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The Allies of Humanity: Book 2 presents startling new information on the interactions between races in our local Universe and on the nature, purpose and hidden activities of those races who are interfering in human affairs. This Second Set of Briefings from the Allies completes a crucial message regarding our vulnerability and potential within the Greater Community, the larger physical Universe in which we live.

Die ausgeprägte Präferenz der deutschen Bevölkerung für die Nutzung des privaten Pkws bei der Verkehrsmittelwahl führt schon seit langem zu erheblichen ökologischen, sozialen und verkehrstechnischen Problemen. Diese Arbeit betrachtet die Verkehrsmittelwahl aus einer bisher weitgehend unbeachteten Perspektive und möchte so zur Entwicklung neuer Problemlösungsansätze beitragen.Der theoretische Teil der Arbeit befasst sich zunächst mit der Entwic...

Daniel Webster (1782-1852) was a statesman and lawyer who embodied the golden age of oratory in America, mastering each of the major genres of public speaking of the time. This study examines Webster's career and how his great speeches and created a "civil religion" that moved citizens to true romantic patriotism.

These essays explore a wide range of topics in Missouri social history. By dealing with the lives of ordinary Missourians, these pieces examine the effects of significant social and economic change. It demonstrates how Missourians have been affected by issues of race, class, and gender.

A history of analytic philosophy and an excellent piece of analytic philosophy in its own right. We can all benefit from Soames's discussion of the central issues that have shaped the subject and his assessment of what we have achieved and where we might have gone wrong."--Kit Fine, New York University"This monumental study is a careful assessment of the successes and the failures of twentieth-century analytic philosophy. Soames displays unfai...

Klaut der Rabe wie ein Rabe? Kriegen Gänse Gänsehaut? Wie viele Stacheln hat ein Igel? Knutschen Elche? Ein Zoodirektor steht Rede und Antwort - bei mehr als 50 kniffligen Fragen. Wissenschaft ist eine bitterernste Sache? - Da lachen ja die Hühner! (Aber lachen die wirklich?)

Dieses grundlegende Werk zeigt, wie Fitness, Vitalität und Lebensdauer des Hundes durch richtige Ernährung gezielt gefördert werden können. Der Autor und Fachmann Dr. med. vet. Volker Wienrich gibt leicht verständliche Tipps zu allen Fragen rund um die gesunde Ernährung des Hundes. Dabei spielen Nährstoffe und deren Einfluss auf den Körper des Hundes eine ebenso wichtige Rolle wie dessen Verdauungsorgane und die richtige Fütterung. Der Ratgebe...

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of democratic participation among first- and second-generation immigrants in the United States.

In the polarizing debate over charter schools, advocates insist charters are a beneficial alternative that especially helps economically disadvantaged students, while critics doubt these touted achievements. This new book, published by the Economic Policy Institute and Teachers College Press, sheds needed light on this debate by analyzing current research and data to show how charter schools perform compared to regular public schools. The Char...

Confused about how to start on your journey as an educator? This ultimate guide to getting hired and staying inspired is a must-purchase for any beginning elementary school teacher.

Now at ninety-three volumes, this popular MLA series addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text. In these essays, experienced teachers discuss approaches and methods they have found effective in keeping classroom discussions lively.

Here's the information students need to know about how drugs work and how theycan affect athletic performance. Through "real life" scenarios, studentsgain insights into the application of pharmacology in their clinicalpractice from assisting an athlete who is taking a new medication torecognizing drug-related side effects when a negative reaction isoccurring to handling instances of drug abuse. Beginning with an overview of pharmacokinetics an...

Designed as an accessible introduction to Justinian's reign and his time, this book offers readers and researchers an appealing mix of descriptive chapters, biographical sketches, and annotated primary documents. An overview of the world of Late Antiquity is presented in the introduction, and is followed by chapters on the shape of the Empire, the Nike revolt of 532, the legal achievements of Justinian, the Empress Theodora, and Justinian's bu...

Inhaltsangabe:Abstract: The exchangeability of products has led to the producers¿ need to differentiate themselves from other offers. Due to the flood of advertising on TV, on the radio, in magazines or on hoardings, people usually do not perceive all these stimuli anymore. A well-known brand can help a company to attract new customers and to keep customers loyal. Since there are already many well-established brands for most product categori...

For more than a century, Mexican American journalists used their presses to voice socio-historical concerns and to represents themselves as a determinant group of communicates in Nuevo Mexico, a particularly resilient corner of the Chicano homeland. This book draws on exhaustive archival research to review the history of newspapers in these communities from the arrival of the first press in the region to publication of the last edition of Sant...

The Thrill Book" is a legendary magazine, one of the holy grails of pulp collecting. Original copies sell for thousands of dollars -- if you can find them. Running for sixteen issues in 1919, it was a magazine of "strange, bizzare, occult, mysterious tales, " but not quite a fantastic-fiction magazine, mixing various types of adventure stories with often outstanding fantasy, horror, and science fiction by Murray Leinster, Seabury Quinn, Franci...

While gaps in the biographical record for William Shakespeare continue to confound literary scholars, McCrea here concludes that he was, indeed, the playwright and poet we have always thought him to be. This literary forensics case follows the trail of evidence in the historical record and in the plays and poems themselves. It investigates the counterclaims for other authors and the suppositions that the real author of the works must have been...

Improves the understanding of national security related policy issues while offering preparatory advise to decision-makers.

Over the last decade, asymmetric warfare and terrorism have become prevalent threats to the United States. National security, today more than at any other time, demands decision-making under uncertainty. The issues presented in this book demonstrate that the value of planning lies in how well we can prepare for a perpetually unpredictable future.

The relationship of the United States and Great Britain has been the subject of numerous studies with a particular emphasis on the idea of a "special relationship" based on traditional common ties of language, history, and political affinity. Although certainly special, Anglo-American cooperation arose from mutual necessity. Soybel examines the "special relationship" through a new lens--that of the most intimate of wartime collaborations, the ...