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Explaining the key teachings and historical development of Buddhism, this book contains chapters on Engaged Buddhism, Buddhist and War, Buddhism in the Western World and Meditation.

The Child as Social Person provides an integrated overview of the exciting field of developmental social psychology, and as such will be essential reading for advanced undergraduate students in psychology, education and social work.

Describes the origin, execution, and impact of urban repopulation strategies - initiatives designed to attract residents, businesses, jobs, shoppers, and visitors to places that had undergone decades of decline and abandonment.

This is a multidisciplinary perspective on dance scholarship and practice in India and its diaspora, outlining how dance histories have been written and rewritten, how aesthetic and pedagogical conventions have changed and are changing, and how politico-economic shifts shaped Indian dance's negotiation with modernity.

A work on the science and applications of gold. It offers information from a number of sciences, including chemistry, physics, nanotechnology and metallurgy. It presents a myriad of applications, ranging from electronics to medicine and optics.

Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and the A-Rational Mind provides a powerful re-appraisal of psychoanalysis and the role it can play in helping us understand human nature. It explores basic psychological phenomena- beliefs, desires, phantasies, wishes - examining a range of fascinating case histories, and explaining their significance.

Wie dienlich ist der Umgang mit Vergangenheit? Das Fach Geschichte ist mehr als andere Fächer der Frage ausgesetzt, ob es denn «nützlich» sei, zumal Geschichte doch vor allem Vergangenes betreffe. Was die Historikerinnen und Historiker sozusagen in «eigener Sache» zu diesem Thema meinen, ist eines. Etwas anderes ist, was aus der Sicht von Nachbardisziplinen dazu gesagt werden kann. Der Nutzen, ja die Notwendigkeit historischer Erinnerung ste...

Demokratische Lebensbedingungen sind nur möglich, wenn Menschen mit Hilfe von Erziehung und Bildung über die Fähigkeit verfügen, ihre gesellschaftlichen, sozialen und kulturellen Verhältnisse so zu gestalten, dass sie sich an den menschlichen Grundrechten orientieren. Erziehung und Bildung dürfen nicht auf die Maximierung von Leistungsfähigkeit, Demokratie und gesellschaftliches Zusammenleben nicht auf die bloße Befolgung von Gesetzen und Rege...

Denken und Rechnen - Lernsoftware 3Über eine kurze, motivierende Einstiegssituation gelangen die Kinder zu den mehr als 900 Aufgaben. Der enorme Aufgabenfundus gliedert sich in 17 verschiedene Übungsformate, die die Kinder durch das 3. Schuljahr begleiten.VERA-Aufgaben Hier können die Kinder Aufgaben kennnenlernen und lösen, die in ähnlicher Form in den Vergleichsarbeiten vorkommen.  Mit aussagekräftiger und detaillierter StatistikfunktionSofo...

Contents:About the Mass Media - Something for EveryoneNewspapers and Teenage Magazines - the Shocking TruthAdvertising - Buy One, Get One FreeComputers and the Internet - Whatever Next?Films and TV - Wide Screens for Narrow Minds?Steam Radio - Still a 'Hot' Medium?Yesterday's Tomorrows - Future Imperfect? (Inhaltsgleich mit "The Mass Media", Bestell-Nr. 040088,  ergänzt um 2 Kurzgeschichten von Ray Bradbury.)

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Earnings Management (EM) is a phrase often given to the accounting decisions (or practices) managers make that can affect the outcome of the "Bottom Line." Current definitions lend a negative connotation to the phrase and thus people think that all earnings management is wrong, but this book maintains that not all decisions are "bad." There are viable decisions managers can make that still help maintain a solid bottom line and are still ethica...

This volume contains the proceedings of the third international conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI 2009) which was held at the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India, during December 16-20, 2009. This was the third conference in the series. The first two conferences were held in December at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata in 2005 and 2007. PReMI has become a premier conference in India present...

America's first international air meet was held January 10-20, 1910, in Los Angeles on a mesa called Dominguez Hill, situated 13.5 miles south of the plaza at the pueblo of Los Angeles. Enthusiasm for aviation grew after the first international air meet in 1909 in Rheims, France, where American aviator Glenn H. Curtiss won three prestigious speed prizes and 36, 000 francs. An even more spectacular air meet, which would also invigorate the loca...

In 1889, Roswell patriarch Capt. Joseph C. Lea, Pat Garrett (the former sheriff who shot Billy the Kid), and land developer Charles B. Eddy ventured to the territorial council and house in Santa Fe to petition for the creation of two new counties from the massive Lincoln County in southeastern New Mexico. The request was granted and Chaves County officially came into being on February 25, 1889. Today, 120 years later, Chaves County still thriv...

Qualitative research synthesis provides a comprehensive glimpse of what individual qualitative studies show. The authors describe the process of data analysis, synthesis and interpretation that users may follow and adapt.

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This book is a critique of the rapidly changing nature of legal education in major Asian jurisdictions as diverse as Afghanistan, Australia, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam. It provides cross-country comparative material, including western legal education systems, and particularly detailed coverage of Japan.

Over the past three decades, the flexible intramedullary nailing (FIN) technique that originated in the University of Nancy in France has evolved to the point where it is becoming the gold standard for the treatment of many fractures in children. This comprehensive textbook on FIN is written by Pierre Lascombes and his colleagues from the University of Nancy and covers all its potential applications. The book is divided into three parts. The f...