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May 12, 1944 - 25 days before D-Day - President Franklin Roosevelt orders a special team to undertake a mission to Moscow to tell Joseph Stalin about America's capability to complete the development of the atom bomb. Based upon the personal journal of Beatrice Rapoport, one of the team's leaders.Excerpts:Sunday in Moscow July 9th 1944 - 11:15PM My Room - Spazzo House We know that now the going will get rough. Every effort will be made to get o...

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Borneo, Sarawak, The Confrontation, jungle, adventure, war, soldiers Set in Borneo during a little known war known as The Confrontation, this story tells of the British soldiers who fought in one of the densest jungles in the world. Jason, a young soldier of the Light Infantry who is good with guns, is stationed in Penang, an idyllic island off the coast of Malaysia. He is living aimlessly in paradise until he meets Megan, a bright and intelli...

Cairo, Saladin, assassins, crusades, Egypt, adventure, thriller Courage, comradeship, sacrifice, and treachery in the time of the Crusades: The Third Book of Talon Talon is returning to the Holy Land to search for his beloved Ravan, but Fate has other plans for him. When his ship is wrecked off the coast of North Africa in a storm, Talon and Max, his sole surviving companion, escape captivity and the threat of execution, only to risk their l...

A joyous homecoming turns into a nightmare, as a trained assassin must do the one thing he didn't want to do-become an assassin again. Knight Assassin is story of treachery, greed, love, and heroism set in the Middle Ages, just prior to the Third Crusade. Talon, a young Frank, returns to France with his uncle Phillip, a Templar knight, to be reunited with his family who lost him to the Assassins of Alamut when he was just a boy. When he arri...

Inspired by "The Devil's Dictionary, " "The Completely Useless Dictionary of Higher Education" is a satirical reference book, written to entertain both academician and pupil. Definitions are presented based on the person's role (professor, student, or administrator). A welcome addition of humor into an otherwise snooty culture.

This bold agenda-setting title continues to spearhead interdisciplinary, multisensory research into experience, knowledge and practice. Drawing on an explosion of new, cutting edge research Sarah Pink uses real world examples to bring this innovative area of study to life. She encourages us to challenge, revise and rethink core components of ethnography including interviews, participant observation and doing research in a digital world. The b...

A Falcon Flies: The fifth book of Talon. Talon has returned to Acre the crusader port after more than a year in Byzantium. He is now a rich man, the owner of ships and and in possession of a license to play the merchant within the Empire to the north. However riches bring enemies and his past is about to catch up with him as accusations of witchcraft have followed him from Languedoc. An investigation is about to disrupt his life but then ev...

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Piano Accompaniments for the Theo Charlier 36 Etudes. No. 19 through No. 36. Note to the performers: Some of the solos have an introduction which is clearly bracketed in the piano accompaniment.The pianist should point these out to the soloist for the original etudes do not have introductions. Some of the Etudes also have interludes which are clearly marked in the accompaniment. Again, the pianist should point these out to the soloist so there...

Ist es vorstellbar, dass intelligente Viren das menschliche Gehirn bereits seit Jahrtausenden beeinflussen? Während der bekannte Schriftsteller und Biologe Paul Calastana an seinem neuen Roman arbeitet, verdichten sich die Hinweise, dass ein heimtückisches, intelligent handelndes Virus für die weltweit zunehmende Anzahl der absonderlichen Vorfälle verantwortlich sein könnte. Nur wenige Eingeweihte nehmen den Kampf gegen den unsichtbaren Feind ...

A seldom seen view of Arnis/Modern Arnis the Filipino fighting art of Professor Remy Pesas as seen by 1st Generation student / Senior Master Instructor, Grandmaster of Arnis: Bram Frank. Modern Arnis is seen through the perspective of the family art of the Bolo and knife, (edged tools) rather than a stick. The art of the blade as hidden in Modern Arnis based on the family style of Bolo is shown. The Presas family was known for teaching bolo to...

Four years have passed since the battle of Gibraltar. The Corsair has tracked Van Guld down at last and has formed an alliance with three of the most formidable pirates in the Gulf to finally bring his foe to justice. The adventure continues...

The purpose of the study was to compare the peak flow rate and body mass index between physical education and non-physical education students. To achieve the objectives of the study, a total of 100 students, fifty male and female physical education students and fifty male and female non-physical education students were selected randomly as subjects. The age of the subjects ranged between 20 to 26 years. To determine the significant difference ...

Wavefield extrapolation in orthorhombic anisotropic media incorporates complicated but realistic models to reproduce wave propagation phenomena in the Earth's subsurface. Compared with the representations used for simpler symmetries, such as transversely isotropic or isotropic, orthorhombic models require an extended and more elaborated formulation that also involves more expensive computational processes. The acoustic assumption yields more e...

The research work presented in this book is aimed to overcome some issues related to structured aggregation approaches, conventional compression techniques, data aggregation in single sink network architectures and secure data aggregation which includes data integrity and data confidentiality issues. Also, it is aimed to make some enhancements such as incorporating the fault management in the multiple sink network architectures to provide effi...

This book aims to give an overview on the present state of volcanic lake research, covering topics such as volcano monitoring, the chemistry, dynamics and degassing of acidic crater lakes, mass-energy-chemical-isotopic balance approaches, limnology and degassing of Nyos-type lakes, the impact on the human and natural environment, the eruption products and impact of crater lake breaching eruptions, numerical modeling of gas clouds and lake erup...

Reeds van oudsher speelt de tandarts een belangrijke rol bij de preventie en de bestrijding van de negatieve gevolgen van chemische en bacteriologische bedreigingen van het kauwstelsel. De infecties en ontstekingen die hier het gevolg van kunnen zijn, tasten de gezondheid van de tanden en kiezen (cariës, endodontitis) en de omringende weefsels (parodontitis) aan. Echter, steeds duidelijker wordt dat ook mechanische bedreigingen de gezondheid v...

The SAGE Handbook of Popular Music is a comprehensive, smartly-conceived volume that can take its place as the new standard reference in popular music.The editors have shown great care in covering classic debates while moving the field into new, exciting areas of scholarship.International in its focus and pleasantly wide-ranging across historical periods, the Handbook is accessible to students but full of material of interest to those teaching...

Third Edition of the renowned UK Railway industry terminology reference. Completely revised and updated with 80 extra pages of acronyms, terms and illustrations.