Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Originally published in 1922, this early works on Myths and Legends of China is extensively illustrated throughout and will appeal greatly to any student or historian. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The voices of the children and teenagers who witnessed the events that transformed the colonies to an independent nation have seldom been heard in historical accounts of the American Revolution. This book tells the story of the "forgotten" youngsters who engaged in the boycott of British goods and the battles that led up to the Declaration of Independence: the story of their courageous exploits in eight years of warfare on land and sea, and the story of the social forces that shaped and transformed their post-war lives. The Revolution challenged the notions of patriarchal authority. It introduced serious risks and disruptions in the lives of the young, but it also gave them an unprecedented degree of autonomy and a sense of responsibility that allowed them to seize the opportunities that they gained with their independence. The book is based on the eye-witness accounts of one hundred children and teenagers who were between the ages of five and sixteen when they first observed the events recorded in their diaries, journals, letters, or memoirs. One-third of the accounts are from girls, most of whom lived in cities; two-thirds are from boys, most of whom lived rural areas. They include reports from black as well as white boy soldiers, from teenagers imprisoned on land and on prison ships, from slave children and youngsters held hostage by Indians, and from children of loyalists and pacifists who opposed the war with Britain for political or religious reasons. Also included are the viewpoints of Hessian teenagers who fought in the American Revolutionary War for the British. The book follows the chronology of the American Revolution across two decades from 1770, when the boycott of Britishgoods throughout the American colonies gained momentum, to 1789, when George Washington was sworn in as the first president of a new and independent nation. It sets the experiences of the children and teenagers who lived and wrote in that time in a historical context. It focuses on the major milestones of the American Revolution, and the contribution of young people to its progress and ultimate success.

Among the several distinct ways of formulating and quantizing a Hamiltonian system, the light cone approach enjoys special status because it has the largest stability group. The aim of this volume is to present recent achievements and open problems in this rather unusual quantization framework to a large audience. The formulation is set up in a comprehensive introduction where the issues are also clearly indicated with specific examples: vacuum structure, signature of non-perturbative effects, chiral symmetry breaking, light cone gauge theories, etc. The following chapters address these topics through a selection of the most relevant contributions presented at Les Houches.
This volume should prove valuable to newcomers in the field, and graduates and academics.

In a companion volume to their highly acclaimed book Overcoming the Odds, Emmy E. Werner and Ruth S. Smith continue their longitudinal study of approximately five hundred men and women who were born in 1955 on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. A third of these individuals had been considered "at risk" because of birth complications, parental mental illness, family dysfunction, and adverse early conditions such as poverty. Werner and Smith examine the long-term impact of these influences on the individuals' later adaptation to life.Drawing on data collected by a team of psychologists, pediatricians, social workers, and public health nurses across four decades, Werner and Smith chronicle the development of these men and women from birth to midlife: infancy, early and middle childhood, late adolescence, and early and middle adulthood. Their book focuses on protective factors within the individual, the extended family, and the community that allowed most of the men and women to be successful and to be satisfied with their lives by age forty. Most important, the authors document the remarkable resilience and capacity for recovery displayed by the majority of these baby boomers, who approached middle age as competent, confident, and caring adults. Journeys from Childhood to Midlife highlights key turning points in the third and fourth decades of life, and shows why more women than men succeeded in overcoming the odds. The work addresses the policy implications of the research and the need to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of current intervention programs for children.

In den zuruckliegenden Jahren haben in London (1973), Louvain-Ia-Neuve (1975) und New York (1977) 3 Symposien uber die Biochemie der beiden Eisenstoffwechselproteine Ferritin und Transferrin stattgefunden. Die rasche Aufeinanderfolge der Tagungen zu einem so eng umrissenen Themenkreis dokumentiert ein neu erwachtes Interesse an den bioche- mischen und biologisch-medizinischen Aspekten dieser eisenspezifischen Proteine. Zu dieser Intensivierung des Interesses verschiedener wissenschaftlicher Fachgebiete hat die Entdeckung beigetragen, dass Ferritin entgegen fruherer Auffassung in geringer Konzen- tration ein normaler Bestandteil des zirkulierenden Blutes ist und sich als Mass fur die Beurteilung der Koerpereisenreserven eignet. Das Serumferritin ist damit zu einem fur die medizinische Diagnostik wertvollen Para- meter geworden und hat Eingang in die Routinediagnostik auf verschiedenen Gebieten der klinischen Medizin gefunden. Das vorliegende Buch fasst die Beitrage zu einem am 13. und 14. Oktober 1978 in Frank- furt am Main unter der Schirmherrschaft der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Hamatologie und Onkologie durchgefuhrten Internationalen Symposium uber methodische und klini- sche Aspekte des Serumferritins zusammen. Die Herausgeber haben sich bemuht, die in den Referaten und in der Diskussion sicht- bar gewordenen Differenzen zu zahlreichen Problemen der Serumferritinbestimmung in ihrer kontroversen Form wiederzugeben, da dem Symposium das Ziel gesetzt war, eine erste Zusammenfassung vor allem der klinischen Erfahrungen mit dem neuen Eisen- stoffwechselparameter Serumferritin zu geben. Es hat sich gezeigt, dass trotz unterschied- licher Auffassungen in der Beurteilung der Wertigkeit des Serumferritins in der klinischen Anwendung diesem Parameter schon jetzt ein bedeutender Stellenwert fur die Bewertung des Koerpereisenstatus zukommt.