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Victor, Colorado -- the City of Mines - came into life in the early 1890s when a prospector who had searched for gold for 19 years finally hit pay dirt. The surrounding strip of land just 10 x 6 miles offered up an extraordinary geological bonanza. The gold and the prospectors are now long gone, but Victor still echoes this history.

Dostoevsky attached introductions to his most challenging narratives, including Notes from the House of the Dead, Notes from Underground, The Devils, The Brothers Karamazov, and "A Gentle Creature." Despite his clever attempts to call his readers' attention to these introductions, they have been neglected as an object of study for over 150 years. That oversight is rectified in First Words, the first systematic study of Dostoevsky's introductio...

Slovenia Business Law Handbook Volume 1 Strategic Information and Basic Laws

Macao Country Study Guide Volume 3 Economic Strategy, Developments, Reforms

On October 29, 1929, life in the United States took a turn for the worst. The stock market the system that controls money in America plunged to a record low. But this event was only the beginning of many bad years to come. By the early 1930s, one out of three people was not working. People lost their jobs, their houses, or both and ended up in shantytowns called Hoovervilles named for the president at the time of the crash. By 1933, many banks...

Slovene: A Comprehensive Grammar is the most complete reference guide to the contemporary language.

This book explores the history of Jewish eating and identity, from the Bible to the present. It pays attention to Jewish eating laws (halakha) in each time and place, but also looks at Jews who eat like Romans or Christians regardless of the law.

This famous survey has been updated to incorporate the new perspectives of the last twelve years. The study opens with one Revolution, the Reformation, and closes with another - the Civil War of the mid-17th century and the abolition of the monarchy. Alan Smith explores the dramatic changes during this period when the country was forged into a '`nation state." Its centrepiece however, remains the extraordinary achievements of the Elizabethan a...

This interface is being recognized by business organizations as a key priority for management, and both practitioners and academics alike have placed a greater emphasis on the need to view the supply chain as a whole as the vehicle by which competitive advantage is achieved. As well as drawing upon current research and the experience of firms worldwide, Marketing Logistics uses numerous 'mini-cases' and vignettes to illustrate the key messages...

Assessing Business Excellence presents a strategic framework for business excellence and total quality management and shows how you can be actively involved in continuous improvement by systematically reviewing your business activities and results against holistic business excellence frameworks.For all practitioners who seek to use total quality management to improve their organization's effectiveness, efficiency and responsiveness, this title...

This collection of original and exciting essays explores the `visual' character of contemporary culture. Examining film, painting, propaganda, photography and television, this is an indispensible guide to this field.

Written for students of linguistics, applied linguistics and speech therapy, this dictionary covers over 2, 000 terms in phonetics and phonology. It is an informative and easy-to-use reference tool, covering a wide variety of topics.

Acknowledged as the international standard text for basic security procedures in museums.

Global Airlines: Competition in a Transnational Industry presents an overview of the changing scene in air transport covering current issues such as security, no frills airlines, `open skies¿ agreements, the outcome of the recent downturn in economic activity and the emergence of transnational airlines, and takes a forward looking view of these challenges for the industry.Since the publication of the second edition in 1999 major changes have o...

The community of translator trainers is growing constantly, as new courses are set up in diverse contexts throughout the world.

Organising Learning in the Primary School Classroom has been recognised as an indispensable guide for primary school teachers in their quest for more effective practice in the classroom. Now in its forth edition, the book has been brought right up-to-date with the many changes that are taking place nationally and globally. Throughout, the aim is to get teachers and student teachers to analyse their own classrooms and to produce solutions that ...

First Published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Windpower in developing rapidly, in terms of both the number of new installations and in interest from stakeholders including policy makers, NGOs, research scientists, industry and the general public. Unlike the majority of texts on wind power which are written primarily for engineers or policy analysts, this book specifically targets those interested in, or planning to develop, wind power projects. The author explores the interactions between...

Combining film theory with a rich body of ethnographic research, Stacey applies theories of spectatorship to female spectators. Stacey's research analyses what memories female movie goers have of stars Bette Davis and Lauren Bacall.

Effective communication is vital to science, engineering and business management. This book gives clear, practical advice illustrated with real-life examples on how to select, organize and present information in reports, papers and other documents.