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»Die sieben weisen Meister«, eine Erzählsammlung orientalischen Ursprungs, wurden in fast alle Literaturen Europas übersetzt. Im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert entstanden allein in deutscher Sprache vier Versionen mit vierzehn verschiedenen Fassungen. Die meisten sind Bearbeitungen oder Übersetzungen der vor 1342 entstandenen »Historia septem sapientum«. Die Rahmenerzählung von den sieben weisen Meistern umschließt hier fünfzehn argumentativ eingeset...

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Teachers are really performers, classrooms are stages, and students the captivated audience. In beautiful prose, Felman invites us to watch her one woman show on the art of performance in today's classrooms. These essays take on the greatest hits of the academy: identity politics, sexual harrassment, academic censorship, and radical pedagogy. Felman's book is a performance not to be missed.

By drawing upon sources as diverse as literature and archaeology, this book brings together a rich variety of scholarship to offer a new insight into the world of Edward the Elder, son and successor of King Alfred.

The rapidly evolving field of Palliative Care focuses on the management of phenomena that produce discomfort and that undermine the quality of life of patients with incurable medical disorders. The interdisciplinary clinical purview includes those factors - physical, psychological, social, andspiritual - that contribute to suffering, undermine the quality of life, and prevent a death with comfort and dignity. Palliative Care is a fundamental p...

For students who studied no geometry at school. This problem-based course starts with some history and moves on to constructions, plane geometry, circles and conics to end with an introduction to algebraic geometry

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In diesem Band wird vor dem Hintergrund der Prototypentheorie die Bedeutungsvielfalt des Verbs legen in der Gegenwartssprache untersucht. Auf der Basis eines umfangreichen Belegmaterials der geschriebenen Sprache werden die einzelnen Varianten von legen, die sich auf ein Geschehen im konkreten Raum beziehen, ermittelt und anhand zahlreicher Beispielsätze detailliert analysiert. Die systematischen Beziehungen zwischen den Verwendungsweisen werd...

Full colour introduction to Irish history for children aged 8-12.

This book offers wide-ranging insights into the organising capacities of workers in Asia today. Nine case-studies examine workers' responses to class relations through independent unions, non-government organisations (NGOs) and more (dis)organised struggles. Countering the notion that globalisation holds entirely negative consequences for labour organisation, the authors reveal some of the openings for local activism which can arise from trans...

This simple and manageable guide to user interface design is written for the professional in industry working on product development and the decision process. It is directed not only to the human factors specialists, but also to technicians, designers, marketing and product managers and students.The book presents guidelines for user interface design including a catalogue of input and output devices for electronic appliances, adding material on...

Centering on the theme of 'progressiveness', this powerful volume offers important new perspectives on the history, theory and practice of international law.

This book presents seven case studies in which digital human models were used to solve different types of physical problems associated with proposed human-machine interaction tasks. This book includes contributions from researchers at Ford, Boeing, DaimlerChrysler, General Motors, the U.S. Air Force, and others.

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1. This is an important new book by Pierre Bourdieu -- one of the leading social thinkers in the world today 2. It is the first book in which he has addressed questions of gender explicitly -- hence it will be of great interest 3.

Presents an introduction to automatic fire sprinkler design and layout, from design basics, code requirements, and pipe hanging to hydraulic calculations, retrofits, and details on fire pumps. This work outlines the designer's responsibilities. It features more than 150 sample diagrams, checklists, sample forms, spec sheets and photographs.

The ideal resource to stimulate your pupils' numerical thinking. A child-friendly textbook which reinforces fluency in number facts and provides problem-solving activities.

This collection of interdisciplinary essays presents internationally renowned designers, scientists, regulators, environmental and civil engineers and their research and project work on the integration of cleanup.

This collection addresses key questions in women's theatre history and retrieves a number of previously "hidden" histories of women performers. The essays range across the past 300 years--topics covered include Susanna Centlivre and the notion of intertheatricality, gender and theatrical space, the repositioning of women performers such as Wagner's Muse, Willhelmina Schroder-Devrient, the Comedie Francais' "Mademoiselle Mars, " Mme. Arnould-Pl...

This major new work from the well-known team of Heath, Jowell and Curtice explores the rise of New Labour from the ruins of old Labour's four successive defeats at the hands of the Conservatives. Based on the authoritative British Election Surveys, the book examines key questions about contemporary British elections and the social and political factors that decide their outcomes.