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When Naomi Lohan picks up the plaintive signal from the Magog artefact she is unaware that it has been waiting three thousand years for just this moment... The datastore of the artefact contains much unpalatable detail yet it is a treasure trove of information about the origins of human life on Kalal. Many Kalalese are startled to find that the semi-mythical figure, the Great Prophet Elijah, actually existed... And, that they are all descendan...

Today child abuse has reached epidemic proportions. The factors are many. Social, economic, ignorance, etc. and it cuts across all social classes. Its victims are vulnerable children who are usually too young and frightened to protect themselves. Sadly, to hear of child abuse today is all too common. This book will help people to appreciate that they are not alone. There are many survivors of childhood abuse. I am one of them. For many years n...

Flying airplanes for sport is expensive. Many recreational pilots are businessmen or executives with sufficient income that allows them to fly. But this recreational community also includes a smaller group-the blue-collar workers. With little disposable income, they struggle to find money to support their flying passion. Eventually, many succumb to the financial pressures of home and family, giving up flying altogether. But there are some who ...

With the collapse of the government after the Second World War, Americans have learned to live without help or interference from police, lawyers and bureaucrats. In this simple and happy world lives an eleven-year-old boy who wants to be a scientist. Having found a plant that makes concentrated uranium, he and his friends build a spaceship out of the strongest substances known to man-spider webs and egg shells. They fly into outer space, but b...

Ted Miller has written over 600 poems, many of which have been published along the eastern seaboard. While attending St. Alban's School, he studied under James Hoch and Curtis Sittenfeld. He cites Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, and Philip Booth as influences. Miller's poetry is confessional, geographic, and natural in orientation. Miller's poetry shows how the outward surroundings of nature relate to every man's quest for meaning, our interi...

A categorized compilation of favorite posts from the Evolving Excellence blog, Evolving Excellence: Thoughts on Lean Enterprise Leadership offers different-even outright contradictory-viewpoints that explore various aspects of lean enterprise excellence. In the shared desire to see American manufacturing thrive, authors Kevin Meyer and Bill Waddell have poured their knowledge, opinions, and ideas into their blog for the past two years. Sometim...

Flying airplanes for sport is expensive. Many recreational pilots are businessmen or executives with sufficient income that allows them to fly. But this recreational community also includes a smaller group-the blue-collar workers. With little disposable income, they struggle to find money to support their flying passion. Eventually, many succumb to the financial pressures of home and family, giving up flying altogether. But there are some who ...

Born on New York City's streets to a prostitute, Jeff Goss spent his first six years in an orphanage. Orphanage matrons and peers mistreated him because of his physical ugliness. He decided to make it on his own, and ran away at age six. He earned his way by working for several merchants until he joined the navy at age seventeen. He spoke and understood ten foreign languages by that time. When the Admiral discovered his language skills he prom...

When Rebecca Bond, an amiable elderly woman, suddenly finds herself widowed and penniless, she leaves for Austin, Texas, in search of the sons she abandoned as small children. After arriving in Texas, Rebecca is run down on the sidewalk by a drunk driver. While lying in the hospital, she is visited by George Bradshaw, a handsome older man who delivers bitter news-her son Larry is dead. The Bradshaw family befriends Rebecca and introduces her t...

Do you have doubts that evolution and theology are compatible? In Evolution For Creationists, author Edward C. Mendler offers an intelligent analysis of why there is no conflict between evolution and theology. Mendler explains evolution in laymen's terms to help those without scientific training understand how evolutionary science is wholly compatible with the tenets of mainstream Christian theology. Evolution For Creationists clearly sets for...

In this book some of the most eminent critics of seventeenth-century literature and some of the liveliest younger scholars explore the interconnections between Milton’, s politics, poetics and prose writings. While the essays focus on Milton’, s prose, they open up interesting perspectives on his major poems and on seventeenth-century ideologies, theologies and interpretative practices. Their aim is to bridge the gap between a histor...

This ambitious and lively book argues for a rehabilitation of the concept of ‘, human needs’, as central to politics and political theory. Contemporary political philosophy has focused on issues of justice and welfare to the exclusion of the important issues of political participation, democratic sovereignty, and the satisfaction of human needs, and this has had a deleterious effect on political practice. Lawrence Hamilton develops a...

One of the central questions of economics relates to the coordination of individual units within a large organization to achieve the central objectives of that organization. This book examines the problems involved in allocating resources in an economic system where decision-making is decentralized into the hands of individuals and individual enterprises. The decisions made by these economic agents must be coordinated because the input decisio...

Anthropologische Wahrnehmungen und Einordnungen. Themen und Sprache stehen in einem anspruchsvollen Wechsel zwischen Realität und Fiktion. "Mandarinentiefesgrün" ist prosaische Lyrik: schärfend, fantasie- und sehnsuchtsvoll sinnlich.

Early in 1868, Francis "Barney" Prine arrived in the Crooked River Valley of Central Oregon, established a blacksmith shop made of logs, and dispensed spirits from the back of the cabin. Prine saw the potential for development and industry along the lush banks of Crooked River and Ochoco Creek, and as more and more settlers arrived, the post office of Prine was established in 1871. The community soon emerged as a major commercial center for Ce...

This book presents the basic methods and applications in semiclassical approximation in the light of developments.

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Das Internet gilt als Wegbereiter des globalen Marketings und eröffnet den Unternehmen neue weltweite Kommunikations- wie auch Vertriebsmöglichkeiten. Der chinesische Markt stellt dabei jedoch in besonderem Maße Neuland dar: Die starken, mit der Abschottung des chinesischen Internets vom World Wide Web verbundenen rechtlichen Restriktionen, die kulturellen Unterschiede in der Internetnutzung, die heterogene ökonomisc...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Mexiko ist mit seinen ca. 107 Millionen Einwohnern das größte spanischsprachige Land der Welt und gilt laut Definition des Deutschen Instituts für Entwicklungspolitik als Schwellenland. ¿Als Schwellenländer werden Länder bezeichnet, die [innerhalb der Gruppe von Entwicklungsländern auf dem Weg zur Industrialisierung] einen überdurchschnittlichen Stand der menschlichen Entwicklung erreicht haben und über die Wettbewe...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Besonders um die Weihnachtszeit kommen viele Menschen mit dem Fundraising in Berührung. Mit Briefen, Plakaten, TV-Shows, Radio-Spots usw. wird an die Wohltätigkeit und Nächstenliebe appelliert und zu Spenden aufgerufen. Viele Non-Profit-Organisationen (NPO) bitten aus gutem Grund um finanzielle Unterstützung. Ihre Haupteinnahmequelle stellen öffentliche Zuwendungen des Staates dar. Aufgrund der öffentlichen Schuldenb...

GERMAN in 10 minutes a day AUDIO CD is a complete program that immerses the senses - hear, say, see, touch, read and write! This easy-to-use language kit, which includes six CDS, the book "GERMAN in 10 minutes a day, " 150 Sticky Labels and bonus study tools, is designed to develop an immediate speaking ability. The focus is on success, practicality and fun.