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Contains recorded material that corresponds to the audio portion of the Student Activities Manual and reinforces pronunciation and listening skills.

Addresses issues that include: steel and composite bridges for high-speed railways, European Standards for high-speed railway bridges, prestressed concrete high-speed railway bridges, bridge-vehicles dynamic interaction, seismic design of structures for high-speed railways, design, and, codes and dynamic analysis.

When America's corporate leaders need reliable information and expertise about dealing with threats to personnel both here and abroad, they turn to Mike Ackerman, who for more than thirty years has helped the business community deal with everything from random street crime to global jihad. Widely acknowledged as one of America's leading authorities on terrorism, Ackerman's forte is recovering kidnap victims. He has been involved directly in mo...

All too often conservation efforts are seen to be in conflict with local livelihoods and resource use. As more land and natural resources are incorporated into protected areas 'responsible tourism' is often invoked as a way to serve both conservation ends and support local livelihoods and promote economic development. Yet does it actually work in practice?Employing case studies drawn from across southern Africa - one of the testing grounds for...

High levels of rural poverty in many of the world's ecosystems make it an ethical and practical imperative to find equitable and realistic ways of achieving conservation. This title offers an overview of the issues and a framework for addressing poverty reduction in the context of conservation, and conservation in the context of poverty reduction.

Good schools think with people and not to people' argues David Hudson in this thought-provoking practical guide for those wanting to bridge the gap between middle and senior management roles, and make a difference in their schools. Accessibly and engagingly written and packed with real-life examples, this book will prove essential reading for ambitious teachers and deputy heads everywhere. Whilst many management books tend to overcomplicate Da...

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This book contains the main provisions of the Vulnerable Witnesses (Scotland) Act 2004 together with commentary for lawyers, law students, those who lead or hear witness in court and other professionals dealing with young people and adults who may be vulnerable as potential witnesses.

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This book represents the physical outcome of the symposium "Academic Voices in Contrast", organised at the University of Bergen, Norway, in May 2006. The symposium, focusing on recent research within the field of academic discourse, was initiated and organised by the KIAP project (Cultural Identity in Academic Prose, see www.uib.no/kiap/).

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The dynamic behaviour of bridges strongly affects the infrastructure system of high-speed railways, and is a crucial factor in safety issues and passenger comfort. Dynamics of High-Speed Railway Bridges covers the latest research in this field, including: a " Recently developed dynamic analysis techniques, a " Train excitations, a " Design issues for high-speed railway bridges a " Fatigue conduct of viaducts and large span bridges, a " Bridge ...

The construction of high-speed railways includes a wide variety of aspects, ranging from safety to new types of equipment and construction solutions. All these require state-of-art technologies, and in recent years design concepts for high-speed railways have improved. The focus in this volume is on the interaction between rail track and bridges. Track-bridge interaction sets a limit to the vibration and deformability of structures, so that ac...

Oscar is a curious kitten!As Oscar the kitten watches the sun set one evening, he has lots of questions about light and dark. Who better than Moth to help out? Moth shows how sources of light are as different as the sun, stars, fireflies, streetlights, and airplanes, and also explains how shadows are made and why darkness comes at night. Includes lesson summaries!Back matter includes an index and supplemental activities.

For some, the American Dream is a pre-fab house in the suburbs with 2.5 kids and a two-week vacation at the end of the year. To others, it is working a push fruit cart in Oakland in order to put food on the family's table in Oaxaca. In The American Dream Harmon Leon draws upon his experiences of adopting personas and disguises to infiltrate the various institutions of everyday life, living among a diverse range of subcultures and learning firs...

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England zu Beginn des 14. Jahrhunderts. Nach dem Tod seines despotischen Vaters kann der schöne junge König Edward II. endlich seinen verstoßenen Liebhaber Gaveston zurück nach London holen. Die obsessive Liebe des Herrschers bringt schnell die Lords und Kirchenmänner gegen den Günstling auf, der von Edward mit Adelstitel und Reichtümern überhäuft wird. Die verschmähte Königin Isabella verbündet sich mit dem machthungrigen Lord Mortimer gegen ...

In this groundbreaking book, the New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Green Book Thomas M. Kostigen reveals the vital missing link in today's environmental crisis: how we as individuals are connected to the most tenuous geography on the planet. Despite the recent prominence of "green" issues in the news, the direct relationship between our actions and the earth is too often ignored. But the seemingly insignificant things we do every day ...