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This title is suitable for ages 2 to 12 years. It includes book & CD. Share the memories of Christmas seasons past and enjoy the rich heritage of Mexico during this delightful holiday time. Learn the language and songs of the season in this beautifully illustrated bilingual book. This title includes[...]
All too often in conflict situations, rape is referred to as a 'weapon of war', a term presented as self-explanatory through its implied storyline of gender and warring. In this provocative but much-needed book, Eriksson Baaz and Stern challenge the dominant understandings of sexual violence in conf[...]
The social and cultural changes of the last century have transformed death from an everyday fact to something hidden from view. Shifting between the practical and the theoretical, the professional and the intimate, the real and the fictitious, this collection of essays explores the continued power o[...]
From a traditional role of information gatekeepers, librarians have been challenged to become pedagogues who teach and counsel students in information literacy. The aim of this book is to professionalise the educational role of academic libraries. It helps information professionals design and carry [...]
In fifty-five sonnets, Rilke plays an astonishing set of philosophical and sensual variations on the Orpheus myth. 'Praising, that's it!' he declares; nature, art, love, time, childhood, technology, poverty, justice - all are encompassed in poems that spark with insight and invention, amongst the jo[...]
Two friends are kidnapped by several masked men, who, to judge by their manners and their accent are men of the best society. One of the friends is a doctor, and the masked men say that they need him to assist a noblewoman, who is about to give birth. When they reach the house, they find no such nob[...]
This is the powerful story of a Salvadoran woman of humble origin, who, as a teacher, unionist, and social activist, was drawn into the revolutionary movement and became famous as guerrilla commander "Ana Maria." She was assassinated in 1983 as a result of an internal conflict within the FMLN.[...]
The book is addressed to statisticians working at the forefront of the statistical analysis of complex and high dimensional data and offers a wide variety of statistical models, computer intensive methods and applications: network inference from the analysis of high dimensional data; new development[...]
"Zukunft braucht Herkunft" ist ein Motto, das auf die Plastische und Ästhetische Chirurgie ganz besonders gut zutrifft. Die Möglichkeiten des Fachgebiets nehmen rasant zu und stehen wie nie im Lichte der Öffentlichkeit, besonders ihr ästhetischer Zweig. Um bei den Entwicklungen dieses modernen F[...]
Endlich hier ist das lang erwartete DaF-Lehrbuch fur Ingenieurstudenten im In- und Ausland.Es ist ein kombiniertes Lehr- und Arbeitsbuch fur Lerner mit Deutschkenntnissen ab A2-Niveau. Es enthalt aber auch anspruchsvollere Texte und Ubungen bis hin zum Niveau C1.Alle inhaltlichen Themen stammen aus [...]
This volume examines the national plans that ten Euratom countries plus Switzerland and the United States are developing to address high-level radioactive waste storage and disposal. The chapters, which were written by 23 international experts, outline European and national regulations, technology c[...]
Dating from 1917 to the end of the Cold War, the posters in this book feature the work of groundbreaking Russian artists such as El Lissitzky and Alexander Rodchenko, as well as extraordinary anonymous work. Presented in full colour and printed on heavy paper in a large-format, the posters gathered [...]
RAISED DURING THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, SPANISH ARCHITECT ANTONI GAUDI (1852-1926) STROVE TO DISTINGUISH AND REAFFIRM THE IDENTITY OF HIS NATIVE CATALONIA AS SPAIN AND THE REST OF EUROPE MODERNIZED. EARLY NEO-GOTHIC DESIGNS WERE THE STEPPING-STONE TO THE MATURE, ORIGINAL STYLE THAT CAME TO BE SYNON[...]
Alegoria del mundo y de la condicion humana, Santa Maria del Circo es la historia de un grupo de cirqueros que, al llegar a un pueblo fantasma, no menos desolado que ellos, tratan de fundar un nuevo orden, construir sobre lo destruido. Su vida se convierte asi en una funcion interminable en busca de[...]
En uunnværlig oppslagsbok for alle som strikker og gjerne vil lære nye teknikker og prøve ut nye mønstre.Her er det mer enn 250 tradisjonelle og moderne strikkemønstre, alle enkelt forklart ved fotografier og diagrammer. La deg inspirere til å strikke mønstre i rett og vrang, ribbestrikk, fle[...]
Maria arbeider som sosionom, og har familie. En dag får hun slag, som følge av en tids bruk av østrogenpiller. Den første uken ser og hører hun, men har ikke språk. Deretter synker hun mer og mer inn i seg selv, og gjenopplever sekvenser fra barndom og ungdom. Samtidig kjemper hun mot angsten.[...]
Mange hundeeiere begynner før eller siden å lure på om hunden burde få noen etterkommere. Å få et valpekull kan virke veldig fristende, men før en går i gang bør en vite mest mulig om hva en gir seg i kast med. Seriøst hundeoppdrett krever planlegging og koster tid og penger. Denne boka vi[...]
I denne boken følger vi teorien om Broken Windows fra dens opphav, til reformene i New York og videre til dagens norske kriminalpolitikk. Lundgaard ser på hvordan disse ideene gjenspeiler seg i norsk kriminalpolitikk og hva som ble det norske svaret på New Yorks nulltoleranse. Forfatteren redegj�[...]