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This book is a useful guide to making the onerous `extra' duties in primary schools more enjoyable and educational. A multitude of ideas are presented for creating a positive learning environment in the lunchroom and in the playground, and for creating a relaxing experience for teachers assigned to those duties.

Die Autorin stellt die Frage, welche Bedeutung das ästhetische Verhalten im individuellen Bildungsprozeß einnimmt. Adornos These, es könne ein ungeschwächtes Korrektiv des verdinglichten Bewußtseins sein, weist eine Richtung zur Beantwortung dieser Frage auf.

In this thorough, yet accessible, book, Robert Garner explores the character of animal protection policy making in Britain and the United States and the opportunities open to animal protection movements. In showing how the political system in both countries has been responsive to the growing demands for reforms in the way animals are treated, he argues that there is a viable reformist strategy for the animal protection movement short of the ad...

Disney is so good at being good that it manifests an evil, so uniformly efficient and courteous, so dependably clean and conscientious, so unfailingly entertaining that it's unreal, and therefore is an agent of pure wickedness. . . . Disney isn't in the business of exploiting Nature so much as striving to improve upon it, constantly fine-tuning God's work."--from TEAM RODENTTEAM RODENTHow Disney Devours America"Revulsion is good. Revulsion is ...

After unification large amounts of money were spent to retrain the East Germany labour force in order to ease the transition to the new market economy. This book uses microeconometric methods and individual data to evaluate the impact of these training programmes on the participants' labour market situation. It discusses the appropriate evaluation methodology as well as the effectiveness of the actual programmes for the individual participants...

In 1964, Hudson landed in Unalaska, a 1, 000-mile chain of treeless and windswept islands. In his intimate memoir, he weaves together landscape and language, storytelling and silence, ancient mythology and day-to-day village life as he pays homage to the people he came to know.

One of today's most highly acclaimed young travel writers retraces the steps of two monks who undertook an epic journey, across the entire Byzantine world, in the year 587 AD. An elegy to the slowly dying doctrine of Eastern Christianity and the people who have kept it alive, which is a rich and darkly humorous blend of history, spirituality, adventure and politics. 24 b/w plates, 8 colour illus.

Bewegungssteuerungen werden aus elektrischen, elektronischen und mechanischen Komponenten aufgebaut. Auf einer Vielzahl internationaler und nationaler Fachtagungen wird die hohe Entwicklungsgeschwindigkeit des Gebietes deutlich. In den Hauptzentren der industriellen Entwicklung entstand eine unübersehbare Fülle von Einzelveröffentlichungen. Das vorliegende Buch faßt die Einzeltatsachen systematisch zusammen. Vom Leser des Buches werden Grundke...

Theda Bars's remarkable life as told by Eve Golden's heartfelt account is short of discovering a means of traveling through time and as close as we are ever likely to get to meeting the screen's great Vamp!

If information highways are the wave of the future then I will build information country roads on which the traveller can reach the truth faster by going slower. . . ."On these same country roads, far from the intrusions of modern technology, the Amish, Quakers, and other "plain folk" live their unencumbered lives, close to the land, in peaceful, smoothly-run communities. The thought-provoking, often challenging essays in The Plain Reader are ...

The bestselling, critically acclaimed anthology of stories on the theme of love, culled from the pages of The New Yorker "--the magazine that has defined American short fiction for almost a century.

This second edition of Gellerman's classic reference work is a must for collectors and aficionados of reed organs. Its aim is to present a complete listing and brief history of every manufacturer of reed organs in the world as an aid to the collector. In the 13 years since publication of the first edition, hundreds of new names and historical facts have come to light and are included in this revised edition. 89 illustrations. 104 photos.

New edition of this worldwide bestseller.

Friends and fellow New Yorkers Stuart Stevens and Rachel "Rat" Kelly share two passions: exercise and eating. Having exhausted nearly every posh Manhattan restaurant, former model Rat suggests they take their buffed bodies to new gastronomic heights via a tour of Europe's Michelin three-star restaurants. Rat's boyfriend will underwrite the trip--but only if they do the twenty-nine restaurants on their list in twenty-nine days. What follows is ...