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These four germinal essays by John Beverley sparked the widespread discussion and debate surrounding testimonio--the socially and politically charged Latin American narrative of witnessing--that culminated, with David Stoll's highly publicized attack on Rigoberta Menchu's celebrated testimonial text. Challenging Hardt and Negri's "Empire, Beverley's extensive new introduction examines the broader historical, political, and ethical issues that ...

With its many inlets, points, and coves, the coast of New Jersey stood out as a haven for rumrunners brazenly thumbing their nose at the federal government during Prohibition. New Jersey was also recognized as the birthplace of the federal government's shore-based units of the United States Coast Guard, the organization charged at that time with stopping the flow of "demon run" into America. With its vivid images, New Jersey Coast Guard Statio...

With the popularity of P.T. Barnum's circus and America's game-baseball-peanuts became the snack food of the people across the country in the late 1800s. Sold hot from a roaster to the cries of "Peanuts, get your hot peanuts here, " this popular snack soon became a valuable cash crop. The farmland around Suffolk, Virginia was perfect for growing goobers, and the town was soon known as the "World's Greatest Peanut Market." Suffolk's peanut star...

St. Louis was a hotbed of baseball activity in the early 20th century. Two of baseball's great wars played out here-the rise of the American League and the rise and fall of the Federal League. No pennants flew over the city from 1900 to 1925, yet St. Louis teams were involved in a number of torrid pennant races. Here is the heyday of the St. Louis Browns and the emergence of the Cardinals, as well as a vibrant scene for semi-pro and black team...

DeKalb was originally known as Huntley's Grove, named after Russell Huntley, an early settler who was one of its founders. The area had also been known as Buena Vista and DeKalb Center, before settling on the name DeKalb in 1881. The name was derived from Baron Johann DeKalb (1721-1780), a German soldier who served under Washington at Valley Forge and died a Revolutionary War hero. Three august DeKalb men are credited with the invention of bar...

The enchanting "Victorian Village" of Ferndale in the Eel River Valley is designated a "Distinctive Destination" by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and is a California Historical Landmark. Named by its founders, the Shaw brothers, to honor the six-foot-tall ferns that once choked the thickly forested valley floor, the town became a vital center for goods bound by water for San Francisco and a crossroads for stages to Eureka and Be...

It is a story of the ripping away of racial, ethnic, and spiritual bigotry from the hearts of two preordained white men, former sons of the American South, held captive by their own hearts while living in a world of golden hued people. This is the reoccurring, and never ending story of love, striving valiantly to conquer evil outside the great Crown Ring of the Mariveles Mountains.

This story took place in the capital of the United States. Not on the mall where the monuments stand, but in the ghettos where most tourists don't visit. It's a story about one black male's struggle to grow up and how he had to go through problems that are unknown to the average American. This story also talks about random crimes. All, which is normal to a black male in the district, but is foreign to the higher-class just living blocks away. ...

It started with a storm, and ended with a family destroyed by their village's rigid adherence to tradition. Aichi is forced into adulthood as everything and everyone he knows and loves are taken from him. Left to fend for himself in a familiar world without comfort or promise, he flees from the life that destroyed his childhood. He soon finds he is not just escaping his past, but also discovering himself in the process. He embarks on a journey...

This second edition - completely up to date with new exercises - provides a comprehensive and self-contained treatment of the probabilistic theory behind the risk-neutral valuation principle and its application to the pricing and hedging of financial derivatives. On the probabilistic side, both discrete- and continuous-time stochastic processes are treated, with special emphasis on martingale theory, stochastic integration and change-of-measur...

Recent UK government legislation requires local authorities to provide secure accommodation for unintentionally homeless 16-17 year olds. Many local authority housing departments are therefore facing the challenge of how to adequately support this group of young people for the first time. This book evaluates the extensive and innovative range of services that have been developed for 16-17 year olds living in Newcastle, England. It provides vit...

Sind Vorahnungen in unseren Träumen auch mit der Schulwissenschaft erklärbar? Ja, da es kein Ereignis ohne vorausgehende Ursache gibt. Ereignisse sind stets Folge von vorausgehenden Ursachen. Dabei spielt es nicht die geringste Rolle, ob es sich um riesige Ereignisse, wie bei Prozessen im Universum, oder um ganz winzig kleine in unserem Leben handelt. Da diese vorausgehenden Ursachen, die zur Auslösung von Ereignissen führen, jedoch immer mit ...

Das Enzan Wadeigassui Shû besteht aus einer Reihe von Gesprächen des großen Zen-Meisters Bassui Tokushô (1327-1387) mit seinen Schülern - Mönchen, Nonnen und Laien. Manchmal sind Bassuis Antworten kurz, direkt und spontan, häufig nutzt er sie jedoch zu ausführlichen Lehrreden. Wir erkennen in ihnen nicht nur die Lehrmethode eines reifen Zen-Meisters, sondern auch die religiösen Vorstellungen Japans. Bassuis Stärke lag darin, komplizierte Sachv...

Ihre Überlebenschancen erhöhen Unternehmen in diesen turbulenten Zeiten, wenn sie das Wissen, die Netzwerke sowie die Erfahrungen ihrer Führungskräfte und Mitarbeiter optimal nutzen. Aber auch frische, gut ausgebildete Kräfte sind unverzichtbar, die möglichst schnell in ihr Unternehmen und in die Übernahme von Verantwortung hineinwachsen.Hier liegt die einmalige Chance für das Business-Mentoring: Erfahrene werden mit Neuen zusammengespannt. Au...

A number of widely used contemporary processors have instruction-set extensions for improved performance in multi-media applications. The aim is to allow operations to proceed on multiple pixels each clock cycle. Such instruction-sets have been incorporated both in specialist DSPchips such as the Texas C62xx (Texas Instruments, 1998) and in general purpose CPU chips like the Intel IA32 (Intel, 2000) or the AMD K6 (Advanced Micro Devices, 1999)...

A masterly survey of the last 13 years of Very Long Baseline Interferometry, reviewed in light of the most advanced astronomical observations. Topics covered include: Nonthermal emission from extragalactic radio sources, Principles of synchrotron emission in relation to astrophysics, Theory of relativistic jets, Young, powerful radio sources and their evolution, Scintillation in extragalactic radio sources, Radio and optical interferometry, Ra...

This book brings together high quality articles exploring the design, implementation, management, funding, promotion and evaluation of networked information systems that advocate sustainability and the protection of natural ecosystems. Case studies of deployed and planned information systems complement theoretical work on the methodological, technological and organizational foundations of environmental online communication.

Because of the current progress in molecular medicine (genomics, proteomics), a plethora of new and often human-specific targets are being identified. These targets often play a significant role in the pathogenesis of diseases, and identifying them offers the potential for early diagnosis and intervention. An early in vivo validation of specific ligands binding to these targets in humans is needed to as­ sess their potential for targeted imagi...

Roman Longoria The goal of this book is to provide a useful and timely guide to the practitioner who designs or develops mobile applications. The contributors to this book are leaders in the user interface (UI) community actively working in mobile platform technol­ ogy and mobile application design. Thus, this book offers the reader unique insight into the latest technologies, market trends, design ideas, and usability data. We provide the rea...

Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems have grown into a promising technology offering a credible alternative for the design of intelligent and cooperative systems. Recently efforts have been made to provide novel tools, methods, and frameworks to establish the necessary standards for wider use of MAS as a technology of its own and not only as an attractive paradigm. This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Fi...