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The Empress Eugénie was one of the most glamorous, celebrated and ultimately tragic figures of the nineteenth century. Wife of Napoleon III and close friend of Queen Victoria, she suffered the loss of her beloved sister, her only son, and her adopted country. But did Eugénie take her greatest secret-an illegitimate child, conceived when she was a teenager in Spain and fathered by the only man she ever truly loved-to the grave with her? And if ...

Do you hate attending networking events? Do you hide at the back of the room when you have the opportunity to present your business? Are you uncomfortable approaching people you don't know? Does the thought of speaking in public fill you with dread? If so, then you share anxieties in common with almost everyone who has ever worked and had to present themselves in a formal setting. In 1984 a New York Times Survey on Social Anxiety placed death ...

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This book provides a comprehensive review of the contribution of network analysis to the understanding of tourism destinations and organizations. It discusses both the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of network analysis and then illustrates the relevance of this approach in a series of tourism applications.

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A real boon for medical practitioners from a number of disciplines, this is a practice-oriented manual of medical oncology and hematology for day-to-day use in caring for patients' hematologic and neoplastic diseases. It is founded on the longstanding experience of a large specialized university department accustomed to having to provide reliable advice in a broad range of circumstances. The authors have chosen not to give a comprehensive revi...

Ces deux dernières années, la Pologne a rattrapé son retard sur les autres pays de l'OCDE à un rythme plus soutenu, mais à court terme, les perspectives sont assombries par des pressions excessives sur la demande et la hausse de l'inflation. L'édition 2008 de l'étude périodique de l'OCDE consacrée à l'économie polonaise analyse les principaux défis auxquels le pays est confronté : politiques monétaire et budgétaire, réforme du système fiscal, ...

Ron Hutchinson's powerful new satire on the media's manipulation of the images of war.

The Malayan Emergency lasted from 1948 to 1960. During these tumultuous years, following so soon after the Japanese surrender at the end of the Second World War, the whole country was once more turned upside down and the lives of the people changed. The war against the Communist Party of Malaya's determined efforts to overthrow the Malayan government involved the whole population in one form or another. Dr Comber analyses the pivotal role of t...

In seinem jüngsten Buch, das von seinen Reisen nach Europa, Amerika und Afrika handelt, macht der japanische Bauer und Philosoph eindringlich klar, dass eine Rückbesinnung auf natürliche Landwirtschaftsmethoden heute wichtiger ist denn je.Über den Autor:Masanobu Fukuoka (1913-2008) war japanischer Landwirt und Philosoph. Er stammte von der Insel Shikoku und war als Mikrobiologe tätig - bis er erkannte, dass er die Komplexität der Natur nicht v...

When Cubans left their island and emigrated to the United States, they found themselves spread out all over the U.S. This mosaic portrays some of the cultural and political adjustments and misunderstandings of those immigtrants who found themselves in the state of Kansas, in an environment and a culture that was as different as night and day.

Im Jahre 1829 verhindert ein ehemaliger Oberst und Unabhängigkeitskämpfer den Selbstmord des aus Philadelphia stammenden Kapitän Morton. Doch um den Geretteten aus den Fängen des Geldmannes Stephen Girard zu befreien, bedarf es größerer Anstrengungen. Girard ist einer jener zehn Finanzmagnaten, die mit Hilfe des Geldes die Herrschaft über die Welt anstreben. Ein Schreiben des Oberst beeindruckt Girard und er läßt Morton als Gesandten in London...

During the small steps I took through my last few years I have learned a couple lessons. #1 take it easy when things do not go your way because only patience can bring an end to a bad day. #2 only worry about you until you are through because you cannot jump in to save them if you know you cannot swim. #3 and the most important one to me, is that the world is what we make it, whether we like or not and with a little hard work the earth could b...

Economic literature pays a great deal of attention to the performance of banks, expressed in terms of competition, concentration, efficiency, productivity and profitability. This book provides a framework for the various existing theories in this area and illustrates these theories with practical applications.

Located on the scenic north shore of Lake Erie, Elgin County was once home to over 40 vanished communities - filled with steam trains, ghosts, one-room schoolhouses, rowdy taverns, War of 1812 skirmishes and colourful characters, like Thomas Talbot. Jennifer Grainger chronicles the rise and fall of Elgin's crossroad hamlets, lakeports and rail depots with contemporary photos, archival shots, and postmarks that remind us of the pioneers.

How do the most successful school library media specialists play a leading role in student achievement in their schools? Addressing the importance of school library media specialists as instructional leaders and collaborators in diverse roles, this resource outlines different practical strategies.

The significance of THE LAW OF NATIONS resides in its distillation from natural law of an apt model for international conduct of state affairs that carried conviction in both the Old Regime and the new political order of 1789-1815.

For nearly fifty years Jessamine Colter has chronicled the life of her small town through the elegant calligraphy that she provides for church posters, restaurant menus, school diplomas, notices of birth, marriages, deaths. And in young Callie Williams, who shares her passion for "fancy writing, " Jessie has found an almost-daughter to love, train, and protect. But then Jessie discovers that she has been given the power to know the future, ...

Alle im deutschen Rassegeflügel-Standard zugelassenen Rassen der Puten, Perlhühner, Gänse und Enten werden in detaillierten Porträts mit Entstehungsgeschichte, Rassemerkmalen, Farben und Zeichnungen, Gewichte, Ringgrößen und Verbreitung beschrieben und mit mehreren Fotos hoch bewerteter Tiere dargestellt. Ein ausführliches Literaturverzeichnis gibt Auskunft über wichtige Quellen.

Sensible Vögel - die wichtigsten Großpapageien im Porträt - wie Papageien untereinander kommunizieren - wie sie sich im sozialen Gefüge verhalten - Probleme erkennen und das Verhalten der eigenen Papageien richtig deuten - wie das Umfeld so gestalten werden kann, dass Papageien physisch und psychisch gesund bleiben.