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A first edition, Scenic Driving Atlantic Canada features nearly thirty separate drives through the beautiful Canadian coastline, from Nova Scotia up to Newfoundland. An indispensable highway companion, Scenic Driving Atlantic Canada includes route maps and in-depth descriptions of attractions.

Elaborating on the Weberian method, Milan Zafirovski reveals that Calvinism's influence on America stretches far beyond free market capitalism

This book seeks to provide the first serious and detailed narrative of the conception and implementation of the sex offender registers. It seeks to do so in a clear and easy to follow text that will be both informed and critical. It will also serve as a resource book for those wanting to make further study of the process of registration and monitoring.

Before his death a few years ago, Kirti Tsenshap Rinpoche was a renowned teacher of Tibetan Buddhism who traveled widely. Revered as a teacher by even the Dalai Lama, he was known especially as a master of Buddhist tantra, and the teachings in this book are a singular record of his deep learning in that field. Originally delivered in California to a group of Western students, these teachings comment on a 19th-century introduction to tantra by ...

Immer mehr junge Unternehmen entscheiden sich für die Aufnahme internationaler Aktivitäten. Auf der Basis einer empirischen Untersuchung, die bei neu gegründeten Unternehmen durchgeführt wurde, analysiert Tina Gruber-Mücke, welche Auswirkungen die Kompetenzen der Unternehmerperson auf den Internationalisierungsprozess junger Unternehmen haben. Darüber hinaus setzt sich die Autorin mit Akzeptanzbarrieren im Netzwerk der Unternehmerperson ausein...

This book integrates the fundamentals of monetary theory, monetary policy theory and financial market theory, providing an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the many-sided interrelations between these fields of research. It provides the reader with the intellectual groundwork indispensable for understanding the workings and interactions of today’s globalised financial markets. The topics addressed in this book include, inter alia, a...

Dean Koontz's hit series returns! Detectives O'Conner and Maddison delve deeper into the mysterious life of Victor Helios, trying to uncover his ultimate goal, while members of Victor's "New Race" begin to show they are not as perfect as he assumed. Randall Six continues his quest to escape from Hands of Mercy, as Officer Harker descends further into madness. And Erika Helios discovers some of her husbands' unfinished creations. Mysteries are ...

Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman. Among the poems in the collection are "Song of Myself, " "I Sing the Body Electric, " and in later editions, Whitman's elegy to the assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd." Whitman spent his entire life writing Leaves of Grass, revising it in several editions until his death.

Immer wieder wird in der Forschungsliteratur die Bedeutung von finanziellen Ressourcen im Rahmen der Familiengründung thematisiert und dabei aufgezeigt, dass die finanzielle Sicherheit ein bedeutender Schlüssel zum Verständnis der seit Jahren in Deutschland im Trend abnehmenden Geburtenrate ist.Doch in wieweit sind die finanziellen Mittel wirklich dafür verantwortlich wann eine Elternschaft angestrebt wird? Und welche Bedeutung nehmen sie bere...

A haunting, literary thriller, "The Twisted Thread" takes readers inside the world of boarding schools and the privileges and hierarchies they enshrine, examining in particular the way in which these schools operate according to truly separate moral and legal codes.

A stranger takes over a role in a play, leaving the rest of the cast to ponder his motives.

For fans of Pseudonymous Bosch, Coraline, and Septimus Heap comes the first book in the award-winning, New York Times bestselling Books of Elsewhere series.This house is keeping secrets . . .When eleven-year-old Olive and her parents move into the crumbling mansion on Linden Street and find it filled with mysterious paintings, Olive knows the place is creepy—but it isn't until she encounters its three talking cats that she realizes there's som...

By examining the parallel worlds of media and public opinion, Power of Scandal uses an alternative heuristic for understanding mass communication that is both rigorous and sophisticated.

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Recent works from the Cuban American playwright.

A riveting narrative account of a brilliant, rebel scientist and his notorious lab as they unlock the mystery of memory. For decades Gary Lynch sought to uncover what physically happens in the brain when we form a memory. Luckily award-winning journalist Terry McDermott was with Lynch in his lab as his staff worked tirelessly to achieve this groundbreaking scientific discovery. Here with the verve of a novelist, McDermott introduces the cutti...

A New York Review Books OriginalDuring the eighteenth century, from the death of Louis XIV until the Revolution, French culture set the standard for all of Europe. In Sweden, Austria, Italy, Spain, England, Russia, and Germany, among kings and queens, diplomats, military leaders, writers, aristocrats, and artists, French was the universal language of politics and intellectual life. In When the World Spoke French, Marc Fumaroli presents a galle...

Award-winning novelist Steve Stern's exhilarating epic recounts the story of how a nineteenth-century rabbi from a small Polish town ends up in a basement freezer in a suburban Memphis home at the end of the twentieth century. What happens when an impressionable teenage boy inadvertently thaws out the ancient man and brings him back to life is nothing short of miraculous.

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When a scarab belonging to an American millionaire is absent-mindedly stolen by Lord Emsworth, young writers Ashe Marson and Joan Valentine are brought together in an attempt to retrieve it from Blandings Castle.