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Man sollte nicht all zu zart besaitet sein, wenn man dieses Buch lesen möchte. "Kosimo - Das Leben ist ein Butterbrot" ist die Lebensgeschichte eines Heimkindes, das von Anfang an vom Leben gebeutelt wird. Kosimos Leben wird schon im Kindesalter von Verlusten begleitet - das Gefühl der Hoffnungslosigkeit wird durch das ständige Alleingelassenwerden ins Unerträgliche gesteigert. Der Kampf um sein Leben und um das Leben seines besten Freundes b...

Wo immer es Leute gibt, gibt es Korruption. Wenn Sie die Korruption abschaffen wollen, müssen sie die Leute abschaffen." (Taufa'ahau Toupu IV, 1993, seinerzeit König des Inselreiches Tonga in der Südsee)Aufgrund der Fülle nationaler und internationaler Maßnahmen zur Korruptionsbekämpfung in den letzten Jahrzehnten ergibt sich zwangsläufig die Frage nach deren Effizienz bzw. Wirkungsgrad. Zahlreiche Studien und Indikatoren zeigen, mit einigen A...

Das Leben der Menschen wird durch den Tod begrenzt. Es wird oft darüber gesprochen und geschrieben, welche Konsequenzen dies für das Handeln des Einzelnen hat oder haben sollte. Dieses Wissen um den Tod bleibt für die Menschen meist abstrakt.Wie steht es jedoch um die Konfrontation mit dem konkreten Toten? Auf der Leinwand fließt häufig Blut, das explizit gezeigt wird und nicht selten sterben Protagonisten. In dieser Richtung kann den geübten ...

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Offers tools that give K-12 education professionals the complete picture of a child's social-emotional strengths and risk behaviors in school (SSBS-2) and in the community (HCSBS). This work provides a way to identify children with problem behaviors, target classroom interventions and develop IEPs, and measure the effectiveness of interventions.

In Toxic Relationships and How to Change Them Dr. Clinton McLemore shows how to increase appreciation, tenderness, respect, comfort, and understanding in all relationships by recognizing the eight basic "default modes" that most of us use to respond to people.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the joint AAMAS 2006 International Workshops on Massively Multi-Agent Systems, MMAS 2006, and on Large scale Multi-Agent Systems, LSMAS 2006, held in Hakodate, Japan, in May 2006, and of the International Workshop on Coordination and Control in Massively Multi-Agent Systems, CCMMS 2007, held in Honolulu, HI, USA, in May 2007 as associated event of AAMAS 2007. The 13 rev...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop, IWCF 2008, held in Washington, DC, USA, August 2008. The 19 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on trends and challenges, scanner, printer, and prints, human identification, shoeprints, linguistics, decision making and search, speech analysis, signatures and handwr...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, LCPC 2007, held in Urbana, IL, USA, in October 2007. The 23 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on reliability, languages, parallel compiler technology, libraries, run-time systems and perfo...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications, COCOA 2008, held in St. John's, Canada, in August 2008. The 44 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 84 submissions. The papers feature original research in the areas of combinatorial optimization -- both theoretical issues and and applications motivated by real-world problems thus showin...

Es gibt keine Alternative zu Musik und deshalb auch keine Interpretation." 1985 hielt Sergiu Celibidache, gebürtiger Rumäne, Kosmopolit, viel bewunderter Ausnahmedirigent und einer der großen Lehrer und "Orchestererzieher", in München den einzigen Vortrag seines Lebens. Zwar lehrte Celibidache seit seiner Berliner Zeit praktisch ununterbrochen Theorie und Praxis seiner Phänomenologie der Musik, zwar stand für ihn die lebendige Vermittlung sei...

As one of the first African American vocalists to be recorded, Bessie Smith is a prominent figure in American popular culture and African American history. Michelle R. Scott uses Smith's life as a lens to investigate broad issues in history, including industrialization, Southern rural to urban migration, black community development in the post-emancipation era, and black working-class gender conventions. Arguing that the rise of blues culture ...

Centuries before W B Yeats wove Indian, Japanese, and Irish forms together in his poetry and plays, Irish writers found kinship in Asian and West Asian cultures. This book maps the discourse of Irish Orientalism within Ireland's complex colonial heritage.

The first English translation of Jean Paulhan's major essays

Discoveries in the sciences are occurring constantly contributing to the changing defeition of the term "science" itself. Daniel Patrick Thurs examines what these controversies say about how we understand science now and in the future. Thurs describes how science-originally used as a synonym for general knowledge-became a term to distinguish particular subjects as elite forms of study accessible only to the highly educated.

Virgin CEO Richard Branson is Britain's favorite businessman, a brand in himself. But is he a buccaneering balloonist or a devious, single-minded profiteer? Here, in Tom Bower's sensational biography, is the full story of the Virgin man: his friendships, his ambitions, his drug-taking, law-breaking, and steam-rolling tactics. It is a tale of greed, ambition, and ruthless self-creation. Tom Bower is a respected investigative journalist, among h...

THE #1 BESTSELLING SERIES FROM THE AWARD-WINNING, BESTSELLING AUTHOR! With this latest Special Illustrated Edition, Robert Stanek continues to blur the lines between the traditional novel and the graphic novel, delivering a new edition of the timeless story of unlikely heroes struggling to save their dying world. Also available in English, Spanish, Turkish, Russian, Korean, Bulgarian, Vietnamese, Trade, Library and Audio, the Special Illustrat...

Splat the Cat is a new character from the creator of "Russell The Sheep", and has already appeared on stationery and a ceramic collection from Portmeirion Pottery. In this picture book, a perfect one for children about to start or go back to school, Splat finds himself on his first day at Cat school, and he is worried. He takes along Seymour, his pet mouse, in his lunchbox to keep him company - with disastrous results. But wise teacher, Mrs Wi...

From the critically-acclaimed cartoonist behind Box Office Poison and Tricked comes the delightful 2 Cool 2 B 4Gotten, a story of second chances. Andy Wicks is a forty-something father of two who's making one final attempt to quit smoking: hypnosis. He's skeptical it will work, but is stunned to find that when he emerges from his trance, he's fifteen years old — and it's 1985! Is he doomed to relive the worst four years of his life or will thi...

Augmentative and alternative communication concerns the use of non-speech communication modes for people unable to use speech and for augmenting communication for people with limited spoken language. This book focuses on the use of manual and graphic communication systems for clinical populations with developmental disorders of speech and language, including children, adolescents and adults with autism, dysphsia, intellectual impairment and mo...