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Welche Geschwindigkeit wählen Sie auf einer Landstraße? Welche auf einer Autobahn? Sicherlich werden Ihre Antworten auf beide Fragen ähnlich lauten, beispielsweise: Es kommt darauf an, welches Geschwindigkeitslimit gilt. Dass dieses ein wichtiger, nicht aber der alleinige Faktor für die Wahl der Geschwindigkeit ist, zeigten bereits verschiedene Studien. Neben dem aktuellen Limit spielen zum Beispiel Umwelteinflüsse und Charakteristika des Fahr...

La naturaleza polimorfa de la ciudad hace del espacio urbano un objeto complejo, por lo que buen número de trabajos que dicen ser sobre morfología lo son sobre aspectos sociales, políticos o económicos que inciden en la configuración formal, aunque sin, por ello, poder definirse de manera estricta como investigaciones morfológicas. Por un lado, la cultura arquitectónica (en su visión físico-formal) es incapaz de ofrecer nuevos paradigmas inter...

Tamrin, a resident of the ancient port city of Aksum, was tall and lean, with restless eyes that examined all those around him. He was a man who used words and persuasion before he used the sword, but if he drew his weapon, it tasted blood. Though illiterate, Tamrin had a fantastic mind for details, money transactions, ship's cargoes, and the faces of all he met. He was a man who recognized that silence and listening paid benefits that ora...

Many couples experience a sexual dysfunction and have felt confused, ashamed, or embarrassed to discuss it with someone. This book is intended to educate couples of all ages on sexual dysfunctions and offer possible solutions to help men and women. Solutions may not work for every couple, therefore, this book serves as more of an introduction to sexual dysfunctions. The main focus of this book emphasizes open and honest communication between p...

Pet quilts are the project of the day for Harriet Truman and the Loose Threads. Local veterinarian Aiden Jalbert decides to set up an animal kennel for the local battered women's shelter and asks the quilters to sew bedding for it. Harriet is soon drawn into the world of domestic violence when Loose Thread Sarah Ness calls from the emergency room, where she's landed as a result of a vicious beating by her fiancé Seth Pratt.Sarah initially refu...

Predstawleny rezul'taty sobstwennyh issledowanij awtorow po ocenke genotoxicheskogo zagrqzneniq malyh rek na territorii Orenburgskoj oblasti. Ustanowleno nalichie w wode i donnyh otlozheniqh rek Blqwa i Kuraganka mutagenow i mitostatikow, preterpewaüschih prostranstwennuü i wremennuü dinamiku, kotoraq opredelqetsq gidrodinamicheskim rezhimom rek i migracionnymi processami genotoxikantow. Vyqwleny genotoxikanty s razlichnym harakterom dejstwiq,...

The long-lost origin and early history of our ancestors, the Britons, Scots and Anglo-Saxons, in the "Prehistoric" and Pre-Roman periods, back to about 3000 b.c., are now recovered to a great extent in this present work, by means of newly discovered historical evidence.' This book contains Waddell's historic interpretation of the inscription of the Newton Stone found in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Laurence Austine Waddell was born in Scotland on ...

This classic works by Jerome K. Jerome, originally published in 1923, is being republished here with a new biographical introduction of the author. Jerome K. Jerome was born in 1859 and became a well known English writer and humourist. He published his most successful and best-remembered work, Three Men in a Boat in 1889 and went on to produce eleven more novels and a number of anthologies.

Along the Cornwall coast you might come upon a place of wind-swept beauty where a steep lane reached to the uplands with their long view of the Atlantic and a path led down to St. Column's and the gray-roofed village that huddled o the shore of the bay. But the path that would lead into the secret lives of the untrammelled country you would never find, and yet it is along this way that Mr. Benson leads us. The rites and curious means that John...

This book contains an English narrative prose of Wagner's Valkyries by E. F. Benson. Here this classic tale from Norse Mythology is accompanied by Thomas Noyes Lewis's beautiful line drawings. This book, originally published in 1903, is here republished with a new introductory biography of E. F. Benson. Benson was born in 1867 and was a well known author of novels, biographies and short stories, he is perhaps best known for his ghost stories.

This book contains the memoirs of Stendahl or in his own words the 'chatter about his private life' between 1821 and 1830. It was between these dates that he moved to Paris and here looks back on his life as an eccentric bachelor. 'As well as Beyle the clairvoyant self-investigator, the sardonic analyst of Parisian salon society and deliberate cultivator of wit, here emerges Beyle the despairing lover, the shakespearean enthusiast, whose roman...

This book contains a collection of Edward Thomas's essays including How I Began, Chalk Pits, Tipperary, Swansea Village, and The Friend of the Blackbird. It was originally published posthumously in 1929 and is here being republished with a new introductory biography on the author. Edward Thomas was an accomplished writer and his work included essays, travelogues, topographical descriptions, reviews, critical studies and biographies. He was kil...

Picture and Text, originally published in 1893, is a collection of essays on the art of illustration by Henry James. The essays comprise of profiles on the principle illustrators of Harper and Brothers books and Magazines. We're are republishing this classic early work with a new introductory biography of the author. Henry James was born in New York City in 1843. James published his first story, 'A Tragedy of Error', in the Continental Monthly...

This short piece, written by Stephen Vincent Benét, is a modern drama of the Nativity originally written for broadcasting on the radio. It was originally published in 1942 and is now republished here with a new introductory biography. Benét was an accomplished writer at an early age, having had his first book published at 17. His best known works are the book-length narrative poem American Civil War, John Brown's Body (1928), and two short sto...

This book, originally published in Household Magazine in two installments, is the tale of a girl named Opal who has a superiority complex relating to furniture and other material surroundings. Born and raised in a small logging town, Opal is ambitious and determined to prove herself. This classic works has been republished here with a brand new introductory biography of the author. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser was born in Terre Haute, Indian...

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This article bridges the gap between the instinctive liking for musical candence and a true understanding of poetry. Here Stephen Vincent Benét tells the story of his art in a way to interest young children. It was originally published in 1929 and is now republished here with a new introductory biography. Benét was an accomplished writer at an early age, having had his first book published at 17. His best known works are the book-length narrat...

The Octoroon or The Lily of Louisiana is a dark tale of crime, race and slavery. Cora, educated in Britain, returns to her fathers plantation in Louisiana to explore the truth about her mother's slave origins. This book, originally published as a series between 1861 and 1862, was Braddon's second anonymous novel and is now known as a classic anti-slavery novel. Mary Elizabeth Braddon was born in Soho, London, England in 1835. She had her first...

This book has been written to meet the requirements of amateur gardeners who need guidance as to the various methods of growing mushrooms for home consumption. It contains a wealth of information, supplied in a concise and lucid manner, on the culture of the mushroom on ridges or beds in the open air, in boxes and tubs in cellars, under greenhouse staging, in old hotbeds or in frames and also in pastures. This book was originally published in ...

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