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The author of "Bel Canto" -- winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Orange Prize and long-running "New York Times" bestseller -- turns to nonfiction in a moving chronicle of her decades-long friendship with the critically acclaimed and recently deceased author, Lucy Grealy. What happens when the person who is your family is someone you aren't bound to by blood? What happens when that person is not your lover, but your best friend? In her frank ...

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The ideal resource for setting up and working with therapy groups Group therapy is an increasingly popular treatment modality for a variety of disorders and client populations. Essentials of Group Therapy provides both professionals and students with a clear overview of the group therapy process, its history and development, and the critical skills required for working effectively with groups. This valuable guide presents several models and te...

In this book, the late Cambridge scholar F. H. Chase gives an insightful study on the Lord's prayer in the early Christian Church. The study first discusses the early Church and the Synagogue, then goes through an analytical study of every phrase of the Lord's prayer. TEXTS AND STUDIES is a series of monographs devoted to the study of Biblical and patristic texts. Maintaining the highest scholarly standards, the series includes critical editio...

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Although scholars have often made inferences about the Greek texts that lay behind the Old Syriac and Peshitta versions of the Gospels, very few have ever attempted to formulate rules for how such inferences might be made. Scholars have tended to assume that translators worked fairly literally and also had access to many Greek readings which now no longer survive. In the most extensive study of its kind, Williams systematically investigates a ...

`This book makes significant contributions to the field of mathematics education in many areas. Its use of oral storytelling as a means of teaching algorithms and problem solving, its presentation of a collaborative teaching model that can be generalized to all mathematics teaching, its presentation of a new perspective on problem solving, enhancing the currently popular approach, and its insights into multicultural mathematics all provide a w...

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Covers the general theory and practice of using an Electron Capture Detector (ECD) to study reactions of thermal electrons with molecules In 1897, J. J. Thompson "discovered" the electron. Around the same time, Mikhail Semenovich Tswett presented a lecture on his novel method of dynamic adsorption analysis, soon known as chromatography. These achievements laid the groundwork for James Lovelock, who fifty years later observed the perturbation ...

For the first time in the history of the Little House books, this new edition features Garth Williams’ interior art in vibrant, full color, as well as beautifully redesigned covers.The adventures continue for Laura Ingalls and her family as they leave their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin and set out for Kansas. They travel for many days in their covered wagon until they find the best spot to build their little house on the prairie....

For the first time in the history of the Little House books, this new edition features Garth Williams' interior art in vibrant, full color, as well as a beautifully redesigned cover. Laura Ingalls's story begins in 1871 in a little log cabin on the edge of the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Four-year-old Laura lives in the little house with her Pa, her Ma, her sisters Mary and Carrie, and their trusty dog, Jack. Pioneer life is sometimes hard, since ...

Mit der 5. Auflage dieses Lehrbuchs wird der Übergang von der relativ engen Betrachtung der elektronischen Datenverarbeitung zur umfassenderen Sicht der Wirtschaftsinformatik vollzogen. Dieser Wandel hatte eine erhebliche inhaltliche Modifikation sowie eine Erweiterung gegenüber der vorigen Auflage zur Folge. Aufbauend auf den technologischen Grundlagen der elektronischen Datenverarbeitung werden die einzelnen Teilsysteme von betrieblichen Inf...

The Barracks Thief" is the story of three young paratroopers waiting to be shipped out to Vietnam. Brought together one sweltering afternoon to stand guard over an ammunition dump threatened by a forest fire, they discover in each other an unexpected capacity for recklessness and violence. Far from being alarmed by this discovery, they are exhilarated by it, they emerge from their common danger full of confidence in their own manhood and in th...

Where has the Little Old Cat been?To see this and thatSaid the Little Old Cat . . .Where does the Little Old Fish swim?Wherever I wishSaid the Little Old Fish . . .Have you also wondered where a cat or a squirrel has been or where a bird flies or a whale sails? How about why a bunny runs? With playful, rhyming verse, where have you been? perfectly captures the wonderful, wise questions that children ask every day.The treasured text by Margaret...

Wunderschöne Färbung, Eleganz und Kraft paaren sich in einer der attraktivsten Schlangen überhaupt, der Spitzkopfnatter. Kein Wunder, dass sie bei Schlangenfreunden seit langem zu den begehrtesten Pfleglingen zählt. Dass sie darüber hinaus auch keine unerfüllbaren Ansprüche an die Haltung stellt, tut ein Übriges. Seit Jahren vermehrt Schlangenexperte Andreas Gumprecht diese Art, der er auch in ihren natürlichen Lebensräumen nachgespürt hat. I...

Dieses Kurzlehrbuch für Studium und Praxis stellt die Grundprobleme des Grundbuchrechts dar. Es ermöglicht dem jungen Praktiker - Richter oder Rechtspfleger - die Einarbeitung in diese schwierige Materie und zeigt die verschiedenen Meinungen sowie praktikable Lösungen zu den strittigen Rechtsfragen auf. Auch für Anwälte ist das Buch ein wichtiges Hilfsmittel, z.B. bei Vergleichsverhandlungen und einstweiligen Verfügungen. Dank eines umfangreic...

Charakteristische Persönlichkeitsstrukturen und Einstellungen gegenüber Lernen und Wissen bilden sich schon im Kindergartenalter heraus. Ihr harmonisches Zusammenspiel ist die Voraussetzung dafür, daß später der Erwachsene selbstbewußt, sinnerfüllt, verantwortungsfähig und sozial akzeptiert sein Leben meistern kann. Das vorliegende Buch von Barbara Senckel vermittelt ein umfassendes, differenziertes, auch dem Laien verständliches Gesamtbild d...

This work-book will guide you safely, in step-by-step descriptions, through every detail of the NMR experiments within, beginning with 1D routine experiments and ending with a series of advanced 3D experiments on a protein: · Which experiment can best yield the desired information? · How must the chosen experiment be performed? · How does one read the required information from the spectrum? · How does this particular pulse sequence work? ...

Many physicists are not aware of the fact that they can solve their problems by applying optimization algorithms. Since the number of such algorithms is steadily increasing, many new algorithms have not been presented comprehensively until now. This presentation of recently developed algorithms applied in physics, including demonstrations of how they work and related results, aims to encourage their application, and as such the algorithms sele...

From New York City to the former East Germany, from rural Virginia to affluent suburbia, the characters in these short stories grapple with love, loss, greed, perversion, and other awful truths as they try to transcend their limitations with occasional humor and dignity. In "History on a Personal Note, " Lorraine, a Southerner, wonders if her German paramour will find the inspiration to leave his wife amidst the destruction of the Berlin Wall....