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A Historical GuidebookIn 1996, Congress commissioned the National Park Service to compile a list of sites and landmarks connected with the American Revolution that it deemed vital to preserve for future generations. Some of these sites are well known--Bunker Hill, Valley Forge, Fort Ticonderoga--and in no danger of being lost; others less so--...

La Fontaine's verse fables turned the traditional folktales derived from Aesop and a range of Oriental sources into some of the greatest, and best-loved, poetic work in French. His versions of stories such as 'The Hare and the Tortoise' and 'The Wolf and the Lamb' are witty and sophisticated, satirizing human nature in...

Actions and reflectionsParticipatory research is a relatively new method of researching practice especially within palliative care. It differs from other methodologies in that there is an expectation of action within the research process. The values that underpin participatory research are collaboration, empowerment, and reflection. In the current...

Of the innumerable ways that science and humanity interact, few are as central or as significant as our interaction with microorganisms. Though these single-celled and "e;complete"e; living organisms have major impacts on many chemical and ecological processes, they are most often recognized for their ability to cause serious and sometimes...

Bringing Payment Systems Law Out of the PastIn The End of Negotiable Instruments: Bringing Payment Systems Law Out of the Past, author James Rogers challenges the basic assumptions of the law of checks and notes and its history, and provides a well-reasoned account of how the law could be changed to better suit the evolution of new payment...

A Handbook for School Social WorkersSchool social workers engage in different forms of consultation on a daily basis, yet they rarely think about or describe this work as &'consultation.&' Further, school social work practice research finds that consultation is among the most frequently performed practice tasks, yet consultation is rarely defined...