Provides advice on suriving in hostile environments and includes tips on shelters, traps, weapons, tools, food-finding, signaling, first aid, and other life-saving topics

This invaluable reference work contains brief biographical and critical entries on over four hundred authors of fiction, poetry, and drama from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Presenting material of a range and depth that no other book on the subject in English attains, A Companion to Twentieth-Century German Literature includes information on artists' involvement in literary groups and political developments, schools and movements, critical terms, and aspects of other arts, including film.

Although Charles Best is known for discovering insulin, the story of his life neither begins nor ends with that one moment. Not only did he make many other discoveries, he was also one half of an extraordinary couple who, during their almost sixty years together, were involved in many of the significant events of the twentieth century. Margaret & Charley is the story of these two people from their beginnings on the east coast at the turn of the century through the years that followed. Through diaries, scrapbooks, photograph albums, and other documentation, the details of their lives are shared with the reader.

The goal of this book is twofold. On the one hand we want to offer a discussion of some of the more important properties of the nominal projection, on the other hand we want to provide the reader with tools for syntactic analysis which apply to the structure of DP but which are also relevant for other domains of syntax.

Includes sections on: Old Madrid, Bourbon Madrid, La Castellana, and several other sites beyond the city