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In the years approaching the centenary of Mahler's death, this book provides both summation of, and starting point for, an assessment and reassessment of the composer's output and creative activity. Authored by a collection of leading specialists in Mahler scholarship, its opening chapters place the composer in socio-political and cultural contexts, and discuss his work in light of developments in the aesthetics of musical meaning. Part II exa...

NEW AGE / CRYSTALS "Florence Megemont's explorations of the spiritual and therapeutic applications of over seventy different minerals and gemstones are vivid and lively, and they convey a strong sense of the stones as 'beings' rather than objects. This book gives strong emphasis to the therapeutic capacities of stones, and this is appropriate because the stones' agenda is to facilitate human evolution into wholeness and spiritual realization."...

Yousuf Karsh emigrated to North America from Turkey in the 1920s, eventually settling in Ottawa. An early interest in photography inspired him to open his own studio. As he became known for the quality of his work, Karsh's close proximity to powerful leaders in Ottawa led to commissions of portraits of politicians. He became known as the worlds' finest portrait photographer for his gift of drawing out and capturing a subject's character in a p...

When considering the physiological systems of the body, the degree of species variation within the reproductive system compared to other systems is remarkable. Furthermore, it is essential that researchers, educators, and students alike remain aware of the fundamental comparative differences in the reproductive biology of domestic species. Written by renowned scientists in their respective fields, Comparative Reproductive Biology is a compre...

Im Rahmen des gegenwärtig auch auf germanistischer Seite wieder wachsenden Interesses am mittelalterlichen Deutschen Orden versteht sich die Studie als Beitrag zur Erhellung des facettenreichen Erkenntnispotenzials, das die Literatur im Deutschen Orden in sich trägt. Die Studie geht mit ihrem kulturgeschichtlichen Erkenntnisinteresse, bezogen auf die Konstruktion korporativer Identität im Bezugssystem von Selbstbild und Feindbild bzw. Eigen- u...

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What is evidence-based nursing? Simply, it is the application of valid, relevant, and research-based information in nurse decision-making. Used effectively, evidence-based nursing methods can be used to dramatically enhance patient care and improve outcomes. Evidence-based Nursing is a practical guide to evidence-based nursing for students and practitioners. Proceeding step-by-step, it enables nurses to understand and evaluate the different t...

When Natalie's dad is nominated for a Best Actor Oscar, she flies to L.A. for the week, where she plans on hanging out with Tori and also taking her to the Oscars. But when Natalie hits it off with Tori's friend Reed, Tori feels left out and picks a giant fight, which culminates in Natalie rescinding Tori's invitation to the Oscars and giving it to Reed instead. Cut to: Natalie and Tori and their tearful reconciliation. Unfortunately the only ...

Focuses on the paradigms and fundamental themes of ecotoxicology while providing the detail and practical application of concepts. This book covers a variety of instructional vantages and engenders a respect for the importance of understanding and integrating concepts from all levels of biological organization.

This volume makes use of the first-generation Frankfurt School political and legal theorist, Franz L. Neumann, in conjunction with his famous successor, Jürgen Habermas, to try to understand the momentous political and legal transformations generated by globalization.

This book considers the associated concepts of quality and operations and places customers at the heart of a quality business operation. It explains how organisations that are focused on delivering quality products and services continuously improve the design, planning and control of their operational processes so that they meet the developing needs of their customer.

Explores the paradoxical status of the child star who is both adored and reviled in society. This book identifies hostile media attention around child stars as indicative of broader social concerns about the 'correct' role and place of children in relation to normative ideals of childhood.

Human trafficking is a complex problem that hinges on economic conditions, cultural traditions, and catastrophic events such as wars and natural disasters. This book offers a solution that includes enforcing existing laws, and finding criminals who profit from trafficking. It discusses the causes and provides ideas for prevention.

This innovative study opens up a new area in sociological and urban studies: the aural experience of the social, mediated through mobile technologies of communication. Whilst we live in a world dominated by visual epistemologies of urban experience, Michael Bull argues that it is not surprising that the Apple iPod, a sound based technology, is the first consumer cultural icon of the twenty-first century. This book, in using the example of the...

Provides an introduction to the relationships between cities and economies in both historical and global contexts.

Martyrdom, Murder, and Magic: Child Saints and Their Cults in Medieval Europe is a comprehensive history of child saints and their cults from late Antiquity to the end of the fifteenth century. The child martyrs of the persecutions, including the Holy Innocents, were the first child saints recognized by the Church and their cults spread throughout Europe in the early Middle Ages. Alongside these cults, medieval society also venerated child «ma...

Every process in physics is governed by selection rules that are the consequence of symmetry requirements. The beauty and strength of group theory resides in the transformation of many complex symmetry operations into a very simple linear algebra. This concise and class-tested book has been pedagogically tailored over 30 years MIT and 2 years at the University Federal of Minas Gerais (UFMG) in Brazil. The approach centers on the conviction tha...

For over a quarter century Mr. Bartholomew has been helping men become free from domestic violence and create peace in their relationships. As a trainer, lecturer, and consultant to other therapists, he has evolved this approach to running domestic violence groups which helps the therapist help the client to achieve both behavioral change and clinical goals. This is a professional, compassionate, results-oriented approach to domestic violence ...

Offers coverage of the basic concepts, calculations, and techniques of inventory. This book provides case studies from a variety of industries to illustrate concepts. It includes topics such as types of inventory, inventory transactions, bills of materials, planning and replenishment, storage and physical control.

Nizami Ganjavi is one of the foremost figures in Persian poetry, living in Azerbaijan in the second half of the twelfth century. One of the oldest Western poets in Persian literature, he is acclaimed for his five masnavis which are assembled to form the Khamsa (Quintet). His reputation is that of a difficult and refined poet, who introduced into his verse vocabulary, expressions and allusions to the then-known sciences. This study considers al...