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Auf Schloss Dux in Böhmen erinnert sich der alte, hinfällig gewordene Verführer Casanova an eine Frau, der er einst so verfallen war, dass er, die Taschen mit Schrot beschwert, in die Themse gehen wollte. Mit dieser Episode der unglücklichen Liebe Casanovas zur erst achtzehnjährigen Marie Charpillon inszeniert Andrew Miller auf brillante Weise ein Stück 18. Jahrhundert. Korruption und Unschuld, hitzige und eiskalte Leidenschaft, historische De...

A young Eskimo boy finds that when it comes to his mother, there is "always room for Michael on Mother's lap" in this updated version of the 1972 collaboration. Full-color illustrations.

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLING BOOK THAT EVERY INVESTOR SHOULD OWNPeter Lynch is America's number-one money manager. His mantra: Average investors can become experts in their own field and can pick winning stocks as effectively as Wall Street professionals by doing just a little research.Now, in a new introduction written specifically for this edition of One Up on Wall Street, Lynch gives his take on the incredible rise of Internet stocks, as well a...

The Joke, Milan Kundera's first novel, gained him a huge following in his own country and launched his worldwide literary reputation. In his foreword Kundera explains why this completely revised translation is the definitive edition of his work. 'It is impossible to do justice here to the subtleties, comedy and wisdom of this very beautiful novel. The author of The Joke is clearly one of the best to be found anywhere.' Salman Rushdie, Observer

PRICAI 2000, held in Melbourne, Australia, is the sixth Pacific Rim Interna­ tional Conference on Artificial Intelligence and is the successor to the five earlier PRICAIs held in Nagoya (Japan), Seoul (Korea), Beijing (China), Cairns (Aus­ tralia) and Singapore in the years 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996 and 1998 respectively. PRICAI is the leading conference in the Pacific Rim region for the presenta­ tion of research in Artificial Intelligence, incl...

Like most all of Rebecca West's reportage, A Train of Powder approaches great literature. Written between 1946 and 1954, these accounts of four controversial trials explore the nature of crime and punishment, innocence and guilt, retribution and forgiveness. The centerpiece of the book is "Greenhouse with Cyclamens, " a three-part essay on the Nuremberg trials written with precision, clarity, and daring insight. She also reports on two particu...

This work is essentially based on grammaticalization theory - a branch of linguistics which has gained prominence since the 1980s. It focuses on the interaction between diachrony and synchrony, langue and parole or, for that matter, competence and performance, I-language and ¿-language. It does not see these levels as distinct linguistic domains, as much structurally oriented work does. It is important for the present purposes that such an int...

If you are new to Access 2000 or already use an alternative database application and you want to switch to Access 2000 this book gives you all the essential information you need using lots of examples. Topics covered in this book include: - How to use the Access interface - How to use Access objects to create a simple database - How to use built in functions - How to create tables - How to create forms - How to create queries to select and upd...

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Inhaltsangabe:Zusammenfassung: Es wurde eine Fragebogenstudie mit 250 Mitarbeitern aus 14 verschiedenen Call Centern durchgeführt, die überwiegend an inbound-Arbeitsplätzen beschäftigt waren. Ziel der Studie war es, Belastungen und Ressourcen aus arbeitspsychologischer Sicht zu analysieren, der Untersuchung liegt die Handlungstheorie von Hacker (1998) zugrunde. In der Arbeitsanalyse wurden die Arbeitsmerkmale Regulationsanforderungen, Regula...

A volume in the Native Americans of the Northeast: Culture, History and the Contemporary. An exploration of a range of early exchanges between Europeans and Indians, showing how they operated within a set of interlocking economies--linquistic, religious, as well as material.

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PART NARRATIVE, part analysis, this book reconstructs the complex history of the southeastern New England textile industry during the nineteenth century. Mary H. Blewett takes a fresh look at the process of industrialization from the point of view of management as well as labor and reinterprets the struggle between the two in terms of class, culture, and power. Highlighting the role of contingency and human agency in the shaping of historical ...

Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Vorwort der Herausgeber -- Hinweise für die Benutzer -- Abkürzungsverzeichnis -- Das Geheime Staatsarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz / Kloosterhuis, Jürgen -- Verzeichnis der Bearbeiter und der von ihnen bearbeiteten Bestände -- I. Hauptabteilung. Rep. 71 (M) Kommissionen zur Auseinandersetzung hauptsächlich mit dem Königreich Westphalen, teils während seines Bestehens, teils nach seiner Auflösung - Rep. 90 Annex M (D) D...

Dieses Buch untersucht, welchen Einfluß Landschaftsformen, insbesondere Höhenunterschiede, auf die an der Erdoberfläche ablaufenden Prozesse haben. Wasserbewegungen, die Sonneneinstrahlung sowie die Bodenentwicklung und -erosion werden alle mehr oder minder durch die Form der Landschaftsoberfläche gesteuert. Die Anwendungsmöglichkeiten der Landschaftsanalyse sind vielfältig: Sie reichen von Studien über Wasserscheiden und Feuchtgebiete über Bo...

An affordable new edition intended for course use

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A snakeful of critical venom aimed at the composers and the classics of 19th- and 20th-century music, this collection of nasty barbs culled mostly from newspapers and magazines makes for hilarious reading and belongs on the shelf of everyone who loves---or hates--classical music.

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Gives veterinarians the information they need to choose the most appropriate pain medication for any clinical situation. This title explains the physiology of pain and pharmacology of analgesics, focusing on management of acute and post-operative pain and chronic pain, the problems of pain management and pain assessment.