Die erfolgreiche Reihe der Oldenbourg Interpretationen umfasst alle Epochen und Gattungen. Ein besonderer Schwerpunkt liegt auf aktuellen Titeln der Gegenwartsliteratur, die für den Deutschunterricht entdeckt werden. Lehrern und Schülern bietet die Reihe über 100 sorgfältig aufbereitete Werke.[...]

Includes the scientific basis for major conditions and disorder types such as anxiety depression, mania, and schizophrenia followed by therapeutic and pharmacological interventions for the people experiencing them. This book contains a chapter on self-care for the nurse that offers information about[...]

Arrested and imprisoned in a small Swiss town, a prisoner begins this book with an exclamation: "I'm not Stiller!" He claims that his name is Jim White, that he has been jailed under false charges and under the wrong identity. To prove he is who he claims to be, he confesses to three unsolved murder[...]

The novel tells the story of a middle-class UNESCO engineer called Walter Faber, who believes in rational, calculated world. Strange events undermine his security - an emergency landing in a Mexican desert against all odds, his friend Joachim hangs himself in the Mexican jungle, and he falls in love[...]

This book is the definitive guide to Johannes Brahms's four symphonies. It presents an engaging and thorough treatment of the genesis, structure, reception, and performance history of these internationally admired and frequently performed works. Walter Frisch provides a sensitive analytical commenta[...]

Music in the Nineteenth Century examines the period from the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to the advent of Modernism in the 1890s. Frisch traces a complex web of relationships involving composers, performers, publishers, notated scores, oral traditions, audiences, institutions, cities, and nations. Th[...]

This new edition contains a full introduction to the play's historical background; notes and critical commentary in English, appearing alongside the text; extensive annotation; and an expanded vocabulary.[...]

In this pioneering, erudite study of a pivotal era in the arts, Walter Frisch examines music and its relationship to early modernism in the Austro-German sphere. Seeking to explore the period on its own terms, Frisch questions the common assumption that works created from the later 1870s through Wor[...]

"Essential System Administration,"3rd Edition is the definitive guide for Unix system administration, covering all the fundamental and essential tasks required to run such divergent Unix systems as AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Tru64 and more. "Essential System Administration "provides a clea[...]

This volume of Reiner Stach's acclaimed and definitive biography of Franz Kafka tells the story of the final years of the writer's life, from 1916 to 1924--a period during which the world Kafka had known came to an end. Stach's riveting narrative, which reflects the latest findings about Kafka's lif[...]