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Millions of readers have thrilled to the high seas adventures of characters such as: Horatio Hornblower, Jack Aubrey and Nicholas Ramage. They are characters in nautical fiction, but their exploits are based on people whose contributions and courage were very real indeed.Could Hornblower have...

How to keep meltdowns from overheating your classroom This book outlines practical steps for preventing and responding to the various phases of meltdown behavior in students with ASD. Based on Geoff Colvin’s best-selling book, Managing the Cycle of Acting Out Behavior in the Classroom, this...

This volume examines recent examples of Argentine literature, film, theatre and visual art from the children of the disappeared. By exploring their creative narration of childhood memories and the controversial use of parody, humour and fantasy, Maguire considers how this post-dictatorship generation...

Fernand Braudel (1912-1985), was a leading French historian and author of, among other books, the groundbreaking The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (1949). One of the founders of the Annales School in France, Braudel insisted on treating the Mediterranean region...

Youth, Drugs, and Night Life examines the relationships between the electronic dance scene and drug use for young ravers and clubbers today. Based on over 300 interviews with ravers, DJ’s and promoters, Hunt, Moloney, and Evans examine the different social groupings that make up the scene. The authors...

The Russo-Japanese war saw the first defeat of a major European imperialist power by an Asian country. When Japanese and Russian expansionist interests collided over Manchuria and Korea, the Tsar assumed Japan would never dare to fight. However, after years of planning, Japan launched a surprise attack...

This series is world-renowned as the leading compilation of current reviews of this vast field. Internationally acclaimed for more than forty years, The Alkaloids: Chemistry and Biology, founded by the late Professor R.H.F. Manske, continues to provide outstanding coverage of this rapidly expanding...

The Making of Huddersfield' is not a systematic and chronological account of Huddersfield's growth but a series of illuminating snapshots which bring to life numerous aspects of the town and its surrounding area.Just 200 years ago Huddersfield was still a village. In a short time it was to become...

This book, first published in 1922, consists of an introduction by H. M. Cundall and 24 color plates.

First published in 1978. Mid-Victorian Britain was relatively stable in comparison with the turbulent period that preceded it, and that stability is in part explained by the emergence of an artisan elite with a specific relationship to the society around it. This book examines that elite: its clubs...

Cosa accadrebbe se avessimo una completa fiducia in noi stessi? Qui e ora, nell'eterno momento dell'Adesso? Cosa succederebbe alla nostra vita se assecondassimo la spinta che abbiamo dentro e che vuole giocare con l'energia in movimento? Che cambiamenti ci sarebbero se ci facessimo ispirare dall'intensità...

Le informazioni contenute in questo straordinario libro provengono da una fonte non tradizionale e, tuttavia, il suo messaggio è di quelli che risuoneranno profondamente nel cuore di ogni lettore, a prescindere dal credo religioso, dalle scelte politiche, dall'orientamento sessuale, dal livello culturale...

Memorie di un Maestro è un libro di venti brevi storie narrate da Adamus Saint-Germain che veste i panni di un moderno, irriverente e spregiudicato novelliere che senza mezze misure dichiara a gran voce verità che appartengono a qualsiasi essere umano alle prese con la realtà quotidiana. Attraverso...

This text examines examples of religious conversion throughout South Asia including: Processes of Conversion of Christianity in 19th Century NW India Islamic Conversion in South India Kartabhaja Converts to Evangelical Christianity in Bengal Central Kerala Dalit Conversion French Mission and...