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In The Great Democracies, Winston Churchill makes his case for the unique and fundamental role the English-speaking people played in bringing economic progress and political freedom to the world at large. As a work of history, this volume covers the period from the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815...

It begins when you have that moment when you can close your eyes and see a world no-one has seen before. It might start from a grain of sand, the way light filters through the trees, the feel of satin robes, the smell of cooking soup, or simply a wish for somewhere, somewhen else. It happens for different...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Hal Silver is back and hes crankier than ever. But who can blame him? Hes been hired by a mob kingpin who wants him to find out who murdered his son Vinny Viano and he doesnt have a clue where to start. And his only help is the dim witted gangsters assistant whose only concern is how many pieces he...

Slate Run Annual is a collection of unique and fresh new voices draw exclusively from the Capital District area of upstate NY. Diverse in genre and style, Slate Run Annual presents a wide range of voices - literary fiction, humor, fantasy, science fiction and coming of age. So expansive a collection will doubtless present readers with something for every taste.

The rare earths play a unique role in science. These seventeen related elements afford a panoply of subtle variations deriving from the systematic development of their electronic configurations, allowing a test of theory with excellent resolution. In contrast they find widespread use in even the most...

An Awards Ceremony... An Evil Witch... And Another Murder! A special night out at an awards ceremony to honor her boyfriend, Lucian Knight, gives Addie Kilorian a chance to forget about being a witch for a while, and just be his loving girlfriend. Of course, she should have known that...

This book is an autobiography based on Keiths memoirs which he wrote shortly before he died in 2006 not for publication but for his descendents who might be interested in how he spent his life. He didnt think there would be wide interest but this was far from true and in fact he wrote a most interesting...

This book brings together some of the most influential new research from the world-systems perspective. The authors survey and analyze new and emerging topics from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, from political science to archaeology. Each analytical essay is written in accessible language...

Aspen Policy Books is a series of annual publications on the United States’ most pressing foreign policy and national security issues. In 2017, the Aspen Strategy Group examined the future of the liberal world order. The papers in this volume outline the history and importance the system of institutions...

Linear systems have all the necessary elements (modeling, identification, analysis and control), from an educational point of view, to help us understand the discipline of automation and apply it efficiently. This book is progressive and organized in such a way that different levels of readership...

This extensively revised and updated new edition of Specification of Software Systems builds upon the original focus on software specification with added emphasis on the practice of formal methods for specification and verification activities for different types of software systems and at different...

In the current era of health care reform, the pressures to truly manage patient care and to build effective integrated delivery systems are generating intense interest in patient care information systems. Health care institutions cannot provide seamlees access to care without seamless access to information,...

Inspired by the need for interpretations and critiques of the varied messages surrounding what and how we eat, Food, Feminisms, Rhetorics collects eighteen essays that demonstrate the importance of food and food-related practices as sites of scholarly study, particularly from feminist rhetorical perspectives. Contributors...