After completing his college, Sahil, the son of chieftain Thakur Pratap Singh, returns home to his native village, Ratnagiri. But what promises to be an idyllic holiday rapidly devolves into a situation fraught with danger. Unknown to Sahil, a series of ghastly murders has targeted the village for years—corpses mutilated, organs missing, and the mastermind at large. Then, Sahil stumbles upon a truth that’s darker than he could have ever imagined.     The boundaries separating good and evil collapse as Sahil joins hands with the racketeers. ...

Das Heben von Lasten ist im Rahmen der Prävention von Rücken- beschwerden ein zentraler Punkt der funktionellen Analyse. Bei wiederholendem Heben spielt der Effekt der lokalen muskulären Ermüdung eine wichtige Rolle. Dies kann mit Hilfe der Methode der zeitaufgelösten Frequenzanalyse von elektromyografischen Signalen untersucht werden. Die Verfahren zur Analyse dynamischen Muskelkontraktionen müssen dem nichtstationären Charakter der elektrischen Muskelsignale Rechnung tragen. In dieser Arbeit wird ein Algorithmus vorgestellt ...

Das Buch ""Vorlesungen �����ber die �����sterreichische Staatsverfassung V1 (1792)"" von Luca, Ignaz De ist ein Werk, das sich mit der ������sterreichischen Staatsverfassung im Jahr 1792 besch�����ftigt. Der Autor gibt in seinen Vorlesungen einen umfassenden �����berblick �����ber die Struktur und Organisation des Staates, die Rolle der verschiedenen ...

This collection of interviews with Amiri Baraka, the former LeRoi Jones and a key figure in the worldwide black liberation movement, provides an extraordinary insight not only into African American literature but also into the turmoil and passions of the “black experience” during the second half of the twentieth century. As they offer an understanding of the political turbulence of his times, these interviews provide special insights into Baraka’s works, his anger, and his career. Not only does Baraka criticize and explain his most celebrated ...

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In this gritty memoir, Vietnam combat veteran Second Lieutenant Bill Lindsay presents an uncensored, straightforward, hard-hitting account of his experiences in the Marine Corps 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment during the Vietnam War, where he served as a Marine rifle platoon commander in 1970. Lindsay walks the reader through the danger, the heat, the emotions, and the fear that American Marines felt as they navigated the perils of everyday life during this controversial war. All of the men he served with were volunteers, nearly all inexperienced ...

A runaway spell is the most dangerous weapon of all. Alpha for the few remaining Sea Shifters, Leif’s been playing fast and loose with death for years. Plagued by a poisoned ocean, treacherous sea gods, illness, and bad bargains, he’s learned to roll with the punches. Setting ancient antagonism aside, he joined a group of land Shifters, pledging both his help and that of his pod. A vulture shifter, Moira embraces her life on Arkady , a small polar cruise ship. She faces problems—ones that may kill all of them—but at least she’s ...

A collection of poetry written during the March 2020 lockdown in Toronto, and edited a year later... under another lockdown. Contemplative and varied, these are the thoughts one has before falling asleep.

Les dernières années ont été marquées par des changements rapides dans les technologies de l'information, le nouvel ordre économique mondial, l'arrivée de la nouvelle puissance régionale et bien d'autres encore. Tous ces changements ont présenté, d'une part, un monde très dynamique caractérisé par une augmentation de la population, de l'inflation, de la consommation sociale et, d'autre part, des ressources (naturelles et humaines) limitées et précieuses ...

With the arrival of European explorers and settlers during the seventeenth century, Native American ways of life and the environment itself underwent radical alterations as human relationships to the land and ways of thinking about nature all changed. This colonial ecological revolution held sway until the nineteenth century, when New England's industrial production brought on a capitalist revolution that again remade the ecology, economy, and conceptions of nature in the region. In Ecological Revolutions , Carolyn Merchant analyzes these two major transformations ...