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Das gibt¿s doch nicht! Henry, Klavierschüler und stolzer Frettchen-Besitzer, kann es nicht fassen. Gerade hat ihm ein Kerl mit Schnurrbart einfach den Rucksack geklaut! Der Elfjährige verfolgt den Dieb zur LANXESS arena, wo an diesem Wochenende der jährliche Höhepunkt der Handball Champions League stattfindet. Bald wird klar: der Langfinger und ein zweiter Schurke planen im Finale des Turniers das größte Sport-Verbrechen aller Zeiten. Was gena...

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In 1933, driven by severe economic hardships caused by the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl, thousands of people take to the road to seek whatever work they can find. Three orphaned siblings--twelve-year-old Hallie Turner and her two brothers--find themselves swept up into a new migratory way of life. As the Turner children move from town to town, searching for work and trying to cobble together the basic necessities of life, they are met wi...

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Spacious Minds argues that resilience is not a mere absence of suffering. Sara E. Lewis's research reveals how those who cope most gracefully may indeed experience deep pain and loss. Looking at the Tibetan diaspora, she challenges perspectives that liken resilience to the hardiness of physical materials, suggesting people should "bounce back"...

Spacious Minds argues that resilience is not a mere absence of suffering. Sara E. Lewis's research reveals how those who cope most gracefully may indeed experience deep pain and loss. Looking at the Tibetan diaspora, she challenges perspectives that liken resilience to the hardiness of physical materials, suggesting people should "bounce back"...

The Supreme Court has unanimously held that Jackson Pollock's paintings, Arnold Schöenberg's music, and Lewis Carroll's poem "Jabberwocky” are "unquestionably shielded” by the First Amendment. Nonrepresentational art, instrumental music, and nonsense: all receive constitutional coverage under an amendment protecting "the freedom of speech, ” even though none involves what we typically think of as speech—the use of words to convey meaning. As...

An account of the IV SS-Panzerkorps, an SS corps that participated in many of the key battles fought on the Eastern Front during the last year of the war.

How do people improvise political communities in the face of state collapse-and at what cost? Street Sovereigns explores the risks and rewards taken by young men on the margins of urban Haiti who broker relations with politicians, state agents, and NGO workers in order secure representation, resources, and jobs for themselves and neighbors...

How do people improvise political communities in the face of state collapse-and at what cost? Street Sovereigns explores the risks and rewards taken by young men on the margins of urban Haiti who broker relations with politicians, state agents, and NGO workers in order secure representation, resources, and jobs for themselves and neighbors...

Alfarabi (ca. 870-950) founded the great tradition of Aristotelian/Platonic political philosophy in medieval Islamic and Arabic culture. In this second volume of political writings, Charles E. Butterworth presents translations of Alfarabi's Political Regime and Summary of Plato's "Laws, " accompanied by introductions that discuss the background...

The Sensible World and the World of Expression presents the lecture notes for a course taught by Maurice Marleau-Ponty, a central figure of phenomenological philosophy, at a key point in his career.

This collection of eleven philosophical essays addresses current trends in materialist philosophy dealing with subject-object relations, amounting to a polemical corrective that insists on the organizing role of the subject within materialist thought.

Sovereignty, by award-winning playwright and attorney Mary Kathryn Nagle, is a historical and legal drama set over the rights of Native Americans to prosecute crimes committed by non-natives on their land, interwoven with historical episodes from nineteenth-century Cherokee history"--

An empty nest does not have to be an empty life. Judy Holland shows you how to get back in touch with yourself, your partner, your life, AND your kids when the house is less-populated. The transition to the empty nest creates a void that can catapult you into existential crisis. Your zeal for climbing the career ladder, striving for social status, and collecting material things starts to subside, as is common in middle age. Friends and relativ...

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C-SPAN is the network of record for US political affairs, broadcasting live gavel-to-gavel proceedings of the House of Representatives and the Senate, and to other forums where public policy is discussed, debated, and decided--without editing, commentary, or analysis and with a balanced presentation of points of view. The C-SPAN Archives, located adjacent to Purdue University, is the home of the online C-SPAN Video Library. The Archives has re...

A Grammar of Southern Pomo is the first comprehensive description of the Southern Pomo language, one of seven Pomoan languages once spoken in the vicinity of Clear Lake and the Russian River drainage of California.