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Caesar's Great Success

Sustaining the Roman Army on Campaign

By: Alexander Merrow,Agostino von Hassell,Gregory Starace

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Caesar's Great Success

Sustaining the Roman Army on Campaign

By: Alexander Merrow,Agostino von Hassell,Gregory Starace

An in-depth look at the world’s first ever military logistical supply system and how it fed Caesar’s armies in the field. Logistics have become a principal, if not a governing factor, in modern military operations. Armies need to be fed and supplied, and the larger the army, the greater the logistical difficulties that have to be overcome. Two thousand years ago, when communications were far more primitive, the size of armies was limited by the difficulties of supply. It was because the Romans developed a sophisticated supply system that they were able to maintain large armies in the field—armies that conquered much of the then known world. In Caesar’s Great Success, the authors examine and detail the world’s first ever fully-developed logistical supply system—the forerunner of today’s complex arrangements. This includes an examination of the sea, river, and land transportation of food while on campaign, and of how the food was assembled at the operational bases and subsequently distributed. The defense of the Roman food supplies, and especially of lines of communication, was an important factor in Caesar’s operational planning, as was interdicting the enemy’s supplies. The eating habits of Caesar’s men are considered and what items could be obtained locally by forage and which were taken by requisition—and how much food a legionnaire was expected to carry on campaign. With this, the nature of the actual food consumed by the legionnaires is therefore examined and sample recipes are provided with each chapter of the book to enable the reader to relive those momentous days when Caesar and Rome ruled the world.

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Frontline Books

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1473855888

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9781473855885

The Great Yes

How to Unleash the Meaning of Life

By: Christoph Quarch,Alexander Merrow,Christine Teufel

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The Great Yes

How to Unleash the Meaning of Life

By: Christoph Quarch,Alexander Merrow,Christine Teufel

How to fall in love with Plato, get relaxed with Socrates and find the meaning of life despite Kant. Mankind's most precious resource is neither gold or data - it is Meaning. Meaning seems to run short in our epoch. So how can we access it? Meaning is what captivates and excites us, what we experience with all our senses. But behold, we cannot make sense merely on our own. Meaning is a gift happening to us whenever we are openhearted, openminded and receptive. Then we can respond to life by saying Yes without any ifs and buts. What do we need to start making sense?

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Christoph Quarch

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3985515344

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Stray Dogs, Saints, and Saviors

Fighting for the Soul of America's Toughest High School

By: Alexander Russo

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Stray Dogs, Saints, and Saviors

Fighting for the Soul of America's Toughest High School

By: Alexander Russo

The inside story of the most-watched attempt to transform a troubled high school Stray Dogs, Saints, and Saviors tells the real-life story of Locke High School. Locke High– originally known for its excellence–became one of the toughest, most dysfunctional schools in the nation. Then in 2007 teachers voted to bring in an upstart charter school organization called Green Dot to try and restore the Locke Saints' past glory. It was a brave and desperate move. Working in secrecy, the school principal, a small group of teachers, and Green Dot's charismatic founder, Steve Barr, convince Locke teachers to support a petition that will take the school away from the Los Angeles Unified School District. The "new" Locke opened in the fall of 2008. Offers an in-depth look at a school "turnaround" effort that garnered a blizzard of publicity Russo's blog This Week in Education was named by The Washington Post as one of its best education blogs of 2010 Tells the gritty truth about the tough work of true school reform Locke's transformation shows that with hard work and sacrifice, broken schools can indeed be improved in meaningful ways. However, the process of school reform is one of the most vital, and least glamorous, projects that we can participate in.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118033590

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9781118033593

The Modern Witchcraft Guide to Fairies

Your Complete Guide to the Magick of the Fae

By: Skye Alexander

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The Modern Witchcraft Guide to Fairies

Your Complete Guide to the Magick of the Fae

By: Skye Alexander

Interact with magical fairy folk and incorporate them into your own witchcraft practice with this detailed account of the ancient wisdom and traditions of fairies and witchcraft. Fairies have long been a part of witchcraft traditions, especially Celtic and Norse witchcraft, paganism, and other traditions deeply tied to the earth. But these fairies aren’t the harmless creatures you’ve read about in children’s tales: they are magical creatures with their own culture and rules that you need to know before venturing into their territory. Now you can explore the world of the fairies and how their magic relates to your own witchcraft practice with The Modern Witchcraft Book of Fairies. This book provides you with all the information you need to know about the different types of fae folk and how you can safely interact with them to make the most of your witchcraft practice.

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Simon and Schuster

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1507215916

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9781507215913

Mermaids

The Myths, Legends, and Lore

By: Skye Alexander

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Mermaids

The Myths, Legends, and Lore

By: Skye Alexander

Discover the myths, legends, and lore behind everyone’s favorite sea creature—mermaids. The allure and mystery of mermaids has taken hold of our psyche for ages. From the Irish merrows who come on land to search for human husbands to the fake Fiji Mermaid made popular by P.T Barnum, these sea maidens (and sometimes men) can be found in folklore and mythology from every tradition in the world. Inside this captivating collection, complete with beautiful illustrations throughout, you'll discover the myths surrounding these enigmatic beings, explore the common symbols associated with them, and learn tales of merfolk from around the world. Dive into Mermaids and get swept away!

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Simon and Schuster

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1507206666

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9781507206669

Becoming a Project Leader

Blending Planning, Agility, Resilience, and Collaboration to Deliver Successful Projects

By: Alexander Laufer,Terry Little,Jeffrey Russell,Bruce Maas

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Becoming a Project Leader

Blending Planning, Agility, Resilience, and Collaboration to Deliver Successful Projects

By: Alexander Laufer,Terry Little,Jeffrey Russell,Bruce Maas

This book blends academic rigor and real world experience on the agile and planning schools of project management and the process of becoming a project leader. To some, project management is all about logically and rationally planning out dependencies and mapping them out into a flawless plan; a plan that must be rigorously and undeviatingly followed in all its geometric perfection. To others it is about agility – 15 minute scrum meetings and responding on the fly to the unpredictable exigencies that the randomness of the living, breathing world throws up. In reality, smart project leaders do both. They understand that you can’t deliver a project if you make an “either/or” choice between these approaches – you must do “both/and”. These managers strive for stability and flexibility, they use formal and informal processes, and they function as managers and leaders. In Becoming A Project Leader the authors have applied their blend of intellectual rigor and hard-nosed practical experience to identify four concrete roles employed by successful project managers. The first three roles—planning, agility, and resilience—focus on coping with changes, with each role relating to a different kind of change. These three roles, which complement each other, can be implemented effectively only when they are supported by the fourth role, collaboration. Becoming an expert at understanding and delivering that blend requires constant reflection and interaction with peers – all part of the process of becoming a project leader. Based on years of experience, research and thinking and refined through 20 in-depth interviews with practicing project managers and senior executives, Becoming A Project Leader delivers the solution to all those blown budgets, shot schedules and disappointing deliverables.

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Springer

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3319667246

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9783319667249

They Create Worlds

The Story of the People and Companies That Shaped the Video Game Industry, Vol. I: 1971-1982

By: Alexander Smith

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They Create Worlds

The Story of the People and Companies That Shaped the Video Game Industry, Vol. I: 1971-1982

By: Alexander Smith

They Create Worlds: The Story of the People and Companies That Shaped the Video Game Industry, Vol. 1 is the first in a three-volume set that provides an in-depth analysis of the creation and evolution of the video game industry. Beginning with the advent of computers in the mid-20th century, Alexander Smith’s text comprehensively highlights and examines individuals, companies, and market forces that have shaped the development of the video game industry around the world. Volume one, places an emphasis on the emerging ideas, concepts, and games developed from the commencement of the budding video game art form in the 1950s and 1960s through the first commercial activity in the 1970s and early 1980s. They Create Worlds aims to build a new foundation upon which future scholars and the video game industry itself can chart new paths. Key Features: The most in-depth examination of the video game industry ever written, They Create Worlds charts the technological breakthroughs, design decisions, and market forces in the United States, Europe, and East Asia that birthed a $100 billion industry. The books derive their information from rare primary sources such as little-studied trade publications, personal papers collections, and oral history interviews with designers and executives, many of whom have never told their stories before. Spread over three volumes, They Create Worlds focuses on the creative designers, shrewd marketers, and innovative companies that have shaped video games from their earliest days as a novelty attraction to their current status as the most important entertainment medium of the 21st Century. The books examine the formation of the video game industry in a clear narrative style that will make them useful as teaching aids in classes on the history of game design and economics, but they are not being written specifically as instructional books and can be enjoyed by anyone with a passion for video game history.

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CRC Press

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042975261X

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9780429752612

The Waiting Water

Order, Sacrifice, and Submergence in German Realism

By: Alexander Sorenson

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The Waiting Water

Order, Sacrifice, and Submergence in German Realism

By: Alexander Sorenson

The Waiting Water addresses one of the most recurrent and troubling motifs in German Realist literature—death by drowning. Characters find themselves before bodies of water, presented with the familiar realm above the surface and the unobservable, uncanny domain beneath it. With somber regularity, they then disappear into the depths. Alexander Sorenson explores the role that these hidden deaths in water play within a literary movement that set out precisely to reveal universal truths about human life. The poetics of submergence, he argues, revolve around two concepts fundamental to Poetic Realism—order and sacrifice. Focusing on texts by Adalbert Stifter, Gottfried Keller, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, and Theodor Storm, along with material from earlier and later epochs, The Waiting Water shows that the pervasive symbolism of drowning scenes in German Realism, which typically occur in zones of narrative invisibility on the social periphery, reveals the extent to which realist narrative uses the natural environment to work through deeply embedded and hidden tensions that troubled the social and moral life of the age.

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Cornell University Press

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1501777114

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Demonic Vacations

Go Back Home Already

By: Al Hagan,Erika Lance,Alexander C. Bailey,Rebecca Rowland,Evan Baughfman,DJ Tyrer,Joseph Valadez,Mark Robinson,Valerie Willis,Georgia Cook,Laura G. Kaschak,Mark Towse,W.T. Paterson

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Demonic Vacations

Go Back Home Already

By: Al Hagan,Erika Lance,Alexander C. Bailey,Rebecca Rowland,Evan Baughfman,DJ Tyrer,Joseph Valadez,Mark Robinson,Valerie Willis,Georgia Cook,Laura G. Kaschak,Mark Towse,W.T. Paterson

Reader's Beware! Vacation time is upon us, but not everything will go as planned. We obsess over hotel reviews and cross paths with unsavory characters and this tome is no exception! From the mild to the gory, prepare for unexpected twist and turns on these vacations. Some are from hell, and we mean the characters, the events, and the places these stories will take you! Laugh, cringe, and shudder as you experience a trip like no other...

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4 Horsemen Publications, Inc.

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1644502887

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9781644502884

The Illustrated Handbook of the British Plants

By: Alexander Irvine

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The Illustrated Handbook of the British Plants

By: Alexander Irvine

Reprint of the original, first published in 1858. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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3382314932

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9783382314934

Fairies

The Myths, Legends, and Lore

By: Skye Alexander

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Fairies

The Myths, Legends, and Lore

By: Skye Alexander

An enchanting treasury of fairy lore! Around the corner, behind the bushes, and just out of sight...fairies have spent hundreds of years weaving their way in and out of our homes and gardens to spread their magic. Featuring folklore, mythology, and poetry from around the world, this lovely collection reveals these ethereal spirits' extraordinary powers and the history behind their existence. From the case of the Cottingley fairies in the early twentieth century, whose photographs fooled thousands (including Arthur Conan Doyle), to the mischievous fairies found in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, the fascinating stories surrounding these magical sprites are sure to captivate anyone who has ever dreamed of catching one hiding deep within her flowerbed. Whether you're interested in exploring the history and culture or just want to learn more about fairies' powers and trickery, you'll love plunging into the enchanting tales that bring these whimsical creatures to life. Complete with hundreds of lovely illustrations, Fairies reveals the magnificent beauty of these mesmerizing sprites as well as their knack for causing mischief.

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Simon and Schuster

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1440573050

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9781440573057

Technologies for a Greenhouse-Constrained Society

By: Michael A. Kuliasha,Alexander Zucker

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Technologies for a Greenhouse-Constrained Society

By: Michael A. Kuliasha,Alexander Zucker

This timely book presents strategies for mitigation of the greenhouse effect. It provides practical counter measures to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases. Key substitute technologies discussed include energy efficiency and conservation, biomass, and nuclear energy. These technologies are both mature and can be applied on a large scale. Important concepts can apply to other technologies as well. Technologies for a Greenhouse-Constrained Society will help scientists and engineers identify the technological and policy actions needed to counteract the greenhouse effect. Solutions are aimed at both developed and developing countries. Technologies for a Greenhouse-Constrained Society will appeal to environmental engineers and scientists, meteorologists, social scientists, geologists, educators, fuel engineers, energy engineers, economists, and others interested in this field.

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CRC Press

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087371797X

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9780873717977

The Works of John Webster

By: Alexander Dyce

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The Works of John Webster

By: Alexander Dyce

Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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3382309025

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Animal Dreaming

The Spiritual and Symbolic Language of the Australasian Animals

By: Scott Alexander King

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Animal Dreaming

The Spiritual and Symbolic Language of the Australasian Animals

By: Scott Alexander King

Ancient teachings suggest that we are capable of communing with the forces of nature and speaking readily to the animals, birds, reptiles, fish and even the insects. Each animal offers its own sacred teachings. When we learn the symbolic language of the animals and listen carefully to what they have to say, we can use the knowledge gained to manifest their qualities and wisdom into our own lives. ANIMAL DREAMING explores the spiritual and symbolic interpretations of over 200 native, domesticated and introduced animals, birds, reptiles and fish in Australia, offering a wealth of ancient knowledge and spiritual insight. ANIMAL DREAMING is an invaluable resource for anyone with an interest in the animal kingdom, sacred Earth Wisdom and Shamanic Lore.

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Blue Angel Gallery

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0980398304

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9780980398304

A Complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament

By: Alexander Cruden

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A Complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament

By: Alexander Cruden

Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.

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3375161441

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Caesar's Great Success

Caesar's Great Success

The Great Yes

The Great Yes

Stray Dogs, Saints, and Saviors

Stray Dogs, Saints, and Saviors

The Modern Witchcraft Guide to Fairies

The Modern Witchcraft Guide to Fairies

Mermaids

Mermaids

Becoming a Project Leader

Becoming a Project Leader

They Create Worlds

They Create Worlds

The Waiting Water

The Waiting Water

Demonic Vacations

Demonic Vacations

The Illustrated Handbook of the British Plants

The Illustrated Handbook of the British Plants

Fairies

Fairies

Technologies for a Greenhouse-Constrained Society

Technologies for a Greenhouse-Constrained Society

The Works of John Webster

The Works of John Webster

Animal Dreaming

Animal Dreaming

A Complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament

A Complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament

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