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Since Ararat in 1990, Louise Gluck has been exploring a form that is, according to poet Robert Hass, her invention. Vita Nova-- like its immediate predecessors, a booklength sequence -- combines the ecstatic utterance of The Wild Iris with the worldly dramas elaborated in Meadowlands. Vita Nova is a book that exists in the long moment of spring: a book of deaths and beginnings, resignation and hope, brutal, luminous, and farseeing. Like late Y...

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An all-you-need-to-know introduction to the employer-sponsored retirement plan that has revolutionized the way we save Smart Ways to save with automatic payroll deductions and pretax contributions that let you earn more money and pay less taxes NOW and when you retire Smart Advice on how much to contribute and what you need to know about your investment options, including advice on stocks, mutual funds, and bonds Smart Insights into retirement...

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Karl Rahner kam 1936 nach Innsbruck mit der Aussicht, als Professor der Theologie eingesetzt zu werden. Unter Rückgriff auf frühere Vorarbeiten machte er sich unverzüglich und zielstrebig daran, die nötigen Grundlagen zu schaffen: Bis zum Ende des Jahres erfüllte er die Bedingungen für das Doktorat. Der Text der Dissertation liegt hier zum ersten Mal im Druck vor. Der Band dokumentiert außerdem Rahners intensive Beschäftigung mit Problemen, di...

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The electronic marketplace is a global one, and it's changing every aspect of the consumer-vendor relathionship.The marketplace is the place of exchange between buyer and seller. Once one rode a mule to get there, now one rides the Internet. An electronic marketplace can span two rooms in the same building, or two continents. How individuals, firms, and organizations approach and define the electronic marketplace of the future depends on peopl...

Wars and natural disasters--from the Balkans to the Sudan, and from Afghanistan to Central Africa--have increasingly placed humanitarian workers in the crossfire. Kevin M. Cahill has assembled an international team of renowned experts to offer a much-needed assessment of the moral, legal and political dilemmas and consequences of humanitarian assistance. Focusing on health issues, "A Framework for Survival" takes an unflinching look at the rea...

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A remarkable consideration of how religion manifests itself in America today. Piety and popular culture, public space and private, the secular and the sacred all converge in America's religious experience.

This informative and helpful guide will assist your clients in making positive strides toward a nonviolent life. Some of the tips and suggestions that are further explained in this workbook include: Acknowledge to yourself and to others that you have a problem with anger, abuse, and controlAddress mental health and chemical use issues if they are present in your lifeCome to know that, when you become abusive, you are always feeling inadequate,...

This book offers a clear, well-documented view of troubled adoptive families. It focuses on adoptive families after the legal finalization of the adoption has taken place and is full of case examples, detailed case histories and presentations of various practice strategies.

In Punishment in America Michael Welch gathers together his seminal contributions to the most crucial and controversial issues in criminal justice. Topics range from the war on drugs, boot camps and institutional violence to AIDS and HIV, capital punishment and the entire corrections industry. This coherent, but critical vision of punishment and corrections emphasizes social control but takes account of key social forces such as politics, reli...

This book comprises a selection of papers that were first presented at VSS98 (5th International Workshop on Variable Structure Systems) held in Sarasota, Florida. This workshop was the fifth in a series of VSS international workshops, and the first to be held in the United States. Work presented herein on theoretical developments and applications on VSS and Sliding Mode, reflects how trends have advanced beyond the original ideas that are now ...

A brilliant "Sherlock Holmes" of neuroscience reveals the strangest cases he has solved, uncovering bold insights into deep and quirky questions of human nature few scientists have dared to address. 25 line illustrations.

From the dynamic and inspiring religious leader Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis comes a book of timeless wisdom based on the Torah, with great appeal to anyone seeking spiritual guidance.

The personal testament by the former headmaster of Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C., offers an observation of the virtues and rewards of Quaker living.

A celebration of womanhood delighting in the joy of the feminine soul, this guide contains 100 short meditations, each beginning with the stem "I am a woman.

The author of "Who Wrote the Bible?" returns with a 3, 000-year-old epic hidden within the books of the Hebrew Bible--a compelling account of humankind's complex relationship with God.