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Starting in Lord of the Isles and continuing in Queen of Demons, Servant of the Dragon, and Mistress of the Catacombs, David Drake has told the continuing, interlocking stories of Garric and Sharina, Cashel and Ilna, young brother and sister pairs who journey together from a small town to the capital. Their destiny is to reunite the island kingdoms of the Isles into one empire for the first time in a millennium. They seek to do this at a momen...

A long-suffering alcoholic kills a high profile lawyer in a fit of road rage during a drunken blackout. After coming to his senses, he flees to the southwest to shed his past. Through a series of bizzare twists and turns, the dead lawyer's partner and two investigators assigned to the case suddenly realize they know the suspect after trying to help him in an earlier part of his chaotic life. The Arizona desert becomes the scene for a tense, po...

What was life like for Irish Protestants between the mid-seventeenth and the late-eighteenth centuries? In an account filled with entertaining episodes and memorable characters, Toby Barnard scrutinizes social attitudes and structures in every segment of Protestant society during this period and also reassesses Ireland's place in the British state and empire. "Toby Barnard, unparalleled excavator of Irish social history in the late seventeenth...

Although Americans like to believe that they live in a classless society, Stanley Aronowitz demonstrates that class remains a potent force. Defining class as the power of social groups to make a difference, he explains that social groups such as labor movements, environmental activists, and feminists become classes when they make demands that change the course of history.

This book presents an eloquent account of the power, character, and "mentalite" of" "the French church under Louis XIV and of its relationship to the crown and other elite institutions as well as its critics and congregations. Prominent historian Joseph Bergin investigates the background, recruitment, and management of the episcopate, illuminating the process of trial and error by which the king developed a flexible and effective system for ap...

Inhaltsangabe:Zusammenfassung: Die Diplomarbeit vergleicht die de-facto-Standards der komponentenbasierten Softwareentwicklung und die Spezifikationen und Frameworks zur Entwicklung von Web-Anwendungen, die mit den untersuchten Komponentenmodellen in Verbindung stehen. Um die Ziele dieser Diplomarbeit zu erreichen, wurden im Kapitel 2 die Grundlagen der komponentenbasierten Softwareentwicklung vorgestellt. Anschließend wurde ein Überblick üb...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Berlin ¿ Nach sieben mageren Jahren ist noch immer keine Besserung in Sicht: Die deutsche Bauwirtschaft erlebt derzeit das ¿schwärzeste Jahr¿ ihrer Nachkriegsgeschichte. Auch für die Zukunft malte der Präsident des Hauptverbandes der Deutschen Bauindustrie, Ignatz Walter, zum ¿Tag der deutschen Bauindustrie¿ ein düsteres Bild. Nach 740 Firmenpleiten allein im ersten Quartal 2003 betrage die Arbeitslosigkeit am Bau i...

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John Payne Collier (1789-1883), one of the most controversial figures in the history of literary scholarship, pursued a double career. A prolific and highly influential writer on the drama, poetry, and popular prose of Shakespeare's age, Collier was at the same time the promulgator of a great body of forgeries and false evidence, seriously affecting the text and biography of Shakespeare and many others. This monumental two-volume work for the ...

Religion has gone public, and the much-discussed political pendulum has been swinging widely in its effort to keep up with the eruptions of faith swelling the broadband. Private faith finds very public outlets through the media's appetite for voices and choices. Faith-based networks have become media-savvy, urging their members to send barrages of emails, faxes, telephone calls, letters of praise or outrage to politicians. Those same politicia...

The ideas upon which public education was founded in the last half of the nineteenth century were wrong. And despite their continued dominance in educational thinking for a century and a half, these ideas are no more right today. So argues one of the most original and highly regarded educational theorists of our time in "Getting It Wrong from the Beginning, " Kieran Egan explains how we have come to take mistaken concepts about education for g...

Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" is perhaps the most read and beloved of all stage works. Now the most extensively annotated version of the play to date makes it completely accessible to readers in the twenty-first century. The new edition is a rich resource for students, teachers, and the general reader.Eminent linguist and translator Burton Raffel offers generous help with vocabulary and usage of Elizabethan English, pronunciation, prosody, ...

Thoreau's classic, first published in 1854, receives refreshing treatment in this fully annotated edition.

This comprehensive, full-color guidebook describes all the architecturally significant buildings in Liverpool, the city selected as European Capital of Culture for 2008. The book includes suburban areas of interest and excursions to notable sites farther out. Major buildings--such as the Town Hall, St George's Hall, and the two Cathedrals--receive extended treatment, the streets of the business district are dealt with alphabetically, and the r...

Right Angles and Other Obstinate Truths is a fascinating collection of commentaries on current issues, famous and infamous individuals, passing fads, Baby Boomer memories and personal experiences. The more than 70 short essays by Michael M. Bates are provocative and may strike some as controversial. They all appeared in his regular column in the southwest suburban Chicago Reporter Newspapers. There aren't many books that run the gamut from Ada...

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This revised edition of the best-selling "Biblical Hebrew is "thoroughly updated and augmented for a new generation of students. Designed for use in a two-semester course, the book's fifty-five lessons are constructed around Biblical verses or segments and arranged in order of increasing complexity. At the successful completion of the course, students will be well equipped to tackle prose passages on their own. "Biblical Hebrew is "part of a ...

Colors of Glass Vilma Ginzberg "You are such a fine writer. I admire your willingness and ability to say what is on your mind, and to use poetry to explore the unknowns and the scratchy uncomfortable places in our lives. Your poems about aging left me with a peaceful sense that I am not alone with all that, after all."--Laurel Cook, author of Wine Country Spas of California, iUniverse "Your poems are strong and convincing...a fine poet."--Doug...

Kacie Buckingham desperately needs some time to put her pre-wedding jitters to rest. She spontaneously decides to take a few days and go white water rafting. What she expected was a few days of rest, relaxation and reflection. Instead she encounters a breathtakingly gorgeous tour guide and some haunting memories. Mason Cash enjoys his job, but has to make changes to accommodate his family's needs. His last rafting expedition is more than he ex...