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This is a collection of short stories based on real experiences people pass during their love lives. I have divided this book into pieces in which people tell their stories about the distress and pleasure they face once they plunge into a pool of loving,...

This is a short, quick, and easy read.Some Sample Anecdotes:• As a young actress just starting in show business, Eve Arden quickly learned not to be absent minded. She once finished a play's first act, went to her dressing room, took off her costume and...

Several environmental, economic and geopolitical factors are driving the European Union interest on alternative energy sources and in particular on liquid biofuels. Biofuels are being promoted by the EU as a form of energy that can at the same time...

Welcome to 2030. You'll own nothing, have no privacy, and you'll be happy. . . .For the past two years, since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, we have been told that our old way of life is dead and gone. There can be no return to how things...

Patois, patwah, patwa or whichever other way it is spelt, is a dialect, a mixture of a least four different languages, mainly English, French, Spanish and Dutch. It is the(de facto) national language of Jamaica, sometimes referred to as Jamaican English...

Step by step, into tomorrow. And so much to learn from yesterday.10-year journey of reflection. Cosmos is grand, comprehensive reading is twin to broad vision. Thus, World Culture Pictorial® Reading and Reflection - from poetry to policy, high tech to...

In recent years the United States has seen an influx of Christian athletes and coaches into big-time sports, as well as a heightened importance placed on sports in church programs and enormous platforms for intercollegiate sports at Christian schools and...

UKIYO-E: "Pictures of the floating world." The floating world - a transient realm of pleasures, horrors, and dreams. Ukiyo-e, depictions of this shadowy projection of the human mind, formed the mainstay of Japanese paintings and woodblock prints produced...

The matsutake mushroom continues to be a highly sought delicacy, especially in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean cuisine. Matsutake Worlds explores this mushroom through the lens of multi-species encounters centered around the matsutake's notorious...

The last two decades have been transformational, often discordant ones for German feminism, as a new cohort of activists has come of age and challenged many of the movement's strategic and philosophical orthodoxies. Mad Mädchen offers an incisive...

The Black Album: Writings on Art and Culture is a collection of writing by painter and writer Bradley Rubenstein. There was once a time when art, technology, science, and poetry collided with politics. Zola and Cézanne. Fénéon and...

Musings of the Soul is the second book of poetry by Professor M. Azizur Rahman. A keen observer of life, different aspects of the world around him find expression in his poems.Love, friendship, human rights, employment, nature, socialism, bureaucracy,...

A great American crank, in the best sense of the word, Charles Hoy Fort (1874-1932) spent his life hunting down reports of "anomalous phenomena"-"damned" events such rains of frogs, cattle mutilations, and UFO sightings-and studying them from a true...

"It was our father who put the lights on Route 66 when America was beginning to find herself again. He built a business in an era of American progress with light, paint, and design. His artistry lit up the highways with glowing, innovative signs. The...

Robert Kirkman (b. 1978) is probably best known as the creator of The Walking Dead. The comic book and its television adaptation have reinvented the zombie horror story, transforming it from cult curiosity and parody to mainstream popularity and critical...

Contributions by Bart Beaty, T. Keith Edmunds, Eike Exner, Christopher J. Galdieri, Ivan Lima Gomes, Charles Hatfield, Franny Howes, John A. Lent, Amy Louise Maynard, Shari Sabeti, Rob Salkowitz, Kalervo A. Sinervo, Jeremy Stoll, Valerie Wieskamp,...

In Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games author Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall analyzes how films and video games from around the world have depicted slave revolt, focusing on the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804). This event,...

In The Expanding Art of Comics: Ten Modern Masterpieces, prominent scholar Thierry Groensteen offers a distinct perspective on important evolutions in comics since the 1960s through close readings of ten seminal works. He covers over half a century of...

In this book, Alex Rhys-Taylor offers a ground-breaking sensory ethnography of East London. Drawing on the multicultural context of London, one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world, he explores concepts such as gentrification, class antagonism,...

An insightful history of PR by one of its leading practitioners.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...

Oor Ain Folk: Being Memories Of Manse Life In The Mearns And A Crack Aboot Auld Times is a book written by James Inglis and first published in 1894. The book is a collection of memories and anecdotes about life in the Manse, a Scottish term for a...

The American Nations V1, Generalities And Annals: Or Outlines Of A National History, Of The Ancient And Modern Nations Of North And South America (1836) is a book written by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

The book ""Report of the Country Life Commission: Special Message from the President of the United States (1909)"" is a report compiled by Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, and his Country Life Commission. The report is a...

Le livre ""Le Savoir-Vivre Dans La Vie Ordinaire Et Dans Les Ceremonies Civiles Et Religieuses"" est �����crit par Ermance Dufaux et publi����� en 1883. Ce livre est un guide pratique pour apprendre les bonnes mani�����res dans la vie de tous les jours...

Le livre ""Essai Sur Le Droit D'Ainesse En Angleterre: Ses Origines, Ses Modalites, Ses Consequences"" �����crit par Charles Furby en 1885 est une �����tude approfondie sur le droit d'a�����nesse en Angleterre. L'auteur explore les origines de cette...

""The Point of Hope in Ireland's Present Crisis"" is a book written by Alexander Dallas in 1849. The book discusses the struggles that Ireland was facing during the mid-19th century, including the potato famine, poverty, and political unrest. Dallas...

Light, More Light! On The Present State Of Education Amongst The Working Classes Of Leeds, And How It Can Best Be Improved (1860) is a book written by James Hole. The book focuses on the state of education among the working classes in Leeds during the...

Life's Demand In Twentieth Century, In Three Books: Discussion Of Social Problems, Analysis Of Exigencies Of Life, A New Plan For Constitution (1918) is a book written by Sarkis M. Ohanesian. This book is divided into three sections, each of which deals...

The Life of Jesse Collings, published in 1920, is an autobiographical account of the life of Jesse Collings himself. Jesse Collings was a British politician and social reformer who played a significant role in the Liberal Party during the late 19th and...

This book analyzes the importance of culture and the impact of culture on China's development. It studies strategic and cutting-edge theoretical topics on civilization revival, cultural development and cultural (re)construction in the Chinese context...

Before the long-running television success of M*A*S*H, home audiences found delight and diversion in such military situation comedies as You'll Never Get Rich (The Phil Silver Show), Hogan's Heroes, Gomer Pyle USMC, and even the U.S. Cavalry-inspired F...

Before the long-running television success of M*A*S*H, home audiences found delight and diversion in such military situation comedies as You'll Never Get Rich (The Phil Silver Show), Hogan's Heroes, Gomer Pyle USMC, and even the U.S. Cavalry-inspired F...

'A wonderfully evocative book on Delhi and its food combining decades of scholarship with personal experiences and memoriesby one of our greatest food writers.'-Vir Sanghvi, journalist and author, Rude Food'Pushpesh Pant weaves a magical mosaic in his...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 2,5, FernUniversität Hagen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: [...] Wir alle leben in sozialen Netzwerken. Es gibt immer Menschen, die uns helfen und mit uns reden. Wir...

"Cape Town’s public cultures can only be fully appreciated through recognition of its deep and diverse soundscape. We have to listen to what has made and makes a city. The ear is an integral part of the ‘research tools’ one needs...

As for who reads this bookAnd who follows its spellsI know your nameYou will not die after your deathIn WalmartYou will not perish foreverFor I know your nameSo begins this darkly comic incantation on the gods and scourges of the 21st century. The...

Although there is widespread food availability in urban areas across the Global South, it is not correlated with universal access to adequate amounts of nutritious foods. This report is based on a household survey conducted in 2015 in six low-income...

A book by Diramayr Seta Hovhanessian which contains a collection of popular Armenian sayings and proverbs, some of which date back to Armenian communities living 200 years ago. The book is in Western Armenian in alphabetical order and contains...