A study of the autobiographical documentary in America from the 1960s to the start of the 21st century. Jim Lane looks at the ways in which autobiographical documentaries such as "Roger and Me" and "Sherman's March" raise weighty questions about American cultural life.
Re-evaluates the relationship betwen parents and their children on a variety of subjects surrounding sex and emphasizes a common-sense, positive, ethics-based approach to teaching youngsters about sex.
This book contains eleven refereed research papers on deformation quantization by leading experts in the respective fields. These contributions are based on talks presented on the occasion of the meeting between mathematicians and theoretical physicists held in Strasbourg in May 2001.
Topics covered are: star-products over Poisson manifolds, quantization of Hopf algebras, index theorems, globalization and cohomological problems. Both the math...
This is a simple, yet expansive guide through the labyrinth of Unity Consciousness. Touching upon current evolutionary physics, ancient philosophical principles, comparative religion and metaphysical practicality - the "Academy of Ur" beckons one toward Self and Universal exploration. Terry Goodman weaves humor and humility, through what can seem daunting subject matter, creating a path of investigation that offers concrete tools, alternate pe...
The Lake Louise Winter Institute is held annually to explore recent trends in physics. The proceedings contain pedagogical and review lectures by invited experts and contributed presentations by participants.
Tom und Julie Hirschfeld zeigen in diesem praktischen Ratgeber überzeugend, dass Erziehen kein Talent ist, das allein den Frauen in die Wiege gelegt wurde. Im Gegenteil: Als Geschäftsmann haben Sie bereits genau die richtigen Fähigkeiten, um Ihre Beziehung zu den Kindern effektiv und mit Freude zu gestalten. Wenden Sie einfach Ihre "Business-Skills" auch zu Hause an: gehen Sie mit Ihren Kindern partnerschaftlich um, treffen Sie Vereinbarungen,...
This collaborative effort contains 61 new or revised chapters by renowned experts from a vast range of medical fields, with over one-third more material than previous editions. Scientists, cardiologists, radiation safety officers, regulators, engineers, and technicians each take turns presenting carefully considered investigations and observations, supplemented with clinical and nonclinical data, basic radiation principles, and issues from an ...
Do animals have mothers, too? Of course they do - just like me and you! Meet the little joey, whose kangaroo mother carries him in her pouch. See the cygnet riding on the back of the mother swan. Eric Carle′s colourful collages of animal babies with their caring and affectionate mothers offer small readers visual delight as well as comforting reassurance. The playful question-and-answer text invites children and adults to read aloud together. ...
»Kurz bevor sie aufhörte, ein Kind zu sein, hat Anna sich geschworen, das, was sie jetzt fühlte und dachte, wie ein Kind fühlt und denkt, nie zu vergessen.«Als die Hauptfigur von Erica Pedrettis Roman nach über drei Jahrzehnten zum erstenmal in die >engste Heimat<, eine mährische Kleinstadt, zurückkehrt, muß sie feststellen, daß ihre Erinnerungen die kindliche Unschuld verloren haben. Zu viel ist in der Zwischenzeit geschehen: Der Krieg, der j...
From his conversation with the conservative William F. Buckley on PBS to his testimony at the Chicago Seven trial to his passionate riffs on Cezanne, Blake, Whitman, and Pound, the interviews collected in Spontaneous Mind, chronologically arranged and in some cases previously unpublished, were conducted throughout Allen Ginsberg's long career. From the late 1950s to the mid-1990s, Ginsberg speaks frankly about his life, his work, and major eve...
Für Peter Sloterdijk läßt sich die Frage, wie man in kürzestmöglicher Form den Beitrag des 20. Jahrhunderts zur Geschichte der Zivilisation charakterisieren könnte, durch drei Kriterien beantworten: die Praxis des Terrorismus, das Konzept des Designs und den Umweltgedanken. Durch das Erste wurden die Interaktionen zwischen Feinden auf postmilitärische Grundlagen gestellt, durch das Zweite gelang dem Funktionalismus der Wiederanschluß an die Wa...
The key to becoming fully alive and joyful is to develop our natural capacity for attention and to be fully present here and now. In this informative guidebook to practical Buddhism you discover: How to live life with equanimity, loving-kindness, compassion, and joyHow to cut through obsessions with the external world, relationships, harmful emotions, pleasure and power, and selfTried-and-true methods for cultivating active attention with your...
Today, there are more than twenty complete zodiacs in Washington, D.C., each one pointing to an extraordinary mystery. David Ovason, who has studied these astrological devices for ten years, now reveals why they have been placed in such abundance in the center of our nation's capital and explains their interconnections. His richly illustrated text tells the story of how Washington, from its foundation in 1791, was linked with the zodiac, with ...
Charlie's class is learning about the meaning of community, so he and Mama go to town to see all the people who work, live and make up the community. Illustrations.
Der schwarze Königssohn Othoon war lange Jahre in einer Höhle eingesperrt und wird plötzlich ans Tageslicht gezerrt. Verwildert und ohne Sprache muß er das Herrschen und überleben lernen. Dabei hat er etwas, was Menschen, denen er nun begegnet, fehlt: Gefühle, Ahnungen, Instinkte. Doch der Wilde wird gezähmt, er erlernt Sprache und Umgangsformen, verliert dabei die Freiheit erneut.Im zweiten Teil des Stücks sieht der Zuschauer in den Kopf von ...
