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Set in Chicago at the turn of the millennia, The Perfect Island is the story of four young adults - Stephan, Tom, Kelly and Matt - who join an environmental group with hopes to change the world. Through their experiences they become close friends and endure great sorrow, yet ultimately choose different paths in their lives. In an age of environmental uncertainty and a world in which the truth about climate change is often dictated by politics ...

The fourth edition of this book is the most comprehensive major reference work on hypertension in children and adolescents. Since the publication of the previous edition, there have  been notable changes in the field, with the arrival of new evidence of the long-term sequelae of  hypertension in youth, an evidence-based review of the value of routine BP screening in children and adolescents, and further evidence of the cardiovascular consequen...

Entdecke eine Welt voller Magie Die Kelten wandelten auf dem Pfad der Großen Göttin, lebten in tiefem Kontakt mit der Natur und ihren Wesen, und ihre Priesterinnen und Druiden hüteten das geheime Wissen: Ihr Geist ist heute lebendiger denn je. Anne-Mareike Schultz und Petra Arndt lassen diese magische Zeit mit 50 eindrucksvollen Bildern und berührenden Botschaften wieder aufleben. Göttinnen, Götter, Priesterinnen, Zauberer, heilige Tiere und...

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching

This revolutionary book presents a new conception of community and the struggle against capitalism. In Undoing Work, Rethinking Community, James A. Chamberlain argues that paid work and the civic duty to perform it substantially undermines freedom and justice. Chamberlain believes that to seize back our time and transform our society, we must abandon the deep-seated view that community is constructed by work, whether paid or not.Chamberlain fo...

Over the last thirty years Western capitalism has undergone a process of radical change that has erased the world we knew during the post-war 'Golden Age'. Processes of globalisation and financialisation, coupled with mass migration, demographic transitions and pressures on the welfare state, have brought about steep increases in inequality and a polarisation between winners and losers that challenges the very nature of citizenship. The redefi...

In Humanitarian Hypocrisy, Andrea L. Everett maps the often glaring differences between declared ambitions to protect civilians in conflict zones and the resources committed for doing so. Examining how powerful governments contribute to peace operations and determine how they are designed, Everett argues that ambitions-resources gaps are a form of organized hypocrisy. Her book shows how political compromises lead to disparities between the hum...

This book provides comprehensive coverage of whole range of activities of offshore oil and gas operations including offshore environments, offshore drilling operation followed by various operations of offshore oil and gas productions.

Dass die internationalen Geldströme über Frankfurt laufen, ist allseits bekannt. Weitaus weniger weiß man über die regionalen Finanzzentren in Deutschland. Dabei bieten sie viele Vorteile: persönliche Kenntnisse des Umfelds, unmittelbare Kontakte zu den Entscheidern vor Ort und allgemein ein besseres Verständnis für die Geschäftskultur und die Marktchancen in der Region. Patrick Bormann und Joachim Scholtyseck zeigen, wie sich der Bank- und Bö...

Die Buchreihe "Erfolgreiche Stundenbilder für Schule und Verein" liefert erprobte und sofort umsetzbare Stundenbilder für den Sportunterricht ab Klasse 5 bis zur gymnasialen Oberstufe sowie für den Vereinssport. Die Stundenbilder sind aufgeteilt in Einstieg, Haupt- und Schlussteil. Die sportartorientierten Bände im DIN-A4-Format orientieren sich an der Praxis und unterstützen die erfolgreiche Gestaltung von Vereins- und lehrplankonformen Sport...

Die Buchreihe "Erfolgreiche Stundenbilder für Schule und Verein" liefert erprobte und sofort umsetzbare Stundenbilder für den Sportunterricht ab Klasse 5 bis zur gymnasialen Oberstufe sowie für den Vereinssport. Die Stundenbilder sind aufgeteilt in Einstieg, Haupt- und Schlussteil. Die sportartorientierten Bände im DIN-A4-Format orientieren sich an der Praxis und unterstützen die erfolgreiche Gestaltung von Vereins- und lehrplankonformen Sport...

Using the latest research in consumer psychology, Mukherjee provides a new perspective on the dark side of the internet, and gives readers the tools to become smarter users of the web.

All the Women in My Family Sing raises voices that tell of racial and gender-based inequality within societies. It is an array of vital essays ranging from the pressures of being the vice-president of a Fortune 500 company, to escaping the killing elds of Cambodia, to the struggles inside immigration, identity, romance, self-worth and sexuality. This anthology reveals wisdom from the life experiences of women of color to call for social change...

This collection of lyric poems wrestles with a sense of self that has become fragmented by the experience of war. Christopher Collins has taken his tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, extracted their emotional shrapnel, and examined their toll on his civilian life. He considers the two sides of himself that have been wrought in these parallel lives.

Drawing the Line: Technical Hand Drafting for Film and Television is the essential resource for students and aspiring professionals studying and working in film and television design. The book covers all aspects of scenic drafting by hand ¿ a technique still used in film and television because of its unparalleled emotive and aesthetic qualities. Discover how to draw the iconic scroll of a classical column or learn the difference between Flemis...

Theatre & Stage Photography provides an overview of basic photography as it applies to "available-light" situations, and takes both basic and experienced photographers through the process of accurately capturing both the production process and the resultant performance.

Theatre & Stage Photography provides an overview of basic photography as it applies to "available-light" situations, and takes both basic and experienced photographers through the process of accurately capturing both the production process and the resultant performance.

This volume offers a close analysis and textual study of Vico¿s complex intellectual trajectory before the Scienze Nuove. Particular attention is devoted to the three books of Diritto Universale, as they mark a significant step in the redefinition of the relationship between metaphysics and philosophical questions of law. In Vico, we witness the connection ¿ rather than the juxtaposition ¿ between natural and historic law, and a new notion of ...

Elements of Indigenous Style provides guidelines to help writers, editors, and publishers produce material that reflects Indigenous people in an appropriate and respectful manner. Gregory Younging, a member of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation in Northern Manitoba, has been the managing editor of Theytus Books, the first Aboriginal-owned publishing house in Canada, for over 13 years. Elements of Indigenous Style evolved from the house style guide Gre...