A great collision of armies under the banners of the crescent and the cross The Battle of Tours (also called Poitiers) in 732 A.D. was one of the most significant battles fought during the last two millennia. This book is far more than just a description of the battle, it also recounts, through the writings of several academic contributors, the story of two emergent empires, drawn together on converging paths which resulted in a collision not simply between two armies, but between two uncompromisingly different cultures and faiths. Described in these ...

Darkness Without Limits is a poetic, haunting and unforgettable novel about a boy's upbringing in a small rural village from the age of ten until he is twenty. He lives a life in constant fear, of other people, of not having any future and of a darkness inside him that makes his world increasingly unreal. After high school, the boy spends a restless summer with a group of outsiders that challenges his worldview and sanity. The novel follows his slow descent into darkness and his attempt to fight the evil inside him. Peter Legård writes with great ...

Cuando un proyecto finaliza y se cree que ya cumplió con todo lo que debe hacer, según la experiencia y lo exigido por el cliente que lo solicitó, los usuarios se enfrentan en diversas ocasiones, al hecho de que el resultado logrado no es lo que se esperaba. El sistema organizador de requisitos de proyectos, de los primeros en su tipo, dentro de un software, ORMEX, permite dar seguimiento, desde su inicio hasta el fin, con cuatro niveles de calidad, a los requerimientos de proyectos de diferentes tipos: de ingeniería, académicos ...

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Ever wonder why some people achieve impressive success while others reach for the brass ring only to see it slip from their grasp? Join Michael B. Davie as he examines success strategies employed by some truly innovative business leaders. Read the life stories and success tips of today's most successful people including billionaire business leader Michael DeGroote and brewery icon Teresa Cascioli.

On recent decades the concept of 'community participation' in development is highly valued and promoted as an alternative and sustainable approach to the top-down one. Hence, this research aims at describing the community participation and gender issues at play in rural water supply and sanitation projects as an important strategy of poverty alleviation in Timor-Leste. This research proved that community participation is not static or given, it has been regenerated and changed over time even though it is framed in a top-down approach, a free space is given ...

Tent and Harem: Notes of an Oriental Trip is a travelogue written by Caroline Paine in 1859. The book details her journey through the Middle East, specifically Egypt, Palestine, and Syria. Paine describes her experiences traveling by horseback, camel, and boat, and her encounters with the people, customs, and landscapes of the region. She also provides vivid descriptions of the architecture, art, and history of the places she visited.One of the unique aspects of Tent and Harem is Paine's focus on the lives of women in the Middle East. She spends time in harems ...

Hodgkiss doesn't miss a trick. Three new adventures of that cranky, obnoxious, insufferable but remarkably observant and astute senior citizen. Apolitician who is about to be 'outed' by the media is persuaded to disappear before he can bring disgrace on his Party. To achieve this a corrupt policeman invents a novel method of identifying a murder victim in the place of the disappeared politician. It was a method that could have worked but for Hodgkiss' intervention. A bungling burglar drops a stolen ring in the street after performing a theft-to-order ...

This book was conceived of as a means for providing contemporary instrumentalists with an understanding of the implications of structure, style, aesthetics and period conventions of performance in the development of a personal interpretation of the late-eighteenth century solo concerto. An analysis of Joseph Haydn's concerto per il clarino, the composer's final work in this genre, is included to demonstrate the relevance and application of these concepts in the interpretation of a period piece. In addition, the historical background and acoustic properties ...

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