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A newcomer to San Francisco falls in love too fast despite the warnings of a cadre of ghosts haunting his uncle, a businessman comes to regret his ennui when faced with the machinations of an outsider artist, on a train traveling through a dangerous Russian winter, a passenger encounters a wolf on two legs, a mining colony where love has become dangerous but no less passionate, a young man, mourning those loss of his ballet career, may yet get...

Treating such issues as animal sex, species politics, environmentaljustice, lesbian space and "gay" ghettos, AIDS literatures, and queer nationalities, this lively collection asks important questions at the intersections of sexualityand environmental studies. Contributors from a wide range of disciplines present afocused engagement with the critical, philosophical, and political dimensions of sexand nature. These discussions are particularly r...

Raising Your Kids Right dispels lingering societal attitudes that narratives for young readers are unworthy of serious political study by examining a variety of texts that offer information, ideology, and even instructions on how to raise kids right, not just figuratively but politically.

Faustino Taderera, the celebrity, is the finest International Business & Supply Chain brains ever produced by Zimbabwe and the African continent and is nicknamed, "The Tom Peters of Zimbabwe, Africa and the Middle East." This book, "Applied Customs and Shipping Legislation, " his 37th book, is co- authored with Mr Zebert Mahachi, another distinguished Zimbabwean academic and former ZIMRA/Customs Officer with a wealth of experience in shipping,...

Michael Frayn is one of the great playwrights of our time, enjoying international acclaim and prestige. This anthology contains three of his strongest titles of serious drama: "Copenhagen, " "Democracy" and "Afterlife." The volume features the definitive version of each play together with an introduction by the author and a chronology of his work.

Wie können Sie Ihre Mitarbeiter wirkungsvoll motivieren? Was müssen Sie bei der Teambildung beachten? Wie sorgen Sie für eine effiziente Arbeitsweise? Wie lösen Sie Konflikte? Nutzen Sie die zahlreichen Kienbaum-Expertentipps für Ihre tägliche Arbeit. Inhalte:Wichtige Kompetenzen einer FührungskraftPsychologische Grundbausteine für FührungskräfteMenschen einschätzen könnenDie Psychologie der MotivationSetzen Sie auf TeamarbeitWie Sie Konflikte...

Pursuing new ideas is clearly the way to gain business advantage in the new millen nium. But it's not enough to simply chase after ideas that have already happened. To truly benefit, individuals and organizations have to foster the new crea tive impulses around them. Coolfarming shows readers how they, like bee keepers, can nurture exciting trends and unleash their creative swarm's output of "next big ideas." This book features real life examp...

65 Fälle aus der Psychiatrie aktiv bearbeiten Schluss mit der Theorie! Hier wird der Klinikalltag lebendig! Reines Lehrbuchwissen reicht für eine mündliche oder praktische Prüfung meist nicht aus. Gefragt ist hier fall- und problemorientiertes Vorgehen - wie in der Praxis. Mit den Büchern dieser Reihe lernen und trainieren Sie Fall für Fall die Vorgehensweise des Arztes am konkreten Patientenbeispiel. So gehen Sie gut vorbereitet und sicher ...

An insightful view of major Civil War battles from a representation of one of South Carolina's most influential families

This book explains to the general reader the roles of chemistry in various areas of life, ranging from the entirely personal to the worryingly global.

New Testament Studies offers a unified approach and a selection of excellent articles that is in no way constrained by theological positions. The aim of this four-volume set is to provide a rich teaching and learning resource which generates a real knowledge transfer based on the best recent New Testament scholarship. Volume One covers two areas, issues of methodology and recent advances in historical Jesus research. The former area both lays...

In this book, a series of interviews offers an accessible, revealing, human and intellectual biography of leading Islamic scholar Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr is one of the preeminent philosophers writing today.

This book reexamines the economic crash of 1929 and compares the event to the modern stock market crash of 2008-2009.

This book is the businessperson's guide to influencing government decisions without incurring the cost of a professional lobbyist, at a time when those decisions are, increasingly, a key to survival. When big corporations want to influence the government, they hire pricey lobbyists. But little guys have been on their own-until now. Equally useful to entrepreneurs and established owner/managers, Be Your Own Lobbyist: How to Give Your Small Busi...

This book explicitly chronicles 40 cases of unsolved murders and disappearances over a period of more than 160 years, tracing the evolution of criminal investigation and forensic techniques. Murders and other violent crimes often leave an indelible mark on society. The 18th-century murder of "Beautiful Cigar Girl" Mary Rogers helped the then newly emerging tabloid papers become a fixture in the United States. The Federal Aviation Administratio...

Paradise Glossed" is a collection of poems, a diary in rhyme - and a Bristolian book by a Bristolian author. It was written over the course of twelve months at a very specific point in Britain's history - the "fag-end of New Labour", and the height of the modern technological age. Desperately seeking the chinks of light amidst the 21st Century gloom of 'X-Factor' culture, social networking, mobile texting and super-rich corporations, the autho...

Into brings together the enigmatic work of three young poets who have written, reflected and published together under the collective imprint The Corresponding Society. Together they have forged a wild, esoteric, deconstructionist, archetypal dream-ramble that simultaneously evokes and destroys, embraces and rejects, the root forces of our Western literary tradition. It is a book of deepening, each page representing a further step into the spac...

Kim was a young female supervisor whose lack of experience caused chaos and divison within child protection unit employees. Kim got into the life of a congressman called Devon, and maliciously attempted to use his political position as leverage to intimidate her assistant commissioner. She was once in love triangle involving Devon and his longtime friend Big Daddy.

Political Communication and Social Theory presents an advanced and challenging text for students and scholars of political communication and mass media in democracies. It draws together work from across political communication, media sociology and political sociology, and includes a mix of theoretical debate and current examples from several democratic media systems. Its wide ranging discussions both introduce and contest the traditional schol...

Driving with Care: Education and Treatment of the Underage Impaired Driving Offender is a supplementary guide for the Driving with Care Series. It deals specifically with Adolescent/young adult impaired driving, which presents a host of special challenges and special treatment issues. Underage impaired driving represents 15% of the DUI arrests nationwide, which translates into roughly 150, 000 individuals a year. Underage drivers present a s...