Every 4 years Americans elect a President. This book looks back at the 10 most contested campaigns in United States History. Readers will learn that the campaign between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton has nothing over the campaigns featuring Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Abe Lincoln when it comes to downright nastiness.This book is a compilation of essays intended to bring perspective to political campaigning. It also includes a list of questions designed to help clubs (political, book, history, discussion groups) and teachers use this book to explore American history and society through the lens of our political process.
It's Just Politics reviews the details of Republican Donald Trumps stunning defeat of Democrat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 United States Presidential election instantly signaling a remarkable shift in U.S. politics. You will learn about the proven tactics Trump used to rally his party to victory. Also learn new information from 10 other historical elections featuring Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush as well as numerous other candidates and how they used the media of the day to win - sometimes against even greater odds than Trump faced.This book is a great resource for anyone interested in the 2016 Presidential Election, the history of American Presidential campaigns, the history of media (news, television, cartoons, and the Internet in particular), and in our unique system of government.It's Just Politics includes questions and exercises for students, book clubs, and other groups of people interested in learning more about American Presidential campaigns and elections.
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This book brings all of the elements of database design together in a single volume, saving the reader the time and expense of making multiple purchases. It consolidates both introductory and advanced topics, thereby covering the gamut of database design methodology ? from ER and UML techniques, to conceptual data modeling and table transformation, to storing XML and querying moving objects databases. The proposed book expertly combines the finest database design material from the Morgan Kaufmann portfolio. Individual chapters are derived from a select group of MK books authored by the best and brightest in the field. These chapters are combined into one comprehensive volume in a way that allows it to be used as a reference work for those interested in new and developing aspects of database design. This book represents a quick and efficient way to unite valuable content from leading database design experts, thereby creating a definitive, one-stop-shopping opportunity for customers to receive the information they would otherwise need to round up from separate sources.
“I have collected here, and offer in this volume, a great many bits of now scarce source material, from which you, the reader, may construct a mosaic of your own, appraising the value and proper placement of each item, should you wish to write a story of Custer’s Last Fight. It will probably be a better one than many heretofore written.” From the Custer Myth Firsthand sources in The Custer Myth include: ·Narratives of the Sioux, Cheyenne, Arikara, and Crow ·Philo Clark’s 1877 battlefield survey ·Statements and letters by scouts and other nonmilitary participants ·The Benteen-Goldin letters ·“Custer’s’ Last Battle,” the 1892 Century Magazine article by General Edward S. Godfrey ·General Winfield Scott Edgerly’s 1881 statement about the battle ·Military and literary records of Theodore W. Goldin
What exactly is it like to be a disabled person within society and the Church? The author, himself disabled, argues that disabled people should not be seen merely as a source of inspiration but as valid and valuable contributors who could be encouraged if institutions were to take positive steps to integrate and listen to them. The book's main thrust is to develop a theology which shows that Christ identifies with disabled people and that on the cross shows the same vulnerability which so often concerns and frustrates those who are disabled. The author offers a fresh attempt at developing a theology of disability-something new for British theological discussion. W Graham Monteith was born in Glasgow and educated at Westerlea School for Spastics, Edinburgh and Ross High School, tranent. At the University of Edinburgh he read Sociology and Systematic Theology. From the University of York he gained a BPhil in Sociology of Religion and has carried out post-graduate research in both France and Belgium. He is currently a Parish Minister at the linked parishes of Hoy and Walls and Flotta and Farra, Orkney. Kenneth M Boyd, the editor of the series, is Scottish Director of the Institute of Medical Ethics. Dr Boyd is also Chaplain to Overseas Students at the University of Edinburgh and serves as Associate Minister of St John's and St Cuthbert's Ecumenical Project in Edinburgh.
Rowley documents an era of arctic exploration of which little has been written and which is fast passing from living memory. He captures the traditional way of life in the North before the dramatic changes of the last half century. A member of the last expedition in the Canadian North to depend on traditional techniques, Rowley recounts how they lived as the Inuit did and travelled by dogsled over unexplored land. He describes the isolation, the extraordinary vicissitudes of travel in a sometimes savage environment, and the generosity and kindness of the Inuit. Apart from completing the map of Baffin Island's coastline and finding new islands, Rowley excavated the first pure Dorset site near Igloolik, establishing the Dorset culture beyond doubt. The carvings and artifacts found there, illustrations of which are included in this book, remain among the best and most beautiful that have been recovered. Based on his own diary and the diaries of other members of the expedition, Rowley's captivating story presents the perceptions of a young man faced with a completely alien, yet fascinating, environment and culture. A true and often exciting tale of discovery, Cold Comfort will appeal to a wide audience as well as to those concerned with the Arctic in general. It is an invaluable source for those who specialize in the archaeology, anthropology, geography, and history of northern Canada.
Some call it revenge; she calls it justice . . .Samira Anders is young and out of control; drugs, alcohol, and a prison sentence are just the start. But when Samira's mercenary father is murdered, she has to change, and change she does, starting her new life with two promises: to take over from her father as command pilot of the family's antiquated assault lander and to track down his killers. Samira discovers that promises are easy to make and hard to keep. Worse, they have unintended consequences, and before long she becomes the target of one of humanspace's biggest criminal organizations, an organization that will go the ends of space to hunt her down.Samira finds herself in a desperate fight for survival, plunged into a world where death awaits every mistake, a world where nothing is what it seems, a world where lies wrap the truth in deceit.And, with much more than her own life at stake, it is a fight she cannot afford to lose.
This book presents the latest numerical solutions to initial value problems and boundary value problems described by ODEs and PDEs. The author offers practical methods that can be adapted to solve wide ranges of problems and illustrates them in the increasingly popular open source computer language R, allowing integration with more statistically based methods. The book begins with standard techniques, followed by an overview of 'high resolution' flux limiters and WENO to solve problems with solutions exhibiting high gradient phenomena. Meshless methods using radial basis functions are then discussed in the context of scattered data interpolation and the solution of PDEs on irregular grids. Three detailed case studies demonstrate how numerical methods can be used to tackle very different complex problems. With its focus on practical solutions to real-world problems, this book will be useful to students and practitioners in all areas of science and engineering, especially those using R.
Sarah is a young lady in her late teens living in a small Sussex village at the turn of the 19th Century and shortly before the commencement of WW1. This story covers that time in her life and onwards; ten years of a life where her involvement with men of mystery and intrigue take her into a world filled with danger and excitement. Her strong will and single-mindedness demand that she exploit to its full all that life has to offer, with her adventures spirit and determination to see life as it really is getting her into all kinds of trouble. Trouble that determines whether romance will ever come her way as she fights off the need to feel love and to be loved Trouble that decides if she live or die Read on and enjoy
L'Odyss e du Petit Prince Justin, de Graham W Still, explore les hauts et les bas de la nature et de la civilisation humaine. L'ouvrage fait ressortir la pr carit de notre existence, l'issue d'un chemin marqu par une f roce exploitation par l'homme, et de l'homme lui-m me, et de la nature, soumise son avidit et son avarice. Conte initiatique illustr , l'Odyss e, travers une s rie de paraboles imag es, d roule sa propre vision de l'univers, donnant voir comment les caract ristiques exclusives de l'esprit humain -capable aussi bien de cr ativit que de tromperie - est la veille de provoquer la destruction de l'humanit elle-m me. Donc, un h ros positif, peint sous les traits d'un na f de grand talent - le Petit Prince Justin - se voit recruter par de bienveillants extra-terrestres, avec pour mission de sauver la plan te - comme l'humanit elle-m me - des effets de ses propres turpitudes.
L'Odyss e du Petit Prince Justin, de Graham W. Still, explore les hauts et les bas de la nature et de la civilisation humaines. L'ouvrage fait ressortir la pr carit de notre existence, l'issue d'un chemin marqu par une f roce exploitation par l'homme, et de l'homme lui-m me, et de la nature, soumise son avidit et son avarice. Conte initiatique illustr , l'Odyss e, travers une s rie de paraboles imag es, d roule sa propre vision de l'univers, donnant voir comment les caract ristiques exclusives de l'esprit humain -capable aussi bien de cr ativit que de tromperie - est la veille de provoquer la destruction de l'humanit elle-m me. Donc, un h ros positif, peint sous les traits d'un na f de grand talent - le Petit Prince Justin - se voit recruter par de bienveillants extra-terrestres, avec pour mission de sauver la plan te - comme l'humanit elle-m me - des effets de ses propres turpitudes. Au deuxi me livre le Petit Prince Justin s'embarque pour sa mission en R alit bord d'une blanche colombe, symbole de l'Esprit de V rit . Une fois sur la plan te R alit - notre vieille Terre - ses facult s sur-humaines lui permettent de p n trer les coeurs et les cerveaux en lisant dans les pens es de tous et de chacun. Le voyage s'ach ve sur un v ritable d fi: d s son arriv e, le voici directement confront aux indig nes. Sa mission, la conversion de la 'R alit aux voies et moyens de la V rit , s'engage aussit t. Or, sa mission n'a de chance de r ussir que si, par l'argumentation tant en paroles qu'en actes, il parvient convaincre les Terriens d'amender leurs comportements. Son arsenal consiste en une R gle d'Or personnelle, sociale, et environnementale tir e de la litt rature philosophique, artistique, et politique de l'apog e de la de Gr ce Antique. Le livre plaide vigoureusement pour la r habilitation et la modernisation d'une forme d'enseignement classique - h las perdue depuis longtemps (ainsi que la forme sociale brillante qui en avait d coul ) - comme moyen de remise sur pied de la plan te et de la soci t . L'importance de cet ouvrage r side dans les questions qu'il soul ve, et la conviction que, sans doute, la cure - la mode Al th ienne - pour laquelle le Petit Prince Justin a t recrut et mandat , est elle-m me vici e la base et la limite dangereuse...
LIVRE TROISIEME: ...Soudain, sur Terre, des rumeurs commenc rent circuler, semant peut- tre pas exactement la panique, mais tout de m me un sentiment aigu d'ins curit , pr sage d'imminents troubles sociaux. Personne n' tait encore en mesure de dire avec certitude quelle tait la pathologie l'origine de ces changements, et surtout quels en pouvaient tre les motifs. Tout naturellement, aussit t le ph nom ne rep r , la premi re id e qui vint l'Acad mie de V rit fut de recourir aux services de celui qui connaissait le plus intimement la V rit , et se trouvait donc le mieux m me de faire face la situation: Justin l'Acad micien. Justin et ses amis - dont il tait entendu que la collaboration tait galement de premi re importance -, d s qu'ils re urent le message-pri re de V rit , prirent le d part en toute h te. Il tait nouveau entendu que, pour cette nouvelle mission, il aurait enti rement carte blanche. Spirit, son pr cieux assistant, se retrouva imm diatement en charge de l'information, et les premi res donn es qu'il transmit Justin lui permirent de rapidement d terminer que la cause de ce trouble se situait dans la r action pathologique d'une personne haut plac e, d'un pr lat Voici le film des v nements...
Ami lecteur, C'est TOUTE MA VIE , qu'en ce moment tu tiens au creux de ta main. Et parce que, sensible l'int r t qu'ainsi tu me manifestes, je m'en voudrais de te d cevoir, j'ai fait tous mes efforts pour que mon DEBALLAGE soit, comme je l'esp re, la hauteur de tes attentes.
A medieval time travel adventure... "...With the determination and readiness of a morphine-addict, he stuck the needle into the quadriceps femoris muscle of his leg and threw the syringe on the floor. The golden medicine, the medicine of time reversal, was to water human flesh for the first time. He lay down. He waited, ready to travel into the fourth dimension. He waited for Science to guide him on the paths his own ancestors had followed in the past Time was passing, yet he did not feel anything unusual ... First he felt his hands and feet tingling. A warm sensation was coming up to his neck. Then, he felt numbness in his spine that slowly enveloped all of his body except for his head For a moment he thought he just had an anesthesia of the hands and feet. He felt as if he was a man with no body. He tried to look at his feet to be sure and then, with his own eyes, he saw something incredible - his own progressive disappearance First he was left with no legs, then with no thighs, with no hands and, finally, with no body Complete annihilation Perhaps death. Or maybe madness ..."
L'Odyss e du Petit Prince Justin: Livre troisi me LIVRE TROISIEME: ...Soudain, sur Terre, des rumeurs commenc rent circuler, semant peut- tre pas exactement la panique, mais tout de m me un sentiment aigu d'ins curit , pr sage d'imminents troubles sociaux. Personne n' tait encore en mesure de dire avec certitude quelle tait la pathologie l'origine de ces changements, et surtout quels en pouvaient tre les motifs. Tout naturellement, aussit t le ph nom ne rep r , la premi re id e qui vint l'Acad mie de V rit fut de recourir aux services de celui qui connaissait le plus intimement la V rit , et se trouvait donc le mieux m me de faire face la situation: Justin l'Acad micien. Justin et ses amis - dont il tait entendu que la collaboration tait galement de premi re importance -, d s qu'ils re urent le message-pri re de V rit , prirent le d part en toute h te. Il tait nouveau entendu que, pour cette nouvelle mission, il aurait enti rement carte blanche. Spirit, son pr cieux assistant, se retrouva imm diatement en charge de l'information, et les premi res donn es qu'il transmit Justin lui permirent de rapidement d terminer que la cause de ce trouble se situait dans la r action pathologique d'une personne haut plac e, d'un pr lat Voici le film des v nements...
