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- catalog abstract "In this book Charles Messenger has given us his product of deep research, drawing a broad picture of the story of the German nation from the end of one World War to the end of the next. The main thread running through it is drawn from the life and achievements of a man who, despite his close personal association with Adolf Hitler, his own humble origins and his intellectual limitations, was to prove an effective, if unusual soldier who rose to command an SS Panzer Army in the Battle of the Bulge. It is impossible to dissociate SS-Oberstgruppenführer und General der Waffen SS Josef (Sepp) Dietrich from the excesses of the Hitler regime. His position was far too close to the heart of the Naxi Party and to Hitler himself for him to have been other than an accessory after the fact of much that befell, despite his protestation that he was first and foremost a non-political soldier. - Jacket flap.".
- catalog abstract "Includes section Literatur.".
- catalog abstract "Guidelines for the members of the Lanka Mahila Samiti, to offer their assistance to rural women.".
- catalog abstract "Soon after arriving in Canada from Australia, Eve Hobson drive a mission van into isolated parts of B.C. Fascinated by the wilderness beauty, she stayed on, working for a newspaper, and talking with early pioneers, loggers and trappers. She captures the day-to-day life on an isolated cattle ranch.".
- catalog abstract "Includes chapters on Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, the Gershwins, Busby Berkeley, Fred Astaire, Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter, and Rodgers and Hammerstein.".
- catalog abstract "The mission of this directory "is to continue to encourage and to disseminate information on educational, cultural, professional, and social contacts and exchanges between the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany"--P. 3.".
- catalog abstract "An illustrated collection of fifty traditional Jewish tales from various parts of the world.".
- catalog abstract ""The List and Index Society publishes copies of lists and indexes from the Public Record Office, London, and other British Public Archives."".
- catalog abstract "Describes the political career of the politician from Massachusetts whose career spanned fifty years and who served as Speaker of the House for a decade.".
- catalog abstract ""More than 5,600 short biographies of leading figures from around the world in politics, literature, the arts, the sciences, and popular cultures."".
- catalog abstract "Over 2500 references about social security. Classified order. Author, subject indexes.".
- catalog abstract "Thorough discussion of the various types of bonds, their relative natures, and the structure of molecules and crystals.".
- catalog abstract "This volume traces Wales's struggle to retain independence and identity in the face of the Anglo-Norman conquest and subsequent English rule. A thorough examination of this lengthy period of turmoil, the book not only covers the landmark campaign of Edward I in 1282-3 but also recounts the last major revolt by Owain Glen Dwr in 1400-1415, providing a full account of how the society, economy, and church of Wales were transformed during these centuries of conquest.".
- catalog abstract "A list of names and other lnformation from the British graves at Bengkuku on the west coast of Sumatra, which the Honorable East India Company occupied from 1685 to 1825.".
- catalog abstract "An anthology of poems written from a child's perspective.".
- catalog abstract "A collection of education and worship aids built around the Seven Principles of Unitarian Universalism.".
- catalog abstract "Published in conjunction with a retrospective exhibition held at Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 25 September - 15 November 1987, and the Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, 11 December 1987 - 31 January 1988.".
- catalog abstract "Recounts the story of Baruch Ber Leibowitz and his son-in-law Reuven Grozovsky, rabbis and Torah scholars from Eastern Europe who kept their vision alive both there and in the United States.".
- catalog abstract "A tragic story of human oppression and a dazzling work of political satire. Coketown, t typical red-brick industrial city of north England. Children and adults are caged and enslaved; no personal freedom and no chance of escape.".
- catalog abstract "Set in the leisurely world of country houses, rambling walks, afternoon tea and piano duets, these deceptively simple tales are of women and men who come together, sometimes ludicrously, often sadly--if at all.".
- catalog abstract "On Hindu spiritual conduct.".
- catalog abstract "Study based on 1951-1984 data.".
- catalog abstract "Aphoristic work embodying directions on the recitation of the Rigveda.".
- catalog abstract "Pastiche-in memoriams van achttien Nederlandse schrijvers.".
- catalog abstract ""This is a new, revised, edition of this widely known text. All of the basic topics in calculus of several variables are covered, including vectors, curves, functions of several variables, gradient, tangent plane, maxima and minima, potential functions, curve integrals, Green's theorem, multiple integrals, surface integrals, Stokes' theorem, and the inverse mapping theorem and its consequences. The presentation is self-contained, assuming only a knowledge of basic calculus in one variable. Many completely worked-out problems have been included."--Back cover.".
- catalog abstract "Goes behind the scenes of the most riveting criminal proceedings of recent years and shows a public prosecutor's work.".
- catalog abstract "With reference to India; contributed articles.".
- catalog abstract "With reference to the Ganges River, India.".
- catalog abstract "It was the match-up of the century: four sleuths - Superintendent Battle of Scotland Yard; Mrs. Ariadne Oliver, famed writer of detective stories; Colonel Race of His Majesty's Secret Service; and the incomparable Hercule Poirot - invited to play bridge with four specially invited guests, each of whom has gotten away with murder! For the host, the mysterious Mr. Shaitana, it was to be a clever entertainment. But before the first rubber was completed, the host himself was dead ...".
- catalog abstract "A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to the Master Wizard.".
- catalog abstract "The primary purpose of this book is to serve as a reference for an overall view of higher level languages. The book brings together in one place, and in a consistent fashion, fundamental information on programming languages, including history, general characteristics, similarities, and differences. A second purpose of the book is to provide specific basic information on all the significant, and most of the minor, higher level languages developed in the United States. The third purpose of the book is to provide history and perspective for this particular aspect of the programming field. - Preface.".
- catalog abstract ""Prepared for the consideration of the National Commission on Urban Problems."--T.p.".
- catalog abstract "A collection of humorous poems about death, doom, ghosts, and other eeried subjects.".
- catalog abstract "A selection of 143 Old and New Testament stories from the creation of earth to the conversion of Saul.".
- catalog abstract "Mark Setzer tells about his troubles in general and in particular his misfortunes on the little league team managed by his mother and coached by his brother.".
- catalog abstract "One of America's most perceptive young historians examines the misunderstood dimensions and implications of a great question confronting the nation -- our foreign policy. Professor Kolko makes it clear that our foreign policy is neither the result of omission or ignorance nor of a "military-industrial complex." Civilian authority and civilian-defined goals, he asserts, are the consistent sources of American foreign policy. From this premise, Kolko undertakes to investigate "the respectables," the self-styled liberal realists and businessman who are the architects of the decades-old premises of American foreign policy. He also outlines the nature of American power and interests in the modern world and provides an assessment of who gains and who loses as a result of the policies Washington pursues."--Jacket.".
- catalog abstract "The essays and articles in this volume are concerned mainly with the art of fiction--its quality, in regional writing; its nature and its aims; and its relatino to the writer's religion.".
- catalog abstract "A collection of the best work from the great American writer includes three full-length novels, nineteen short stories and sketches, and selections from his essays, letters, and poems.".
- catalog abstract "Queen Size Books.".
- catalog abstract ""Written in 1946 as one of the final reports of ... the War Relocation Authority."".
- catalog abstract "This book aims at providing the answer to one question: what did Coleridge derive from Kant and the post-Kantians in his most productive intellectual period, i.e., from approximately the eighteen-twenties? The question has already been investigated by a number of scholars-Shawcross, Muirhead, Wellek, Winkelmann, Schrickx and Chinol, in chronological order. Upon their work my book is founded.-Book's Preface.".
- catalog abstract "Documented study of the life and career of the head of the North Vietnamese armed forces by an Australian veteran of the Vietnam war and military college instructor.".
- catalog abstract "This book attempts to explain why Broadway is what it is. The author takes each production of one year and relates it to some aspect of the over-all Broadway scene including directors, stars, playwrights, reviewers, audiences, tryout tours, scalpers, and backers.".
- catalog abstract "When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, a twelve-year-old white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old Negro are stranded on a small desert island in the Caribbean where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.".
- catalog abstract "The Grammatik der deutschen Sprache by Dora Schulz and Heinz Griesbach has become a widely known, highly respected, and immensely valuable reference tool in the analysis, understanding, and teaching of contemporary German. The present edition represents a revision and adaptation of that book from an American perspective, stressing the parallels and contrasts between English and German. - Preface to the American edition.".
- catalog abstract "A fresh and varied reappraisal of the remarkable collection of stories that make up Joyce's Dubliners.".
- catalog abstract "Two boys must outsmart the neighborhood bullies before they can enjoy their new treasure, a pair of lensless motorcycle goggles.".
- catalog abstract "In 1789 Jennie Wiley was carried off from her cabin by a band of marauding Indians. She did not return to her husband until she made good her escape a year later. This story, is fictionalized but based on fact, of one woman's remarkable endurance and of frontier life in the rich, beautiful and teeming hills of Appalachia.".
- catalog abstract "Are UFOs fantasy ... or hard fact? The government-sponsored Condon Committee's report was SUPPOSED to settle the "flying saucer" question for good: UFO reports were based on stars, weather balloons, planes, hallucinations, and fraud. But -- What were the shining objects the Gemini astronauts saw? What makes cars stop when "saucers" approach? What kind of "hallucination" shows up visually AND on radar? What about the HUNDREDS of UFO sightings by astronomers, pilots, policemen, and other trained observers?".
- catalog abstract "Details of methods useful for ecological field work. Measurement of climatic factors, soils etc.".
- catalog abstract "An easy-to-read account of Sam and his father fighting as minutemen against the British in the Battle of Lexington.".
- catalog abstract "A collection of seventeen little known short stories by an author considered to be the master of situation and irony.".
- catalog abstract "A little girl knew her friend hated her but she didn't know why until she finally got up courage to ask why they were being so rotten to each other.".
- catalog abstract ""As autobiography (this book) is enthralling, as history indispensable, as a manual on government and diplomacy invaluable". -- Wallace Carroll, New York Times Book Review.".
- catalog abstract "Provides readings for any course dealing with the social impact of science.".
- catalog abstract "Jerusalem's centuries-long significance as a religious center is emphasized in an objective, well-written history that covers 5,000 years but gives far more space to the past than present.".
- catalog abstract "A young Negro boy learns the pain of humiliation and anger when his father is given an unjust jail sentence for stealing a ham from a white man. Learning to read and to discover that things do not die but become part of other things brings the youngster new hope.".
- catalog abstract ""The gang"--They're just a nice, dishonest bunch of guyes only an Italian mama could love. Not only can't they shoot straight, they can't even rob, steal, cheat, or kill straight.".
- catalog abstract "Evolution - Fossils - Paleontology - Fossil man - Heredity - Human variation - Race__".
- catalog abstract "Population dynamics; Spatial patterns in one-species populations; Spatial relations of two or more species; Many-species populations.".
- catalog abstract ""Used as background reading for the thirty-fifth American Assembly ... Arden House, Harriman, New York, April 24-27, 1969."".
- catalog abstract "Comprehensive survey of political developments from Shah Waliyullah to Quaid-i-Azam.".
- catalog abstract "Wild, campy murder mystery satirizing everything from police procedures to amateur theatricals.".
- catalog abstract "The affluent workers studied in this book, originally published in 1968, were employees of three major industrial concerns sited in Luton at the time. The three firms were selected as being amongst Luton's best-paying employers and also on account of their advanced personnel and labour relations policies. This choice enabled comparisons to be made between workers engaged in very different types of production system. On the basis of material from interviews and other data, the authors examine in detail workers' experience of their industrial jobs, their relations with workmates, and the nature of their attachment both to the organizations which employ them and to their trade unions. This study forms part of a larger project which was aimed at testing empirically the thesis, which was most prevalent 1968, that of the progressive assimilation of manual workers and their families into the pattern of middle class social life.".
- catalog abstract "Illustrated life of Cook through his travels; first voyage, 1768-1771, brief references to encounters with natives at Botany Bay, appearance, body decoration, weapons; Endeavour R. natives met, Cooks opinion quoted; third voyage, 1776-1780, Van Diemens Land natives (Adventure Bay), clothing and appearance, diet; plates include sketches made at Botany Bay (canoes, weapons, body markings), painted shield from Endeavour R., portraits of Adventure Bay natives.".
- catalog abstract "The entries are from the closely related fields of psychology, social psychology, and anthropology, and statistics. Economics and political science are also represented with terms that are frequently used by sociologists.".
- catalog abstract "A collection of significant articles presenting "a cross-section of the conflicting interpretations of the role of American Diplomacy in the origins, conduct, and legacy" of World War II.".
- catalog abstract "For brief but prodound insight into the economic and social pathology of a continent of inadequate and disappointing fulfillment, it is difficult to imagine a work more satisfactory that this little volume.".
- catalog abstract ""This book has three basic aims: to present a unified theory of optimization, to introduce nonlinear programming algorithms to the control engineer, and to introduce the nonlinear programming expert to optimal control. This volume can be used either as a graduate text or as a reference text."--Preface.".
- catalog abstract "Potpourri of poetry includes the work of a diverse group of poets such as Vladimir Nabokov, Ogden Nash, Theodore Roethke and the Beatles.".
- catalog abstract ""A pictorial survey of the Ohio canals using the drawings and paintings of the late Frank Wilcox, supplemented by selections from the original text by the artist with revisions by William A. McGill."".
- catalog abstract ""At the mention of this title, most of us think only of the common wasp and the honey bee, perhaps adding in the hornet. But these are only three representatives of two large families of insects which the author describes brilliantly and simply, telling us of the different habits and lives of many differents wasps and bees. Many of them are solitary insects who live as predators capturing and storing various other insects as food for their own larva. The author shows the various stages of evolution which can be seen in present-day wasps and bees; from the solitary to the semi-social, to the fully social common wasp and honey bee. The book is fully illustrated with brilliant photographs of many of the types, and black and white drawings. Sir Christopher Andrewes, a scientist with a distinguished career in medicine, has always been interested by wasps and bees. He has now put down something of his great knowledge in a fascinating account for the general reader. "The Lives of Wasps and Bees" is a companion volume to "The World of Reptiles" by Angus Bellairs and Richard Carrington..." -- Book Jacket.".
- catalog abstract "Includes critical essays on John Keats, Emily Dickinson, W.B. Yeats, Hart Crane, Thomas Hardy, Edwin Arlington Robinson, John Peale Bishop, Archibald MacLeish, Ezra Pound, Herbert Read, Edgar Allan Poe, and T.S. Eliot, among others.".
- catalog abstract "A skeptical judge discovers that the five people he had put in jail were telling the truth after all.".
- catalog abstract ""[This book] is intended to be a comprehensive introduction to the principles of quantum mechanics and to their application in a variety of fields to which physicists turn."--Preface.".
- catalog abstract "See also: Eastern Churches Trilogy: v. 2 Lesser Eastern churches v. 3 Uniate Eastern Churches.".
- catalog abstract "A collection of essays on themes of mythology, religion, and the human psyche.".
- catalog abstract "Author's memoir of growing up black in the 1930's and 1940's.".
- catalog abstract "This novel is a treatment of the theme of corruption wrought by poverty. It is the story of an upright man resisting the temptations of easy bribes and easy satisfactions and winning for his honesty nothing but scorn even from those he loves.".
- catalog abstract "This volume, available in print for the first time since 1980, includes over twenty of C. S. Lewis's most important literary essays, written between 1932 and 1962. The topics discussed range from Chaucer to Kipling, from 'The literary impact of the authorised version' to 'Psycho-analysis and literary criticism', from Shakespeare and Bunyan to Sir Walter Scott and William Morris. Common to each essay, however, are the lively wit, the distinctive forthrightness, and the discreet erudition which characterise Lewis's best critical writing.".
- catalog abstract "Contains primary source material.".
- catalog abstract "Spanish-American literature from the Conquest to the present, but 20th century dominates.".
- catalog abstract "Comprehensive, thoroughly illustrated guide to the collection, preservation and study of over five hundred families of North American insects.".
- catalog abstract "Describes a way of looking at phenomena from biolocgical systems to social systems.".
- catalog abstract "An easy-to-read fictional account of the adventures of the Roosevelt children while their father was President.".
- catalog abstract "In the Great Smoky Mountains region, a fourteen-year-old girl struggles to keep her family together after their father dies.".
- catalog abstract "Coordinated study of animal cells and tissues. For students at any level of training and also for the biologists and physicians.".
- catalog abstract "This book treats newer reading methods and materials and current evaluation procedures.".
- catalog abstract "Elementary econometrics; More advanced econometrics.".
- catalog abstract "Readable account of the adaptations of higher plants to their varied conditions of life.".
- catalog abstract "A ten-year-old boy adjusts to the changes in his life after his mother dies.".
- catalog abstract "Bibliography:p.175-84.".
- catalog abstract "Marxist appraisal of the Constitution of India and the potential of a socialist administration under it.".
- catalog abstract ""The main body of this work is a set of tables giving the plant source, formulas and physical properties of the known alkaloids arranged in alphabetical order of the plant families in which they occur. The following data, when available, are included for each alkaloid: (1) name and structure, (2) botanical family and genus of origin, (3) molecular formula, (4) molecular weight, (5) melting point, (6) optical rotation and (7) literature citation."--Explain. Indexes: Generic, molecular formula, molecular wieght. There are also structure tables and structural formula sections.".
- catalog abstract "A teen-age girl gains new insight into herself and her family when her mentally retarded brother gets lost.".
- catalog abstract "A history of Europe through the middle ages from 565-1500 A.D.".
- catalog abstract "An intimate portrait of the country and western music scene.".
- catalog abstract "Compilation of thirty-five moral tales, allegories, fables, and adventure stories which reflect life and thought during the Middle Ages.".
- catalog abstract "The divisions between a man of ideals and a protector of presidential authority is the focus of this detailed study of Roosevelt during the difficult war years.".
- catalog abstract "Contains information on radioactive nuclides, instrumentation, dosimetry and applications, as well as on general radiation protection.".