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The typological studies of this volume are oriented towards the areas of interests of the Russian typologist Vladimir P. Nedjalkov, to whom the volume is dedicated. They deal with the typology of verbal categories. The book is divided into three parts: 1. "Ergativity and transitivity", 2. "Voice, causative and valency", 3. "Tense and mood". In all three parts of the volume instances of grammaticalization are pointed out and investigated. The s...

Die Neuauflage des erfolgreichen Praxis-Leitfadens umfaßt alle Aspekte der interdisziplinären Diagnostik und Therapie bei schlafbezogenen Atemstörungen. Der Schwerpunkt des Buches liegt auf den diagnostischen Techniken. International renommierte Experten der jeweiligen Fachbereiche stellen das Thema wissenschaftlich fundiert und anwendungsgerecht aufbereitet dar: -> unverzichtbar in der täglichen Praxis für Internisten, Pneumologen, Otolaryng...

Grantseekers spend much of their time and energy preparing grant requests. But do they really know enough about the foundations they are approaching to succeed in getting grants? Foundations are some of the nations most misunderstood and mysterious organizations. Dennis P. McIlnay offers a unique and remarkable look inside foundations, exploring the complex workings of the organizations that so often determine the success or failure of a nonpr...

This rich teacher's resource activity book is packed with more than 100 reproducible writing lessons designed to help students improve their language skills by simultaneously developing fluency and literacy.

Innovation tools that take public managers beyond mere competence to become the creative innovators needed in today's complex public sector. "While many books hype the latest fad, here at last (!) is a 'realist's' toolbox designed for public administrators who need to know the costs as well as the benefits of managerial theories and technologies".--Melvin Dubnick, Department of Public Administration, Rutgers University.

The Kurds, one of the oldest ethnic groups in the Middle East, are reasserting their identity-politically and through violence. Turkey's essentially democratic structure and civil society-ideal tools for coping with and incorporating minority challenge-have so far been suspended on this issue, which the government is treating almost exclusively as a security problem to be dealt with by force. This study explores the roots, dimensions, characte...

In 13 Kapiteln befaßt sich der Band mit Grundlagen eines ökologieorientierten F&E-Controlling., Den Ausgangspunkt bildet eine separate Bestandsaufnahme und konstruktive Kritik bisher bekannter theoretischer Ansätze der Produktentstehung, des Controlling und der umweltorientierten Unternehmensführung. Darauf fußend werden jeweils zwei der drei Themengebiete im Verbund betrachtet, beginnend mit einer einführenden Übersicht über die daraus result...

The interconnectedness of the global environment and finiteness of the earth's natural resources require an increased understanding of environmental and natural-resource policy and politics in countries around the world. This is especially true of industrializing countries where widespread ecological disturbances and rapid exploitation of natural resources are taking place. Ecological Policy and Politics in Developing Countries provides an in-...

This important book provides a crucial examination of past attempts, both in this country and abroad, to balance the efforts of private charity and public welfare.

Der amerikanische Dichter Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) wurde mit seinen frühen Erzählgedichten bekannt, in denen Menschen der amerikanischen Westküste auf Blut- und Wahnwegen irren, als hätte es die qualvollsten Helden der Griechen an die Küste von Carmel verschlagen. Botho Strauß stellt im ersten Akt des Stückes den Dichter und seine Frau Una in ihrem Ausguck über dem Meer vor, im zweiten kommt Jeffers mit seinem von Botho Strauß eingerichtet...

This book gives a detailed overview on this new and exciting field at the boundary of physics and chemistry. Laser-induced ultrafast molecuar dynamics is presented for many textbook-like examples of model molecules and clusters. Experimental results on phenomena like wave packet propagation, ultrafast photodissociation and femtosecond structural redistribution are presented and described theoretically.

Motor Neurone Disease is one of the most difficult conditions to manage medically and socially. A disease which leads to the loss of control of most muscle systems of the body, it has no known cause and no cure. For this reason, clinicians have traditionally been reluctant to reveal the diagnosis to sufferers or their families and the condition has become known as one of the best kept secrets of medical practice. However in recent years a numb...

Most of the articles in this volume are revised versions of papers presented during the 1st GROOM-Workshop on the Unified Modeling Language (UML). GROOM (Grundlagen objektorientierter Modellierung) is a working group of the Gesellschaft fur Informatik (GI), the German Society of Computer Science. The workshop took place at the University of Mannheim (Germany) in October 1997, the local organizers were Martin Schader and Axel Korthaus, Departme...

A noisy collection of poems for young children, from the poet also known as Purple Ronnie, illustrated in full colour by David Wojtowycz.

* The twentieth volume in this unique fictional series encompassing British history since the Middle Ages.

Not only a meditation on Proust, this is a commentary on how the experience of literature is manifested in time and sensation. Kristeva uses Proust as a starting point to reflect upon broader notions of character, time, sensation, metaphor, and history.

This volume of Advanced Mineralogy encompasses six different areas having two features in common: they are related to one of the largest enterprises of the second half of this century, and represent the ultimate and final extension of the concept of mineral matter. - Understanding mineral matter in Space is one of the principal purposes of cosmic exploration. This includes the results of compa­ rative planetology, lunar epopee, sophisticated m...

Die Grundkenntnisse objektorientierter Methodik, deren zugrundeliegende Konzepte, sowie Analyse- und Entwurfstechniken sind Gegenstand dieses Lehrbuchs. Anwendungsbeispiele und die Programmierung in C++ runden das Werk ab. Im Vordergrund steht dabei, Antworten auf alle Fragen zu erhalten, die sich bei einem Einstieg in die objektorientierte Programmierung und dem Einsatz moderner Spezifikationstechniken wie der "Unified Modeling Language" UML ...

This reference work details Frank Sinatra's extensive creative accomplishments and includes biographical information as it relates to his art. A valuable tool for researchers and fans, this book provides access to extensive data, collected from disparate sources, including the first published listing of Internet resources. The information is divided into three parts, each arranged alphabetically, and covers his music, film, radio, and televisi...

Die Agenda 21, die als Abschlußdokument der UN-Konferenz über Umwelt und Entwicklung 1992 in Rio de Janeiro verabschiedet wurde, stellt den Kommunen die Aufgabe, mit allen Interessengruppen ihrer Bürgerschaft über einen Konsultationsprozeß einen Konsens über eine lokale Agenda zu erzielen. Diese Agenda soll die wirtschaftliche und soziale Entwicklung ebenso einbeziehen wie die Erhaltung und Pflege der natürlichen Ressourcen. In der vorliegende...