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A fascinating account of the world's famous explorers, including the early travelers in ancient times, the discovery of the New World, explorations in Africa and Australia, and the expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic. Many of the explorers tell part of their story in their own words. Amply illustrated with reproductions of early maps and charts, as well as old woodcuts, drawings, paintings, and miniatures. Emphasis is placed on the explore...

Managing within Networks analyzes the structure, operations, and achievements of public management networks that are trying to solve intractable problems at the field level. It examines such areas as transportation, economic and rural development, communications systems and data management, water conservation, wastewater management, watershed conservation, and services for persons with developmental disabilities. Robert Agranoff draws a number...

The main character, Melissa, is girl of seventeen when the story begins, and just a few years older when the book ends. When the Revolution of 1964 killed her parents, she was taken in by a cousin and her husband. Work for an Asian girl was impossible to find after the professional men fled the island with their families. She not have the necessary 56000 shillings the government demanded in order to pay to leave. That amount, in that time, amo...

In magisterial readings of Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, and the First Tetralogy, Arnold discovers a new Shakespeare who was neither a conservative apologist for monarchy nor a prescient, liberal champion of the House of Commons but instead a radical thinker and artist who demystified the ideology of political representation in the moment of its first flowering.

THE BIOTECH REVOLUTION! It's the new frontier of scientific development: genetic engineering, the crafting of species, and the self-alteration of man himself. Here are nine stories at the cutting edge of the biotechnology revolution-"The Cure for Love, " "Ashes and Tombstones, " "Slumming in Voodooland, " "The Color of Envy, " "The Lady-Killer, as Observed from a Safe Distance, " "Busy Dying, " "The Man Who Invented Good Taste, " "The Road to...

Poetry for each letter of the alphabet

IT bzw. IV ist für Unternehmen unzweifelhaft ein Erfolgsfaktor, aber auch ebenso unzweifelhaft ein Kostenfaktor, nach betriebswirtschaftlichen Grundsätzen erfordert beides ein stringentes Controlling. Dieses Buch liefert den Leitfaden zu einem umfassenden Controllingkonzept für die IV im Unternehmen: Controlling von IV-Strategie, IV-Projekten, IV-Servicemanagement, Kosten- und Leistungsmanagement, Organisation der IV-Abteilung u.a. Die allgeme...

Der Mandelpilz (lat. agaricus blazei (Murill), agaricus brasiliensis) ist ein gesundes, traditionelles Nahrungsmittel aus tropischen Klimazonen, das in Europa schon seit Jahrzehnten in der Zollkategorie Agaricus (Champignons) eingeführt wird, aber nur bei Naturmedizinern und in Feinschmeckerkreisen bekannt ist. Welche Ansätze die Zellbiologen, Pharmakologen, Mykologen, Natur- und Komplementärmediziner, Krebsforscher und Heilpraktiker entwickel...

7th International Workshop on Application of Lasers in Atomic Nuclei Research, LASER 2004, held in Poznan, Poland, May 29-June 01, 2006 Researchers and PhD students interested in recent results in the nuclear structure investigation by laser spectroscopy, the progress of the experimental technique and the future developments in the field will find this volume indispensable.   Reprinted from Hyperfine Interactions (HYPE) Volume ???

Jack Sheffield was born in 1945 and grew up in the tough environment of Gipton Estate, in North East Leeds. After a job as a 'pitch boy', repairing roofs, he became a Corona Pop Man before going to St John's College, York, and training to be a teacher. In the late 70s and 80s, he was a headteacher of two schools in North Yorkshire before becoming Senior Lecturer in primary education at Bretton Hall near Wakefield. It was at this time he began ...

Sir Robert Rannaldini, the most successful but detested conductor in the world, had two ambitions: to seduce his ravishing nineteen-year-old stepdaughter Tabitha Campbell-Black, and to put his mark on musical history by making the definitive film of Verdi's darkest opera, Don Carlos.

JUVENILE FICTION / General

A satirical, yet very serious look at depression through the eyes of the sufferer, his/her spouse, child, and coworkers.

This volume is the English version of the second edition of the bilingual textbook by Rasch, Verdooren and Gowers (1999). A parallel version in German is available from the same publisher. This book is intended for students and experimental scientists in all disciplines and presumes only elementary statistical knowledge. This prerequisite knowledge is summarised briefly in appendix B. Knowledge of differential and integral calculus is not nece...

It started with a simple bet shortly after I became a widow left with nine children to raise. Leafing through a National Geographic, losing myself in the world of possibilities, I'd often comment, "Maybe someday we'll visit there." (Fill in the blank: Holland, Ireland, France, Austria, whatever the magazine was serving up as country du jour in any edition. I wasn't fussy.) Fields of tulips with a windmill in the background whispered Holland wa...

This is the tale of three people and the array of women involved in the development of what each character's perception of love is all about. After watching drugs and miscommunication divide her parent's relationship, Celeste Bellamy's view of love was unconsciously distorted. For some reason her choice in men always seemed to end up wrong until she met Mitchell Austin. He was the "ONE." So she thinks until the first time she was approached by...

Hilfreiche Trainingsfragen zu diesem Buch finden Sie unter: http://www.economag.de/training?ISBN=58406 Bei der IAS/IFRS-Bilanzierung steht der Anlegerschutz der Eigen- und Fremdkapitalgeber im Vordergrund verbunden mit der Vermittlung eines hohen Informationsvolumens, um den Investoren entscheidungsnützliche Informationen für ihre Anlageentscheidungen zu geben. Dies führt im Vergleich zum Handelsrecht dazu, dass das Vorsichtsprinzip im IAS/IFR...

Hilfreiche Trainingsfragen zu diesem Buch finden Sie unter: http://www.economag.de/training?ISBN=58385 Das vorliegende Buch füllt eine Lücke in der Controlling-Literatur am deutschen Markt, der für diesen Teil der Wirtschaftswissenschaften durchaus gut versorgt zu sein scheint. Allerdings tragen die meisten Publikationen - oft aus Doktorarbeiten entstanden oder als Beiträge zu sehr spezialisierten Fragestellungen - ihre Ergebnisse inhaltlich u...

Although the current round of international trade negotiations was called a ‘Development Round’, very little was accomplished before the negotiations stalled in mid-2006. Developing countries as a group stand to gain very substantially from trade reform in agricultural commodities. It is less clear how the 50 countries identified by the United Nations as the ‘Least Developed Countries’ (LDCs), which have been subject to special consideration i...

Story of the struggle for religious liberty in the Netherlands. By the middle of the sixteenth century the little country of the Netherlands was standing at bay, defying those who, with the aid of inquisitions and edicts, were trying to stamp out all who would not subscribe to the Roman Catholic faith. The fight was long and desperate, but it was fought to the death by the Provinces, under the leadership of the hero and liberator of the Nether...