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This book charts the emergence and development of the problem of mourning in the writings of Freud, Proust, and Freud's successor Lacan. Freud's idea of "sorrow work" and Proust's concept of involuntary memory defined the terms of the classic modernist account of mourning in the fields of psychoanalysis and literature. Yet their insistence on the egotistical aspects of loss to the exclusion of all ethical and political considerations threatens...

This book proposes an innovative treatment of minority language policies, by looking at them as policy options that can be methodically evaluated. The author applies the analytical concepts and technical tools of policy analysis to guide the reader through a step-by-step application of notions such as effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, with particular reference to the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. The thrust of this b...

An elegant synthesis done by the leading scholar in the field, which nicely integrates the work on the American Revolution over the last three decades but never loses contact with the older, classic questions that we have been arguing about for over two hundred years."-Joseph J. Ellis, author of Founding Brothers A magnificent account of the revolution in arms and consciousness that gave birth to the American republic. When Abraham Lincoln sou...

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The MacArthur Bible Handbook" is the ultimate book-by-book survey of the Bible, including charts, graphs, and illustrations from today's leading expository teacher. A unique reference tool that is committed to quality and biblical teaching -- will help you easily understand each book of the Bible, its historical context, and its place in Scripture. Bible Book Basics at a Glance! The meaning of each Bible book's nameWho wrote itThe date and set...

Christian adulthood is the focus of this book. In it we attempt to re-envision, to see anew, the patterns of power, confidence, and loss that shape maturity. This effort is guided by two ideas or, better, images that have long been central in Christian spirituality: vocation and virtue. Our goal is to befriend these images, to rescue them from narrow interpretations that have weakened each, to recover their power to illumine our adult journey ...

Chittister presents an insightful, personal call to reach beyond the immediacy of a moment in everyday life and savor the sacred rituals that underlie it.

Campbell's elegant attempt to make sense of our planet--originally shaped by natural cataclysm and now threatened with destruction by environmental cataclysms of human origin.

In the early days of Pong and Pac Man, video games appeared to be little more than an idle pastime. Today, video games make up a multi-billion dollar industry that rivals television and film. "The Video Game Theory Reader" brings together exciting new work on the many ways video games are reshaping the face of entertainment and our relationship with technology. Drawing upon examples from widely popular games ranging from "Space Invaders" to "F...

This six book series follows young Nathan Beauchamp's British Naval career during the Napoleonic Wars. Falcon's Revenge finds Nathan (Nate) making his way back to Portsmouth for reassignment to the rebuilding fleet. He battles pirates, privateers, nature, a sinking ship, and finds and loses romance.

This book explores effects of speech perception strategies upon morphological structure. Using connectionist modeling, perception and production experiments, and calculations over lexica, Jennifer Hay investigates the role of two factors known to be relevant to speech perception: phonotactics and lexical frequency. Hay demonstrates that low probability phoneme transitions across morpheme boundaries exert a considerable force toward the mainten...

This work sets forth the guidelines for an Afrocentric literary theory and goes on to apply that theory to three novels: "Invisible Man, " "Song of Solomon" and "The Chaneysville Incident.

The chapters in this edited volume raise important issues of the relation between research and its various external "publics.

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Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life examines the way Plath made herself into a writer. Close analysis of Plath's reading and apprenticeship writing both in fiction and poetry sheds considerable light on Plath's work in the late 1960s. In this updated edition there will be discussion of the aftermath of Plath's death including the publication of her Collected Poems edited by Ted Hughes which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1982. Biographies of P...

Das Buch bietet eine fundierte Einführung in das Customer Relationship Management (CRM) und erläutert systematisch CRM-spezifische Prozesse, Systeme und Technologien. Wichtige Prozesse im CRM werden anhand ausführlicher Prozessbeschreibungen und Referenzmodelle dargestellt. Eine funktionale Betrachtung von CRM-Systemen zeigt auf, wie diese Prozesse durch Informations- und Kommunikationssysteme unterstützt werden können. Aufbauend auf dieser fu...

What better way to heal our land and create National Security, than a determined Plan, above all others, to reverse the plague of Mental & Emotional Illness that sweeps America!

The monograph is devoted to a systematic study of means of Hilbert space operators by a unified method based on the theory of double integral transformations and Peller's characterization of Schur multipliers. General properties on means of operators such as comparison results, norm estimates and convergence criteria are established. After some general theory, special investigations are focused on three one-parameter families of A-L-G (arithme...

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Dieser Leitfaden vermittelt sehr kompakt einen Überblick über Controlling als Konzept der Unternehmensführung durch Planung und Kontrolle mit besonderer Einbeziehung von Kosten- und Investitionsrechnung sowie Informationsverarbeitung und Berichtswesen. Die Besonderheit des Buches ist die an konkreten Aufgabenstellungen ausgerichtete methodische und praxisorientierte Darstellung des Controlling, wobei der Leser insbesondere nach Fragestellungen...