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Slaves focused their energy and attention, however, not on making money, as slaveholders increasingly did, but on keeping their kin out of the human coffles of the slave trade.

Once a sleepy plantation society, the region from the Chesapeake Bay to coastal North Carolina modernized and diversified its economy in the years before the Civil War. This title tells the story of how slaves seized opportunities in these conditions to protect their family members from the auction block.

All his life, the Hulk has wanted to be left alone - but now, he's got a big, bad family to keep up with! After the events of WORLD WAR HULKS, Hulk is joined by his son from "Planet Hulk, " Skaar, his daughter from an alternate future, Lyra, the cousin he's known and loved for ages, She-Hulk, and his best friend, Rick Jones, now in the gamma-charged form of A-Bomb. Oh, and don't forget his first wife and longtime love, Betty Banner - transform...

Includes excerpts from Secret obsession and The Reverend's wife.

Este estudio presenta una descripción del perfil de las pymes manufactureras vascas que están inmersasen un proceso de internacionalización en los albores del siglo XXI. Básicamente busca explicar tres relaciones: (1) cómo los recursos influencian las estrategias de internacionalización (2) cómo estos mismos recursos afectan el desempeño de la empresas internacionalizadas, y (3) cómo las estrategias de internacionalización afectan al desempeño...

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Shoes Along the Danube refers to the memorial of cast iron shoes that honor Hungarian Holocaust victims. Based on a true story, this amazing book follows the lives of two extended Hungarian families, the Rézlers and the Földes, one gentile and the other Jewish, through three decades. The story begins in pre-World War II Budapest, as increasing fascism and anti-Semitism lead Hungary to become an ally of Germany. In 1944, Germany invades Hung...

Witches weren't burned in colonial Virginia. They were hanged. But in the twenty-first century no one should be hanged from the trees of historic Williamsburg. Not even batty conspiracy theorists, however much Jean Fairbairn's significant other, ex-Scottish cop Alasdair Cameron, might sometimes wish he could pass judgment. Especially when said dingbats may be involved in the theft of a Williamsburg-crafted replica of a sixteenth-century Witch ...

Difficult to detect, quick to spread, and resistant to treatment, pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer death in the United States. This book offers explanations of what pancreatic cancer is, describes what people with the disease will feel physically and mentally, and discusses treatments and future directions for research.

A major study of one of France's most distinguished twentieth-century novelists and theorists, first published in 2000.

La mayoría de ciudades en los países desarrollados poseen redes de alcantarillado cada vez más deterioradas. Esto se puede deber a que el proceso de urbanización crece a nivel mundial provocando un efecto negativo en la infraestructura de los sistemas, de manera que en ocasiones las redes son deficientes en el manejo adecuado de las aguas. Debido a los altos costos que implica reemplazar dicha infraestructura, se deben tomar acciones enfocadas...

2011 Reprint of 1920 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This book is a classic text in the history of American Education. Dewey's classic work, although tedious at times, is a cogent and landmark exposition of progressive educational theory. Democracy for Dewey was both a means and an end to the building of a good and just society. In this regard he sought to develop strategies an...

The story of Annapolis resonates in every century of American history. Annapolis has been home to tobacco plantations, political intrigue, international commerce, the U.S. Naval Academy, ballooning population growth, and colonial, state, and national government. Jane Wilson McWilliams's captivating history explores Annapolis from its settlement in 1650 to its historic preservation campaign of the late twentieth century.McWilliams brings alive ...

A writer's writer, East Tennessee poet and novelist George Scarbrough enjoyed a career that spanned eight decades, including numerous awards and a 1990 Pulitzer Prize nomination for Invitation to Kim. This literary biography makes use of Scarbrough's personal journals to tie his literature to his life, and includes previously unpublished poetry, letters, and prose pieces provided by Scarbrough. He has been somewhat overlooked during his lifeti...

What does the Greek word Opa mean? According to some it is a word or pronouncement of celebration, the celebration of life itself. It is another way of expressing joy and gratitude to God, life, and others, for bringing one into the state of ultimate wisdom. Stacey Lane Bryant has three rules. She doesn't drive, she doesn't travel, and she most definitely will not date. From the outside, this odd-ball, thirties-something, single black woman is...

A wealth of guidance for meeting the educational and social needs of children through the potentially difficult transition period.

Ind response to the interest aroused in the west by eastern religions, this book offers readers with little knowledge of hinduism the essential keys for understanding it.

This timely book discusses the recent developments in maritime logistics, an important specialized area for the global economy. It includes issues such as the recent economic crisis, port competition and development, and provides insights and trends relating to these issues. Consisting of renowned researchers worldwide, the primary objective of the book identifies some of the new problems and challenges faced and innovative solutions to addres...

Never before have there been such jarring headlines, distressing news analyses, and dire predictions concerning the world's financial future. The author explains the meaning behind what the daily news shows and goes on to describe how to understand and prepare for living in the New Global Economy.

A 1998 collection which takes an alternative look at the courtly masque in early seventeenth-century England.