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A rare color-enhanced example of Oriental Romanticism and psychotropic drug use in late 19th century American fiction.

This book digs into the complex archaeology of empathy illuminating controversies, epistemic problems and unanswered questions encapsulated within its cross-disciplinary history.The authors ask how a neutral innate capacity to directly understand the actions and feelings of others becomes charged with emotion and moral values associated with altruism or caregiving. They explore how the discovery of the mirror neuron system and its interpretati...

This collection of poems and essays by both poets and scholars explores how John Donne’s writing has entered into the language, the imagination, and the navigation of erotic and spiritual desires and experiences of twentieth- and twenty-first-century writers. The chapters chart a winding path from a description of the Donne and Contemporary Poetry Project at Fordham University to an encounter with the Holy Sonnets to a set of modern holy sonne...

This book fills the gap between textbooks of quantitative genetic theory, and software manuals that provide details on analytical methods but little context or perspective on which methods may be most appropriate for a particular application. Accordingly this book is composed of two sections. The first section (Chapters 1 to 8) covers topics of classical phenotypic data analysis for prediction of breeding values in animal and plant breeding pr...

This book re-evaluates New Left and Marxist texts from the 1980s, in order to explore problems facing the study of ‘class’ which have emerged within Australian and international theories. The author contrasts the popular ideas of Connell, Bourdieu and the ‘Death of Class’ thesis, with those of lesser known texts, concluding that no single definition can account for the various historical meanings of class. Instead, loosely following Castoriadi...

Are we making prayer more complicated than it needs to be? Helping us pare down our words to their most elemental level, Charlie Dawes has identified simple--yet far from simplistic--prayers that unlock the mystery of conversing with God. By focusing our prayers, we can find a new way of connecting with God at a heart level that cannot be mastered with words alone.

Zur kontinuierlichen Fortbildung von Ehrenamtlichen, die in der Hospiz- und Palliativversorgung tätig sind, finden sich in diesem Modulhandbuch Unterrichtsentwürfe einschließlich aller notwendigen Materialien. Die ausführlich dargestellten Themen Themen (z. B. Würde, Ethik, Spiritualität, belastende Emotionen, Angst, Schuldgefühle) sind für unterschiedliche Zeitdauern konzipiert. Es handelt sich um dreistündige, ganz- oder eineinhalbtägige For...

Vier kleine Puppen-Abenteuer zum Hören und Mitspielen!Folgende Geschichten sind enthalten: Lilli findet neue Freunde - Lilli und die Windpockenmonster - Lilli und der neue Kindergarten - Lilli tanzt den Quatsch-de-döDie kleine Puppe Lilli ist überglücklich: Bei Geburtstagskind Mona hat sie ein Zuhause gefunden! Und neue Freunde: Monas Puppenkinder Mali und Matze! Ob Windpocken, Ballettstunde oder Bammel vor dem neuen Kindergarten - die drei Li...

Samira kommt zusammen mit ihrer Familie nach Deutschland. Sie möchte gerne arbeiten und ein bisschen Geld verdienen. Aber ihr Mann Hassan ist dagegen. So macht Samira sich heimlich auf Jobsuche.

Seven operas, seven premieres, seven composers, seven cities: A fascinating history of opera told through the turbulent social history of Europe

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book tells the story of Barbara Robb and her pressure group, Aid for the Elderly in Government Institutions (AEGIS). In 1965, Barbara visited 73-year-old Amy Gibbs in a dilapidated and overcrowded National Health Service psychiatric hospital back-ward. She was so appalled by the low standards that she set out to make improvements. Barbara’s book Sans Everything: A case to answer was publi...

This book offers a vision of economics in which there is no place for universal laws of nature, and even for laws of a more probabilistic character. The author avoids interpreting the practice of economics as something that leads to the formulation of universal laws or laws of nature. Instead, chapters in the book follow the method of contemporary philosophy of science:  rather than formulating suggestions for practicing scientists of how they...

columns about teaching writing in middle school from a veteran teacher and school principal.

In The Economics of Consumption, Tullio Jappelli and Luigi Pistaferri provide a comprehensive examination of the most important developments in the field of consumption decisions and evaluate economic models against empirical evidence.

How can education become a transformative experience for all learners and teachers? The contributors to this volume contend that the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) can provide a strong foundation for the role of education in promoting social justice. The collection features contributions by an array of educators and scholars, highlighting the various ways that learners and teachers can prepare for and engage with social justice co...

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Mit seinen durchbohrten und zerschnittenen Leinwänden sorgte der italienisch-argentinische Künstler Lucio Fontana in den 1950ern für Furore und hitzige Diskussionen. Seine concetti spatiali (Raumkonzepte) machten den italienisch-argentinischen Avantgardisten zum Idol einer jungen Künstlergeneration im Nachkriegseuropa. Eine Einführung in sein vielschichtiges Werk.

An insider's look at the iconic drink and its role in shaping the American West. Distilleries are the new microbreweries, cropping up all over the West and producing brands that emulate the predecessors that were made in copper stills by emigrants and served in saloons and dance halls. This history of the spirit and its origins and migration across the country-and its place in shaping the West-celebrates the story of the golden elixir through ...

This exciting and timely collection showcases recent work on Cybercrime by members of Uclan Cybercrime Research Unit [UCRU], directed by Dr Tim Owen at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. This book offers up-to-date perspectives on Cybercrime based upon a Realist social ontology, alongside suggestions for how research into Cybercrime might move beyond what can be seen as the main theoretical obstacles facing criminological theory: the st...

Der Roman zur bombastischen neuen Netflix-Serie! An Bord des Raumschiffs Shenzhou wird Lieutenant Michael Burnham, eine menschliche Frau, die unter Vulkaniern aufgewachsen ist und von ihnen ausgebildet wurde, zum Ersten Offizier befördert. Doch wenn sie den Posten behalten will, muss sie Captain Philippa Georgiou beweisen, dass sie ihn auch verdient. Gelegenheit dafür erhält sie, als die Shenzhou eine Kolonie der Föderation vor einem uralten...