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In Denmark there is a memorial dedicated to 10 American flyers from World War II. This book describes their last mission. On the 24th of February, 1944, 867 bombers of the 8th Air Force were heading for targets on German territory. One of these B-17s named "Just Elmer¿s Tune" did not make it home to base again, its 13th mission was going to be its last. Several German fighter planes attacked them during their mission and finally they crash lan...

Meeting the communities' social needs gives validity to the Eucharist. Whether readers are looking to build upon, or simply start, a concerted social ministry outreach, this guidebook poses all the questions and provides directions and answers to help a parish move forward.

A landmark book, Results-Based Leadership challenges the conventional wisdom surrounding leadership. Authors Ulrich, Zenger, and Smallwood--world-renowned experts in human resources and training--argue that it is not enough to gauge leaders by personal traits such as character, style, and values. Rather, effective leaders know how to connect these leadership attributes with results. Results-Based Leadership shows executives how to deliver resu...

For any organization to compete successfully in today′s market, it must focus on building not only from the outside but from the inside as well. Shows the correlation between successful people management and the bottom line.

Journey with master wildlife photographer Tom Ulrich to Glacier and Olympic National Parks, Costa Rica, the Yukon Territory, Australia, Trinidad, and many other exotic locales. This is a book for beginning and seasoned photographers to enjoy, whether they shoot in the remotest wilderness or the quietest backyard.

Journey with master wildlife photographer Tom Ulrich to Glacier and Olympic National Parks, Costa Rica, the Yukon Territory, Australia, Trinidad, and many other exotic locales. This is a book for beginning and seasoned photographers to enjoy, whether they shoot in the remotest wilderness or the quietest backyard.

This enthralling work of scholarship strips away those abstractions to reveal the hidden -- and not always stoic -- face of the "goodwives" of colonial America. In these pages we encounter the awesome burdens -- and the considerable power -- of a New England housewife's domestic life and witness her occasional forays into the world of men. We see her borrowing from her neighbors, loving her husband, raising -- and, all too often, mourning -- h...

The Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran provide the oldest, best, and most direct witness we have to the origins of the Hebrew Bible. Prior to the discovery of the Scrolls, scholars had textual evidence for only a single, late period in the history of the biblical text, leading them to believe that the text was uniform. The Scrolls, however, provide documentary evidence a thousand years older than all previously known Hebrew manuscripts and reveal a ...

Plenty, Brian Ulrich's long-awaited first monograph, presents the photographer's decade-long exploration of the shifting tectonic plates that make up American consumer society. Ulrich focuses, in part, on photographing the architectural legacies of a retail-driven economy in the midst of collapse- shopping malls on the brink of demolition, empty big box stores, and other retail structures in transition. In depicting the disintegration of the f...

»Habt Ihr¿s gut ...« ist der Kommentar ihrer Freunde, als für Familie Ulrich endlich der alte Traum von der Dolce Vita in Bella Italia wahr wird. Doch das Leben in der ewigen Stadt erweist sich als alles andere als »dolce«: die Wohnung ist bei der Ankunft in chaotischem Zustand und Tochter Bernadettes Meerschweinchen wird vom Hausbesitzer mit einer Ratte verwechselt. Wichtige Erkenntnisse der Rom-Anfänger: Ein Palazzo ist ein ganz normales  Me...

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Die Aufbruchstimmung der sechziger und siebziger Jahre des 20. Jahrhunderts machte auch in der deutschsprachigen Kinderliteratur den Weg frei für neue literarische Formen und Ansprüche ebenso wie für neue ideologische Zwänge. Anna Katharina Ulrich, eine der vielseitigsten und kompetentesten Kinderliteratur-Expertinnen der Schweiz, hat von Anfang an diesen Aufbruch und die spätere Entwicklung der Kinderliteratur als Kritikerin und Herausgeberin...

Über 400 "Witze" versammelt dieser Band: Sowohl "jokes", unter denen man jede Art von Scherz oder lustiger Handlung versteht, wie auch "puns", den sprachspielerischen Witzen, einer Spezialität des Englischen. Die komischen Missverständnisse, Anspielungen und Übertreibungen speisen sich aus verschiedensten Lebensbereichen und eröffnen so, wiewohl allgemein verständlich, Einblicke in den englischen und amerikanischen Alltag. Texte in der Origin...