Ancient travellers called the Caucasus the mountain of languages. Greeks, Persians, Romans, Goths, Arabs, Mongols and Turks have all passed through the region; poets and artists have been inspired by its rugged beauty and yet its history is a tragic one - for centuries it has been ravaged by virtually continuous war. Every 50 years, it seems, Russia attempts to take control of this hugely strategic part of the world - sandwiched as it is between Iran, Turkey and Russia and crossed by some of the most valuable oil pipelines in the world. The latest conflict to sweep across the area began when Vladimir Putin invaded Chechnya in 1999. Thousands of Russian soldiers and thousands more Chechens - both rebels and civilians - died and Chechnya's towns and cities were bombed beyond recognition. Sebastian Smith travelled to Chechnya during this period. A mixture of travelogue, history and war journalism, Allah's Mountains tells the story of the conflict between this nation of mountain tribes and the might of the Russian army. A moving example of how history can be written. Smith's account of the historical background to the conflict reads like a novel, but better, because it also has the intimacy and immediacy of an eyewitness account. He has given us a memorable, well-researched account of a peculiarly horrible war. - Literary Review This is a riveting book, written with almost seemless elegance. - International Affairs
Authored by two distinguished researchers/teachers and an experiences, successful textbook author, Calculus for Life Sciences is a valuable resource for Life Science courses. As life-science departments increase the math requirements for their majors, there is a need for greater mathematic knowledge among students. This text balances rigorous mathematical training with extensive modeling of biological problems. The biological examples from health science, ecology, microbiology, genetics, and other domains, many based on cited data, are key features of this text.
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Business economics - Business Ethics, Corporate Ethics, grade: 2,3, Anglia Ruskin University (Ashcroft Business School), course: Business Ethics, language: English, abstract: The present assignment is based on the case study ‘John Smith at Horizon Trading Company’. After a short summary the objective is to analyse and to evaluate the case study from an ethical perspective. Furthermore, the teleontological and deontological approaches will be applied as well as Kohlberg’s model of moral dilemmas
Jaw. 67 The Unwanted Truth is a book about the spiritual journey for a group of men who, through their own lives, come to know the worlds biggest secret. Bigs an ex-criminal, a priest and his ex-special forces son, a major in the US Army, and an FBI agent are all, by destiny, thrown into the secret and dangerous world of the end times. There are those that believe mankind, in the final hours of this world, will get one last chance to know the truth and accept it, or reject it. That time has come, make up your mind, accept or reject.
Collects All-New Ghost Rider (2014) #1-12, Ghost Rider (2016) #1-5, What If? Ghost Rider (2018) #1. Robbie Reyes is the newest Ghost Rider — with a twist! He’s got a sweet ride, but the car is haunted by a vengeful spirit named Eli, and it’s hell on wheels! When Robbie’s East L.A. neighborhood is overrun by Mr. Hyde’s drug-fueled gang violence, can he use this new power to put vengeance in overdrive — or will he submit to Eli’s darkness? When Johnny Blaze shows up, hellfire sparks will fly in a street race to eternal damnation! And when Robbie learns a shocking truth about his absent parents, will it push him over the edge? Plus: A mysterious crash landing brings Robbie face-to-face with Amadeus Cho, X-23 and Silk! And Ghost Rider goes metal in a wild “What If” featuring music, monsters and Marvel!
A fatal collision of three lives in the most intriguing and original crime story since In Cold Blood. In the spring of 1963, the quiet suburb of Belmont, Massachusetts, is rocked by a shocking sex murder that exactly fits the pattern of the Boston Strangler. Sensing a break in the case that has paralyzed the city of Boston, the police track down a black man, Roy Smith, who cleaned the victim's house that day and left a receipt with his name on the kitchen counter. Smith is hastily convicted of the Belmont murder, but the terror of the Strangler continues. On the day of the murder, Albert DeSalvo—the man who would eventually confess in lurid detail to the Strangler's crimes—is also in Belmont, working as a carpenter at the Jungers' home. In this spare, powerful narrative, Sebastian Junger chronicles three lives that collide—and ultimately are destroyed—in the vortex of one of the first and most controversial serial murder cases in America.
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