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Since the middle of the twentieth century, Turkish playwriting has been notable for its verve and versatility. This two-volume anthology is the first major collection of plays in English of modern Turkish drama, a selection dealing with ancient Anatolian mythology, Ottoman history, contemporary social issues and family dramas, ribald comedy from Turkey’s cities and rural areas. It also includes several plays set outside Turkey. The two volumes together will feature seventeen plays by major playwrights published or produced from the late 1940s to the present day, with volume 1,“Ibrahim the Mad” and Other Plays, encompassing plays from the 1940s through the 1960s, and volume 2, "I, Anato...
World War Two was over. America got down to business. Using the technology the war brought, America went to work, making life better for everybody. Huge advances in science, medicine, construction, and technology promised a better country for Americans and a better world to live in for all. Over 70 percent of Americans believed their government was truthful, honest, and had their best interests at heart. Today those numbers are exactly reversed. After paying off the war debt, who would have believed just six decades later the government would be functionally broke, relying on ever-increasing debt and using the Social Security Trust Fund as a virtual piggy bank until it has been depleted and ...
Your 5 Day Forecast is a tale about a rogue group of Islamic Extremists that have developed a deadly biological weapon to produce mass murder in North America.
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Princess of Iberia She is the fourth royal daughter in a medieval kingdom. With older and more vivacious sisters, quiet young Agata is mostly ignored and forgotten especially by her cold father, the king, but she prefers it that way. She spends her time reading the Histories and fears that the ancient foe of her legendary grandfather, Vax'tang the Great, are poised to attack Iberia once again but everyone dismisses the fears of a timid, royal daughter. On a fateful, dark night, enemy warriors attack and Agata is taken out of the palace in secret. Left to fend for herself and her young half-brother, can Agata find food, shelter and a hiding place that even the dangerously clever General Kazan cannot find?
This book comprehensively reviews the potential of focal therapy and discusses why the changing face of prostate cancer warrants a change in the way we treat men with the disease. It deals with the mechanisms by which disease can be localized within the gland and then the different technologies used for focal ablation. Bringing together eminent contributors in one accessible reference, this book introduces focal therapy to all urologists, oncologists, and radiologists who are involved in the treatment of men with prostate cancer.
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Environmental Governance held in Makassar, Indonesia. The 67 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 212 submissions. The papers reflect the conference sessions as follows: ICT and Environmental Sustainability, Electronic Environmental Monitoring, E-Government for Environmental System, Environmental law and politics, Sustainable future for human security, Disaster risk reduction, Climate change and adaptive capacity, Islamic environmental thought, Socio-environmental conflicts, Global environmental change, Sustainable development goals (SDGs), Ocean policy and governance, Rural development and planning, Forest governance and conservation, Water and soil conservation, Business and CSR, and Urban vulnerability and resilience.
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Revision of author's doctoral thesis, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 2002.
In this novel of clandestine warfare, two Arab-American Marines must infiltrate a terrorist training camp . . . Operation Jericho takes the reader into the world of clandestine warfare, focusing on two Arab American brothers who face a formidable enemy in Afghanistan. Much like the story of Jericho in the book of Joshua, two spies are sent into a terrorist training camp to determine if there are any righteous people among the population. The brothers must escape only to return and destroy the village codenamed Jericho—in an attempt to strike a major blow against all enemies in the War on Terror.