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Drawing on a variety of primary documents, Booraem re-creates military life as Lieutenant Harrison experienced it - a life of duels, discipline, rivalries, hardships, baffling encounters with the natives and social relations between officers and men, military and civilians, and men and women.

Addresses the challenges of adaptation confronting the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation in the early twenty-first century. Comprised of essays from a range of experts, each chapter examines an aspect of NATO's difficult adjustment to the post Cold War security challenges within and without its treaty-based responsibilities and competencies.

Uruguay and the United States, 1903-1929 is the first study to look at the political, social, and commercial relationship between Batlle's Uruguay and the Progressive Era United States. Using government records from Montevideo and Washington, as well as newspapers, the personal papers of many of the key actors, and a variety of other sources, author James Knarr examines how this ideological and harmonious relationship developed between Batllis...

For grades 4-8, ages 10-14, This durable, bidirectional dictionary (English to Spanish and Spanish to English) is a resource especially for students learning Spanish or English. More than 50, 000 translations include variants, inflected forms, common phrases, synonyms, and definitions. An appendix with detailed pronunciation guides to the English words, includes IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) and helps English learners speak the languag...

The Internet changed the landscape for business with a boom and opened up a global marketplace like nothing before. The pace of change has been building with exponential momentum, the impact has hit, and the game has changed for businesses all over the world.

Because teens post so much personal information online on blogs, social networking sites, and Web sites, they are at high risk for these crimes. Identity Theft explains the different types of identity theft crimes and how they are committed, providing valuable advice on how to protect personal information and stay safe online. Safeguards like Internet safety software and other technologies, such as biometrics, that can help protect an individu...

Estuaries are minor geographical features at the global scale, but have major importance for society and the worlds economies. This book, with case studies from three continents, offers a perspective on estuaries as ecosystems that are intimately linked to society in both positive and negative ways. As focal points of trade, industry, energy production, fisheries, and tourism, estuaries provide a bounty of services to society, they are also ce...

Dark Matter, Neutrinos, and Our Solar System is a unique enterprise that portrays the connection between cosmology, particle and nuclear physics, and atmospheric and terrestrial physics. Constituents of dark matter (classified as hot, warm and cold) are studied in detail with regard to their individual structures (baryonic and non-baryonic, massive and non-massive, interacting and non-interacting) and their detection facilities. Neutrinos (an ...

Dark Matter, Neutrinos, and Our Solar System is a unique enterprise that should be viewed as an important contribution to our understanding of dark matter, neutrinos and the solar system. It describes these issues in terms of links, between cosmology, particle and nuclear physics, as well as between cosmology, atmospheric and terrestrial physics. It studies the constituents of dark matter (classified as hot warm and cold) first in terms of the...

The dramatic trilogy has been flourishing for some time now in new works and revivals of older works by American, British, and European playwrights. This analyses recent American works by Caucasian, African American, Asian American, and Hispanic American men and women.

This is the first full-length scholarly study of the prize-winning poet Ruth Bidgood, a writer who is best known for her long-term literary engagement with the landscape and communities of the mid-Wales region she has made her home.

Filled with original documents and vintage illustrations, this chronicles the lives of the Hart family - a Jewish family who settled in predominantly Catholic Trois-Rivières, Quebec, in 1761. Following Aaron Hart and his descendants for a century, this account not only bares the Jewish struggle for equality and freedom, but also delineates the contributions made by the various family members. A fascinating and comprehensive read, this breaks n...

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German film is enjoying enormous levels of success, whether success be defined in terms of financial returns, popularity with audiences at home and abroad or critical acclaim. The 2000s saw German productions become regular guests at all the major international film festivals, from Sundance to Tokyo, winning awards across the globe. As such, and as reviewers are keen to point out, the German industry appears to be reaching once again the aesth...

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Many students on Health and Social Care Foundation Degree and Access courses struggle with the academic expectations required of them at this level. This book is written to support such students in adapting to self-directed study, understand the assessment process and how they can make the most of their learning opportunities. The authors also cover practicalities such as avoiding plagiarism, using their studies to become a reflective practiti...

The focus of this title is the subject of the National Forensics League (NFL)'s 2012-2013 Policy Debate. It is, should the United States federal government substantially increase its transportation infrastructure investment. The policy topic implies agreement among Americans that the infrastructure needs the investment, the complication facing the country is how to pay for it.

Examines the pressing issues of educational equity and excellence brought to light in Davis Guggenheim's popular documentary, Waiting for Superman. The film's portrayal of urban public schools as uniform failures and charter schools as the only viable alternative for our nation's youth demands a closer look. Across the chapters of this important book, the contributors reveal the film's untold stories.

Ludwig Tiecks historische Novelle, inspiriert durch einen niederländischen Kupferstich, führt den Leser nach Holland in die zweite Hälfte der 1770er Jahre: In Amsterdam wird eine fürchterliche Sturmflut erwartet. Rettung verspricht ausgerechnet der für verrückt gehaltene Kapitänssohn Fritz, der ein eigenes Schiff zurechtgezimmert hat. Das Schicksal vieler Menschen hängt nun von dem geächteten Außenseiter ab ..."Eine einfache und doch reizvolle...

Der junge Baron Ferdinand von Kronenberg trifft während einer Reise auf einen geheimnisvollen Fremden. Er hilft dem Mann, der sich scheinbar auf der Flucht befindet, mit Geld aus, bereut seine Großzügigkeit aber schon bald, als dieser sich mit den Papieren und der Brieftasche seines Helfers aus dem Staub macht. Nur kurze Zeit später gerät von Kronenberg zwischen die politischen Fronten und wird von der französischen Armee in Gefangenschaft gen...