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A few years ago, Sebastian Haffner's DEFYING HITLER, a memoir about growing up in interwar Germany, sold over forty thousand copies. After he moved to Britain in the 1930s Haffner became so shocked about the situation in his native country that he wrote this book, GERMANY: JEKYLL AND HYDE, in an effort to help people understand the danger Hitler presented to the world. An incredibly accessible book, it is packed with acute analysis of both Hit...

Dreiser's captivating portraits of turn-of-the-century America's famous figures Before coming to national attention for his novel "Sister Carrie, " Theodore Dreiser worked for nearly a decade as a magazine editor and freelance writer. Now in paperback, "Art, Music, and Literature, 1897-1902" collects a rich selection of Dreiser's brief, colorful articles and interviews with American artists, musicians, and writers during this period. His profi...

Emotions: basic products of human functioning, intimately involved in physical health, they have been alternately embraced and ignored by generations of researchers and practitioners. Emotion Regulation offers a much-needed corrective to the conventional clinical wisdom, updating the knowledge base on emotions—specifically their expression and inhibition—as they affect stress, health, and well-being. An international team of researchers from a...

Investitionen nehmen auf die Ergebniserwirtschaftung einen weitreichenden Einfluss. Daher ist eine durchgängige Planung und Abwicklung der Investitionen in einem integrativen Rahmen für die Effizienzerreichung besonders hilfreich. Unter Einsatz des Applikationssystems SAP sollen die einzelnen Teilschritte des Investitionsmanagements vorgestellt werden. Alle Schritte zur Einrichtung und zur Umsetzung eines Investitionsmanagements unter SAP werd...

Der Band greift ein Desiderat der Angewandten Linguistik auf ¿ die fachwissenschaftliche Analyse von Kommunikation in Unternehmen, in Institutionen, in der Medizin, in (neuen) Medien und in der Werbung. Bisher wurde nicht die Linguistik als diejenige Wissenschaft angesehen, die die hierfür notwendige Grundlagenforschung leistet und die das nötige Fachwissen für die konkreten beruflichen Anforderungen bereitzustellen vermag. Die Ausweitung komm...

«Auf die Trage, ab ins Auto und dann so schnell wie möglich in die Klinik» - so hieß die Devise der Sanitäter vor fünfzig Jahren in der Bundesrepublik. Eine medizinische Versorgung am Unfallort war nicht üblich. Dieses Vorgehen geriet im Laufe der sechziger Jahre in die Kritik. Auf Druck von Ärzten, Interessengruppen und Medien kam ein Reformprozess in Gang, an dessen Ende ein grundlegender Umbau von Unfallrettung und Krankentransport stand. D...

This book tries to bridge the gap between science and environmental education by describing a set of projects, initiatives and field activities, which aim at raising awareness on the environment and encourage action. Via the descriptions of approaches, methods and projects, it shows how different organisations have been linking science with environmental education, the approaches used and the outcomes achieved. The various case studies guarant...

The essays in Small Tech investigate the cultural impact of digital tools and provide fresh perspectives on mobile technologies such as iPods, digital cameras, and PDAs and software functions like cut, copy, and paste and WYSIWYG. Together they advance new thinking about digital environments.

Presents R programs and animations to provide an understanding of how to model natural phenomena from a probabilistic point of view. This work centers on viewing probability as a way to look at the world and shows how to combine and link stochastic processes to form complex processes that are better models of natural phenomena.

A definitive statement of YPAR as it relates to education with an informative combination of theory and practice, this edited collection addresses both the political challenges and inherent power imbalances of conducting research with young people.

Containing essays by some of the leading scholars in the field, this volume looks at the scientific study of the causes of international conflict.

This book explores the notion of «validity evaluation» as a means for helping educators to ensure the utility and worth of their assessment practices. With a particular focus on foreign language testing, the author challenges assessment traditions and argues for a fundamental reconceptualization of assessments and their validation in language teaching and other educational settings. Following a critical review of test validity standards and me...

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Elizabeth Simcoe's diary, describing Canada from 1791 to 1796, is history written as it was being made -- an account instilled with excitement and delight.

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This collection of poetry was inspired by all the loving pets I have had and still have.It is poetry stories of all the many different memories we did share together in love and harmony. I also have included some fantasy story poems about animals that both adults and children will enjoy. There are some fables within this collection with a moral that teaches values. I have also created a few new invented poetry styles. All of my poetry is inspi...

Die abnehmende Bindungsbereitschaft von Konsumenten hat in zahlreichen Branchen zu einer Integration der Kundenbindung in die Zielsysteme von Unternehmen geführt. In vielen Endverbrauchermärkten ist daher eine nahezu inflationäre Verbreitung von Kundenkartenprogrammen zu verzeichnen. Die Effektivität dieses Kundenbindungsinstruments ist jedoch nach wie vor umstritten und bei vielen Programmanbietern ist der anfängliche Enthusiasmus einer nachh...

This book seeks to help senior executives identify the times and circumstances when senior teams are a good idea.

Copy the following link for free access to the first chapter of this title: http://www.springerlink.com/content/j23468h304310755/fulltext.pdf This book is a warning. It aims to warn policy-makers, industry, academia, civil society organisations, the media and the public about the threats and vulnerabilities facing our privacy, identity, trust, security and inclusion in the rapidly approaching world of ambient intelligence (AmI). In the near ...