He had become an Australian, indistinguishable from the real thing, returning to England and his Cornish boyhood world before discovering the truth of his existence. "I recall the exact moment. The birth certificate extract showed my unique quartet of Christian names. Strangely, the names next to MOTHER were a replica of the trio I recollected for my elder sister, 25 years my senior. Birthplace correct. Against FATHER was scrawled a single word: unknown. There, at the age of 26, I came to ...

Explores the archaeology of Mississippian communities and households using new data and advances in method and theoryPublished in 1995, Mississippian Communities and Households, edited by J. Daniel Rogers and Bruce D. Smith, was a foundational text that advanced southeastern archaeology in significant ways and brought household-level archaeology to the forefront of the field. Reconsidering Mississippian Communities**and Households revisit...

For Gregory A. Duncan, life began with a series of uphill battles. Raised as the middle child in a family of five by a single mother, Gregory grew up in the shadow of an absent father and the challenges of standing out-literally. His fair skin, fiery reddish-light brown hair, and bright brown eyes marked him in ways that made childhood uniquely difficult.But Gregory's spirit of perseverance carried him forward, transforming adversity into fuel for success. From his years of honorab...

Seven studies explore the modest but significant role of Canadian multinational enterprises in world finance, trade, and direct investment. Presents a historical overview, analyses of individual companies, and considerations of whole industries.

From the Alcatraz East Crime Museum and Jack the Ripper guided tours to the Phnom Penh killing fields, ‘dark tourism’ is now a multi-million-pound global industry. Even in the most pleasant tourist destinations, underlying harms are constantly perpetuated, affecting both consumers and those who work or live around such tourist hotspots. Highlighting 50 travel destinations across six continents, expert criminologists, psychologists and historians explore the past and contemporary issues whi...

Gregory A. Duncan war Colonel des terranischen Flottengeheimdienstes - bis man ihn nicht mehr brauchte. Jetzt schlägt er sich mehr schlecht als recht als Privatdetektiv durch. Im 39. Jahrhundert sind die Gegner jedoch keine kleinen Kriminellen, sondern technisch hochgerüstete Verbrecher oder Aliens. Und die Spielwiese ist nicht der Dschungel einer Großstadt, sondern die gesamte Galaxis. Die Leiche eines Aoree vor der Haustür, eine Spezies, mit der man sich vor Kurzem noch im Krieg befand, ...

Much of traditional solid state chemistry invokes changes in the structures and properties of solids via addition or substitution of cations. In the vast majority of cases, the anion remains a constant, and due in part to the ubiquity of oxygen, that anion is oxide. This book considers the role and importance of pnictides, chalcogenides, carbides and halides, among others, in redefining modern solid state materials chemistry. The true flexibility of the anion is explored in a summ...

Black Cat Weekly #7 showcases the best new and classic science fiction, fantasy, mysteries, and suspense, with novels and short stories in every weekly issue.Mysteries“Death of a Light-Hearted Lady,” by Ruth Malone [short story]“The Soul of the Blue Bokhara,” by Frank Lovell Nelson [short story, Carl ton Clarke #7]]“Keys to Success,” by Hal Charles [Solve-It-Yourself Mystery]“Mysterious Blues,” by Adam Meyer [Barb Goff man Pres...

Gregory A. Duncan war Colonel des terranischen Flottengeheimdienstes - bis man ihn nicht mehr brauchte. Jetzt schlägt er sich mehr schlecht als recht als Privatdetektiv durch. Im 39. Jahrhundert sind die Gegner jedoch keine kleinen Kriminellen, sondern technisch hochgerüstete Verbrecher oder Aliens. Eigentlich will Gregory A. Duncan endlich Urlaub machen. Doch eine Holomessage wirft nicht nur seine Pläne über den Haufen, sondern ist der Beginn eines Auftrages, für den er nicht nur keinen L...

For nine-year-old Lorraine Jackson, the Sanitation Strike of 1968 hit close to home.Lorraine marched with her daddy and other sanitation workers through the streets of Memphis fighting for equal rights and safer working conditions. With her mother, she boycotted stores. Lorraine’s life was forever changed when she heard Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preach his famous sermon“I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” to the tired and frustrated strikers. Dr. King was tragically killed the ne...

This edited collection examines the means to create, maintain, and enhance welcoming colleges and universities in the United States and abroad with personal accounts, case studies, models, programs, and other frameworks written by practitioners in higher education. The contributors explain how they have created inviting classrooms; established friendly educational experiences both within and beyond the classroom; engaged faculty and enhanced the teaching experience; and developed instrumen...

This contributed volume presents multiple techniques for the synthesis of nanodielectric materials and their composites and examines their applications in the field of energy storage. It overviews various methods for designing these materials and analyses their properties such as mechanical strength, flexibility, dielectric as well as electrical performances for end-user applications such as thin-film flexible capacitors, advanced energy storage capacitors, and supercapacitors. The book gi...