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Here is the definitive biography of America's most engaging, most controversial hero, General George S. Patton. Blumenson is also the author of The Patton Papers.

In the tradition of the perennial bestseller How to Survive the Loss of Love, this guide offers frank and compassionate help to those who may need support in dealing with a parent's death. Based on the real-life experiences of participants in her extremely popular workshops, Akner has distilled rich, healing guidance as tangible help for adult readers.

This volume is a compendium of the lectures, presentations, and workshops of the International Congress entitled "Facing the Pancreatic Dilemma" and of the 17th Meeting of the Italian Association for the Study of the Pancreas, held in Verona on 16 -19 June 1993. Pancreatology is still a relatively young science. Many pathophysiological aspects of pancreatic disease are as yet obscure, and a fair number of the etio­ pathogenetic mechanisms addu...

Who was John? What was his world? What was his purpose in writing? In this brief but helpful survey of the background, purpose, plan, and teaching of the Johannine literature, E. Earle Ellis guides the reader to a better understanding and a fuller appreciation of the Gospel and the Epistles of John. Ellis shows that John was a "theologican in his own right with roots in primitive Christianity as deep as Paul's." He sees John as an "inspired in...

This new book catalogues some 215 prominent film directors from both countries, giving accurate bio-filmographies and providing an in-depth reference source.

Over the last several decades, many biologists have been intrigued with the "immunological paradox" of pregnancy, where maternal and fetal tissues peaceably coexist despite their genetic differences. With the development of new insights on the interactive components of the immune system as well as the generation of powerful new molecular and cellular tools, singular progress has been made in understanding immunological events that culminate in...

Whenever the integrity of the skin is impaired, via trauma or surgical incision, wounds und wound healing are the natural consequences. Thus, every physician should be interested in the biological processes involved in wound healing. The physician does not usually interfere with these natural processes, knowing that the body heals itself (natura sanat). It is not until the natural wound healing process is disturbed, that we realize how little ...

In Mapping Our Selves Helen Buss considers a broad range of autobiographical works written by Canadian women, including memoirs, journals, and conventional autobiography as well as experiments in blending a number of writing genres. She constructs her own "mapping" theory of how female identity is formed in order to illustrate how identity can be understood through the relationship between writer, text, and reader.

Die Einbindung der Entwicklung von Software stellt eine neue Herausforderung im industriellen Innovationsmanagement dar. Roman Bauer stellt ein empirisch basiertes Konzept zur Beherrschung von Software-Entwicklungsprozeß und Schnittstellenkomplexität vor.

Birgit Schwartz untersucht, inwieweit durch Parallelverarbeitung die für die Lösung betriebswirtschaftlicher Entscheidungsprobleme notwendigen Geschwindigkeitssteigerungen zu erzielen sind. Konkret wird die Produktionsplanung untersucht.

Wegen des Stellenwertes der Personalentwicklung für die Arbeitsplatzsicherheit und die Karrierechancen der Arbeitnehmer werden sich auch die Betriebsräte zunehmend auf das betriebspolitische Terrain "Personalentwicklung" begeben müssen.

Konrad Zerr vermittelt das für ein erfolgreiches Systemmarketing notwendige Marketingwissen, leitet praxisrelevante Handlungsempfehlungen ab und diskutiert Gestaltungsalternativen.

Die Frage nach der richtigen Gestaltung der Kommunikation zwischen Banken und der kritischen Öffentlichkeit ist derzeit hochaktuell. Dieses Buch zeigt Strategien und Wege für eine gesellschaftsbezogene Öffentlichkeitsarbeit.

Bernhard Hock stellt die wesentlichen Problemkreise und Besteuerungskonflikte auf nationaler Ebene und im Kontext der bestehenden Doppelbesteuerungsabkommen dar und analysiert ihre Ursachen.

Comprehensive, detailed, and organized for speedy reference- everything you need to know about modern manufacturing technology... From concurrent engineering to fixture design for machining systems, from robotics and artificial intelligence to facility layout planning and automated CAD-based inspection, this handbook provides all the information you need to design, plan, and implement a modern, efficient manufacturing system tailored to your c...

Für jeden Projektabschnitt wird ein Methodenrepertoire vorgeschlagen, das für die Identifikation, Bewertung, Gestaltung und Überwachung von Projektrisiken Anwendung finden kann.

The essays in this volume take up the challenge of working out -- or reworking -- the problematics of the borders, the boundaries and the frameworks that structure our various and multiple notions of identity -- textual, personal, collective, generic, and disciplinary. The contributors to this volume write about subjects (and are often themselves subjects) who refuse to occupy a single territory -- who cross geographical, cultural, national, l...

Set in thirteenth-century Norway, a land racked by political turmoil and bloody family vendettas, The Axe is the first volume in Sigrid Undset's epic tetralogy, The Master of Hestviken. In it we meet Olav Audunsson and Ingunn Steinfinnsdatter, who were betrothed as children and raised as brother and sister. Now, in the heedlessness of youth, they become lovers, unaware that their ardor will forge the first link in a chain of murder, exile, and...

This book introduces students to the present state of the art in the economics of institutionalism and social policy. It also introduces the reader to a critique of mainstream economic thinking, followed by the development of a humanistic social interaction model of economic institutions, behavior, and social policy. The author takes a broad look at some of the major problems of social institutions and policy in the Canadian context. Contents:...

Plant tissue culture has a long history, dating back to the work of Gottlieb Haberlandt and others at the end of the 19th century, but the associated concepts and techniques have reached a level of usefulness and application which has never been greater. The technical innovations have given new insights into fundamental aspects of plant differentiation and development, and have paved the way to the identification of strategies for the genetic ...