By: I. Daniel Rupp, Pub. 1846, reprinted 2021, 720 pages, New Index, E-BOOK, ISBN #978-1-63914-540-9. From the noted author of his time, I.D. Rupp, comes the reprint of his important work covering south central Pennsylvania. These counties were officially created around the 1780's but settlers started arriving in the area around the 1730's. Early immigrants were of German and Scotch-Irish descents with some Amish being sprinkled in. There is much genealogical information to be found inters...

By: I. Daniel Rupp, Pub. 1844, 560 pages, NEW INDEX, ISBN #978-1-63914-144-9. From the noted author of his time, I.D. Rupp, comes the reprint of his important work covering south central Pennsylvania. These counties were officially created around the 1752 and 1814 but settlers started arriving in the area around the 1740's. Early immigrants were of Swedish, Welch, French, German, English and Scotch-Irish descents. There is much genealogical information to be found interspersed throughout ...

Recognizing the urgent need for students to understand the emergence of the United States' power and prestige in relation to world events, Gary W. Reichard and Ted Dickson reframe the teaching of American history in a global context. Each essay covers a specific chronological period and approaches fundamental topics and events in United States history from an international perspective, emphasizing how the development of the United States has always depended on its transactions with other n...

The 2010 elections were one of the most highly anticipated midterm elections in our nation's recent history. After the historic 2008 election, in which America elected its first black president, Sarah Palin's involvement and the emergence of the Tea Party in the 2010 congressional elections had the potential to transform the composition of congress and set the stage for the nation's politics for the next decade, or even the next generation.In this new edited volume, Charles S. Bull...

Immer sichtbarer wird für Beobachter des Zeitgeschehens die schleichende Transformation parlamentarischer Demokratien in Richtung autoritärer Systeme. Organisationen, die sich ausschließlich Kapitalinteressen verpflichtet fühlen, schaffen suprastaatliche Strukturen, die sich der demokratischen Kontrolle entziehen. Vom Volk gewählte politische Repräsentanten sehen sich zu Handlangern der ökonomisch Mächtigen degradiert, viele von ihnen vollziehen den Schulterschluss mit ihnen. Politik im bü...

This book provides a broad examination of redox-based resistive switching memories (ReRAM), a promising technology for novel types of nanoelectronic devices, according to the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors, and the materials and physical processes used in these ionic transport-based switching devices. It covers defect kinetic models for switching, ReRAM deposition/fabrication methods, tuning thin film microstructures, and material/device characterization and modeling.