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Writing is a dangerous business. Edwin O'Donne, a neophyte novelist, has been increasingly forgetful, leaving his head in his writing after he is done with it. He no longer can be sure whether something happened in truth or only in his professional imagination, in some scene he had written. Into this prelude to insanity enters a mysterious, hedonistic woman who accosts his mind in the street, seducing him with philosophy. He comes to love her ...

While most people know that Harriet Beecher Stowe's famous book Uncle Tom's Cabin spurred on abolotionist sentiments in the North, not many are aware of the vast abolitionist literature of children's books, poems, short stories, and essays. Many of these volumes were not written by seasoned authors, but by women whose primary roles were as mothers who functioned as domestic abolitionists, and have been lost to the ages. Here, De Rosa recovers ...

Dieser Band behandelt numerische Algorithmen, die in der traditionellen Schulmathematik eine wichtige Rolle spielen. Ziel ist es dabei, nicht nur die einzelnen Algorithmen kennen zu lernen, sondern zugleich auch die Methodik, die zur Elementarisierung mathematischer Probleme und zur Lösung in endlich vielen Schritten führt. Darüber hinaus werden nichtnumerische Such-, Sortier- und Simulationsalgorithmen dargestellt, die sich in der Schule in s...

Seit Erscheinen 1970 ist "Städtebau" das konkurrenzlose Standardwerk und Handbuch des Städtebaus für Studierende und Praktiker. Es beinhaltet umfassende Grundlagen, Begriffe, Verfahren und Planungselemente des modernen Städtebaus. Dabei berücksichtigt es auch die tangierenden Fachplanungen zum Verkehr, zur Wasserver- und -entsorgung, Abwasser- und Energiewirtschaft sowie Freiraumplanung. Das Werk ist konzipiert für alle, die den Städtebau nich...

Das Soziodrama begreift den Menschen in seiner soziokulturellen und politischen Einbindung in die Gesellschaft. Darüber hinaus inszeniert es nicht nur Prozesse, politische Themen und Konflikte gesellschaftlicher Gruppen, sondern zeigt auch in spielerischer und erfahrungsbezogener Weise Handlungsalternativen auf. Es stellt damit ein hochprofessionelles Gegenkonzept gegen die egozentrische Individualisierung unserer Gesellschaft dar. Es bringt d...

Praise for Thomas Disch: "One of the most remarkably talented writers around."---"Washington Post Book World" "ÝDisch" is without doubt one of the really bright lights on the American SF scene."---"Fantasy and Science Fiction" This collection by the much-loved and lauded science-fiction writer Thomas Disch spans twenty-five years of his career, during which he has supplemented his creative output with reviews and critical essays in publication...

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Do you need to write a successful software training course? Are you unsure of how to start? Would you like a step-by-step project plan to guide you in the development of your software class? This book gets right to the point with clear, concise directions for developing an end-user software course. If you need to design and write a software training course, and you're not sure where to begin, this book is for you. This step-by-step job aid wal...

A biography and a complete bibliography of New Mexico's leading independent historian.

This provocative work takes issue with the idea that Socialist Realism was mainly the creation of party leaders and was imposed from above on the literati who lived and worked under the Soviet regime.

The Education of Robert Nifkin is the education of a beatnik. Set in 1950s Chicago and conveyed in the form of a college essay, Robert Nifkin details his journey from a mind-numbing high school that smells to the curriculum-free carnival of a private school ruled by bohemians, beatniks, and freaks.

Mikhail Gorbachev and Daisaku Ikeda are contemporaries raised in different cultures: Gorbachev is a statesman influenced by Marx and communist politics while Ikeda is a Buddhist inspired by the thirteenth century Japanese sage, Nichiren. This book is a result of a series of conversations between these two men. Together they explore their experiences of life amidst the turmoil of the twentieth century and together they search for a common ethic...

It was during the Victorian era that the circus, whose origins lay in the fair-ground world, emerged as a commercialized entertainment that we would recognize today. This development was intricately tied to a widespread demand for circus acts by a broad range of classes. In The Circus and Victorian Society, Brenda Assael examines this interest in the circus as an artistic form within the context of a vibrant, and sometimes not so respectable, ...

Isaac Asimov (1920-1992), one of the most popular and influential American authors of the twentieth century, sparked the imagination of generations of writers. Conversations with Isaac Asimov collects interviews with a man considered to be - along with Robert Heinlein, A. E. van Vogt, and Arthur C. Clarke - a founder of modern science fiction.

This volume brings to light the impact of Asian culture on psychotherapy. Scholars and clinicians from East Asia and India go beyond technical dimensions to examine culture and psychotherapy at the theoretical and philosophical levels.

What you do not know about Georgia's greatest athletes and some of its leading citizens you will learn in Gene Asher's Legends. Anthony Joseph (Zippy) Morocco won a football scholarship to the University of Georgia but he won All-American honors in basketball. Phil. (Knucksie) Niekro failed to get a contract when he tried out for the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Milwaukee Braves did sign him but kept him on the bench or in the minors for six years....

The chemical compositions of over 100 household product groups, along with 10 sample experiments, will show students how chemistry influences their everyday lives.

A crowd-mind emerges when formation of a crowd causes fusion of individual minds into one collective mind. Members of the crowd lose their individuality. The deindividuation leads to derationalization: emotional, impulsive and irrational behavior, self-catalytic activities, memory impairment, perceptual distortion, hyper-responsiveness, and distortion of traditional forms and structures. This book presents unique results of computational studi...