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Although British-born, John Allen lived in South Africa from 1954 to 1990, a 36-year period during which the country experienced its most climactic--and sometimes terrible--events. Speaking from firsthand knowledge and with an intimate understanding of the situation, the author takes us beyond the media hype that so dominated Western television screens to answer some of the most vital questions concerning the apartheid era: * Who originated th...

The first novel about the Persian Gulf War written by a Gulf War veteran, Breach is a raw and unvarnished account of the friendships that arise and the human conflicts that erupt when a tightly knit unit of combat Marines confronts the harsh realities of war. Just weeks after the unit''s arrival in the Arabian desert, a demoralized young officer commits suicide. His death prompts an investigation and sparks concern that he was the target of sa...

A very practitioner-friendly guide for administrators interested in decreasing dropout rates. The book helps teachers develop comprehensive and effective models of dropout prevention and intervention for students most at risk of dropping out of school. It offers tools, guidelines, and information to use in the design, modification, or selection of evidence-based intervention models and strategies, rather than simply a list of strategies or a c...

It is my pleasure, a pleasurable duty, to recommend that you follow the author's graceful lead and, perhaps with the benefit of one of the diverse receipts to be found in this book, hold in your hands a frosted goblet to sip from as you live and learn, the joys of the mint julep.--George Garrett, from the new foreword to

Description: In this thoroughly revised edition of his classic work, James A. Sanders introduces the reader to canonical criticism. Tracking the various developments of biblical literature and their acceptance by the communities of faith, Sanders tackles the tough questions. He discusses the differences between the parts of the canon, the editing of the texts by later generations, the diversity of canons used in different communities, how the...

An advanced text devoted exclusively to pair correlations in nuclei.

Career Year is a story about an intellectual who mentors a professional baseball player. The book is an entertaining blend of self-improvement, philosophy, business, and baseball. This is a self-help book not afraid to poke fun at its own advice. Coaches, teachers, athletes, mentors, business executives, entrepreneurs, sales professionals, musicians, and baseball fans will benefit from this short and easy-to-read book. The story includes a col...

Career Year is a story about an intellectual who mentors a professional baseball player. The book is an entertaining blend of self-improvement, philosophy, business, and baseball. This is a self-help book not afraid to poke fun at its own advice. Coaches, teachers, athletes, mentors, business executives, entrepreneurs, sales professionals, musicians, and baseball fans will benefit from this short and easy-to-read book. The story includes a col...

Essays examine the relationship of honor in Latin America to issues such as state formation, modernity, the law, sexuality, and racial mores.

An insightful contribution to the understanding of Jewish American culture, seen through the lens of novels, films, TV, and stand-up comedy from the first half of the 20th century.

One April evening in 1779, Martha Ray, the pretty mistress of a famous aristocrat, was shot dead at point-blank range by a young clergyman who then attempted to take his own life. Instead he was arrested, tried and hanged. In this fascinating new book, John Brewer, a leading historian of eighteenth-century England, asks what this peculiar little story was all about. Then as now, crimes of passion were not uncommon, and the story had the hallma...

Blast from Her Past is the first adventure about Rita Pullman, a homemaker and community activist, who finds herself embroiled in intrigue and deception starting at the White House and ending in a suburb of Los Angeles. When Rita gets an opportunity to meet the President and First Lady, she believes that the excitement will end at that meeting. Sending a fan letter to the First Lady, with whom she attended a large high school, rocks Rita's wor...

Covers the very wide spectrum of all aspects of railway engineering for all engineering disciplines, in a 'broad brush' way giving a good overall knowledge of what is involved in planning, designing, constructing and maintaining a railway.

Defining abuse is a personal subject. It may be physical abuse, mental abuse, child abuse - it takes many forms. Do you know someone who may be going through this and don't know how to help them or know what to say? Do you carry a burden for this person and want to help them? Sometimes we just are not able to say or do anything, but just maybe, if you leave this book with them they can come up with a solution on their own and build their self-...

Humility, The Cost Of Discipleship, is a God inspired book that was written by the author during the Easter Season, in 2005.The book consists of a dialogue between God the Father, Jesus Christ, the author, and the reader.Humility, The Cost Of Discipleship, consists of ten chapters. Each chapter contains ten separate sayings in the form of poetry.The sayings express an intimate relationship between God, the author, and the reader. The author ch...

Most of the poems, in meditation or humor, reveal some of the difficulties of life which have not destroyed us (yet). But with some perception, faith, and a literary tendency toward romanticism, we can deal with the various vagaries of life and keep them behind us.

Description: In this thoroughly revised edition of his classic work, James A. Sanders introduces the reader to canonical criticism. Tracking the various developments of biblical literature and their acceptance by the communities of faith, Sanders tackles the tough questions. He discusses the differences between the parts of the canon, the editing of the texts by later generations, the diversity of canons used in different communities, how the...

1928 installierten die internationalen Ölkonzerne ein globales Hochpreiskartell, das sie bis 1938 gegen den Widerstand einiger Außenseiter zu behaupten versuchten. In diesen ölhistorisch bedeutsamen Zeitraum fiel die Abkehr des Deutschen Reiches von der Weltwirtschaft. Unter den Bedingungen der Diktatur und dem maßgeblichen Einfluß der IG Farbenindustrie AG schien die deutsche Ölpolitik geradlinig und gewollt in die Kriegsvorbereitung zu münde...

Die kommentierte Faksimile-Ausgabe von Fotos, Fragebogen und Autographen der Familie Marx und ihres großen Bekanntenkreises gibt Einblicke aus einer überraschenden Perspektive. Die Edition entstand in russisch-japanisch-deutscher Kooperation und wird von einem einführenden Essay des Frankfurter Sozialwissenschaftlers Iring Fetscher begleitet. Pressestimmen: "... sind die Kommentare zu den Bildern, mit persönlich gehaltenen Briefauszügen er...

Tuberculosis, the disease that the World Health Organisation has recently declared a global emergency, was supposedly defeated by antibiotics half a century ago. It has returned in a highly contagious and fatal new form that cannot be treated with conventional drugs. Multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB), could cause some 10 million deaths over the next decade and is thriving in the overcrowded prisons of the former Soviet Union. The virtual collaps...