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Peter Singer behandelt in seinem Buch "Leben und Tod" Fragen, die nicht nur die Medizin, Justiz und Philosophie beschäftigen. Auch in der breiten Öffentlichkeit werden sie angesichts der Konfrontation mit dramatischen Fällen immer wieder gestellt: Wann beginnt das Leben? Wann endet das Leben? Ist ein hirntoter Mensch wirklich tot? Dürfen Ärzte und Ärztinnen die Lebensfunktionen einer hirntoten schwangeren Frau künstlich aufrechterhalten, damit...

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Matthias Wagner untersucht anhand biographisch-narrativer Interviews Erfahrungen von Differenz und Rassismus, die Schwarze Frauen im Kontext von Bildungsinstitutionen gemacht haben. Im Rahmen seiner Analyse in Anlehnung an die konstruktivistische Grounded-Theory-Methodologie zeigt er auf, wie diese Erfahrungen im Rahmen biographischer Prozesse reflektiert und in Entscheidungen hinsichtlich der Bildung der eigenen Kinder überführt werden. Diese...

A guide to help you sell that book!A marketing plan is your blueprint for success. It will guide your book promotion activities. It is also required in order to gain acceptance by the big bookstores, and elevate your eBook.Big booksellers require authors they promote to have sales of 500 or more books, an established author platform, and a detailed marketing plan for consideration. This book aims to help you achieve this lofty goal by helping ...

In At the Speed of Dark, Gabriel Àkám¿¿ pits the mind's chiaroscuro against the many shades of grey that make up our reality. These questioning poems hold empiricism and faith, gravity and progress in the balance. Formally expansive, they play on the equivocation of white space, its 'faux-quirky false irony' of white spaces. They entreat us to slow down, to recapture epiphanies lost on waking, 'reclaiming time, clawing back at the clearness of...

Since its founding in 1982, the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program has become the largest and most comprehensive public research and development funding program of small business research in the United States. An underlying tenet of the SBIR program, and the related Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program, is that small and young firms are an important source of new ideas that provide the underlying basis for technolog...

She trusts him with her life, but can she trust him with her heart? Emma Thomas hasn't been home in years. Only back in Staunton for a few months, she plans to put her investigative reporter skills to use in exposing the trafficking group using her peaceful, idyllic hometown to move drugs. But when she stumbles onto more than drugs, bullets start flying and she has to ask the one person she left Virginia to avoid for help. Detective Adam Mars...

Troy Cabida's War Dove is a story of profound growth, of growing into oneself, of knowing tenderness, not as a skin to be sloughed on the way to maturity but a central muscle beating vital strength into the body. Cabida's poetry refracts mental and emotional wellbeing through a kaleidoscope of cultural identities. This dove learns to soar and sway, heal and harden like 'honey / crystallised and unflinching.

They say time heals all wounds. But he was finding it a poor painkiller.Tyler Collens has seen grief and loss in his years of experience as a paramedic-but he never expected it to touch his life in such a personal way. The death of his wife eighteen months ago shook his steady world and changed him in more ways than he can count. Time and routine have steadied his feet, and he looks toward the future as he raises his infant daughter-but the pa...

Alborz Azar telah mempersembahkan buku pertamanya yang berjudul 'Who Did It?' dalam seri Pantea (Lana). Setelah Pantea (Eshgham Azar) mengaku sebagai Lana yang menginspirasinya untuk menulis dan berbagi memoarnya kepada dunia, Azar mulai menulis cerita setelah terjadi insiden pada Maret 2018. Meskipun demikian, Azar menyadari bahwa keberadaannya harus dikendalikan agar tidak menjadi pusat perhatian, karena ia menyukai kehidupan pribadinya. Nam...

Dieses essential zeigt auf, wie durch die Einbindung neuer Zielgruppen Lebensräume in Städten ganzheitlich entwickelt werden können. Durch die Arbeit mit dem Design-Thinking-Ansatz rücken die Bedürfnisse der späteren Bewohner ins Zentrum der Quartiersentwicklung. Die Autoren informieren über aktuelle Trends und Herausforderungen in der Entwicklung von Quartieren. Soziale, ökologische und technologische Herausforderungen erfordern innovative We...

The enigmatic Q has always taken a personal interest in the crew of the "Enterprise, " and in particular her captain, Jean-Luc Picard. This original novel picks up where the film "Nemesis" leaves off, as it follows the lives of favorite characters and features one of the most popular villains in Star Trek history. Original.

From the author Jeffery Deaver calls "smart, speedy, and stylish, " this Boston-based thriller was the basis for the film The Town and features an Iraq war veteran who gets involved with dangerous, big-time drug dealers.Neal Maven returns to Boston from his tour in Iraq only to discover that the country he vowed to protect has little use for him now. The men and women who remained Stateside are years ahead of him both personally and profession...

New York Times"-bestselling author Fielding tells the chilling story of a seemingly casual bet among friends gone terrifyingly awry.

From the acclaimed author Publishers Weekly called "a gifted writer" comes this nail-biting legal thriller in the bestselling tradition of John Grisham and Scott Turow.Aaron Littmann, the chairman of one of the country's most prestigious law firms, has just been contacted by a high-profile defense attorney, whose client is Nikolai Garkov—a Russian businessman widely believed to have pulled the financial strings behind a recent terrorist bombin...

In the next book in the Half Moon Hollow paranormal romance series, Libby (a widow-turned-vampire) struggles with her transition, and finds out it sucks to be the only vampire member of the PTA…Widow Libby Stratton arranged to be turned into a vampire after she was diagnosed with late-stage cancer. It wasn't the best idea she's ever had, but she was desperate—she's not about to leave her seven-year-old son to be raised by her rigid, overbearin...

After virginal Jocelyn Tolliver discovers that her dying mother is a London madame, she promises to take over the bordello, and transforms herself into the reclusive Madame DeBourcier. Rakish Alex Randall, Lord Colwick, is determined to win admittance to the intriguing madames bed. Original.

From a producer of 48 Hours Mystery and The Boston Globe reporter comes the full account of the shocking crime spree of the infamous Craigslist Killer.In this "detailed and absorbing" (The Boston Globe) true crime book, discover the many mysteries behind the secret life of the brilliant and well-liked Boston University medical student who came to be known as the Craigslist Killer. How was he able to conceal his dark side to all who knew him, e...

Making her first foray into urban fantasy, paranormal and fantasy romance author Devoti pens a witty tale about an Amazon woman who leaves her tribe to live with normal humans and run a tattoo parlor in Madison, Wisconsin. Original.

A thrilling Star Trek novel following two of Starfleet's best starships on a quest to discover the secrets of a mysterious, uncolonized region.The Tomol are a primitive civilization occupying a lone island on a remote world. Their culture is an enigma, centered on every member's commitment to a painful, fiery self-sacrifice upon reaching maturity. But one of their clan has shunned this obligation, triggering a transformation into a new, powerf...