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Historians have long considered the ways in which the expansion of English trade beyond Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries contributed to the growth of English overseas trade as a whole, and to the coming of the Industrial Revolution. Their concentration on trade between England and...

A collection of love letters and romantic poetry written for a love I hope exists.

When was the last time you had a great day? 21 Great Days is a collection of twenty-one stories crafted to put you in the middle of a day so great you'll want to read them over and over again. These powerful, inspirational visions of true happiness are sure to bring a smile to your face as you read them and realize that even the worst day can turn itself around and become a truly great day.

What if everything you knew about the space program was wrong? What if mankind had set foot on Mars long before the first unmanned probes reached it? What if our solar system was full of intelligent life, humans just like us, only far, far more advanced? The Mars Manuscripts presents the might-be...

This book examines legal language as a language for special purposes, evaluating the functions and characteristics of legal language and the terminology of law. Using examples drawn from major and lesser legal languages, it examines the major legal languages themselves, beginning with Latin through...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of digital signal processing for a multi-disciplinary audience. It posits that though the theory involved in digital signal processing stems from electrical, electronics, communication, and control engineering, the topic has use in other disciplinary areas...

Once again, tuberculosis has become a serious threat worldwide to people of all socioeconomic levels. Early diagnosis is essential to allow satisfactory treatment and containment of this usually fatal infection. This profusely illustrated book documents the wide spectrum of tuberculosis encountered...

Digital Speech Processing Using Matlab deals with digital speech pattern recognition, speech production model, speech feature extraction, and speech compression. The book is written in a manner that is suitable for beginners pursuing basic research in digital speech processing. Matlab illustrations...

In a world that is hungry for energy security, the legal components at the junction of interstate energy cooperation have become increasingly important. International law as it stands today is not equipped to handle international energy governance issues fully, negatively affecting our aim to meet energy...

Natural Fiber Reinforced Vinyl Ester and Vinyl Polymer Composites: Characterization, Properties and Applications discusses recent advances on the development, characterization and application of natural fiber vinyl ester and vinyl polymers composites. Various types of vinyl ester and vinyl based polymers,...

The Book The collection of five given papers and presentations from conferences between 2005 and 2008 are discussion papers. The perspectives of the essays are based on biomedical ethics and legal reflections. The papers were presented on important international conferences and congresses....

At 2 a.m.,William Powers, soundly asleep for the past several hours, is awakened by the familiar sound of a fairground organ. Waking up again, but at the usual time that morning, however, he's beginning to believe it was all a dream – and the telling of it to his schoolyard 'gang' who didn't...

Breakup or Makeup? A Crazy Ink Anthology Love is complicated and happy endings are mostly for fairy tales. Sometimes, though, things work out the way they were intended. And for many, the definition of romance is the finish line. Read stories of relationships on the brink of change. Questions...

Janice Harmon knows there is more to retirement than sitting in her apartment feeling sorry for herself. Ready for new beginnings and with the help of her son, David, Janice moves to GlenMary Farm, a beautiful, peaceful estate tucked away in the gently rolling hills near Louisville, Kentucky. Yet...