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Ancient human groups in the Eastern Woodlands of North America were long viewed as homogeneous and stable hunter-gatherers, changing little until the late prehistoric period when Mesoamerican influences were thought to have stimulated important economic and social developments. The authors in this...

This carefully selected and edited collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (Louisa May Alcott) Aunt Susanna's Thanksgiving Dinner (Lucy Maud Montgomery) The Genesis of the Doughnut Club (Lucy Maud Montgomery) An English...

El señor de la lluvia se acerca, y junto a él vienen la tormenta, la oscuridad y las sombras. Pronto se habrá adueñado de todo, a menos que el cónclave lo impida: una reunión de súcubos e íncubos dispuesta a todo para mantener el equilibrio. Y, entre ambos, Yuri, un hombre que ha entregado...

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Primary mediastinal tumors are relatively rare. The relative incidence of these tumors indicates that neurogenic tumors are the most common tumor seen constituting 21 % of all cases, thymomas 19%, lymphomas 12.5%, germ cell tumors 10%, primary carcinomas 4.6%, mesenchymal tumors 6%, endocrine tumors...

La recherche de la nourriture constitue l’un des problèmes permanents et fondamentaux de l’économie. Dans une société primitive, c’est l’essentiel. Dans les années 1930, les méfaits d’une alimentation insuffisante en quantité et a fortiori en qualité, avaient déjà poussé 70 pays,...

Illustrated with 6 maps and numerous photos. The Battle that ended Rommel’s offensive in the Desert of North Africa, and the Axis hopes of Victory against the Allied forces by the Generals who commanded the two sides. “The Battle of Alam el Halfa took place between 30 Aug. and 5 Sep. 1942 south...

The Weimar Moment’s evocative assault on closure and political reaction, its offering of democracy against the politics of narrow self-interest cloaked in nationalist appeals to Volk and “community” – or, as would be the case in Nazi Germany, “race” – cannot but appeal to us today. This...

Edited by Rajnish Mehra, this volume focuses on the equity risk premium puzzle, a term coined by Mehra and Prescott in 1985 which encompasses a number of empirical regularities in the prices of capital assets that are at odds with the predictions of standard economic theory.

Presidential campaigns are our national conversations – the widespread and complex communication of issues, images, social reality, and personas. Political communication specialists break down the 2012 presidential campaign and go beyond the quantitative facts, electoral counts, and poll results...

Los rastros de sangre concentran la acción al otro lado del Atlántico: Argentina es el escenario de este dantesco desenlace de la trilogía de César Pérez Gellida, un final que no dejará indiferente a ningún lector. Prólogo de Dolores Redondo. Tercera y última entrega de la trilogía...

‘C.P. Surendran bears witness to…what James Agee memorably described as “the cruel radiance of what is”. Anyone who looks directly at that “cruel radiance” is very likely to be wounded; for the poet is not only a pilgrim in a dangerous landscape but also a trespasser in secluded zones,...

     The content in this special two-volume anthology details the many facets of aikido as it was formulated by Morihei Ueshiba (1883–1969). Each chapter contributes to a piece of the aikido puzzle by providing historical details, insightful technical drills (bare handed and with...

The Joy Of Bach is a volume of 46 original keyboard compositions by members of the Bach family. The pieces are in their original form, neither rearranged nor simplified.