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Invertebrate Zoology deals with the animals that have no backbones, including the shrimps, crabs, sponges, worms, snails and squids. This book deals specifically with the invertebrates that spend all or part of their lifecycle in a freshwater environment. (As is usual and as in the previous edition, aquatic insects are excluded due to their vast numbers.) The invertebrate species far outnumber the vertebrate species, and a through understandin...

This series of full-color board books, with both English and Spanish on each page, will intrigue youngsters while helping them build vocabulary and an awareness of the world around them. The books feature charming illustrations and thoughtfully chosen words, offering an enchanting introduction to vocabulary.

This is the first book focusing on the spirituality of people with autism spectrum disorders. Drawing on verbal and non-verbal narratives, Isanon explores the individual's struggle to come to terms with his or her humanity, and the spirituality of those who can neither reflect upon, nor express, their own life experiences.

A myriad of exciting opportunities for collaboration and networking await you! This guide shows you how to identify and optimize partnerships that benefit your library media center and help you build a true learning community. In addition to theoretical foundations of collaboration and learning, hands-on guidance is given for teaming up with school members, families, universities, libraries, community agencies, professional organizations, and ...

What drives certain collaborative projects to success, while others with similar goals fail? Learn the key elements of successful collaborations that can serve as guideposts when beginning the collaborative process. This book describes a range of models, including advantages and disadvantages of each, that are available to those contemplating school-university collaboration. The perspectives of educators from the United States, Canada, and Aus...

This volume of essays, all but one previously unpublished, investigates the question of Levinas's relationship to feminist thought. Levinas has become known as the philosopher of the Other -- famously portrayed by Simone de Beauvoir as a patriarchal thinker who denigrated women by viewing them as the paradigm Other. Reconsideration of the validity of this interpretation of Levinas and exploration of what can be derived from his thought more po...

Transgenic mouse technology, including embryonic stem cell and gene knockout techniques, has revolutionized the study of endocrinology by giving endocrinologists an effective set of tools for understanding endocrine physiology and pathology in vivo. In Transgenics in Endocrinology, a panel of expert clinical and basic investigators summarize the state-of-the-art in the use of this powerful technology in a broad range of endocrinological applic...

Original Subjects" explores the interweaving of the child-hero and the fortunes of a nation, as these are portrayed in a wide selection of novels and national narratives in the French and English traditions. Alryyes examines how these works deploy similar metaphors and signifying narratives in which a homeless child is central. Taking up such disparate writers and novelists as Locke, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, Defoe, Richardson, Diderot, Scott,...

Die "Mäusegeschichten" von Jill Barklem ist zum Klassiker avanciert- nun gibt es die bezaubernden Erzählungen mit den nostalgischen Illustrationen in einem großen Sammelband. Egal ob sie die verschiedenen Jahreszeiten durchleben, ans Meer fahren oder auf Goldsuche gehen: bei den Mäusen von Brombeerhag ist immer etwas los!

Über eine der großen intellektuellen Frauengestalten Italiens, Natalia Ginzburg, hat ihre Biographin Maja Pflug diesen Band zusammengestellt: mit autobiographischen Texten und bisher nicht übersetzten Interviews. Die Schriftstellerin Natalia Ginzburg gehörte zu den bedeutendsten ihrer Generation: als Frau, die über das Leben der Frauen und über ihre Beziehungen schrieb. Als Chronistin der Zerstörung der jüdischen Intelligenz ebenso wie des Wid...

Natalia Ginzburgs Dokumentarroman über den Autor von »Die Verlobten (Das Brautpaar)«, den großen romantischen Dichter Alessandro Manzoni, und seiner weitverzweigten Familie. Als Alessandro Manzoni nach seiner Internatserziehung seine Mutter Giulia Beccaria in Paris wiedersieht, ist er neunzehn. Alessandro verliebt sich in Giulia und ihre Welt, die Mutter, die gerade den geliebten Mann verloren hat, findet Trost bei ihrem Sohn. Und sucht eine F...

Wie ein Postfräulein bei einem Aufstand den Sieg davonträgt. Ein britisches Postfräulein und sieben Kämpfer der Irischen Republikanischen Armee sind in einem Postamt in Dublin zusammengeschlossen. Draußen tobt der Kampf. Da beginnt die junge Gertie, einen Rebellen nach dem andern zu verführen. Wilde Schießereien und Liebesszenen wechseln sich ab. Den Briten, die den Aufstand niederwerfen, erklärt Gertie, die Rabauken hätten sich ungehörig ben...

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In this study of desire in Late Imperial China, Martin W. Huang argues that the development of traditional Chinese fiction as a narrative genre was closely related to changes in conceptions of the fundamental nature of desire. He further suggests that the rise of vernacular fiction during the late Ming dynasty should be studied in the context of contemporary debates on desire, along with the new and complex views that emerged from those debate...

This series of full-color board books, with both English and Spanish on each page, will intrigue youngsters while helping them build vocabulary and an awareness of the world around them. The books feature charming illustrations and thoughtfully chosen words, offering an enchanting introduction to vocabulary.

A collection of the best articles from past 20 years of the Grassroots Fundraising Journal offering nonprofit organizations a wealth of tips, strategies, and guidance on how to raise money. Part of the new Kim Klein's Chardon Press Series from Jossey-Bass which focuses on providing fundraising and organizational development tools for community-based and social change organizations.

In "Parasitism, " Claude Combes explores the fascinating adaptations parasites have developed through their intimate interactions with their hosts. He begins with the biology of parasites--their life cycles, habitats, and different types of associations with their hosts. Next he discusses genetic interactions between hosts and parasites, and he ends with a section on the community ecology of parasites and their role in the evolution of their h...

Statistische Methoden werden heute in allen empirischen Wissenschaften angewandt. Die mathematische Begründung statistischer Verfahren ist dabei unverzichtbar. Sie allein eröffnen dem Lernenden jedoch nicht das Verständnis für statistische Schlussweisen, das in zunehmendem Maße auch in den verschiedensten Bereichen des täglichen Lebens benötigt wird. Statistik kann nicht als mathematische Theorie, sondern nur vor dem Hintergrund konkreter Anwe...

I think what is always really amazing to me is that Navajo are never amazed by anything that happens. Because it is like in a lot of our stories they are already there."-Sunny Dooley, Navajo Storyteller During the final decade of the twentieth century, Navajo people had to confront a number of challenges, from unexplained illness, the effects of uranium mining, and problem drinking to threats to their land rights and spirituality. Yet no matte...

Die Anforderungen an das Management haben sich im Zuge der fortschreitenden Globalisierung und Vernetzung der Wirtschaftsräume weitreichend verändert. Moderne Theorien sprechen diesbezüglich vom Management sozialer Systeme. Doch wie können diese Ansätze auf die Marketingkommunikation übertragen werden? Können Unternehmen hierdurch dem aufkommenden Kommunikationswettbewerb gerecht werden? Marcus Pradel stellt als Lösungsansatz ein strategisch-...