It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentucky, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. The worlds of Halle and Paul D. are to be destroyed in a cataclysm of torment and agony. The world of Sethe, however, is to turn from one of love to one of violence and death - the death of Sethe's baby daughter Beloved, whose name is the single word on the tombstone, who died at her mother's hands, and who will return to claim retribution.
Leibniz is known to the wide public and to many scholars mainly as a logician and mathematician, and as the creator of a fascinating but strange metaphysical system. In these, as well as in other fields, his remarkable innovations were achieved by painstaking efforts to establish a fruitful critical dialogue with the leading contemporary thinkers. He was no less important, however, in his practical endeavor to bring opponents to negotiate reasonable solutions to key political conflicts of his time...
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In Worth Any Price, the former crime lord Nick Gentry has been forced to join the elite group of Bow Street Runners. He is hired to find Charlotte Howard, an evil lord's runaway fiancé, and bring her back to the man she fears above all others. However, when Nick meets Lottie, he can't help wanting her for himself... and so they strike a scandalous bargain.
Have you noticed that soon after learning a new study material you remember very little of it? The less you have a chance to rehearse what you have learned, the greater the speed with which the newly acquired knowledge evaporates from your memory. It has long been known that repetitio est mater studiorum (Latin: repetition is the mother of learning). In other words, the best way to remember is to make repetitions of the learned material. However, you might find it quite frustrating when you have to repeat old subjects while your teachers or supervisors still want you to know more and more new material. When are you supposed to find time for both?
World Drugs Report 2007 The World Drug Report presents the most comprehensive statistical view
of today's illicit drug situation. This year's edition reports signs of
long-term containment of the global problem. However, the overall trend
masks contrasting regional situations, which the report examines in
detail. For instance, while an impressive multi-year reduction in opium
poppy cultivation continued in South-East Asia, Afghanistan recorded a
large increase in 2006. More interceptions of cocaine and heroin
shipments across the world have played an important part in stabilizing
the market. However, as we witness successes in some areas, challenges
appear in others. Although drug abuse levels are stabilizing globally,
countries along major and new trafficking routes, such as those now
going through Africa, may face increasing levels of drug consumption.
The World Drug Report 2007 also discusses a possible method to better
assess and monitor the role played by organized crime in transnational
drug trafficking.
