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New essays by leading scholars on Isaac Newton and his philosophical interlocutors and critics, discussing a wide range of topics.

Social Welfare, Aging and Social Theory explores how we can understand the changing relationship between social welfare and human aging. The book begins by reviewing how historical changes in society impacted on shaping emergence of scientific approaches to understand and problematize and bio-medicalize aging as akin to an illness and disease. The discussion moves to trace how particular social science theories were developed to reinforce nega...

Building on past research that includes prosocial-antisocial communication, positive psychology, as well as complementing the dark side of interpersonal communication, this groundbreaking volume brings together veteran interpersonal communication scholars to examine the bright, positive sides of communication in human relations. Together, they begin to frame a conceptual foundation for studies on the «positive» side of interpersonal communicat...

Dieses Buch bietet eine umfassende Beschreibung der Maltechniken für innen und außen auf Wänden und Decken - mit traditionellen sowie modernen Materialien. Es vermittelt alle relevanten Grundlagen zu Beschichtungs- und Malgründen, Materialien und Aufbau der Malereien. Bei allen Arbeitstechniken wird die wechselseitige Beziehung funktioneller und technologischer Art zwischen dem Bauwerk und der Wandmalerei aufgezeigt. Dabei werden Planung, arbe...

Wiltshire is rich in its railway heritage, and so in this volume focussed on the closed lines of Wiltshire lines such as the MSWJ, Calne, Malmesbury and Devizes routes feature, as well as a glimpse at some former Southern lines that once crossed parts of the county.

Diverse schools offer enriched academic and social environments, as students and families of different backgrounds and experiences provide a vibrant mosaic of insights, perspectives, and skills. This book highlights stories from around the world, as innovative teachers, educational leaders, and community activists passionately share personal accounts of their successes, challenges, and lessons learned.

Diverse schools offer enriched academic and social environments, as students and families of different backgrounds and experiences provide a vibrant mosaic of insights, perspectives, and skills. This book highlights stories from around the world, as innovative teachers, educational leaders, and community activists passionately share personal accounts of their successes, challenges, and lessons learned.

The book argues that anarchism should be considered the first ¿postmodern¿ philosophical and political movement and offers a revision of ¿classical anarchism.¿

Gerard Conway explains how judges of the ECJ should be understood as sharing the same interpretative perspective as the law-maker.

This edited collection of essays re-evaluates the concept of prejudice and attempts to move beyond conventional approaches to the subject.

This edited collection of essays re-evaluates the concept of prejudice and attempts to move beyond conventional approaches to the subject.

Authoritative, bold and clear, the History raises multiple useful questions for future explorations of the genre.

This book chronicles the Hawaiian Travelers, a barnstorming baseball team of multiethnic, multiracial Hawaiians, who played across the continental continent from 1912 through 1916. This team took on college, semi-professional, minor league, and African American nines. In the process, they won the majority of these games, while subverting venerable racial conventions. It also describes the experiences of some of these players after 1916 as they...

Unternehmen sind heutzutage darauf angewiesen, ihre qualifizierten Fachkräfte dauerhaft zu binden. Um den Anforderungen der modernen Arbeitswelt gerecht zu werden, müssen Gesellschaft, Unternehmen und die Politik ihre öffentliche Meinung und gängige Arbeitspraktiken bezüglich flexibler Arbeitszeitmodelle in Deutschland überdenken. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird geprüft, ob flexible Arbeitszeitmodelle speziell für Führungskräfte eine Lösung für d...

The evil Space Twister has stolen Danny's cosmic remote and is running amok with it. Can Danny's new gadget, the Time Tablet, untwist everything? And what if, with one touch of the screen, Danny could delete the Space Twister for ever?

Travel the world through the eyes of an adventurous dog. Explore Shanghai, a forest, and the mystical land beneath a magnificent old tree in Stories Cast from a Restless Eighth Grade Class.Deal with kangaroo justice, learn to live with less, feel the sting of responsibility, vengeance, and justice, and never give up while stopping an assignation.Find out about oneself, one's neighbors, accepting fault, and what it means to be human in Stories ...

Work for the CIA and battles against bullies, Nazi's, and enemy armies. Travel to distant and strange lands in search of treasure and new friendships while exploring the mysteries of CISS-STORIES.Take an unforgettable journey and learn about becoming an adult. Face difficult situations and fulfill one's dreams. Surf wild waves and save the world from destruction. Foil criminals and kings and deal with magical creatures.Overcome personal traged...

Angels descending bring from above, echoes or mercy, whispers of love."-Fanny J. CrosbyAngels don't always appear in our lives wearing wings and halos. Since the beginning of recorded history, humans have found inspiration in tales of benevolent encounters with angelic beings. Angels can manifest in many ways-through the loving gaze of a dog, the unexpected warmth of a stranger, and even in the awe-inspiring beauty of nature. Whatever form the...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the IFIP WG 11.4 International Workshop on Open Problems in Network Security, iNetSec 2011, held in Lucerne, Switzerland, in June 2011, co-located and under the auspices of IFIP SEC 2011, the 26th IFIP TC-11 International Information Security Conference.The 12 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 initial submissions, they are fully revised ...

This is the fourth in the Crooner series. Morey Ames is a Chicago crooner. Sally is his wife, who also has her own restaurant. Unfortunately for Morey, she also has a penchant for solving crimes. In this latest book, Sally has this gut feeling that her best friend's new boyfriend is a con artist, and may be out to fleece all the customers in her place of business. Not wanting to confide in her friend, she sets out to gather information about h...