Why is Jeffery so bored with Sunday school? Jeffery just can't understand why his parents make him go every single week! It's the same old stories and the same old songs, and Jeffery just doesn't have the "joy joy joy joy" down in his heart! Jeffery discovers his Grandfather's Journal. Jeffery finds out that his Grandfather didn't like Sunday school either. Something happened to change Grandpa's mind! What was it? What was it that let Grandpa ...
Das Lehrbuch "Brazilian Conga" bietet sowohl bekannte als auch neue Welten für den Liebhaber eines fantastischen Instruments: der brasilianischen Atabaque mit ihren auf Conga angepassten Rhythmen. Die "alten Bekannten" sind die typischen brasilianischen Grundrhythmen für 1 Conga oder Timbau (Samba de Caboclo, Barravento, Ijexá oder Congo). Relativ unbekannt dagegen sind die Rhythmen für 2 oder 3 Congas, brasilianische Rhythmen, die ursprünglic...
III European Conference on Computational Mechanics: Solids, Structures and Coupled Problem in Engineering Computational Mechanics in Solid, Structures and Coupled Problems in Engineering is today a mature science with applications to major industrial projects. This book contains the edited version of the Abstracts of Plenary and Keynote Lectures and Papers, and a companion CD-ROM with the full-length papers, presented at the III European Confe...
Community Destination Management in Developing Economies is a user-friendly guide that provides a comprehensive view of the issues facing planners, policymakers, and destination managers who attempt to ensure a sustainable future for community destinations in developing economies. Travel and tourism experts from a wide range of disciplines discuss illustrative case studies and effective practical approaches for various facets of destination ma...
To be unforgiving is harmful. The inability to come to terms with one's anger often can lead to stress disorders, mental health disorders, and relationship problems. This book focuses on individual experiences with forgiveness, aiming to create a theory of what forgiveness is and connect it to a clinical theory of how to promote forgiveness.
As external forces increase the demand for land conversion, communities are increasingly open to policies that encourage conservation of farm and forest lands. This title explores the causes and consequences of rapidly accelerating land conversions in urban-fringe areas, as well as implications for effective policy responses.
For over twenty years the politics of Islamic activists have broadly been explained and understood in the West as a threat to all that is most valued in modern political discourse. Salwa Ismail now proposes a whole new way of examining the political culture of the world of Islamism. She revisits the main arguments and explanations that have been used over the past twenty years to understand Islamist activism, moderate as well as militant, and ...
This source is an excellent introduction for the medical student, intern, resident, and private practitioner trying to learn a new Ob/Gyn procedure. The sections on important procedures teach how to perform the surgery and how it needs to be transcribed for the medical record. This revised, up-to-date guide will be essential for Ob/Gyn surgeons for performing common, uncommon, and new surgical procedures.
More people than ever now make leisure trips, making this an era of mass tourism. The scale of this phenomenon means that it is able to generate economic growth, making tourism a key factor in regional development policy. Bringing together a range of European case studies illustrating various ICT and policy innovations, this book examines the interconnections between tourism, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and regional develo...
Intended for those who uses the International Building Code[registered], this title enables readers to identify the significant changes that occurred between the 2003 and 2006 editions, and provides an analysis of the effect each change has had on the code's application.
Das Fernsehen gilt seit jeher als Hort der Lüge und der Manipulation, als Brutstätte von Tabubrüchen und Normverstößen.
Zu Fernsehskandalen werden diese Tabubrüche, wenn ihre Anstößigkeit untrennbar mit dem Medium verbunden ist, in dem sie sich ereignen. Als solche haben sie eine wichtige Funktion: Sie geben Aufschluss über den moralischen Haushalt einer Gesellschaft, sind Trendsetter gesellschaftlichen Wandels und sorgen dafür, dass das Ferns...
Reliable human authentication schemes are of paramount importance in our highly networked society. Advances in the field of biometrics help address the myriad of problems associated with traditional human recognition methods. The performance and benefits of a biometric system can be significantly enhanced by consolidating the evidence presented by multiple biometric sources. Multibiometric systems are expected to meet the stringent performanc...
Beginning students of quantum mechanics frequently experience difficulties separating essential underlying principles from the specific examples to which these principles have been historically applied. Nobel-Prize-winner Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and his colleagues have written this book to eliminate precisely these difficulties. Fourteen chapters provide a clarity of organization, careful attention to pedagogical details, and a wealth of topics...