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In English and in Spanish, Lynn Reiser presents the Central American companion book to her Cherry Pies and Lullabies. Again, four generations of mothers and daughters participate in family traditions-this time within a Costa Rican culture in which they share such things as tortilla making and flower gathering. Extraordinary folk-art painting by "Corazones Valientes, " an organization of women artists in Costa Rica, accompany this universal and...

Nighttime at the fair is magic with Caldecott Honor-winning author/artist Donald Crews. The sky goes dark and the colored lights begin to flash and sparkle. There are games to play and treats to eat. From the top of the Ferris wheel, you can see where you've been--and where you have yet to go. Full color.

These are the conference proceedings from the fifth conference in a series devoted to the presentation and discussion of new findings in the field of noncrystalline solids, such as amorphous and nanocrystalline materials, granular systems and fine particles, and multiphase systems.

Frontmatter -- Einleitung -- I. Teil Der Ausdruck "Gottesdiensttheorie", seine Implikate und deren Entfaltung -- § 1 Der enzyklopädische Rahmen der theologischen Gottesdiensttheorie -- 1. Das Theologieverständnis Schleiermachers als Rekonstruktions- und Interpretationsrahmen seiner Gottesdiensttheorie -- 2. Die Entfaltung der theologischen Enzyklopädie -- 3. Die umfassende theologische Gestalt der Gottesdiensttheorie -- 4. Konsequenzen für den...

Wie weit zeigen sich in aktuellen (schulischen) Texten gegenüber früher veränderte Schreibmuster? Hat sich im Schreiben junger Menschen ein neuer Schreibstil zu etablieren begonnen, und wenn ja: Was können die Gründe dafür sein? Auf solche Fragen werden hier Antworten entwickelt und zu begründen versucht. Ausgangspunkt sind Analyseergebnisse von Untersuchungen aktueller (schulischer) Texte von jungen Erwachsenen, die in ihrer Textstruktur eine...

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Inhaltsangabe:Zusammenfassung: Das Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit besteht darin, zu einer fundierten Bewertung des virtuellen Unternehmenskonzeptes aus strategischer, organisatorischer und kultureller Perspektive zu gelangen. Es geht darum festzustellen welche spezifischen Charakteristika die Virtuelle Unternehmung in Bezug auf die drei zu betrachtenden Perspektiven mit sich bringt und welche Vorteile bzw. Probleme hieraus resultieren, sowie ob...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Im Rahmen zeitkritischer Produktionsmethoden wie Just-in-Time oder produktionssynchroner Beschaffung wird der Einsatz von EDI zum Austausch der Information (Nachrichten) zwischen Hersteller und Zulieferer unverzichtbar. Unter "EDI" versteht man im allgemeinen den interventionsfreien Austausch von strukturierten Daten, die unter Nutzung der elektronischen Datenübertragung (DFÜ) zwischen Computern, oder direkt zwischen...

Inhaltsangabe:Gang der Untersuchung: Im Rahmen der Diplomarbeit wird die Situation und Eignung von Frauen in Leitungspositionen allgemein und insbesondere im psychosozialen Bereich aufgezeigt, um dann unter Auswertung verschiedener Aspekte die Frage: "Leiten Frauen anders?" zu diskutieren. Zunächst geht es um die allgemeine Situation von Frau und Beruf: Zahlenmaterial, Frauen und Erwerbsarbeit, weibliche Lebensplanung und Erwerbsbiographie, ...

Beginning with a reassessment of the 1920s and 30s, this text looks beyond a consideration of just the most successful Spanish playwrights of the time, and discusses also the work of directors, theorists, actors and designers.

This book moves beyond the narrow focus of much of the work on media and cultural studies to examine the whole process of interaction between the media and the social world. Rejecting approaches which focus only on ownership or discourse or audience reception, this new book from the Glasgow Media Group, examines: promotional strategies, media production, representation and audience responses, as well as broader impacts on policy, culture and s...

The aim of this book is to throw light on various facets of geometry through development of four geometrical themes.The first theme is about the ellipse, the shape of the shadow east by a circle. The next, a natural continuation of the first, is a study of all three types of conic sections, the ellipse, the parabola and the hyperbola.The third theme is about certain properties of geometrical figures related to the problem of finding the larges...

In view of the rapid growth in both experimental and theoretical studies of multiphoton processes and multiphoton spectroscopy of atoms, ions and molecules in chemistry, physics, biology, materials science, etc., it is desirable to publish an advanced series of books containing review papers that can be read not only by active researchers in these areas, but also by those who are not experts in the field but intend to enter it. The present ser...

Historian William Berman examines the political, cultural, and economic contexts in which Republican conservatives operated and explores the crisis of the liberal welfare state against the background of presidential politics. In this new edition, Berman discusses the initial failure of the Clinton administration to establish a viable political alternative to the GOP.

In Korea and Its Futures, Grinker argues that the continued conflict between North and South Korea, and the prospects for peace on the Korean peninsula, must be understood within the broader social and cultural context in which Koreans live.

Thomas Manns Roman "Joseph und seine Brüder", der zwischen 1926 und 1942 entstand, spielt vor 3000 Jahren. Gewöhnlich liest man ihn deshalb so, als sei er seinem politikskeptischen Autor Zufluchtstätte vor den Widrigkeiten der Weimarer Republik und des Nationalsozialismus gewesen: Mann habe sich hier in einer fernen, intakten und unpolitischen Welt eingerichtet. Eine Auseinandersetzung mit der Zeitgeschichte wird allenfalls dem letzten Teil de...

How do we get an idea from the physical world? There is basically only one possibility, namely to dialogue with nature, that is, we create a theoretical conception of the world by thinking, and then we check this conception with the help of measuring instruments. In this connection the following question arises: does there exist for each element of the theory an element-specific deflection at the measuring instrument? In other words, has each ...

This volume comprises a collection of twenty written versions of invited as well as contributed papers presented at the conference held from 20-24 May 1996 in Beijing, China. It covers many areas of logic and the foundations of mathematics, as well as computer science. Also included is an article by M. Yasugi on the Asian Logic Conference which first appeared in Japanese, to provide a glimpse into the history and development of the series.

A collaboration between a traditionally trained physician and a medical intuitive, The Creation of Health illuminates the deep connection between emotional dysfunction and physical illness. It describes the role that emotional disturbances play in the most common diseases and ailments from the common cold to arthritis, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.After providing an introduction to intuitive medicine and its history, method of diagnosis...

In his new book, Stephen Levine, author of the perennial best-seller Who Dies?, teaches us how to live each moment, each hour, each day mindfully--as if it were all that was left. On his deathbed, Socrates exhorted his followers to practice dying as the highest form of wisdom. Levine decided to live this way himself for a whole year, and now he shares with us how such immediacy radically changes our view of the world and forces us to examine o...