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September 1943: His battalion overrun by the Red Army, Corporal Hans Helmut Dietrich leads the exhausted survivors of his platoon through partisan-infested swamps in a desperate bid to regain friendly lines, only to be thrown into the next hopeless battle to stem the ever advancing Soviet Juggernaut. Meanwhile, the front continues to disintegrate all around the German invaders... A beautiful and enigmatic Soviet partisan, Nikolina Volcovich, i...

This breakthrough new book provides the theory and methodology for using gas migration to predict explosive gas buildup and earthquakes. It demonstrates gas migration's potential for vital applications in petroleum geology, seismology, and civil and environmental engineering.Gas Migration illustrates the possible connection between the rates of migration and tectonic activity. The changes in the rate of gas migration aid in the prediction of e...

The 'political' film in Hollywood is a boom industry. This is the first book to investigate Hollywood's treatment of American politics, politicians and political institutions. The author explores the influence - through creative, ideological and financial means - that Hollywood has on politics, and vice-versa.

In the past fifty years French intellectual activity has enjoyed remarkable prestige. The vitality of French intellectual debates has attracted a large audience within France and abroad. Ideas and methods developed in France have had an important international influence in many fields of knowledge. While taking account of the rise and decline of major philosophical trends such as existentialism, Marxism, structuralism, poststructuralism and po...

Business Grammar and Usageis one of a number of specialist books within the Market Leader series that compliments the course. Each book consists of 18 units, 2 tests, and a multilingual glossary

Computer simulation or modeling is a valuable and proven tool for analysis and prediction of compartment fires. It provides answers to key questions related to prevention, investigation, and reconstruction of compartment fires involving many different conditions. This book and software package gives fire safety professionals a detailed introduction to computer-aided mathematical modeling and the software for analysis and prediction of a variet...

Research and Evaluation for Business is intended for use in either a one or two semester introductory business statistics course. The focus of the text is on decision making based on data analysis. This is a real data, and problem-oriented text that teaches the actual practice of statistical thinking, management of decision making for tool selection, assumptions management, outcome interpretation, and reporting. The text incorporates, where ap...

The style you want--at the price you want to pay!" From 1930 to 1942, such advertising slogans drew cash-strapped Depression consumers to the Chase Brass & Copper Co.'s attractive array of lamps and lighting fixtures. Heralded as "brilliant in style and authentic in design, " the Chase line presented a new concept in brightening the American home, as designed by modern industrial pioneers, including Lurelle Guild, Walter Von Nessen, the Gerths...

Fine details of carving and construction are highlighted to demonstrate the best golden oak furniture from American makers at the end of the 19th century. China cabinets, bookcases, chairs, tables and accent forms all are shown in various styles.

Das bekannte Enniuswort, daß auf "den alten Sitten und Männern die römische Sache ruht", akzentuiert treffend die große Bedeutung, die der mos maiorum als Inbegriff von Wertvorstellungen, Leitbildern und Reglements, welche als verpflichtendes Erbe der Vorväter aufgefaßt wurde, in der römischen Gesellschaft besaß. Neben Aufsätzen zu den verschiedenen literarischen Kommunikationsformen über den mos maiorum wird auch die Repräsentation römischer ...

The study of modern China and Japan have separately become major arenas of scholarship over the past three decades in the west, but little work has been done that brings these two histories together for the period prior to the twentieth century. This work does just that. Many of these texts were built on fanciful embellishments of stories that migrated from one land to the other, but the unique qualities of the Sino-Japanese cultural bond seem...

Dementia is a major health problem that becomes increasingly common with advancing age. Despite recent progress in neurobiology and molecular genetics, the aetiology and pathogenesis of most dementia disorders are still poorly understood, and early exact diagnosis as a prerequisite of effective treatment needs to be improved. The present volume includes the contributions of renowned experts in the field of neurodegeneration presented at the In...

Existenzgründung, Unternehmensgründung, Entrepreneurship - die aus diesem Themenspektrum erwachsenden Fragen werden für Theorie und Praxis immer bedeutsamer. Namhafte Experten aus Wissenschaft und Praxis beleuchten in diesem Buch das Phänomen Existenzgründung aus unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln. Das Themenspektrum umfasst volks- und betriebswirtschaftliche, juristische und hochschuldidaktische Aspekte. Existenzgründung - Rahmenbedingungen und S...

In a startling expose of the Olympic industry, Helen Jefferson Lenskyj goes beyond the media hype of international goodwill and spirited competition to uncover a darker side of the global games. She reports on the pre- and post-Olympic impacts from recent host cities, bribery investigations and their outcomes, grassroots resistance movements, and the role of the mass media in the controversy. A highly accessible book about a complex subject th...

This clear and authoritative book surveys the history of Japan from the mid 19th century up to the present day. It charts the spectacular rise of Japan, a society which leapt in little more than a generation from the feudal to early industrial forms of organisation - an exceptionally disturbing experience for the Japanese as they left behind the traditional and Asian and moved towards the modern and Western. It examines the turbulent 1930s and...

Fullerenes-a guide to the current state of knowledge in the field The last decade has seen an explosion of research into the chemical and physical properties of a promising new class of carbon-based materials known as fullerenes. Karl Kadish and Rodney Ruoff, two highly recognized leaders in the fullerene and nanotube research community, edit a comprehensive and much-needed survey of this important and rapidly evolving field. Contributions b...

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Laird sets Moletti's Dialogue within the historical background of medieval and Renaissance mechanics, sketches the life and works of Moletti, and analyses the arguments and the geometrical theorems of the Dialogue.

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This collection of extraordinary true stories--including nine stories new to this expanded edition-- illuminates the experiences of a young Polish boy before World War II, through the gathering storm of Nazism, into the death camps, to poignant reunions many years later. Here we watch young Bernard break curfew to secure a rare chicken for the High Holidays--only to see it given to the Christian janitor because it is not kosher, we meet Alexan...