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Rapid prototyping is a faster, more cost-effective method for building prototypes from three-dimensional computer-aided design (CAD) drawings. Rapid Prototyping provides a fundamental overview of the general manufacturing process and presents the principles and applications of designing and fabricating parts in a format that makes learning easy. This user-friendly text clearly covers the rapid prototyping process for students and can also be u...

Inhaltsangabe:Zusammenfassung: Diese Diplomarbeit thematisiert die Lösung der Corporate Governance Problematik durch erfolgsabhängige Entlohnungsverträge. Die Notwendigkeit der Corporate Governance entsteht aus der Trennung von Eigentum und Kontrolle. Der Begründer der modernen Nationalökonomie Adam Smith äußerte bereits 1776 in ¿The Wealth of Nations¿ große Besorgnis gegenüber der sich damals ausbreitenden Form der Unternehmung, der Aktienge...

Inhaltsangabe:Problemstellung: Heutzutage sehen sich viele Familienunternehmen großen Schwierigkeiten gegenüber, die ihre Ertragskraft oder sogar ihren Fortbestand gefährden können. Die Ursachen hierfür liegen zum einen in einem immer härter werdenden Wettbewerb und in der dynamischen und komplexen Wirtschaftswelt. Zum anderen wird die (Fort-)Führung eines Familienunternehmens z.B. oft durch anhaltende Interessendivergenzen zwischen den Gesel...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Vor dem Hintergrund der Veränderungsdynamik in der Finanzdienstleistungsindustrie widmet sich die vorliegende Arbeit einem traditionellen Finanzinstrument, dem Pfandbrief, und seiner nachhaltigen Erfolgsgeschichte. Sie konzentriert sich auf den Pfandbrief privat-rechtlicher Hypothekenbanken, der sich im Gegensatz zum öffentlichen Pfandbrief im freien Wettbewerb bewegt und im Vergleich zum Schiffspfandbrief einen repr...

Edited and with an Introduction by Bryant MangumForeword by Roxana RobinsonBenediction • Head and Shoulders • Bernice Bobs Her Hair • The Ice Palace • The Offshore Pirate • May Day • The Jelly Bean • The Diamond as Big as the Ritz • Winter Dreams • AbsolutionIn the euphoric months before and after the publication of This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the flapper's historian and poet laureate of the Jazz Age, wrote the ten stories that...

Meet Amber, Jazz, and Geena Dhillon—a.k.a. the Bindi Babes. They're three fabulous sisters with a reputation for being the coolest, best-dressed girls at their school. But their classmates don't know that the Dhillon sisters work extra hard to look perfect and together to all of their friends . . . while privately trying not to think how much they miss their mom, who died a year ago. What these struggling sisters certainly don't need is an int...

Prior to the 1960s, Andrew Wyeth enjoyed a stellar reputation as a rising star in the art world. Since then, critics and scholars have largely ignored him. Wyeth, however, who is age 88 at the date of publication, has continued to paint, to the delight of his admirers, collectors, and the art-loving public. Now, in association with the High Museum exhibition, Andrew Wyeth: Memory & Magic takes a fresh look at the work of one of America's most ...

Why do grown men play with trains? Is it a primal attachment to childhood, nostalgia for the lost age of rail travel, or the stuff of flat-out obsession? In this delightful and unprecedented book, Grand Prix legend Sam Posey tracks those who share his "passion beyond scale” and discovers a wonderfully strange and vital culture.Posey's first layout, wired by his mother in the years just after the Second World War, was, as he writes in his Intro...

It's soccer season, and sophomore Bones Austin and his team are struggling to make it to the district play-offs--against all odds. To make matters worse, Bones has a crush on the girlfriend of his best friend, Joey. Bones and Joey are forced to learn a little something about teamwork, even when hard times seem to be tearing them apart. Rich Wallace returns to Sturbridge, Pennsylvania, in his stunning follow-up to Wreslting Strubirdge, in Knopf...

Naoki's illness haunts him like a curse until he meets the one person who gives him a vibrant life. Like a slow jazz refrain, thoughts of his beloved float through every waking moment. But can he make his caretaker's heart sing back? A wounded soul never fully recovers... will Naoki suffer the painful blow of unrequited love?

Building on the success of their previous book, White and Folkens' The Human Bone Manual is intended for use outisde the laboratory and classroom, by professional forensic scientists, anthropologists and researchers. The compact volume includes all the key information needed for identification purposes, including hundreds of photographs designed to show a maximum amount of anatomical information.

This book was written out of Gretel Ehrlich's love for winter-for remote and cold places, for the ways winter frees our imagination and invigorates our feet, mind, and soul-and also out of the fear that our "democracy of gratification” has irreparably altered the climate. Over the course of a year, Ehrlich experiences firsthand the myriad expressions of cold, giving us marvelous histories of wind, water, snow, and ice, of ocean currents and we...

Freaks in Late Modernist American Culture explores the emergence of what Nancy Bombaci terms «late modernist freakish aesthetics» - a creative fusion of «high» and «low» themes and forms in relation to distorted bodies. Literary and cinematic texts about «freaks» by Nathanael West, Djuna Barnes, Tod Browning, and Carson McCullers subvert and reinvent modern progress narratives in order to challenge high modernist literary and social ideologies...

The ex-slave, Krio population of Freetown, Sierra Leone - an amalgam of ethnicities drawn from several parts of the African continent - is a fascinating study in hybridity, creolization, European cultural penetration, the retention of African cultural values, and the interface between New World returnees and autochthonous populations of West Africa. Although its Nigerian connections are often acknowledged, insufficient attention has been paid ...

With two essays devoted to Wordsworth, The Fate of Translation reframes the discussion of Hesperian aesthetics initiated in Robert Eisenhauer's Mythic Paradigms, suggesting how the question of translation poses itself at the crossing of textual high- and low-roads: on the one hand, in the critical and scholarly debate concerning the relevance of Goethe's «Der Wandrer» (in the English version by William Taylor) to the primal/primary scene of au...

This novel begins as on his deathbed, the painter, through the eyes of his beautiful young wife, steps back into his past... Caught between two realities, Pieter Brueghel, born to poverty and oppression, was also divinely gifted. In his studio, he would turn into a madman, wildly seeking his double who had been sent by God to reveal the truth of creation. This double would enter into his body to paint some of the finest paintings the world has...

This new translation of Epictetus' "Handbook "brings his ancient teachings to those who wish to live the philosophic life by finding a way to live happily in the world without being overwhelmed by it. This modern English translation of the complete "Handbook "is supported by the first thorough commentary since that of Simplicius, 1500 years ago, along with a detailed introduction, extensive glossary, index of key terms, and helpful tables that...

Martin Buber and others argue that C. G. Jung excludes divine transcendence from his understanding of the psyche. This book identifies the underpinnings of such criticisms, then examines Jung's inability to respond adequately, and shows that fleshing out his theory of the transcendent function can lead to a solution. The formation of a symbol through this function orients the subject both toward unconscious depth and toward a transcendent hori...

Joey Banks is a walking adventure. He's funny, daring, mischievous--and frequently in trouble. Or he would be if anyone found out about half the stuff he's done. But Rusty Cooper knows how to keep a secret. And Joey's the best friend he's ever had. But then comes a secret that is at once too terrible to tell and too terrible to keep. A secret so big it threatens to eat them alive. What would a true friend do now? Wendelin Van Draanen has writt...

Regina Thurner, 1960 in Wien geboren, zwei Töchter von zwei Männern, wohnhaft im Burgenland mit eigener Praxis als Lebensberaterin. Eine, die sich das Spinnen, Phantasieren, Provozieren und sich immer wieder selber in Frage zu stellen, nie austreiben ließ.Eine Lebensphilosophie der Autorin lautet: solange der Körper noch warm ist, ist Veränderung möglich - oder auch nicht. Diese Entscheidung ist von jedem menschlichen Individuum bewusst zu tre...