The story begins before the turn of the century. The Gillis's live a very easy and tranquil life, in spite of active and noisy boys. But soon the tranquillity is shattered. First Albert then John die within months of each other. Then six years later Lydia and her husband Joseph die within months of each other. Lydia and Joseph leave six children and rather than have them stay with their grandmother Gillis, Joseph sends them to his sister in Sa...
The story begins before the turn of the century. The Gillis's live a very easy and tranquil life, in spite of active and noisy boys. But soon the tranquillity is shattered. First Albert then John die within months of each other. Then six years later Lydia and her husband Joseph die within months of each other. Lydia and Joseph leave six children and rather than have them stay with their grandmother Gillis, Joseph sends them to his sister in Sa...
This book is an essential handbook on bisphosphonates, the most widely used new class of drugs for osteoporosis therapy. It reviews basic physiology in addition to the indications and adverse reactions of these drugs. Bisphosphonates in Bone Disease, Fourth Edition, discusses the compounds' chemistry, mechanisms of action, and animal toxicology before presenting a clinical picture of the diseases treated by bisphosphonates. The book provides a...
Policy Studies courses are being increasingly offered in public policy schools, political science departments, public administration programs, and elsewhere. There seems to be a consensus that a basic core of policy courses should deal with policy methods, the policy process, and policy substance. Each can be a course in itself for a semester apiece or longer, or as parts of a larger course. This book is designed to clarify some aspects of the...
Suitable for numerical analysts, this text contains the proceedings of the 18th Dundee Biennial Conference on Numerical Analysis. It covers things ranging from partial differential equations to linear algebra and approximation theory.
What position have television, radio or other electronic media like telephones and computers come to occupy in people's day-to-day lives and social relationships? How do these communication and information technologies get used and made sense of in local settings such as the household and the urban neighborhood? How have they helped to construct new arrangements of time, space and place in a culture with globalizing tendencies? What types of i...
The Abbot concludes the fiction begun in The Monastery. Scott follows the fortunes of young Roland Graeme as he emerges from rural obscurity to become an attendant of Mary Queen of Scots during her captivity in Lochleven Castle. Roland's part in Mary's escape from the Castle is excitingly narrated, and Mary herself is vividly characterized in captivity, in her brief period of freedom, and in her final defeat. Based on the first edition, this n...
Over the last two decades the dramatic increase in the computer power available to the hydrologist has led to significant developments in the way that hydrological research and operations are conducted. This collection of papers focuses on one area of such developments, the application of GIS to the solution of hydrological problems. The included papers consider or illustrate some of the key issues relevant to hydrological applications of GIS ...
It's good to talk is one of the great clich[ac]es of our time. The benefits of talk to individuals, families and organizations are proclaimed by pop psychologists, television talk show hosts, and management gurus. The importance of talk is talked about endlessly.
`Good to Talk? is an attempt to look critically at what lies behind this upsurge of concern about talk in our workplaces, classrooms and private lives, and it places these developmen...
Understanding how to properly manage urban stormwater is a critical concern to civil and environmental engineers the world over. Mismanagement of stormwater and urban runoff results in flooding, erosion, and water quality problems. In an effort to develop better management techniques, engineers have come to rely on computer simulation and advanced mathematical modeling techniques to help plan and predict water system performance. This importan...
This collection of papers considers many of the important issues raised by these dramatic changes in emerging financial markets, including: the nature of this systemic risk and how governments can go about reducing it: how to increase the supply of capital that can be invested in development, aspects of foreign direct investment, informal credit markets, the impact of informal finance on development, how lessons learned from microfinance in de...
Through the use of real-world examples and useful graphs, readers will learn to: Choose the most appropriate methods and tools for a given projectApply issue formulation methods to assure that the right problem has been identifiedWork with formal analysis methods to assure that the problem is solved correctlyApply issue interpretation methods to insure that decisions reflect human values and technological realities, and thereby make interpreta...
»Es kommt, wenn ein Mensch das Bedürfnis hat, sein Leben zu rechtfertigen, nicht auf eine objektive, allgemeine Höhe der Leistung an, sondern eben darauf, daß er sein Wesen, das ihm Mitgegebene, so völlig und rein wie möglich in seinem Leben und Tun zur Darstellung bringe.« Hermann Hesse
Der Zauber der Rilkeschen Gedichte, den Robert Musil mit der Feststellung feierte, Rilke habe »das deutsche Gedicht zum erstenmal vollkommen gemacht«, dieser Zauber ist ungebrochen. Nicht zuletzt deshalb, weil die Sprache bei Rilke ein tönendes Eigenleben führt, daß sie rauscht, doch nicht um zu berauschen! Sie teilt zugleich ein Weltbild mit, das auch dem Leser von heute noch vieles begreifbar machen kann. Aus dem lyrischen Werk Rilkes werden...
Wiesenthal, Helmut: Globalisierung. Pies, Ingo: Globalisierung ud Demokratie: Chancen und Risiken aus ökonomischer Sicht. Messner, Dirk: Gesellschaftliche Determinanten wirtschaftlicher Entwicklung in der Weltmarktwirtschaft. Gusy, Christoph: Demokratiedefizite postnationaler Gemeinschaften unter Berücksichtigung der Europäischen Union. Rosas, Allan: Globaler Konstitutionalimus, Menschenrechte und staatliche Souverenität. Thürer, Daniel: »Citi...
In seinem Buch Flucht aus der Kategorie hat Gerhard Gamm die Leitunterscheidungen einer Semantik des Unbestimmten freigelegt. In den hier vorgelegten Studien geht es um eine Ausdifferenzierung dieser Semantik und darum, ihre Erschließungskraft auch im Kontext von Wissen, Moral und Technik zu erproben. Das erste Kapitel rekonstruiert die Grundlinien einer Theorie der modernen Welt. Im Zentrum der unter dem Begriff des Wissens versammelten Beitr...
