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This book is an aid to prayer in a busy, modern life using Lectio divina. Readers are invited to take small extracts from the Bible and pray with them in a simple, contemplative way.

Der Autor führt in der bereits zweiten Auflage dieses Buches kundig an das Thema "Doppelte Buchführung in öffentlichen Verwaltungen" heran und zeigt auch die Besonderheiten der Verwaltungsdoppik im Detail auf. Dabei berücksichtigt er auch die gravierenden Veränderungen, die sich in den letzten Jahren im öffentlichen Rechnungswesen ergeben haben.

Edited by leading experts in the field, The Film and Religion Reader brings together the key writings in this exciting and dynamic discipline.

In response to the global turn in scholarship on colonial and early modern history, the eighteen essays in this volume provide a fresh and much-needed perspective on the wider context of the encounter between the inhabitants of precolonial Virginia and the English. This collection offers an interdisciplinary consideration of developments in Native America, Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and the Chesapeake, highlighting the mosaic of regions an...

A wage is more than a simple fee in exchange for labor, argues Geoff Mann. It is also a political arena in which working people's identity, culture, and politics are negotiated and developed. Mann examines struggles over wages to reveal ways in which the wage becomes a critical component in the making of social hierarchies of race, gender, and citizenship. Taking three wage disputes in the natural resources industry as his case studies, Mann d...

The first critical study of personal narrative by women with disabilities, Unruly Bodies examines how contemporary writers use life writing to challenge cultural stereotypes about disability, gender, embodiment, and identity. Writers discussed include Nancy Mairs, Lucy Grealy, Georgina Kleege, Connie Panzarino, Eli Clare, Anne Finger, Denise Sherer Jacobson, and May Sarton.

Taking an original approach to American literature, Christopher Krentz examines 19th-century writing from a new angle: that of deafness, which he shows to have surprising importance in identity formation. He demonstrates that deaf and hearing authors used writing to explore their similarities and differences, trying to work out the invisible boundary, analogous to Du Bois's color line, that Krentz calls the "hearing line." Discusses authors in...

Challenging the conventional wisdom that the 1930s were dominated by literary and photographic realism, Entin uncovers a rich vein of experimental work by politically progressive artists. Examining images by photographers such as Weegee and Aaron Siskind and fiction by writers such as William Carlos Williams, Richard Wright, Tillie Olsen, and Pietro di Donato, he argues that these artists drew attention to the country's most vulnerable residen...

The Church of God in Christ (COGIC), an African American Pentecostal denomination founded in 1896, has become the largest Pentecostal denomination in the United States today. In this first major study of the church, Anthea Butler examines the religious and social lives of the women in the COGIC Women's Department from its founding in 1911 through the mid-1960s. She finds that the sanctification, or spiritual purity, that these women sought ear...

In the first comprehensive study of African American war literature, Jennifer James analyzes fiction, poetry, autobiography, and histories about the major wars waged before the desegregation of the U.S. military in 1948. Examining literature about the Civil War, the Spanish-American Wars, World War I, and World War II, James introduces a range of rare and understudied texts by writers such as Victor Daly, F. Grant Gilmore, William Gardner Smit...

From the bestselling author of "Percy The Park Keeper" and "Albert Le Blanc", this is the second title about the lovable kitten. With a rhythmic, rhyming story to encourage language skills, it's full of endearing illustrations. Ages: 0-3yrs.

After two #1 "New York Times" bestsellers on the Bush administrations wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Woodwards latest book on the Bush White House again provides an unparalleled, intimate account of the present state of national security decision-making.

In Craving the Divine, Niles Goldstein writes of the chaos and fear so many of us experience in our public and private lives, and makes it clear that we are notnor have we ever beenalone in our angst.

A name synonymous with ground-breaking music, Tony Visconti has worked with the most dynamic and influential names in pop, from T.Rex and Iggy Pop to David Bowie and U2. This is the compelling life story of the man who helped shape music history, and gives a unique, first-hand insight into life in London during the late 1960s and '70s.

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: In China sind gegenwärtig intensive Bestrebungen im Gange, das monolithisch strukturierte Eisenbahnwesen neu zu organisieren. Ausgelöst durch den stetig steigenden Bezuschussungsbedarf des "klassischen Defizitträgers" Eisenbahn und die Mittelknappheit öffentlicher Kassen soll die traditionell von der chinesischen Regierung ausgefüllte Bereitstellungs- und Verteilungskompetenz der Schienentransportleistungen zunehmend...

Der hochtalentierte, 17-jährige Hobbydetektiv Shin'ichi Kudô verwandelte sich durch ein missglücktes Giftattentat in seine Kindergestalt zurück. Nun ermittelt er heimlich als Conan Edogawa im Körper eines 7-jährigen.Im ersten Film Der tickende Wolkenkratzer liefert sich Conan ein Wettrennen mit einem Erpresser, der quer über die Stadt Bomben verteilt hat. Im zweiten Film Das 14. Ziel muss Conan das Geheimnis einer Anschlagserie klären, bevor s...

Martin Jarvis reads more of the classic schoolboy tales. 2 CDs, running time: 2 hrs 30 mins.

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Weshalb konnte ein radikaler Kritiker der Moderne und bekennender Platoniker wie der jüdische Emigrant Leo Strauss (1899-1973) einer der einflussreichsten Theoretiker in der amerikanischen Politikwissenschaft werden? Was hält sein aus verwickelten Interpretationen von Klassikern der politischen Philosophie bestehendes OEuvre zusammen? - Von diesen beiden Problemen ausgehend, entwickelt Harald Bluhm eine werkgeschichtliche Gesamtdeutung von Str...