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Of all the factors that led to the idea of putting together and publishing these poems or rather verses as I see them, none is more important than the opinion of friends and newspaper editors. They are common folks, and are still given to their own commonly driven emotions. For a long time, they were my fans and they still remain so. Therefore, it was difficult to hide these (personal reflections) from their prying eyes, especially when they a...

Experienced analysts and academics were given consideration as well, providing fresh viewpoints from time to time, such as the development of modal force as a contravariant vector, providing a detailed view of the FRF as a superposition of modal FRFs.

Dominant social work and social care discourses on race and ethnicity in the UK often fail to incorporate an Irish dimension. This book challenges this omission and provides new insights into how social work has engaged with Irish children and their families, historically and to the present day. The author makes recommendations in relation to how policy and practice might evolve in order to meet their needs.

1283 Jugendliche in den USA und Deutschland wurden im Internet gefragt, wann sie sich ihrer Sexualität bewusst wurden und was sie dabei fühlten.Die ausführliche Analyse der abgegebenen Meinungen zeigt große Unterschiede und verblüffende Ähnlichkeiten zweier Kulturkreise im Umgang mit Homosexualität.

Den jungen Schüler Pascal aus Berlin trifft es hart: Seine Eltern verunglücken tödlich bei einem Flugzeugabsturz. Von einem auf den anderen Tag gerät sein gewohntes Leben aus den Fugen. Er wird bei einer Tante untergebracht, zu der er wenig Vertrauen hat. Da er auch bei seinen Freunden in Berlin nur Ablenkung, keinen Halt findet, zieht er sich immer mehr in seine eigene Welt zurück. Als das Zusammenleben mit seiner Tante unerträglich wird, s...

Wegen ihres Potenzials zur grundlegenden Veränderung ganzer Technologiefelder wird die Nanotechnologie als Schlüsseltechnologie angesehen. Sie wird in naher Zukunft nicht nur die technologische Entwicklung beeinflussen, sondern auch maßgebliche ökonomische, ökologische und soziale Implikationen mit sich bringen. Deutschland hält eine Führungsposition im Bereich der Nanotechnologie hinsichtlich der Forschungsaktivitäten und Fördermittel. D...

Dans ce volume III sont décrits des entités liées aux techniques de production comme les machines-outils, les systèmes de fabrication, les éléments de machines et leurs propriétés, ainsi que les différents postes de travail. D'autres concepts concernant la commande des fabrications avec leur préparation, la métrologie des procédés et leur surveillance, les systèmes informatiques, les CAO/FAO et les enregistrements de données, ainsi que la plan...

This two-volume treatise is a standard reference in the field. It pays special attention to the historical aspects and the origins partly in applied problems-such as those of geometric optics-of parts of the theory. It contains an introduction to each chapter, section, and subsection and an overview of the relevant literature in the footnotes and bibliography. It also includes an index of the examples used throughout the book.

This study examines partnerships between medieval women and scribes. Kimberly Benedict argues that medieval female visionaries often play prominent roles in collaboration while their male amanuenses serves as supports and foils.

Imagine the inevitable consequences of government spending and borrowing at the speed of light. Try to visualize a number as large as 5, 865, 696, 000, 000. At the speed of light, this is how many miles you would travel in a year. Scientists refer to this distance as a Light Year. Now, imagine $5, 865, 696, 000, 000. America's Children refer to this amount as a Light Dollar. We are already more than One Light Dollar in Debt, and quickly moving...

Larry and Alison Deyer are living the good life in a waterfront home on Long Island, N.Y., but all that is about to change. They work at JFK Airport as air traffic controllers and are active members of the Air Traffic Control Union (ATCO). On Aug. 3, 1981, Larry, the union's president, is preoccupied with the impending strike vote against the FAA, while Alison is about to give birth to their first child. This pivotal moment creates a turbulent...

The Land That Gives and Takes Away offers a portrait of Central Pennsylvania's Little Pine Valley through poetry and prose. Drawing on her own memories and observations as well as the reflections of others, Erin McCarty seeks to honor her rich heritage and share with others the beauty of the valley where her grandmother grew up which now serves as the location for her yearly family reunions. Over the course of the collection, McCarty introduce...

When Luke Ford, the youngest son of a heretical Seventh Day Adventist theologian, converted to Judaism in 1992, he burned his pornography collection, but his curiosity about the forbidden did not disappear in the flames. In the fall of 1995, Ford began investigating the San Fernando Valley's hardcore industry. On his website www.lukeford.com, he broke stories about HIV-infection, Mafia control, and pay-for-placement porn journalism. As his na...

Zoe and her brother Lenard never knew their mother or father. They lived with their grandmother until one night someone killed her while they slept just a few doors away. They were just children when they were taken away from the only home and family they knew in Alabama. As a child, Zoe never understood what the pictures in the moon meant after her grandmother Lillian's death, but it was always there showing her what was to come. After her gr...

For The Book Stores A NEW BOOK From lstBOOKS PUBLISHERS SOME PART OF YESTERDAY A Memoir of Prose and Poetry By Clarice Lawson Davis From the Great Depression, through her early years of growing up, Comes the story of this writer's life. With a vivid poetic description, she creates this evocative volume of poetry. With deep colors of people and places, exploring memories of the past, and beyond. That will make this book so unique. Indeed, a Mas...

Imagine a world in which everyone sought to follow the dying words of Buddha: "Make yourself a light." The intent of TAKE A BREAK is to let our light shine, to brighten the corner wherever we are, to take and to give the breaks we and others need: beauty, generosity, fear, laughter, doughnut, anger, affirmation, snippets and bits, unpleasantness, zest, choice, goodness, presence, praise, thanksgiving, restoration, love, prayer, mercy, life. Ea...

When Luke Ford, the youngest son of a heretical Seventh Day Adventist theologian, converted to Judaism in 1992, he burned his pornography collection, but his curiosity about the forbidden did not disappear in the flames. In the fall of 1995, Ford began investigating the San Fernando Valley's hardcore industry. On his website www.lukeford.com, he broke stories about HIV-infection, Mafia control, and pay-for-placement porn journalism. As his nam...

--Victoria Wurdinger, Beauty industry journalist and author "Buddy's is a real American success story. His love for his clients, celebrity and down-home, shines from every page of this memoir." --Mary Atherton, Editor in chief, Modern Salon and Process "When all planes still had propellers and travel by train was still a reasonable way to cross the country, passing through St. Louis was the only way to get anywhere else. Every movie star, danc...

Evil has manifested itself at Wasatch College. Fires and diabolical curses are common. Students and faculty have been injured and taken ill while the administration tries to deal with this outbreak. Professor Bates once again finds himself in the middle of circumstances that he did not create and cannot control. Bates is up to the challenge but he is thwarted at every turn by sinister events in the area's past. Only when the truth of the past ...

In addition to his divergence from Darwin on two fundamental issues - sexual selection and the origin of the human mind - he pursued topics that most scientific figures of his day conspicuously avoided, including spiritualism, phrenology, mesmerism, environmentalism, and life on Mars. Although there may be disagreement about his conclusions, Wallace's intellectual investigations into the origins of life, consciousness, and the universe itself ...