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.

Between 1841 and 1865, some forty thousand children participated in the great overland journeys from the banks of the Missouri River to the shores of the Pacific Ocean. In this engaging book, Emmy Werner gives 120 of these young emigrants, ranging from ages four to seventeen, a chance to tell the stories of their journeys west.Incorporating primary materials in the form of diaries, letters, journals, and reminiscences that are by turns humorous and heartrending, the author tells a timeless tale of human resilience. For six months or more, the young travellers traversed two thousand miles of uncharted prairies, deserts, and mountain ranges. Some became part of makeshift families others adopted the task of keeping younger siblings alive. They encountered strangers who risked their own lives for youngsters and guides whose erroneous advice led to detours and desolation. The children endured excessive heat and cold and often suffered from cholera, dysentery, fever, and scurvy. They also faced thirst and starvation, cannibalism among famished members of their own parties, kidnappings, and the deaths of family members and friends. From the teenaged Nancy Kelsey, who carried her infant daughter across the Sierra Nevada, to the survivors of the ill-fated Donner party in 1846-1847, Gold Rush orphans of 1849, and the youngsters who crossed Death Valley and the southwestern deserts in the 1850s, the eyewitness accounts of these pioneer children speak of fortitude, faith, and invincibility in the face of great odds.

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 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.