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The Shape of Things Through Butterfly Wings is an illustrated, rhyming children's book. The book will capture a child's imagination, challenge a young person's vocabulary and introduce the child to basic geometric shapes. The use of bold primary colors and illustrations brings the story to life! The book was inspired by a butterfly that landed on the granddaughter's nose when she and the author were in the garden discovering the pretty spring ...

Patrik Ourednik's first novel to be translated into English is a unique version of the history of the twentieth century.

For anyone who has suffered from being overweight or has struggled with an eating disorder, the authors provide an original hunger-fullness plan, time-tested for over 25 years.

The authors of this well-written book provide a good overview of most of the issues they address, and their survey of different parallel programming languages and methodologies is quite impressive."--Suely Oliveira, University of Iowa"I have used a different text each time I have taught parallel computing, but felt that they missed important material that I wished to include. This book includes many topics not addressed in other parallel compu...

Inhaltsangabe:Zusammenfassung: Krisen und Kriege sind mediale Großereignisse, die in der Auslandsberichterstattung eine dominante Rolle spielen. Wie die daran beteiligten Politiker, Länder und Völker in der Weltöffentlichkeit wahrgenommen werden, hängt in großem Ausmaß von der medialen Darstellung ab, da persönliche Erfahrungen aufgrund der geographischen Distanz zum Geschehen meist nicht möglich sind. Vor allem in unserer modernen Kommunika...

Inhaltsangabe:Problemstellung: Während Thomas J. Watson, Chairman von IBM, 1943 einen Weltmarkt von fünf Computern annahm und Ken Olson, Vorstandsdirektor der Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 noch absolut keinen Grund für Privatpersonen sah, zuhause einen Computer zu haben, verwenden heute weltweit 801, 4 Millionen Menschen das Internet. Es erschließt diverse Möglichkeiten der Nutzung, wovon eine der wirtschaftlich interessantesten sicher der E-...

Inhaltsangabe:Zusammenfassung: Die Suche deutscher, expandierender Unternehmen nach Investoren macht eine internationale Ausrichtung notwendig. Der nationale Kapitalmarkt reicht nicht mehr aus. Dieses wird deutschen Unternehmen jedoch erschwert: HGB-Abschlüsse enthalten für potentielle Investoren des internationalen Kapitalmarktes keine entscheidungsrelevanten, international vergleichbaren Informationen. Die deutsche Rechnungslegung wird sta...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Die Ukraine, mit ihrer ausgeprägten Agrarstruktur und ihrer guten natürlichen und klimatischen Standortbedingungen, ist bekannt als ein bedeutender Produzent und Nettoexporteur landwirtschaftlicher Produkte wie Weizen, Gerste und Sonnenblumen. Seit der Neugründung der Ukraine 1991 hat die Landwirtschaft des Landes im Transformationsprozess einen teilweise enormen Produktionsrückgang, nicht nur in der Getreideprodukt...

The Right has been using the culture wars to divide and conquer for years, but in 2004, that strategy was given a new twist. In an election where women’s votes were key, the Bush team used highly placed female appointees to run cover for the most reactionary administration of our time. Flanders predicted gender would be crucial in the 2004 race. Her prescient book is the first to investigate the Bush administration’s estrogen shield. Bushwomen...

The U.S. Capitol, the building that houses the legislative branch of our government and a landmark that attracts 3-5 million visitors each year, has its origins in an architectural competition devised by George Washington. The winning design, submitted by William Thornton, combined "grandeur, simplicity, and convenience." Construction began in August 1793, but progress made during the following decade was less than satisfactory. English archit...

Revolutionary poetry by an exiled Iraqi woman. Winner of a 2004 PEN Translation Fund Award. "Yesterday I lost a country, " Dunya Mikhail writes in The War Works Hard, a revolutionary work by an exiled Iraqi poether first to appear in English. Amidst the ongoing atrocities in Iraq, here is an important new voice that rescues the human spirit from the ruins, unmasking the official glorification of war with telegraphic lexical austerity. Embracin...

Unformed Landscape begins in a small village on a fjord in the Finnmark, on the northeastern coast of Norway, where the borders between Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia lie covered in snow and darkness, where the real borders are between day and night, summer and winter, and between people. Here, a sensitive young woman like Kathrine finds few outlets for her desires. Half Norwegian, half Sami (an indigenous people), Kathrine works for the ...

Winner of the 2003 Gradiva Award and the 2003 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic Scholarship Arguing for the importance of attachment and emotionality in the developing human consciousness, four prominent analysts explore and refine the concepts of mentalization and affect regulation. Their bold, energetic, and encouraging vision for psychoanalytic treatment combines elements of developmental psychology, attachment theory, and psychoanalytic tech...