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Ein einfaches, eingängiges und gründliches Handbuch für Anfänger und Fortgeschrittene. Mit praktischem Mini-Lexikon für Blechbläser sowie Tipps für den Kauf einer Trompete oder Posaune. Außerdem: Informationen über Wartung und Pflege, übers Stimmen, über Mundstücke und Dämpfer, über die Familie und die Geschichte des Instruments und über die Marken. Damit Sie wissen, was Sie haben und was es gibt. Und damit Sie das Beste aus Ihrem Instrument h...

Whether recounting events from his past or examining the details of his current experience as a writer, teacher, traveler, and general witness of the world, Reynolds Price shows us how a writer finds meaning in the day-to-day details of living. In this engaging collection of fifty-two personal essays originally aired on NPR's All Things Considered, Price explores topics that range from family and faith to capital punishment and his adventures ...

Since the end of the Cold War, activists and scholars alike have celebrated the phenomenal growth of transnational social movements across the globe. For some, this new eruption of grass-roots political activism on a world scale - from the Rio Earth Summit to the Seattle anti-globalization protests - represents the emergence of a global or transnational civil society.This book provides a critical survey of recent approaches to the study of civ...

Bassam Tibi offers a radical solution to the problems faced by Islam in a rapidly changing and globalizing world. He proposes a depoliticization of the faith and the introduction of reforms to embrace secular democracy, pluralism, civil society and individual human rights. The alternative to this is the impasse of fundamentalism. The pivotal argument is that Islam is being torn between the pressure for cultural innovation and a defensive move ...

Sexualities in History is a multidisciplinary collection of key articles by prominent scholars that looks at the constantly shifting meanings, languages, and practices of western sexualities.

Serves as a reference for landscape architects, professionals and students designing external works. This volume covers landscape ponds, streams and waterfalls, fountains, edges, bank protection, revetments, dams, weirs and sluices, island rafts and jetties and drainage. It also provides technical guidance notes and drawn to scale detail sheets.

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Die Bedeutung von Kreditrisiken hat in den letzten Jahren stark zugenommen. Die Bankenkrise in Japan und die Zahlungsschwierigkeiten der Holzmann AG sollen hierfür als Beispiele genannt werden. Der wachsende Konkurrenzdruck, die Zinssenkungen im europäischen Wirtschaftsraum und die verringerten Margen im traditionellen Kreditgeschäft werden Einfluss auf die Entwicklung des Bankensektors haben. Der Kredit besitzt inn...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: In vielen empirischen Studien hat sich gezeigt, dass Composites (Mittelwertbilder) weiblicher Gesichter attraktiver eingestuft werden als die Ausgangsbilder selbst. Dies hat zur Behauptung geführt, dass Attraktivität ¿Durchschnitt¿ sei. Allerdings zeigt sich auch, dass Durchschnittsgesichter zwar attraktiv, nicht aber die attraktivsten sind. Die Methoden der Forschungen in diesem Gebiet konzentrieren sich vor allem a...

Inhaltsangabe:Problemstellung: Nicht erst seit Aufhebung der Vertriebsbindung im Jahre 1994 intensivierte sich der Wettbewerb auf dem Reisemittlermarkt in Deutschland. Veränderte Rahmenbedingungen sowohl auf der Anbieterseite (wachsender Direktvertrieb der Reiseveranstalter über Call-Center, neue Medien und TV, neue Vertriebswege über das Internet, sinkende Provisionen usw.), als auch von Seiten der Nachfrager (soziodemographische Entwicklung...

The Welsh language is the oldest living European language. This volume surveys the social history of the language in modern times. Its political status is considered, together with the use of Welsh in the courts, and in religion, education and scholarship. The promotion of Welsh is also discussed.

This "Companion" provides a definitive collection of essays on postmodern theology, drawing on the work of those individuals who have made a distinctive contribution to the field, and whose work will be significant for the theologies written in the new millennium. The definitive collection of essays on postmodern theology, drawing on the work of those individuals who have made a distinctive contribution to the field. Each essay is introduced w...

Exerpt from the Financial Times Comment & Analysis: Europe takes on reform of the welfare state: A new study indicates that while the UK has transformed its social policies, the rest of Europe has been far from idle - `[A] stimulating new book on European welfare states [Welfare States under Pressure] suggests that the view of Britain as the only great welfare state reformer is overstated. And it adds that the game across Europe is about to c...

Environmental Geomechanics covers a broad class of problems where deforming geomaterials are involved, usually coupled with fluid flow and transport of some substance. Transport of contaminants and other substances may occur in the fluids, e.g. water, water vapour and air, filling the pores of geomaterials as happens in waste disposal problems or durability problems. Mass transport also takes place in reservoir engineering problems, where the ...

Music and Modern Art" adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the relationship between these two fields of creative endeavor. Its subjects are diverse: the musicians range from Alexander Scriabin to the jazz bandleader Paul Whiteman, and from Arnold Schoenberg to Edgard Varese. The visual artists include Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Gustav Klimt, Vasily Kandinsky, and Piet Mondrian.

This theological primer lets the Bible tell its own message, providing a basic framework for Scripture that will encourage readers to take up the Bible for themselves and grow in faith, hope, and love.

Disraeli claimed that no country suffered more from the foundation of the German Reich than England. Bismarck's empire of 1871 did not, however, strike like a bolt from the blue. The question of German unity had been brewing for decades. Britain and the Germany Question reconstructs the way Victorians pictured the pre-history of the Reich from the July Revolution of 1830 until the eve of the 'Wars of German Unification'. It scrutinises how Bri...

This new edition of The Expanding World of Chemical Engineering provides an overview of recent and future developments in chemical engineering and future aspects in chemical engineering. The book is written by leading researchers in various fields of expertise and covers most important topics in chemical engineering. The topics covered include, computer application, material design, supercritical fluid technology, colloid and powder technology...

Since its early history in Greek culture, traditional rhetorical study has focused primarily on persuasive language used in the public sphere. There has been little study, however, of what Jean Nienkamp calls internal rhetoric, which "occurs between one aspect of the self and another" inside one's mind. Nienkamp opens the study of internal rhetoric by discussing how the concept developed alongside traditional classical and modern rhetorical th...

What is postmodern music and how does it differ from earlier styles, including modernist music? What roles have electronic technologies and sound production played in defining postmodern music? Has postmodern music blurred the lines between high and popular music? Addressing these and other questions, this ground-breaking collection gathers together for the first time essays on postmodernism and music written primarily by musicologists, coveri...

This up-to-date and forward-looking collection of essays on gender and religion fills a crucial gap. Interdisciplinary and multi-traditional, this volume highlights the contributions that different disciplinary approaches make to feminist/gender studies and religion. Designed for the classroom, the Reader simultaneously assesses the state of the field and raises questions for further inquiry and investigation.