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Turgenevs >Aufzeichnungen eines Jägers<, ein Sammelband mit 25 Erzählungen, die ab 1847 in der Zeitschrift Sovremennik (>Der Zeitgenosse<) erschienen waren, verhalfen ihrem Autor 1852 zum literarischen Durchbruch, sorgten jedoch auch für politischen Sprengstoff.

Among the oldest of India's spiritual texts, the Upanishads are records of intensive question-and-answer sessions given by illumined sages to their students. Widely featured in philosophy courses, the Upanishads have puzzled and inspired wisdom seekers from Yeats to Schopenhauer. Eknath Easwaran makes this challenging text more accessible by selecting the passages most relevant to readers seeking timeless truths today. His accessible, highly r...

Legend says that in every generation, there are 36 righteous men on whom the fate of humanity depends. One by one, these men are being murdered, and journalist Will Monroe smells a big story. After Wills wife is kidnapped, he begins to realize he must stop the killings or the future of the world may be at stake.

Three men have survived the streets of London as children. As men, they take London high society by storm, as only heroes with dark and dangerous pasts can, in this second book in a Regency trilogy. Original.

Disguised as a boy, lovely Alaina MacGaren flees the Yankee troops ravaging her Virginia plantation. When the young orphan is accosted by a group of soldiers, Yankee surgeon Cole Latimer rescues the "lad"--never guessing that love for the rebel beauty will set duty against desire, ultimately testing his loyalties, his trust and his honor.

»Gestalt ist keine Technik, kein therapeutisches Schnellverfahren, sondern ein ernster Weg, sich selbst zu finden und zu wachsen. Wachstum aber ist ein Prozeß, der Zeit braucht.« (F.Perls)

In a series of chapters each focusing on a different goddess or mythical woman, Christine Downing traces her own path of individuation from maiden-daughter to mature woman. A therapist, university professor of religion, and former president of the American Academy of Religion, she writes what is essentially an autobiography with an inner focus on her dreams and fantasies, and their meanings to her. She writes in a direct and intimate way, usin...

Der Sammelband befasst sich mit den sprachgeschichtlichen Aspekten von Texteditionen aus dem Bereich der germanistischen Mediävistik. Dabei wird der Tatsache Rechnung getragen, dass die im 19. Jahrhundert erarbeiteten sprachwissenschaftlichen Hilfsmittel auf einer stark manipulierten Sprachform basierten, während in jüngerer Zeit die Forderung nach einer Rückbesinnung auf handschriftliche Befunde laut wurde. Die auf ein Baseler Symposion zurüc...

For over a decade, Rosanne Bittner has enchanted her readers with tales of adventure and romance in the times before the White Man settled the West. Now, in the tradition of Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear, the bestselling author of Song of the Wolf and the Savage Destiny Indian series turns her hand to historical fiction with a wonderful new story of Native America sure to capture you and carry you on an adventure of love and hate, g...

Creating the Joyful Writer is a teacher resource based on holistic education for those educators who want to go beyond 'traditional approaches' but do not know how. In this book, emphasis is placed on the whole person (intellectual, physical, social, emotional, spiritual, and environmental) rather than the intellectual way of knowing. Written in an easy-to-read format, the book provides a holistic approach that fosters creativity and joy in th...

Innovative Algorithms and Techniques in Automation, Industrial Electronics and Telecommunications is a collection of world class paper articles addressing the following topics: Computer Networks: Access Technologies, Medium Access Control, Network architectures and Equipment, Optical Networks and Switching, Telecommunication Technology, and Ultra Wideband Communications. Coding and Modulation: Modeling and Simulation, OFDM technology , ...

Advances and Innovations in Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering  is a collection of world class paper articles addressing the following topics: Image and Pattern Recognition: Compression, Image processing, Signal Processing Architectures, Signal Processing for Communication, Signal Processing Implementation, Speech Compression, and Video Coding Architectures. Languages and Systems: Algorithms, Databases, Embedded Syste...

Innovations and Advanced Techniques in Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering is a collection of world class paper articles addressing the following topics: Signal and Image Processing: Content Based Video Retrieval, Character Recognition, Incremental Learning for Speech Recognition, Signal Processing Theory and Methods, and Vision-based Monitoring Systems. Software and Systems: Activity-Based Software Estimation, Algorithms,...

Aufschlussreich und größtenteils noch immer gültig: Fritz Machlup präsentiert eindrucksvoll die komplexen Zusammenhänge von wirtschaftspolitischen Maßnahmen und deren (un)mittelbaren Konsequenzen (Erstauflage 1934). Viele Themen sind auch heute noch höchst aktuell: Mindestlöhne, Arbeitszeitverkürzung, Außenhandelsschranken, oder Arbeitslosigkeit durch technologischen Fortschritt. Plus: zahlreiche Beispiele, allgemein verständlich.

Vorbild für unzählige Management-Ratgeber: Diese Übersetzung des ersten Hauptwerkes von Frederick Winslow Taylor, dem Begründer des "Taylorismus". Er betrachtet die "Kunst der Leitung" als "Regelung der persönlichen Verhältnisse zwischen Arbeitgeber und Arbeitnehmer". Sein Buch zur Rationalisierung fokussiert auf die Reorganisation von Unternehmen des verarbeitenden Gewerbes, Lohnpolitik sowie zahlreiche Aspekte der Umsetzung seiner Grundsätze.

This book examines the new, hybrid democracy that has been taking shape in California since the 2003 recall of Gov. Gray Davis and election of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Using the results of surveys with more than 150, 000 Californians, the book reveals the public attitudes behind the move to supplant governance by elected representatives with an increased role for voters at the ballot box, and presents recommendations for ways to improve policyma...

In this innovative reader, Pamela Moss and Karen Falconer Al-Hindi present a unique, reflective approach to what feminist geography is and who feminist geographers are. Their carefully crafted textbook invigorates feminist debates about space, place, and knowledges with a fine balance among teaching chapters, reprints, and original essays. Offering an anthology that actually questions the very purpose of an anthology, the editors create and th...

This book describes, in vivid detail, the history of the Japanese invasion and occupation and of different parts of China, from the viewpoints of scholars in China, Japan, and the West

The Couch and the Stage explores the therapeutic effects of dramatic action. It details the psychoanalysts and action psychotherapists who conceived of the continuity of mind and body, words and action, challenging Freud's purely verbal and rational route to the unconscious. The book encourages mental health professionals to harness the knowledge of the dramatic therapies and contemporary neuroscience in the service of facilitating integration...

InIdentity and Subsistence, a number of scholars look at how the idea of gender has worked with respect to the formation of the self, ideas of femininity and masculinity, human evolution, and the development of early agrarian and pastoralist societies.