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Sir Jasper Arkin, retired agent on His Majesty's Secret Service, encounters an old foe long thought dead. He saw the man die. He can't be alive--and yet he is, and he's come to make Jasper an offer he can't refuse.

Over half the world lives under authoritarian regimes. For these people, the opportunity to engage in politics moves outside the state's territory. Mobilising across borders, diasporas emerge to challenge such governments. This book offers an in-depth examination of the internal politics of transnational...

This thesis explores ultracold quantum gases of bosonic and fermionic atoms in optical lattices. The highly controllable experimental setting discussed in this work, has opened the door to new insights into static and dynamical properties of ultracold quantum matter. One of the highlights reported...

Baccarat is a interesting game, full of suspense and excitement! Baccarat is a simple game to learn and play. A game of baccarat has 3 possible outcomes: Player win, Banker win and a tie. Note that “Banker” does not refer to the house, the participants in the game have the option to bet on either...

In a warm and vivid style, the author describes life with her identical twin from early childhood to young adulthood. The setting is Bavaria in the mid 1930s to the 1950s. The twins' closeness helps them cope with the adversities of war and the untimely death of their father. They share the same experiences...

Family and Kinship in England 1450-1800 guides the reader through the changing relationships that made up the nature of family life from the late medieval period to the beginnings of industrialisation. It gives a clear introduction to many of the intriguing areas of interest that this field of history...

The foundation of the modern State of Israel in 1948 is commemorated by many Palestinians as a day of catastrophe. Many Palestinian Christians claim that the nakba was also spiritually catastrophic: the characters, names, events, and places of the Old Testament took on new significance with the newly...

Blueprints for the Eagle, Star, and Independent: Revised 2nd Edition traces the formation of the ideologies of the modern Republican and Democratic parties through the actions and policies of their political leaders, starting from Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, up to Barack Obama and John Boehner....

This is a new, first-edition book of MCQs and EMQs designed to help test understanding of content presented in the Illustrated Textbook of Paediatrics. It is ordered by the same chapter titles as Illustrated Textbook of Paediatrics for ease of reference. Features: Over 300 questions in MCQ and EMQ formats Highly illustrated 31 chapters

For 150 years, the American West has been shaped by persistconflicts over natural resources. This has given rise to a succession of strategies for resolving disputes-prior appropriation, scientific management, public participation, citizen ballot initiatives, public interest litigation, devolution,...

El investigador reunió a un grupo de especialistas para estudiar la naturaleza del presidencialismo en México y comparar las políticas de quienes gobernaron el país a lo largo de los siglos XIX y XX, con hincapié en su relación con el Poder Legislativo. Este segundo tomo está dedicado a quienes...

Workers in Alexandria are excavating for a new building when they discover the ruins of an old tomb, and all work crashes to a halt. According to federal law in Egypt, all discoveries must be properly catalogued by archeologists and this tomb has unusual relics and representations, apparently contemporary...

Clemson: Where the Tigers Play is the most comprehensive book ever written on Clemson University athletics. This book chronicles over 100 years of Tiger athletics, listing yearly accounts of statistics, records, bowl and tournament appearances, and historical moments. Read about the legends that put...

In the last thirty years humans have probed the Universe, explored the Solar System and visited with spacecraft some of the most incredible places humans have ever laid eyes upon. We have expanded our knowledge slowly and surely, but still now only see a glimpse of the bigger picture. The Cosmic Keyhole...