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The concept of 'trigger' is a core concept of Chomsky's Minimalist Program. The idea that certain types of movement are triggered by some property of the target position is at least as old as the notion that the movement of noun phrases to the subject position is triggered by their need to receive nominative case. In more recent versions of syntactic theory, triggering mechanisms are thought to regulate all of movement. Furthermore, a quite na...

Authors Tim and Cyndie Travis accomplish the unthinkable, in an unprecedented worldwide cycling adventure. Their clever story explores the depths of humanity, as they expose themselves to life's perils on roads less traveled. This story is written as it happened, on the road.

Seventeen poems of Edwin Morgan, the contemporary Poet for Scotland, are presented here on this audio CD. Edwin Morgan reads his own poems, with commentary by Professor Roderick Watson of Stirling University.

This encyclopedia surveys the major wars, campaigns, battles and expeditions of the British Army, as well as its weaponry, tactics, and all other aspects of its operations from the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the dawn of World War One.

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: ¿Our assets are our people [...]¿, mit diesem Leitsatz ihrer Geschäftsphilosophie unterstreicht eine Investmentbank die Wichtigkeit eines guten Mitarbeiterstammes. Die Möglichkeiten für Unternehmen, Personal zu beschaffen und damit den Personalbedarf zu decken bzw. für Bewerber, eine neue Arbeitsstelle zu finden, sind vielfältig. In Zeiten der immer größer werdenden Popularität des Internets , hat sich neben der klas...

Inhaltsangabe:Problemstellung: ¿Das Rechtsberatungsgesetz entspricht in weiten Bereichen nicht mehr den tatsächlich gegebenen Verhältnissen in unserer Gesellschaft¿. Dieses Zitat des Parlamentarischen Staatssekretärs im Bundesjustizministerium Alfred Hartenbach anlässlich einer Tagung der Rechtsanwaltkammer Frankfurt am 05. März 2004 verdeutlicht den zunehmenden Reformbedarf des RBerG. Die Diskussion um das am 13. Dezember 1935 verabschiedete...

Inhaltsangabe:Abstract: Champions of Human Capital in organisations, such as Human Resources directors, are in need of empirical evidence to justify to board members, CEOs and ultimately shareholders why financial investments into Human Capital should be increased or at least maintained. The research questions posed in this thesis take on the challenge to find empirical evidence that investment in Human Capital, through Human Resources, has a...

Diamond Communication's edition is a reprint in trade paperback of this previously released classic. Tom Pagna, a player under Ara Parseghian at Miami of Ohio and assistant coach for Ara at Notre Dame, offers his unique and insightful understanding of one of the most legendary -- and at times controversial -- football coaches in Fighting Irish history. Foreword by Ara Parseghian.

This book critically explores the idea of Europe since the French Revolution from the perspective of intellectual history. It traces the dominant and recurring theme of Europe-as-Christendom in discourse concerning the relationship of religion, politics and society, in historiography and hermeneutics, and in theories and constructions of identity and 'otherness'. It examines the evolution of a grand narrative by which European elites have soug...

Advance magazine text: For a government-mandated warning label, costing about a penny and placed on dangerously flammable clothing, we can protect our children, seniors and ourselves from painful, disfiguring, even fatal burn injury. We also need to update flammability testing equipment and procedure.

Film noir? Dark crime movies mainly. The bible? An encyclopedia really. So browse, cruise around, even read it. You'll be hooked in no time flat. The book? It'll last a lifetime. Noir? Special, unique. My advice: dig in.

Growing Under the Shadow of His Wings I am pleased to commend Growing Under The Shadow of His Wings written by Helen Walters. Her deep and visible spirituality shines through these words. The Very Rev'd Michael S. Mills Dean, St. Matthews Cathedral Helen Walters gentle and thoughtful series of reflections on the Psalms is filled with faithful and sensitive encouragement for us to do what saints have done from the very first days the Psalter be...

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Auslegung und Inhaltskontrolle von urheberrechtlichen Wahrnehmungsverträgen spielen in der Gerichtspraxis eine erhebliche Rolle. Darum kann es zum einen in Auseinandersetzungen zwischen Berechtigten und Verwertungsgesellschaft gehen. Zum anderen spielen Auslegung und Kontrolle des Wahrnehmungsvertrags auch für die Nutzer geschützter Werke oder Leistungsschutzrechte eine Rolle, da sie Klarheit brauchen, ob sie die benötigten Rechte von der Verw...

Das Buch beschreibt die wichtigsten Muster für die Analyse und Neubildung deutscher Derivationen und Komposita. Es behandelt die Verbbildung, die Adjektivbildung und die Nomenbildung. Wortbildungsmuster werden als zum Lexikon einer Sprache gehörende Regeln betrachtet, die alle für die Verwendung komplexer Wörter notwendigen systematischen syntaktischen, semantischen, morphologischen und phonologischen Informationen enthalten. Im Mittelpunkt st...

Juvenal and Persius are seminal as well as stellar figures in the history of satirical writing. Juvenal especially had a lasting influence on English writers of the Renaissance and succeeding centuries. The bite and wit of these two satirists are captured here in a new Loeb Classical Library edition.

This wonderful combination of truly inspired poetry and paintings expresses the ordeal of everyday human suffering, the love within that never dies and the spiritual awakening of the soul - rising from the ashes of the past. In creating their unique forms of art, Jerrold Donington and Marilyn Cahane have drawn on deeply personal experiences in their lives. They have had the conviction to search for true meaning and inspiration in the midst ...

Beginning with the plague and its ravaging hold upon the city of London, the story follows the adventures of Catherine Constanza, beautiful, young, and suddenly bereft of all she knows. Catherine perseveres through her misfortune, and soon begins a star-crossed love affair with Shakespeare, the excitement and deceit at the Globe Theatre, the devastation and degradation of Newgate Prison, the glitter and intrigue in the court of King James I, a...

This light-hearted novel is concerned with the preservation of witty and meaningful conversation. As O'Henry wrote, "One should inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence." The three middle-aged main characters are of widely different backgrounds: Two Welshmen, TEDDY VAUGHAN-JONES, the sophisticate, WILL, the consummate roue', and ELIZABETH, an American of scholarly bent, meet regularly at a pub, THE WELSH PONY....

This light-hearted novel is concerned with the preservation of witty and meaningful conversation. As O'Henry wrote, "One should inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence." The three middle-aged main characters are of widely different backgrounds: Two Welshmen, TEDDY VAUGHAN-JONES, the sophisticate, WILL, the consummate roue', and ELIZABETH, an American of scholarly bent, meet regularly at a pub, THE WELSH PONY....