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As a young speechwriter in the Reagan White House, Peter Robinson was responsible for the celebrated "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" speech. He was also one of a core group of writers who became informal experts on Reagan -- watching his every move, absorbing not just his political positions, but his personality, manner, and the way he carried himself. In How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life, Robinson draws on journal entries from his days a...

The collected short works of an American master, including The Red Badge of Courage and Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. In his short life, Stephen Crane produced stories that are among the most enduring in the history of American fiction. The Red Badge of Courage manages to capture both the realistic grit and the grand hallucinations of soldiers at war. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets reflects the range of Crane's ability to invest the most tragi...

The shorter works of one of the world's greatest writers, including The Gambler and Notes from Underground The short works of Dostoevsky exist in the very large shadow of his astonishing longer novels, but they too are among literature's most revered works. The Gambler chronicles Dostoevsky's own addiction, which he eventually overcame. Many have argued that Notes from Underground contains several keys to understanding the themes of the longer...

Why, in the minds of most Americans, are Latinas still thought of as maids, seductresses, and booty-shaking salsa divas? Never has the concept of Latina identity been more relevant. Also, never has there been a new generation of Latinas so ready to say what they mean and even criticize the Latina generation that preceded them. Until now. In "Border-Line Personalities, " twenty writers share their poignant and wickedly funny stories about fight...

This is the third comic book compilation in a series dedicated to that rabble-rousing, misbehaving menace--Bart Simpson.

Musashi wants to take on Yagyu Sekishusai, recognized by many as the greatest living swordsman around. But Sekishusai is an ailing old man, and Musashi is on the verge of killing him in his sleep. Will this path truly take Musashi further along the way of the sword?

In Microsoft's Office 2003, users experience the merger of the power of the classic Office suite of applications with the fluidity of data exchange inherent in XML. With XML at its heart, the new version of Microsoft's desktop suite liberates the information stored in millions of documents created with Office software over the past fifteen years, making it available to a wide variety of programs.Office 2003 XML offers an in-depth exploration o...

In this collection of essays David A Dyker explores some of the most difficult and fascinating aspects of the process of transition from autocratic "real socialism" to capitalism that is sometimes democratic, sometimes authoritarian. The stress is on the economic dimension of transformation, but the author sets the economic drama firmly within a political economy framework and a historical perspective. Trends in key economic variables are anal...

This latest volume of "Advances" contains a series of original and innovative empirical and survey papers that investigate theoretical and contemporary issues facing participatory organizations. The first four papers explore the growing area of participatory and labor-managed firms' survival. The second group of three papers offers a number of new approaches and insights into the performance effects of participatory firms, and the final group ...

The National Pastime" offers baseball history available nowhere else. Each fall this publication from the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) explores baseball history with fresh and often surprising views of past players, teams, and events. Drawn from the research efforts of more than 6, 700 SABR members, "The National Pastime" establishes an accurate, lively, and entertaining historical record of baseball. "A Note from the Editor, ...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Die Bundesregierung verfolgt mit ihrer Drogenpolitik neben der Reduzierung des Drogenangebotes durch die Bekämpfung der Rauschgiftkriminalität - das vorrangige Ziel, die Nachfrage nach illegalen Rauschmitteln so gering wie möglich zu halten. Dies bedingt neben einer offensiven und gezielten Öffentlichkeitsarbeit und Suchtprävention ein ausreichendes und flächendeckendes Angebot an Beratungs- und Therapieplätzen, um b...

Inhaltsangabe:Zusammenfassung: In der vorliegenden Diplomarbeit werden aus der Spieltheorie und ausgewählten sozialpsychologischen Theorien Bedingungen abgeleitet, wie das kooperative Verhalten der Mitarbeiter durch die Unternehmensführung gefördert werden kann. Kooperatives Verhalten geht in dieser Arbeit über den Willen der Mitarbeiter zur Kooperation mit Kollegen hinaus. Es umfasst ferner die Summe aller Verhaltensweisen, die sich positiv ...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Um am Markt bestehen zu können, muss ein Unternehmen in der Lage sein, zukünftige Entwicklungen frühzeitig zu antizipieren und in die Strategie mit einzubeziehen. Ein Unternehmen sollte daher Führungsinstrumente verwenden, welche es ermöglichen, Strategien schnell anzupassen und im gesamten Unternehmen transparent zu kommunizieren. In der Vergangenheit wurden mittelständische Unternehmen verstärkt anhand finanzwirts...

The writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe show an awareness of traditional and contemporary attitudes towards women, in particular medieval attitudes towards the female body. This study examines the extent to which they make use of such attitudes in their writing, and investigates the importance of the female body as a means of explaining their mystical experiences and the insight gained from them, in both writers, the female body is...

For over 100 years, the Texas League has been one of the top minor leagues in the Southwest. This work is a statistical history of the Texas League from its inception in 1888 through 1958, when Houston, Fort Worth and Dallas left for higher aspirations in Triple A and major league baseball._ The book is arranged by year, and each chapter begins with a short introduction that also highlights a player, team, or aspect of the game that season. Th...

Developing the Public Relations Campaign takes a simple, easy-to-follow approach that helps students develop a public relations campaign in a service-learning environment. This text is designed for courses that use a team project approach rather than a traditional lecture/note-taking model. It introduces a three-step process-the PIE chart-that more accurately describes the campaign development process used in the real world than the traditiona...

The importance of surface metrology has long been acknowledged in manufacturing and mechanical engineering, but has now gained growing recognition in an expanding number of new applications in fields such as semiconductors, electronics and optics. Metrology is the scientific study of measurement, and surface metrology is the study of the measurement of rough surfaces. In this book, Professor David Whitehouse, an internationally acknowledged su...

This anthology collects, for the first time in one volume, not only generous selections from each of Smith's books but also substantial selections from his other work, including his lectures on jurisprudence, his history and philosophy of science, his criticism and belles lettres, and his philosophy of language.

The exploration of the subnuclear world is carried out through increasingly complex experiments covering a wide range of energies and in a large variety of environments -- from particle accelerators and underground detectors to satellites and space laboratories. For these research programs to succeed, novel techniques, new materials and new instrumentation need to be used in detectors, often on a large scale. This book reviews the advances mad...

What fun! A Hanukkah book chock full of history, stories, activities, music, riddles, games, mazes, cartoons, puzzles, recipes, crafts, songs, and so much more. In this activity-packed, fact-filled new title in the enormously successful JPS Kids' Catalog Series, Adler provides just the right balance of education and entertainment. This is a book that children and their families will enjoy again and again, year after year. The opening section o...