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This definitive study provides a comprehensive diplomatic history of Poland during the most seminal period in its existence, when its destiny lay in the hands of France, Great Britain, and the United States. Although sovereign in principle, Poland was little more than an object of the Great Powers’ politics and rapidly changing relationships from the end of WWI to the end of WWII. Focusing on the shifting policies of the Great Powers toward Poland from the Treaty of Versailles to Yalta, the book ends with Poland’s tragic abandonment by the West into the hands of the Soviet Union. Enriched by unique anecdotal and archival material, this book will be essential reading for all those seeking to understand Poland’s role in twentieth-century history.

While participating in the yearly Christmas play at church, Brother and Sister Bear learn that it is better to give than it is to receive. Full color.

The Network Society is now more than ever the essential guide to the past, consequences and future of digital communication. Fully revised, this Third Edition covers crucial new issues and updates. This book remains an accessible, comprehensive, must-read introduction to how new media function in contemporary society.

From one of Europe''s most prominent intellectuals: a brilliant, utterly original study of the boxing style of Muhammad Ali; of his rise, ascendancy, and fall as champion of the world; and of how Ali the man came to reflect many of our own deep, often disturbing, cultural patterns. This virtuoso essay takes as its narrative framework the legendary Ali vs. Joe Frazier fight in Manila in 1975, which Jan Philipp Reemtsma follows in three-round sections. Intercut with these vivid and telling accounts of what actually is going on (as opposed to what merely appears to be) are much wider ranging sections exploring the choreography (it is not too grand a word) that Ali crafted for his greatest title bouts, how he created a style that became its own myth, how he then came to have to act that style in the ring, and its damaging consequences. Reemtsma also provides portraits of Ali''s opponents: Sonny Liston, George Foreman, Ken Norton, and, above all, Joe Frazier, the strongest "big puncher" of them all. He even produces a startling analysis of Sylvester Stallone''s five Rocky movies to show how closely linked they are with the changing mythology of Ali, then opens up that myth so that we see how Ali the man and what he represents are connected with our own lives.

The Stories and the Games: Alekhine – Euwe – Botvinnik – Smyslov – Tal - Petrosian – Spassky – Fischer - Karpov – Kasparov For many years Jan Timman was one of the best chess players in the world. He combined his brilliant successes on the board with a passion for writing and meticulously analysing his own games and those of his rivals. Three times he was a World Championship Candidate and in 1993 he played in the final of the FIDE World Championship. In this fascinating book, Jan Timman portrays ten World Chess Champions that played an important role in his life and career. Alexander Alekhine (1892-1946) he never met, but the story of how in Lisbon he bought one of the last chess sets belonging to the fourth World Champion is one of many highlights in this book. Timman has a keen eye for detail and a fabulous memory, and he visibly enjoys sharing his insider views, including many revelations about the great champions. Timman’s Titans not only presents a personal view of these chess giants, but is also an evocation of countless fascinating episodes in chess history. Each portrait is completed by a rich selection of illustrative games, annotated in the author’s trademark lucid style. Always to the point, sharp and with crystal-clear explanations, Timman shows the highs and lows from the games of the champions, including the most memorable games he himself played against them.

Wolves, grizzlies, beluga whales, and other awesome creatures roam their native habitats in this fun-to-color collection of 30 accurately rendered drawings.

Hangman Puzzles takes the famous two-player game and turns it into a one-player trivia game of deduction. On his run, he finds a dead man hanging from a tree. The book features 100 puzzles split into two sections with varying levels of difficulty. Each game has a category clue and a unique way of solving the puzzle.From simple vocabulary to extended quotes, you''ll be guessing to solve a variety of words and phrases. Each puzzle comes with a category and a visual hint to help you solve the puzzle. Scratch off the letter''s clue to find what positions in the phrase the letter falls on. If you guess wrong, you add another segment to the poor man''s body. Guess wrong five times and you lose. If you run out of guesses, an answer key in the back will help fill in the blanks.

Jan Brett’s lovable bunny hero, Hoppi, and the surprising outcome of his quest to impress the Easter Rabbit with the best Easter egg of all will enchant readers. If Hoppi can make the best Easter egg, he will get to help the Easter Rabbit with his deliveries on Easter morning. But it is not so easy. Discouraged, he goes for a walk in the woods and sees a blue robin egg tumble out of its nest. Hoppi keeps it safe and warm until the baby bird hatches. And when the Easter Rabbit arrives, he has a very special way to reward Hoppi for his kindness. Spring is everywhere in gorgeous illustrations framed with pussy willows, flowering vines and flowers. Side borders feature busy rabbits making their unusual eggs and, in a border above, the robin’s family drama unfolds. A gatefold surprise reveals the Easter Rabbit in dramatic fashion.

Do the various aspects of Europe''s multi-leveled public diplomacy form a coherent overall image, or do they work against each other to some extent? European Public Diplomacy pushes the literature on public diplomacy forward through a multifaceted exploration of the European case.

This beloved story is a perfect way to introduce children to the importance of friendship, sharing, and problem solving! Come for a visit in Bear Country with this classic First Time Book® from Stan and Jan Berenstain. A new cub, Lizzie, has moved to town and Sister can’t wait to become her friend. But when bossiness enters the mix, Sister and Lizzie’s new friendship might be in trouble.

Revised and expanded, this volume deals with the religious traditions of ancient Egypt, which have come down to us in a state which is both extremely fragmentary and complex. New material - especially hymns collected in Theban tombs - now allows a much more precise allocation of religious texts and ideas in terms of time, place and social context. Within the field of solar religion, no less than five different traditions have to be distinguished: 1) the liturgical traditions of the royal solar cult, which for their secrecy and exclusivity are labelled the "mysteries" of the sun cult; 2) the traditional mythology of the solar course expressed in hymns and pictorial representations; 3) the revolutionary process culminating in the Amarna period, which discards the mythic images and gives a monotheistic construction of the solar course, a process which starts before Akhenaten''s revolution; 4) the theology of Amun-Re, the God of Thebes, before the Amarna Period, a theology of primacy where one god acts as chief of a pantheon; and 5) the quite different theology of this same Amun-Re after Amarna, a theology which answers the monotheistic experience by developing a kind of pantheism - the concept of the hidden god - who is both cosmic god and personal saviour.

Hangman Puzzles takes the famous two-player game and turns it into a one-player trivia game of deduction. On his run, he finds a dead man hanging from a tree. The book features 100 puzzles split into two sections with varying levels of difficulty. Each game has a category clue and a unique way of solving the puzzle.From simple vocabulary to extended quotes, you''ll be guessing to solve a variety of words and phrases. Each puzzle comes with a category and a visual hint to help you solve the puzzle. Scratch off the letter''s clue to find what positions in the phrase the letter falls on. If you guess wrong, you add another segment to the poor man''s body. Guess wrong five times and you lose. If you run out of guesses, an answer key in the back will help fill in the blanks.

Hangman Puzzles takes the famous two-player game and turns it into a one-player trivia game of deduction. On his run, he finds a dead man hanging from a tree. The book features 100 puzzles split into two sections with varying levels of difficulty. Each game has a category clue and a unique way of solving the puzzle.From simple vocabulary to extended quotes, you''ll be guessing to solve a variety of words and phrases. Each puzzle comes with a category and a visual hint to help you solve the puzzle. Scratch off the letter''s clue to find what positions in the phrase the letter falls on. If you guess wrong, you add another segment to the poor man''s body. Guess wrong five times and you lose. If you run out of guesses, an answer key in the back will help fill in the blanks.

Developers who design and program USB devices have a new resource in the fifth edition of USB Complete: The Developer''s Guide. This edition adds an introduction to USB 3.1 and SuperSpeedPlus bus, which offers a 2x increase in bus speed over USB 3.0’s SuperSpeed. For designs that don''t require USB 3.1’s capabilities, the book also covers USB 2.0 technology and applications. USB Complete Fifth Edition bridges the gap between the technical specifications and the real world of design and programming. Author Jan Axelson distills the fundamentals of the protocols and guides developers in choosing device hardware, deciding whether to target a USB class driver or another host driver, and writing device firmware and host applications. Example code in Visual C# shows how to detect and access USB devices and how to program and communicate with vendor-defined devices that use the human-interface-device (HID) class driver and Microsoft’s WinUSB driver. Also covered are how to use bus power, including new advanced power delivery capabilities, wireless communications for USB devices, and developing embedded hosts, including dual-role USB On-The-Go devices. Programmers and hardware designers can rely on USB Complete’s Fifth Edition to help get projects up and running quickly. Students and hobbyists will learn how to use the interface built into every PC. Instructors will find inspiration and guidance for class projects.

A portrait of the mysteries and miracles of everyday life introduces the small North Carolina town of Mitford and its colorful inhabitants, including Tim, a bachelor rector, who is falling in love with his neighbor

Hangman Puzzles takes the famous two-player game and turns it into a one-player trivia game of deduction. On his run, he finds a dead man hanging from a tree. The book features 100 puzzles split into two sections with varying levels of difficulty. Each game has a category clue and a unique way of solving the puzzle.From simple vocabulary to extended quotes, you''ll be guessing to solve a variety of words and phrases. Each puzzle comes with a category and a visual hint to help you solve the puzzle. Scratch off the letter''s clue to find what positions in the phrase the letter falls on. If you guess wrong, you add another segment to the poor man''s body. Guess wrong five times and you lose. If you run out of guesses, an answer key in the back will help fill in the blanks.

The author examines Belarus'' complex past and analyzes the challenges facing the republic in the wake of a disintegrating Soviet Union.

Hangman Puzzles takes the famous two-player game and turns it into a one-player trivia game of deduction. On his run, he finds a dead man hanging from a tree. The book features 100 puzzles split into two sections with varying levels of difficulty. Each game has a category clue and a unique way of solving the puzzle.From simple vocabulary to extended quotes, you''ll be guessing to solve a variety of words and phrases. Each puzzle comes with a category and a visual hint to help you solve the puzzle. Scratch off the letter''s clue to find what positions in the phrase the letter falls on. If you guess wrong, you add another segment to the poor man''s body. Guess wrong five times and you lose. If you run out of guesses, an answer key in the back will help fill in the blanks.

Spirit, Soul, and City offers a new reading of Coriolanus, Shakespeare''s most political play and the last of his great tragedies. Portraying the founding of the Roman republic and the life and soul of its legendary warrior, Coriolanus, the play brings to light not only the hidden working of Rome''s mixed regime but the inherent tragic tensions in the soul''s spirited tendency to strive to go beyond itself in order to be true to itself. Distinguished scholar Jan H. Blits provides a fresh interpretation of this rich, complex, and often perplexing play, combining meticulous detail and insightful breadth. Proceeding line-by-line through the play, this book reaches its conclusions by closely examining Shakespeare''s text--his plot, characters, language, structure, allusions, puzzles, and other devices.

STRESS ISN’T THE PROBLEM. YOUR RESPONSE TO IT IS. You can’t annihilate stress. But you can learn to manage it peacefully—and you don’t need to radically change your life to do so. The powerful author team who crafted this book has the research to prove it—with more than a half dozen studies to date showing the program’s efficacy. Marrying the whole-person, systemic approach of integrative medicine with the science of resilience and the tenets of positive psychology, the authors created a method that attacks stress on every level. This three-pronged approach gets at its roots, so stress can’t flourish, but you can. In just 14 days, the authors teach you a new way to respond and, in turn, a new way to live.

The Berenstain Bears are off to the aquarium, and the Cubs can’t wait to see their favorite sea creatures. Brother Bear is wishing for the whales, and Sister hunting for a dazzling dolphin. But first to the fish, penguins, seals, and so much more! There is so much to see under the sea!

Trolls sure know how to make trouble, but Treva is too smart and wily to fall for their tricks! Treva''s trouble with trolls begins when she climbs Mount Baldy with her dog Tuffi. The trolls who live there long for a dog, and they try to kidnap him. But Treva is brave and quick-thinking. She outwits one troll after another until she reaches the very top of the mountain, where five trolls are waiting--and they want her dog! From underground to mountain peak, Jan Brett''s story is filled with adventure and eye-catching detail.

Hangman Puzzles takes the famous two-player game and turns it into a one-player trivia game of deduction. On his run, he finds a dead man hanging from a tree. The book features 100 puzzles split into two sections with varying levels of difficulty. Each game has a category clue and a unique way of solving the puzzle.From simple vocabulary to extended quotes, you''ll be guessing to solve a variety of words and phrases. Each puzzle comes with a category and a visual hint to help you solve the puzzle. Scratch off the letter''s clue to find what positions in the phrase the letter falls on. If you guess wrong, you add another segment to the poor man''s body. Guess wrong five times and you lose. If you run out of guesses, an answer key in the back will help fill in the blanks.

The African plains provide a stunning environment for Jan Brett''s latest animal adventure. For as long as anyone can remember, the honeyguide bird and the African honey badger have been partners when it comes to honey:Honeyguide finds the honeycomb, Badger breaks it open, and they share the sweetness inside. But this day, Badger keeps all the honey for himself. Foolish Badger! In no time, Honeyguide leads Badger on a fast chase. Badger thinks it''s for honey; but Honeyguide has a surprise waiting for her greedy friend. As they swim across a pond, push through a thicket of reeds, leap over a huge anthill, a menagerie of exotic animals passes the news along in a kind of animal Bush Telegraph. Finally Badger faces a lift-the-flap page, revealing the twist that teaches Badger a lesson. Can you guess who''s under that flap? Honey . . . Honey . . . Lion! will surely become a family favorite for readers of all ages.

This book offers a broader theory of nuclear deterrence and examines the way nuclear and conventional deterrence interact with non-military factors in a series of historical case studies. The existing body of literature largely leans toward the analytical primacy of nuclear deterrence and it is often implicitly assumed that nuclear weapons are so important that, when they are present, other factors need not be studied. This book addresses this omission. It develops a research framework that incorporates the military aspects of deterrence, both nuclear and conventional, together with various perceptual factors, international circumstances, domestic politics, and norms. This framework is then used to re-examine five historical crises that brought two nuclear countries to the brink of war: the hostile asymmetric nuclear relations between the United States and China in the early 1960s; between the Soviet Union and China in the late 1960s; between Israel and Iraq in 1977–1981; between the United States and North Korea in 1992–1994; and, finally, between the United States and the Soviet Union during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. The main empirical findings challenge the common expectation that the threat of nuclear retaliation represents the ultimate deterrent. In fact, it can be said, with a high degree of confidence, that it was rather the threat of conventional retaliation that acted as a major stabilizer. This book will be of much interest to students of nuclear proliferation, cold war studies, deterrence theory, security studies and IR in general.

Hangman Puzzles takes the famous two-player game and turns it into a one-player trivia game of deduction. On his run, he finds a dead man hanging from a tree. The book features 100 puzzles split into two sections with varying levels of difficulty. Each game has a category clue and a unique way of solving the puzzle.From simple vocabulary to extended quotes, you''ll be guessing to solve a variety of words and phrases. Each puzzle comes with a category and a visual hint to help you solve the puzzle. Scratch off the letter''s clue to find what positions in the phrase the letter falls on. If you guess wrong, you add another segment to the poor man''s body. Guess wrong five times and you lose. If you run out of guesses, an answer key in the back will help fill in the blanks.

Hangman Puzzles takes the famous two-player game and turns it into a one-player trivia game of deduction. On his run, he finds a dead man hanging from a tree. The book features 100 puzzles split into two sections with varying levels of difficulty. Each game has a category clue and a unique way of solving the puzzle.From simple vocabulary to extended quotes, you''ll be guessing to solve a variety of words and phrases. Each puzzle comes with a category and a visual hint to help you solve the puzzle. Scratch off the letter''s clue to find what positions in the phrase the letter falls on. If you guess wrong, you add another segment to the poor man''s body. Guess wrong five times and you lose. If you run out of guesses, an answer key in the back will help fill in the blanks.

Die 2. Auflage von Small Animal Dental Equipment, Materials, and Techniques wurde überarbeitet, aktualisiert und um die neuesten Entwicklungen in der veterinär-zahnärztlichen Praxis ergänzt. - Umfassendes Referenzwerk für zahnärztliche Behandlungen in der Tierarztpraxis. - Bietet wertvolle Unterstützung bei der Auswahl von zahnärztlichen Geräten, Instrumenten und Materialien. - Erläutert eine Reihe von Begriffen und Techniken aus der Zahnheilkunde. - Mit einer Fülle neuer Abbildungen. - Legt den Nachdruck auf Informationen der Zahnheilkunde, die für Veterinäre relevant sind.

Origin of Nuclear Science; Nuclei, Isotopes and Isotope Separation; Nuclear Mass and Stability; Unstable Nuclei and Radioactive Decay; Radionuclides in Nature; Absorption of Nuclear Radiation; Radiation Effects on Matter; Detection and Measurement Techniques; Uses of Radioactive Tracers; Cosmic Radiation and Elementary Particles; Nuclear Structure; Energetics of Nuclear Reactions; Particle Accelerators; Mechanics and Models of Nuclear Reactions; Production of Radionuclides; The Transuranium Elements; Thermonuclear Reactions: the Beginning and the Future; Radiation Biology and Radiation Protection; Principles of Nuclear Power; Nuclear Power Reactors; Nuclear Fuel Cycle; Behavior of Radionuclides in the Environment; Appendices; Solvent Extraction Separations; Answers to Exercises; Isotope Chart; Periodic Table of the Elements; Quantities and Units; Fundamental Constants; Energy Conversion Factors; Element and Nuclide Index; Subject Index.