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Investigations of how the understanding of heredity developed in scientific, medical, agro-industrial, and political contexts of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book examines the wide range of scientific and social arenas in which the concept of inheritance gained relevance...

Religious Studies Over the last thirty years African American voices and perspectives have become essential to the study of the various theological disciplines. Writing out of their particular position in the North American context, African American thinkers have contributed significantly to...

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If Hadassah had known how her life would change the next day, she would not have believed it. Then her adoptive father Mordecai told her Persian royal couriers were on their way to take her to the citadel of Susa, along with other virgins King Xerxes might find desirable to be the next queen. Mordecai...

Jeremiah was born in the town of Anathoth and his father Hilkiah was a Jewish priest. When Josiah became king of Judah, his father was summoned to minister at the temple in Jerusalem. When he was twelve, Yahweh commissioned Jeremiah to be a prophet. He argued he was too young and did not know how...

Ezekiel, son of Buzi the priest, was born in Jerusalem. At age thirty when he should have assumed his priestly duties, the city fell to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon. Three thousand Judeans were taken captive to Tel Abib in Babylon. This included Ezekiel and his wife Ahav, who were given a house....

Multi-scale and multi-physics modeling is useful and important for all areas in engineering and sciences. Particle Methods for Multi-Scale and Multi-Physics systematically addresses some major particle methods for modeling multi-scale and multi-physical problems in engineering and sciences. It contains...

Searchlights on Health 1920 by B.G. Jefferis and J.L. Nichols - The Original Classic Edition Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work, which is now, at last, again available to you. ...

When Detroit native Carmen Caruthers stumbles upon a 2011 best-selling novel, she finds herself submerged in a torrent of research and memories. Trudging through nearly three decades of her own writings to reveal the new authors’ infringement upon her work, Caruthers is reminded of her first love–the...

Searchlights on Health by B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols.

Napoleon wrote “Cavalry is useful before, during and after the battle”; and so it was with his final campaign of Waterloo. Few campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars are as instructive as to the use (and mis-use) of cavalry; from the lethal French cavalry at Quatre Bras, to the initially brilliant,...

Liebe zur Weihnachtszeit - verschönen Sie sich die Feiertage mit den schönsten romantischen Geschichten: Die Erlkönigin (Nataly von Eschstruth) Stolz und Vorurteil (Jane Austen) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Das Heimchen am Herde (Charles Dickens) Das Geschenk der Weisen (O.Henry) Die Heilige und...

This issue of Profession contains Russell A. Berman's introduction to his Presidential Forum, Language, Literature, Learning, held at the 2012 MLA convention, and the essays of the forum participants Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Christopher Freeburg, Jack Halberstam, B. Venkat Mani, and Imani Perry. To mark...

Anyone interested in being surprised, having a rude awakening, and being shocked that causes them to see things in a different way will find this creative work stimulating. B. G. Webb refers to himself as a guru who lights gas lamplights in old London. Instead of drugs, the author presents an essay,...