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Verschmitzt, lustig, böse, beängstigend - Monika Knaack verzerrt ihre Porträtzeichnungen. Gesichter erhalten karikaturhafte Züge. Entdecken Sie erstaunliche Gesichtsausdrücke von Christine Lagarde, Karl Lauterbach, Marylyn Addo, Olaf Scholz, Angela Merkel, Jens Spahn, Ursula von der Leyen und Christian Drosten.VorbemerkungIn den Jahren 2020/2021, während der Corona-Pandemie, hat Monika Knaack ihren Fokus kreativ auf allgegenwärtige öffentliche...

Splash! Billy hurried to the window. In the faint glow of a crescent moon, he could make out ripples in the farmer's pond. This fish had to be huge. Billy knew then and there he must catch the big fish. So begins Billy's adventure to get the big one!

Erin R. Wheeler's Live Wiser: The Ultimate Guide to Adulting Post-Grad provides valuable insights into the pitfalls of adulting. Rooted in Dr. Wheeler's openness and willingness to share her storied, familiar journey, Live Wiser explores what it means to determine who you are and what kind of adult you want to become. This is a must-read for anyone struggling to find their way and especially for those who think they have their way already plan...

This book addresses critical topics and unanswered questions on the contemporary state of Qatar. Drawing together a unique combination of authors that have researched the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in general, and the state of Qatar specifically, each author provides an in-depth empirical analysis of Qatar's current social, political, and economic landscape against a historically informed backdrop. Cognizant of its rapid state of flux, the...

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This volume introduces readers to the achievements made in the context of China's reform and opening up. It tells China's story with regard to twelve aspects: the reform path, opening up, macro-economy, regional development, the "three rural" policy, poverty alleviation, industrial development, scientific and technological leadership, ecological civilization, human resources, social security, and income distribution. On the one hand, China's s...

The spring of 2020 marked a change in how almost everyone conducted their personal and professional lives, both within science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) and beyond. The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted global scientific conferences and individual laboratories and required people to find space in their homes from which to work. It blurred the boundaries between work and non-work, infusing ambiguity into everyday act...

Das Buch wirft eine organisationssoziologische Perspektive auf die systematisch durchgeführten Massenmorde im Rahmen der nationalsozialistischen Euthanasie in Hadamar. Anhand zahlreicher theoretisch ausgearbeiteter sowie empirisch belegter Organisationsmechanismen wird aufgezeigt, wie diese illegalen Praktiken von und für das Personal, welches nicht zum Morden ausgebildet oder anderweitig prädestiniert war, in einer außergewöhnlichen Weise "no...

The door wasn't supposed to be there. Elrod knew it, but he pushed it open anyway. Now he's caught up in a world of mob money, loaded guns, and fabulous lies. Should he trust the pretty jazz singer with the big plans? Or his own instincts, which tell him to bolt out of town on the first bus headed west? By the time he figures out the real scheme, he's knee-deep in something that can only end up badly, and there's no way out except to ride the ...

This book presents the proceedings of SympoSIMM 2020, the 3rd edition of the Symposium on Intelligent Manufacturing and Mechatronics. Focusing on "Strengthening Innovations Towards Industry 4.0", the book presents studies on the details of Industry 4.0's current trends. Divided into five parts covering various areas of manufacturing engineering and mechatronics stream, namely, artificial intelligence, instrumentation and controls, intelligent ...

War ends, yet its dark shadow remains, a family is forced to flee their home. As they journey through hunger, long cold nights and homelessness, a heart locket whispers words of hope. And a country that's faraway calls for those that are no longer wanted. It offers new beginnings and a precious place, once more to call home.

War ends, yet its dark shadow remains, a family is forced to flee their home. As they journey through hunger, long cold nights and homelessness, a heart locket whispers words of hope. And a country that's faraway calls for those that are no longer wanted. It offers new beginnings and a precious place, once more to call home.

Welcome to Know-It-All Shakespeare. Developed by a high-school English teacher, this series puts the richness of the Bard directly in your hand in a friendly and important way. Rather than just including a few footnotes, some sidenotes, and a frustratingly long introduction (that won't help if you've never read the play before), Know-It-All Shakespeare provides a guided tour. The commentaries that are interlaced between the lines of Shakespear...

Originally published in 1998, International Society and the De Facto Society explores the phenomenon of de facto statehood in contemporary international relations.

This book provides detailed transcriptions of two notebooks written by Kurt Gödel in Vienna in 1937/38 in the nearly forgotten Gabelsberger shorthand system. The first of these notebooks, simply entitled as the Protokoll-book, contains notes on conversations Gödel had with people like Rudolf Carnap, Rose Rand, Friedrich Waismann, Else Frenkel-Brunswik, and many others who were-at least to some degree-connected to the Vienna Circle. It also cov...

Die Geschichte bietet zu den Themen »Fremde« und »Fremdsein« ein großes Reservoir an Erlebnissen, Erfahrungen, Erkenntnissen, Erfolgsgeschichten und Problemfällen. Das gilt auch und besonders für die Antike. Sie ist für uns das »nächste Fremde« (Uvo Hölscher), nicht im zeitlichen, sondern im kulturellen und mentalen Sinn: fremd genug, um unsere Denkgewohnheiten infrage zu stellen, und nahe genug, um für uns auch heute noch von Bedeutung zu sei...

Eine von Lenas Lieblingssocken ist spurlos verschwunden...Glücklicherweise hat Mama eine Idee, wo sie sein könnte.Lena begibt sich auf eine spannende Reise ins Paradies für verlorengegangene Socken.Für alle, die schon immer wissen wollten, was wirklich mit den Socken passiert, die in der Waschmaschine verschwinden.

This book explores the ways in which socio-technical settings in medical contexts find varying articulations in a specific locale. Focusing on Japan, it consists of nine case studies on topics concerning: experiences with radiation in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Fukushima, patient security, end-of-life and high-tech medicine in hospitals, innovation and diffusion of medical technology, and the engineering and evaluating of novel devices in clinic...

Black People in the British Empire is a challenge to the official version of British history. It tells the story of Britain's exploitation and oppression of its subject peoples in its colonies, and in particular the people of Africa, Asia and Australasia Peter Fryer reveals how the ideology of racism was used as justification for acquiring and expanding the Empire, how the British Industrial Revolution developed out of profits from the slave t...