Die religiöse Erziehung durchlief bei den Hui, den chinesischen Muslimen, vom 17. bis 19. Jahrhundert eine besondere Entwicklung und wird als Jingtang Jiaoyu, Bücherhallen Erziehung, bezeichnet. Es wurden eigenständige Schriften zum Islam in chinesischer Sprache verfasst. Geistliche und Gelehrte versuchten die islamische Lehre in ihre konfuzianisch geprägte Umwelt zu transferieren und schriftlich zu fixieren. Auch die Verwaltung von Schule und...
Current Issues in Safety-Critical Systems contains the invited papers presented at the eleventh annual Safety-critical Systems Symposium, held in February 2003. The safety-critical systems domain is rapidly expanding and its industrial problems are always candidates for academic research. It embraces almost all industry sectors, current issues in one are commonly appropriate to others. The Safety-critical System Symposium provides an annual fo...
Dieses Buch begibt sich auf die Spuren der sagenumwobenen Amazonen. Es beleuchtet die berühmte Amazonensage in all ihren Facetten, begibt sich auf eine archäologische Spurensuche und liefert neueste Forschungserkenntnisse aus der legendären Heimat der Amazonen am Fluss Thermodon und von der einst von Amazonen bewohnten Insel Lemnos. Eingehende Untersuchungen der antiken Amazonensagen in Kombination mit neuesten Entdeckungen vor Ort entschlüsse...
Störungen des Denkens und der Sprache sind Kernsymptome der Schizophrenie. Die neuronalen Korrelate dieser Störungen werden in der vorliegenden Arbeit mit funktioneller Magnetresonanztomographie (FMRT) und Magnetenzephalographie (MEG) untersucht. Durch die Integration der Erkenntnisebenen Psychopathologie, Kognitionspsychologie und zerebrale Anatomie wird ein Modell für die Entstehung dieser Phänomene entwickelt. Psychopathologische Symptome k...
Exclusion from social groups is a source of conflict, stress and tension in social life around the globe. How do children and adolescents evaluate exclusion based on group membership? This is the report of an investigation of social exclusion in the contexts of friendship, peer groups and school.
Horatio Nelson was the greatest naval commander of his age. In this masterly analysis of his fighting career, the acclaimed naval historian Oliver Warner examines every battle in which he participated, but concentrates on the three in which his command as an admiral was crucial. The first was the Battle of the Nile in which the bulk of Napoleon's fleet was brilliantly destroyed, so eliminating the risk to Britain's Indian possessions. In 1801 ...
Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Taye (1813-1899) was one of the most influential figures and prolific writers in the Tibetan Buddhist world. He was a founder and the single most important proponent of the nonsectarian movement that flourished in eastern Tibet and remains popular today. Two additional texts discuss his previous lives and recount Kongtrul's final days. The Autobiography of Jamgön Kongtrul is part of The Tsadra Foundation Series published ...
Jake Hannibal grew up back east and came of age just as the war between the states began. He quickly volunteered for service in the union army and soon found himself facing the confederate army at Fredricksburg, VA. Receiving a wound that would make him unfit for further service he decided to head west, to get as far away from the war torn east as possible. His one desire was to start his own cattle ranch, but Jake was in for a rude awakening....
It is 1730. Abner, ten, and his family's religious group are refugees that are Pennsylvania bound, not knowing where danger lurks, where they will sleep or find food. Pennsylvania Dutch roots, language, culture, and food are explored as Abner learns life's lessons.
A Special Forces soldier, working in a secret organization, leads tribal warriors in a war in Southeast Asia. He loses his humanity and struggles to understand the root of violence within, in a story that is inspirational, soul searching, informative, and uplifting.