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Einer der großen Klassiker der politischen Literatur in DeutschlandDieser bewegende und authentische Bericht liefert eine bedrückende Innenansicht des Stalinismus und wurde nach seinem Erscheinen in kurzer Zeit ein großer Bucherfolg - alleine in Deutschland eine Million Mal verkauft sowie in zehn Sprachen übersetzt. Wolfgang Leonhard war ein Junge von 13 Jahren, als er mit seiner Mutter das nationalsozialistische Deutschland verlassen musste ...

A disgruntled federal worker with top-secret clearance decides to get even with his bosses by selling critical security data to America's enemies, resulting in horrifying consequences to the U.S. Government. It also brings into play Omar Husain, a faceless, nameless master terrorist, known only by the FBI code-name Saladin. Consumed by hatred the day he lost his entire family including Kamilah, his fianceé, in southern Lebanon during the '82 A...

Baseline data in clinical trials consists of information regarding patients that is measured at the outset, prior to randomization (or treatment with study medications). In studies where important baseline factors appear well balanced, it can be reasonably concluded that any differences in outcome between the intervention and control groups are a real effect of treatment. The common assumption that any baseline differences in a randomized stud...

The Oasis Cluster is a book that revolves around the positive and negative forces of the universe. These forces maintain a required equilibrium to keep all things in balance. These forces originate from two focal points in the known universe. This book of three, focuses on the positive focal point, which is a hidden galaxy called the Oasis Cluster. The inhabitants of this galaxy are known as Gloobuls. They are the keeps of positive energy in t...

Jimmie, Cut that Jigger Down, " is a western fiction novel suitable for all ages. Those who like humor, a serious plot and romance should enjoy this book. The fast gun sheriff gets fed up with an outlaw gang in his area. He and his deputy make up a human looking dummy and hang it high on the hangman's scaffold. All question why it's not smellin' up the town. The sheriff has a good answer. A domineering aunt brings her niece on the stage to Oat...

The most important sensory system for humans is the visual system and the best animal model for this is the non-human primate. The Primate Visual System: A Comparative Approach is a concise overview of the anatomical, physiological and psychophysical data on the visual system of different primate species. The book takes a comparative approach as a basis for studying the physiological properties of primate vision and examines the phylogenetic r...

Immunological diseases result from the combined effects of environmental triggers and inherited susceptibility genes. Studies of human autoimmune diseases show that patients with organ-specific autoimmunity have activated, autoreactive T cells specific for the target tissue. However, conventional immunological studies have not identified the next level of pathogenesis of spontaneous autoimmune diseases. There has consequently been great intere...

Christie Farrell is the eldest daughter of a plantation owner in Charleston, South Carolina. She leads a sheltered existence until her father decides that she should marry. The story depicts Christie's development from privileged daughter, via physical and mental scars and challenges, to a generous and complete woman. Jean Morley writes with humour and compassion and the atmosphere of eighteenth-century plantation living in Charleston and vill...

The Journey of Jeremiah Tatum" chronicles a young boy's journey through time and space while learning valuable lessons in life along the way. "Stephanie Baker Gibbs, and The Mystery on Beacon Hill" is the account of two young girls who one night see a strange light in an old abandoned light house, and dare to wonder "why". "The Accidental Shopper" is a fantasy about a young teen who aquires "the power to shop". What will her power be used for?...

ZEDI is a collection of poetry and philosophical thoughts that molded a poet. It is a journey that explores crucial moments in life. Through vivid imagery and mastery use of language, the poet demonstrates a heartfelt desire to feel the beauty of life. It captures the challenges and triumphs of love, adolescence, and life...

You are in danger as well...Please heed my warning..." So begins the diary written by Catherine Morgan as she describes the events of a Monday in 1810 Regency England. When another Catherine Morgan, who lives in present-day New York City, receives the diary, she is drawn into the mystery as the present Monday begins to resemble the Monday in 1810. Writing in the diary, Catherine pleads for help by hinting this particular Monday can be changed ...

The Great Agora is a metaphor--the metaphor of modern, cultivated, hurried, violent, intense, hostile, turbulent and media-dominated life. The book contains implied as well as more explicit critical/satirical approaches to ways and manners of existence that are especially pervasive in certain parts of the world today. The towerful man is another metaphor, that of the one who mindfully asks some questions from within living in the Great Agora. ...

Ten--nine professors and a graduate student--tell forty tales in rhymed verse as they drive a van to a conference from the University of Montana to San Francisco, wedging in two odes to an earthworm & dandelion, four sonnets, four ditties, one villanelle, and singing two original songs. In the spirit and style of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, they embark on a pilgrimage to reap knowledge at the Holy Grail of computer technology in Silicon Valley...

When Yates and I first met and had dinner at the University of Missouri, he was an undergraduate. His work was brilliant then. This I told him and his department head. This Canticle for Electronic Music underscores the acuity of my forecasting."-W.H. Auden, The Quest "With great admiration for your work."--Joyce Carol Oates "I appreciate this poet's concentration, swiftness, density: his choice for the deeply personal utterance and that only. ...

Are your everyday fears preventing you from living life to its fullest? Are they keeping you from using your God-given talents? Learn how to face your giants with God's help in Nancy Eichman's 13-lesson ladies Bible class book.

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Spaces of Representation: The Struggle for Social Justice in Postwar Guatemala juxtaposes a variety of contemporary Guatemalan discourses - literary fiction, testimonio, historical and political documents, and popular drama - calling into question such notions as truth, clarification, memory, and storytelling in the representation of human experience. It analyzes these texts in an effort to further a broader understanding of the dynamic social...

The Naturalists wrote from a «scientific» point of view, and no science had more currency in society in the late nineteenth century than Darwin's theory of evolution. Until now, this motif in Guy de Maupassant has escaped critical attention. Maupassant's Fiction and the Darwinian View of Life examines evolutionary theory in the literature in a way accessible to students of literature and science alike. It first explains the theoretical basis a...

Richard Seddon's studies in moral sciences convinced him that Rudolf Steiner's resolution of the main problems of philosophy since Aristotle was correct. After a half century of subsequent work in anthroposophy, he saw the need for an introductory volume that clearly lays out Steiner's views without the complications that arise in the context of late nineteenth-century philosophy. This book is the result, intended both for students of anthropo...

You will believe in magic. "Why?" you ask. The Wizard of Is is why. Meet Albert Pintergrass, future wizard, at forty-three-at least he could be, if he can manage to survive long enough-in a magical land called Eez where the mystery of magic is at work and where there is power in magic. The power of magic works through a pair of simple gemstones called reds and nots, in realms with names like Is and Siss, Dakks and Melrose, and a former realm c...