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Young Air Force veteran Edward Field, fresh from combat in WWII, threw himself into New York's literary bohemia, searching for fulfillment as a gay man and poet. This memoir opens the closet door to reveal some of the most important writers of his time. It brings back a forgotten era, postwar Bohemia, bawdy, comical, romantic, sad, and heroic.

Today¿s world is a world of nation-states, few have survived since the early modern period, some have existed for three hundred years, most came into being during the second part of the last century. Yet the equation between the state and the nation does not go back far in history, despite the prevailing tendency to view the state as closely linked to ethnicity. To challenge the latter this book attempts to examine statehood separately from t...

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The poetry written by Jose Acosta varies from romance, patriotism, to dark poetry. Each vividly written, each reflecting a time or event in his life. The strength of his words come from the honesty and ability to recall a moment in life as if it was yesterday. This his second book, is an accumulation of poems and writings reflecting the triumph of life after his first book of his childhood. Still living life with a passion for each day in ever...

Compass Points: Finding a Mid-life Bearing on Mount Rainier.Mount Rainier is considered by many to be the longest endurance climb in the lower 48 states. This book is both a spiritual odyssey and adventure travelogue. It is the story of the author's two climbs of Mount Rainier (in 1999 & 2000), led by Rainier Mountaineering, Inc. guides. Prepared from journals written during these climbs, this story is compelling, provocative and instructional...

Das Jubiläumskonzert "15 Jahre Buschfunk" aus dem Theater des Westens vom 13.12.2004 mit allen Höhepunkten auf einer Doppel-DVD. u.a. mit Uschi Brüning, Engerling, Freygang, Veronika Fischer, Matthias Freihof, IC Falkenberg, Keimzeit, Kerschowski, Heiner Kondschak, L'art de passage, Aurora Lacasa, Reinhard Lakomy, Gisela May, Gerhard Schöne, Monster Schoppe, Silly, Stoppok, Stefan Trepte, Bettina Wegner und Pascal von Wroblewski.

A detailed study of the terms of international loan documentation with comprehensive explanations of the purpose of the provisions and of areas which may require negotiation and with an emphasis on the wording of the Loan Market Association documents. The book provides a highly practical and comprehensive resource for bankers and lawyers, at all levels of experience, involved in international lending.

Readers of Beyond Crystal Castles, the first in the series of Brendan tales, will remember Thomas, a young novice of an Irish abbey who follows and chronicles the adventures of a renegade monk, the Mad St. Brendan. Brendan is seeking a northern route to the land known today as the Americas. Chapter one opens with Brosius, Thomas's strong right arm, entertaining his pupils in the city of Cahokia, the ruins of which exist even today along the Mi...

Readers of Beyond Crystal Castles, the first in the series of Brendan tales, will remember Thomas, a young novice of an Irish abbey who follows and chronicles the adventures of a renegade monk, the Mad St. Brendan. Brendan is seeking a northern route to the land known today as the Americas. Chapter one opens with Brosius, Thomas's strong right arm, entertaining his pupils in the city of Cahokia, the ruins of which exist even today along the Mi...

Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are critical mediators of the innate immune response in mammals. This family of receptors recognizes a variety of microbial products or motifs and initiates the host response to infection. Examples include TLR4 which recognizes lipopolysaccharide (LPS) from Gram-negative bacteria, TLR3 which recognizes viral double-stranded RNA, and TLR9 which recognizes CpG DNA motifs, found in both viruses and bacteria. All TLRs po...

Compass Points: Finding a Mid-life Bearing on Mount Rainier. Mount Rainier is considered by many to be the longest endurance climb in the lower 48 states. This book is both a spiritual odyssey and adventure travelogue. It is the story of the author's two climbs of Mount Rainier (in 1999 & 2000), led by Rainier Mountaineering, Inc. guides. Prepared from journals written during these climbs, this story is compelling, provocative and instructiona...

The first book to capture a complete picture of the most important of Greek gods in one reliable volume for almost seventy years, this masterly and comprehensive study looks at myth, cult, art, philosophy, drama and theology and presents a new millennium examination of the fascinating god Zeus.

This study shows that arms control agreements reflect rather than affect relations between the parties. The Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) codified parity between NATO and the Soviet-led Warsaw Treaty Organization (WTO) in November 1990. CFE thus reflected the status quo at the end of the cold war, but the benefits were short lived, at least for Russia. Although still widely viewed in the west as the cornerstone of securit...

Claims that the so-called conflict between Latino identity and gayness is not because of traditional values in Latino cultures but rather an ethnoracial conflict. This book aims to weave ethnographic interviewing with the analysis of texts and material culture to study the intersection of gayness with Latinidad.

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Cyanide is a significant issue in industrial and municipal wastewater treatment and management, in remediation of former manufactured gas plant sites and aluminum production waste disposal sites, in treatment and management of residuals from hydrometallurgical gold mining, and in other industrial operations in which cyanide-bearing wastes were produced. Cyanide in Water and Soil is the first book to present the state-of-the-art in managing cya...