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Mildred D. Taylor's Newbery Award-winning masterpiece with an introduction written and read by Jacqueline Woodson, just in time for its 40th Anniversary! Set in Mississippi at the height of the Depression, this is the story of one family's struggle to maintain their integrity, pride, and independence in the face of racism and social injustice. And it is also Cassie's story--Cassie Logan, an independent girl who discovers over the course of an ...

Each year, Windows XP is pre-installed on 30 million PCs sold in the U.S.--and 90 million worldwide--making it the world's most popular operating system, and proving to frustrated users everywhere that preponderance does not equate to ease of use. There are literally thousands of programs, tools, commands, screens, scripts, buttons, tabs, applets, menus, and settings contained within Windows XP. And it has only been in the last couple of years...

It's a game of Trolls and Dwarfs where the playermust take both sides to win ...It's the noise a troll club makes when crushingin a dwarf skull, or when a dwarfish axe cleavesa trollish cranium ...It's the unsettling sound of history aboutto repeat itself ... THUD!It's the most extraordinary, outrageous, provocative, insightful, and keenly cutting flightof fancy yet from Discworld's incomparablesupreme creator ... Terry PratchettCommander Sam ...

Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch will be damned if he lets anyone disturb his city's always tentative peace -- and that includes a rabble-rousing dwarf from the sticks who's been stirring up trouble on the eve of the anniversary of one of Discworld's most infamous historical events.Centuries earlier, in a hellhole called Koom Valley, trolls met dwarfs in bloody combat. Though nobody's quite sure why they fought or who actuall...

From Daredevil to Dracula, from Batman to Brother Voodoo, from Howard the Duck to Stewart the Rat, Secrets in the Shadows: The Art & Life of Gene Colan is the ultimate retrospective on one of comics' all-time unique artists. Featuring rare childhood drawings, hotos, recently-discovered wartime illustrations, and original art and sketches from throughout his nearly 60-year career, this book offers new insight on the inspirations, challenges and...

This book is a collection of 22 selected papers from the homonymous Conference held in September 2003 Milos, Greece. The aim of the conference was to serve as a forum for the presentation and constructive discussion of the state-of-the-art and emerging issues on the South Aegean Volcanic Arc. In the first part of the book the tectonic- geodynamic setting and the present upper mantle structure of the Aegean area are discussed. It includes an in...

Eva Caroline Whitaker Davis was the Curator & Director of the Old Court House Museum - Eva W. Davis Memorial in Vicksburg, Mississippi. "Her life tells the story that, money isn't the object, age means nothing, that lack of education can not be used as an excuse, but through will, intent, hard work and God's Grace all can be accomplished regardless of the obstacles that are placed in one's path." "Life is a matter of recognizing that there are...

Scrowlie and company journey to the darkened depths of the underworld and a credit-enabled fashion zombie army is unleashed onto the unsuspecting world. Ripped from today's headlines in a parallel universe, Little Scrowlie Volume 2 exposes the inner life of cats and mall rats, all the while showing (not telling) the importance of keeping up with current fashions.

From aesthetic subtleties to the slapstick, the heart and soul of manga lies in unique character representation through physiques and expressions. Tadashi Ozawa, the author of the best-selling How to Draw Anime & Game Characters series kicks off instruction with the basics and intricacies of properly proportioned and stylistically deformed characters. Ozawa then focuses on the creation of an entire range of facial expressions, from a slightly ...

Zusätzliche Informationen, in Ergänzung zu den Kernkomponenten Bilanz sowie Gewinn- und Verlustrechnung, und verbale Berichterstattungen im oder neben dem Jahres- und Konzernabschluss gewinnen sowohl nach nationalen Rechnungslegungsvorschriften als auch nach internationalen Rechnungslegungsgrundsätzen zunehmend an Bedeutung. Hierfür sieht das deutsche HGB vor allem den Anhang und den Lagebericht vor. Deshalb stellt sich bei einem Übergang zu e...

Continuing their journey through the lands of Dikay, fighting evil stuff whenever it can be found, Van Von Hunter and Sidekick encounter... evil! Not only does our favorite decaying jester, Laspo, return to wreak havoc, but we also meet the lovely, scantily armored Adonette, the famous Necromancer, who treats her rotting zombie hordes as family. Between unknown fears lurking in a secret labyrinth and um... cookie-baking elves, Van Von Hunter a...

An unexpected turn of events pushes Ben Floyd out of his normal small neighborhood routine, and into an unexpected appreciation for his old life.Ben Floyd has a lot on his mind. In only eighteen months he will be old enough to get a learner's permit to drive, but that seems like a lifetime away. Ben enjoys the close-knit group of friends in his small neighborhood, but lately he has been longing for a taste of adventure. Keeping an eye on his y...

Alex accepts a challenge to avenge his father's death, but not from anyone he can see. The challenge is given by a voice, whether real, or in his head, Alex listens. He follows instructions that help him discover not only the mystery of his father's death, but the secret location of a huge hidden stash of money. His charge is to disperse the money among needy people in several towns without letting anyone know who's doing it. With help from a ...

Alex accepts a challenge to avenge his father's death, but not from anyone he can see. The challenge is given by a voice, whether real, or in his head, Alex listens. He follows instructions that help him discover not only the mystery of his father's death, but the secret location of a huge hidden stash of money. His charge is to disperse the money among needy people in several towns without letting anyone know who's doing it. With help from a ...

Van Von Hunter and his sidekick are in more trouble than they can swing a sword at, or a giant crossbow, as they continue their journey through the lands of Dikay, fighting evil whenever it can be found.

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Old photographs and ghostly remembrance empower an ethereal novel re-creating an obsessive romance in the aftermath of World War II. On a university campus bulging with ex-GIs, a traumatized combat veteran and a sophomore fell madly in love. Years later, the long-dead sophomore, invading his computer as he tries to make a novel of his life, lures him back to reprise what went wrong. Their bittersweet reassessments and besotted indulgences prov...

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Defines and organizes the key elements of mechatronics, exploring design approach, system interfacing, instrumentation, control systems, and microprocessor-based controllers and microelectronics. This work surveys physical system modeling, introducing MEMS along with modeling and simulation.

Includes CD-Rom Empathy is a fundamental building block for the positive development and mental health of children. It is central to the development of conscience, love, friendship and kindness. This programme supports the encouragement and teaching of empathy and resilience and schools will reap the benefits in their students' achievements. Identifying key elements that help young people to develop empathic feelings and behaviour, it helps ...