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New in paperback, an essential guide to getting started with watercolours. Clear, simple advice at a competitive price.

Explores and explains the multiple levels of everyday communication that come together to form our perceptions of the natural world. This work considers the various levels of communication, from the individual level, to environmental messages transmitted by popular culture, to communication generated by social institutions.

Trade paperback. Explores why trust is the ultimate determinate of success or failure in your relationships, career and life.

The foundational texts of early Pentecostal theology

Das Aufmerksamkeits-Defizit-Hyperaktivitäts-Syndrom (ADHS) ist heutzutage eine weitverbreitete Diagnose, mancherorts für fast alle kindlichen Schwierigkeiten im Vorschul- und Grundschulalter. Die Erklärungen reichen von Störungen des Hirnstoffwechsels, Frühverwahrlosungen, psychischen oder psychosozialen Regulationsstörungen bis hin zu Hochbegabungen.Bei den Präventions- und Therapieangeboten gehen die Empfehlungen weit auseinander. Für die ei...

This book presents the development and experimental validation of the structural test strategy called Oscillation-Based Test - OBT in short. The results presented here assert, not only from a theoretical point of view, but also based on a wide experimental support, that OBT is an efficient defect-oriented test solution, complementing the existing functional test techniques for mixed-signal circuits.

Advanced computational methods are often employed for the solution of modelling and decision-making problems. This book addresses issues associated with the interface of computing, optimisation, econometrics and financial modelling. Emphasis is given to computational optimisation methods and techniques. The first part of the book addresses optimisation problems and decision modelling, with special attention to applications of supply chain and ...

Spawned in a whorehouse, a rouge thrives in a world of sex, crime, and action. A story for those with strong tastes!

The U.S. Constitution calls on the government to "promote the general welfare." In this provocative and innovative book, a distinguished roster of political scientists and economists evaluates its ability to carry out this task.

Welche Themen bewegten die Welt der Wissenschaft im Jahr 2006? Meilensteine und heiße Diskussionen. Anschaulich, verständlich und übersichtlich ist dieser Überblick über die spannendsten Themen und Ereignisse des Jahres. Forscher der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft übernahmen für jeden Schwerpunktbereich die Patenschaft und kommentieren Highlights und Entwicklungen ihres Fachs. Diesen abwechslungsreichen und interessanten Mix ergänzen zahlreiche Fotos...

The Abolition of the Slave Trade in Southeastern Nigeria, 1885 - 1950, is a history of the campaign waged by Great Britain in colonial Nigeria from approximately 1885 on, to abolish the internal slave trade in the Bight of Biafra and its hinterland, a region also known as Eastern Nigeria, Southeastern Nigeria, the Eastern Provinces, or the trans-Niger Provinces. It treats the internal slave trade and the war against it in this region and perio...

With the publication of Liberty Tree, acclaimed historian Alfred F. Young presents a selection of his seminal writing as well as two provocative, never-before-published essays. Together, they take the reader on a journey through the American Revolution, exploring the role played by ordinary women and men (called, at the time, "people out of doors") in shaping events during and after the Revolution, their impact on the Founding generation of th...

Strategies for effective and responsible giving

Featuring the original primary research of a number of leading scholars, this innovative volume integrates gender and sexuality into the main currents of historical interpretation concerning Latin America. The book argues that gender and sexuality--rather than simply supplementing existing explanations of political, social, cultural, and economic phenomena--are central to understanding these processes. Focusing on subjects as varied as murder,...

This book discusses the technical, artistic and commercial challenges of the perfume industry in an informative and engaging style.

Involving electricity, elasticity, thermodynamics and crystallography, several scientific traditions and approaches and leading physicists, the history of piezoelectricity provides an advantageous perspective on late nineteenth century physics and its development. The beginnings of piezoelectricity, the first history of the subject, exhaustively examines how these diverse influences led to the discovery of the phenomenon in 1880, and how they ...

It is 1864 when Lizzie Martin takes up the post of companion to a wealthy widow who is also a slum landlord. Lizzie is intrigued to learn that her predecessor as companion disappeared, supposedly having run off with an unknown man. But when the girl's body is found in the rubble of one of the recently demolished slums around the prestigious new railway station at St Pancras, Lizzie begins to wonder exactly what has been going on. She has re-ma...

How did the Catholic Church become inundated with serious troubles as it is today? Are you curious of what the causes were, and how they infiltrated the Church?

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Turkey is a country in a state of flux. In the last few years, far-reaching political and economic reforms have swept away much of the old order that ruled the country for so long. Pressure for change has come from ordinary people, it has also been motivated by the dominant issue of Turkish political life--the long pursuit of membership in the European Union. And yet Turkey remains a mystery to many outsiders, a complex country hard to fathom:...