charley eventually became a local vaudeville attraction, but Baltimore could not contain the ambitious young man. After a brief, but memorable, stint in New York, Chase finally landed in Los Angeles in 1912. His timely arrival coincided with the birth of the film industry, and Charley Chase became a major force in the shaping of motion picture comedy. ...

A facsimile edition of the Elgin A. Simonds Company's furniture catalog provides an extensive resource of the furniture styles of the 1920s and 1930s. Ranging from traditional to Art Deco, captions include important information about size, materials, and the period of the reproduction. Current values of the furniture have been added to make this book a useful addition to the collector's library.

Born of popular advertising and projected to near stardom, the California Raisins*t held sway in the United States for nearly a decade. Starting with figural characters distributed with everything from fast food to fast car promotions, the California Raisins*t soon appeared on every imaginable item, from bed linens to wallets. The range of Raisins collectibles is represented in this authoritative illustrated guide through over 500 color photos...

Quimper faience pottery has been produced by three primary factories in the French town of Quimper (pronounced Kem-pair), and this book explains, compares and contrasts the factories and their products. The colorful and charming decorations on French Quimper pottery have made it a popular ware for over 300 years. Collected in North America and England today, old Quimper ware is presented in 290 clear color photographs with makers' marks and a ...

In his original essay on the shaking palsy (1817) James Parkinson remarked that the "senses and intellect were uninjured". Thus, it was only in later years that the complexity ofparkinsonism and in particular Parkinson's disease with dementia was recognised. Cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease is common and is estimated to affect more than forty per cent of patients with disease onset after age 65. Recent studies suggest that pathology...

This book continues a comparative project begun with the authors' Thinking Through Confucius and Anticipating China. It continues the comparative discussions by focusing upon three concepts--self, truth, transcendence--which best illuminate the distinctive characters of the two cultures. "Self" specifies the meaning of the human subject, "truth" considers that subject's manner of relating to the world of which it is a part, and "transcendence"...

Dieses Heft für Violinschüler enthält die schönsten Volks- und Kinderlieder in sehr leichten Bearbeitungen für Violine, zu der wahlweise auch eine 2. Stimme gespielt werden kann. Auf der CD ist jedes Lied in 2 Versionen eingespielt: sowohl mit als auch ohne Violine. Bei beiden Fassungen können die Schüler selbst mitspielen.Schwierigkeitsgrad: 1

During the course of evolution, an imbalance was created between the rate of vertebrate genetic adaptation and that of the lower forms of living organisms, such as bacteria and viruses. This imbalance has given the latter the advantage of generating, relatively quickly, molecules with unexpected structures and features that carry a threat to vertebrates. To compensate for their weakness, vertebrates have accelerated their own evolutionary proc...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Vor allem im Bereich der hochauflösenden Mikroskope wurden in den letzten Jahren die Vergrößerungs- und Auflösungsanforderungen immer weiter gesteigert und verbessert. Dadurch ist es notwendig geworden immer präzisere Manipulatoren zu entwickeln, die diesen gesteigerten Anforderungen genügen. Zusammenfassung: Bei der Diplomarbeit ¿Entwicklung eines Konzeptes für einen Mikromanipulator mit Nanometergenauigkeit¿ soll...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Durch den verstärkten Wettbewerbsdruck wird heutzutage die konsequente Ausrichtung von Produkten auf die Ansprüche und Wünsche des Kunden für alle Unternehmen zur Pflicht. Target Costing (Deutsch: Zielkostenmanagement) greift genau hier ein und versucht die Kundenwünsche und Kundenforderungen in die Produkte einzubringen. Als Ergebnis werden die Kostenstrukturen des Unternehmens ebenfalls an die Kundenwünsche und Bed...

The Phenomenology of Spirit was Hegel's first major philosophical work and is considered by many to be his masterpiece. Its several hundred pages treat topics as diverse as Greek drama, religion, medieval court culture, natural science, Romanticism, and the Enlightenment. Hegel regarded it as the introduction to his philosophical system as a whole, and it is often thought to be the most accessible work in his otherwise difficult philosophical ...

Coulomb read his Essai on "some statical problems" to the French academy in 1773 and it was acknowledged as a document of importance in the history of engineering. It is reproduced in this book with an annotated English translation and discussion of the technical problems it treats.

Death Comes in Yellow" presents the history of one slave labor camp in order to shed light on all aspects of the slave labor camps established in Poland under German occupation. Hasag-Skarzysko was one of hundreds of camps scattered throughout occupied Poland. They were distinguished by size, the nationality of the prisoners, their location, the date of their establishment, and the authority in charge. The large number of labor camps reflected...

In this study of contemporary Greek poetry, the author investigates modernist and postmodernist poetics at the edge of Europe. She traces the influential role of Greek women writers back to the sexual politics of censorship under the dictatorship (1967-1974). Through responses to censorship - including those of the dictator, the Nobel Laureate poet George Seferis, and the younger generation of poets - she shows how women poets use strategies w...

Presents case studies of emotional abuse victims, who, with the help of intervention, therapy and advocacy are moved from states of despair upward to the path of recovery and survivorhood.