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by Bénédict-Henry Révoil
Language: French
Release Date: July 4, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: July 4, 2016
Un missionnaire a raconté d’une façon très curieuse ses excursions avec les naturels d’une île de la mer Pacifique à la recherche du corail. Nous publions ici le récit de ce vaillant propagateur de la religion catholique :
« C’était vraiment un spectacle étrange que notre départ...
Weihnachtsgeschichten am Kamin 33
Gesammelt von Barbara Mürmann
Language: German
Release Date: October 23, 2018
Der Zauber von Weihnachten in zauberhaften Geschichten Der Wind pfeift um die Häuser, er rüttelt an den Bäumen und Fensterläden. Es regnet, Sonne und Mond haben sich versteckt. Da springt die Tür auf, die Kinder wirbeln kalte Luft und Laub herein. Schnell heraus aus den Winterstiefeln und den...
by R.D. de Abreu, G. van den Berghe, G. Calabrese
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
One person in four in the industrialized countries suffers from hyperuricemia and is therefore at risk of developing gouty arthritis, nephrolithiasis, or any of the other consequences of urate deposition. At present, far too little is known about urate deposition and the mechanisms by which it occurs,...
Lieber guter Weihnachtsmann, schau mich nicht so böse an
Berliner Weihnachtskrimis
Language: German
Release Date: November 20, 2012
»Das elegante Seidenkleid fiel locker um ihre Hüfte, und der weite Ausschnitt betonte ihren schmalen, weißen Hals. Ein Blitz zuckte durch seinen Kopf, und er lächelte kalt.«Lichterkettenbehängte Bäume, dazu hinterhältige Missetaten – diese Weihnachtskrimis aus Berlin bieten Ihnen die einzigartige...
by Bénédicte Régimont
Language: French
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Comment concevoir sa planche d'ambiance, quelles techniques et quels outils utiliser. Comment la présenter à son client? Quelle sont les règles de mise en page. Un guide de 80 pages pratiques pour réaliser des planches d'ambiance pertinentes selon ses projets de décoration.
Called and Chosen
Toward a Spirituality for Lay Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2005
That lay women and men increasingly serve as leaders of institutional ministries in the Church is nothing new. Yet, until now, these lay leaders have longed for theological resources and formational training to help them in their vocation and ministry. Called and Chosen: Toward a Spirituality for...
Think in Public
A Public Books Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
Since 2012, Public Books has championed a new kind of community for intellectual engagement, discussion, and action. An online magazine that unites the best of the university with the openness of the internet, Public Books is where new ideas are debuted, old facts revived, and dangerous illusions...
Lives and Times of Great Pioneers in Chemistry
(Lavoisier to Sanger)
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
Chemical science has made major advances in the last few decades and has gradually transformed in to a highly multidisciplinary subject that is exciting academically and at the same time beneficial to human kind. In this context, we owe much to the foundations laid by great pioneers of chemistry who...
by R. F Holland, A. N Porter, A.N. Porter
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Scholars have recently begun to pay renewed attention to the economics of empire, focusing in particular on the requirements of metropolitan Britain's economy and on the activities of imperial businesses. Within this broad field, financial questions, not least the subject of investment overseas or...
Higher Education as a Bridge to the Future
Proceedings of the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the International Association of University Presidents, with Reflections on the Future of Higher Education by Dr. J. Michael Adams
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
This volume assembles the papers, presentations, and speeches from the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the International Association of University Presidents (IAUP) held in Oxfordshire in 2015. This book is a companion volume to the proceedings of the 1965 inaugural meeting of IAUP, also published by...
Ethnic Dress in the United States
A Cultural Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
The clothes we wear tell stories about us—and are often imbued with cultural meanings specific to our ethnic heritage. This concise A-to-Z encyclopedia explores 150 different and distinct items of ethnic dress, their history, and their cultural significance within the United States.
The clothing...
by R.C. C. Srivastava, A.N. N. Nagappa
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
Surface activity is present in living systems; for example in body fluid or cell soup and molecules of surface-active nature are crucial to living matter and its organization. Surface Activity in Drug Action proposes "a liquid membrane hypothesis of drug action" for surface-active drugs. Chapters 1-7...
by Joe Hill, Nancy Pickard, Duane Swierczynski
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
The crime fiction canopy's a broad one, with room to give shelter to writing of all sorts, as editor Lawrence Block shows with At Home in the Dark: "Some of these stories have one or both feet planted in another genre. James Reasoner's story is a period western, Joe Lansdale's is bleakly dystopian,...
by Sarah Joy Adams, Misty Massey, Herika Raymer
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2015
The corset. Rarely has any garment held such allure, such mystery, so attraction for men and women alike. From a simple foundation garment to a fashion statement all its own, the corset has held the imagination for centuries.
This collection of stories from some of the brightest fantasy writers...