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Inhaltsangabe:Gang der Untersuchung: Angesichts der inzwischen zahlreichen Angebote der Verdichterhersteller fuer die Verdichtung von Erdgas im Bereich von Erdgas-Betankungsanlagen erscheint es sinnvoll, einen Marktueberblick zu schaffen, der den derzeitigen Stand der Technik auf dem Feld der Erdgas-Hochdruckverdichter darstellt. In dieser Arbeit werden zunaechst die erforderlichen thermodynamischen Grundlagen zum Verstaendnis der Verdichter...

Inhaltsangabe:Zusammenfassung: Die Diplomarbeit befaßt sich mit der steuerrechtlichen Behandlung von Betriebsveräußerungen und -erwerben gegen Einmalbetrag und wiederkehrende Zahlungen. Es werden die verschiedenen Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten dargestellt und deren steuerrechtliche Behandlung aufgezeigt. Dabei beschränkt sich die Darstellung auf die Veräußerung und den Erwerb von ganzen Gewerbebetrieben, Teilbetrieben sowie Mitunternehmeranteilen...

In Palatines, Liberty, and Property A. G. Roeber explains why so many Germans, when they faced critical choices in 1776, became active supporters of the patriot cause. Employing a variety of German-language sources and and following all the major German migration streams, Roeber explores German conceptions of personal and public property in the context of cultural and religious beliefs, village life, and family concerns.

Here are graceful and timeless poems by one of Japan's greatest modern writers, rendered by a master translator. Masaoka Shiki (1867--1902) is credited with modernizing Japan's two traditional verse forms, haiku and tanka. Born at a time of social and cultural change in Japan, Shiki welcomed the new influences from the West and responded to them by reinvigorating the native haiku and tanka forms. He freed them from outdated conventions, made t...

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Discussing the development of investment policies specifically for nonprofit organizations, this book helps directors, trustees, and development officers at nonprofits create sound, comprehensive policies for their financial advisors.

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Moscow Performances bring to life the diversity, energy, and imagination of Russian theater. Focussing on the work of Moscow's leading directors, it gives reviews key productions and opinionated responses to Moscow stage developments in the

A Holocaust survivor's surprising and thought-provoking study of forgiveness, justice, compassion, and human responsibility, featuring contributions from the Dalai Lama, Harry Wu, Cynthia Ozick, Primo Levi, and more.While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying member of the SS. Haunted by the crimes in which he had participated, the soldier wanted to confess to...

Following Thomas Jefferson from the drafting of the Declaration of Independence to his retirement in Monticello, Joseph J. Ellis unravels the contradictions of the Jeffersonian character. He gives us the slaveholding libertarian who was capable of decrying mescegenation while maintaing an intimate relationship with his slave, Sally Hemmings, the enemy of government power who exercisdd it audaciously as president, the visionarty who remained cu...

For fans of Gillian Flynn, Caroline Cooney, and R.L. Stine comes Search for the Shadowman from four-time Edgar Allen Poe Young Adult Mystery Award winner Joan Lowery Nixon. Twelve-year-old Andy Thomas isn't thrilled with his teacher's assignment to explore family history. But when he starts asking questions about his ancestors, he is surprised to discover a black sheep named Coley Joe Bonner. No one wants to discuss what happened in the family...

From the author of Writing a Woman's Life comes an inspirational reflection on aging and the gift of life in your 70s and beyond. When she was young, distinguished author and critic Carolyn Heilbrun solemnly vowed to end her life when she turned seventy. But on the advent of that fateful birthday, she realized that her golden years had been full of unforeseen pleasures. Now, the astute and ever-insightful Heilbrun muses on the emotional and in...

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The yearly volumes of Censored, in continuous publication since 1976 and since 1995 available through Seven Stories Press, is dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missing because of media bias and self-censorship. The top stories are listed democratically in order of importance according to students, faculty, and a national panel of judges. Each of the top stories is presented at length, alon...

The beloved author of "The Color Purple" writes of her life as an activist, in a book rich in the belief that the world is salvageable--if only we will act. She offers advice to Bill Clinton, to Fidel Castro, and to young women growing up. She comments on culture and cats, feminism and race, writing and living.

This one source allows readers to record not only the foods they eat but the quantity, calories, fat, carbohydrate, protein, cholesterol, and fiber counts as well. The three-month journal includes a comprehensive index of 2, 000 foods, including brand names, with their nutritional makeup.

Climb in and hold on tight! Kids will love spending a day at the Bear Country Amusement Park, where they'll experience the stomach-dropping, heart-stopping thrills of a giant roller coaster right along with the Berenstain Bears.

This volume contains nearly twenty essays on obscenity in medieval culture. These essays represent the most wide-ranging attempt ever to probe the natures, origins, and consequences of obscenity in medieval literature, art, theater, and law. Although a core is devoted to obscenity in medieval French literature (where the fabliaux have elicited more previous attempts to come to terms with obscenity than has any other type of medieval literature...

Theorising Welfare is very well written and painstakingly clear. It is an accessible and original textbook on the welfare state and the idea of welfare. There is nothing available like it in terms of its scope and intellectual sweep' - Scott Lash, University of Lancaster There are many interpretations of welfare and welfare states, each providing insights into different aspects of welfare and pointing to different possibilities for its future...