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Depressionen gehören zu den häufigsten seelischen Erkrankungen in der ärztlichen Sprechstunde. Es erschien daher sinnvoll, eine möglichst prägnante und lesbare Zusammenfassung medizinisch notwendiger diagnostischer und therapeutischer Handlungsschritte für den Umgang mit depressiv Erkrankten zu verfassen. Konzeption und Inhalt dieses Buches wurden geprägt durch die Ergebnisse so genannter Psychiatrie-Workshops, bei denen kompetente Fachleute u...

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The response of civil engineering works to earthquakes is the only real and conclusive proof of their adequacy or otherwise. However, earthquakes as natural geological phenomena are few and far-between, which is fortunate from a human point of view. Therefore, drawing important lessons from each and every earthquake is vital for improving the understanding of their effects and consequently for mitigating the effects of future earthquakes. It i...

Presenting a useful reference to the current state of membrane technology and its likely future growth, this book covers all aspects of the technology and its applications in the water industry. Drawing on the experience of international experts, Membrane Technology in Water and Wastewater Treatment encompasses many practical applications of specific membranes, including MF, UF, NF, RO and EDR, in the treatment of ground and surface water, bac...

Bound Away offers a new understanding of the westward movement. After Frederick Jackson Turner's thesis celebrating the frontier as the source of American freedom and democracy, and the iconoclasm of the new western historians who dismissed the idea of the frontier as merely a mask for conquest and exploitation, David Hackett Fischer and James C. Kelly take a third approach to the subject. They share with Turner the idea of the westward moveme...

Each volume of Poetry for Students provides analysis of approximately 20 poems that teachers and librarians have identified as the most frequently studied in literature courses. Some of the poems covered in this volume include: Music Lessons by Mary Oliver My Life Closed Twice before Its Close by Emily Dickinson Names of Horses by Donald Hall A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns The River Merchants Wife by Ezra Pound And moreYou may also be interes...

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You never again need feel powerless in the face of uncertainty, awkward with strangers, or helpless in new situations. With What's Holding You Back?, Sam Horn shows you the way to a solid sense of self-assurance that doesn't depend on where you are or who you're with. This is a practical, user-friendly program that is filled with techniques you can begin using immediately. In With What's Holding You Back? you will learn how to:-Walk into a roo...

Weir has tirelessly made her way through the entire labyrinth of Tudor history to tell the collective story of the six wives of Henry VIII--a vivid, full-blooded portrait of six very different women--in a work of sound and brilliant scholarship. Illustrations.

This authoritative collection assesses the scope and limitations of public choice theory for informing the choices of policy-makers. Theoretical contributions are combined with case studies of specific areas of economic policy, including the growth of budget deficits under Reagan and Thatcher, European economic integration, macroeconomic management, science and technology and housing policy.

The story of the role of oil in the last 3 years of the Vietnam war, when Wesseling was Chief Executive of Shell Vietnam. He controlled half the country's oil supply which was purchased by the Americans, used by the South Vietnamese, fought for by the Vietcong and often supplied to the North Vietnamese and Vietcong armies through indirect channels.

This book looks at the changing shape of children's literature in English from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. In particular it examines the dialect between 'enclosure' and 'exposure', control and freedom of both fictional child and child reader, how the balance of these forces has altered over time, and the possible reasons for these changes. It also looks at the representation of the child in the English novel from the 1830s to the ...

How does a market globalize? How do antitrust and trade policies speed up or slow down the process? How do firms take part in it? The book offers a comprehensive appraisal of the phenomenon from a thorough study of the cement industry. Considered as a model of spatial competition in economic textbooks and inherently local, the industry globalized in the 1980s. Hence, the originality of the book to deal with an extreme case that highlights the ...

In 1995, Andrew Wiles completed a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. Although this was certainly a great mathematical feat, one shouldn't dismiss earlier attempts made by mathematicians and clever amateurs to solve the problem. In this book, aimed at amateurs curious about the history of the subject, the author restricts his attention exclusively to elementary methods that have produced rich results.

Bertrand Russell was born in 1872 and died in 1970. One of the most influential figures of the twentieth century, he transformed philosophy and can lay claim to being one of the greatest philosophers of all time. He was a Nobel Prize winner for Literature and was imprisoned several times as a result of his pacifism. His views on religion, education, sex, politics and many other topics, made him one of the most read and revered writers of the a...

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Die Handlung spielt in Niederschlesien von 1926-1944. Zwei Freunde, welche im gleichen Haus geboren wurden, entdecken mit einem Hund die geheimnisvolle Welt. Der Wechsel von der Weimarer Republik zum 3. Reich erscheint zunächst interessant. Im Schlesischen Himmelreich ziehen bald dunkle Wolken auf. Ein Donnerwetter weitet sich zum II. Weltkrieg. Im Dorf unweit der Neiße werden die ersten Gefallenen beweint. Noch unbefangen wird die Lehre in ei...

Als "Intellectual Capital" bezeichnet man den Wert, den ein Unternehmen aus seinem geistigen Eigentum, wie z.B. Produktinnovation, Patente, Urheberrechte und Know-How ziehen kann. In vielen Unternehmen ist geistiges Eigentum mittlerweile zum wichtigsten Aktivposten geworden. Um jedoch seinen Wert voll ausschöpfen zu können, müssen Unternehmen zunächst einmal verstehen, was Intellectual Capital ist, wo es anzutreffen ist, wie man es investiert ...

Stanley Spencer (1891 -- 1959) is one of the outstanding painters of the twentieth century. Highly controversial and single-minded in the pursuit of his personal vision, he often suffered neglect and hostility, and he has tended to be seen as an eccentric visionary. However, his contribution to British art and his true stature as an artist are now internationally recognized. Keith Bell's comprehensive catalogue raisonne of Spencer's work was r...

Winner of the College Language Association Book AwardFrances Smith Foster has rediscovered three novels by Frances E. W. Harper, the best-known African-American writer of the nineteenth century and author of the classic Iola Leroy. Originally serialized in issues of The Christian Recorder between 1868 and 1888, these works address issues of passing, social responsibility, courtship, sexuality, and temperance, and are the first to have been wri...