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In einem Süddeutschen Pflegeheim kündigt sich die Bürgermeisterin mit einem Pressevertreter zum hundertsten Geburtstag eines stadtbekannten, ehemaligen Busunternehmers und Gönners an. Nach und nach kommt die dunkle Vergangenheit des Jubilars ans Tageslicht, welcher zudem Todessehnsüchte hegt. Die Versammelten sehen sich plötzlich mit ihren Vorstellungen zu Lebens- und Sterbe-Hilfe sowie der dünnen Linie zwischen richtig und falsch konfrontiert.

Do you wonder why you get yourself into arguments that don’t matter, or you say things you don’t mean but sound really mean? Would you like to learn how to change that? In How to Say What you Mean without Being Mean, author Jan D. Thomas offers a Christian-based guide to help you better communicate with others. Thomas explores a host of issues and suggests ways to communicate more effectively and facilitate more harmony in your relationships—with God and others—while learning to understand and even love yourself better. How to Say What you Mean without Being Mean discusses: • what communication is; • the role of communication and ways to work at it; • learning how to communicate; • the results of poor communication; • reprogramming your communication process; • hearing and understanding; • the problem of pride in communication; • resolving conflict; and more. This guide communicates that as a Christian, you have a power within you to help you improve your relationships with others. That power stems from God, is God, and it is the power to love as God loves.

It is 1962 and the French government has negotiated a peace agreement with the Algerian rebels. Although the agreement frees the French government, it leaves one million Europeans stranded in Algiers. Colonel Devon is a respected officer who has seen much combat during his military career. Lieutenant Adelle is a well-known markswoman who hits her targets with amazing speed and accuracy. When they are assigned to work together to facilitate the evacuation of the citizens waiting to be loaded on ships that will take them from war-torn Algiers, Devon makes it known that he has developed feelings for Adelle. But he is also battling a moral dilemma. Devon disagrees with his orders from Paris to stand down and not interrupt the NFL Algerians from confiscating the property of the Europeans. When the Colonel disobeys the order, he is called back to Paris and discharged from command. Will those who serve under him find peace in France, and will he and Adelle ever find their way back to each other? In this historical tale, a respected officer and well-known markswoman fall in love and are separated while evacuating Europeans misplaced by the French Algerian War.

This book breaks open the ''black box'' of the workplace, where successful immigrants work together with their Dutch colleagues. In their intercultural team meetings the work itself consists of communication and the question is how that work is done. The teams consist of Dutch, Turkish, Moroccan, and Surinamese educational experts whose job it is to advise schools and teachers on the form and content of language teaching. Their meetings are structured according to institutional patterns, such as ''interactive planning'' and ''reporting'', and according to intercultural discourse structures. For instance, Dutch team members identify their immigrant colleagues as ''immigrant specialists'' and are themselves identified as ''institutional specialists''. Further, the intercultural pattern ''thematizing and unthematizing racism'' provides the team members with communicative methods to deal with the societal contradictions that exist between different cultural groups, in the Netherlands as well as elsewhere. These intercultural discourse structures concur with the institutional patterns so that, for instance, they affect the outcomes of planning discussions. Most studies on intercultural communication focus on misunderstandings and miscommunications. This book demonstrates that also communication without miscommunication can be shown to be intercultural.

It is 1960 and the fighting in the French Algerian war has slowed to border conflicts and ambushes. Still, the rebels are unrelenting and so is the French Army. Although the FLN’s major war efforts have ceased, they are still carrying out acts of terrorism by murdering and assassinating members of the French military as well as Algerian Europeans. It appears there is no viable solution to the war and the idea of attaining a peaceful resolution seems like a hopeless dream. French Army Lieutenant Caitlan Dugas, who has already served one tour in the war-torn country, believes the situation is improving when she reenlists and returns to Algiers to be closer to her lover, Sergeant Leo Durant. But when she and Leo are assigned to a special task force organized to confront the radical terrorists of the FLN who know no bounds with their brutal attacks, both soon realize the depths of their fighting spirits as they must battle against the horrors of terrorism. In this historical novel, a dedicated French Army officer who returns to war-torn Algiers to be closer to her lover collides with a destiny she never imagined.

Along the road of life, there can be many adventures. They can be real or imagined or personal or hearsay, and the next one may be just over the hill. Usually when these exceptional experiences are recalled, they are viewed as just another life occurrence with no further meaning. But sometimes, if the event was memorable, it has meaning thats more significant than the event itself. The incident was decisive and pivotal, bringing about a life-changing state of affairs that can be revealed in retrospect. Such incidences can suggest stories that show us the way we are. In the story The Blue Hole, young Jefferys spontaneous and dramatic action unintentionally brought about his first sense of identity. In A New Day, Jim didnt realize his transitory situation as he boarded the bus, but a big event was unfoldinghe was losing his boyhood. And in Seminal Moments, Bill only realized twenty years after the fact what happened to launch his successful career. These and other stories in the book are all based on special encounters, reflecting life in passing.

Long description: Welchen Platz und welche Gestalt hat die für das Privatrecht elementare Vertragsfreiheit im Gefüge des Unionsrechts? Jan D. Lüttringhaus untersucht die Verbürgung und die Materialisierung der unionalen Vertragsfreiheit im Zusammenspiel von EU-Privat- und Wirtschaftsrecht, BGB und ZPO.

In The Bard and Scheherazade Keep Company, Jan D. Hodge shows impressive formal dexterity, and inventive use of the double dactyl. He turns the difficult form on its head as it transforms into a narrative vehicle, retelling the great classics—the plays of Shakespeare, the One Thousand and One Nights stories from the Islamic Golden Age (as recounted by the legendary Scheherazade to the sultan Shahrayar), and the series of medieval European folktales about the trickster, Reynard the Fox. Hodge’s versification of these classic masterpieces manages to liberate this restrictive form and yet sustain its strict rules. This delightfully witty, quirky, playful collection reads naturally, while remaining lexicographically bounteous. PRAISE FOR THE BARD AND SCHEHERAZADE KEEP COMPANY: Jan D. Hodge has given us an astonishing book—as remarkable a tour de force as ever I’ve seen. I wouldn’t have thought that witty verse form, the double dactyl, could be used to tell a story, but modifying the pattern only slightly, Hodge retells some celebrated stories in enjoyable style—Shakespeare plays, six tales from the Arabian Nights, and the popular medieval legend of Reynard the Fox. You don’t have to admire poetic ingenuity to read them with pleasure, but I’m all dumb doglike admiration at Hodge’s spectacular triumph. —X.J. Kennedy Jan D. Hodge’s mastery of the double dactyl is nothing short of stunning. Open this book at random, and you will find the form perfectly used, the language both natural and original, and the wit a delight. From Romeo to Reynard, you’re going to love these poems. —Gail White Jan D. Hodge has renovated the most challenging of light verse forms and transformed it into a vehicle for poems that revisit classic works of literature. Hodge’s deft handling of meter and intermittent quirky notes create a sense of intimacy between the reader and the poet that is both enjoyable and rare in today’s poetry. —A.M. Juster

God is truly the source of my inspiration and creativity. Without Him there would be no poetry at all. Each poem has a special message for the readers. This collection of poems reflects my love and adoration for Him.

An eclectic mix of shapes and subjects populate Taking Shape—Jan D. Hodge’s full-length collection of carmina figurata (sometimes called shaped poems, pattern poetry, or figure poems). Hodge’s many masterpieces include depictions of a saxophone, a Madonna and Child, a combination piano/guillotine, and other silhouettes of amazing difficulty and detail. These poems are not only visually stunning, they are also sonically beautiful, and retain a transcendent freedom while conforming to both illustrative and metrical constraints. Taking Shape is a visual feast of inspired poetry. PRAISE FOR TAKING SHAPE: Are not all printed formal poems shaped poems? The sonnet, the hymn, the sestina, and the ghazal all have characteristic shapes rather like boxes that confine their subjects. In Jan D. Hodge’s Taking Shape the subjects have burst from their cages and confront us immediately with what they are. Then the words they are made of can reveal their inner beings. The long closure of “Spring” describes the best way to read these poems. I have long known what prayer is, but I never knew what one looked like until I read “Madonna and Child.” — Fred Chappell, author of The Fred Chappell Reader Here is a perfect matching of shapes and poetry. Through a wide-ranging array of subjects and tones, Hodge’s mastery of language within such challenging constraints is truly impressive. Syntax and rhythm, metaphor and symbol (see for instance “The One That Got Away” or “The Lesson of the Snow”), conversational snippets and quatrains, are surprisingly nuanced. Even the occasional poems—wedding, elegy, Valentine’s day, Halloween, Christmas, an early morning poetry reading—find new things to say and striking ways to say them. These poems reward reading again and again. — Robert J. Conley, author of Mountain Windsong Jan D. Hodge is the master par excellence of carmina figurata. In Taking Shape you’ll see such word-pictures as the Chinese ideogram for spring; a harpsichord poised before a guillotine; a still life with quill pen and ink bottle, T-square and drafting triangle. More amazing still, Hodge forms many of the intricate images with metered language—in one case in medieval alliterative verse! In a poem about baseball Hodge writes, “forgiveness/ is the best/ we dare hope for in this bruised world/ the thinnest/ chance that lets us somehow/ slide home free”; here “only by grace . . . can we be safe.” Hodge knows of grace, his poems are full of grace, and Taking Shape, like grace itself, is a gift of utter beauty. — Vince Gotera, Editor, North American Review

Altijd is maar blindelings aangenomen dat Wim Landman, de stijlvolste doelman van Oranje, als eerste Nederlandse profvoetballer was omgekocht (1956). Totdat auteur Jan D. Swart het KNVB-vonnis herlas en begon te twijfelen. Het was het begin van een zinderende reconstructie met zelf cashende omkopers, een klokkenluider, een dubieuze onderzoekscommissie, vernietigde notulen en twee doden na pijn en schrik. En Landman? Hij verliest zijn baan, verspeelt zijn huwelijk en neemt in 1975 gekrenkt een radeloos besluit.

Jan from Woodgate has kept readers coming with her unique blend of no-nonsense honesty and screwball wit that leaves no subject off limits. From hilarious misadventure to heartwarming family tales, Jan takes you into the world of the North Country, sharing her take on small town gossip and world politics in a way only she can. Even in the face of cancer, her strength of character is ever preset as she refuses to take life too seriously and shows us all how sweet life can be if you''re just willing to put in a little work.

Relationships, especially close relationships, are among the most important aspects of life for most of us. Close relationships reach to the very heart of our happiness --but exactly what processes or skills, over the course of a lifetime, help us learn to relate to one another more and more deeply, and to grow past the differences and problems that might divide us? Adult Development applies the concept of complex postformal thought in order to explore how certain cognitive processes support individuals'' close relationships such that those relationships grow stronger and richer over time. Complex postformal thought allows a person to deal with everyday logical contradictions by letting that person understand that "reality" and "meaning" are co-created. In this way, postformal thought enables adults to bridge two contradictory but logical positions and reach an adaptive synthesis of them through a higher-order logic. Taking this inquiry a step further, Sinnott examines the role played by postformal thought in intimate relationships -- those between spouses, partners, parents and children, siblings, and close friends. Sinnott argues that postformal thought seems to develop later in life and is somewhat akin to the concept of wisdom. Based on 30 years of research, this book diverges from typical contributions to this field by discussing positive adult development in the context of close relationships. Rather than focusing on the emergence of deficits of adulthood and particularly aging, Sinnott instead explores the cognitive processes that are important in creating and sustaining close ongoing relationships.

The authors provide a comprehensive geophysical assessment of the tectonic setting and behavior of the Hosgri Fault Zone, based on our integrated analyses of an extensive suite of deep, intermediate- and high-resolution seismic data combined with geological information from petroleum exploration wells, core samples, and diver-geologist samples and observations.

Parenting is not a job for the faint of heart. It is difficult to look into those little faces and make the tough decisions. How much of an impact have you made in your children''s lives? If you asked your child who is their role model,do you know your child well enough to know what their answer would be? How certain are you that it won''t be your child''s face that makes the headline the next time there is a school shooting, bombing or murder by boredom? who is realy raising your children?

Ce livre est devenu une reference dans son domaine. Il est caracterise par la qualite exceptionnelle de ses illustrations: les 375 dessins en couleur et au trait forment un atlas complet et une reference pour la neuroimagerie. Le contenu de cette quatrieme edition a ete completement revu et encore augmente. Quinze nouveaux chapitres presentent des illustrations d anatomie macroscopique et vasculaire et de l histologie du systeme nerveux central. Ils traitent du developpement, de la topographie et de l anatomie fonctionnelle de la moelle spinale, du tronc cerebral et du cervelet, du diencephale et du telencephale. Cette nouvelle edition represente un guide clair et fiable pour comprendre l organisation structurelle et fonctionnelle du systeme nerveux central humain, ainsi que les bases generales des neurosciences experimentales et descriptives. Concu initialement pour les etudiants en medecine et en psychologie de tous les niveaux, ce livre est egalement une source d information pour les neurobiologistes.

In this book Jan D. Sinnott synthesizes her 20 years of research on lifespan cognitive development to describe the growth of complex (or `postformal'') thought in adults. She shows specifically how adults improve mentally over a lifetime and learn to think in more complex and wiser ways. Applications of postformal thought are demonstrated in such diverse areas as - family relations - adult education - personal identity - and spirituality. Chapters examine relations between postformal thought and pertinent variables such as age, health, memory, and vocabulary. Other sections deal with issues in humanistic psychology such as - guided imagery - mind - body medicine - and creative intentionality.

When Mark, an American soldier serving in Germany in the early 1950s, meets Lauren, a young German girl, their lives change forever. But love is never easy, and for these two it may well be impossible. In a world still reeling from the horrors of war and genocide, the budding love between a Jewish soldier and a German Catholic girl is controversial and dangerous. It is a time in history that demands the same dedication and focus on duty as in the war years. Both of the lovers are pressured from all sides, and each feels the impossibility of their lovebut neither can deny or forget it. Mark is faced with military duty, a possible court martial, and a threatening sociopath. Lauren is expected to play the role of the dutiful German daughter who follows the path dictated by her father. In addition to her obligations to her father, she is expected to focus only on school, work, her church, and her duty to country. Their very different backgrounds stand as obstacles they cant disregard. Neither is so nave as to ignore the considerable cultural and societal pressure they face. But the heart does not always listen to logic, and soon they are irresistibly drawn togethercome what may. Despite all the many forces they face, can they find the strength to stay together in a world that propels them apart?

Investigating the distinct poetics of Richard Powers'' writing, this volume demonstrates that the author''s complex body of fictional work warrants much more focused and systematic critical attention than it has received so far. The essays explore how Powers'' work oscillates between the poles of realism and metafictional postmodernism, creating narratives in which the conventions of realism are both deployed and undermined, in which characters are simultaneously presented as motivated agents and as textual constructs. By conceptualizing Powers'' novels as texts in which order is both a central and a consciously fictional idea, the essays collected in this volume discuss how Powers'' densely structured fictions indicate the potential of a concrete relation between life and literature that manifests itself in an inherently narrative vision of human consciousness.

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''Propositions about Life: Reengaging Literature and Science'' takes a fresh look at the difficulties that arise in any attempt to integrate the disciplines of natural sciences and literature. The study develops a historically inflected discussion of the sometimes cooperative, sometimes contested relationship between literature and science in Great Britain and the United States of America. A critical analysis of the most important methodologies and conflicts that have emerged in the field of ''Literature and Science'' demonstrates how both disciplines rely on diverging assumptions about the material world that are not as incongruent as they might appear to be. Reading the novels of the contemporary American writer Richard Powers as junctions between literary and scientific investigations, ''Propositions about Life'' furthermore suggests that the question of textual referentiality in literary studies can profit from an interdisciplinary perspective without yielding to a naive concept of mimesis.

Biografie over de Rotterdamse profvoetballer (1937-2011).

The Human Central Nervous System di Nieuwenhuys è ormai un "classico" nel campo della neurologia. Le eccezionali illustrazioni che arricchiscono il testo rappresentano ancora oggi la sua principale caratteristica: 390 tra figure e disegni costituiscono un atlante completo e pratico per l’interpretazione degli studi di neuroimaging. La seconda edizione italiana è basata sulla quarta edizione in lingua inglese, che è stata estensivamente aggiornata e implementata: quindici nuovi capitoli illustrano l’anatomia macroscopica, l’apporto ematico e la microstruttura del sistema nervoso centrale, e descrivono lo sviluppo, la topografia e l’anatomia funzionale del midollo spinale, del tronco dell’encefalo, del cervelletto, del diencefalo e del telencefalo.

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English summary: Discrimination often occurs in cross-border contracts. It is in this setting that different cultures and concepts as to (e.g. gender and racial) equality collide. Thus, transnational protection against discrimination raises numerous questions - in particular with regard to international labor and insurance contracts. Jan D. Luttringhaus endeavors to provide answers on the basis of European private international law. He examines the area of international contract law as well as transnational protection against discrimination in corporate bodies. Given that some EU Member States impose further sanctions under criminal and administrative law, the author outlines the conflicts between public and private cross-border enforcement of non-discrimination laws. German description: Diskriminierungen treten besonders haufig auf, wenn Vertrage uber Staatsgrenzen hinweg geschlossen werden. Gleichbehandlungsvorstellungen europaischer Pragung mussen hier grundsatzlich umso starker zuruckstehen, je intensiver ein fremder Kulturkreis betroffen und das Rechtsverhaltnis dort verwurzelt ist. Doch wie ist das raumlich-territorial anwendbare Antidiskriminierungsrecht im Einzelnen zu bestimmen? Jan D. Luttringhaus beantwortet diese Frage anhand der zunehmend vergemeinschafteten Kollisionsnormen des IPR. Er untersucht dabei neben dem internationalen Schuld- und insbesondere Arbeits- und Versicherungsvertragsrecht auch das internationale Verbands- und Gesellschaftsrecht. Da einige EG-Mitgliedstaaten Benachteiligungen zusatzlich mithilfe des Straf- bzw. Verwaltungsrechts sanktionieren, geht der Autor auch auf die Konflikte ein, welche sich aus der Kombination hoheitlicher und privatrechtlicher Diskriminierungsschutzkonzepte in Sachverhalten mit Auslandsbezug ergeben.

Diedre, raised by a strong, single Black mother, knows that a good education is her ticket out of the inner city. She has the opportunity to become anything she could ever dream of, but at what price without ever really knowing responsibility before being thrust out into adulthood? Beverly lives with her parents and six siblings in a family that puts the "D" in dysfunction. With no real role model or guidance into womanhood, Beverly must decide for herself how to deal with real issues and what she will allow to happen to her family. In the blink of an eye, the lives of these two best friends are changed forever when Beverly''s family is torn apart by drug addiction and abuse. During this important time in their lives, the two must make some major decisions. In life you either count your blessings or curse your circumstances. This story chronicles the raw emotion born out of the choices they each make. Are they counting or cursing?

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Nature Writing Field Guide for Teachers offers educators a unique blend of literary and environmental science writing activities for grades 1-12. The nature writing curriculum in this guidebook offers young people a chance to explore the wonders of the natural world and expand literary and creative expression. Developed for the Eco Expressions nature writing program for youth to combine the healing powers of nature and writing to inspire positive change. Academic and behavioral results include critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Author Jan D. Wellik is Founder and Executive Director of Eco Expressions, based in San Diego, Calif. www.EcoExpressions.org