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The book is about my schizophrenia mental I got in Vietnam. I try to tell what is going on with my life. The V.A., my relationship with family and my schooling. A lot of thoughts on cultural identity.

Communication will always remain a distinctly personal art, no two persons communicate alike any more than they are quite alike in other respects. This factor of individual differences obviously makes it undesirable - even if it were possible - to attempt to reduce good communication to any kind of formula or definite "rule of conduct." Nevertheless, there are certain basic principles of communication which apply to all situations and all pers...

Annals of Traditional Chinese Medicine is a new book series dedicated to the promotion of evidence-based TCM research. It features quality reports focusing on evidence-based training curriculum design, research methodology and original investigations of the quality, efficacy and safety of TCM for the management of various clinical conditions. The inaugural volume of this series, Chinese Medicine--Modern Practice, contains chapters on Chinese H...

Jack Falon is at a crossroads. He is accused of the murder of Ray Oyler, the same Ray Oyler whose presidential candidacy was terminated by a murder orchestrated by the Democratic National Party. Jack is arrested and incarcerated in Chicago

This unique account offers students and scholars a comprehensive and considered overview of the way in which the world is governed. It draws together 17 of the most significant works by leading specialists in the field, to explore the role of global institutions from the United Nations (UN) and NATO, to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and the World Trade Organization (WTO). Introductions to each article locate the readings wi...

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The books starts off with a huge sink hole that forms in the Ocala National Forest, one that is so deep, more than a mile down, that it briefly opens a doorway of a pre-historic world, to our world, allowing a predator to escape into our world. Paleontologist James King, who is sent to the crater, finds a discovery that will change the world of paleontology forever as the death toll mounts as attacks take place first from the Croaker Hole, the...

This Delta, This Land is a comprehensive environmental history of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta--the first one to place the Delta's economic and cultural history in an environmental context. The Delta, the floodplain between two great rivers in the northwestern corner of Mississippi, has changed enormously since the Civil War. Agriculture, lumbering, and flood-management schemes have transformed it beyond recognition--and beyond any prospects fo...

Have you ever wanted to get into someone's mind, to get the unfiltered goods? The juicy unedited stuff? Well, here's your chance, and you don't need a drill. Just your eyes (or fingers for Braille). There is no sugar coating here. Just words from the heart and soul. Quite a few from the Spirit of God. There are laughter and tears, happiness and sadness, cries of joy, shouts of anger. Also yearnings of the mind, flesh, and spirit, with the bypr...

Have you ever wanted to get into someone's mind, to get the unfiltered goods? The juicy unedited stuff? Well, here's your chance, and you don't need a drill. Just your eyes (or fingers for Braille). There is no sugar coating here. Just words from the heart and soul. Quite a few from the Spirit of God. There are laughter and tears, happiness and sadness, cries of joy, shouts of anger. Also yearnings of the mind, flesh, and spirit, with the bypr...

Praise For Phillip Schlechty "Schlechty offers a clear and concise vision of systemic change to address the problems with education." -The School Administrator "Schlechty marshals readers through the ideas-to-action labyrinth of improving schools . . . A worthy successor to his earlier work." -The American School Board Journal "Not all reformers in the country will agree with Schlechty's solutions or even the problems, but they will be the ric...

Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies...Six interlocking lives - one amazing adventure. In a narrative that circles the globe and reaches from the 19th century to a post-apocalyptic future, Cloud Atlas erases the boundaries of time, genre and language to offer an enthralling vision of humanity's will to power, and where it will lead us.

Es ist das Jahr 1939, und auf dem Campus der Universität Indiana ist eine Revolution ausgebrochen. Alfred Kinsey, Zoologe, beschäftigt sich mit dem sexuellen Verhalten von Männern und Frauen - rein empirisch natürlich. John Milk, Student und ehrgeiziger Provinzler, gerät in seinen Bann und in seinen engsten Forscherkreis. T. C. Boyle erzählt die Geschichte eines genialen, fanatischen Helden und porträtiert dabei die prüde und heuchlerische Ges...

Das Werk schildert anschaulich die in der Praxis laufend auftretenden Rechtsfragen zum Urheber- und Verlagsrecht. Das klar geschriebene Lese- und Nachschlagewerk ermöglicht auch dem juristischen Laien, selbst komplizierte Zusammenhänge zu verstehen. Das Konzept macht den Zugang zur Materie mühelos: Im Erzählstil werden die Vertragsverhandlungen bei der Entstehung eines Buches bis hin zu den urheberrechtlichen Fragen geschildert. Verzeichnisse,...

Die kryptographische Abteilung des US-Geheimdienstes NSA verfügt über einen geheimen Super-Computer, der in der Lage ist, innerhalb kürzester Zeit jeden Code (und somit jede verschlüsselte Botschaft) zu knacken. Der Rechner kommt zum Einsatz, wenn Terroristen, Drogenhändler und andere Kriminelle ihre Pläne mittels codierter Texte verschleiern und die Sicherheit der USA auf dem Spiel steht.In der Vergangenheit konnten die Kryptographen täglich ...

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In this accessible book, Gavin Kennedy takes a fresh look at Adam Smith's moral philosophy and its links to his political economy and his lectures on Jurisprudence. The book provides a new analysis of Wealth of Nations , and argues that Adam Smith's intellectual legacy was completely transformed in the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries by economists pursuing different agendas, to create ideas and policies that Smith did not advocate. It also ...

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Anneke Companjen's riverting accounts of persecuted Christian will challange even the most apathetic!

Alles ändert sich für David Rudan, als er der Sängerin Simone Thalmann begegnet. Die Liebe zu ihr setzt ihn, den eine Krankheit lange zurückgeworfen hatte, in Bewegung: David bricht auf, schreibt, reist - und beginnt auf dieser Suche sich mit Alban Berg zu beschäftigen: mit dem Komponisten, für den sich alles änderte, als er sich in die Prager Jüdin Hanna Fuchs-Werfel verliebte. Über zehn Jahre schrieb er ihr Briefe, seine - unerfüllte - Liebe...