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Hailed as "magical", this "Los Angeles Times" bestseller is a fascinating book tracing a mystical journey with an unlikely pair, a young monk and his American poet friend, into the soul of an ancient religion and inside the mind of a Buddhist master.

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Ein Fachbuch im besten Sinne des Wortes. Führende Wissenschaftler, darunter Stanley B. Prusiner, Nobelpreisträger des Jahres 1997, vermitteln einen aktuellen und umfassenden Überblick über die durch einen neuartigen Erregertyp verursachten Prionkrankheiten. Die Beschreibung der Krankheiten (z.B. Creutzfeld-Jakob, Kuru, BSE und Scapie) und der Geschichte ihrer Erforschung, die Darstellung ihrer Biochemie, Molekularbiologie und Genetikm und die...

More and more employees are having to sit psychometric tests as part of the interviewing process.

Liquid markets generate hundreds or thousands of ticks (the minimum change in price a security can have, either up or down) every business day. Data vendors such as Reuters transmit more than 275, 000 prices per day for foreign exchange spot rates alone. Thus, high-frequency data can be a fundamental object of study, as traders make decisions by observing high-frequency or tick-by-tick data. Yet most studies published in financial literature d...

This reference work provides important information about the role academic research has played in the ever-evolving laws covering homosexuality. A comprehensive overview of homosexuality and the law, this fascinating dictionary opens with a history of the Gay Rights Movement which started in Germany during the l860s with Karl Heinrich Ulrich, the "Grandfather of Gay Liberation, " who wrote 12 books including, Researches on the Riddle of Love ...

This comprehensive and up-to-date volume includes commentary on each book of the Bible with maps, charts, and outlines.

In the small town of Tall Pine, Minnesota, at the Cup O'Delight Cafe, the townsfolk gather for what they call the Tall Pine Polka, an event in which heavenly coffee, good food, and that feeling of being alive among friends inspires both body and soul to dance. There's the cafe owner, the robust and beautiful Lee O'Leary, who escaped to the northwoods from an abusive husband, Miss Penk and Frau Katt, the town's only lesbian couple ("Well, we're...

This is the most penetrating study available about the life and specifically the writing of Stephen Crane.

Penetrating the murkiest corners of glittering New Orleans society, Benjamin January brought murderers to justice in A Free Man of Color, Fever Season, and Graveyard Dust. Now, in Barbara Hambly's haunting new novel, he risks his life in a violent plantation world darker than anything in the city....When slave owner Simon Fourchet asks Benjamin January to investigate sabotage, arson, and murder on his plantation, January is reluctant to do any...

In an uproarious, eye-opening history of Europe's notorious royal houses, readers will find a lively investigation that leaves no throne unturned and that will make them glad they live in a democracy. Illustrations.

The interviews, essays, and articles collected here span a quarter century of Philip Roth's distinguished career and "reveal [a] preoccupation with the relationship between the written and the unwritten world." Here is Roth on himself and his work and the controversies it's engendered. Here too are Roth's writings on the Eastern European writers he has always championed, and on baseball, American fiction, and American Jews. The essential colle...

It began ages past in fabled Atlantis, when a mad, power-hungry queen forged a key to a door never meant to be opened by mortal man--its inception would hasten her own death and the extinction of her vainglorious race. For millennia the key lay forgotten beneath the waves, lost amid the ruins of what had been the most beautiful city on Earth. But however jealously the sea hoards its secrets, sooner or later it yields them up. Now, in present-d...

The first book to document the mistreatment of the Jehovah's Witnesses under the Nazi regime, this volume is a groundbreaking and crucial chapter in the history of the Holocaust. Introduction by Michael Berenbaum, the eminent holocaust scholar. 22 photos.

Max Byrd, the renowned author of Jackson and Jefferson, brings history to life in this stunning novel set in America's Gilded Age. Grant is an unforgettable portrait of a colorful era-and the flawed, iron-willed, mysterious giant at its center. Ulysses S. Grant pursued a tragic war to its very end. But his final battle starts in 1880, when he loses his race to become the first U.S. President to serve three terms, goes bankrupt, and begins a fi...

A songbird is silenced ... by murder.With her soulful voice and delicate beauty, Starr Hendrix seemed destined to live up to her name and hit it big as a jazz singer. But her career ended before it began, and Mali's father offered Starr a second chance by giving her top billing as singer for his popular jazz band's latest show. Mali isn't surprised when Starr doesn't show — but everyone is shocked when the troubled woman is found savagely murd...

Diaries of Girls and Women captures and preserves the diverse lives of forty-seven girls and women who lived in Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin between 1837 and 1999. A compelling work of living history, it brings together both diaries from historical society archives and diaries still in possession of the diarists or their descendents.Editor Suzanne L. Bunkers has selected these excerpts from more than 450 diaries she examined. Some diaries we...

Verfahren der Netzplantechnik stellen seit langem einen wesentlichen Beitrag der quantitativen Betriebswirtschaftslehre zur Unterstützung von Unternehmen dar. Die sorgfältige Planung knapper Ressourcen ist dabei häufig der Garant für unternehmerischen Erfolg. Jürgen Zimmermann gibt einen Überblick über Fragestellungen und Modelle zur Ablaufplanung von Projekten mit knappen Ressourcen. Auf Grundlage einer Klassifikation relevanter Zielsetzunge...

Für Konzerne, d.h. multidivisionale Unternehmen, ist die Schaffung eines Mehrwertes über alle Teileinheiten hinweg ein zentrales Ziel. Dies kann grundsätzlich über die Verbesserung des Leistungsniveaus der Teileinheiten (Mobilisierung) oder über die Verbesserung von Leistungsbeziehungen zwischen den Teileinheiten (Synergiemanagement) erfolgen. Durch geeignete Muster von Steuerungsinstrumenten kann die Realisation dieser Grundstrategien unterst...

Zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts wurden von zahlreichen namhaften Autoren sogenannte "Schulromane" verfasst. Die vorliegende Untersuchung bietet eine geschichtliche Einordnung, die Rückverfolgung der literarischen Tradition und die Differenzierung vom "Bildungsroman". Außerdem wird der Wandel der Bildungsidee vom Neuhumanismus bis zur Reformpädagogik und Jugendbewegung nachvollzogen. Bei der Interpretation der Romane von Thomas und Heinrich Man...