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Paradise Isle is just a little bit of land in the middle of a muddy creek, but to Adam it is home. When the city decides to demolish everything on the island and build a motorway through it, Adam and his neighbors fight back. In the end of this, Charles Keeping's last book, everyone gets some of what he or she wants -- well, almost everyone.

This is the strange and mysterious story of Mr. Punch and how he became the wooden puppet that we all love to hate. In this richly and dramatically illustrated book, you'll meet Judy and her baby, Napoleon Bonaparte, the German Kaiser, Queen Victoria, and many odd and bizarre characters -- tops among them, Mr. Punch himself.

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Jim and Andy's on 48th Street was a favourite haunt of New York musicians in the 1960s. This book gives vivid portraits of its clientele, including Duke Ellington, Artie Shaw, Woody Herman, Art Farmer, Gerry Mulligan, Paul Desmond, and Bill Evans.

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∗ New in paperback, this book, is likely to be adopted on many courses covering the Holocaust. ∗ A unique but disturbing book - winner of the 1989 European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences. ∗ The hardback received enormous acclaim. ∗ Zygmunt Bauman is one of the world′s leading social theorists.

We began planning and writing this book in thc late 1970$ at thc ugge s stion of Manuel Cardona and Helmut Latsch. We also received considerable eo­ couragement and stimulation from colleagues. Same said there was a need for instructional material in tbis area while others emphasized thc utility of a research text. We tried to strike a compromise. Thc figures, tables, and rcferences are included to enable researchcrs to obt81o quickly essentia...

In this companion to his 1989 Newbery Award-winning Joyful Noise, Fleischman has combined his magic with words with the exuberant artistry of Ken Nutt to provide an exhilarating gift for all who love music, poetry, drama, and

Starker als anfangs angenommen sind 1m April 1989 verdeutlichte ein Work­ shop in Munchen, an dem ca. 400 Arztin­ Frauen als Patientinnen, aber auch in den betreuenden Teams von der Krankheit nen, Psychologinnen, Krankenschwestern, AIDS betroffen. Sozialarbeiterinnen sowie Mitarbeiterin­ Insbesondere durch die Zunahme dro­ nen aus Forschungseinrichtungen, Behor­ genabhangiger oder ehemals drogenabhan­ den, Selbsthilfegruppen und ihre mannli­ g...

It is a privilege to introduce this unusual book. In a time when most docotrs practise medicine as a technical application of the natural sciences, the authors, both experienced clinicians, combine the use of modem techniques with human understanding and psychological management of their patients in the practice of internal medicine. Many of these patients suffer from "psychosomatic disorders", i. e. diseases in which emotional stresses play a...

Michael Evenari's biography unfolds his exciting, manifold life: his love for botany, the confrontation with political events as a youngster and his thrilling experience of helping in the development of Israel. Evenari takes us on his exciting expeditions in the company of his beloved wife. He tells us of his meetings with many personalities and about his farm in the Negev. The discovery of long forgotten floodwater irrigated farm systems from...

Prolog Versus You shows how you can take up the gauntlet of the logic programming language Prolog (PROgramming in LOGic) and use it as an obedient programming and problem solving tool. Logic programming emphasizes that programming is a human activity and consequently that programs should be easy for humans to write, understand and manipulate. In a program knowledge about the problem is stated in a logical language without consideration of the ...

While the present edition is bibliographically the third one of Vol. 8 of the Springer Series in Information Sciences (IS 8), the book actually stems from Vol. 17 of the series Communication and Cybernetics (CC 17), entitled Associative Memory - A System-Theoretical Approach, which appeared in 1977. That book was the first monograph on distributed associative memories, or "content-addressable memories" as they are frequently called, especially...

During the Meiji Era, of 1868-1912, British influence in Japan was stronger than that of any other foreign power. Although role models were sought from Englishmen and Scotsmen, whether diplomats, engineers, educators or philosophers, the first priority for the Japanese was to achieve a transfer of industrial and technical skills. As important customers, who brought good profits to British industry, the Japanese were accommodated when they stip...

These papers examine the interests which shape the attitudes of the European Community and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations concerning mutual relations, dialogue with trade partners and joint approaches to issues within the United Nations and other international fora.