When the USS Enterprise’s doctor is held for ransom by the Orion syndicate, Captain Pike must both rescue his doctor and discovery why the Orions no longer fear Starfleet in this thrilling adventure based on Star Trek: The Original Series.A thorn in the side of civilized space travel for over a hundred years, the Orion Syndicate has gotten bolder. They are harassing more ships and daring to even tangle with smaller Starfleet vessels. When one of t...

David Stern is no ordinary cueball. He's a fully actualized bald man. Stern has gone through all five stages of grieving for his hair, and he's now in a better place. If you or someone you know wants to join him there, "The Balding Handbook" will provide you with a road map. "The Balding Handbook" takes you beyond those embarrassing denial moments (hats, combovers, plugs, pieces), keeps you out of jail during that angry second stage, helps you construct a perfect offer to God while you bar...

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A distress call goes out from a Federation outpost near the Klingon border. The U.S.S. Enterprise, under the command of Captain Christopher Pike, responds. Starbase 18 lies in ruin. There are no survivors. And there is no clue as to who is responsible for the attack, until Captain Pike's brilliant science officer discovers a means of retrieving parts of the station's log. Lieutenant Spock has detected signs of a unique energy signature, one that he believes is Klingon. There are unsubstant...

Contemporary library managers face the need to make difficult choices regarding resource allocation in the modern business environment. How Libraries Make Tough Choices in Difficult Times is a practical guide for library managers, offering techniques to analyze existing and potential services, implement best practices for maximizing existing resources, and utilize pressing financial scenarios in order to justify making difficult reallocation decisions. The book begins by asking the fundame...

An unparalleled overview of current design considerations for your digital library! Digital Libraries: Philosophies, Technical Design Considerations, and Example Scenarios is a balanced overview of public services, collection development, administration, and systems support, for digital libraries, with advice on adopting the latest technologies that appear on the scene. As a professional in the library and information science field, you will benefit from this special issue that serves as a...

Today the salary cap is an NBA institution, something fans take for granted as part of the fabric of the league or an obstacle to their favorite team’s chances to win a championship. In the early 1980s, however, a salary cap was not only novel but nonexistent. The Cap tells the fascinating, behind-the-scenes story of the deal between the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association that created the salary cap in 1983, the first in all of sports, against the backdrop of a lo...

"Zwischen Kreuz, Halbmond und Davidstern: Eine kulturelle Odyssee durch das mittelalterliche Al-Andalus" von Alexander v. Güzel enthüllt die faszinierende Geschichte des maurischen Spaniens. Das Werk zeichnet ein lebendiges Bild der komplexen Beziehungen zwischen Muslimen, Christen und Juden im mittelalterlichen Andalusien.Das mittelalterliche Andalusien war ein einzigartiger Schmelztiegel der Kulturen, in dem Muslime, Christen und Juden über Jahrhunderte hinweg in...

Sie habe mit diesem Buch den "jüdischen sowjetischen Kulturoffizieren ein Denkmal setzen und den Antisemitismus unter Stalin dokumentieren" wollen, erklärte die Autorin 1999 in einem Interview, als die 1. Auflage ihrer Erinnerungen erschienen. Es ist mehr: eine berührende Autobiographie, die, mit leichter Hand geschrieben, schwere, bedrückende Kapitel der Geschichte lebendig werden läßt: Nazizeit und Nachkriegszeit, Kalter Krieg und Berlinkrise, Titoismus und Dritter Weg, Deutschland und I...

Der Kabarettist und Autor Bernd-Lutz Lange begibt sich auf die Suche nach jüdischen Bürgern der Stadt Leipzig. Wie ein Archäologe legt er Spuren ihres Lebens frei, erzählt von Schicksalen rund um die Welt und trägt die Mauer des Vergessens Schicht für Schicht ab - getreu der jüdischen Weisheit: "Erinnerung bringt die Erlösung, Vergessen hält sie auf." "In seiner Unmittelbarkeit erschütternd." Aufbau, New York "Es nimmt ein, daß er nicht von den ‚großen' Schicksalen spricht, sondern vom Fri...

An in-depth investigation into career-related programmes in American secondary schools and two-year further education colleges is given in this book. In addition to reviewing evidence on the effectiveness of vocational coursework, the authors analyse programmes involving students who study and work simultaneously, including co-operative education, youth apprenticeship and school-based enterprise.; Chapters deal with the problems encountered in the school-to-work transition: the preparation...

This insider account is "thoroughly captivating . . . Suffused with . . . scientific wonder. . . . a top-notch documentation of intrepid planetary exploration" ( Kirkus Reviews , starred review).On July 14, 2015, something amazing happened. More than three billion miles from Earth, a small NASA spacecraft called New Horizons screamed past Pluto at more than 32,000 miles per hour, focusing its instruments on the long myster...