Nationalismus, Imperialismus und Militarismus der europäischen Nationen führten zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts zum Ausbruch des 1. Weltkriegs. 17 Millionen Menschen verloren ihr Leben. Das sinnlose Völkerschlachten gilt heute als die "Urkatastrophe des 20. Jahrhunderts". Die Reihe "Der 1. Weltkrieg" gibt in fünf Teilen einen chronologisch geordneten Überblick über Gründe und Ereignisse, die zu diesem Krieg führten. Sie zeigt dessen Verlauf und...
Due to the importance of controlling the X- ray (package) beam in the diagnostic field, and the high prices of the control kids and devices for both engineer and the medical physicist, and due to the importance of recognizing the presence or absence of an X-ray beam, the researcher found it necessary to search for tools not to measure but to work as indications of the presence of X-ray beam and to know whether or not the X-ray tube has generat...
Lori Kaiser, one of the most inspiring children's book authors in print today has captured again the imagination through the eyes of Callie, the cat. Callie is young and scared by all the things she sees on Halloween night. Her imagination goes a little wild until she meets Karson, a sweet young girl who was out "trick or Treating". Beautifully illustrated by Shelbea Combs, this book will grab and hold the attention of young listeners and read...
Forty-year-old Kate Willard's less-than-ordinary life changesforever when strange, incoherent dreams and visions begin to take over herreality. Initially unaware of this "alien" intrusion, Kate realizes hersanity is beginning to crumble and embarks on an extraordinary adventurethat pushes her into the vast reaches of our galaxy...and beyond!Meanwhile, members of the Odyssey Bourne Force - a covert organization sosecretive they deny their very ...
Emperor's World" is the story a stallion and a herd of mares that he rustledfrom ranches in Colorado. He leads his herd up into the rugged mountainvalleys of western Colorado. The herd affects many people who come intocontact with the horses. An old Indian eventually affects all the peoples'lives even more profoundly than the horses.Three young couples, and their parents' lives, are followed as the youngstersmature from teenagers to adulthood ...
Nine psychics have come together to form a group of individuals with similar traits. Fleeing China aboard a stolen jet, they have eluded their military pursuers and now search for a home - a secluded place to live out their life away from the rest of humanity. Yet even as they leave China behind, the group cannot decide which direction to fly. "We must establish a base if we are to survive, " the group's founder Michael Tyler insists. However,...
They were here Friday, they were here Saturday, and those nuts were sprinkled on our Sunday."When veteran southwest Missouri newspaper editor Randy Turner wrote those words he never dreamed he was opening the door to a $1.5 billion libel suit and the end of a storied newspaper career that saw him earn more than 100 awards, including 30 for investigative reporting.In Newspaper Days, Turner's follow-up to the highly successful The Turner Report,...
To escape an abusive relationship is not necessarily to find personal Liberty. But for Anne Delaney, the protagonist of Lois Schwarz's contemporary novel Hollywood Con Man, this realization takes almost too long to discover. An unloved and abused child, Anne begins her quest for freedom when she first encounters affection at the age of six. Her methods for finding freedom, however, are merely escape tactics. When she is seventeen, married and ...
Church by novelist Joseph W. Michels follows William Church, ex-FBI agent turned freelance recovery specialist, as he is called from his comfortable life in San Francisco to pursue ruthless art thieves who steal priceless masters from a private residence, thus sparking an adventure of cat and mouse across Europe, with deadly results. Church is tested to his limits and finds his considerable talents pushed to the edge as the body count rises an...
The structure of the novel moves between Emilia's own reminiscencesand details of Emilia's life, birth and upbringing told through the voiceof the family confessor. Emilia is from Chioggia, one of lagoon islandsof Venice. She is betrothed to and marries Ensign Iago, the famous villainof Shakespeare's play, Othello. The story moves between the Doge's prisonin Venice and the events leading up to Emilia's arrest for treason against theVenetian st...
It is 1966, and the Cold War is hot! The Prime Minister knows that Canadian Sovereignty is only being given lip service by the world's two Super Powers, but when a team of Soviet commandos is discovered in Labrador on a mission to disrupt NORAD's Pinetree Line communications, he realizes he must act swiftly or risk Canada forever becoming a mere puppet on the world stage. The President of the United States, also aware of the Soviet incursion a...