Continuous sedation until death (sometimes referred to as terminal sedation or palliative sedation) is an increasingly common practice in end-of-life care. However, it raises numerous medical, ethical, emotional and legal concerns, such as the reducing or removing of consciousness (and thus potentia[...]
Essential reading for all psychiatrists who manage these patients Approximately 15% of depression patients are defined treatment-resistant Only book devoted to this key issue in the treatment of depression Covers psychological therapy and other non-pharmacological interventions.[...]
This volume is the first book-length collection of studies on the assessment of pragmatic competencies in a second or foreign language. Grounded in theoretical perspectives on communicative and interactional competencies, the first section of the book examines the reception and production of speech [...]
John Kasper was a militant far-right activist who first came to prominence with his violent campaigns against desegregation in the Civil Rights era. Ezra Pound was the seminal figure in Anglo-American modernist literature and one of the most important poets of the 20th century. This is the first boo[...]
The war is over, but Berlin is a desolate sea of rubble. There is a shortage of everything: food, clothing, tobacco. The local population is scrabbling to get by. Kasper Meier is one of these Germans, and his solution is to trade on the black market to feed himself and his elderly father. He can fin[...]
The war is over, but Berlin is a desolate sea of rubble. There is a shortage of everything: food, clothing, tobacco. The local population is scrabbling to get by. Kasper Meier is one of these Germans, and his solution is to trade on the black market to feed himself and his elderly father. He can fin[...]
Kasper is a master synthesiser, and his display of erudition alone makes this book a worthy read and an invaluable resource for questions of God and Trinity. Using admittedly polemical language, he calls for a 'theological theology' which makes the explanation of the confession of the triune God its[...]
The Second Vatican Council in its Decree on Ecumenism (Unitatis redintegratio) declared the restoration of unity among Christians to be one of its principal concerns. Division among the Churches scandalises the world, and damages that most holy cause, the preaching of The Gospel to every creature. T[...]
Introduces, explores and defends the resurgent school of intuitionism in ethics - the idea that we intuitively know what's right and wrong.[...]
Walter Kasper is already well-known and loved throughout the English-speaking world. He has held high office in the Vatican but until his recent retirement has felt constrained from publishing what he really thinks and his vision of the Church for the future. Kasper brings to conclusion a project th[...]
This Handbook offers practical suggestions for implementing and strengthening spiritual ecumenism, the heart of all efforts to re-unite divided Christians. It is grounded in the documents that have shaped the Catholic Churchs engagement in seeking Christian unity, those of the Second Vatican Council[...]
Microsoft's revolutionary Power Pivot is a tool that allows users to create and transform data into reports and dashboards in new and much more powerful ways using the most-used analytical tool in the world: Excel. This book, written by a member of Microsoft's Power Pivot team, provides a practical[...]
Microsoft's revolutionary Power Pivot is a tool that allows users to create and transform data into reports and dashboards in new and much more powerful ways using the most-used analytical tool in the world: Excel. Written by a member of Microsoft's Power Pivot team and one of the leading Power Pivo[...]
This thoroughly revised, extended and updated edition of a critically acclaimed textbook provides an accessible and cohesive introduction to the burgeoning discipline of institutional economics. Requiring only a basic understanding of economics, this lucid and well-written text will be essential rea[...]
Von allen Veröffentlichungen Walter Kaspers hat sein Lehrbuch ?Jesus der Christus? die weitaus größte Resonanz gefunden. Die zahlreichen Auflagen und Übersetzungen, sowie die breite Rezeption, die dieses Werk erfahren hat, machen es schon heute zu einem ?Klassiker? unter den theologischen Lehrb�[...]
Walter Kardinal Kasper beschreibt den Weg eines erneuerten Kirchenverständnisses, nicht von außen historisch oder soziologisch, sondern von mehr als fünfzig Jahren Engagement für die Kirche. So entsteht ein facettenreicher Band über die Kirche Jesu Christi in einer ökumenischen Perspektive. Ka[...]
Dieses Buch stellt Walter Kasper als geistlichen Lehrer vor, der bei aller intellektuellen Klarheit den Ton von Herz zu Herz trifft und so seinen bischöflichen Leitspruch verwirklicht: ?Die Wahrheit in Liebe tun?. Peter Dyckhoff hat Texte aus Kaspers zehn Jahren als Bischof von Rottenburg-Stuttgart[...]
Bob Dylan has been a prolific graphic artist since the 1960s, and his graphic art is marked by the same constant drive for renewal that characterises his music. Never content to remain static in a single form of expression that he has already cultivated, he is constantly experimenting and testing ne[...]
This generously illustrated volume examines Hammershoi's work as a whole and in relation to the artists of his generation. Hammershoi's enigmatic paintings, with their rich and muted palettes, have always enjoyed enormous popularity in Scandinavia, and recently his work has received renewed attentio[...]