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Take time to read this fascinating rags-to-riches story, spanning ninety-two years. It is a history lesson in itself.From A Straw Mattress is an autobiography written by Ginny Kovacs.

Der Band "Medienästhetik der Komik" zeigt im interdisziplinären Dialog zwischen Philosophie, Literatur-, Sprach-, Musik- und Medienwissenschaft, spezifische Verfahren medialer Komikerzeugung auf und nimmt dazu u. a. Filme, Videokunst, Musik, Lyrik, Witze, Comics und das Theater in den Blick.In der Geschichte der Komiktheorie ist die Medienspezifik der Komik bislang noch kaum erforscht worden. Die traditionellen Komiktheorien sind vor allem am ...

From the composer: How did it all begin? And what happened next?I found myself pondering these questions in an art gallery in Bremen, in a James Turrell installation that carved through three storeys of the gallery. Looking down from the top floor through great circles of colour-changing light to the distant sparkling points in a dark ellipse on the ground floor, I felt that I was looking back in time to the origins of the universe - and I sta...

Elastic garments have tremendous scope in the field of tight-fit sportswear and healthcare application. Research towards improvement in the elasticity of fibre, yarn and fabrics and development in testing methods for elastic garments is the current requirement for the industrial product development. This proposed book is about the elastane fibre, elastane yarn and fabric production methods, new attempts in yarn production, commercial ways of f...

Schamlos" ist die Geschichte der drei Freunde Andreas, Philipp und Thomas. Mit ihrem frisch bestandenen Abitur in der Tasche fliegen sie für eine Woche nach Mallorca. Da den dreien der erste Urlaub ohne Eltern aber noch nicht genug ist, beschließen sie, sich gegenseitig Aufgaben im Stil eines Mutprobenwettbewerbs zu stellen. Der Verlierer soll den Urlaub bezahlen. Für alle. Klar, dass da keiner verlieren will. So manövrieren sie sich gegenseit...

The book offers insights into the scholarly debates on formal and informal finance in rural China and fills a gap in existing literature.

This book interrogates the ideology and practices of liberal constitutionalism in the Zambian postcolony. It focuses on the residual political and governmental effects of an Imperial form of power, embodied in the person of the Republican President, termed here Prerogativism, and examines how this has shaped the postcolonial political landscape.

Describes the beliefs of the religious groups among the Oglala Lakota: traditional Lakota religion, the Native American Church, and the Body of Christ Independent Church. Steinmetz discusses the interdynamics of pipe, Bible and peyote, and offers a model for understanding Oglala religious identity.

This volume confronts the disintegration of traditional sources of meaning and the correlative attempts to generate new sources from within the self. Voegelin allows the reader to contemplate the crisis in its starkest terms - as the apocalypse of man that seeks to replace the apocalypse of God.

Surprising and erudite, eloquent and witty,  When to Rob a Bank demonstrates the brilliance that has made the Freakonomics guys an international sensation, with more than 7 million books sold in 40 languages, and 200 million downloads of their Freakonomics Radio podcast.When to Rob a Bank is Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner’s curated collection from the most readable economics blog in the universe. Drawn from 10 years of entries on Freak...

In this engagingly witty, wise, and heartfelt memoir, Martin Short tells the tale of how a showbiz- obsessed kid from Canada transformed himself into one of Hollywood's favorite funnymen, known to his famous peers as the "comedian's comedian."Short takes the reader on a rich, hilarious, and occasionally heartbreaking ride through his life and times, from his early years in Toronto as a member of the fabled improvisational troupe Second City to...

Whitey Bulger was, following the death of Osama bin Laden, the number-one fugitive on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list. He was one of the most prominent mobsters in Boston’s criminal underworld from the 1970s until his disappearance in 1995. He remained at large for sixteen years.But the truth was much more complicated, as his trial revealed in alarming detail. Throughout the era in which Bulger was a crime boss, he was also a Top Echelon Inform...

“A lusty, rollicking seventeenth-century adventure. . . .History as entertainment.”—USA TodayThe Caribbean, 1665. A remote colony of the English Crown, the island of Jamaica holds out against the vast supremacy of the Spanish empire. Port Royal, its capital, is a cutthroat town of taverns, grog shops, and bawdy houses. In this steamy climate there’s a living to be made, a living that can end swiftly by disease—or by dagger. For Captain Charles...

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Messenger of Death, a novel by Alex Markman, takes the reader into the frightening and fascinating world of bikers turf wars and encounters with the law. Inspired by gang wars in Quebec, Canada, in the late 1990s, Messenger of Death follows the lifestyle of the fictitious gangsters of two biker gangs, the Devils Knights and the Iron Ghosts. The Knights and the Ghosts illegal drug trade in a Canadian province expands to the point where they can...

A student-friendly introduction to Latin Learning Latin can prove daunting even to the brightest students. But this innovative text draws students into the story of Rome and lets Virgil and Livy lead the way in learning declensions and conjugations. Latin Alive and Well is a classroom-tested textbook consisting of 36 units. It is designed for both high school and university classes, in both two-semester courses and intensive one-semester cours...

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This is an insider's tour, touching on the network's dizzying decision-making process, and the artists who have revolutionized the medium.