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Ein großer Entwicklungsroman zwischen alter und neuer Welt Chad soll endlich zurück nach Hause kommen. Doch als Lambert ihn heimbringen will nach Massachusetts, ist Paris nicht der Sündenpfuhl, den die Amerikaner sich vorstellen, sondern die grandiose Stadt der Belle Époque. Und die zauberhafte Madame de Vionnet, deren Händen er Chad entreißen soll, hat den Durchschnittsamerikaner längst in einen kultivierten Europäer verwandelt. Lambert sieh...

Der lang verschollene letzte Roman der NobelpreisträgerinDass Rann Colfax etwas Besonderes ist, merken seine Eltern schon kurz nach seiner Geburt: Er ist hochbegabt - und wächst deshalb ohne Freunde auf. Sein Vater beschließt, mit Rann um die Welt zu reisen, damit er neue Eindrücke gewinnt und seinen Horizont erweitern kann. Doch noch bevor die Reise stattfindet, stirbt der Vater ? und Rann muss sich allein aufmachen in die weite Welt, wo er d...

Where do you fall on your organization's performance spectrum? Unstoppable is performance-enhancing manual for those who are ready to change the world. Regardless of talent or skill set, there are four types of people in every organization: Undertakers, Caretakers, Play Makers, and Game Changers--but value is definitely not equal across the board. Game changers move things forward with relentless energy, effort, attitude, and excellence. They...

The stories in this book will convince you that your organization has the potential to become the Nordstrom of your industry." -HOWARD BEHAR, Retired President, Starbucks Coffee North America & Starbucks Coffee International THE NORDSTROM WAY "Culture and values drive Nordstrom's legendary customer experience. Spector and Reeves show how Nordstrom does it-and how your organization can do it, too." -SHEP HYKEN, customer service expert and New...

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The book is divided into five parts: (1) Emotions, Imagination, and Physiology of Relationships, (2) Bases of Relational Scripts, (3) Relational Escalation and Deescalation, (4) Relationship Scripts in Context, and (5) Cautions and Recommendations. The authors discuss the basis of relationship scripts, emotions, imagery, and physiology of relationships including romance, friendship, work associates, mentors, and Facebook friends. They argue th...

Passive House is a leading low energy building standard. An important tool for designing Passive House buildings is the Passive House Planning Package (PHPP). This fully revised edition, supported by the International Passivhaus Institute, is a very visual, easy-to-use manual for the PHPP, and sets out clear steps to inputting and understanding a building in PHPP. This book is an essential guide for designers and students wanting to utilise th...

Es gibt Worte, die berühren, die sich an dich schmiegen, dir sagen: Das alles bin ich nur für dich. Du solltest ihnen Glauben schenken".Rea Revekka Poulharidous Gedichte sind Inseln der Stille. Sie erzählen von der Liebe, den Sehnsüchten und den Träumen des Lebens.

This book presents a state-of-the-art analysis of energy efficiency as applied to mining processes. From ground fragmentation to mineral processing and extractive metallurgy, experts discuss the current state of knowledge and the nagging questions that call for further research. It offers an excellent resource for all mine managers and engineers who want to improve energy efficiency to boost both production efficiency and sustainability. It wi...

This book addresses the role of social capital in promoting rural and local development. The recent financial and economic crises have exposed the European Union (EU) to an increased risk of social exclusion and poverty, which are now at the heart of its economic, employment and social agenda with explicit reference to rural and marginal areas (Europe 2020). The authors' work from the notion that rural development is not imposed from the ‘outs...

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How do we contribute to the decolonisation of Palestine? In what ways can we divest from settler arrangements in the present-day? Exploring the Zionist takeover of Palestine as a settler colonial case, this book argues that in studying the elimination of native life in Palestine, the loss of Arab-Jewish shared life cannot be ignored. Muslims, Christians, and Jews, shared a life in Ottoman Palestine and in a different way during British rule. T...

Originally published in 1939, Aime Cesaire's Cahier d'un Retour au Pays Natal is a landmark of modern French poetry and a founding text of the Negritude movement. This bilingual edition features a new authoritative translation, revised introduction, and extensive commentary, making it a magisterial edition of Cesaire's surrealist masterpiece.

Aimé Césaire (1913–2008) was a Martinican poet, critic, essayist, playwright, and statesman, a founder of the Négritude movement, and one of the most influential Francophone Caribbean intellectuals of the twentieth century. N. Gregson Davis is Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Research Professor in the Humanities at Duke University. F.¿Abiola Irele (1936–2017) was Associate of the Hutchins Center at Harvard University and had previously¿taught at...

Helps both engineers and students improve their writing skills by learning to analyze target audience, tone, and purpose in order to effectively write technical documents This book introduces students and practicing engineers to all the components of writing in the workplace. It teaches readers how considerations of audience and purpose govern the structure of their documents within particular work settings. The IEEE Guide to Writing in the E...

A THOROUGH, PRACTICAL, REAL-WORLD INTRODUCTION TO THE CRITICAL SKILLS OF ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING The Professional Practice of Architectural Working Drawings presents a comprehensive, highly visual introduction to the "second language" of architecture. This new fifth edition has been updated to reflect the latest BIM technology and workflows, and includes an expanded discussion of dimensioning and layering systems that align with the latest AIA ...

This book examines the cultural work of space and memory in Canada and Canadian literature, and encourages readers to investigate Canada within its regional, national, and global contexts. It features seven chapters in English and five in French, with a bilingual introduction. The contributors invite us to recognize local intersections that are so easily overlooked, yet are so important. They reveal the unities and fractures in national unders...

This volume provides the first survey of the unexplored connections between Machiavelli’s work and the Islamic world, running from the Arabic roots of The Prince to its first translations into Ottoman Turkish and Arabic. It investigates comparative descriptions of non-European peoples, Renaissance representations of Muḥammad and the Ottoman military discipline, a Jesuit treatise in Persian for a Mughal emperor, peculiar readers from Brazil to ...

This text reflects how the learning health system infrastructure is maturing and being advanced by health information exchanges (HIEs) with multiple organizations blending their data or enabling distributed computing.  It educates the readers on the evolution of knowledge discovery methods that span qualitative as well as quantitative data mining, including the expanse of data visualization capacities, are enabling sophisticated discovery. His...

Ultimate coverage and hands-on practice for the second MCSA Windows Server 2016 exam MCSA Windows Server 2016 Study Guide: Exam 70-741 offers complete preparation for the second exam in the MCSA series.