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Russia - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture (112)
Russia - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture (112)

Don’t just see the sights—get to know the people.

Discovering the Russian soul is like opening a matryoshka, a Russian doll, revealing the many layers. The Russian orthodox religion is unique; Russian history is tragic; and the people are unpredictable. Russia s military and political
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The Hunt for Mount Everest
The Hunt for Mount Everest

The height of Mt. Everest was first measured in 1850, but the closest any westerner got to Everest during the next 71 years, until 1921, was 40 miles. The Hunt for Mt. Everest tells the story of the 71-year quest to find the world's highest mountain. It's a tale of high drama, of larger-than-life characters-George...

Sign Languages in Contact (Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities Series, Vol. 13)
Sign Languages in Contact (Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities Series, Vol. 13)

The 13th Volume in the Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities Series This volume collects for the first time various accounts of contact between sign languages throughout the world, presenting an exciting opportunity to further understand the structural and social factors of this linguistic component in Deaf communities. Editor...

The History of Terrorism: From Antiquity to al Qaeda
The History of Terrorism: From Antiquity to al Qaeda
This authoritative work provides an essential perspective on terrorism by offering a rare opportunity for analysis and reflection at a time of ongoing violence, chilling threats, and renewed reprisals. In it, some of the best international specialists working on the subject today examine terrorism's long and complex history from antiquity to the...
Bridges to Infinity: The Human Side of Mathematics
Bridges to Infinity: The Human Side of Mathematics
Most of the reasons that I have written this book can be explained in terms of what reportedly happened one day in the eighteenth century when the great German mathematician Leonhard Euler confronted the eminent French scholar and atheist Denis Diderot with a spurious mathematical proof for the existence of God. Euler, it seems, accepted an...
Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Present
Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Present

Civil resistance--non-violent action against such challenges as dictatorial rule, racial discrimination and foreign military occupation--is a significant but inadequately understood feature of world politics. Especially through the peaceful revolutions of 1989, it has helped to shape the world we live in.

Civil Resistance
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VoIP Service Quality : Measuring and Evaluating Packet-Switched Voice
VoIP Service Quality : Measuring and Evaluating Packet-Switched Voice
VoIP SAVINGS AND FLEXIBILITY! TELEPHONE-LINE QUALITY?

Despite the features that make Voice over IP so attractive from the standpoint of cost and flexibility of telephone services, businesses will only adopt it once they’ve determined whether, and under what circumstances, the quality of VoIP will be satisfactory to...

The Martians of Science: Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century
The Martians of Science: Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century
If science has the equivalent of a Bloomsbury group, it is the five men born at the turn of the twentieth century in Budapest: Theodore von Karman, Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, John von Neumann, and Edward Teller. From Hungary to Germany to the United States, they remained friends and continued to work together and influence each other throughout...
MHD Flows in Compact Astrophysical Objects: Accretion, Winds and Jets (Astronomy and Astrophysics Library)
MHD Flows in Compact Astrophysical Objects: Accretion, Winds and Jets (Astronomy and Astrophysics Library)

Accretion flows, winds and jets of compact astrophysical objects and stars are generally described within the framework of hydrodynamical and magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) flows. Analytical analysis of the problem provides profound physical insights, which are essential for interpreting and understanding the results of numerical simulations....

Introduction to Thermodynamics and Kinetic Theory of Matter (Physics Textbook)
Introduction to Thermodynamics and Kinetic Theory of Matter (Physics Textbook)
An updated and expanded translation of the highly popular Russian textbook, Introduction to Thermodynamics and Kinetic Theory of Matter examines equilibrium and kinetic properties of matter – gas, liquid, and solid – using the general principles of thermodynamics and kinetic theory. Readable and accessible throughout, this book provides...
Meetings with Remarkable Men (All and Everything)
Meetings with Remarkable Men (All and Everything)
Meetings with Remarkable Men, G. I. Gurdjieff’s autobiographical account of his youth and early travels, has become something of a legend since it was first published in 1963. A compulsive “read” in the tradition of adventure narratives, but suffused with Gurdjieff’s unique perspective on life, it is organized...
Challenging Mathematical Problems With Elementary Solutions, Vol. 1
Challenging Mathematical Problems With Elementary Solutions, Vol. 1
Over 170 challenging problems ranging from the relatively simple to the extremely difficult. Volume 1 contains 100 problems on probability theory and combinatorial analysis.

This book is the first of a two-volume translation and adaptation of a well-known Russian problem book entitled Non-Elementary Problems in an...

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