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The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons
The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons
In the beginning (this was the 1960s for me), Saturday mornings existed for the sole purpose of watching cartoons. Before my brother and I were allowed to turn on the TV the only rule was that our beds had to be made, our breakfast eaten (Quisp! cereal) and our teeth brushed. Of course, we were up at the crack of dawn so as to not miss a thing....
The Ten Lost Tribes: A World History
The Ten Lost Tribes: A World History

The legendary story of the ten lost tribes of Israel has resonated among both Jews and Christians down through the centuries: the compelling idea that some core group of humanity was "lost" and exiled to a secret place, perhaps someday to return triumphant. In this fascinating book, Zvi Ben-Dor Benite shows for the first time the...

Jews and Judaism in Modern China (Routledge Jewish Studies Series)
Jews and Judaism in Modern China (Routledge Jewish Studies Series)

Jews and Judaism in Modern China explores and compares the dynamics at work in two of the oldest, intact and starkly contrasting civilizations on earth; Jewish and Chinese. The book studies how they interact in modernity and how each civilization views the other, and analyses areas of cooperation between scholars, activists and...

Behind the Berlin Wall: East Germany and the Frontiers of Power
Behind the Berlin Wall: East Germany and the Frontiers of Power

Few historical changes occur literally overnight, but on August 13 1961 eighteen million East Germans awoke to find themselves walled in by an edifice which was to become synonymous with the Cold War: the Berlin Wall.

This new history rejects traditional, top-down approaches to Cold War politics, exploring instead how the border
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Localizing the Moral Sense: Neuroscience and the Search for the Cerebral Seat of Morality, 1800-1930
Localizing the Moral Sense: Neuroscience and the Search for the Cerebral Seat of Morality, 1800-1930

Due to the current revolution in brain research the search for the “moral brain” became a serious endeavour. Nowadays, neural circuits that are indispensable for moral and social behaviour are discovered and the brains of psychopaths and criminals - the classical anti-heroes of morality - are scanned with curiosity, even...

Core and Metro Networks
Core and Metro Networks

It is commonly accepted today that optical fiber communications have revolutionized telecommunications. Indeed, dramatic changes have been induced in the way we interact with our relatives, friends, and colleagues: we retrieve information, we entertain and educate ourselves, we buy and sell, we organize our activities, and so on, in a long...

50 Steps To Business Success: Entrepreneurial Leadership In Manageable Bites
50 Steps To Business Success: Entrepreneurial Leadership In Manageable Bites

Here is a master plan for leaders who want to know the dynamic, proven techniques any business leader-from the fruit stand owner to the Fortune 500 chairman-must use to build a successful entrepreneurial enterprise. At the heart of this program is a fundamental belief in the continuous work necessary to improve all activities-a constant quest...

ThermoPoetics: Energy in Victorian Literature and Science
ThermoPoetics: Energy in Victorian Literature and Science

In ThermoPoetics, Barri Gold sets out to show us how analogous, intertwined, and mutually productive poetry and physics may be. Charting the simultaneous emergence of the laws of thermodynamics in literature and in physics that began in the 1830s, Gold finds that not only can science influence literature, but literature can influence...

Mayo Clinic Internal Medicine Review, Eighth Edition
Mayo Clinic Internal Medicine Review, Eighth Edition

Medical advances have been occurring at breathtaking speed, with diagnostic and treatment options becoming available for conditions for which none previously existed. However, several aspects of health care remain the same. Patients continue to rely heavily on clinicians for help in understanding the burgeoning evidence in medical research...

Brain-Computer Interfaces: Applying our Minds to Human-Computer Interaction
Brain-Computer Interfaces: Applying our Minds to Human-Computer Interaction

For generations, humans have fantasized about the ability to create devices that can see into a person’s mind and thoughts, or to communicate and interact with machines through thought alone. Such ideas have long captured the imagination of humankind in the form of ancient myths and modern science fiction stories. Recent advances in...

The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the Search for Justice in the American South
The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the Search for Justice in the American South
On May 3, 1946, in St. Martinsville, Louisiana, a seventeen-year-old black boy was scheduled for execution by electric chair. Willie Francis had been charged with murder; his trial had been brief; his death sentence never in doubt. When the executioners flipped the switch, Willie screamed and writhed as electricity coursed through his body....
The Big Bang (Science Foundations)
The Big Bang (Science Foundations)

Less than a hundred years ago, science seriously debated whether a cosmic array of stars and galaxies extended beyond the Milky Way. Discoveries and theories have revealed a universe of increasing enormity, complexity, and mystery. Beginning with an overview of the scientific method, "The Big Bang" follows the pioneering...

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