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Der vorliegende Kommentar zum Buch Kohelet entwirft im kenntnisreich mit der Forschung geführten Gespräch ein neues Gesamtverständnis dieses so beliebten, aber oft verkannten Buches. Er zeigt, dass Kohelet mit seinen scharfsinnigen Beobachtungen und Reflexionen, mit provokativen Bildern und existenziellen Einsichten nach dem sucht, "was gut für die Menschen ist". Im Zentrum steht die Frage nach dem Glück des Menschen. Das Buch entwirft eine "L...

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Buyer beware! The price of a bargain may be higher than you think. Everyone is thrilled by the Life Shop catalogue. It sells everything - and all a great price. Lorna alone cannot understand why her friends, neighbours and even her normally sensible Mum are obsessed by the Life Shop. Age 10+.

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Transgender Subjectivities is a comprehensive guide for understanding the issues and concerns of the emerging transgender phenomenon. This book offers a diverse yet coherent view of this ever-expanding field. It provides an overview of transsexual manifestations designed to expose therapists, as well as the general public to this actively expanding field. This compact but wide-ranging guide will make you transgender-literate regardless of your...

In the second half of the twentieth century, 20 percent (10, 000) of all retail druggists were Rexall. Now there are none, and this book explains why. The Rexall Story: A History of Genius and Neglect shows how a brilliant and successful business/pharmacy venture was allowed to fail through carelessness. From the celebrated genius of Louis Liggett--who started United Drug in 1903--to the business's demise nearly 75 years later, this significan...

This book initiates a new conversation about how theological education might be re-envisioned for the twenty-first century church. The prevailing curricular structure in today's seminaries and divinity schools was fashioned in a very different era, one that assumed the continued cultural dominance of Christianity and the continued academic dominance of the canons of Enlightenment reason. Neither assumption is viable in today's post-Christian w...

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This book is about a couple, not a single, dominant ruler. Thus it raises issues of gender, and the dynamics of a marriage over thirty-five years, as well as the practice of monarchical power. The reader sees Ferdinand and Isabella struggle to establish their regime, and then work out an elaborate reform programme in Church and State. It sees them fight a total war, by fifteenth-century standards, against Muslim Granada, leading to that kingdo...

* The first biography in English of the famous Babylonian lawgiver, King Hammurabi (fl. 1792 to 1750 BC). * Presents a well--rounded view of Hammurabi's accomplishments. * Describes how Hammurabi dealt with powerful rivals and extended his kingdom.

Good customer service may be seen as a crucial asset for most organisations. But how do you know that you are delivering good customer service both externally and internally and, more importantly delivering it to meet and exceed your customers' expectations? Customer service is an intangible thing, it is perishable and it is personal, so measuring it can be complicated and less than straightforward. Help is at hand. Sarah Cook's down-to-earth ...

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Liberal democracies are predicated on popular sovereignty - the ideal of government for and by the People. Throughout the developed world indigenous peoples continue to deny legitimacy to otherwise popular governments because their consent has never been sought. Curry from Charles Sturt University, NSW.

The silent attentiveness expected of concert audiences is one of the most distinctive characteristics of modern Western musical culture. This is the first book properly to examine the concept of attention in the history of musical thought and its foundations in the writings of German musical commentators of the late eighteenth century. Matthew Riley examines the significant writers on the topic (Descartes, Leibniz, Wolff, Baumgarten, Rousseau,...

Part of a unique series written for Access to Higher Education students, this book addresses those modules covering psychology, sociology and ethics.

In 1869 Japan, a young woman escapes the confines of her arranged marriage by painting memories of her lover on mulberry paper. She secretly wraps the painting around a ceramic pot that's bound for Europe. In France, a disenchanted young man works as a clerk at an import shop. When he opens the box from Japan, he discovers the brilliant watercolor of two lovers locked in an embrace under a plum tree. He steals the painting and hides it in his ...

The essence of doctors' duty is to bring three things to their suffering patients: knowledge, to discover what is wrong and what to do about it, compassion, to keep their patients' needs ahead of all other considerations, and the tenacity to persist in their work of healing, whatever may block the road. Using case illustrations from his own and colleagues' experiences, Dr. Richard Hudgens, the senior clinical psychiatrist at the Washington Uni...

Poetry Carnival" is a collection of poetry pertaining to lost loves, found hope and words inspired by my carnival life. This book has a poem for everyone, from the high school student who's been bullied, to the carnival worker and the office professional - from those who feel that all hope is gone and teetering on the verge of life and death to those who have deep faith. A part of everyone exists at the poetry carnival. For, on the midway of l...