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A beginner's guide to working with stone. Details the historical along with the modern tools and helpful techniques on how to use them.

Frank Farr learned the hard way that a rip cord is not infallible when you have to open a parachute. He survived that lesson to spend six months in German prison camps after the "Massacre at Merseburg" Nov. 2, 1944. He notes here that young men sequestered away from all womankind don't always talk about girls. Starve them enough, and they talk about food instead. Read how World War II flyers in German prison camps passed the time (books, games...

A User's Guide to the USA PATRIOT Act and Beyond examines the controversial USA PATRIOT Act, passed by Congress six weeks after the horrific events of September 11, 2001. The book summarizes other programs put into operation to severely curtail the civil liberties of Americans, including a second, more intrusive PATRIOT Act, and other proposed programs and laws that attack privacy, probably cause, due process, and free speech.

Cultural Democracy explores the crisis of our national cultural vitality, as access to the arts becomes increasingly mediated by a handful of corporations and the narrow tastes of wealthy elites. Graves offers the concept of cultural democracy as corrective--an idea with important historic and contemporary validation, and an alternative pathway toward ethical cultural development that is part of a global shift in values. Drawing upon a range o...

Diamonds Aren't... is a tale of greed, lust, murder and mayhem, but most importantly, a tale of begrudged friendship with a heavy dose of wry humor. Chuckle along with Sammy, Earl and Johnny as they ogle and slog through the adventure to arrive at its bizarre and warmly satisfying conclusion.

Diamonds Aren't... is a tale of greed, lust, murder and mayhem, but most importantly, a tale of begrudged friendship with a heavy dose of wry humor. Chuckle along with Sammy, Earl and Johnny as they ogle and slog through the adventure to arrive at its bizarre and warmly satisfying conclusion.

Is there something you can learn and apply from reading these pages? Yes - - you're going to learn from a seasoned sales veteran what it takes for you to succeed. My aim is to inform, motivate and inspire you to want to "be somebody." I write with authority, conviction, and experience. At the risk of sounding presumptuous, I believe you'll benefit from reading this book because unlike other motivational/inspirational authors, I pull no punches...

Estimating Air Force manpower requirements can be more complex--both in methodology and policy--for scenarios less extensive than the traditional two theater wars.

It is estimated that 20 million Americans have chronic kidney disease. Americans with kidney disease have a very high mortality rate over a five-year period-ranging from about 20% for Americans with mild or moderate kidney disease to almost 50% in Americans with severe kidney disease. In this book, four imaginary characters are used to exemplify how virtues or character strengths determine the outcome of those who were unfortunate enough to ha...

Robert Turrell presents a novel approach to the study of capital punishment in 20th-century South Africa.

Anyway, this could be the start of something big. Probably won't be but never mind. At the very least you could use this as one example of the cool underground artists you like to refer to at dinner parties while everyone else looks blankly back at you. If that doesn't work then there's always that shelf in the kitchen which needs propping up. So be it art, DIY or the odd laugh you might be looking for, take a chance, you might enjoy it and yo...

Die neuen Kombi-Dampfgargeräte sind im Trend. Zusätzlich zu den konventionellen Backfunktionen bieten sie Heissluft, Dampf- und Intervallgaren in ein und demselben Gerät. Diese Funktionen sind im Haushaltsbereich neu und deshalb erklärungsbedürftig. Über 80 Rezepte und zahlreiche praktische Tipps zeigen, wie Sie die Funktionen dieser Geräte optimal nützen und damit feine, schmackhafte und abwechslungsreiche Gerichte zubereiten können - von zar...

For many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn't take much--just hearing of someone else's accomplishments, being criticized, getting into an argument, making a mistake at work--to make us feel that we are not okay. Beginning to understand how our lives have become ensnared in this trance of unworthiness is our first step toward reconnecting with who we really are and what it means to live fully. -from Radical Acc...

Commissario Montalbano hat es wirklich nicht leicht, denn trotz Fieberschüben und Gebirgskoller ist sein Einfallsreichtum überaus gefragt. Doch zum Glück gibt es immer ein paar Dinge, die seine gute Laune am Leben erhalten: das Meer vor seiner Haustür in Marinella, die Köstlichkeiten in der Trattoria San Calogero und - die Frauen. Was wäre die Welt ohne das schöne Geschlecht, dem sowohl Montalbano als auch der Sizilianer im Allgemeinen und übe...

Kriminalfälle, die die Welt schockierten.Seine Assistenten sind Würmer, Maden und Insekten. Mit ihrer Hilfe kann Mark Benecke Todesumstände von Verbrechensopfern exakt nachweisen. Und oft ist der Täter dann nicht mehr weit. Schauen Sie dem Autor über die Schulter! Mark Benecke erzählt kurzweilig von Kriminalfällen, die die Öffentlichkeit in Atem hielten, schätzt die Ermittlungen aus seiner Sicht neu ein, weist auf folgenschwere Versäumnisse hi...

An examination of the increasing influence of 37 million Latino/a Americans on US electoral and social movements. Latino/a Americans hold the potentially largest swing vote in US elections and are a growing influence on the nation's politics.

A collection of poems by one of the greatest literary and cultural figures of the 20th centuryUpon the release of his first published work, Howl and Other Poems, in 1956, Allen Ginsberg became the unlikely force of a movement that would change a generation. Literature, art, sex, love, family, politics, nothing would ever be the same. The Beat Generation was born through Ginsberg and his friends.This collection of more than two dozen poems in v...

God Provides the Sacrifice is a look at how a group of women approached, resolved, and reflected on their hardest decisions. Dr. LaMar has a deep but refreshing perspective to moral reasoning that is worth exploring.

Mit ihrer Jahrestagung 2004 bietet die GI-Fachgruppe Echtzeitprogrammierung Nutzern und Herstellern ein Forum an, auf dem neue Trends und Entwicklungen zu folgenden Themengebieten aus dem Bereich der "Eingebetteten Systeme" vorgestellt werden: Stand der Technik, Architektur (System on Chip), Engineering (Systementwurf, Programmierung, Verifikation), Vernetzung, Betriebssysteme, Nutzer-Schnittstellen, Anwendungsklassen (Kfz, Fertigung, Simulato...

Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give will never be thirsty. The water I give will become a spring of water gushing up inside that person, giving eternal life." (John 4: 13-14 NCV) Like the woman at the well, we recognize our need for living water. We need moisture, a swallow of water, a long, quenching drink. But where do we find water for the soul? We find it at the W-E-L-L.