". . . a poignant reminder that our freedom still depends on 'twenty-percent soldiers' who volunteer to protect and defend our nation when duty calls." -Tom Ridge 43rd Governor of Pennsylvania, First US Secretary of Homeland Security The National Guard and Reserves is comprised of remarkable men and women who work behind the scenes as our nation's supplemental fighting force. It's a part-time job with a full-time commitment that involves the entire family. They wear the same uniforms and train to the same standards as America's full-time military. ...

GRAMMAR GREMLINS is a book about the little devils that sneak into our writing and speaking, twisting our words so that the message is different from what we intend. If you haven't seen a grammar book in recent years (and have no desire to do so!), perhaps some of these gremlins are spoiling your effectiveness without your realizing it. What to do? Have a look at this little review book – it's filled with errors from newspapers, magazines, television, movies, and other forms of communication. Best of all, each example is corrected and explained ...

E-business Value Creation from a Resource-Based Perspective analyzes and integrates various perspectives on the impact of e-business technologies on supply chain practices and performances. Relying on the resource-based view (RBV) of the firm, the authors designed a comprehensive conceptual framework within which to examine the performance implications of e business technologies. This framework can be used to compare e-business technologies to other types of information technology (IT), and it can also function as a tool for further investigations into supply ...

Model checking is a method used for testing the reliability of a system. The automata-theoretic approach to model checking involves expressing systems in terms of finite state automata, and using algorithms that automatically determine the satisfiability of logic specifications for these systems. Classical automata theory stops short of this task because of its inadequateness to express real-time concurrent systems. This is where the theory of automata on infinite strings comes into play. Büchi automata belong to a class of automata that have the capability ...

La Internacional Comunista dirigida por Willi Münzenberg, de 1919 a 1940, orientó sutilemente a los intelectuales, a un nivel desconocido hasta entonces, hacía la esfera sovietica. El deseo de una utopía que superase los viejos valores fué el arma que le daría su control. La solidaridad, los deseos de paz y la oposición a la guerra y al fascismo fueron utilizados para que los inocentes trabajasen en aras de los intereses de la Unión Sovietica. Esta situación propició que, en plena Guerra ...

Pickaway County in south-central Ohio was formed in 1810 and became a haven for free and runaway blacks who came north from Virginia and other southern states. This volume is a genealogical dictionary of the black families in the county during the nineteenth century as assembled from census data and vital statistics from the court house.

Sir Richard Fanshawe (1608-1666), was a diplomat, poet and linguist. As Ambassador to Spain and Portugal he negotiated the marriage of Charles II and Catherine of Braganza. He was also acclaimed for his poetry and his translations of Latin and European works such as the Lusiads by Luis de Camoes and Il Pastor Fido (the Faithful Shepherd) by Giovanni Battista Guarini. Sir Richard’s wife, Lady Ann, is also famous in her own right for her vivid memoir of their adventures during the turbulent era of the Civil War.  The Fanshawe family, originally ...

Arik, seines Zeichens Milliardär und Anführer des größten Rudels an der Ostküste, ist ein Frauenheld und ein Löwe. Daran gewöhnt, dass ihm Gehorsam entgegengebracht wird, kann er es kaum fassen, als eine Friseurin mit verlockenden Kurven ihm ein zu großes Stück seiner edlen Mähne abschneidet. Doch ihr größter Fehler ist, vor ihm davonzulaufen. Lauf so schnell du kannst, kleine Maus, denn diese Katze liebt es zu jagen – und über seine Beute herzufallen. Oh, und er liebt es auch ...

Cake Upon The Waters is a novel by American author Zoe Akins, first published in 1919. The story follows the life of a young woman named Judith Taverner, who is forced to leave her privileged life in New York City and move to a small town in the South after her father's death. In her new home, Judith struggles to adjust to the slower pace of life and the close-knit community, but she soon finds herself drawn to the town's charismatic and enigmatic doctor, Dr. Robert Harrison.As Judith becomes more involved in the town's affairs, she uncovers a web of secrets ...