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In this highly original work, Catherine Wendy Bracewell reconstructs and analyzes the tumultuous history of the uskoks of Senj, the martial bands who operated on the Habsburg Military Frontier in Croatia between the 1530s and the 1620s.

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Mit diesem Werk liegt endlich ein Handbuch vor, das unverzichtbar ist für alle, die ein Schul- oder Jugendorchester gründen, pflegen und erhalten wollen. Alle täglich entstehenden Probleme, vom Aufbau des Orchesters bis zur Literaturauswahl, sind ausführlich besprochen, Lösungsvorschläge werden angeboten.

In spite if its astonishing impact upon the modern world, the civilization of Islam is still Terra Incognita for many in the West. The thirteen contributors to this volume, all eminent specialists, aim to remedy that situation. Islam itself, and the peoples who accepted it, come first in the story.

Die vorliegende Arbeit entstand wihrend meiner Tiitigkeit als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Fraunhofer-Institut flir Produktionstechnik und Automatisierung (IPA), Stuttgart. Die Untersuchungen wurden anteilig mit Mitteln des Bundes­ ministeriums flir Forschung und Technologie (BMFT), Projekttriigerschaft "Halb­ leiterfertigungsgerlite" gefOrdert. Mein besonderer Dank gilt dem Leiter des Instituts, Herrn Professor Dr. -Ing. H. -J. Warnecke,...

Innerhalb und auBerhalb der Unternehrnen vollzieht sich derzeit ein technologischer, wirtschaftlicher und personeller Wandel, der die betrieblichen Rahmenbedingungen maBgeblich verandert. Diesen neuen Anforderungen sind konventionelle Produktionskonzepte nur bedingt gewachsen, wie iiber­ hohte Umlaufbestande, fehlende Lieferbereitschaft und der zunehmende Anteil von Mitarbeitern in den indirekten Bereichen der Unternehmen zeigen. Verantwortlic...

This monograph challenges the belief that US democracy is incompatible with effective foreign policy. The author argues that any problems are rooted in the incentives of professional statesmen rather than in the impulses which drive the public and its legislative representatives.

This collection offers an introduction to the figurational sociology of sport and leisure. The distinctive features of the approach are clearly explained and contributors show how figurational sociology is applied in the analysis of concrete problems.

Few English monarchs have a worse reputation than Mary Tudor. She has been seen both as a religious fanatic who tried against the will of her people to reverse the course of the Reformation and as the pawn of her husband, Philip II of Spain - her infatuation with whom led her to betray England's vital interests. How this pious, and by contemporary accounts, gentle woman aroused an antipathy that survives until the present is a central question...

Taking into account recent developments in historical and ecological criticism, and incorporating fresh research into poetry and politics in the 1790s, the second edition of The Politics of Nature enlarges and updates Nicholas Roe's acclaimed study of Romanticism. Hitherto marginal figures are restored to prominence, and there is new material on William Wordsworth's radical years. The book includes the full text of John Thelwall's Essay on Ani...

Blending cultural studies and political analysis, this interdisciplinary text both illuminates and moves forward debates over 'race' and its meanings in contemporary society and in educational and social policy.

Enriching...A well-written, absorbing depiction of a fascinating school."THE BOSTON GLOBEIn 1985, Ari L. Gldman took a year's leave from his job as a religion reporter for THE NEW YORK TIMES and enrolled in the Harvard Divnity School. What began as a project to deepen his knowledge of world religion became an extraordinary journey of spiritual illumination. Written with warmth, humor, and penetrating clarity, Goldman describes his extraordinar...

Take a discarded walnut shell and make a boat. Create a balloon barometer. Go on a backyard scavenger hunt. Test common foods for starch or vitamin C. Sew a mini-backpack. Make a safe and easy costume for Halloween or the school play. All of these ideas and more are featured in Child's Play 6 -- 12, a wonderful collection of quick and easy-to-make projects, activities, and games for those not-so-easy-to-please grade schoolers whose frantic cri...