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It's good to take stockfrom time to time but at forty or fifty-something you can find that you're dissatisfied and bored. The temptation is to take a wrecking ball to your life but that risks alienating your partner and your children - without necessarily ending up any happier. Just gritting your teeth, doesn't work either - anyway, you've already tried that! Fortunately, there's another way to become fulfilled and lead the life that's right f...

Victorian Shakespeare (Volume 1): Theatre, Drama, Performance ranges widely across the variety of Victorian theatrical spaces and forms in examining the ways in which the production of Shakespeare fundamentally informs the changing nature and status of the Victorian theatre. It considers the performance spaces of the legitimate theatre, but also looks at burlesques and parodies, the cultural and political spaces of the 1832 Select Committee on...

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This 1980 second edition of a 1965 original offers a thorough appraisal of the field of mammal physiology.

The lives of three generations of women intertwine in the Scottish stone cottage of Agatha, a spinster aunt with more than a helping of spunk. For Agatha's niece Margaret, born in the States but with her own secret connection to the cottage, packing her resentful daughter Hope off to Scotland the summer after her parents have split seems like the cleanest solution to the kind of messy emotions Margaret hates. Margaret spends her summer finding...

Contributed by leading authorities in the field from around the world, this text provides a comprehensive insight into buckling and postbuckling. Basic theory, methods of buckling analysis and their application, the effect of external variables such as temperature and humidity on the buckling response and buckling tests are all covered.

The Eleventh American Peptide Symposium was held on the San Diego campus of the University of California in picturesque La Jolla on July 9-14, 1989. More than 1100 participants from around the world came to attend a scientific program comprised of an assortment of oral presentations, posters and exhibits. Most rewarding to us was the regular attendance at all the scientific sessions by our registered guests despite the beautiful scenery offere...

How do we stand in relation to everything that comes down to us from the past? Is the very idea of tradition still useful in the wake of historical ruptures, such as the Holocaust, changes in the canon, and the end of colonialism? Drawing on a wide range of philosophers and literary theorists, these thirteen essays examine the response and resistance to religious, cultural, and literary tradition by various American, English, German, and Afric...

Environmental protest -- its causes and consequences -- and the challenges of organizing to confront government and big business are the focus of this book, which brings to life the grassroots activism of southern Appalachia's rural citizens in the face of environmental threats to their communities. One of the first books to examine environmental activism case studies in the South, this insider's view is both academically rigorous and highly p...

Third World War examines the patterns of political violence throughout the world during the Cold War and analyzes them collectively as conflict processes within the global system. It shows that warfare was not randomly distributed, but was centered on six protracted conflict regions that together accounted for 80 to 90 percent of all forms of political violence during that time--a magnitude of violence that rivals the destruction of the previo...

Guides performers in singing clearly without the use of regional accents and incorrect pronunciations.

Three family stories are interlinked in this drama.

A practical guide to love-making and creating a healthy relationship

Updated 10th anniversary of this guide to falling back in love.

How to have a healthy sense of self-esteem and develop a positive outlook on life

FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Marriage & Long-Term Relationships

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Die Cunninghams sind zurück! Die 1974 in den USA produzierte Familienserie wurde in Deutschland zum ersten Mal 1985 ausgestrahlt rund 30 Jahre nachdem die erfolgreiche Reihe spielt, in der Ära des RocknRoll. Im Mittelpunkt der amüsanten TV-Sitcom stehen die Teenager Richie Cunningham (Ron Howard), "Potsie" Weber (Anson Williams), Ralph Malph (Donny Most) und "Fonzie" (Henry Winkler) ein Quartett, das ebenso humorvoll wie eingeschworen ist. Ri...

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We operate in a complex and dynamic security environment. Planning assumptions that held for decades are no longer relevant, assumptions that are relevant today may not be next year. Asymmetric threats are exploding, and the level of complexity and the challenges that we face will only continue to grow. The United States simply cannot meet every challenge unilaterally. Resources are only part of the problem. Even if we had unlimited resources,...