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Plutarch's Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by far his most famous and influential work, Plutarch reveals the character and personality of his subjects and how they led ultimately to tragedy or victory. Richly anecdotal and full of detail, Volume I contains profiles and comparisons of Romulus an...

A remarkable novel about one of the most important, and loving, relationships in Gary Paulsen's life.The wonderful grandmother seen through the eyes of a young boy in The Cookcamp reaches out to him at 14, offering him a haven from his harsh and painful family life. She arranges a summer job for him on the farm where she is a cook for Gunnar and Olaf, elderly brothers. Farm life offers the camaraderie and routine of hard work, good food, peace...

Electronic Customer Care (ECC) ist seit Erscheinen der zweiten Auflage ein Bestseller für Softwareanbieter geworden. Unter dem Begriff Customer Relationship Management (CRM) bieten boomende Firmen Lösungen zur Optimierung der Kundenprozesse an. Sie werben mit hoher Kundenzufriedenheit und reduzierten Kosten. Auch traditionelle Softwaregiganten beginnen, Lösungen im Bereich Marketing, Sales und Service zu vermarkten. Für viele Unternehmen aller...

Convergence in Broadcast and Communications Media offers concise and accurate information for engineers and technicians tackling products and systems combining audio, video, data processing and communications. Without adequate fundamental knowledge of the core technologies, products could be flawed or even fail. John Watkinson has provided a definitive professional guide, designed as a standard point of reference for engineers, whether you are...

Well logging has come a long way from the simple electrical devices of the early years. Today's tools are not only much more accurate but much more diverse in their applications. Among these are tools that characterize geological properties of rocks in the borehole in a way that was previously only possible with oriented cores. Thus, borehole imaging, nuclear spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance, and paleomagnetic logging provide precise i...

Offers insight and ideas for practicing family therapists in such essential areas as - negotiating flexible, appropriate boundaries between family members and between yourself and your clients, constructing ecomaps of a client's support systems and stressors, and, encouraging clients to set realistic, achievable goals.

Auctoritas patrum ist ein kennzeichnender Begriff des Verfassungslebens in der r¿mischen Republik. Er umfasst verschiedene Akte des Senats, der als Regierungsorgan mit anderen Verfassungsorganen zusammengewirkt hat. F¿r die Analyse der hierzu einschl¿gen F¿e kommt der Erfassung der gesetzlichen und gewohnheitsrechtlichen Normen ebenso Bedeutung zu wie der Rekonstruktion des jeweiligen politischen und sozialgeschichtlichen Kontexts. Davon zu tr...

Semiconductor Surfaces and Interfaces deals with structural and electronic properties of semiconductor surfaces and interfaces. The first part introduces the general aspects of space-charge layers, of clean-surface and adatom-induced surfaces states, and of interface states. It is followed by a presentation of experimental results on clean and adatom-covered surfaces which are explained in terms of simple physical and chemical concepts. Where ...

Researchers and graduate students in the theory of stochastic processes will find in this 35th volume some thirty articles on martingale theory, martingales and finance, analytical inequalities and semigroups, stochastic differential equations, functionals of Brownian motion and of L¿ processes. Ledoux's article contains a self-contained introduction to the use of semigroups in spectral gaps and logarithmic Sobolev inequalities, the contributi...

partialdifferentialequations , variationalinequal­ ities, complementarity problemsand more generally, equilibriumproblems. The classes ofgeneralizedmonotonemappingsare more or lessrelatedto the classes ofgeneralizedfunctionsvia differentiation or subdifferentiation procedures.They are also link edvia severalothermeans.

Dark matter research is one of the most fascinating and active fields among current high-profile scientific endeavors. It holds the key to all major breakthroughs to come in the fields of cosmology and astroparticle physics. The present volume is particularly concerned with the sources and the detection of dark matter and dark energy in the universe and will prove to be an invaluable research tool for all scientists who work in this field.

A Vertical Empire describes the work in rocketry and space research carried out in the UK in the 1950s and 1960s. At one time, the programme was as sophisticated as those in the US and Russia. The projects were cancelled one by one as Britain's attempts to keep up militarily with the two superpowers weakened, as a consequence of Treasury pressure and the belief that there was no economic future in space technology.Much of the material in this ...

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This is the definitive report on Fragments, Binjamin Wilkomirski's invented "memoir" of a childhood spent in concentration camps, which created international turmoil.In 1995 Fragments, a memoir by a Swiss musician named Binjamin Wilkomirski, was published in Germany. Hailed by critics, who compared it with the masterpieces of Primo Levi and Anne Frank, the book received major prizes and was translated into nine languages. The English-language ...

Buddhism teaches that enlightenment is our natural state, the problem is that we do not recognize this state, owing to the mind's confusion about its true nature. Thinley Norbu presents the Buddhist view in a way meant to clear up misconceptions and awaken the reader's innate wisdom. Thinley Norbu is a distinguished teacher of the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism and the author of The Small Golden Key and Magic Dance.

A sensual tale of art, lust, and deception-now a major motion picture In 1630s Amsterdam, tulipomania has seized the populace. Everywhere men are seduced by the fantastic exotic flower. But for wealthy merchant Cornelis Sandvoort, it is his young and beautiful wife, Sophia, who stirs his soul. She is the prize he desires, the woman he hopes will bring him the joy that not even his considerable fortune can buy. Cornelis yearns for an heir, but ...

A fun loving family story with nuggets of wisdom and practical problem solving techniques.

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Theodore Ayrault Dodge (1842-1909) was the 19th century's greatest military historian and author of biographies. More than an "armchair" military historian, he participated in the Civil War's fiercest and costliest fighting. This is Dodge's journal, offering a harrowing and vivid account of life--and death--in the Army of the Potomac during its most critical year. Illustrations.

Na-o-mi. The three syllables of this name, unusual in 1920s Japan, captivate a 28-year-old engineer, who soon becomes infatuated with the girl so named, a teenaged cafe waitress. Drawn to her Eurasian features and innocent demeanor, Joji is eager to whisk young Naomi away from the seamy underbelly of post--World War I Tokyo and to mold her into his ideal wife. But when the two come together to indulge their shared passion for Western culture, ...