n 1715 Leibniz wrote to his friend the Princess of Wales to warn her of the dangers Newton's philosophy posed for natural religion. Seizing this chance of initiating an exchange between the two greate
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Here is the fascinating story -- based on true fact -- of a world-famous artist and a little girl who became one of his models. Sylvette first met Picasso in 1954, when she was a girl in the southern
Clearing landmines, rehabilitating and integrating of excombatants, rebuilding the infrastructure, coordinating aid sources—these are just some of the issues confronting the Bank in post-conflict reco
This book is for the weary and worn who have lost their way and are uncertain where to turn. It allows us to see who we are, what direction we are taking, and where our destination will be.
•We’ve added a comprehensive basic math review to this edition. It will get your students off to a good start in statistics. • In the worksheets, students obtain answers to humorous riddles if their w
Un libro que le ayudara a renovar su ministerio de predicacion, anadiendo frescura y viveza a sus sermones. Un exito de ventas en ingles ahora disponible en espanol.
This text was developed for students, process engineers, and manufacturing engineers who wish to apply the quantitative fundamentals of heat transfer to the metal casting industry. This second edition
Recent instability in the financial markets has shaken confidence in the global economic order. Is the current variant of ?free market? capitalism in fact sustainable? This remarkable book explains i
We live in an era when the unprecedented speed of change means: The only certainty is uncertainty; you can't predict what skills will be useful in ten years time; in most professions knowledge is doub
Sometimes you just need to vary the activities or spring a surprise to re-motivate the group or diffuse a difficult situation. This copiable resource contains three different sets of materials that ca
Women working to change unfair treatment in bureaucracies can be either "missionaries" or "mandarins," and must often be a combination of the two. "Missionaries" work from within the organization in t
This revolutionary new book describes how to build an inexpensive, small-legged robot, and includes the robot kit. The book provides information on the design and control of legged robots and a curric
Presents programming solutions, techniques, pointers, rules of thumb, and pitfalls to avoid. Ten chapters include examples and cover basics, idiomatic Perl, regular expressions, subroutines, reference
First derived within the context of life-testing, inverse Gaussian distribution has become one of the most important and widely employed distributions, and is often used to model the lifetimes of com
Dozens of fun, hands-on projects and activities from the days of the American pioneers Join twelve-year-old Sam Butler and his nine-year-old sister, Liz, on the American frontier in 1843. Discover
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The tenth book of Vergil's Aeneid contains some of the poem's most dramatic war narrative and yet has been unjustly neglected by Vergilian scholars. Making the text accessible to the modern reader, th
Oral narrative researchers from a range of disciplines present their personal portraits on the methodological strategies they have found useful in bringing the experiences of African and African Ameri
Presents one-hundred-and-twenty selections from the preacher's sermons printed in Decision magazine, covering his thoughts on practically every aspect of life and spirituality. (Religion & Inspiration
In 1919 a middle-aged Chicago advertising writer from Ohio, a failure as a businessman, husband, and father, published a small yellow book of short stories intended to “reform” American literature. Ag
Few presidents have sparked as much interest in recent years as Ronald Reagan, already the subject of a large number of biographies and specialized subjects. This biography, based on recent research i
Numbers and other mathematical objects are exceptional in having no locations in space or time or relations of cause and effect. This makes it difficult to account for the possibility of the knowledge
Vita Mathematica will enable college teachers to learn the relevant history of various topics in the undergraduate curriculum and help them incorporate this history in their teaching. It contains nume
