RJ Blanchard an enigma. As a child RJ did not know how to overcome his painful shyness so he did the only thing his young mind could come up with, he became a chameleon. This fateful mistake was to dominate the next sixty years of his life. His timidity never allowed him to seek the spot light allowing others to take credit for his many accomplishments. He was so adept in the art of anonymity that even the things he did for his family and friends went unrecognized. Not realizing that it was his life style of invisibility that caused the lack of respect from others, he grew angry at the world around him. It festered for years growing more ominous with each slight until fi nally it manifested itself in the form of untreatable Clinical Depression. He fought for his soul, indeed for his life, won and in the process learned about the man who resided inside the body. With the secrets of his life unlocked he felt a need to share them with those he loved. It Ain’t Haiku became RJ’s catharsis allowing him to delve into the deep recesses of his mind. He shed tears for what he found sad and lonely. As is his nature, he expressed anger and discontent with the ignorance that was revealed. He even found a way to laugh and smile about some of the craziness that life had offered up to him. When he was satisfi ed that the explorations were complete he moved to the exit, glanced back one more time at the anger and pain of his past, then stepped through the threshold to his future.
RJ Blanchard an enigma. As a child RJ did not know how to overcome his painful shyness so he did the only thing his young mind could come up with, he became a chameleon. This fateful mistake was to dominate the next sixty years of his life. His timidity never allowed him to seek the spot light allowing others to take credit for his many accomplishments. He was so adept in the art of anonymity that even the things he did for his family and friends went unrecognized. Not realizing that it was his life style of invisibility that caused the lack of respect from others, he grew angry at the world around him. It festered for years growing more ominous with each slight until fi nally it manifested itself in the form of untreatable Clinical Depression. He fought for his soul, indeed for his life, won and in the process learned about the man who resided inside the body. With the secrets of his life unlocked he felt a need to share them with those he loved. It Ain’t Haiku became RJ’s catharsis allowing him to delve into the deep recesses of his mind. He shed tears for what he found sad and lonely. As is his nature, he expressed anger and discontent with the ignorance that was revealed. He even found a way to laugh and smile about some of the craziness that life had offered up to him. When he was satisfi ed that the explorations were complete he moved to the exit, glanced back one more time at the anger and pain of his past, then stepped through the threshold to his future.
Addressed to all readers of Our Nig, from professional scholars of African American writing through to a more general readership, this book explores both Our Nig’s key cultural contexts and its historical and literary significance as a narrative. Harriet E. Wilson’s Our Nig (1859) is a startling tale of the mistreatment of a young African American mulatto woman, Frado, living in New England at a time when slavery, though abolished in the North, still existed in the South. Frado, a Northern ‘free black’, yet treated as badly as many Southern slaves of the time, is unforgettably portrayed as experiencing and resisting vicious mistreatment. To achieve this disturbing portrait, Harriet Wilson’s book combines several different literary genres – realist novel, autobiography, abolitionist slave narrative and sentimental fiction. R.J. Ellis explores the relationship of Our Nig to these genres and, additionally, to laboring class writing (Harriet Wilson was an indentured farm servant). He identifies the way Our Nig stands as a double first: the first separately-published novel written in English by an African American female it is also one of the first by a member of the laboring class about the laboring class. This study explores how, as a result, Our Nig tells a series of disturbing two-stories about America’s constitutional guarantee of ‘freedom’ and the way these relate to Frado’s farm life.
César Franck (1822–1890), Belgian born and French domiciled, was one of the most remarkable composers of the 19th century. A number of his works are commonly recorded—such as his Symphony in D Minor, Symphonic Variations, Violin Sonata, and the ever-popular Panis Angelicus—and yet 38 years have elapsed since a biography of him appeared in English. Now with César Franck: His Life and Times, R. J. Stove fills this gap in the history of late 19th-century classical music with a full-length study of the man and his music. Drawing on sources never before cited in English, Stove paints a far more detailed picture of this great musician and deeply loved man, whose influence in both his native and adopted lands was exceptional. Stove carefully delves into intimate matters of Franck’s life, including his resilience in the face of his exploitation as a child prodigy at the piano, his development from a shy and harassed piano teacher into one of the most sought-after luminaries of Paris’s Conservatoire, and the truth behind Franck’s alleged affair with one of his students. Throughout his study, Stove interweaves panoramic surveys of the political and social scene in Belgium and France, contextualizing Franck’s achievements in his historical milieu, from his rise as a recognized master of the organ to his dealings with significant composers such as Liszt, Gounod, Saint-Saëns, Massenet, Chabrier, and others. César Franck: His Life and Times is an engagingly written biography sure to interest classical music listeners of all stripes.
Harriet E. Wilson's Our nig (1859) is a startling tale of the mistreatment of a young African American mulatto woman, Frado, living in New England at a time when slavery, though abolished in the North, still existed in the South. Frado, a Northern free black', yet treated as badly as many Southern slaves of the time, is unforgettably portrayed as experiencing and resisting vicious mistreatment. To achieve this disturbing portrait, Harriet Wilson's book combines several different literary genres - realist novel, autobiography, abolitionist slave narrative and sentimental fiction. R.J. Ellis explores the relationship of Our nig to these genres and, additionally, to laboring class writing (Harriet Wilson was an indentured farm servant). He identifies the way Our nig stands as a double first: the first separately-published novel written in English by an African American female it is also one of the first by a member of the laboring class about the laboring class.
After the death of an 11-year-old girl on her operating table, Dr. Tracie Miller is ready to leave her surgical career - and her lively, cultured life - behind. She moves to the country and falls in love with Bill, a local police officer. Her idyllic life is fractured when a man attacks her in her home. He makes a remark that leads her to believe he is the same town serial rapist and killer whom Bill has been trying to catch. After arriving on the scene to save her, Bill is critically injured by the attacker. Can Dr. Tracie Miller face her fears to perform a last-minute surgery on Bill to save his life? Can she help the police find her assailant?...
This is a definitive study of Charles the Bold’s diplomatic and military relations with the Italian states, taking full account of economic policy. The book makes extensive use not only of the great mass of diplomatic correspondence in the archives of Florence, Mantua, Milan, Modena and Venice, but also of Charles’ financial records in the archives of Brussels and Lille. The author’s mastery of these primary sources is complemented by judicious use of a wide range of secondary material. Aspects of Charles the Bold’s relations with Italy have been considered in earlier literature, but no study has before dealt with them comprehensively at any length. This book fills that gap and places Charles’ reign in its wider European context.
This timely book offers a critical account of key governance challenges of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Illustrating China’s efforts to expand its idea of a sustainable eco-civilization, thereby ‘greening’ the BRI, it explores the disputes that have emerged from this process and subsequent complications resulting from geopolitical competition.
An authoritative two-volume overview of the distribution of the wild plants of Great Britain and Ireland Plant Atlas 2020 presents the results of field surveys by the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland, building on past atlas surveys undertaken by the Botanical Society in the early and late twentieth century. Drawing on the work of thousands of botanists who covered the entirety of Britain and Ireland between 2000 and 2019, this two-volume book features introductory chapters that provide a detailed assessment of the changes to the region’s flora over the past hundred years. Distribution maps and accompanying text and graphics display the phenology, altitudinal range, and time-series trends for 2,616 native and alien species and 247 hybrids. With more than 30 million records gathered during the project, Plant Atlas 2020 will serve as an essential resource for the study and conservation of these wild plants and their vitally important habitats for decades to come. The most in-depth survey of British and Irish flora ever undertaken, based on more than 30 million individual records Covers 2,616 native and alien species and 247 hybrids Features a wealth of distribution maps and infographics, accompanied by informative text A must-have reference book for botanists, field naturalists, conservation organizations, government agencies, and anyone interested in the diverse plant life of Great Britain and Ireland
RJ Blanchard an enigma. As a child RJ did not know how to overcome his painful shyness so he did the only thing his young mind could come up with, he became a chameleon. This fateful mistake was to dominate the next sixty years of his life. His timidity never allowed him to seek the spot light allowing others to take credit for his many accomplishments. He was so adept in the art of anonymity that even the things he did for his family and friends went unrecognized. Not realizing that it was his life style of invisibility that caused the lack of respect from others, he grew angry at the world around him. It festered for years growing more ominous with each slight until fi nally it manifested itself in the form of untreatable Clinical Depression. He fought for his soul, indeed for his life, won and in the process learned about the man who resided inside the body. With the secrets of his life unlocked he felt a need to share them with those he loved. It Ain’t Haiku became RJ’s catharsis allowing him to delve into the deep recesses of his mind. He shed tears for what he found sad and lonely. As is his nature, he expressed anger and discontent with the ignorance that was revealed. He even found a way to laugh and smile about some of the craziness that life had offered up to him. When he was satisfi ed that the explorations were complete he moved to the exit, glanced back one more time at the anger and pain of his past, then stepped through the threshold to his future.
Imagine this…Wilton, a small town in the Berkshires of Massachusetts. Roland Briggs, a brilliant but burned out ex-homicide detective from the south trying to escape the horror of his wife’s suicide and his subsequent nervous breakdown, takes the job of chief of police. For two years, it’s just as he’d hoped, quiet and unchallenging. But then, it the fall of 1972, the town is rocked by the grisly murders of two elderly women. A man is caught and convicted. The evidence against him is overwhelming. Everyone is satisfied that the murderer is behind bars. Everyone except Briggs. Armed with only a few inconsistencies and his belief that the convicted man was framed, Briggs begins his search to find the motive for these senseless and seemingly random acts of violence. Slowly, he begins to realize that the reason for these crimes is buried in the old and abandoned, Wilton School for the Feeble-Minded, up on the hill on the outskirts of town.
This new edition of the only guide to detail all the known routes on 570 peaks in the Sierra is completely reorganized to be even more user friendly and includes more than 100 new routes, route variations and winter ascents.The most popular guidebook to the magnificent Sierra mountains has been expanded and improved. There is 30 percent new content in this edition, including new route descriptions, additional peaks described, more historical information, and GPS-enabled driving directions. The content has also been completely rearranged to keep roads and trails, and passes and peaks together, making the book easier to use. Four of the 30 maps have been revised."The Sierra climbing bible" (The Los Angeles Times)"The best field guide to the region." (Men's Journal)"The guide to the Sierra nevada high country." (Climbing magazine)
“Die gegenseitige Beeinflussung der höherer Pflanzen – Allelopathie” by Gerhard Grümmer appeared in 1955. It was a remarkable and unique summary of a science, that had received little attention, but which was to captivate the attention of plant ecologists decades later. While Hans Molisch was credited for coining “allelopathy” (in German) in 1937, his monograph dealt primarily with the effects of ethylene. It was Gerhard Grümmer, a young academic at Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University, Greifswald, who marshalled the existing world literature on the chemical interactions of plants into the world's first coherent textbook on allelopathy. Grümmer, however, worked in East Germany, at a time when the “iron curtain” was descending, and his book on allelopathy remained little known outside Germany. In 1957, the book was translated into Russian, which helped advance subsequent allelopathic studies in the U.S.S.R. In the English-speaking world, the first comprehensive mono-graph on allelopathy is considered to be “Allelopathy” by E.L. Rice, published in 1974, and revised in 1984. While Molisch's heralded book has been both reprinted, and translated into English, Grümmer's meritorious volume has been sadly overlooked, and to this day still provides important insights into many allelopathic problems, in particular root excretions, pollen allelopathy, and chemical interactions in mistletoes. For these reasons, an English trans-lation of “Die gegenseitige Beeinflussung der höherer Pflanzen – Allelopathie” is long overdue, and it is hoped that its publication will assist ecologists in their research and consolidate Grümmer's position as a founding figure in the development of allelopathy as a science.
This book reviews the principles of Doppler radar and emphasizes the quantitative measurement of meteorological parameters. It illustrates the relation of Doppler radar data and images to atmospheric phenomena such as tornadoes, microbursts, waves, turbulence, density currents, hurricanes, and lightning. Geared toward upper-level undergraduates and graduate students, this text was written by two scientists at the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Oklahoma, a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Topics include electromagnetic waves and propagation, weather signals and their Doppler spectra, weather signal processing, measurements of precipitation and turbulence, and observations of winds and storms as well as fair weather. Radar images and photographs of weather phenomena highlight the text.
Carbohydrate Chemistry provides review coverage of all publications relevant to the chemistry of monosaccharides and oligosaccharides in a given year. The amount of research in this field appearing in the organic chemical literature is increasing because of the enhanced importance of the subject, especially in areas of medicinal chemistry and biology. In no part of the field is this more apparent than in the synthesis of oligosaccharides required by scientists working in glycobiology. Clycomedicinal chemistry and its reliance on carbohydrate synthesis is now very well established, for example, by the preparation of specific carbohydrate- based antigens, especially cancer-specific oligosaccharides and glycoconjugates. Coverage of topics such as nucleosides, amino-sugars, alditols and cyclitols also covers much research of relevance to biological and medicinal chemistry. Each volume of the series brings together references to all published work in given areas of the subject and serves as a comprehensive database for the active research chemist Specialist Periodical Reports provide systematic and detailed review coverage in major areas of chemical research. Compiled by teams of leading authorities in the relevant subject areas, the series creates a unique service for the active research chemist, with regular, in-depth accounts of progress in particular fields of chemistry. Subject coverage within different volumes of a given title is similar and publication is on an annual or biennial basis.
With a claim to be the first work to document in detail the history of allelopathy, Willis’s text provides an account of the concept of allelopathy as it has occurred through the course of botanical literature from the earliest recorded writings to the modern era. A great deal of information is presented here in a consolidated and accessible form for the first time. The book offers a unique insight into the historical factors which have influenced the popularity of allelopathy.
Rushdoony's study tells us an important part of American history: exactly what has public education been trying to accomplish? Before the 1830s and Horace Mann, no schools in the U.S. were state supported or state controlled. They were local, parent-teacher enterprises, supported without taxes, and taking care of all children. They were remarkably high in standard and were Christian. From Mann to the present, the state has used education to socialize the child. The school's basic purpose, according to its own philosophers, is not education in the traditional sense of the 3 R's. Instead, it is to promote "democracy" and "equality," not in their legal or civic sense, but in terms of the engineering of a socialized citizenry. Public education became the means of creating a social order of the educators design. Such men saw themselves and the school in messianic terms. This book was instrumental in launching the Christian school and homeschool movements.
Powers and Johnson are back in the explosive conclusion to the Face of Fear investigation. As the personal lives of the police officers and detectives of the now Priority 1 Task Force seem to be back to normal, behind the scenes, a plot to destroy all those who saved the lives of Rachelle Robinson, Deborah Lance and Lindsey Wilkerson has been planned. The tables get turned when it is discovered there is a link to The Music Club Murders from The Face of Fear Investigation. This link forces Ghost Face to return where he proves that when it comes to revenge there is...no mercy.
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