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Die Errichtung eines deutschen Kolonialreichs warf für die neue Kolonialmacht eine Vielzahl rechtlicher Schwierigkeiten auf. Insbesondere stellte sich die Frage, wie der koloniale Raum und seine Bewohner in den bestehenden staatsrechtlichen Rahmen integriert werden sollten. Ausgehend von zeitgenössischen Diskursen um Recht, Nation und Rasse zeichnet diese Arbeit aus postkolonialer Perspektive nach, welche Folgen die Kolonialexpansion für die T...

From one of the world's best-known development economists-an excoriating attack on the tragic hubris of the West's efforts to improve the lot of the so-called developing worldIn his previous book, The Elusive Quest for Growth, William Easterly criticized the utter ineffectiveness of Western organizations to mitigate global poverty, and he was promptly fired by his then-employer, the World Bank. The White Man's Burden is his widely anticipated ...

Combining the theory with practice this text covers the area of health management. It also addresses issues such as: the concept of managing for health, or public health management, the skills and frameworks requires of managers and practitioners working in health systems, the implications for training and development, and more.

What does it mean to be in pain? How should we deal with pain? The major trend today is an attempt to offer a physiological explanation and treatment of pain. This book raises the question as to how we can understand and treat pain on a physiological basis without underrating or denying its psychological dimensions. As an answer to this question, the author proposes a non-reductive physiological definition and subsequently treatment of pain th...

Banken- und Währungskrisen haben in den letzten Jahrzehnten insbesondere Schwellenländer erschüttert. Dabei hat sich gezeigt, dass diese beiden Krisenarten auf so vielfältige Art miteinander verflochten sind und sich durchdringen, dass man von einem eigenständigen Krisentyp «Zwillingskrise» sprechen kann. In dieser Arbeit wird ein Modell entwickelt, das verschiedene Zusammenhänge zwischen Banken- und Währungskrisen mathematisch abbildet. Anhan...

Vergleichende Analysen zur demografischen Alterung und Situation alter Menschen, innovative Praxisprojekte zur Versorgung älterer Bürgerinnen und Bürger sowie politische Artikulationen aus polnischer, tschechischer und deutscher Sicht zusammenzuführen, war Anliegen einer Fachtagung, durchgeführt vom Fachbereich Sozialwesen der Hochschule Zittau/Görlitz, dem Hochschul-Institut für Transformation, Wohnen und soziale Raumordnung (TRAWOS) sowie de...

Die »Edda« ist die bedeutendste Sammlung altnordischer Götter- und Heldenlieder des Mittelalters. Sie überliefert den Glaubens- und Sagenschatz der Wikinger und Germanen und wurde vermutlich im 13. Jahrhundert zusammengetragen. Den größten Raum nehmen dabei die Erzählungen aus der Nibelungensage ein, die später im berühmten »Nibelungenlied« verarbeitet wurden und auch Richard Wagner zu seinem »Ring der Nibelungen« inspirierten. Ein außergewöhn...

A savvy young music exec for Rockstar Records, Hannah Love has a glamorous apartment and a tight pack of equally fine friends. But luxury and loyalty can't protect her from a broken heart, courtesy of her super-rich fiancé. To recover, Hannah accelerates her already high-octane life by pursuing a fantasy she's had since childhood: to become an NBA cheerleader for the Chicago Diamonds. As she juggles promoting the hottest singer on the rise, do...

They had the most dangerous job n the Air Force. Now Bury Us Upside Down reveals the never-before-told story of the Vietnam War's top-secret jet-fighter outfit-an all-volunteer unit composed of truly extraordinary men who flew missions from which heroes are made.In today's wars, computers, targeting pods, lasers, and precision-guided bombs help FAC (forward air controller) pilots identify and destroy targets from safe distances. But in the sea...

An advanced race of alien warriors land in a primitive world, in the throes of the Dark Ages. It is up to five heroes to stand up against the savage onslaught.

The Norman conquest of England was a bloody affair. This is an epic story of savage conflict, treachery, love and passion in the final year of William the Conqueror's reign.

How far will a man go to save the woman he loves? Most would say all the way until the day comes when fantasy becomes reality.

With art that is as magnificent as the towering buildings it depicts, this book details the history of skyscrapers. From the Pyramid at Gaza to the Eiffel Tower to the World Trade Center, Curlee delves into one of man's endless fascinations--building as high into the sky as possible. Full color.

In War and Peace and War, Peter Turchin uses his expertise in evolutionary biology to offer a bold new theory about the course of world history. Turchin argues that the key to the formation of an empire is a society's capacity for collective action. He demonstrates that high levels of cooperation are found where people have to band together to fight off a common enemy, and that this kind of cooperation led to the formation of the Roman and Ru...

Michael Corbett appears regularly on national TV and print media and travels the country lecturing to crowds of 25, 000 sharing his expertise, having made millions buying and selling houses during his twenty-plus years in the business. With personal tips, cost-effective techniques, and real estate insider secrets, Ready, Set, Sold! will teach readers how to: • Add $10, 000 to the value of their home in a single weekend • Avoid the twelve costl...

At last-everything expecting moms need to know about giving birth Childbirth is one of the most significant events of any woman's life-and for many, also a source of enormous anxiety and fear. In The Big Book of Birth renowned childbirth educator and Realbirth Center founder Erica Lyon offers an antidote to that fear with a comprehensive and up- to-date guide to childbirth. Drawing from more than a decade of teaching expecting parents what rea...

Like Charles Seife's Zero and Dava Sobel's Longitude, this passionate intellectual history is the story of the intersection of science and the human, in this case the rivals who discovered oxygen in the late 1700s. That breakthrough changed the world as radically as those of Newton and Darwin but was at first eclipsed by revolution and reaction. In chronicling the triumph and ruin of the English freethinker Joseph Priestley and the French nobl...

As the religious rhetoric of the culture wars escalates, "New York Times" bestselling author and eminent scholar Wills explores the meaning of Jesus' teachings.

Maugham's enchanting tale of secrets and fatal attraction "The Magician" is one of Somerset Maugham's most complex and perceptive novels. Running through it is the theme of evil, deftly woven into a story as memorable for its action as for its astonishingly vivid characters. In fin de si?cle Paris, Arthur and Margaret are engaged to be married. Everyone approves and everyone seems to be enjoying themselves?until the sinister and repulsive Oliv...

A remarkable account of the amazing life story of the man who inspired the film Hotel Rwanda Readers who were moved and horrified by Hotel Rwanda will respond even more intensely to Paul Rusesabagina's unforgettable autobiography. As Rwanda was thrown into chaos during the 1994 genocide, Rusesabagina, a hotel manager, turned the luxurious Hotel Milles Collines into a refuge for more than 1, 200 Tutsi and moderate Hutu refugees, while fending o...