Realizing Tomorrow - The Path to Private Spaceflight
Nearly forty years passed between the Apollo moon landings, the grandest accomplishment of a government-run space program, and the Ansari X PRIZE-winning flights of SpaceShipOne, the greatest achievement of a private space program. Now, as we hover on the threshold of commercial spaceflight, authors Chris Dubbs and Emeline Paat-Dahlstrom look back at how we got to this point.
Extraordinary visuals introduce children to some of the many flowers, vines, fungi and trees found from the forest floor to the forest canopy. Presenting information on dozens of plants, the program explains the ecology of the forest and explores the human uses of the rainforest for food and medicine. This program includes information on the ajo tree, purple heart tree, nispero chicle tree, reseco tree, plantanilla tree, Panama hat plant, cecropia tree, chonta palm, kapok tree, coconut palms, strangler fig vine, orchids, ...
The American Language Course (ALC) is designed primarily for an intensive language training program.
The course will provide students with a sufficient level of fluency and communicative proficiency in English to enable them to successfully pursue technical or professional training in schools conducted by the Department of Defense.
Semantic Primes and Universal Grammar: Empirical evidence from the Romance languages
This volume is part of a research program which started with the publication, in 1972, of Anna Wierzbicka’s groundbreaking work on Semantic Primitives. The first within the program to focus on a number of typologically similar languages, it proposes a French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian version of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) elaborated over the years by Wierzbicka and colleagues. Repetition is avoided through teamwork: a number of authors working on the languages under examination have had equal input in a set of five papers dealing with distinct parts of the metalanguage.
The Tao of Fertility. A Healing Chinese Medicine Program to Prepare Body, Mind, and Spirit for New Life
An esteemed doctor who has helped countless women achieve their dream of having a child offers his program for enhancing fertility through traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Dr. Daoshing Ni, descended from more than 70 generations of Taoist masters, has achieved renown among high-tech infertility specialists, TCM practitioners, and his many devoted patients. The Tao of Fertility is the first book combining a practical plan for conceiving using TCM
