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How the Barbarian Invasions Shaped the Modern World: The Vikings, Vandals, Huns, Mongols, Goths, and Tartars who Razed the Old World and Formed the New
How the Barbarian Invasions Shaped the Modern World The Vikings, Vandals, Huns, Mongols, Goths, and Tartars Who Razed the Author Thomas J. Craughwell reveals the fascinating tales of how the barbarian rampages across Europe, North Africa, and Asia – killing, plundering, and destroying whole kingdoms and empires – actually created the modern nations of England, France, Russia, and China. Moscow, Dublin, and Delhi are international centers of government, commerce, and culture because of the barbarians. How did the devastating invasions of these merciless rapists, killers, looters, destroyers of great cities, and ravagers of the countryside set off a string of events that resulted in the world we know today? Craughwell explores the reasons behind the attacks and the motivations of the barbarian kings and chieftains. He explains how coarse, violent men could bring down the Roman Empire, but also safeguard the Silk Road, create an Asian superpower we know as China, and in the process, change the world forever. .
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The Tartar Steppe
Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life and a meditation on the human thirst for glory. It tells of young Giovanni Drogo, who is posted to a distant fort overlooking the vast Tartar steppe. Although not intending to stay, Giovanni suddenly finds that years have passed, as, almost without his noticing, he has come to share the others' wait for a foreign invasion that never happens. Over time the fort is downgraded and Giovanni's ambitions fade until the day the enemy begins massing on the desolate steppe....
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Administrators Solving The Problems of Practice: Decision-Making Concepts, Cases, and Consequences
*HE05, Administrators Solving the Problems of Practice: Decision-Making Concepts, Cases, and Consequences, Wayne K. Hoy(Rutgers University), C. John Tarter(St. John's University), H5594-0, 208 pp., 7 x 9 1/4, 0-205-15594-4, paperbound, 1995, $20.25nk, July*/ The core theme of this book is using models of decision making as useful tools in solving real problems Each chapter begins with an explanation of a conceptual perspective, the perspective is illustrated with an actual case study, and finally a case is provided for student practice. The contingency approach to decision-making guides administrators in the selection of the appropriate decision strategy. School Administrators..
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Thousand Years of the Tartars (History of Civilization)
From the Kegan Paul classic collection, this is the definitive history of the Tartars up to the conquests of Ghengis Khan as seen by the Chinese, using original Chinese histories. Beginning with the first Chinese references to the nomads "whose country was on the back of a horse," Professor Parker traces the rise and fall of the seven great Tartar empires who fought the Chinese for control of North China for a thousand years. Here are to be found the best accounts of the adventurous warriors and bannermen whose proud traditions were passed down to their Manchu descendents, the last rulers of imperial China. Famous battles, ingenious military strategies, dynastic struggles, ritual sacrifices, royal intrigues, and the rivalries of the Tartar harems are described in detail, as is the Tartar way of life, in which children were taught to ride from infancy and to believe that force was their only law. With a full index and five maps, this is a key work for readers interested in the early history of Eurasia and in a legendary people who remain a subject of enduring fascination. .
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An Introduction to Navier-Stokes Equation and Oceanography (Lecture Notes of the Unione Matematica Italiana)
The Introduction to Navier-Stokes Equation and Oceanography corresponds to a graduate course in mathematics, taught at Carnegie Mellon University in the spring of 1999. Comments were added to the lecture notes distributed to the students, as well as short biographical information for all scientists mentioned in the text, the purpose being to show that the creation of scientific knowledge is an international enterprise, and who contributed to it, from where, and when. The goal of the course is to teach a critical point of view concerning the partial differential equations of continuum mechanics, and to show the need for developing new adapted mathematical tools. .
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Breast Cancer Imaging: A Multidisciplinary, Multimodality Approach
Through a case-based approach, this book illustrates the best practices for all facets of breast cancer imaging - from screening of asymptomatic patients to cancer staging, identifying metastases, and assessing efficacy of treatment - in a succinct, practical source. Contributing authors from a wide range of subspecialties provide well-rounded guidance to meet the needs of today's multidisciplinary work environment. - Presents multidisciplinary discussions on the advantages and/or limitations of all available modalities.
- Includes advice from leading experts on cross-sectional imaging, breast imaging, and PET/CT, with input from radiation oncology, medical oncology, and breast surgery, to span the complete spectrum of care from screening to diagnosis to treatment, reflecting today's team approach to patient care.
- Covers all imaging modalities to help you correlate disease presentations on mammography, CT, MR, US, and PET images.
- Offers a very practical, clinical, concise approach to the subject in a case-based format.
- Provides over 1,000 high-resolution images of disease appearance for comparison with the findings you encounter in your practice.
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