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Inspirational Book of Poems

Researching on remediation of subsurface contamination is helping to solve important environmental problems associated with hazardous and radioactive contaminants in soil and groundwater. In the United States, significant ressearch in this area has been sponsored by the U.S. Department ofEnergy (DOE) Environmental Management Science Program (EMSP), which seeks to advance scientific knowledge and technological solutions to reduce environmental ...

After two years of gathering essential information from my family, friends, speech therapist and others, I was finally able to piece together a puzzle of a few confusing months in my life. I only remembered bits and pieces of what happened. I needed the support and recollection of my loved ones to help me better understand it, in order to allow myself closure on such a tragic ordeal. In some ways, I could relate my experience to Humpty Dumpty,...

Stella Rimington joined the Security Service (MI5) in 1965 and during her career she worked in all the main fields of the Service's responsibilities - counter-subversion, counter-espionage and counter-terrorism - and became successively Director of all three branches. She was appointed Director-General of MI5 in 1992. She was the first woman to hold the post and the first Director-General whose name was publicly announced on appointment. Her a...

On the outskirts of a concentration camp in northern Bohemia three people - two eighteen-year-old men and a desperately lost young woman, Leah - are thrown together, sharing their precarious existence in an attic room.

The newest volume of the annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry series features essays on the varied and often controversial ways Communism and Jewish history interacted during the 20th century. The volume's contents examine the relationship between Jews and the Communist movement in Poland, Russia, America, Britain, France, the Islamic world, and Germany.

The second edition of this popular engineering reference book, previously titled Newnes Electrical Engineer's Handbook, provides a basic understanding of the principles and operation of the major classes of electrical equipment. With coverage including the key principles of electrical engineering and the design and operation of electrical equipment, the book uses clear descriptions and logical presentation of data to explain electrical power a...

The Wars of the Roses turned England upside down. Between 1455 and 1485, four kings, including Richard III, lost their thrones, more than forty noblemen lost their lives on the battlefield, and thousands of the men who followed them met violent deaths. This title tells how a family survived one of the tempestuous periods in English History.

Born in Charlottenburg and educated privately in England, Italy and France, Sybille Bedford is also the author of A FAVOURITE OF THE GODS, JIGSAW and A COMPASS ERROR. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Vice-President of PEN. She was awarded the OBE in 1981 and a C.Lit in 1994.

The stunning sequel to "Lionboy", which was one of the most critically acclaimed new children's books of 2003. Charlie Ashanti is on the run from a floating circus with six beautiful lions. He has promised to help them get back home, but first must find his kidnapped mum and dad. A Dreamworks film is in development. This will have a major advertising and publicity campaign. Readership level: 9+. "Startlingly original in characters, setting and...

Jack Frost has stolen all of the sand on Rainspell Island for his giant sandcastle, so the Holiday Fairy must find the special shells and get the holiday atmosphere back, so everyone can enjoy themselves. Delightful illustrations inside an eye-catching foiled cover. Readership level: 5-8yrs.

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No one knows more about Franz Liszt than Alan Walker."¿Malcolm Bowie, Times Literary Supplement In a series of lively essays that tell us much not only about the phenomenon that was Franz Liszt but also about the musical and cultural life of...

This Second Edition of Modern High-Power Rocketry contains more than 800 photographs and illustrations specifically created to introduce the model rocket enthusiast to the exciting world of high power. Completely rewritten, photographed and designed, this book provides tips and simple advice on motor retention, ejection charges, the high-power launch and building your first Level One, Level Two and Level Three rockets.

In Love and Its Vicissitudes, Andre Green and Gregorio Kohon draw on their extensive experience to produce an insightful contribution to the psychoanalytic understanding of love

Providing an objective assessment of what does and does not work, where, why and in which circumstances, this informative collection assesses the social, economic, equity and institutional implications of water pricing and public-private partnership.

William Carlos Williams: An American Dad is made up of seventeen biographical sketches by William Eric Williams plus "A Letter to My Father on His 100th Birthday" by Paul Herman. It approaches Williams through everyday things such as gardening and baseball, and goes into some detail about his immediate family members. There are over sixty photos.   In this fresh and intriguing biography/memoir, William Eric Williams reveals the true character,...

How does the way we think and feel about the world around us affect the existence and administration of the death penalty? What role does capital punishment play in defining our political and cultural identity? In this volume the authors argue that in order to understand the death penalty we need to know more about the "cultural lives"-past and present-of the state's ultimate sanction.

Developmental Dilemmas singles out land as an object of study and places it in the context of one of the world's largest and most populous countries undergoing institutional reform, the People's Republic of China.

An elegant riposte to the old jibe that England rugby players lack guile and imagination, the Harlequins' and former Leicester centre has brought a shimmering, magical quality to his team's back play, opening up defences with clever angled running, superb distribution and a gravity-defying ability to stay up in the tackle.