There wasn't anything that George Washington Carver couldn't grow. He took the common goober--today's peanut--and created hundreds of useful products from it, turning goobers into a very profitable staple for the South. At the same time, this very special man passed on to everyone who knew him the importance of following one's own dreams.

A history of the world's first democracy from its beginnings in Athens circa fifth century B.C. to its downfall 200 years later.The first democracy, established in ancient Greece more than 2,500 years ago, has served as the foundation for every democratic system of government instituted down the centuries. In this lively history, author Thomas N. Mitchell tells the full and remarkable story of how a radical new political order was born out of the revolutionary move...

In this carefully selected audiobook of verse with works by Keats, Kipling, Southey, Yeats and others such Hollywood legends as Helen Hayes and Raymond Massey provide unique readings and interpretations of these classics.

A toe curling, laugh out loud collection of worst day disasters.*I’d always rolled my eyes when people describe things as 'happening in slow motion'. Surely everything happens in regular time and it's only when you replay it in your head that it seems to slow down?*But as the car lurched forward and I found myself sailing through the back of the garage, I finally understood what they meant.When a trip to meet his new girlfriend’s grandparents ends ...

This edition features• illustrations• a linked Table of ContentsCONTENTS (abridged list)CHAPTER I. GENERAL MAPCHAPTER II. MAP OF THE RIVERS BOGAN AND MACQUARIECHAPTER III. MAP OF THE RIVERS NARRAN, CULGOA, AND BALONNE TO ST. GEORGE'S BRIDGE, — SHOWING ALSO THE ROUTE HOMEWARD, AS DESCRIBED IN CHAPTER X....CHAPTER VIII. Fossils and plants. — A new genus. — LINSCHOTENIA DISCOLOR. — Ascend Mount Faraday. — Valley of the Warregò. — Meet ...

In recent times there has been growing awareness about various heirs' property problems, including massive, decades-long, involuntary land loss. Heirs' Property and the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act: Challenges, Solutions, and Historic Reform should increase that awareness among lawyers, the general public, and policymakers. Just as importantly, the book offers many practical solutions for those seeking to address a variety of heirs' property problems.The contrib...

From 1949 to 2000, Moshe Dayan, Yitzhak Rabin, Ariel Sharon, and Ehud Barak conducted Israel's successful (and unsuccessful) talks with its Arab neighbors, from the armistice negotiations to Kissinger's shuttle diplomacy, to Camp David I and the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, and finally to the Oslo peace process. The four successful generals who became politicians are covered in four separate biographies, which discuss the early life and military career of each subject and his subsequent ...

Earthquakes are some of the most dynamic features of the Earth. This multidisciplinary volume presents an overview of earthquake processes and properties including the physics of dynamic faulting, fault fabric and mechanics, physical and chemical properties of fault zones, dynamic rupture processes, and numerical modeling of fault zones during seismic rupture.This volume examines questions such as:• What are the dynamic processes recorded in fault gouge?• What can we...

Since the Maastricht ratification debate of the early 1990s, the legitimacy of the European Union has become a subject of controversy. With unprecedented force, Europeans have begun to question the need for deeper integration. Some fear threats to established national identities, while others perceive the emergence of a distant but powerful Brussels, beyond the reach of democratic control. Legitimacy and the European Union breaks with established approaches to the problem of the l...

Though traditionally defined as a relatively brief time period - typically the half century of 1780-1830 - the "Romantic era" constitutes a crucial, indeed unique, transitional phase in what has come to be called "modernity," for it was during these fifty years that myriad disciplinary, aesthetic, economic, and political changes long in the making accelerated dramatically. Due in part to the increased velocity of change, though, most of modernity’s essential master-tropes - such as secular...

This is the first of two volumes announcing the emergence of the new legal realism as a field of study. At a time when the legal academy is turning to social science for new approaches, these volumes chart a new course for interdisciplinary research by synthesizing law on the ground, empirical research, and theory. Volume 1 lays the groundwork for this novel and comprehensive approach with an innovative mix of theoretical, historical, pedagogical, and empirical perspectives. Their empirica...

Leverage PowerShell to perform many day-to-day tasks in Microsoft AzureKey FeaturesDeploy and manage Azure virtual machines with PowerShell commands.Get to grips with core concept of Azure PowerShell such as working with images and disks, custom script extension, high availability and more.Leverage hands-on projects to successfully apply what you learned through the course of this book.Book DescriptionAs an IT professional, i...