Ben Bova, best-selling and award-winning author of the "Grand Tour" and "Asteroid Wars" series, takes a sardonic look at the humorous possibilities of future technology. The Starcrossed: Bill Oxnard, a young technological genius, had perfected true three-dimensional television, making ordinary TV obsolete. He thought he would be rich and famous -- but he hadn't realized how deranged the executives running the industry were, nor what sort of pr...
Weltmusik-Highlight. Klänge, die kaum typischer sein könnten. Celtic Music - das ist die faszinierende Mystik, sind die eingehenden Melodien und teils eigenwillig betonten Rhythmen der traditionellen Musik Irlands, Schottlands und der Bretagne.
o Musik Irlands, Schottlands und der Bretagne o das Geheimnis der Celtic Music: sie kommt aus dem Bauch, untrennbar sind Melodien und Text miteinander verbunden und berühren die Seele o Duette im einfa...
Presents and synthesizes the available evidence about the nature, causes and effects of distributed school leadership. This book also clarifies common misunderstandings about distributed leadership and identifies implications for practice and for future research.
Looks at how e-journals have changed the library landscape and offers librarians strategies to better manage them. This work provides a broad overview of the practical and theoretical issues associated with the management of electronic journals, and contains case studies of problems faced and solutions found in individual libraries.
Portrays the moral aesthetic of the culture of sensibility in Europe. This book argues that the rhetoric of ruins lends a distinctive shape to the architecture and literature of the time and requires the novel to adjust notions of authorship and narrative to accommodate the prevailing aesthetic.
In this new title in the Murder & Crime series author Douglas Huke examines twelve gruesome cases of murder and mayhem to provide a chilling introduction to the darker side of Hull's past
This comprehensive manual outlines the techniques for solving the mystery of an environmental contamination catastrophe. The book begins with an overview of the path of an environmental case from its inception to court testimony. This analysis is followed by a review of the various scientific methods that have been used successfully in the past in solving environmental forensic cases. Detailed information is provided on chemical "fingerprintin...