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Lalita Tademy was vice president of Sun Microsystems until she left corporate life to research the history of her family. The result of her two-year search is Cane River, a novel which quickly became both a New York Times best-seller and an Oprah's Book Club selection. Cane River is an isolated community that lies on a small river in central Louisiana. There in the early 19th century, slaves, free people of color, and Creole French planters li...

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Culminating a 25-year career, Jones hunted every North American species and subspecies with his .30-.06 rifle.

Robert Justin Goldstein is Professor Emeritus of political science at Oakland University. His books include The Frightful Stage: Political Censorship of the Theater in Nineteenth-Century Europe. ¿

Rhacel Salazar Parre¿as is Professor of Women's and Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

W.B. Yeats's poem "Adam's Curse" provides Donoghue with motif and incentive. In his Erasmus Lectures, Donoghue thinks about the lasting difficulties involved in understanding, and living with, cultural, literary, and religious values that are in restless relation to one another.

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Give this to fans of Lowry's The Giver."-Booklist It is the year 2035, and kids are the only ones who matter. In Tom's world, every family has only one child. "Brother" and "sister" are insults. And the Oldies, like Gandy-Tom's grandfather-are taken away to Memory Theme Parks. On the way to the Theme Park, Gandy escapes into the Wild Wood, the dangerous world outside their walled city. Tom has no choice but to follow. The wilderness is like no...

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The danger of proliferation-of nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) weapons and missiles for their delivery-is appreciated by almost everyone. Since the 1970s, some of the most important instruments for combating this danger have been U.S. sanctions laws requiring penalties for acts contributing to proliferation. However, by the mid-1990s, a backlash had developed against a broad range of unilateral U.S. economic sanctions. This study exami...

A revised and expanded edition with extensive information about all the die cast Hot Wheels toy vehicles. Over 240 color pictures display nearly all the Hot Wheels made up to 1999, with newly updated values. This book will be an essential reference for collectors of all types of die cast toy vehicles.

During the Depression the Canadian National Parks Branch was under pressure to make the park system truly national, to bring the advantages of parks to all provinces. In Atlantic Canada, however, it found itself dealing with an environment that was far different from what it was accustomed to in Western Canada. The land areas were smaller, flatter, and, having been settled for generations, could hardly be considered wild. Wildlife was smaller ...

Model Validation is a fundamental issue in modern hydrological science where increased demands for prediction and process understanding has been driven by advances in numerical modelling and environmental legislation. Model Validation: Perspectives in Hydrological Science is the first book to deal with this subject in hydrology and environmental science, as well as in other fields. Model Validation brings together philosophers, modellers and ...

Wo gegenwärtig über Inhalt und Funktion der Kulturwissenschaft/en gesprochen wird, geschieht dies meist im - häufig impliziten - Verbund von thematischen, institutionellen, weltanschaulichen und methodischen Aspekten. Ohne die wissenschaftsbetrieblichen Rahmenbedingungen zu ignorieren, fokussiert die aktuelle Untersuchung - gerade um des Praxisbezugs willen - die "methodische" Seite eines in die Gegenwart geöffneten kulturwissenschaftlichen Vo...

The Key to Earth History introduces students to the basic tools used by geologists to reconstruct the Earth's history, and shows how these tools can be used to chart the pattern of global environmental change since the formation of the Earth some 4600 million years ago. It tells a story of mountain building, climate change and of the evolution of life, and uses the North Atlantic region (Europe and North America) as a study area to illustrate ...

Jude Burkhauser worked as a freelance artist, designer and researcher. Her work has been exhibited widely in the US and Britain. Glasgow Girls was the culmination of three years of work in re-discovering Glasgow's all-but-forgotten women artists.

The Nagoya 2000 International Workshop gathered scientists working in combinatorics, representation theory, special functions, number theory and mathematical physics. These papers present some basic results in these fields and discuss existing and possible interactions between the subjects.

Taking its title from a poem by Yeats, this collection of essays focuses on the burdens and harsh conditions that, as Denis Donoghue underscores throughout, make any human achievement difficult. The essays explore both faith and literary works that engage faith, from Milton to Larkin.

Whereas many other post-Holocaust Jewish thinkers - including Derrida - have concentrated on a refusal of totality and celebration of 'otherness', the poet and intellectual Franz Baermann Steiner (1909-1952) combines this emphasis with an equal stress on the 'need' for certain collectively acknowledged limits. Next to the wider significance of this book for discussions of Holocaust studies in relation to current theoretical and social issues, ...