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After surviving a major accident, a man is trapped in a village buried in the snow and cut off from the world by a nationwide power failure. He is entrusted to Matthias, a taciturn old man who agrees to heal his wounds in exchange for wood, food, and eventual escape from the village. Will they manage to stand up against external threats and intimate pitfalls?

Iola Boggs escapes a small-minded village and is proud that she becomes a non-combat pilot during World War II. Iola meets Jim Lewis, who never served in the war but contributed in his own way to the war effort. They marry in post-war Philadelphia and raise a family against the backdrop of the paranoid era of Joseph McCarthy. Their differences plus a need for fulfillment propels them away from each other. Illicit liaisons and grief bring them ...

Emily Harris finds out there's a fine line between the present and the past, and there is an equally fine line that separates people in the world. She's recently divorced and over the objections of her estranged mother Elaine, Emily decides to renews her relationship with her exotic grandmother Eleanor. Her elegant and proper grandmother has a passion she wishes to imbue in Emily-but Eleanor dies before the mystery is revealed in full. She lea...

Medical & Health Care Books & Serials in Print provides immediate access to the highly specialized publishing activity in the health sciences and allied health fields.

For over 20 years, this comprehensive, up-to-date directory has offered direct access to the Who, What, When & Where of the Sports Industry. With over 20, 000 updates and enhancements, Sports Market Place Directory is the most detailed, comprehensive and current sports business reference source available.

The New York State Directory, published annually since 1983, is a comprehensive and easy-to-use guide to accessing public officials and private sector organizations and individuals who influence public policy in the state of New York. Profiles of New York goes beyond Census statistics, beyond metro area coverage, beyond the 100 best places to live. Drawn from official census information, other government statistics and original research, you w...

A comprehensive and easy-to-use guide to accessing public officials and private sector organizations and individuals who influence public policy in the state of New York.

The SAGE Guide to Writing in Criminal Justice equips you with transferable writing skills that can be applied across the field of criminal justice--both academically and professionally. Authors Steven Hougland and Jennifer M. Allen interweave professional and applied writing, academic writing, and information literacy, with the result being a stronger, more confident report writer and student in criminal justice. You are also exposed to a numb...

The central part of this book is an English version of the memoir of Masahiko Aoki that was published in Japanese in 2008 (青木昌彦『私の履歴書 人生越境ゲーム』日本経済新聞出版社). In this memoir, Aoki goes over his life as a young boy immediately after World War II, as an activist who opposed the rearmament of Japan under the US-Japan Security Alliance, as a student of Marxist economics first and then modern mathematical economics, as a graduate student at Minnesota, a...

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to various types of perinatal stem cells. Given their unique regenerative abilities, stem cells offer a promising avenue in the treatment of degenerative diseases or injury. Currently, the limitations of postnatal cell sources and expanding efficiency may limit autologous stem cell therapies. Although embryonic stem cells (ESCs) and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) can be cultured indefini...

Der Fremd- und Zweitsprachenunterricht ist seit langem von einer eklektischen methodischen Vielfalt geprägt, deren theoretische Fundierung oft unklar oder gar zweifelhaft ist. Viele Verfahren sind vor allem durch wohlklingende Begriffe, Medieneuphorie und zyklische Scheininnovationen geprägt. In diesem Wirrwarr will der Band Orientierung bieten, die in theoretischen Konzepten verankert ist, dabei aber gleichzeitig auf eine reflektierte Unterri...

“This volume demands that we reckon with how obesity and its representational lives have become intensely politicized. Warin and Zivkovic skillfully balance nuance and broad relevance to shed light on the often-harmful effects of anti-obesity interventions. Their deeply reflexive examination of the social effects of good-intentions holds important lessons for policy makers and ethnographers alike. This is a sophisticated book that changes how ...

Come share a peice of me. My poetry book is an expression of who I was, that made me who I am. I was 8 years old when I started writing. And I finished my book when I was 13. I was no average kid I went through a lot. My dad took me to spread love and spoken word on Wednesdays at the Ladera Center Starbucks. It opened my eyes to what poetry was. There where so many different types of poetry from sonnets to ballads and back to spoken word poetr...

UNIQUE STUDY: This is the first book on an important part of the west coast's cultural fabric, the Cantonese Opera. The Chinese-American community will be proud to see such a beautiful treatment of this important legacy. THEATRE INTEREST: The book will have cross-over interest for those involved in the performing arts and fashion design. STRONG NARRATIVE: Beautifully written by April Liu -- she brings the players and the history to life in a w...

Evaluation ist ein immer wichtiger werdendes Instrument für Kulturinstitutionen. Jedoch wird dies noch immer in vielen Fällen missverstanden, falsch genutzt oder eingesetzt, vielleicht sogar gefürchtet. Das vorliegende Buch will Kulturschaffenden und Institutionen diese Bedenken nehmen und durch nationale und internationale Beispiele aufzeigen, welches Potential in Evaluationen liegen kann. Wie Evaluation auf kulturpolitischer Ebene eingesetzt...

Mary Quant is a fashion icon. The first focussed study of her career, this book shows how she revolutionised fashion, harnessing youth, streetstyle and mass production to create a new look for everyone.

Beginning with opium, the "joy plant, " which has been used for 10, 000 years, Hager's subjects include the largely forgotten female pioneer who introduced smallpox inoculation to Britain, the infamous knockout drops, the first antibiotic, which saved countless lives, the first antipsychotic, which helped empty public mental hospitals, Viagra, statins, and the new frontier of monoclonal antibodies.

It is my role to announce the times and to aid those of you interested, willing to listen and to seek it out for yourself that this is the era which all of the prophets and apostles wrote about. We are to recognize the signs and the seasons, called to serve one another in bringing forth the grand awakening as most will be swept away in the strong delusion. We are here for a higher purpose, there is reason unknown to most to the meaning of life...

This richly illustrated book written by Professor Kai Peter Birke and several co-authors addresses both scientific and engineering aspects of modern batteries in a unique way. Emphasizing the engineering part of batteries, the book acts as a compass towards next generation batteries for automotive and stationary applications. The book provides distinguished answers to still open questions on how future batteries look like.Modern Battery Engine...

As one of the typical intermolecular interactions, hydrogen-bonding plays a significant role in molecular structure and function. When the hydrogen bond research system is connected with the photon, the hydrogen-bonding effect turns to an excited-state one influencing photochemistry, photobiology, and photophysics. Thus, the hydrogen bond in an excited state is a key topic for understanding the excited-state properties, especially for optoelec...