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Reminiscences of Gertrude Jekyll's childhood and early interest in plants. First published 1908, and written in a simple style for the young, it describes seeds, germination, flowers, fruits and gardens. Although she had no children of her own, she was very fond of them and took many fine photographs of children, particularly the younger members of her own family. Garden legend Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932) became a horticulturalist and garden d...

The body of a young man is found near the smoldering remains of a barn, ten miles from the elegant beach houses off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina.......A few hours earlier, the police blotter signals that a young girl is reported missing from a halfway house. Are the two items connected?Just three miles away, two boys fresh from a year of college and seeking to reconnect their friendship know the answer......As they bitterly part, th...

The National Security Agency's INFOSEC Assessment Methodology (IAM) provides guidelines for performing an analysis of how information is handled within an organization: looking at the systems that store, transfer, and process information. It also analyzes the impact to an organization if there is a loss of integrity, confidentiality, or availability. This book shows how to do a complete security assessment based on the NSA's guidelines. This b...

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The Handbook of Pneumatic Conveying Engineering provides a complete understanding of every facet of pneumatic conveying system selection, design, maintenance, and optimization. This reference compares various conveying system types, components, and flow mechanisms and offers an abundance of practical guidelines, diagrams, and procedures for expert guidance in plant maintenance, operation, and control. It presents ass tables, graphs, and equati...

In a series of freewheeling rambles that combine autobiography and meditation, Gerald Stern explores significant and representative events in his life. He describes the dour Sundays of Calvinist Pittsburgh, punctuated by his parents' weekly battles. We have glimpses of him as a wilderness camp counselor, and later, having been declared 4-F, as a postwar draftee (a stint that includes jail). In the 1950s he savors the romance of Paris. Stern al...

A competent and readable account of this debacle, which concentrates on the small research vehicle, DC-X." -- "Times Literary Supplement

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Geared toward general readers and scholars alike, this book presents the history of the United Auto Workers - one of America's most significant worker's organizations - from its origins through its period of greatest impact.

Much attention has recently been given by scholars to the widening of the gender gap in the nineteenth century and the concept of separate spheres. Testing such constructions, and questioning the stereotypes associated with Victorian domesticity, Monica F. Cohen offers new readings of narratives by Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Dickens, Eliot, Eden, Gaskell, Oliphant and Reade to show how domestic work, the most feminine of all activities, gained ...

Lesley Sharpe assesses Schiller's development as a dramatist, poet and thinker against the background of his life.

This book describes, in their own words, the lives of ordinary people in Romania, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, and the Former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia as they struggled under Soviet domination, as they endured the revolutions in their respective countries, and as they now adapt to a free world society. These individuals, struggling with philosophical, political, educational, cultural and spiritual adjustments, are entrepreneur...

Two versions of George Eliot, both influential, have emerged from the study of her life and work. One is the radical Victorian thinker, formidably learned in a whole range of intellectual disciplines, the other is the reclusive novelist, celebrating through her fiction the communal values which were being eroded in the modern world. This chronological study of the novels brings the two together and places her within the crisis of belief and va...

Critical approaches to Keats's poems which place his work in historical and political context.

A 1992 volume of essays which examines traditional and contemporary problems of perception.

In this book, Dr. Smithies analyzes the process through which Cauchy created the basic structure of complex analysis, describing first the eighteenth century background before proceeding to examine the stages of Cauchy's own work, culminating in the proof of the residue theorem and his work on expansions in power series. Smithies describes how Cauchy overcame difficulties including false starts and contradictions brought about by over-ambitiou...

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Das Werk enthält mit ca. 60.000 Stichwörtern pro Band den aktuellen Wirtschaftswortschatz aus allen wichtigen Gebieten der Wirtschaftspraxis, der Wirtschaftswissenschaft und des wirtschaftlich relevanten Rechts. Das Wirtschaftswörterbuch ist ein zuverlässiges Arbeitsmittel für jeden, der in der Ausbildung und in der täglichen Arbeit mit der englischen Wirtschaftssprache befasst ist. Für Unternehmen, Dolmetscher, Übersetzer, Sprachschulen, Verb...