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Die Reihe »Reparaturanleitung« ist der professionelle Begleiter für jeden technisch versierten Schrauber. Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitungen machen Wartung und Reparatur an Motor, Fahrwerk und Fahrzeug-Elektronik zum Kinderspiel. Die Reparaturanleitung bietet Ihnen umfangreiche Informationen, mit denen Sie Ihr Motorrad richtig warten, pflegen und reparieren können. Die jeweiligen Arbeitsvorgänge sind mit Symbolen gekennzeichnet und zeigen Ihnen ...

Eine Woche lang muss Lutfi an einer syrischen Dorfhochzeit teilnehmen. Viel lieber wäre er schon wieder auf dem Weg nach Deutschland. So aber vertreibt er sich die Zeit, indem er Barakat, dem Bruder der Braut, nächtelang Geschichten aus seiner arabischen Kindheit erzählt. Und von seinen aufregenden Erlebnissen in Deutschland, wo er endlich für immer bleiben möchte. Der neue Roman des großen Erzählers Rafik Schami.

»Das Gedicht handelt ununterbrochen von jedem Zweifel. / Seine Handlung setzt sich fort an der nächsten Ecke und zu jedem Zeitpunkt, in jeder Sprache...« Diese Zeilen beschreiben genau Meckels poetische Haltung, die in den Gedichten des vorliegenden Bandes deutlich wird. Ein Band, der ganz unterschiedliche Formen und Themen vereint. Neben Beschwörung und Klage finden sich darin immer wieder auch ironische, leichte und leise Töne.

A drastic reform of intelligence activities is long overdue. The Cold War has been over for ten years. No country threatens this nation's existence. Yet we still spend billions of dollars on covert action and espionage.In National Insecurity ten prominent experts describe, from an insider perspective, what went wrong with U.S. intelligence and what will be necessary to fix it. Drawing on their experience in government administration, research,...

Kalendergeschichten, die von Liebe und Tod, Kirche und Glauben, Philosophie und Literatur handeln, von allen ersten und letzten Dingen, die jeder auf seine Weise beantworten und meistern muss. Czeslaw Milosz, der große Schriftsteller und scharfsinnige Diagnostiker beleuchtet in diesen kurzen Geschichten schlaglichtartig jeweils einen Aspekt seines lebenslangen Nachdenkens. Ein Stück polnischer Weltliteratur.

Transitional Citizens looks at the newly empowered citizens of Russia's protodemocracy facing choices at the ballot box that just a few years ago, under dictatorial rule, they could not have dreamt of.While in the West politicians argue over refinements to social systems in basically good working order, in the Russian Federation they address graver concerns -- dysfunctional institutions, individual freedom, nationhood, property rights, provisi...

Glauben Sie tatsächlich, Windräder würden von Menschenhand aufgestellt? Erliegen Sie dem Irrtum, diese Giganten wären willenlose Stromerzeuger? Weit gefehlt. Sie sind die Wächter der Ewigkeit. "Dies ist die Geschichte von denen, die auszogen, das Träumen zu erlernen." Der Roman ist rein fiktiv und im Jahr 1996 angesiedelt. Die Geschichte rankt sich um ein kleines Dorf, dessen Einwohner zum Zielpunkt mysteriöser Umtriebe wurden, die eines in be...

This is the first professional guide to using educational biography with adult learners. It offers engaging anecdotes and narratives, insightful interpretations and analyses, and numerous examples of different biographical approaches. Written for practitioners who conduct adult educational programs in formal or informal settings, this book can help teachers, trainers, career counselors, and human resource professionals to empower learners in a...

The fight against the illegal entry, residence and employment of foreigners is one of the key priorities of the immigration policies of the OECD countries. This irregular migration continues to persist, albeit at different levels for different ...

The series of books edited or co-edited by Professor Larry Schumaker of Vanderbilt University and his international colleagues has achieved a high level of quality in the fields of Approximation Theory, Wavelets, and Computer-Aided Design. These books should be in every university library. Contributors to these volumes are among the leading researchers in their fields, and the books provide authoritative sources for current theory and applicat...

The research results presented in this book are part of the continuous reporting on the technological performance of the German economy. The indicators of technological performance show a high efficiency of the German innovation system in the short term. New knowledge is rapidly transferred into patents, innovative activities are growing independently of the business cycle, and German enterprises are well established on international markets. ...

Discrete Event Systems: Analysis and Control is the proceedings of WODES2000 (the 5th Workshop on Discrete Event Systems, held in Ghent, Belgium, on August 21-23, 2000). This book provides a survey of the current state of the art in the field of modeling, analysis and control synthesis of discrete event systems, lecture notes for a mini course on sensitivity analysis for performance evaluation of timed discrete event systems, and 48 carefully ...

Enterprise Modeling: Improving Global Industrial Competitiveness gives an overview of the current state-of-the-art in enterprise modeling and its application. Enterprise modeling is both a concept and a tool that is highly developed at the research level, but which still promises many new industrial applications. Enterprise models constitute a theoretical basis for the information system in an enterprise and are regarded by many as a substanti...

Advances in Group Processes" publishes theoretical analyses, reviews, and theory-based empirical chapters on group phenomena. The series adopts a broad conception of 'group processes', including work on groups ranging from the very small to the very large, and on classic and contemporary topics such as status, power, justice, influence, decision making, intergroup relations, and social networks. This volume covers a broad section of theory and...

Martineau's classic American travel narrative has long been unavailable. This new abridgment of the original 1838 edition offers an unsurpassed firsthand view of Jacksonian America. Here are Martineau's penetrating condemnation of slavery and her championship of abolition and women's rights, her incisive portraits of Jackson, Clay, Calhoun, Webster, Garrison, Emerson, and the Beechers, her critical observations of American schools, asylums, co...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Musik gilt als das emotional wirksamste ästhetische Kommunikationsmittel in der Kultur des Menschen. Außerdem verfügt jeder in irgendeiner Weise über musikalische Erfahrungen. In dieser Arbeit möchte ich danach fragen, welche Wirkungen und Funktionen Musik bei älteren Menschen haben kann. Es war und ist das Anliegen zahlreicher Autoren im Bereich der Musikpsychologie, der Beantwortung obiger Frage näher zu kommen. Do...

This volume has been composed as an appreciation of Martin L. Albert in the year of his 60th birthday. At least one contributor to each paper in this volume has been touched by Marty in some way, lie has mentored some, been a fellow student with some, and been a colleague to most. These contributors, as well as many others, view Marty as a gifted scientist and a wonderful human being. The breadth of his interests and intellectual pursuits is t...

For six acclaimed seasons, FBI paranormal detectives Mulder and Scully have been chasing monsters and little green men and exposing government conspiracies, while espousing the mantras "trust no one" and "the truth is out there." This work takes a close look at the popular television series and shows how its style, character and narrative structure have continued to tease and please a wide viewing audience every week for six years. The first s...

These two volumes constitute the Proceedings of the `Conférence Moshé Flato, 1999'. Their spectrum is wide but the various areas covered are, in fact, strongly interwoven by a common denominator, the unique personality and creativity of the scientist in whose honor the Conference was held, and the far-reaching vision that underlies his scientific activity. With these two volumes, the reader will be able to take stock of the present state of ...

This study explores the transition from slavery to freedom and what this transition meant for former slaves, former slaveowners, and the societies in which they lived. It covers areas such as Jamaica, Louisiana, Cuba, and French West Africa.