"This critical study of the work of Kamala Markandaya is a comprehensive assessment of her entire canonan output that spans ten novels produced over a period of three decades. With emphasis upon the presence or absence of the quality of Indianness in her fiction, this analysis examines those aspects of her writing that reflect dependence upon ...
Brazilian Portuguese constitutes the largest variation of the Portuguese language, with an estimated 170 million out of more than 200 million native speakers world-wide. The bilingual dictionary and travel-oriented phrasebook focus on the Portuguese spoken in Brazil, A grammar and pronunciation section provides users with the basic elements of the ...
Capoeira weaves fighting, music, dance, prayer, and ritual into an urgent strategy by which people live, struggle, celebrate, and survive together. In this book Bira Almeida--or Mestre Acordeon as he is respectfully called in capoeira circles--documents his own tradition with both the panoramic eye of the historian and the passionate heart of the ...
In a search for his apprentices killer, Musketeer Porthos rallies his friends to discover who is responsible, pursuing the truth even as he puts his own life in danger. Original.
Recorder Express is the track to becoming a great recorder player and having fun! More than 120 folk, pop, and original songs and exercises are included as well as technique tips and beginning music theory. Notes in the order taught: B, A, G, C, D, Low E, Low D, F#, Low C, F, High E. Levels one and two are covered in this one edition. This method ...
This book translates social justice values and multicultural theory into a practical therapeutic model for clinical/community practice. The focus in this work is on linking people across family boundaries to solve common problems, as personal and relational problems are situated in broader social issues, in order to form a healing context
Practical, real-world solutions are given to potential problems covering the entire system life cycle. This book describes how to map real-life systems (databases, data centers, and e-commerce applications) into analytic performance models. The authors elaborate upon these models and use them to help the reader better understand performance issues.
The world's #1 book on Web capacity planning has now been completely revamped to reflect the latest Web services and e-commerce applications, and the latest techniques and technologies for supporting them. In this book, two of the world's leading Web capacity planning experts show how to precisely quantify potential and real performance problems, ...
Alexandre Dumas's Four Musketeers--the noble Athos, the cunning Aramis, the loyal Porthos, and sharp-witted D'Artagnan--now add murder and mystery to their ranks as swashbuckling sleuths in the court of King Louis XIII. Original.
This introduction to the theory of Hamiltonian chaos outlines the main results in the field, and goes on to consider implications for quantum mechanics. The study of nonlinear dynamics, and in particular of chaotic systems, is one of the fastest growing and most productive areas in physics and applied mathematics. In its first six chapters, this ...
In 1999, slow E-commerce sites cost their owners $44 billion in lost revenue -- and site failures have embarrassed companies from Britannica to eBay, Victoria's Secret to Charles Schwab. In Scaling for e-Business, two of the world's leading Web performance experts present powerful techniques for characterizing, predicting, anticipating, and ...
Aramis's lover--a Spanish noblewoman and childhood friend of the Queen--has been murdered, and the Musketeer has been accused of the crime. Now it's up to Athos, Porthos, and D'Artagnan to clear their friend's name. Original.
This is the definitive text on the Afro-Brazilian art of Capoeira, the mix of martial arts, dance, and all-around approach to life. Written by one of the world's foremost Capoeira masters, the book provides fascinating historical information, as well as the author's own profound, mysterious, and magical experience with the art form.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics, HM 2006, held in Gran Canaria, Spain, in October 2006. The 13 revised full papers presented together with 1 invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. Topics of this new emerging field addressed by the papers ...
One of the first longitudinal studies of collective resistance in the developing world, Waves of Protest" examines large-scale contentious action in El Salvador during critical eras in the country's history. Providing a compelling analysis of the massive waves of protests from the early twentieth century to the present in El Salvador, Paul D. ...
The "Physiology of Tropical Fishes" is the 21st volume of the well-known "Fish Physiology" series and consists of 12 chapters. The purpose of the book is to consolidate and integrate what is known about tropical fishes (marine and freshwater species). The twelve chapters focus on the physiological adaptations acquired during the evolutionary ...
Expansions of Feminist Family Theory Through Diversity reconstructs feminist family therapy to include issues of race, class, gender, culture, and sexual orientation. The contributors assist you with creating possible solutions to mental health problems in all types of families. This will enable you to find specific working strategies to help ...
This book will interest anyone who marvels at the night sky and would like to learn to recognise constellations and identify the brightest stars by name. Renowned amateur astronomer, Guilherme de Almeida, dispels the myth that specialist knowledge and elaborate instruments are a prerequisite for all astronomical observation. His book emphasizes ...
Transformations of Gender and Race will help you become a better therapist by arming you with new theories and practices that concern inclusiveness of identity, psyche, and culture in the therapy room. This book radically shifts current thinking in systemic theory and practice with individuals, children, couples, and families, giving you a fresh ...
As the Four Musketeers race to save Porthos's servant from the gallows, they run afoul of Cardinal Richelieu, who is investigating a far more serious matter--a plot against the life of the King Louis XIII. Original.
"Indian Renaissance: British Romantic Art and the Prospect of India" is the first comprehensive examination of British artists whose first-hand impressions and prospects of the Indian subcontinent became a stimulus for the Romantic Movement in England; it is also a survey of the transformation of the images brought home by these artists into the ...
Yoga, kickboxing, spinning, weights, cardio machines: the gym can leave novices bewildered! What is all that equipment for - and how do you use it? This survival manual is the antidote to gym confusion. It shows newcomers the ropes, getting them fearlessly on the road to becoming healthier, slimmer and stronger. From an overview of membership ...
After D'Artagnan receives word of his father's death in a duel, he returns home to Gascony, accompanied by his fellow Musketeers. But his father's "duel" was actually murder, and now the killers have set their sights on D'Artagnan. Original.
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