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In this remarkable collection, ten premier scholars of nineteenth-century America address the epochal impact of the Civil War by examining the conflict in terms of three Americas - antebellum, wartime, and postbellum nations. Moreover, they recognize the critical role in this transformative era of three groups of Americans - white northerners, white southerners, and African Americans in the North and South.

When the 1st Marine Division began its invasion of Peleliu in September 1944, the operation in the South Pacific was to take but four days. In fact, capturing this small coral island in the Palaus with its strategic airstrip took two months and involved some of the bloodiest fighting of the Second World War in the Pacific.

British comedy legend, Norman Wisdom plays small-time crook Norman Hood who’s just been released from prison for burglary. Hoping to make new life as an honest man, he is entrusted to widow Natalie Matthews (Moira Lister), who offers him a job and accommodation. However, she has an ulterior motive…Follow the farcical misadventures of Norman, played out with a huge cast of supporting actors as he tries to stick, but mostly fails, to the straight and narrow! Charming, gentle but ever so funny, Robbing Hood is a joy to listen to.

In questo audiocorso John sarà, insieme a noi, nel ruolo dello studente e ci accompagnerà nelle diverse fasi di apprendimento della lingua, guidati dalla voce dell'insegnante Raffaella Piovesan. Con il corso Paso 1, dedicato a chi sa poco o niente di spagnolo, imparerai: i trucchi per la pronuncia, l'uso del verbo "gustar" (piacere), una serie di vocaboli ed espressioni di base per lanciarti nelle prime chiacchiere e i numeri.

Here is an unabridged audio collection of the "best of the best" science fiction short stories published in 2009 by current and emerging masters of the genre, as narrated by top voice talents. In "Erosion",l by Ian Creasey, a man tests the limits of his exo-suit prior to leaving a dying earth. In "As Women Fight", by Sara Genge, a hunter has no time to train for a fight to inhabit his wife's body in a society of body-switchers....

Based on the format of the American TV show Saturday Night Live, this home-grown comedy production was an enormous success and bought recognition and fame to a great many performers, many of whom are now household names.

Ki-Gor, son of the jungle! Orphaned son of missionary Robert Kilgour, raised in the jungle, he grew to a six-foot bronzed-skin giant who ruled the jungles. Joined by Helen Vaughn, his fiance and later wife, Timbo George, the Masai chief, and N'Geeso, the chief of a Pygmy tribe, this band of adventurers roam the wilds of Africa in a series of pulp magazine stories that began in 1939 and ended with the last published story in 1954. Now, Ki-Gor is back as an audiobook.

In questo audiocorso John sarà, insieme a noi, nel ruolo dello studente e ci accompagnerà nelle diverse fasi di apprendimento della lingua, guidati dalla voce dell'insegnante Raffaella Piovesan. Con il corso Paso 2, dedicato a chi già conosce un po' le basi dello spagnolo, imparerai: l'uso dei verbi "tener" (avere) e "tener ganas de" (aver voglia di), il singolare e il plurale, una serie di articoli, aggettivi e sostantivi con cui costruire le tue prime frasi.

In questo audiocorso John sarà, insieme a noi, nel ruolo dello studente e ci accompagnerà nelle diverse fasi di apprendimento della lingua, guidati dalla voce dell'insegnante Raffaella Piovesan. Con il corso Paso 3 il tuo livello di Spagnolo comincia a farsi interessante. Imparerai l'uso del verbo "querer" (volere), gli avverbi di tempo, i giorni della settimana e i mesi arricchendo così il tuo vocabolario.

Steed and Dr Keel return to action in these four recreations of classic lost episodes. 1: "Ashes of Roses". Carol goes undercover at a hairdressing salon, which appears to be at the centre of an arson ring. 2: "Please Don’t Feed the Animals". Steed takes on blackmailers who are extorting secrets from government officials. 3: "The Radioactive Man". Someone is at large in London, unwittingly carrying a radioactive isotope. 4: "Dance with Death". Dr Keel is framed for murder.

Aprender a Ganar (Learn to Earn) es una guía sobre los fundamentos de la inversión y los negocios. Se escribió para cumplir con dos objetivos: asegurar que el principio de “los ricos se vuelven más ricos, los pobres se vuelven más pobres” no tiene que ser necesariamente así y permitir que los lectores mejoren sus vidas financieras asociándose con las marcas que usan todos los días gracias a la inversión en acciones. Muchos inversores, incluidos algunos con grandes patrimonios, solo tienen una idea mínima de cómo funciona el mercado de valores. La razón, dicen Lynch y ...

In today's ultra-competitive business world, the difference between success and failure lies in the ability to get every employee to think and behave like a strategist. Think to Win helps business leaders expand strategic thinking out of the purview of “the elite few” and into the company culture as whole. It offers a simple, proven approach to analyzing and solving old or new challenges and provides a common language anyone at any level in the organization can understand.

When recently divorced Muslim mother Zeenat books a five-day safari in South Africa's wilderness, she's seeking an escape from her carefully ordered life—not a whirlwind romance with her ruggedly handsome Afrikaner guide, Andries. But fate has other plans. Their cautious attraction explodes into desperate survival when a bull elephant in musth attacks their camp. As dawn breaks over the African bush, Zeenat must find courage she never knew she had: performing emergency medical procedures, handling a high-powered rifle, and facing down one of nature's most dangerous creatures. All while ...

In the newly revised edition of Career Anchors: Finding Direction and Opportunity in the Changing World of Work, a team of world-renowned management and culture experts delivers a uniquely insightful exploration of your own career values and work relationships as they relate to your past and future choices. This easy-to-use workbook in combination with an online self-assessment offers critical and accessible self-diagnostic exercises along with information about the changing career scene and new descriptions of the eight career anchor categories.

"Is it selfish to abandon your abilities to follow your dream?" Unlock the continuing mind-bending possibilities of ethical and moral dilemmas with "After Dinner Conversation - Season Three," the next installment of the must-read collection of the best short stories from the critically acclaimed After Dinner Conversation magazine series. Spanning all genres, from science-fiction to historical fiction and everything in between, each story is guaranteed to captivate you and leave you questioning your own beliefs. Perfect for philosophy students and fiction lovers alike, each story comes with ...

The future of our cities is not what it used to be. The modern-city model that took hold globally in the twentieth century has outlived its usefulness. It cannot solve the problems it helped to create - especially global warming. Fortunately, a new model for urban development is emerging in cities to aggressively tackle the realities of climate change. In Life After Carbon, urban sustainability consultants Pete Plastrik and John Cleveland assemble this global pattern of urban reinvention from the stories of 25 "innovation lab" cities across the globe.

Business Ethics for Better Behavior concisely answers the three most pressing ethical questions business professionals face: What makes business practices right or wrong? Why do normal, decent businesspeople of good will sometimes do the wrong thing? And how can we use the answer to these questions to get ourselves, our coworkers, our bosses, and our employees to behave better?

The deathly silence is about to be broken. She disliked the company of others and death did little to warm her spirit. She had led an independent life and she faced death in much the same way. She was finally alone, finally free from the mindless babble of others, at least that's what she thought. May Elizabeth Trump was the rarest of spirits and she was none too happy about it either. She was a dead medium, a ghost who can speak with the living, and her services were to become in great demand.

This compilation contains the complete audio recordings of all four of the landmark debates complemented by narration by Sander Vanocur (one of the original panel of journalists during the first debate), enabling listeners to hear, word for word, history in the making and to draw his or her own conclusions about who won this face-off between two of America's most noted Presidents.

1941 in Aspen, Colorado. Die 18-jährige Rachel tritt bei den Skimeisterschaften an. Eine Medaille gibt es nicht, dafür ist sie schwanger, als sie in ihre Heimat New Hampshire zurückkehrt. Ihr Sohn Adam wächst in einer unkonventionellen Familie auf, die allen Fragen über die bewegte Vergangenheit ausweicht. Jahre später macht er sich deshalb auf die Suche nach Antworten in Aspen. Im Hotel Jerome, in dem er gezeugt wurde, trifft Adam auf einige Geister. Doch werden sie weder die ersten noch die letzten sein, die er sieht.