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Luke Coldiron comes to wild San Francisco during the gold rush to play highs stakes poker. Tom Gallatin, the white guard for Yangs Chinatown empire, falls in love with Yangs beautiful Chinese slave girl, Ging. When card cheats rob Coldiron and Yang sends his hatchet men to kill Tom, Luke, Tom and Ging must join forces to kill to survive.

Volume 51 contains a total of 60 lectures covering 12 topics: History Poetry Natural Science Philosophy Biography Prose Fiction Criticism and the Essay Education Political Science Drama Voyages and Travels Religion

Mexican War 1847. American army lands at Vera Cruz and marches inland and captures Mexico City. Cavillin Texas Ranger and Chilton Dragoon lead their men in the battle. Chilton wanting money for his dead and wounded men leads a band of Dragoons robbing Mexican towns of their gold and silver. Cavillin is ordered to catch the thieving Dragoons.

A man who has no woman sleeps with the wind. Wounded in a battle of the Civil War Ben Hawkins becomes the ugliest horse thief in Texas. Only one woman remembers what he was like before the wound and still loves him. However she is the sixth wife of a Mormon man. When she is kidnapped and taken into Mexico one man will dare try to rescue her.

Skinner is set in the wild and brawling days of the outlaw gangs in the badlands of Oregon. The story brings together Skinner, the wild mustanger, and Peter Pipe, the orphan kid who know only the law of the gun.Skinner is denied the privilege of courting beautiful Beth Manderfield by her grandfather....

The story setting is England and Australia in the mid-1860s. Patrick Scanlan an orphan of seven is sold into slavery at a weaving mill in London. Half starved and often whipped for refusing to work he manages to escape from the weaving mill and onto the dangerous London streets with their whores thugs...

Discusses ways of ensuring genetic diversity, advances in wheat breeding and their use to improve properties such as drought resistance and cold tolerance; Summarises research on factors affecting nutritional and other aspects of wheat quality; Reviews advances in understanding wheat pests and diseases...

Beautiful fourteen year old Alice immigrates to New York from London. Her mother is murdered and Alice must survive on the streets by her wits and courage. Arrested for stealing food she is released and sent to Minnesota. She kills to save her life. Frightened and pursued by a sadistic rapist she flees into the snowy wilderness toward Canada.

It is 1847 and the place is turbulent New Orleans as American forces prepare for the invasion of Mexico. Timothy Wollfolk traveling to New Orleans to claim a huge inheritance, is shot and thought dead. Lew Fannin, ex-Texas Ranger slays the mans murderers and assumes his identity. Two violent strands of dramatic conflict are set into motion.

Acoustics, the science of sound, has developed into a broad interdisciplinary field encompassing the academic disciplines of physics, engineering, psychology, speech, audiology, music, architecture, physiology, neuroscience and others. Here is an unparalleled modern handbook reflecting this richly...

Two neurolearning experts reveal the hidden benefits of having a dyslexic brain. In this paradigm-shifting book, neurolearning experts Drs. Brock and Fernette Eide describe an exciting new brain science that reveals that dyslexic people have unique brain structure and organization. While the...

Who were the first people who came to the land bridge joining northeastern Asia to Alaska and the northwest of North America? Where did they come from? How did they organize technology, especially in the context of settlement behavior?     During the Pleistocene era, the people now...

During his 25-year career as a plastic surgeon, Dr. Robert M. Tornambe has seen many beautiful, yet insecure, women—of all ages—come to his office hoping to fundamentally alter their looks. Time after time, he wondered how these gorgeous women could doubt themselves. But more importantly, he wondered...

Contos e poemas para as meninas e meninos mortos por bala perdida no Rio de Janeiro, por escritores consagrados. Projeto originalmente publicado, de forma anônima, na São Paulo Review. Parte da receita desta edição será revertida para ações de educação e atendimento de jovens em comunidades cariocas.