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Having an Al Streetman book is liking having your own personal carving instructor sit down on the back porch with you. His easygoing Oklahoma ways and his patient, soothing voice are evident in the simple instructions, as though he were right there with you, carving blade in hand, leading you through the simple step-by-step task of characterization. And that's where the Streetman's true brilliance lieshe is a master of the character, and this ...

For the veteran carver or the newest devotee of the hobby, carving vegetables can be educational, fun, and surprising. We're not talking pumpkins here, but real carving, using woodcarving tools and techniques. Instead of wood, though, Tom uses sweet potatoes, which are firm enough to take the knife, and inexpensive enough to take a mistake or two. That makes them the perfect medium for new carvers or for experienced carvers learning new techni...

A highly readable and informative guide for secondary school teachers who want to induce African literature in their classes.

Now available in paperback, the first comprehensive reference on Great White sharks separates fact from fiction and presents real evidence of the ecology and behavior of these remarkable animals. The volume begins with the evolution of the white shark and its relatives and continues with sections on its anatomy, behavior, ecology, distribution, population dynamics, and interactions with humans. Included in the volume are many illustrations, ma...

In der Musikgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts nimmt Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) eine sonderbare Stellung ein: Als Wunderkind in die musikalische Moderne hineingewachsen, von der Entwicklung der Neuen Musik eingeholt, wurde er schließlich von den politischen Ereignissen samt ihren ästhetischen Folgen überrollt. Der in den 20er Jahren geradezu enthusiastisch gefeierte Komponist ("Die tote Stadt"), dem in der Emigration in Hollywood eine zw...

Bringing the computational power and elegance of Mathematica to physical chemistry courses, this book is organized along the lines of most modern textbooks. It discusses the kinds of problems encountered in each area of physical chemistry, together with worked examples. An appendix outlines the important calculations in physical chemistry and demonstrates how to handle them in Mathematica code.

Developments in experimental methods are providing an increasingly detailed understanding of shock compression phenomena on the bulk, intermediate, and molecular scales. This third volume in a series of reviews of the curent state of knowledge covers several diverse areas. The first group of chapters addresses fundamental physical and chemical aspects of the response of condensed matter to shock comression: equations of state, molecular-dynami...

Inhaltsangabe:Gang der Untersuchung: In dieser Arbeit wird das auf einer langen Tradition fußende öffentliche Berufsbildungssystem Deutschlands mit dem neuentwickelten System Großbritanniens verglichen. Nach einem thematischen Einführungskapitel gliedert sich die Arbeit in drei Inhaltskapitel. Im Ersten findet sich die Darstellung des deutschen Systems, wobei sowohl die historische Entwicklung, als auch aktuelle Anpassungsprozesse und Disku...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Das Internet hat sich in den letzten Jahren zu einem wichtigen Marktplatz für Waren und Dienstleistungen entwickelt. Insbesondere der Finanzdienstleistungssektor engagiert sich stark in diesem neuen Universalmedium. Das Engagement der Universalbanken basiert bislang allerdings eher auf einem Nachahmungs- oder Faszinationseffekt, als auf einer fundierten Analyse der qualitativen und vor allem der quantitativen Vor- b...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Heraklit: "Alles fließt und nichts bleibt" So auch die gesamten Voraussetzungen für Unternehmen, die sich mit einem tief-greifenden Wandel in ihrem Wettbewerbsumfeld, in den Bedürfnissen ihrer Kunden und damit ihrem Marketing auseinandersetzen müssen, um den heutigen Anforderungen gerecht zu werden. Einer weltweiten Befragung vom Institute for Management Development (IMD) unter 220 Managern zufolge kann die wichtig...

This third annual report presents comparative year-to-year data on the nature of violence on television across programme genres and channel types in the United States. It contains an analysis of how the new television rating system was initially implemented and tracks trends over three years in the use of programme advisories and content codes. It also evaluates public service announcements designed to prevent handgun violence among adolescent...

This collection of essays surveys the changes in farms, small towns and reservations throughout the American West during the post-war era. Topics covered include: cattle industry, agriculture, migrant labour, environmental concerns, social change, ranch and farm women, and reservation life.

Unlike traditional grammar books that emphasize sentence analysis, this worktext asks students to imitate the sentence styles of professional writers, making the sentence composing process enjoyable and challenging.

For decades, the Nevada desert's rugged beauty has veiled its use as a nuclear weapons testing site. Now another crisis looms over the Yucca Mountains--their consideration as the proposed national repository for nuclear waste. Kuletz combines scientific data with interviews with scientists and local Native Americans to shed light on this global controversy. Photos/illustrations.

Here are three novellas of escape and exile, touching and funny and at times calculatedly outrageous. In "Saturn Street, " a disaffected L.A. screenwriter delivers lunches to homebound AIDS patients, only to find himself falling in love with one of them. In "The Wooden Anniversary, " Nathan and Celia - familiar characters from Leavitt's story collections - reunite after a five-year separation. And in "The Term-Paper Artist, " a writer named Da...

The field of capillary-tissue exchange physiology has been galvanized twice in the past 25 years. A 1969 conference at the National Academy of Sciences in Copenhagen resulted in the book Capillary Permeability: The Transfer of Mole­ cules and Ions Between the Capillary Blood and the Tissue (Crone and Lassen, 1970). It focused on the physiochemical aspects of transcapillary water and solute transport. The field has matured considerably since. T...

Praise for Sales Prospecting For Dummies " If you want to thrive, study this book, set your goals, plan your time, multiply your leads, and master the art of prospecting." — Linda Brock-Nelson, Executive Vice President, Linda Brock Auto Mall " I recommend this book to the novice salesperson as well as the seasoned pro." — Robert L. Shook, Author, The Greatest Stories Ever Told Includes real-world strategies that get results! Your first aid kit...

From the most respected name in reference publishing comes this comprehensivecollection of over 400 intriguing and challenging questions and answers aboutwomen's history. 20 photos. 20 line drawings. 10, 000 print.