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Peter Achinstein has gathered some prominent philosophers and historians of science for critical and lively discussions of both general questions about the meaning of evidence and specific ones about evidence for particular scientific theories.

Can the Army sustain its current tempo of overseas deployment without reaching the breaking point?

The verdant, beautiful mountains of West Virginia, completely different in terrain from the rich, fertile soil of Central Illinois, becomes the new home of the Bannister family in nineteen fifty-four. Sissy Bannister left Redbud Grove, Illinois, as a broken-hearted fourteen-year-old, but it doesn't take her long to make new friends and find her own niche. Along the way to adulthood, she encounters different cultures and people in Dixon, West V...

Beneath my skin is an intimate portrait of myself as well as the things that I have felt and experienced so far in my life. Growing up I was always in my own world. The people around me often not knowing, that I was experiencing things that would one day become a collection of poems that you are about to read today. We are all human and experience things throughout our lifetime. I just hope that my love, joy and pain will make it easier to und...

The verdant, beautiful mountains of West Virginia, completely different in terrain from the rich, fertile soil of Central Illinois, becomes the new home of the Bannister family in nineteen fifty-four. Sissy Bannister left Redbud Grove, Illinois, as a broken-hearted fourteen-year-old, but it doesn't take her long to make new friends and find her own niche. Along the way to adulthood, she encounters different cultures and people in Dixon, West V...

If you have never attended a Maze concert, this book will take you there and if you have had the fortune of attending a a Maze concert, you'll understand exactly what they feel. Though the name "Frankie's Angels" gives the angels an angelic tone, you'll be shocked to know the real deal about some of the angels from their past to the present. Come meet, Candice, Tish, Twana, Mozelle and Ernestine..divine messengers of light. Be prepared to laug...

Military coup d'tat is an immoral and illegal means to ascend to power. In Africa, the West directly or indirectly sponsors coups. France and the U.S. use this modus vivendi to establish territorial control and economical supremacy in Africa. As such, their actions contribute to the destabilization of Africa, and threaten international peace and world security. Indeed, ambiguity and unreasonableness are evident on this matter, while the West p...

Military coup d'tat is an immoral and illegal means to ascend to power. In Africa, the West directly or indirectly sponsors coups. France and the U.S. use this modus vivendi to establish territorial control and economical supremacy in Africa. As such, their actions contribute to the destabilization of Africa, and threaten international peace and world security. Indeed, ambiguity and unreasonableness are evident on this matter, while the West p...

Compelling story of survival of physical and emotional abuse at the hands of a mother of 16 children through intimidation, manipulation, and terroristic methods over the span of 35 years.

This book contains a series of tutorial essays on polarization mode dispersion (PMD) by the leading experts in the field. It starts with an introductory review of the basic concepts and continues with more advanced topics, including a thorough review of PMD mitigation techniques. Topics covered include mathematical representation of PMD, how to properly model PMD in numerical simulations, how to accurately measure PMD and other related polariz...

This monograph examines in detail two aspects in the field of interpolation of functions -the Global Smoothness Preservation Property (GSPP) and the Shape Preservation Property (SPP). By considering well-known classical interpolation operators such as Lagrange, Grünwald, Hermite-Fejér and Shepard type, the study is mainly developed for the univariate and bivariate cases. One of the first books on the subject, it presents to the reader, recent ...

2004 marks the 100th anniversary of the first description of the autoimmune disease paroxysmal cold hemoglobinuria, a rare hemolytic disorder, by Julius Donath and Karl Landsteiner. After a century of research, the list of autoimmune diseases has become impressive. With a prevalence of approximately 5% of the world-wide population, these chronic, debilitating conditions affect almost every major organ of the body and, for reasons that remain u...

Die Unterrichtsformen sind für didaktisches Denken und Handeln von zentraler Bedeutung. Dabei geht es wesentlich um die Frage, wie Lerngegenstand, Schüler und Lehrer so zueinander in Beziehung zu setzen sind, dass ein optimales Lernen möglich wird. Die Antworten, die im Laufe der Geschichte von Schule und Unterricht auf diese Frage gegeben wurden, lassen einen Weg von einem eher lehrer- zu einem eher schülerorientierten Vorgehen erkennen. Inde...

Wenn an manchen Tagen das Chaos schon im eigenen Haushalt mit ein, zwei oder drei Kindern ausbricht, fragt man sich zwangsläufig, wie Familien mit noch mehr Kindern ihren Alltag organisieren und allen Anforderungen gerecht werden. Hier, in diesen Berichten kinderreicher Familien findet sich mancherlei Antwort. Mit dabei sind: - eine sportliche Städterfamilie mit fünf Kindern - die "Gutsherrenfamilie" aus der ARD-Serie "Abenteuer 1900" mit ihr...

Das vorliegende Buch dient als Nachschlagewerk für alle, die sich beruflich oder privat für das Bekleidungsstück Hemd interessieren. Nachfolgende Themen werden allgemeinverständlich und ausführlich erörtert: Die Einzelteile eines Hemdes, Fertigung und Auftragsabwicklung, Qualitätsfragen, Schnittaufstellung, Design und dessen Einsatz, sowie die Gesichte des Bekleidungsstückes. Zahlreiche Zeichnungen und Abbildungen veranschaulichen besonders er...

Was man unter den Teppich kehrt, kommt eines Tages ans Licht. Anja Ziegler ist wie vom Erdboden verschluckt: Nach einem heftigen Streit mit ihrer besten Freundin ist sie wutentbrannt aus der Diskothek gelaufen - aber nie zu Hause angekommen. Ist die Siebzehnjährige auf der nächtlichen Landstraße in das dunkle Auto eines Fremden gestiegen, wie ein Freund gesehen haben will, oder steckt etwas noch Schlimmeres dahinter? Das junge Mädchen, das ...

Dexter Morgan is a hero with a difference, Dexter is a serial killer. When a similar killer works his way through Miami it seems to Dexter he is being asked to come out and play.

Das Erscheinen von Sigmund Freuds »Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie« jährt sich 2005 zum hundertsten Mal. Der Reprint der Erstausgabe enthält die Originalgestalt des seinerzeit vom Verlag Franz Deuticke vorgelegten Freudschen Texts, mitsamt den auf dem Rand stehenden Stichworten. Sämtliche heute auf dem Buchmarkt erhältlichen Ausgaben der »Drei Abhandlungen« geben den Wortlaut der Ausgabe letzter Hand wieder, also der vom Autor letztmals re...