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Delilah Banks goes to work every day with the bittersweet knowledge that love will once again bring in customers to buy engagement rings or other specials tokens of affection for that someone special in their lives. Even Paddy O'Shay hears wedding bells when his long lost sweetheart arrives in town.. With each passing year, Del asks herself two questions. Where is that special man who is her destiny and when will he come into her life? Just wh...

Investment Banker Gregory McGregor is still in love with his ex-girlfriend, but she's engaged to be married. The woman he is currently dating is a nymphomaniac in love with his money but he's the only person who can't see it. His only other love is the career for which he prepared so diligently, but the blue-chip investment banking firm for which he works has a sordid history. On the rebound from a long period of joblessness and a bad relation...

Junior High is a total nightmare, and Annie Marshall wants out! In fact, she thinks life couldn't get any worse until she receives a most unusual present. Annie soon becomes haunted by weird beings attempting to take it from her. Her whole world turns completely upside down. Then the stranger who gave her the gift demands its return. With the help of her closest friends, Annie discovers a new realm of magic and adventure. The end is near, and ...

Graduate student Tracy Reynolds can't wait to start her new job as an assistant to James Baxter, the chair of Eastern Arizona University's archaeological department. Leaving her big-city life behind, she joins an archaeological team to unearth ancient sites on an Indian reservation in Juniper Junction, Arizona. After she uncovers a burial site containing traditional pottery and a turquoise ornament unlike any previously found from the time per...

A tour de force of astonishing power and poetry, Circus uses the mystic panorama of a traveling mud show as a metaphor for the neverending cycle of life. Dwarves and roustabouts, clowns and elephants, freaks and puppet shows, snakes and ringmasters, talking beasts and a single elusory beauty all parade before a silently observant child over the course of a single day, engaging him as well as the reader with humor, ribaldry and prophetic wisdom...

Life coaching is a relatively new profession in which the client sets a specific goal, intended to nurture a more fulfilling life, and is then guided toward that objective. With Coach Your Way to a Great Self-Image you can improve your self-perception in just five sessions. Author Jean Conley provides concise, relevant advice designed for busy individuals who don't have time to review every detail of their lives. Rather than merely giving an i...

In the year 2033, U.S. President Russell Wilson and Secretary General Kufi Mobutu of the U.N. reveal the Humane Space Federation's discovery to the world. Dr. Donald Netherland invites Dr. Mack Ryan and Dr. Marcus Nimbus to attend the Osiris 4 Summit at the federation's headquarters to pursue an exceptionally habitable extrasolar planet flosishing with life. Dr. Ryan will lead 1500 of the best men and women to explore this new planet that will...

This original book presents a global approach to eighteenth century warfare. Emphasis is placed on the importance of conflict in the period and the capacity for decisiveness in impact and development in method. Through this Jeremy Black extends the view beyond land to naval conflict.European Warfare in a Global Context offers a comparative approach, in the sense of considering Western developments alongside those elsewhere, furthermore it puts...

Japan hautnah aus der sehr persönlichen Sicht einer Austauschschülerin, die in der elften Klasse ein Jahr an einer buddhistischen Mädchenhighschool und bei Gastfamilien in Tokyo verbrachte. Rohes Pferdefleisch als Highlight zur Begrüßung, Qualle, Eiscreme mit Tintenfischtinte und rohes Ei über den Reis zum Frühstück, kleinere und größere Überraschungen, Freuden und Schrecksekunden, Intrigen, Erfolgserlebnisse, Peinlichkeiten und Missverständni...

This book contains the tenth volume of the online journal Demographic Research, including all material published January to June 2004. The journal is published by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany and aims to publish top-quality demographic research and related material and to encourage the development of an international community of people concerned with demographic research. This volume, as well as all ...

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DAS heuristische Spitzenwerk der Mittelaltergermanistik, das für alle mediävistischen Disziplinen bis hin zur Medizingeschichte unentbehrlich ist. Das Werk dokumentiert nicht nur weitgehend umfassend den gegenwärtigen Forschungsstand innerhalb des definierten Rahmens, es zeigt in den Veränderungen der Artikel zwischen Bd. 1 und Bd. 11 die Präzisierungen in der Forschungs- und Darstellungsmethodik. Daher ist dieses Lexikon auch von hohem fachge...

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Schon seit vielen Jahren beschäftigt sich die Autorin mit folgenden Fragen: Warum gibt es so viele einsame Menschen? Warum gibt es so viele Menschen, die einfach keinen passenden Partner für ihr Leben finden? Das kann doch eigentlich gar nicht sein. Auf dieser Welt leben über 6 Milliarden Menschen. Es soll darunter keinen geben, der zu einem passt? Oder wissen wir einfach nicht wie wir diesen finden? Wenn man dann endlich einmal eine bestimmt...

Wie erklären sich Kinder die Rechtschreibung? Mit Hilfe eines spezifischen Forschungdesigns wurde versucht, die Bewusstwerdungsprozesse beim kindlichen Orthographieerwerb im Verlauf der ersten Schuljahre zu beobachten und zu modellieren. Statt punktueller Querschnittserhebungen oder Analysen von Schreibprodukten wurde der Schwerpunkt dieser Längsschnittsuntersuchung auf Äußerungen von Kindern zu ihren Schreibungen, also auf die Verbalisierunge...

Jouette Bassler, one of the foremost experts on Pauline theology, offers her wisdom and insight into the core of Paul's thought in this brief and accessible book. She focuses on major themes in Paul, such as grace, law, faith, righteousness, Israel, resurrection, and what it means to be "in Christ." Through each of these themes, she explores the wealth of Paul's various writings, lifting up the most important and basic of Paul's ideas and expl...

This is a book that should be read by anyone interested in class, inequality, poverty and politics. Actually, probably more importantly it should be read by people who think that those things do not matter! It provides a wonderful summation of the huge amount of work on these topics that now exists and it also offers its own distinctive perspectives on a set of issues that are - despite the claims of some influential commentators - still centr...

A collection of gripping cases that culminates in the most shocking of all - the notorious, fatal encounter between Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls

This volume of Studies in Surface Science and Catalysis contains the Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on the Scientific Bases for the Preparation of Heterogeneous Catalysts, held on the campus of the "Universit catholique de Louvain" (UCL) in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, on September 10-14, 2006. This series of symposia was initiated in 1975 on a regular 4-year interval basis. The Symposium covered the following topics: key aspects...

Wirtschaftsprüfern wird durch die Wirtschaftsprüferordnung ein weites berufliches Betätigungsfeld eröffnet. Unterläuft dem Wirtschaftsprüfer bei der Wahrnehmung seiner Aufgaben ein Fehler, so kann es zu Schäden beim Auftraggeber, etwa dem geprüften Unternehmen, kommen. In der Praxis verlassen sich häufig auch vertragsfremde Dritte auf den Bestätigungsvermerk, den Prüfungsbericht oder andere Arbeitsergebnisse des Prüfers. Zu denken ist dabei in...