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Legasthenie, Außenseitertum, Einsamkeit - das sind die Themen von Robert Kühns kleiner Geschichte. Ein alter Mann erinnert sich an sein Leben, rekonstruiert anhand von alten Fotografien aus einem Schukarton seine Kindheit, seine Jugend, seine ersten Schritte in ein einges Leben. Mitreißend beschreibt Robert Kühn, was es heißt, sich seinen Platz im Leben erkämpfen zu müssen.

Who says money can't buy you love? Issued by the "World Bank of Savings and Love" these playful checks offer a diverse portfolio of options for the shy and adventurous alike, with fill-in-the-blanks and check-box prompts. The checkbook includes 30 IOUs and 30 UOMEs, making it easy for you to get back what you give. Best of all, these checks are guaranteed not to bounce (unless you're into that)!

If you're not old enough to remember Falstaff on The Fred Allen Show, perhaps you recall Fred Flintstone from The Flintstones, that modern stoneage family. Both boisterous voices - and more - came from the talented mouth of Alan Reed, one of the greatest actors ever to light up radio, television and films. This is his story, published for the first time, complete with rare photos and credit list.

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I am a snake. No, not a rattlesnake. I just look like one. I'm a gopher snake.One day an oily, filthy, fleshy human child crossed my path. As luck would have it, he knew the difference between a gopher snake and a rattlesnake. He has imprisoned me in a terrarium. His name is Gunnar. He calls me Crusher. He thinks I'm male. I'm not.He dropped in a dead mouse and hoped I'd eat it. I buried it. He then dropped in a live one, which he called "Brea...

Money. It affects us all, so why is it so difficult to discuss? Even as daily headlines broadcast ever more alarming news about the fate of the American economy, few people are willing to acknowledge the enormous impact that personal finance has on their private affairs. Until now.In this compelling anthology of original essays, some of the country's most respected women writers reveal their deepest feelings about money and how it affects thei...

Abraham Lincoln is the most revered president in American history, but the woman at the center of his life, his wife, Mary, has remained a historical enigma. In this definitive, magisterial biography, Catherine Clinton draws on important new research to illuminate the remarkable life of Mary Lincoln, and at a time when the nation was being tested as never before.Mary Lincoln's story is inextricably tied with the story of America and with her h...

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“More twists and turns—and speed—than an icy Norwegian Slalom Track.”—New Orleans Times-PicayuneCaptured on closed-circuit television: A man walks into an Oslo bank, puts a gun to a cashier's head, and tells her to count to twenty-five. When he doesn't get his money fast enough, he pulls the trigger. The young woman dies—and two million Norwegian kroner disappear without a trace.After a drunken evening with former girlfriend Anna Bethsen, Poli...

War Memoirs: Corporal William Dale and The Boys of Stewart Town (The British West Indies Regiment). This is the story of William Dale, taking you from his enlistment to his discharge, during The Great War (World War One). Herein you will read riveting stories of war, friendship, and loss.

This book is Volume IV of the series DSP for MATLAB¿ and LabVIEW¿. Volume IV is an introductory treatment of LMS Adaptive Filtering and applications, and covers cost functions, performance surfaces, coefficient perturbation to estimate the gradient, the LMS algorithm, response of the LMS algorithm to narrow-band signals, and various topologies such as ANC (Active Noise Cancelling) or system modeling, Noise Cancellation, Interference Cancellati...

ABOUT THE CMO JOURNAL: Despite the uniqueness of the role played by the Chief Marketing Officer, researchers are only beginning to lend insight into this increasingly important position, leaving practitioners to their own devices. To help fill this void, The Chief Marketing Officer Journal was created to accelerate the pace of theory development and critical discussion concerning all aspects of executive leadership within the marketing discipl...

The Soviet war in Afghanistan was a grueling debacle that has striking lessons for the twenty-first century. In The Great Gamble, Gregory Feifer examines the conflict from the perspective of the soldiers on the ground. During the last years of the Cold War, the Soviet Union sent some of its most elite troops to unfamiliar lands in Central Asia to fight a vaguely defined enemy, which eventually defeated their superior numbers with unconventiona...

Improvements in network bandwidth along with dramatic drops in digital storage and processing costs have resulted in the explosive growth of multimedia (combinations of text, image, audio, and video) resources on the Internet and in digital repositories. A suite of computer technologies delivering speech, image, and natural language understanding can automatically derive descriptive metadata for such resources. Difficulties for end users ensue...

Stephanie Plum is back between-the-numbers and she's looking to get lucky In an Atlantic City hotel room...In a Winnebago...And with a brown-eyed stud who has stolen her heart...Stephanie has a way of attracting danger, lunatics, oddballs, bad luck...and mystery men. And no one is more mysterious than Diesel. He's hot on the trail of a little man in green pants who's lost a giant bag of money. Problem is, the money isn't exactly lost. Stephani...

You are your thoughts -- you create your life. In author Marianne Maynard's powerful book, Take Charge of Your Thought--Create Your Ideal Life, you will learn how to take control of your life through examination of your highest ideals to achieve limitless success.Through an innovative step-by-step process, Maynard outlines how to focus your thoughts in order to enhance the quality of your life and accomplish your goals -- however grand they ma...

Challenge of the Congo Kwame Nkrumah First published in 1967, this book provides a contemporary account of Congo's recent history by one of the Heads of State most closely involved.

Full Length, Comedy / 1m, 5f (to play several roles) / Areas In this breezy "NASComedy" the fast lane is stalled to a screeching halt by the arrival of a woman driver on the NASCAR scene, and egos get bruised as Holly "Legs" Nelson starts stealing the show, driving so fast some think she's cheating. Her rival, Hotshot, wants to sabotage her success, which results in a fast-paced story of NASCAR drivers and their kooky fans, all in pursuit of h...