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A Message from Pal, the dog: It is interesting to listen to the owners of pets talk to us dogs. Some people choose to scream, others to quietly beg. The purpose, I suppose, is to get our attention to do a task that satisfies the nice, and the not so nice, pet owners. Take me for example, my name is Pal. I've been living the good life since after my birth with a kind and very loving couple. I call him my Dad, and his wife, I call my Mom. I know...

It's an age-old axiom: if you don't support the war, you don't support the troops. And Peggy Logue couldn't disagree more. When Peggy's nineteen-year-old son, U.S. Marine Michael Logue, is deployed to a volatile area of Iraq, Peggy suddenly faces an alarming challenge to her anti-war sensibilities. Should she remain silent or give voice to her feelings? Despite being called a "coward" by other members of the Marine Family Residence group, Pegg...

It's an age-old axiom: if you don't support the war, you don't support the troops. And Peggy Logue couldn't disagree more. When Peggy's nineteen-year-old son, U.S. Marine Michael Logue, is deployed to a volatile area of Iraq, Peggy suddenly faces an alarming challenge to her anti-war sensibilities. Should she remain silent or give voice to her feelings? Despite being called a "coward" by other members of the Marine Family Residence group, Pegg...

This is the biography of the life of artist Robert James (Bob) Webb, spanning a century of ups and downs of a nation, lovingly told by his wife, Katheryn Webb. At a young age, he was taken under the wing of the famous portrait painter, Fred Mortimer Lamb and later he apprenticed with the famous artist, John Singer Sargent. So impressed was Sargent with Bob's work and work ethic, he recommended Webb to the Secretary of the Navy to join the newl...

Much is known about the American Revolutionary and Civil Wars. Relatively little is known about the wars to conquer the Trans-Appalachian West, the area between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River. Yet, in terms of political ramifications and intrigue, military strategies and tactics, and interactions between different entities and individuals, these campaigns rank high on the scale of complexity and interest. Just as other war...

Much is known about the American Revolutionary and Civil Wars. Relatively little is known about the wars to conquer the Trans-Appalachian West, the area between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River. Yet, in terms of political ramifications and intrigue, military strategies and tactics, and interactions between different entities and individuals, these campaigns rank high on the scale of complexity and interest. Just as other war...

Some have said that if God had wanted us to fly, He would have given us wings. And yet, we were given the ability to dream, to think with our heads, to have courage in our hearts, and to build with our hands. Truly, we have been given everything we need: We really can fly on our own wings! Chris Heintz is a professional aeronautical engineer with a prolific career spanning over 40 years designing and building light aircraft. Recognized worldwi...

This book tells an exciting series of adventures by a group of University studene who are convinced that there is another planet in our universe that will support life the same as Earth. The story takes place a thousand years from now where there have been huge advances in space travel The group of 10 take space travel training and embark upon a mission to find their planet. They suspect that it is on the opposite side of the sun and in the sa...

Terry Julian's book is an informative biography of Canada's first Priminster and the latter's role in Confederation. Much that is generally unknown in John A. Macdonald's heroic life is revealed and shows an energetic and visionary person in whom every Canadian should be knowledgeable.

The Black Clergy's Misguided Worship Leadership, This book is an incisive analysis showing why and how the black community's worship of Jesus Christ, Christianity's White male idol, is a subliminal, underlying cause of the high incarceration rates among young Black males. Citing cogent historical, educational, and behavioral reasons, Dr. Bell explains why the worship of the ancient Roman, Constantine- certified, white male idol Jesus Christ is...

Hovels and palaces, presidents and villagers, beseechers and beggars, bedbugs and silk sheets, bearers and ayahs, feasts and cockroaches, foreign travel, riches and squalor, beauty and ugliness, opportunity and temptation, access and denial, such are the quotidian fare of diplomatic life. Add to these the mythical secrecy and subtle ways of international diplomacy and one has the basis for a life often misunderstood by those outside the foreig...

Eva fights to discover where her unknown sorrows were born, her allergy to closed enclosures and her talents. She's knocked down because of her solitude. She doesn't give up. She doesn't hand-over her power. She continues in the tournament. What are the trophies?: She starts to increase her love energy, her conscience level, making her mind stronger, waking up her inner warrior, re-finding her Inner Wisdom... She says a loud "yes" to love, and...

FACT, FICTION AND FANCY...This is a novel. Its characters and scenes are imaginary. There was no prairie town Little River or the Brown Buffalo Band, or Squaw Hill in the Northwest Territories of Canada and what became the Province of Alberta. None of the characters depicted herein were real. But in what I choose to call Novelized History, the story draws on incidents and characters in history, from native Canadian stories, the records of expl...

The angels are at war, always have been since Lucifer and his legions were cast out of heaven. Lucifer wanted to return to heaven to take his regular duties, but it did not happen so. Mankind came to the world which made Lucifer angry because they would take their places in heaven. Lucifer was not going to let that happen. Lucifer and his legions found a way to stop mankind. Their plan was to take away their souls and make mankind sin in the s...

This book brings together in one volume some of the most exciting recent work from the international surrealist movement. With over 80 contributors from 17 countries around the world, the book contains drawings, paintings, games, comics, photographs, poetry, prose, theoretical and political writings on a huge variety of subjects, including special in-depth investigations of music, space and myth. The book is a must-read for anyone interested i...

Since winning medals at Olympic Games has become an objective that all countries want to achieve, a lot of empirical research has been devoted to the factors that result in some countries to perform better than others. Against this background, this Master Dissertation gives a quantitative lisrel-analysis of the following topics: 1. To what extent are welfare characteristics predictors of Olympic medal success? 2. If so, what measure of welfare...

Chip multiprocessors (CMPs) constitute the new trend for increasing the performance of future computers. In the near future, chips with tens of cores will become more popular. Nowadays, directory-based protocols constitute the best alternative to keep cache coherence in large-scale systems. Nevertheless, directory-based protocols have two important issues that prevent them from achieving better scalability: the directory memory overhead and th...

Individuals are constantly faced with the need to form impressions of others they encounter. For decades social psychologists and media researchers have examined not only the end result of impression formation but also the cognitive process itself. However, very little media research has examined the cognitive process that takes place when viewers are forming impressions of fictional media characters. There is reason to believe that viewers re...

Global warming is an average increase in the temperature of the atmosphere near the Earth''s surface and in the troposphere, which can contribute to changes in global climate patterns. Global warming can occur from a variety of causes, both natural and human induced. In common usage, "global warming" often refers to the warming that can occur as a result of increased emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities. Climate change refers to...

This study investigated the interplay of genitoerotic role preference (top, versatile, bottom), sexual satisfaction, sexual fantasy-reality discrepancy, personality trait of dominance, self-perceived and relative masculinity and femininity, and sex- motives, in the sample of 301 coupled gay men, who volunteered to complete an on-line survey. Findings support the presence of cultural stereotypes that associate receptivity with femininity and su...