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During the past years, it has been shown that the results of many reactions in the environment have led to the degradation or detoxification of environmental pollutants. The chemical aspects of environmental pollutants have therefore begun to take on great significance. The Chemistry of Pollution provides an excellent overview of the important chemical aspects of pollution occurring in the atmosphere, in water and in soil. Presented in the boo...

Das Buch präsentiert dem historisch-literarisch interessierten Leser die Geschichte der Berliner Salons, von den ersten Salons um 1780 bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg 1914. Die Autorin zeigt, wie die literarischen, musikalischen, künstlerischen und politischen Salons das "geistige Berlin" ihrer Zeit mitprägten und wie sie Persönlichkeitskultur, Frauenbildung und Emanzipation verwirklichten und förderten. Mehr als 90 Salons mit Gastgeberinnen und Gäst...

Patients with complex problems, including co-morbidity, chronic conditions, enduring vulnerabilities, psychotic conditions, persistent difficulties with social relationships and destabilising social environments, are increasingly recognised as the reality of the therapist′s case load.

This book draws together a wide range of current theories and research into a comprehensive framework for therapeutic interventions in women suffering depression following childbearing. The authors outline clinical guidelines and detailed intervention procedures that have been found to be highly effective at reducing the symptoms of depression, improving maternal functioning and self-esteem, treating marital/partner issues, dealing with parent...

This work is a collection of the best research reports and essays gathered globally by the editors over a three-year period. World-renowned experts from the Arab region as well as the West have authored most of the chapters. Seven sections divide the text, and each investigates compelling, timely questions for today's communication professionals. Because of its focus on communications and new media, this volume may be used at colleges and univ...

When Katharine Ashley dies her departing soul finds its way into the lifeless body of Thisby Bennet, a rich, skinny young woman with a thirst for drugs and men. This Body borrows the cast of Midsummer Night's Dream and brings them into the 1990s.

This highly acclaimed study, first published in 1993, has been updated to the year 2000 and now includes some recent winning managers and completes the careers of others.

Everything struck hard. The door slamming behind me in the black car. The shovel stabbing the mound of soil. The wooden box hitting the floor of the pit.Beside his father's grave, a diligent but doubting son begins the mourner's kaddish, and realizes he needs to know more about the prayer issuing from his lips. So begins Leon Wieseltier's highly acclaimend Kaddish, the spiritual journal of a man commanded by Jewish law to recite a prayer three...

To date, no central database captures information about stored tissue samples. This handbook serves as a national resource, to bring together for the first time, in a single document, information about tissue storage in the United States. It provides information about several aspects of stored tissue samples, such as how many samples exist in the United States, where they are, who has access to them, and for what purposes they are used. A cons...

For such a small book, "Grace for the Moment"(c) has had a major impact on countless lives. With more than 2, 500, 000 copies sold, this devotional continues to touch lives as it emphasizes the help and hope of God in everyday moments. Each daily reading features devotional writings from Max Lucado's numerous bestsellers as well as a Scripture verse selected especially for that day's reading. This new classic is available in hardcover as well ...

Doesn't the title say it all? After a series of set-backs, an unnamed slacker pretends to be gay to get a job which launches him on a darkly hilarious odyssey through New York City grit.

Whoever you are, walking the labyrinth has something to offer. If a project is challenging you, walking can get your creative juices flowing. When struggling with grief or anger, or a physical challenge or illness, walking the labyrinth can point the way to healing and wholeness. If you're looking for a way to meditate or pray that engages your body as well as your soul, the labyrinth provides such a path. When you just want reflective time aw...

A comprehensive collection of classic texts, contemporary interpretations, guidelines for activists, issue-specific information, and materials for environmentally-oriented religious practice. Sources and contributors include Basho, the Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh, Gary Snyder, Chögyam Trungpa, Gretel Ehrlich, Peter Mathiessen, Helen Tworkov (editor of Tricycle), and Philip Glass.

Francis Joseph Cassavant is eighteen. He has just returned home from the Second World War, and he has no face. He does have a gun and a mission: to murder his childhood hero. Francis lost most of his face when he fell on a grenade in France. He received the Silver Star for bravery, but was it really an act of heroism? Now, having survived, he is looking for a man he once admired and respected, a man adored by many people, a man who also recei...