The Southern Appalachians are home to a breathtakingly diverse array of living things--from delicate orchids to carnivorous pitcher plants, from migrating butterflies to flying squirrels, and from brawny black bears to more species of salamander than anywhere else in the world. Mountain Nature is a lively and engaging account of the ecology of this remarkable region. It explores the animals and plants of the Southern Appalachians and the webs of interdependence that connect them. Within the region's roughly 35 million acres, extending from north Georgia ...

Perhaps more than any philosophy written in the past few centuries, the work of Friedrich Nietzsche has given rise to controversy, misunderstanding, and dissent. Today Nietzsche is remembered as the revolutionary author of such polemical ideas as the death of God, the revaluation of values, the will to untruth, and the Ubermensch. Yet is Nietzsche's philosophy as atheistic, relativistic, nihilistic, and immoral as some commentators have claimed? Or ought we perhaps to give more credence to Nietzsche's own assertion that one writes books ""precisely to conceal ...

In the tradition of second-century writer Pausanias, George Kalogeris offers a series of meditative poems on his Greek heritage, both through the intimate lens of his upbringing and the vast historical view of the country's great literature and philosophy. Kalogeris's Guide to Greece is a warm and personal collection that ambitiously ties the diaspora of Greek people and ideas into a single literary experience. The struggles of a displaced, working-class family, in turn, give rise to musings on Antigone and Odysseus. Ancient Greek heroes inspire ...

Financial Wisdom is not just another book on household budgeting. It is rather a manual of timeless principles that work in every culture and era and also in any situation. While full of practical ideas, Financial Wisdom focuses on over 150 verses from the book of Proverbs that touch on finances. This simple, down-to-earth biblical guide will reveal • what two decisions to make to never have another financial problem; • the six most common mistakes made in finances; • what the symptoms of greed are; • how to understand the ...

Brussels made democracy, human rights, the rule of law, and good governance its top co-operation priorities in the EU Strategy Framework towards Central Asia for 2007-2013. This book examines two interrelated questions: To what extent has EU democracy promotion in Central Asia been successful? And, to the extent that it was successful, why was it so? The book presents a comprehensive analytical framework for the evaluation of democracy promotion, including factors which may facilitate or hinder democratic development in Central Asia. It demonstrates the ...

One of the most renowned theologians of our time tells the story of the Bible in a way that everyone can understand. Shortly before he died in 1998, Lesslie Newbigin recorded a series of eight radio addresses on basic themes and central figures in the Bible. These addresses, which form the basis of this book, affirm the Bible as the story of the history of humankind. Newbigin invites readers to join him on a journey from Genesis through Revelation, introducing the great biblical figures along the way - Abraham, Moses, Noah, the prophets, Paul, and of course ...

The ancient Sanskrit word "matra" means a particle or atom. When the word "jnana" (wisdom) is placed in front, it conveys the idea that just as everything in the physical universe consists of vibrating particles, similarly there are particles of a subtler nature - particles of Intelligence - that form one's power to concentrate and comprehend. When one studies the intelligent particle one is approaching a light that shines off of "The Word," or AUM. The third book in Babaji's planned 5 part series of essential philosophical teachings, The Wisdom Particle ...

Toppleton's Client; Or, A Spirit in Exile, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

A series of novel alpha-beta chimeric oligodeoxynucleotides bearing either an intercalator-conjugated nucleobase located at the internal 4-nt linker region or an anthraquinone-conjugated propionic acid as a non-nucleosidic backbone unit at the internal linker region was synthesized. The UV-melting experiments reveled that the obtained modified chimera TFOs formed remarkably stable alternate-stranded triplex. On the other hand, modified TFOs bearing non-nucleosidic intercalator-conjugate possessed two diastereomers formed substantially stable alternate-stranded ...