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Borne on the wings of a reluctant empire, long before the overt and full commitment of U.S. forces in Southeast Asia, the seeds of what would later be known as the Laotian Secret War were being planted by an unconventional assemblage of heroes and knaves, lunatics and eccentrics. Sgt. Marcus Omodei, a weatherman with the U.S. Air Force and an expert marksman, stumbles into the vortex of the coming storm. On the way to a new posting in Thailand...

A doctor shares the good, the bad and the ugly from his experience in medicine. Pellegrino, an orthopedic surgeon, begins his book with a brief family history. The author is the hardworking son of poor parents and was moved to study medicine when his mother succumbed to cancer at a young age. The book's subtitle, with its folksy feel, and the range of Pellegrino's practice, including volunteer work in Africa and with the poor and uninsured in ...

Dieses Buch soll als Konzeptionsgrundlage für Blended-Learning-Vorhaben sowohl im schulischen als auch im außerschulischen Bereich dienen. Ausgehend von den Erkenntnissen eines Forschungsprojektes werden die wesentlichen Aspekte des Blended-Learnings dargestellt.

Im Zuge der Reform franziskanischen Lebens durch die sogenannte Observanz entfalteten sich auch verschiedene literarische Tätigkeiten zur Erneuerung klarianischer Spiritualität. In Zeiten der Krise besannen sich einzelne gebildete Schwestern und ganze Klostergemeinschaften auf die Ursprünge klarianischen Lebens, um daraus Information und Motivation für die Erneuerung der Ordensspiritualität zu schöpfen. Man begann nach alten vergessenen Quelle...

Borne on the wings of a reluctant empire, long before the overt and full commitment of U.S. forces in Southeast Asia, the seeds of what would later be known as the Laotian Secret War were being planted by an unconventional assemblage of heroes and knaves, lunatics and eccentrics. Sgt. Marcus Omodei, a weatherman with the U.S. Air Force and an expert marksman, stumbles into the vortex of the coming storm. On the way to a new posting in Thailand...

China's richest businessman, Ju-Long Lew, can afford anything in the world. But he only wants things that are beyond his grasp, namely beautiful women. Thousands of miles away, Jessi Miller, a TV anchorwoman, seems to have everything: success, money and good looks. But she doesn't have someone to love. Jessi travels to China with the hope that she'll find a baby to adopt and call her own. She knows that with a little one in her life, she won't...

A technological tidal wave has arrived at today's schools, revolutionizing how teachers teach and students learn. Computers, cell phones, digital whiteboards, student response systems, projectors, the Internet, I-pods, software, and e-mail are all available to front-line teachers and students. Utilizing these new tools is rewarding for educators and empowering for students. If you're a teacher who wants to incorporate technology in your classr...

Arbeitnehmer, Arbeitgeber, Kranke, Behinderte, Rentner und Arbeitslose sind keine "unterprivilegierte Klasse", sondern auch "das Volk", dass von der Gesellschaft (Politik) erwartet, dass die "Lebens- und Arbeitsbedingungen" und die dafür notwendigen Lasten gerecht verteilt werden, zumindest jedoch durch gesetzliche Rahmenbedingungen, die gerecht und sozial sind, fixiert sind. Ein "Gesellschaftsthriller", der offenbart, wie derzeit der Bürger "...

China's richest businessman, Ju-Long Lew, can afford anything in the world. But he only wants things that are beyond his grasp, namely beautiful women. Thousands of miles away, Jessi Miller, a TV anchorwoman, seems to have everything: success, money and good looks. But she doesn't have someone to love. Jessi travels to China with the hope that she'll find a baby to adopt and call her own. She knows that with a little one in her life, she won't...

A technological tidal wave has arrived at today's schools, revolutionizing how teachers teach and students learn. Computers, cell phones, digital whiteboards, student response systems, projectors, the Internet, I-pods, software, and e-mail are all available to front-line teachers and students. Utilizing these new tools is rewarding for educators and empowering for students. If you're a teacher who wants to incorporate technology in your classr...

Let me introduce myself. My name is information, I am here for you. I am reading you and you are reading me, I am touching your vision and your vision touches me. I am playing with you and you are enjoining me. I am opening you and you are grateful to me. I am connecting you and the book, the book and you. I am connecting True to one, One of you. You know different labels. They are flowing around. They are happiness and health. They are light ...

A young Jewish priest Joseph Ben Mattahias is sent to Rome to fulfill a minor, but impossible, diplomatic mission. After the unexpected success, he returns to Rome again with another, secret, assignment. But from the influence there, he gradually sinks into a life of Roman debauchery. His fortune changes when he returns to Judea and appointed the Governor of Nothern Command, which gives him the first taste of power. Seeking more, he betrays hi...

Let me introduce myself. My name is information, I am here for you. I am reading you and you are reading me, I am touching your vision and your vision touches me. I am playing with you and you are enjoining me. I am opening you and you are grateful to me. I am connecting you and the book, the book and you. I am connecting True to one, One of you. You know different labels. They are flowing around. They are happiness and health. They are light ...

King Tutankhamon is dead. The possibly-divine ivory cat Nefru is still (perhaps) putting a paw into royal Egyptian affairs. Lord Ay wants a royal wife-Tut's widow, actually-to give him the blood-right to the throne. She flees marriage with him and finds long-lost relatives. Princesses Baketamon and Meri have both longed to be Queen of Egypt-but both find sand in that honey. General Horemheb (described as being like 'desert red, rectangles and ...

Photoalignment possesses significant advantages in comparison with the usual 'rubbing' treatment of the substrates of liquid crystal display (LCD) cells as it is a non-contact method with a high resolution. A new technique recently pioneered by the authors of this book, namely the photo-induced diffusion reorientation of azodyes, does not involve any photochemical or structural transformations of the molecules. This results in photoaligning fi...

How to Write a Suicide Note examines the life of a Chinese/Black woman who grew up passing for white, who grew up poor, who loves women but has always married white men. Writing has saved her life. It has allowed her to name the historical trauma--the racist, sexist, classist experiences that have kept her from being fully alive, that have screamed at her loudly and consistently that she was no good, and would never be any good-and that no one...

Volume Six of the Chipmunka Anthology contains 10 stories very different by equally inspiring stories of mental health empowerment.

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The Time Machine" is considered by many to be one of the finest works of English fiction. This highly entertaining novella has had an enormous influence on English fiction in general and science fiction in particular. Even the term 'The Time Machine' (coined by Wells) is now used universally to refer to hypothetical machines capable of time travel. ***** An unnamed observer is the narrator of the story about the time traveler who uses his mach...

Conventional pharmaceutical approaches to pain management are not always successful. Using only those medications that have an official indication for a certain condition reduces substantially the chance of the patient gaining pain relief and may expose them to intolerable side effects. However evidence now exists on the use of other drugs, produced for non-pain conditions, and how they can substantially increase the chances of pain relief. C...