Examines Kafka's late writings from the perspective of the author's changing relationship with Czech language, culture, and literature. This study juxtaposes Kafka's German-language work with Czechoslovak Prague's language politics, intellectual currents, and print culture and shows how this changed cultural and linguistic landscape transformed one of the great literary minds of the last century.
Ideal for any medic or health professional embarking upon an intensive care rotation or specialism, this simple bedside handbook provides handy, pragmatic guidance to the day-to-day fundamentals of working in an intensive care unit, often a daunting prospect for the junior doctor, nurse and allied health professional encountering this challenging environment for the first time.
In diesem packenden Roman besinnt sich Walt Longmire auf die knallharte Gerechtigkeit des alten amerikanischen Westens ...Longmire ist der unerschütterliche Sheriff aus den Thrillern des New York Times-Bestsellerautors Craig Johnson. Die Vorlage der mitreißenden Netflix-Serie.Craig Johnson schildert meisterhaft die atemberaubende Weite des modernen amerikanischen Westen und seine schrulligen Figuren sind unvergesslich.
Presenting the first comprehensive analysis of the sound patterns of a Breton variety treated in a substance-free phonological framework, this book will enhance the understanding of Celtic phonology and offers a valuable reference for postgraduate students, academics and researchers working in phonological theory and Celtic studies.
Sometimes people motivate you, sometimes they challenge you, sometimes they inspire you, and sometimes they do all three at once. Ruqaiya Hasan falls into the last category. It is impossible to capture the huge impact that her work has had and will continue to have on a wide range of people and areas of research. In this volume, we attempt to show just a small snapshot of her impact on the study of verbal art.On Verbal Art reflects on and cele...
On Verbal Art reflects on and celebrates the contribution that Professor Ruqaiya Hasan made to research on linguistic approaches to verbal art and includes contributions by scholars from around the world.
Aimed at employees in all industries, this book is packed with stories, resources and personal coaching to support you whether you are working in a turbulent field, navigating a complex job market or simply trying to achieve your career goals in a world that won¿t stop changing.
This is the first account in English of a much-overlooked, but important, First World War battlefront located in the Italian Alps. The author's account includes the main operations and battle tactics of the special assault detachments such as the Italian Arditi units and the Austro-Hungarian storm troopers.
This is the riveting true story of Paul Martelli, a fifteen-year-old German-Italian, who fought in Pomerania, on the Eastern Front, in 1945 as a member of the 33. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS Charlemagne and, later, as a soldier with French forces during three years (1951-1954) in the Tonkin area, Vietnam.Paul recounts his time at the Sennheim military training base, where he was introduced to the rigorous discipline of body and mind: he t...
At a time when many books about the Great War of 1914-1918 are largely reiterations of earlier strictly chronological accounts, wherein not much is new except perhaps the author¿s style, it is refreshing, even exciting, when a book offering new vistas comes along. Such a book is this one. Like the author¿s earlier We Lead Others Follow, originality shines through in this present book, the work reflecting wide and thorough research, sound analy...
What's in a nineteenth-century philanthropist? Fear of anuprising. But the frightened philanthropist has a remedy. Aware that the urbansurge of the working-class masses in Spain would create a state of emergency, he or she devises a means to seduce the masses away from rebellion by taking onhimself or herself the role of the seducer: the capitalist intellectual heroinvested in the caretaking of the unpredictable working class. IntellectualPhil...
Effective communication in eldercare settings enables better caregiving and enhances understanding and a sense of well-being in those cared for. Changing Seasons by Denise L. Calhoun provides families, caregivers, individuals, and program administrators with a language-based, interdisciplinary program to help older adults improve and maintain effective communication skills.
From a unique life-span perspective, this volume sheds light onto the sensory-motor processes involved in the selection and production of reach-to-grasp behavior.
For many Americans, Opening Day was, and remains, the true marker of each year's beginning. Here we relive the Opening Days of baseball's most storied and glamorous team, the New York American League club that began as the Highlanders and achieved glory as the Yankees.
The stuff of nightmares, monsters have haunted the human psyche for millennia, cropping up in all cultures through our stories and myths, three dimensional and graphic representations. This hold has not diminished as newer technologies keep evolving to visually render them faster and with increased nuance for a variety of applications from games and animation to film characters. Monsters of the Imagination looks at this legacy through the dive...
