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New edition sequel to "The Indian in the Cupboard".

During the past decade there has been renewed interest in the German idea of "Bildung." This collection of newly written essays asks how this classical idea of an education of the self - as proposed by neo-humanists such as Schiller, Von Humboldt and Hegel - can make sense of the education of humanity in the information age. Timely re-examination of the tradition of "Bildung" in the context of postmodernity. Asks how the classical idea of an...

The Revolution in Corporate Finance has established itself as a key text for students of corporate finance with wide use on a range of courses. Using seminal articles from the highly regarded Bank of America Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, it gives students insight into the practical implications of the most recent theoretical advances in the field.This extensively revised and updated fourth edition contains a significant amount of new m...

Every workplace has its share of conflict, and one of training’s universal goals is to help organizations resolve it in a way that brings benefit to everyone involved. This timely activity book offers 30 ready-to-use exercises trainers can use to help workshop participants communicate more effectively and create positive outcomes from conflict situations. The Conflict and Communication Activity Book features: * Field-proven exercises from the ...

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This handbook is aimed at clinicians wanting to cousel couples in hospital, community or domestic settings. Its focus is on helping the reader to form an alliance with the couple to maintain or improve health and well-being, and to show by case examples, and by evidence-based good practice, how to achieve this. It also shows how to refer the couple on when this cannot be achieved.The chapters are divided loosely around life cycle events, start...

At a time when religious fundamentalism is having a huge impact upon the world, this book helps us to understand how people acquire, conceptualise and practise religion at both personal and social levels. At a time when religious fundamentalism is having a huge impact upon the world, this book helps us to understand how people acquire, conceptualise and practise religion at both personal and social levels. Explores religion both as a social ph...

This text shows how to integrate all activities in project management to control, develop and operate a business system. It provides case examples, presenting proven experiences from leading international companies.

This book provides sensible, practical assistance on pressure equipment. European Pressure Equipment has been written using the day-to-day practical experience of pressure vessel users, manufacturers and suppliers for specifiers, and users of pressure equipment.

The book features 58 production stills and frame enlargements and also includes a greatly expanded Thematic Index of Films. Two new sections will help the reader discover labour films in chronological order or by nationality or affiliation with certain cinematic movements.

A beguiling picture of the ups and downs of backwoods living.

It comes as a great shock when the active and very articulate man you have shared your life with for sixty odd years has a stroke and loses all his speech.” Mick Sutton knew his wife, but could not speak her name. He could not write his own, could hardly make sense of the hospital menu, let alone read his paper or a book. His frustration was palpable. Then he met Fiona, his Speech Therapist, whose guidance worked wonders. Gradually she built u...

Lizard Got into the Paint Pots relays a colorful yet messy incident.

This is the poignant story of the dilemma Elizabeth Swenson faces when her father dies and her aged mother, Edna Mae threatens to end her life with a doctor's assistance if she is forced to go to a rest home. At first Elizabeth holds out, unwilling to accept euthanasia, but when her fiancé is suddenly transferred from California to Boston, she is faced with accepting her mother's plan to commit suicide, or continue to care for her in the famil...

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The Adventure of Leadership is an incredibly exciting and fast paced book about leadership in business and in life. This book presents an irreverent and iconoclastic challenge to conventional ideas about leadership creating a wide-open, have-fun approach to business. Using stories and metaphors from his personal involvement in the world of adventure, Klopp, explains not only how to lead but why. This inspirational and motivational book, design...

The story explains the events, which lead a bastard child to become the greatest King of his time. It takes him from childhood to a Knight worthy of becoming The Champion of Paris. It encompasses the legend of his witch grandmother and her pact with the devil to produce an Empire that was destined to last a millennium and beyond, while exploring the myths and legends of Alan Rufus de Richmond and the beautiful Lady Godiva of Coventry, a love d...

A drop-dead gorgeous redhead wants Sam Spader to prove in court that she is the rightful heir to an estate valued at upwards of a hundred million dollars. In less than a year this fortune is scheduled to revert to the State as an Abandoned Asset. To liberate this massive money from the greedy clutches of the State and place it into the greedy clutches of the gorgeous lady, Sam would have to solve a forty-year-old mystery that has baffled dozen...

Some call the author a mystic, a seer. He knows himself simply as, "The Seeker." Editors note: The One and The Golden Circle is intelligent, fascinating, ingenious and thoroughly entertaining. The sequencing of the human genome is complete and great strides forward in medicine are anticipated. But what other secrets await us in our DNA internal roadmap of life? Do we have ancestral and evolutionary memory locked in our genetic make up? Do we h...

A provocative look at the subculture that has shaped our changing attitudes toward the digital age--now in paperback! Douglas Thomas offers an in-depth history of this important and fascinating subculture, contrasting mainstream images of hackers with a detailed firsthand account of the computer underground. Thomas studies novels and films (Neuromancer, WarGames, Hackers, and The Matrix) and reveals contemporary views of hackers as technologic...