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Inhaltsangabe:Problemstellung: Wie kommt es, daß einige Menschen mehr Erfolg haben als andere? Wieso setzen sich Menschen ihre Ziele unterschiedlich hoch? Warum zeigen einige wesentlich mehr Ausdauer und Einsatz bei dem Erreichen von Zielen? Welche Rolle spielen Ziele für den Erfolg? Warum erreichen einige ihre Ziele, und warum gibt es andere, die sich kurz vor ihrer Zieler-reichung selbst sabotieren? Ist Erfolg lernbar? Und wenn ja, wie muß ...

Medical ethical dilemmas in managed care look, sound and feel different from those in fee-for-service medicine. The first book to address the new set of ethical problems facing managed care, it is written for physicians practicing in HMOs and others adjusting to the new healthcare environment.

Awarded the 1993 Howard Marraro Prize for the best book in Italian historyNobles were slaughtered and their castles looted or destroyed, bodies were dismembered and corpses fed to animals -- the Udine carnival massacre of 1511 was the most extensive and damaging popular revolt in Renaissance Italy (and the basis for the story of Romeo and Juliet). Mad Blood Stirring is a gripping account and analysis of this event, as well as the social struct...

It?s not easy being a sixth grader, particularly one with an ingenious knack for getting into trouble with his parents, teachers, and a line of picketing sixth-grade girls! Anyone who?s ever spent time in ?time-out? will appreciate the hilarious antics of this misunderstood pre-teen with a cause. Also in a fun, updated format sure to grab kids? attention!Matthew Martin hates being the youngest kid in sixth grade, but he?s convinced things will...

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments Preface / Rudenstine, Neil L. -- Introduction / Verba, Sidney -- Technology and the Humanities / Battin, Patricia -- Continuum, Not Revolution / Chadwyck-Healey, Charles -- Achieving Preferred Library Futures in Turbulent Environments / Dougherty, Richard M. -- Research Libraries and Foundations / Haas, Warren J. -- The Evolving Research Library: A Memetic View / Kup...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's TaleThis splendid volume of short fiction testifies to Margaret Atwood's bracing honesty and startlingly original voice. In her hands, ordinary people-farmers, birdwatchers, adolescent lovers, elderly neighbors, pregnant women-are anything but ordinary. A poet waylaid by an epic nosebleed, an awkward student trailed by an obtuse stalker, a jaded travel writer stranded on a life ra...

We are living in a time when baby showers are the most popular kind of party and when TV and movies abound with adorable babies and darling toddlers selling everything from soap to toilet paper. In this "baby-friendly" environment, is it any wonder that more and more people are considering becoming parents?Most people realize, however, that just wanting a baby doesn't mean you are physically, mentally, or emotionally prepared to have one. Nor ...

With a Foreword by Sogyal RinpocheChristine Longaker's experience with death and care of the dying began in 1976 when her husband was diagnosed with acute leukemia at the age of twenty-four. Since his death, she has devoted her life to ease the suffering of those facing death. In Facing Death and Finding Hope, she clearly and compassionately identifies the typical fears and struggles experienced by the dying and their families. The core of thi...

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The Bundesbank is one of the world's most powerful and successful central banks, outstanding for its independence in the conduct of monetary policy and for its success in the achievement of relative price stability virtually throughout the post-war era. This collection of essays by the President of the Bundesbank, by former and present Board members and by Heads of Department within the Bundesbank offer a rare inside insight into its operation...

A great deal of economics is about law - the functioning of markets, property rights and their enforcement, financial obligations, and so forth - yet these legal aspects are almost never addressed in the academic study of economics. Conversely, the study and practice of law entails a significant understanding of economics, yet the drafting and administration of laws often ignore economic principle. The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and ...

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Contains information, theory, diagrams and tables on various aspects of cinematography. This book covers different things, from camera choice, maintenance and threading diagrams, to electricity on location, equipment checklists, film stock, lenses, light and colour. It also includes sections on special effects and utilities.

This book consitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Intelligence in Services and Networks, IS&, N'98 in Antwerp, Belgium, in May 1998. IS&, N'98 was devoted to Technology for Ubiquitous Telecom Services. The 40 revised full papers presented in a homogeneous style and editing were selected from more than 80 submissions. The book is divided in sections on quality of service, service management, agent techno...

This book constitutes the refereeed proceedings of the Third European Conference on Multimedia Applications, Services and Techniques, ECMAST '98, held in Berlin, Germany, in May 1998. The 40 revised full papers presented were carefully selected for inclusion in the book by the program committee. The topics covered include multimedia networks and protocols, coded representation of images, sound, and data, multimedia delivery on broadcast and te...

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From hook-and-ladder trucks to water-pumping trucks to the fire chief's car, kids can have the run of every kind of fire vehicle imaginable. So climb aboard and ring the bell!Edward Miller lives in Hoboken, NJ.

H. Newton Malony is senior professor of psychology at Fuller Theological Seminary, a licensed psychologist, and an ordained United Methodist minister.

Poor Coyote! What's he doing, hanging upside down in the farmer's house, next to a pot of boiling water? How'd he wind up underneath the jicara tree, getting bonked by rock-hard fruit? Who tricked him into whacking a wasps' nest with a stick? And why is he always howling at the moon?Because of Rabbit, that's why! Longtime collaborators Tony Johnston and Tomie dePaola look to the folklore of Oaxaca, Mexico, for this nutty, naughty tale of trick...