"Qi Gong for Well-Being" is a clear, illustrated guide to Qi Gong, the ancient self-healing art that combines breathing, posture, movement, and visualization to build vitality and improve health. Taoist master and medical doctor Baolin Wu presents, for the first time in the West, the complete 9 Pala[...]

Swing is a fully-featured user interface development kit for Java applications. Building on the foundations of the Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT), Swing enables cross-platform applications to use any of several pluggable look-and-feels. Swing developers can take advantage of its rich, flexible featur[...]

In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel and Mesopotamia. By 1492 the Jewish people had become a small group of literate urbanites specializing in crafts, trade, moneylending, and medicine in hundreds of places across the Old World, from Seville t[...]

In many ways a traditional western, "The Searchers" (1956) is considered by critics to be one of the greatest Hollywood films, made by the most influential of western directors. But John Ford's classic work, in its complexity and ambiguity, was a product of post-World War II American culture and spa[...]

German description: Zahlen und Rechnen mit den Fingern = das ist doch verpont ? Nicht, wenn man es richtig macht. Der Weg und das Ziel durfen nicht verwechselt werden. Kognitionspsychologische, kulturgeschichtliche und neurowissenschaftliche Forschungen zeigen, dass Mengen- und Zahlerfassung sowie d[...]