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An illustrative selection of German dramas from the baroque age and the early Enlightenment (i.e. prior to Lessing), by Sachs, Gryphius, Schlegel, and others. Foreword by Martin Esslin. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Packed with high-quality writing, this anthology gathers together the work of a varied and talented group of new and established authors. The inspiration for many of the pieces was the on-line creative writing e-course run by Tim Atkinson on the blog www.bringingupcharlie.co.uk (the full text of which is included in the Appendix). All proceeds from the sale of this book arebeing donated to the BBC Children in Need Appeal.

Human immunodeficiency virus related kidney disease is one of the leading causes of death and affects predominantly people of black descen. A cohort study was carried out at the Nylon District Hospital Douala, Cameroon to investigate the Kidney function trends amongst HIV seropositive individuals. Kidney function tests like serum urea, serum creatinine, creatinine clearance, proteinuria and urine chemistry was measured amongst 329 participants amongst whom 30.4% were HIV negative and 69.6% were HIV positive. The age range of the study population was 18 to 60 years. There were 94(28.6%) males and 235 (71.5%) females. The percentage of HIV seropositivity was higher in females than in males. Although, Serum creatinine, creatinine clearance and proteinuria were significantly higher in the control group than in the HIV infected subjects, these values were not indicative of renal pathology. Considering only HIV positive individuals the mean serum creatinine was significantly higher in the Antiretoviral treatment (ART) naïve group when compared to those who were already on ART. These findings indicate that renal function is not affected by the seropositivity status of individuals.

This volume contains 22 stories and novellas, many appearing in English for the first time. Among the authors represented are Peter Handke, Alfred Andersch, Stefan Andres, Jurgen Becker, Ulla Merkewicz, Elisabeth Borchers, Gisela Elsner and Max von der Grun.

This document presents state-of-the-practice information on the evaluation of soil and rock properties for geotechnical design applications. This document addresses the entire range of materials potentially encountered in highway engineering practice, from soft clay to intact rock and variations of materials that fall between these two extremes. Information is presented on parameters measured, evaluation of data quality, and interpretation of properties for conventional soil and rock laboratory testing, as well as in situ devices such as field vane testing, cone penetration testing, dilatometer, pressuremeter, and borehole jack. This document provides the design engineer with information that can be used to develop a rationale for accepting or rejecting data and for resolving inconsistencies between data provided by different laboratories and field tests. This document also includes information on: (1) the use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Personal Data Assistance devices for the collection and interpretation of subsurface information; (2) quantitative measures for evaluating disturbance of laboratory soil samples; and (3) the use of measurements from geophysical testing techniques to obtain information on the modulus of soil. Also included are chapters on evaluating properties of special soil materials (e.g., loess, cemented sands, peats and organic soils, etc.) and the use of statistical information in evaluating anomalous data and obtaining design values for soil and rock properties. An appendix of three detailed soil and rock property selection examples is provided which illustrate the application of the methods described in the document.

In the thirty years from the literary revolution of 1919 to the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, China experienced a great flowering in literary creativity. The present selection comprises twenty-four outstanding short stories by twenty-four of the most talented writers of this period. The stories reveal the sufferings of the Chinese people in the years before liberation and show also the revolutionary course taken by them in their search for a new life. They also demonstrate the high level of writing achieved in this period: each is a valuable contribution to the treasury of modern Chinese literature. In compiling this collection, the editors have taken into account both the position of the author in modern Chinese literary history and the representativeness of the story in the author's creative work. For the convenience of the readers, each story is followed by a brief biography of the author.

Okinawa: The Last Battle is a tactical history of the conquest of the Ryukyu Islands by forces under the command of the U.S. Tenth Army in the period 1 April to 30 June 1945. The volume takes its name from the principal island of the Ryukyu island group, where the critical and decisive battles of the campaign were fought. The Ryukyus Campaign followed the capture of Iwo Jima and was planned as the last of the Pacific island operations before the invasion of Japan itself. This work is an account of all United States forces engaged--Army, Navy, Air, and Marine. It also tells in considerable detail the story of the Japanese 32d Army, which was the Okinawa garrison, and of Japanese naval and air forces committed in the defense of the Ryukyus. The volume begins with the planning for this amphibious operation at the threshold of Japan, one of the largest of the Pacific war, and follows the operation through all succeeding phases to the death of the Japanese commanding general and his chief of staff. Of special interest was the tremendous volume of naval firepower employed by ships stationed offshore on the flanks of the American ground forces as the latter advanced across the island. The concentration of naval, air, and ground firepower employed by American forces in the Okinawa campaign was unparalleled for any comparable force, length of front, and duration of time in the history of warfare. Nevertheless, blunting this great firepower was the most extensive network of underground cave and tunnel defenses with tightly interlocking fields of fire encountered in the history of warfare. The Japanese defensive system stretched from coast to coast and converged ring upon ring in depth, with Shuri, the ancient capital of the Ryukyus, at its center. The battle resolved itself into a myriad of small-unit actions against enemy cave and firing positions. This fight was conducted at close quarters by infantry-engineer and infantry-tank teams. Tank flamethrowers and engineer and infantry demolition teams, covered by small groups of riflemen, often formed the combat units that enabled Tenth Army slowly to destroy the many well-constructed defensive positions, eliminate their dedicated defenders, and move gradually forward. The extensive attacks of Japanese Kamikaze pilots against the American naval forces supporting the ground forces are also treated as an important part of the operation. The ground combat story is told principally from regimental level. But as often as not, the treatment goes down to battalion level and frequently to company, platoon, and squad. It was the small unit that normally destroyed a particular enemy position holding the key to further advances. Often it was the individual soldier whose heroism was the decisive factor in such laborious activities, making it the theme of the immediate narrative. The XXIV Army Corps and the III Amphibious Corps, U.S. Fleet Marine Force, were the principal subordinate units of Tenth Army. In the two corps were the Army's 7th, 27th, 77th, and 96th Infantry Divisions and the 1st and 6th Marine Divisions. In addition, the 2d Marine Division played a minor role in the preinvasion maneuvers, and its 18th Regiment was in limited action for a few days toward the end of the campaign.

CONTENTSDaredevils - Alexei TolstoyHate - Mikhail SholokhovTile Flag - Valentine KatayevHis Only Son - K. SimonovSnowbound - S. Sergeyev-TsenskiThe Duel - A Child Is Born - Spring - Nikolai TikhonovHis Sweetheart - Leonid SobolevCaptain Zhavoronkov - Vadim KozhevnikovKatya - Evgeni PetrovStout Heart - Boris LavrenevThe Surgeon - V. LidinLife - P. PavlenkoOur Hands Have Grown Heavy - F. PanferovThe Justification of Hate - Ilya Ehrenbourg

This book is the first text and reference that specifically addresses the issues and problems of wilderness management. The material is organized into six sections, each intended to present a comprehensive summary and synthesis of pertinent information The book's 16 chapters bring together both previously published as well as new information and viewpoints pertaining to wilderness management-writing which includes philosophy and concepts research data, and management experience in Federal agencies. Specifically, our objectives include the following:1. To sensitize readers to pressing wilderness management issues and the implications of alternative methods of dealing with them.2. To distinguish issues of wilderness management from issues of wilderness allocation and management of related lands, and to describe their important interrelationships.3. To introduce readers to pertinent literature and ongoing research on wilderness, focusing particularly on the management implications of such work4. To describe the evolution of the National Wilderness Preservation System from its philosophical and historical origins to its current size in number of areas and acres, with a speculative look at the future.5. To propose principles and concepts from which management policy and actions to preserve wilderness might be derived, and to describe current management policies, procedures, and techniques that are available. We recognize that among our readers there will be many diverse views about wilderness management, and we do not expect universal agreement with our treatment of a topic as emotion-laden as wilderness. Hopefully, we have avoided some of the polarity of opinion that commonly surrounds discussion of wilderness by attempting to maintain a broad, conceptual perspective on management problems. We have tried to identify alternative wilderness management perspectives and their implications. Where we do advocate a particular management direction, we try to state our position clearly and identify our line of reasoning. Both within individual agencies and among the public, there are varying orientations toward wilderness and its management, but we are gratified by what we think is some convergence of views in the past decade. We hope this book will stimulate the discussions and foster the consensus necessary to meet the challenge of wilderness management that faces government agencies and the interested public.July 1977 John C. Hendee George H. Stankey Robert C. Lucas

Clara Zetkin My Recollections of Lenin From My Memorandum BookMarcel Cachin Unforgettable MeetingsKarl Steinhardt (Gruber) Meetings with the Great LeninVasil Kolarov At the Zimmerwald Conference V. I. Lenin at the Third Congress of the Communist International Willi Munzenberg Lenin and WeFritz Platten Lenin's ReturnOtto Grimlund On the Way to the HomelandHugo Sillen Meetings with LeninKustaa Rovio How Lenin Was Hiding in the House of the Helsingfors Chief of PoliceJohn Reed Plunging AheadAlbert Rhys Williams Lenin-the Man and His WorkLouise Bryant (Reed) My Acquaintance with LeninMihai Bujor Recollections of Meetings with LeninAdam Egede-Nissen With Lenin in SmolnyRobert Minor We Have Met LeninHelena Bobinska Lenin in the Red Warsaw RegimentLaszlo Rudas Meeting with LeninWilliam T. Goode LeninIsaac McBride In the Name of Emancipating MankindIvan Olbracht My Reminiscences of V. I. LeninBohumir Smeral From My DiaryAntonin Zapotocky Reminiscences of Lenin Memory of LeninWilliam Gallacher Lenin Leader, Teacher and Friend Memorable MeetingsHerbert G. Wells The Kremlin Dreamer A Truly Great ManClare Sheridan Naked TruthMirza Muhammed Yaftali Russia on the Road to ProgressThomas Bell Remembrances of LeninUmberto Terracini Three Meetings with LeninPaul Vaillant-Couturier LeninWilliam Z. Foster At Comintern CongressesFritz Heckert "Well, Comrade Heckert, Tell Us About Your Heroic Exploits in Central Germany!"Harry Pollitt Lenin and the British Labour MovementTsui Tsu-Bo LeninManuel Diaz Ramirez Talk with Lenin in 1921Wilhelm Pieck Reminiscences of LeninBalingiin Tserendorzh Sacred MemorySen Katayama With Comrade LeninWalter Ulbricht Lenin-Friend of the German PeopleGaston Monmousseau Lenin and the French Trade-Union Movement He Looked Way AheadPierre Semard Talk with Lenin During the Second Congress of the Trade-Union InternationalMartin Andersen Nexo I Saw Lenin Lenin's Influence on the Creative Forces of the WestBrief Biographies of the Authors