Of stones and spirits

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Ania Savage

"In Return to Ukraine Ania Savage offers an account of her 1991 return to Ukraine with her mother and aunt, their first trip to their homeland since the family fled during World War II. Savage, a journalist traveling to work and teach at Kyiv State University, records her experiences with vivid accuracy. She describes the political turmoil the gripped the country both when she left and during her stay, when Ukraine was struggling to establish a democracy. In a subtext, she also relates the intense emotions the visit created for her and her mother."--BOOK JACKET.

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Anna Lanoszka

"A comprehensive examination of the World Trade Organization, this new book covers all the basics: the WTO's history, its structure, and its practices and concerns. Beginning with an overview of the world trading system since the end of World War II, Lanoszka explains the profound changes brought about by the establishment of the WTO. Then, a discussion of the organization's structure, rules, membership criteria, and decisionmaking processes provides the foundation for an exploration of key issues --e.g., agreements dealing with agricultural products, textiles, and dumping -- that continue to be sources of international tension. The rapidly growing global service economy is the topic of an entire chapter, as is the passionately debated subject of intellectual property rights. Emerging issues such as the environment, e-commerce, and the new roles of the developing countries also receive thorough attention. The book concludes with a look at the most recent developments taking place in the WTO and, more broadly, in the world trade system."--(p.272).

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Kathleen Ann Goonan

Sam Dance is a young enlisted soldier in 1941 when his older brother Keenan is killed at Pearl Harbor. Afterwards, Sam promises that he will do anything he can to stop the war. During his training, Sam begins to show that he has a knack for science and engineering, and he is plucked from the daily grunt work of twenty-mile marches by his superiors to study subjects like code breaking, electronics, and physics in particular, a science that is growing more important to the war effort. While studying, Sam is seduced by a mysterious female physicist that is teaching one of his courses, and given her plans for a device that will end the war, perhaps even end the human predilection for war forever. But the device does something less, and more, than that. After his training, Sam is sent throughout Europe to solve both theoretical and practical problems for the Allies. He spends his free time playing jazz, and trying to construct the strange device. It's only much later that he discovers that it worked, but in a way that he could have never imagined.

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Adapted by Orpheus Collar

Presents a graphic adaptation of the novel in which Carter and Sadie, offspring of an Egyptologist, embark on a worldwide search for the Book of Ra, but the House of Life and the gods of chaos are determined to stop them.