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Since its inception in 1958, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has grown to become the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science research and development agency. Created by President Eisenhower to prevent another Sputnik, and to focus primarily on defensive programs against nuclear weapons, the agency--and its imagination and scope--has expanded enormously with each passing year. From Agent Orange in Vietnam to insect-sized drones in use today, from the earliest networked computers and the Internet to smart rockets and war zones under 24-hour video surveillance, DARPA is responsible for innovations that have changed the course of war, national security, and strategic planning at the highest levels. To uncover the secret history of DARPA in action, journalist Annie Jacobsen tracked down key players in DARPA's Smart Weapons Program, past and present; neuroscientists building an artificial brain, cell biologists working on limb regeneration, the Nobel laureate who invented the laser. From DARPA's earliest defensive advances to hundreds of ongoing programs, Jacobsen exposes both sides of the DARPA coin: the fantastic technological advances from which we all benefit, and the darker side drawn up in a race for military supremacy. Based on information from inside sources, exclusive interviews, private documents, and declassified memos, The Pentagon's Brain reads like science fiction but is absolutely true, a groundbreaking look behind the scenes at the clandestine intersection of science and the American military. --Adapted from book jacket

The question of Christian-Muslim relations is one of enduring importance in the twenty-first century. While there exists a broad range of helpful overviews on the question, these introductory texts often fail to provide readers with the depth that a thorough treatment of the primary sources and their authors would provide. In this important new project, Charles Tieszen provides a collection of primary theological sources devoted to the formational period of Christian-Muslim relations. It provides brief introductions to authors and their texts along with representative selections in English translation. The collection is arranged according to the key theological themes that emerge as Christians and Muslims encounter one another in this era. The result is a resource that offers students a far better grasp of the texts early Christians and Muslims wrote about each other and a better understanding of the important theological themes that are pertinent to Christian-Muslim dialogue today

Franz Bungert blickt zurück auf das dörfliche Leben in Franken in den 1930er Jahren: auf die liebenswerten Facetten des Lebens in "alten Zeiten", den Zusammenhalt in der Großfamilie, das Eingebettetsein in geregelte Tages- und Jahresabläufe, aber auch auf die Schattenseiten, die Armut, die Beschwernisse der Arbeit oder die bescheidene Alltagskost. Fernab nostalgischer Verklärung beschreibt er Bräuche, fast ausgestorbene Handwerksberufe und Freizeitvergnügen von vor fast einhundert Jahren. Ein lebendiger Einblick in die Zeit unserer Eltern und (Ur-)großeltern, der manche Klagen über die heutige Zeit leiser werden, aber auch manchem Verlorengegangenem nachtrauern lässt.

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Introduction: Free Blacks in antebellum Texas / Bruce A. Glasrud and Milton S. Jordan -- The Republic of Texas -- Origin of free Blacks in the Republic of Texas / Harold R. Schoen -- Free Blacks and the Texas Revolution / Harold R. Schoen -- Manumissions / Harold R. Schoen -- Legal status / Harold R. Schoen -- The law in practice / Harold R. Schoen -- The extent of discrimination and its effects / Harold R. Schoen -- Statehood Texas -- Free Blacks in Harris County / Andrew Forest Muir -- Free Blacks in Fort Bend County, Texas / Andrew Forest Muir -- Free Blacks in Jefferson and Orange Counties, Texas / Andrew Forest Muir -- Free Blacks in Galveston County, Texas / Andrew Forest Muir -- A bibliography of secondary sources / Bruce A. Glasrud and Milton S. Jordan