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The time: March 24, 1946. The place: Paris. The world chess champion, Dr. Alexander Alekhine, is found dead in his hotel rooms. Was it accident? Or suicide? Or murder? Detective Inspector Jacques Colbert, a brilliant and highly unusual man, receives the case. With the help of his assistant, Sergeant...

Western culture has long regarded black female sexuality with a strange mix of fascination and condemnation, associating it with everything from desirability, hypersexuality, and liberation to vulgarity, recklessness, and disease. Yet even as their bodies and sexualities have been the subject of countless...

History of Asian Americans: Exploring Diverse Roots supplies a concise, easy-to-use, yet comprehensive resource on Asian American history. Chronologically organized, it starts with Chinese immigration to the United States and concludes with coverage of the most recent Asian migrant populations, describing...

Many readers have found Operator's Guide to Centrifugal Pumps (Xlibris, 2008) to be a valuable training resource for process operators. Volume 2 provides additional training material in the form of student challenge exams and additional exposure to reliability topics. Volume 2 has two goals:...

A collection of poetics and rhymes. Inspired and cultivated in the struggles before and during integral awakening and deepening. The expressions emoted are of a man trying to make sense of the world around him. Living with compassion, consciousness and the human experience

A comprehensive guide for service members, veterans, and their families dealing with the all-too-common repercussions of combat duty, including traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression, chronic pain and musculoskeletal injury, and substance abuse. Written...

A NON-FICTIONAL RAW RESPONSE TO THE DEMISE AND PREJUSTICESCONSERVATIVE RIGHTWINGERSBUSH-CHENEYS ADMINISTRATION, ILLEGALLY APPOINTED IN THE NAME OF DEMOCRACY, AND COMMITED WAR CRIMES. WE NEED TO HAVE TERM LIMITS FOR FEDERAL JUSTICES OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, IN CONJUNCTION, THE UNITED STATES...

Blaise Pascal began as a mathematical prodigy, developed into a physicist and inventor, and had become by the end of his life in 1662 a profound religious thinker. As a philosopher, he was most convinced by the long tradition of scepticism, and so refused – like Kierkegaard – to build a philosophical...

A guided tour of non-monogamy, A World in Us begins with Louisa and her husband Gilles, who love each other but whose marriage is going nowhere. They decide to explore polyamory, falling for another couple and trying to forge a life together as a quad. But they are challenged in ways they didn't expect,...

With this innovative text, the study-and teaching- of probability and random signals becomes simpler, more streamlined, and more effective. Its unique "textgraph" format makes it both student-friendly and instructor-friendly. Pages with a larger typeface form a concise text for basic topics...

For years, Ally Theodisius has suspected his “friends” have been humoring him to stay in his good graces—and his wallet—so when a No Pants Day breakfast ends in his humiliation, he finally takes a stand. When model Bennie Arnold runs into Ally, his first impression is of a cute, adorably...

In 2012, the University of South Africa, in partnership with the Thabo Foundation, hosted African intellectuals at a colloquium themed 'Mbeki@70'. The essays presented on that day were collected and edited into this book. What is reflected in the essays goes beyond the person of Thabo Mbeki to include...

Psychotherapy involves a deep ethical commitment to self-knowl­ edge, personal change, and mutual respect by both the therapist and the patient. Unfortunately, therapists have not always lived up to that commitment in understanding and treating low income and minority patients. Too often they lack...

The field of Hindu-Christian studies revives theology as a particularly useful interreligious discipline. Though a sub-division of the broader Hindu-Christian dialogue, it is also a distinct field of study, proper to a smaller group of religious intellectuals. At its best it envisions a two-sided,...