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New-Age Renaissance Man tells the story of an inner city Italian boy growing up in a male-dominated household with Archie and Edith Bunker for parents and an eclectic supporting cast of neighborhood characters. Through a series of life experiences he comes to realize that the world around him is swiftly changing. Clinging to the ideas of the old ways, he must find common ground with his new surroundings. The sexual revolution of the 1960s chan...

This work traces the genesis and evolution of African American women's feminist discourse and intellectual enterprise from slavery to the end of the 19th century. It does so in three ways. First, Dr. Tsenes-Hills almost solely utilizes the primary and secondary sources of 19th century African American women in order to locate and excavate the truly fascinating and extraordinary world of the 19th century Black woman. Second, the exterior, inter...

Best-selling biographer Evan Maguire ventures out of his comfort zone of writing about ex-athletes, Hollywood stars, and teen sensations and finds himself in the world of the reclusive Solomon Rheela, the greatest Conspiracy Theorist of his generation. While Evan expects stories of little green men, assassination cover-ups, and secret societies that control the world to titillate his readership with, he finds that Solomon has a much different ...

New-Age Renaissance Man tells the story of an inner city Italian boy growing up in a male-dominated household with Archie and Edith Bunker for parents and an eclectic supporting cast of neighborhood characters. Through a series of life experiences he comes to realize that the world around him is swiftly changing. Clinging to the ideas of the old ways, he must find common ground with his new surroundings. The sexual revolution of the 1960s chan...

This volume makes use of a variety of interdisciplinary approaches in an attempt to provoke discussion on change (Dynamism), literary education (Didacticism), and reception studies (Classicism) in the history of late antique Greek literary culture. With contributions by both established scholars and young innovators in the field of late antique studies, there is no work of comparable authority or scope currently available.

She Still Lives: A Novel of Tibet is an action-love story set in a fictional Tibet of the future. The beginning of the next century is a pivotal time for the Land of Snows. A nascent freedom movement has been crushed by the Communists. Tara Gyatso, beloved Dalai Lama, and her adviser, Mila Lakpa, have been imprisoned. Many years later, Mila Lakpa emerges from jail. He is an aged remnant of his former self, but he rallies for a final act of reb...

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Unter den Patienten waren viele Kinder. Viele litten unter Malaria, Atemwegserkrankungen, Typhus, Krätze. Die meisten Menschen, die uns aufsuchten, schienen ganz scheu. Eine Diagnose wie Typhus oder Malaria nahmen sie ohne sichtbare Regung hin." Alexander Dünnebeil verbringt den Sommer 2003 in Kenia und arbeitet dort in einem Krankenhaus. Er sieht Krankheit und Armut, aber auch Hoffnung und Würde in Situationen, welche er sich zuvor so nich...

Eine neuartige Darstellung des Katechismus, die entdeckte Zusammenhänge zwischen den Aussagen der Glaubensbekenntnisse, der Vaterunser-Bitten und der Gebote einleuchtend beschreibt: Der Autor legt ein Arbeitsbuch vor, das in eindringlichen Worten knapp und präzise die "Lehre" mit dem "Leben" verbindet. Anschauliche Sinnbilder vertiefen und erweitern die Bedeutung der Glaubensaussagen. Der christliche Lebensentwurf stellt sich in seiner Ganzhe...

This book covers various aspects of spatial data modelling specifically regarding three-dimensional (3D) modelling and structuring. The realization of "true" 3D geoinformation spatial systems requires a high input, and the developmental process is taking place in various research centers and universities around the globe. The development of such systems and solutions, including the modelling theories are presented in this book.

This book looks at the condition of corporate governance in the new millennium, illuminating its complexities and examining key issues such as interaction with global stakeholders, competitors, governments, partners, suppliers, and peer subsidiaries. Enhances understanding of the complexities of global corporate governance issues. Provides important guides to refining and improving the rules that govern business relationships among major globa...

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Through the wisdom of "saints" and spiritual masters from the world's religions, Thomas Forsthoefel explores the challenge of recovering our full humanity. Examples drawn from both East and West reflect ways of holiness expressed in compassion, action, serenity, detachment, suffering, and everyday life. These holy teachers are not perfect people. But in their wholeness, they express an authentic "soulsong." From them, we may learn the way back...

These essays by leading scientists and philosophers address conceptual issues that arise in the theory and practice of evolutionary biology. The third edition of this widely used anthology has been substantially revised and updated. Four new sections have been added: on women in the evolutionary process, evolutionary psychology, laws in evolutionary theory, and race as social construction or biological reality. Other sections treat fitness, un...

An exploration of the unsettling collisions of art and culture in Georges Bataille's revolutionary journal and a new consideration of twentieth-century masterpieces by Picasso, Miro, Dali, and others against the canvas of their renegade times.

This book is the result of an international comparative study of corporate governance begun in 2002, and provides analysis of the issue as it applies to management, moral hazards, accounting practices, and the institutional investor from both a Japanese and a global perspective. The study presents a view of the company as an entity that not only maximizes profit for stockholders but that also has a social role to play in maintaining a sustaina...

Google® has become a nearly omnipresent tool of the Internet, with its potential only now beginning to be realized. How can librarians effectively integrate this powerful search engine to provide service to their patrons? Libraries and Google® presents leading authorities discussing the many possibilities of using Google® products as effective, user-friendly tools in libraries. Google Scholar and Print are extensively explored with an eye towa...