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I should like to express my gratitude to my supervisor, Professor H. Schultink, whose criticisms and careful reading helped me to improve considerably upon the clarity of exposition while I wrote this study, and whose seemingly innocent requests to elaborate confronted me time and again with the need...

Volume III explores the basic units in the educational system: student, teacher, and school. It examines the aims of education, historically and philosophically, and describes the development of various types of schools. The book provides an analysis of the use of educational media, a description...

This work, as its name implies, is intended as a practical aid to English speaking people in their efforts to acquire a knowledge of the Malay language. People naturally find it easier to grasp a new language if its grammatical construction is explained as far as possible in the same phraseology...

Per molti anni, anzi quasi fino a oggi, vi è stato in Germania un argomento tabù per eccellenza: la distruzione senza precedenti causata nella seconda guerra mondiale da oltre un milione di tonnellate di bombe, che piovvero su centotrentuno città tedesche provocando seicentomila morti fra i civili...

Spartito in quattro racconti, "Vertigini" è un libro in cui domina il tema del viaggio: un errare che ha per protagonisti non solo il narratore nelle sue lunghe peregrinazioni fra Vienna, Venezia, Verona, il lago di Garda e i luoghi dell’infanzia nelle Alpi bavaresi, ma anche scrittori...

Quattro personaggi intrecciano negli Emigrati la loro vita con quella dell’autore: Henry Selwyn, brillante chirurgo e uomo di mondo, ritiratosi in tarda età nella torre di una casa della campagna inglese dove Sebald affitta in gioventù un appartamento; Paul Bereyter, promeneur walseriano e maestro...

My Life Planned and Unplanned is the book title, but it is the unplanned part of my life that I could not have imagined during my youth in Galesburg, Illinois. As the son of Swedish immigrants and from a large family, I couldnt envisage much of a future. They were the Depression years. Those families...

This is a novel about an old woman who had her brain transplanted into the body of a young man. During the operation, an inert part of the brain was activated, and caused the brain to develop after a period of time, which produced an unusual ability, giving the recipient an interesting and eventful life.

Atlas of the Ultrastructure of Diseased Human Muscle provides a general view of the ultrastructure of normal and diseased human muscle. This book contains five chapters that illustrate the changes that take place in common pathological conditions and outline the patterns of change, which occur in...

You just got a raise to $12.50 a week so you decide to splurge and shell out a dollar to sit in the grandstand behind home plate. You know you're in for a treat. Rube Waddell, the most exciting twirler in baseball, will be in the pitcher's box. It turns out you've wasted your money. The phenom doesn't...

We all love spooky tales that defy explanation – which is clear from the popularity of our many unsolved mysteries books and television shows. Throughout the history of humanity, mankind has been witness to thousands of strange, unexplained ancient mysteries and events, as well as mysterious...

Kami is the ordinary Japanese word for God. It means primarily above, superior, and is applied to many other things besides deities, such as nobles, the authorities, the "missus," the hair of the head, the upper waters of a river, the part of Japan near Kioto, etc. Height is in every country...

Organic Chemistry for General Degree Students, Volume 2: Aromatic Chemistry covers the simple heteroaromatic systems and the chemistry of their functional groups. This book is divided into 11 chapters that also describe the properties of the aromatic compounds. The first chapters discuss the benzene...

During the twentieth century, a certain type of Indian painting began to fascinate the West. Unlike Mughal art, it was a product of Hindu courts in Rajasthan and the Punjab Hills and unlike Mughal painting, its chief concern was with the varied phases of romance. Ladies would be shown brooding in...