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A poet's war in the mud of the First World War in Europe. After the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, Irishman Patrick MacGill enlisted in a territorial army unit the 2nd London Irish Battalion as a rifleman. His claim at the time was that he and its colonel were the only true Irishmen serving in it. MacGill, already a well regarded author and poet, would record his experiences from training to his unit's embarkation to France and then onward...

Warfare in the exotic world of the early days of Britain's Indian Empire In the early years of the nineteenth century as Napoleon's French Army dominated Europe the British empire continued with its expansion of power on the Indian Sub-Continent. There, a young general-Arthur Wellesley-who would soon become the Duke of Wellington fought his formative battles-including the one which he would always cite as his hardest fought victory at Assaye. ...

Warfare in the exotic world of the early days of Britain's Indian Empire. In the early years of the nineteenth century as Napoleon's French Army dominated Europe the British empire continued with its expansion of power on the Indian Sub-Continent. There, a young general-Arthur Wellesley-who would soon become the Duke of Wellington fought his formative battles-including the one which he would always cite as his hardest fought victory at Assaye....

As Napoleon's French Army retreated, all hope that it could maintain a hold over the Iberian Peninsula began to fade. By September of 1813 the Allied Army commanded by the 'captain of the age'-the Duke of Wellington-stood on the frontier of France within the area of the estuary of the Bidassoa. Napoleon was being pressed on two fronts, but he still had a large reserve of veteran troops stationed in the south of France to call upon. The time ha...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Groupware, CRIWG 2007, held in Bariloche, Argentina. The 17 revised full papers and 10 revised work-in-progress papers are organized in topical sections on group awareness and social aspects, groupware design and development, computer supported collaborative learning, groupware applications and studies, group negotiation and knowledge management, and groupware...

The increasing relevance of security to real-life applications, such as electronic commerce, is attested by the fast-growing number of research groups, events, conferences, and summer schools that are studying it. This book presents thoroughly revised versions of eight tutorial lectures given by leading researchers during two International Schools on Foundations of Security Analysis and Design, FOSAD 2006/2007, held in Bertinoro, Italy, in Sep...

This book is part of a two-volume work that constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Life System Modeling and Simulation, LSMS 2007, held in Shanghai, China, September 2007. Coverage includes modeling and simulation of societies and collective behavior, computational methods and intelligence in biomechanical systems, tissue engineering and clinical bioengineering, computational intelligence in bioinformatics an...

ERIC IENCO is effervescent, enthusiastic and exceptional. Hailing from a Shepparton, Australia, Eric who has Italian roots was taught how to cook by his mother and grandfather. It was a visit to the UK in March 1998 with his now ex-wife that brought him into contact with household names. Fresh off the plane and within 24 hours he had landed a position with music legend Sting and wife Trudie Styler. Eric's personality was an instant hit. Eric w...

Reuben Sasson knows all about living a double life: after his father was hanged in Baghdad's central square as an Israeli spy, Reuben helped his mother survive by living as Aziz, a displaced Palestinian Muslim. As a young adult, Reuben escapes to Israel, determined to follow in his father's footsteps by training to become a high-level Mossad agent secretly operating in hostile Arab countries. Now Reuben must become Aziz again to take on the gr...

Trade Paperback. Richard O'Brien is the author of 35 books, including 9 novels. This is the first publication of his 'lost' mystery. It's a modern noir about a private dick who gets into something that just might be tougher than his previous case, the Snelling Affair.

Would you like to have a customer whose budget exceeds $250 Billion a year for goods and services? You can have that customer. The United States Federal Government is the largest purchaser of goods and services in the world. Each year, the Government issues contracts totaling more than $250 Billion for pencils, furniture, computer equipment, landscape services, janitorial services, security guard services, consultant services, etc., etc., etc....

The vibrational energies of earth harmonically support the electromagnetic force of all living things and the game we play of reality. Holographic and quantum theory affirm that the observer and the observed are one: the body is actually blinking on and off and is sensitive to the entire range of electromagnetic frequencies. While technology in the hands of a secret government, with its overt and covert hold on minds and bodies, is careening d...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 30th Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, KI 2007, held in Osnabrück, Germany, September 2007. The papers are organized in topical sections on cognition and emotion, semantic Web, analogy, natural language, reasoning, ontologies, spatio-temporal reasoning, machine learning, spatial reasoning, robot learning, classical AI problems, and agents.

Offers an in-depth examination of the deteriorating relationship between America and Europe: the differences and similarities, the reasons behind conflicts, and the future of the alliance. It shows that, by learning what the essential differences teach us about ourselves and drawing on shared affinities, it might be possible to repair a fading relationship.

Most closely associated with the Nazis and World War II atrocities, eugenics is sometimes described as a government-orchestrated breeding program, other times as a pseudo-science, and often as the first step leading to genocide. This book explores one of its most disturbing aspects, the compulsory sterilization of more than 64, 000 Americans.

A Must Have for DJs & Oldies Music Lovers Everywhere! "FUN with Oldies" is a Book of Lists of 50's, 60's, 70's Plus Oldies & Classic Rock & Roll Songs categorized by idea, genre or theme. It started as a feature on My Radio Show when "Gearhead Ed" asked for some CARtoons for "Classic Car Week" like Little Deuce Coupe-Beach Boys, GTO-Ronnie & The Daytonas, or Mustang Sally-Wilson Pickett. You get the idea. Then I started doing three song sets o...

This book is an assemblage of ideas on curative ajuvenation or body healing growing especially out of the recent learnings from Master Cho. It is curiosity and investigation, an amalgamation of the body-healing modalities that have been more rapidly manifesting in my inward probings since the 60s, combined with a record of the alternate reality of this entity's bursts of consciousness into a now expanding and accessible psi realm deep and expa...

Grey Magic is a work of great scope and stylistic virtuosity, combining antic humor with immense sophistication, an Anglo-American setting with an Anglo-European sensibility and a profound insight into contemporary issues of both personal and collective resonance. It is also an account of a would-be sorcerer's aspirations to 'Fausthood', a passionate love story and a tale of revenge exacted through a curse. Like its author, the narrator and pr...

In this book of poetry you will read about the many emotions one feels when you experience different relationships. They may be emotions that are a result of a romantic relationship or emotions that are shared with those you love such as family and friends. Hopefully once you read this poetry book you will soon realize that a lot of those feelings you may have are normal and you are not alone.

Patricia works hard to give her family a good life, supplying her daughter, Pamela, with everything a girl could possibly want. Pamela misses her father, Ryan, whom she never had much of a relationship with because he placed his job as a real estate agent-and office poker games-above his family. Upon being transferred thirty miles away to the coastal town in California, Pamela's life backslides. Pamela's father, who becomes a prominant Sunday ...