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Acclaimed new novel set in the 17th century, in another world of secrets, codes and conflicts.

Fred Vargas was born in Paris in 1957. A historian and archaeologist by profession, she is now a bestselling novelist. Her books have sold over 10 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 45 languages.

Dieses Buch entwickelt Bausteine einer erfolgreichen Zusammenarbeit zwischen Unternehmensberatern und ihren Klienten. Namhafte Autoren aus Unternehmen und Managementberatungen sowie Marktbeobachter schildern die Grundvoraussetzungen einer erfolgsorientierten Partnerschaft zwischen Beratern und Beratenen. Handlungsrichtlinien für alle Phasen von Beratungsprojekten werden erläutert und best-practice anhand von Praxisfällen dargestellt. Beratern ...

Coining the term "anglosphere" to describe a loose coalition based on a common language and heritage, James C. Bennett believes that traits common to America and other English-speaking nations--a particularly strong and independent civil society, openness and receptivity to the world, its people, and ideas, and a dynamic economy--have uniquely positioned them to prosper in a time of dramatic technological and scientific change. In a wide-rangi...

The testimony of this book reaffirms the original New Testament witness, that the Christian's separation from the world is so radical that in the eyes of the unbaptized worldling he is quite literally out of his mind (Acts 26:24). Paul's description of the Christian gospel as "folly" (1 Cor. 1:18) therefore is seen to be no mere literary device but a deep penetration to the root of the Christian's alienation from the world. The basic proclamat...

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This book discusses the most basic elements of real love. It answers the question of what is love and identify ways to create understanding and mutual trust. The Author reveals how opening the heart can result in forgiveness and perpetuate love and support. Relationships do not have to be a struggle. Tension, resentment and conflicts evolve when we do not understand each another. The truth of this can be validated by our own personal experienc...

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It is a cherished fictional device to build a story around the discovery of a previously unpublished text. The stratagem is used by Henry James in The Aspern Papers. A.S. Byatt's Booker-Prize winning novel, Possession: A Romance, is also built this way. The Lee Shore is not an invention, but an actual flesh-and-blood manuscript. I only know about the book, because its author, Loyd "Pete" Collins, was a colleague and a close friend of my father...

Student Bloopers. All teachers get them in class. All teachers laugh at them and share them with friends. Every teacher swears that they will save them and some day write a book. That is exactly what Jim Womack has done. Each year he collected the best wisdom and wit from his students' writings and compiled them into a highly readable and hilarious look at what happens to History when students get hold of it. Prepare yourself for an amusement ...

A psychological novel of international intrique where in the near future, a secret organization plots to take over the Roman Catholic Church and through it the whole world. The Pope is totally unaware of the existence of this organization. A priest, the pastor of an inner city ghetto parish in Chicago, gets caught up in the organization's plot. With the help of his friends Celine and Gene, Father Joseph Daniels (Danny to his friends) works to ...

A smiling Brynna watched the swirl and splash of the armada as it formed up and fled before the wind. Whitecaps and spray flew from the prows, and every ship's company laughed out loud at their speed and the freshness of the spray in their faces. Brynna tried to find her family's ship in the rush, and finally spotted it on the far side of the bay, bravely putting out to sea just behind Ivar. There go my father and brothers, she thought with a ...

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is fortunate to have a collection of Italian drawings that encompasses a broad sweep of Italy's art history, from the Renaissance to Futurism to the contemporary, and includes works by such famed artists as Batoni, Salviati, Guercino, and Modigliani. With this publication, eighty of these drawings are provided with insightful commentary, scholarly analysis, and biographies of the artists by the renowned scholar M...

Paul Lachlan Peck, M. Ed., the editor of Classic Children's Literature for Your Home Library: 550 Years of Delightful Reading (1450-2000), is an inveterate bibliophile apart from being an ordained minister and family counselor. Here he has put together a wonderful list of books covering 550 years of children's literature. More than 130 books are reviewed by more than sixty friends and family members, whose ages range from 7¿ to 93 years. This ...

In seiner jährlichen Bilanz analysiert der Arzneiverordnungs-Report kritisch und sachlich die kassenärztlichen Arzneiverordnungen. Topaktuelle Daten, erstmals aus der Auswertung der Vollerfassung von 800 Millionen Rezepten, zeigen Verordnungsverhalten und Kosten, neue Therapie-Trends, erfolgreiche Innovationen und Spar-Optionen. "Die Autoren geben klare Empfehlungen, um die errechneten Einsparpotenziale zu realisieren. Die Darstellung konkrete...

Traces the growth and evolution of a Taiwan's sense of itself as a separate and distinct entity by examining the diverse ways a discourse of nation has been produced in the Taiwanese cultural imagination.

Traces the growth and evolution of a Taiwan's sense of itself as a separate and distinct entity by examining the diverse ways a discourse of nation has been produced in the Taiwanese cultural imagination.

Climate change is a major environmental concern of regional, national, and international scope, but its inherent uncertainties have often been cited as the main reason for delaying any actions to mitigate its potential impacts. Recent reviews of environmental impact assessments have shown that impacts from climate change have been inadequately addressed and that the corresponding uncertainties have been addressed even more poorly within them. ...

Climate change is a major environmental concern of regional, national, and international scope, but its inherent uncertainties have often been cited as the main reason for delaying any actions to mitigate its potential impacts. Recent reviews of environmental impact assessments have shown that impacts from climate change have been inadequately addressed and that the corresponding uncertainties have been addressed even more poorly within them. ...

Sixth-grader Marsha is an only child. She's thrilled about her parents' plan to adopt a little sister, but when Wendy arrives, Marsha's life is turned upside down. Wendy is developmentally delayed, acting much younger than her eight years. She has tantrums, messes with Marsha's belongings, steals the affection of the family cat, and embarrasses Marsha everywhere they go. Why should Marsha agree to officially adopting Wendy and having her join ...