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Edith Stein, aus einer jüdischen Famlie stammend und 1922 zum Katholizismus konvertiert, gehört als engagierte Dozentin und Frauenrechtlerin, als Vordenkerin eines fruchtbaren Gesprächs zwischen Christen und Juden zu den prägenden Gestalten des 20. Jahrhunderts. Der Lebensweg der Philosophin und Karmelitin endete im Todeslager Auschwitz. 1998 wurde sie heilig gesprochen.

Lisa, der verhätschelte Pudel eines kinderlosen New Yorker Ehepaars, verschwindet. Der Kidnapper fordert nicht nur Lösegeld. Die Hundebesitzer sollen stellvertretend büssen für alle, die ihn zu dem gemacht haben, der er heute ist. Der Routinefall gerät in die Hände eines blutjungen Streifenpolizisten, den die verschiedensten Motive bewegen, sich seiner anzunehmen. Aus einem fast harmlosen Streich erwächst eine beklemmende und gewalttätige Trag...

Florian hat seinen Geliebten durch den Tod verloren, Babette ihren Mann. Die Suche nach dem blauen Kleid bringt die beiden zusammen: Geteiltes Leid ist halbes Leid? Wenn es nur so einfach wäre ...

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Signal analysis from concept to application Signal analysis, a method of arriving at a structural description of a signal so that later high-level algorithms can interpret its content, is a growing field with an increasing number of applications. Signal Analysis: Time, Frequency, Scale, and Structure opens a window into the practice of signal analysis by providing a gradual yet thorough introduction to the theory behind signal analysis as well...

This book takes an excursion through solar science, science history, and geoclimate with a husband and wife team who revealed some of our sun's most stubborn secrets.E Walter and Annie S D Maunder's work helped in understanding our sun's chemical, electromagnetic and plasma properties. They knew the sun's sunspot migration patterns and its variable, climate-affecting, inactive and active states in short and long time frames. An inactive solar ...

This book takes an excursion through solar science, science history, and geoclimate with a husband and wife team who revealed some of our sun's most stubborn secrets.E Walter and Annie S D Maunder's work helped in understanding our sun's chemical, electromagnetic and plasma properties. They knew the sun's sunspot migration patterns and its variable, climate-affecting, inactive and active states in short and long time frames. An inactive solar ...

American Maggie Monroe is a journalist for New York's hard-hitting current affairs show Newsline. Independent and fearless, the more cutting-edge the story, the happier she is. But when her next assignment turns out to be an in-depth documentary on the decline of England's ruling classes, she's furious at being sent to cover a bloody tea party. Meet the Earl and Countess of Bevan, eccentric, maddening and with family secrets to hide. Meet Dani...

The accomplishments and hardships of the Jewish people, beginning with New Amsterdam and New York and continuing with other areas, is covered here. An overview of the Jews' migrations around Europe, the West Indies, and the North and South American continents is also included.

This sequel to Stein's Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas has been long misunderstood and neglected. An account of her experiences resulting from writing a bestseller, Everybody's Autobiography is funny and engaging, but also a seering meditation on the meaning of identity, success, and America. Stein at her most accessible and her most serious. Rejacketed and reprinted.

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Karsh: A Biography in Images gives an overview of the photographer's career, from his beginnings in theater to his renowned portraits of the rich and famous.

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This work extends Paul Gottfried's examination of Western managerial government's growth in the last third of the 20th century. Linking multiculturalism to a distinctive political and religious context, it argues that welfare-state democracy, unlike bourgeois liberalism, has rejected the distinction between government and civil society.

Managing Wastes-Implications of Waste Disposals to Environmental Quality: Contaminants in the Soil of the Rootzone: Transport, Uptake and Remediation: B. Clothier et al., Issues in Waste Disposal and Management: R.G.

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Through the perspectives of mass politics, this book challenges popular misconceptions about Asian Americans as politically apathetic, disloyal, fragmented, unsophisticated and inscrutable by showcasing results of the 2000-01 Multi City Asian American Political Survey.