61 Ergebnisse - Zeige 41 von 60.

Sammy the seal is bored with life at the zoo, so he leaves to go to the city. There, he finds a school full of kids and new things to do! Sammy sings with the students, becomes the star of the volleyball team, and even learns to read. He can't wait to tell his friends back at the zoo how much fun he's having!

The coast of the colonial Americas was fraught with many perils, its sea-lanes a hunting ground for the bloodthirsty predators who brazenly flew the black flag. Only the most courageous or desperate or foolhardy would dare take sail in those early years. For he who ventured upon the waves would have to contend with the basest greed and savagery of cold-hearted men... and submit to the merciless cruelties of the unpredictable waters.Shortly aft...

Inhaltsangabe:Zusammenfassung: Diese Arbeit untersucht mit Hilfe eines Experiments, welchen Einfluß das in der audiovisuellen Werbung häufig eingesetzte Gestaltungsmittel "Erotik" auf die Werbewirkung hat. 111 männlichen und weiblichen Versuchspersonen verschiedenen Alters und mit unterschiedlicher Werbungsakzeptanz wurden zwei Kinospots gezeigt, bei der jeweils einer das zusätzliche Gestaltungsmittel Erotik enthielt. Die Wirkung der Spots wu...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Über die Sicherstellung von Qualität wird in jedem Unternehmen und in jeder Branche diskutiert. Dabei wird Qualitätssicherung häufig nur als Mittel verstanden, die Fertigungsqualität eines Unternehmens sicherzustellen. Qualitätssicherung sollte aber nicht erst am Ende der betrieblichen Leistungserstellung betrieben werden, wenn sich das Produkt bzw. die Dienstleistung kurz vor Übergabe an den Kunden befindet. Sonder...

A detailed study of this important 'Charter of Bahá'u'lláh's New World Order' using the principle of the relationship of various aspects of the Covenant to each subject mentioned by 'Abdu'l-Bahá in His Will and Testament.

With the start of EMU, the Eurosystem has taken over monetary policy for the 11 countries of the Euro-area. But the division of powers within the Eurosystem, between the European Central Bank and the constituent National Central Banks, is not satisfactory. This volume provides an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the Eurosystem and offers concrete proposals concerning the decision-making organs, balance sheets and the distribution of...

Keine Beschreibung.

With the start of EMU, the Eurosystem has taken over monetary policy for the 11 countries of the Euro-area. But the division of powers within the Eurosystem, between the European Central Bank and the constituent National Central Banks, is not satisfactory. This volume provides an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the Eurosystem and offers concrete proposals concerning the decision-making organs, balance sheets and the distribution of...

Keine Beschreibung.

Nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Articles of Faith is a powerful exploration of one of the most divisive issues in our recent political history, and the only book to portray the passion of both sides of the abortion conflict.Drawing from more than five hundred interviews as well as previously unseen archival material, Cynthia Gorney has written a compelling narrative that explores the years between Roe v. Wade (1973) and William...

persweresubmittedinresponsetothecallforpapers.

ThePKC2000conferencewasheldattheMelbourneExhibitionCentre, Victoria, Australia, January 18-20, 2000. It was the third conference in the international workshop series dedicated to practice and theory in public key cryptography. The program committee of the conference received 70 full submissions from around the world, of which 31 were selected for presentation. All submissions were reviewed by experts in the relevant areas. The program committe...

Advanced Instrumentation and Computer I/O Design Real-Time System Computer Interface Engineering Patrick H. Garrett This advanced text addresses system error analysis and performance accountability in a comprehensive and up-to-date manner. Covering a wide range of topics from instrumentation, sensors, and signal conditioning through digital conversion and signal reconstruction, the author employs model-based methods for characterizing the desi...

Apoptosis is a fascinating concept for the basic scientist. This is not only because of the multifaceted variety of proposed and discovered mechanisms, but because apoptosis represents a fundamental pathway for cell renewal. The study of apoptosis has resulted in an array of discoveries on signal transduc­ tion and downstream effects that have facilitated and advanced many fields in biology, including research on cancer and other diseases. Thu...

This book comprises revised full versions of lectures given during the 9th European Summer School in Logic, Languages, and Information, ESSLLI'97, held in Aix-en-Provence, France, in August 1997. The six lectures presented introduce the reader to the state of the art in the area of generalized quantifiers and computation. Besides an introductory survey by the volume editor various aspects of generalized quantifiers are studied in depth.

Pricksongs & Descants, originally published in 1969, is a virtuoso performance that established its author -- already a William Faulkner Award winner for his first novel -- as a writer of enduring power and unquestionable brilliance, a promise he has fulfilled over a stellar career. It also began Coover's now-trademark riffs on fairy tales and bedtime stories. In these riotously word-drunk fictional romps, two children follow an old man into t...

Keine Beschreibung.

Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) is one of the best French composers of his era. His artistic independence served to inspire many of the next generation of French composers seeking to create a new Gallic identity after World War I. His reforms at the Paris Conservatoire were the most radical the institution had yet experienced. This book gives equal weight to Fauré's private and public lives, profiling the man behind the music, and going beyond the u...

The practice of Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners has come to international prominence and renown, having built upon its reputation for structural, industrial and technical experimentation and finesse in the 1980s and 1990s. This book examines their recent work. At the dawn of the new millennium, the practice has completed some of its most exciting and diverse work: the Eden Project in Cornwall, Ludwig Erhard Haus in Berlin, the Orange Call Centre ...

Evolution's Arrow argues that evolution is directional and progressive, and that this has major consequences for humanity. Without resort to teleology, the book demonstrates that evolution moves in the direction of producing cooperative organisations of greater scale and evolvability - evolution has organised molecular processes into cells, cells into organisms, and organisms into societies. The book founds this position on a new theory of ...