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The Power of Armor will teach how important the armor is and how to put it on.

Portsmouth is Britain's premier naval port with a recorded history stretching back to Anglo-Saxon times. It has a glorious and infamous past - some of which returns to haunt the present day. This book includes strange tales of spectral sightings in public buildings and historic houses across the city.

Jonathan Adams provides a readable, accessible account of the way in which the world’s plant life partly controls its own environment. Starting from the broad patterns in vegetation which have classically been seen as a passive response to climate, the book builds up from the local scale - microclimates produced by plants - to the regional and global scale. The influence of plants (both on land and in the ocean) in making clouds, haze and rain...

An accessible introduction to Arabic literature from the fifth century to the present.

Una coleccion de cuentos donde se desarrollan historias de amor verdadero asi como de aberraciones y patrones psicosomaticos en donde los personajes encaran su destino en la rueca del sansara. Almas atormendadas por las fuerzas de los celos y la imposibilidad de trascender dicha situacion. Reaparicion de personajes de ficcion de otras narraciones ya en boca de nuevos personajes.

The ships carrying the King of Naples and his entourage are caught up in a violent storm. Plunged into the turbulent sea, they arrive separately on the same nearby island. Not only do they believe that the others have perished, they are also unaware that the storm was intentional.

A graphic novel presenting the tragic tale of doomed love, set in Verona, Italy, where the Montagues and the Capulets constantly feud.

The idea that comets may be connected with the origin of life on Earth was considered heresy a few decades ago, with scientists shying away from this possibility as if from a medieval superstition. However the case that comets may have contributed at least the complex organic building blocks of life has become very strong, and mechanisms have now been identified whereby comets may incubate and transfer microbial life from one cosmic habitat to...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2009, held in Cambridge, UK, in September 2009. The 18 revised full papers, 14 short papers, and 11 posters presented together with one invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 82 submissions. The papers are  categorized into four main themes: novel IR models, evaluation, efficiency, and new perspect...

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This volume of essays constitutes a critical reappraisal of a front-rank world author, Gabriel Garc a M rquez, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983.

Medienrecht findet sich in Deutschland nicht in einem einzelnen Kodex wieder, es ist verstreut in einer Vielzahl von Regeln unterschiedlicher Herkunft aus dem Zivil- und öffentlichen Recht. Das Lehrbuch fasst die Regelungen für die einzelnen Massenkommunikationsmedien der Presse, des Rundfunks, des Films und der Onlinemedienangebote zusammen und beschreibt den Weg von einem Recht der Medien zu einem einheitlichen Medienrecht.

In The Power of a Promise, Lesra shares the secrets of his success, demonstrating that a key factor in overcoming obstacles is a strong belief that we can move beyond limiting circumstances." -Robin Sharma, Leadership guru, Author of the #1 International Bestsellers The Greatness Guide and The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari Have you ever discovered an inspiring story of someone who has made a real difference in the world and asked yourself how they...

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There are two types of people in this world, those who ponder and those who act. 50 Interviews showcases that latter, offering an honest glimpse into the mindset of a true entrepreneur. Their answers offer real life wisdom, insight and practical advice you can put to use now. These entrepreneurs are living proof that you can create something from nothing and that without risk, they can be no reward. They teach us that failure is the pathway to...

Elaine Showalter is a teacher, author, and critic whose books include A Jury of Her Peers: American Woman Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx, A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing, The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and Culture in England, 1830-1908, Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media, and Inventing Herself: Claiming a Feminist Intellectual Heritage. A past president of the Modern Lan...

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David Lack's 1947 classic work on the finches of the Galapagos Islands (Darwin's Finches) is here reprinted.

Die junge Taxifahrerin Pepa Villa führt den Leser durch abenteuerliche und amüsante Situationen in Barcelona. Hier wird kein Blatt vor den Mund genommen und der Leser lernt viele aktuelle, nicht unbedingt "salonfähige" Ausdrücke und Redewendungen aus der Alltagssprache kennen. Hinweise zu landeskundlichen Inhalten, Verständnisfragen zum Text sowie Übungen zu Lexik und Grammatik ergänzen die Lektüre.

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