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A beautifully packaged collection of Tove Jansson's classic Moomin artwork showcased alongside warm, witty and mindful quotes from the original books and characters. Packed full of stunning artwork from the Moomin archive including book covers, illustrations and a detailed map of Moominvalley, this book is a wonderful introduction to the magical world of the Moomins and a must-have for any Moomin fan. Printed on sturdy, high-quality A4 card, each picture can be pulled out and framed, or the book can be read from start to finish to give a history of the Moomins and their unique world. Tove Jansson's art, creative vision and philosophy have led her to become one of the world's most treasured children's authors and illustrators. Born in Helsinki to artist parents, she worked as a celebrated artist, author, and political cartoonist, but she is best known as the creator of the Moomins, the charming and quirky inhabitants of Moominvalley whose lives are filled with adventu...

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This review shows that the measurement of viscoelastic properties is a powerful tool in the study of thermoreversible gels. Although many conclusions may be drawn about network development and its structure, it is also shown that the use of additional techniques (e.g. small angle S-ray and neutron scattering techniques and optical rotation) and the combination with thermodynamics and network models, widens the insight in the crosslinking process and the gel structure temendously. A general Introduction is followed by eight Chapters concerning synthetic polymers (PVC, PVAL, PMMA, PS, PAN, PE, ABA blockcopolymers and LCP's) and four Chapters concerning biopolymers (gelatin, agarose, carrageenans and gellan gum). Product details Format Paperback | 267 pages ...

Ob Hunde, Katzen, Ziegen oder Schweine - alle machen immer nur das eine: Sie verzaubern auf dem Bauernhof die Kinder und auch die Erwachsenen nicht minder. Lest selbst und macht euch dann ein Bild - es ist oft spannend, aber halb so wild! Product details Format Paperback | 260 pages Dimensions 136 x 211 x 18mm | 306g Publication date ...

Many hold that the transition from Hegel's materialism to Marx's materialism signifies a progressive development from an abstract-idealist theory-of-becoming, to a theory of the concrete actions of humans within history. A Failed Parricide offers an innovative reading of this transition, arguing that Marx remained structurally subaltern to Hegel's conception of the subject that becomes itself in relation to alterity Product details Format Paperback | 270 pages Dimensions 150 x 229 x 15.24mm ...

The Army spends a great deal on soldier and family support or quality of life (QOL) programs intended to ease the stress of military life and thus enhance well-being, improve readiness, and sustain recruiting and retention. The Army wants to develop a research agenda that defines the QOL needs of soldiers and families, helps gauge the success of programs, improves coordination of research efforts, and determines how best to allocate resources. Product details Format Paperback | 88 pages Dimensions 216 x 280 x 4.32mm ...

Gershorn Scholem (1897-1982) hat kurz vor seinem Tod seine Jugenderinnerungen Von Berlin nach Jerusalem in einer stark erweiterten hebräischen Fassung vorgelegt. Dabei hat er das Panorama seiner Jugend neu entfaltet und die Perspektive gewechselt: Er übernahm vieles aus dem deutschen Original ins Hebräische, fast ebensoviel aber ergänzte, präzisierte und vertiefte er und fügte ganze Passagen neu hinzu. Während Von Berlin nach Jerusalem vor allem das vielfältige und spannungsreiche jüdische Milieu um den ersten Weltkrieg in Deutschland schildert, tritt nun fünf Jahre später in Mi-Berlin, I-Irushalayim, entschiedener als zuvor, der Blick nach vorn ins Zentrum: der Entwurf eines neuen kulturellen, gesellschaftlichen und sozialen Lebens im Land Israel. Scholem schildert seine Begegnungen, Gespräche und Kontroversen mit Schlüsselgestalten der Zeit, mit Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, mit Samuel Agnon, aber auch mit Menschen, die fast nur noch durch ihn in Erinnerung sind. Er führt seine Au...

A century and a half after the conclusion of the Civil War, the legacy of the Confederate States of America continues to influence national politics in profound ways. Drawing on magazines such as Southern Partisan and publications from the secessionist organization League of the South, as well as DixieNet and additional newsletters and websites, Neo-Confederacy probes the veneer of this movement to reveal goals far more extensive than a mere celebration of ancestry. Incorporating groundbreaking essays on the Neo-Confederacy movement, this eye-opening work encompasses such topics as literature and music; the ethnic and cultural claims of white, Anglo-Celtic southerners; gender and sexuality; the origins and development of the movement and its tenets; and ultimately its nationalization into a far-reaching factor in reactionary conservative politics. The first book-length study of this powerful sociological phenomenon, Neo-Confederacy raises crucial questions about the mainstreaming of an...

Why Teach? Who Are Today's Students? What Makes a Good Teacher? Educational Foundations answers these questions, and more, providing an exciting alternative to other foundations textbooks. This anthology is aimed at students about to enter the teaching profession, those new to the profession and anyone interested in carefully examining and improving schools and schooling. In this Third Edition, the editors add new essays by classic and contemporary policy shapers and teachers. The readings are bold and refreshing, and their authors eschew unquestioning compliance. By taking a hard look at traditional educational practice, the contributors to this anthology serve as models for the kind of reflective practitioners that its editors hope that students will become while in the field. Product details Format Paperba...

Reproduktion des Originals: Der Begriff der Religion im System der Philosophie von Hermann Cohen Product details Format Hardback | 226 pages Dimensions 152 x 229 x 16mm | 503g Publication date 21 Sep 2018 Publisher ...

Philip Dunstan's internet payments business is under attack, his company is being used as a cover for a global fraud, his right-hand man has been murdered and his executive assistant has been kidnapped. As the security services and the police begin to take an unhealthy interest in Dunstan, it gets even more personal. An expert hit squad is stalking his family and he and his old army buddy--an ex-SAS NCO known only as 'The Monk'--are attacked and almost killed. Dunstan needs to find out fast who his friends are--and who his enemies are. He and The Monk set off on a trail that spans several continents, playing a cat-and-mouse game with the security services and leading to a confrontation with Dunstan's past on the borders of Pakistan and Afghanistan. In a spine-tingling climax, Dunstan races against time to neutralise the threat against his family and himself and unravel the threads of a plot to destabilise the Indian subcontinent and, subsequently, the world. ...

The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is "a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it...Most important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life" (The New Yorker). Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo da Vinci's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson "deftly reveals an intimate Leonardo" (San Francisco Chronicle) in a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo's genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity, careful observation, and an imagination so playful that it flirted with fantasy. He produced the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, and weap...

The culmination of a half-century of historical investigation, A People Betrayed is not only a definitive history of modern Spain but also a compelling narrative that becomes a lens for understanding the challenges that virtually all democracies have faced in the modern world. Whereas so many twentieth-century Spanish histories begin with Franco and the devastating Civil War, Paul Preston's magisterial work begins in the late nineteenth century with Spain's collapse as a global power, especially reflected in its humiliating defeat in 1898 at the hands of the United States and its loss of colonial territory. This loss hung over Spain in the early years of the twentieth century, its agrarian economic base standing in stark contrast to the emergence of England, Germany, and France as industrial powers. Looking back to the years prior to 1923, Preston demonstrates how electoral corruption infiltrated almost every sector of Spanish life, thus excluding the masses from organized pol...

The book elaborates on the basics of procedure oriented programming and the fundamentals of writing C codes. The most noticeable feature of the book is the complete technical guide for IT interviews. It contains MCQs with 4 or 5 interesting options which prompts the candidate to think over a broad range of compilers. A brief and convincing answer for all the questions has been provided. It goes on to cover aspects like functions and loops, which will help novice programmers to code properly. Each topic is covered using tracing to explain how the particular coding construct and real-time programs work to help users understand how to implement theoretical concepts and obtain outputs to assure the validity of written programs. Elementary programming concepts like arrays, loops, assignment operators, functions, file processing, data structures, etc. have been discussed in the book. The structure of the book is organized in such a way that even a new candidate can easily follow the progress...

THE KEY TO NIGHT CITY Cyberpunk 2077 is a vast, open-ended game that offers freedom on a multitude of levels - from character development, to story, to gameplay, and beyond. That freedom is at the very heart of this book, which we designed with one priority in mind: facilitating informed decisions and enabling you, the player, to get the most out of your time in Night City. Compiled and crafted in association with the development team at CD PROJEKT RED, this guide is your indispensable companion to surviving and thriving in the world of the dark future. UTTERLY COMPLETE Main jobs, side jobs, gigs, cyberpsychos, hustles - it's all here NON-PRESCRIPTIVE WALKTHROUGHS We highlight rewarding routes and possibilities with annotated maps and screenshots - you decide how to proceed GAME SYSTEMS DECODED XP, skills, perks, cyberware, weapons, mods, crafting, and more. Tailor V to your play style and role-playing preferences DEDICATED ATLAS A collection of hi-res expanded maps covering t...

"Imaginative and richly rendered . . . Sparks frames all of this in haunting, near-poetic detail, such that the readers can smell the toxic red sand and perhaps taste the blood. Recommended for people who crave fresh post-apocalypse chaos-because Sparks's post-apocalyptic chaos is pretty fresh, at that."-NK Jemisin, The New York Times Powerful war machines of the far-future collide across a barren desert world in this post-apocalyptic debut novel from award-winning Australian author Cat Sparks. Seventeen-year-old Star and her sister Nene are orphans, part of a thirteen-wagon caravan of nomadic traders living hard lives travelling the Sand Road. Their route cuts through a particularly dangerous and unforgiving section of the Dead Red Heart, a war-ravaged desert landscape plagued by rogue semi-sentient machinery and other monsters from a bygone age. But when the caravan witnesses a relic-Angel satellite unexpectedly crash to Earth, a chain of events begins that sends Star o...

Das Buch stellt konventionelle und neue Mappingverfahren umfassend und ausführlich anhand praktischer Beispiele dar. Es werden Grundlagen wie Röntgenanatomie und biophysikalische Voraussetzungen erläutert, die für die tägliche Praxis unabdingbar sind. Anschließend wird das praktische Vorgehen von der Diagnosestellung bis zur Ablation bei unterschiedlichen Tachykardien aufgezeigt. Product details Format Paperback | 136 pages Dimensions 156 x 234 x 8mm | 218g ...

Discover How to be a Freelance Writer and Ghostwriter! Finally, the insider secrets from a Professional Ghostwriter. Freelance Writer and Bestselling Author. Mr. Richard Lowe can help save you months of grief and mistakes by showing you the exact methods he uses to produce high quality writing day-after-day, all granted by his decades of Professional Writing Experience. In this guide, Mr. Lowe delivers to you all of his tips, tricks, and techniques on how to become a professional ghostwriter and start a freelance writing business. When properly managed and priced, ghostwriting can be one of the most lucrative and rewarding freelance writing careers. A Successful Ghostwriting Project This book goes through how to successfully run a Ghostwriting Project, from the initial contact with a prospective client, to delivering the completed work. Not only that, Richard walks you through the possible problems, enabling you to hit the ground running without the usual issues associated with startin...

Your homocysteine level is the single most important statistic you need to know in order to determine how healthy you are and how long you will live. Your 'H level' is now widely understood to be a greater risk factor for heart disease than cholesterol. Homocysteine expert Dr James Braly has shown that a high homocysteine score is a major risk factor for cancer, arthritis and even obesity. In this accessible book Dr Braly and leading nutritionist Patrick Holford show you how to assess your H level and suggest 10 remarkably simple changes to your diet and your lifestyle that will lower your score and dramatically cut your risk of ever having cancer, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis and many more serious ailments. Learn how to: test your homocysteine levels; reduce your risk of disease; slow down the ageing process; improve your health; and radically increase your life expectancy. Product details ...

Miriam Haskell began selling beautiful costume jewelry in 1926, and her company continues to the present. The jewelry that bears her name is highly sought after and the prices keep spiraling up. Claims abound that "this is a Miriam Haskell," but is it a Miriam Haskell? This important new book gives collectors the key information to make intelligent buying decisions. It provides specific details on the art, design, style, materials, construction, and signatures, all vital to the identification and dating of Haskell jewelry. It also dispels many of the myths that allow "wanna-bes" and fakes to flourish. Over 600 beautiful color photographs display the most extensive collection of Haskell jewelry ever brought together. The jewelry is categorized by designer, specifying notable eras. The text provides notations on innovations, style preferences, and in-depth descriptions pointing to key Haskell identifiers. Readers, from casual admirers to serious collectors and dealers...

Anime and Philosophy focuses on some of the most-loved, most-intriguing anime films and series, as well as lesser-known works, to find what lies at their core. Astro Boy, Dragon Ball Z, Ghost in the Shell, and Spirited Away are just a few of the films analyzed in this book. In these stories about monsters, robots, children, and spirits who grapple with the important questions in life we find insight crucial to our times: lessons on morality, justice, and heroism, as well as meditations on identity, the soul, and the meaning -- or meaninglessness -- of life. Anime has become a worldwide phenomenon, reaching across genres, mediums, and cultures. For those wondering why so many people love anime or for die-hard fans who want to know more, Anime and Philosophy provides a deeper appreciation of the art and storytelling of this distinctive Japanese culture. Product details Format ...

Revised and updated through the 2018-2019 season. The Duke Blue Devils have a long and glorious history of success, and that history comes alive within these pages, as detailed by Duke historian James Sumner. The Blue Devils' storied past includes forty-two NCAA tournament appearances, sixteen trips to the final four, and five national titles. Duk Product details Format Hardback | 212 pages Dimensions 140 x 210 x 27.94mm | 354g ...

THE PRINCETON REVIEW GETS RESULTS.Get all the prep you need to ace the GRE with 6 full-length practice tests, thorough GRE topic reviews, a DVD with expert tutorials, a bonus "GRE Insider" guide to grad school, and extra practice online. "Inside the Book: All the Practice & Strategies You Need" - 2 full-length practice tests with detailed answer explanations - DVD featuring tutorials and advice from leading course instructors - Expert subject reviews for all GRE test topics - Drills for each test section--Verbal Reasoning, Quantitative Reasoning, and the Essays - Key strategies for tackling all question types, including Text Completions and Quantitative Comparisons - Practical information & general GRE strategies - A special grad school prep section packed with info on popular majors, business school admission, application requirements, and more " " "Exclusive Access to More Practice and Resources Online" - 4 additional full-le...

É possível ensinar a um notório sedutor uma lição? Lady Georgiana Halley acredita que sim. E a melhor forma é fazer o visconde Dare provar do próprio veneno!Lady Georgie está cansada de ver Tristan Carroway, visconde de Dare, partir os cora ções das jovens damas da sociedade londrina. Ela o considera um cretino por fazer isso sem remorso e porque também já caiu na sedução dele. Seis anos atrás, Tristan se empenhou em cortejá-la, tudo por causa de uma aposta que quase arruinou o futuro da jovem debutante. Disposta a se vingar, Georgiana acha a forma perfeita: seduzir o terrível visconde e abandoná-lo. Dessa forma ele aprenderá a respeitar os sentimentos das outras pessoas.Tristan está em um momento perigoso: sua família está à beira da falência e a única forma de solucionar o problema é se casando com uma herdeira que esteja interessada no título de viscondessa de Dare. Mas como é possível se aproximar e conquistar uma esposa se Georgiana Halley es tá sempre atrapalhando, seja batendo-l...

Corporate Identity ist Ziel, Herausforderung und dauerhafter Prozess. Anhand einer Fülle praktischer Beispiele und Materialien vermitteln die Autoren nachvollziehbare Konzepte und Wege zur Gestaltung einer nach innen und außen glaubwürdigen Unternehmensidentität. Der Leser findet zahlreiche praktische Tipps und Hilfen u.a. zur Leitbildentwicklung, Führung, Mitarbeiterkommunikation, Medien-, Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit. Mehrere Interviews mit nachhaltig agierenden Unternehmern und Leitbildbeispiele zeigen die Umsetzung in die Praxis. Aus dem Inhalt: CI-Konzept: CI-Modell, CI-Strategie, Nachhaltigkeitsdreieck Leitbild eines Unternehmens, Unternehmensphilosophie Verhalten von Geschäftsführung und Mitarbeitern: Einstellung, Führung und Kritik, Corporate Governance, Beschwerdemanagement und Corporate Social Responsibility Mitarbeiterkommunikation Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Werbung und Sponsoring Erscheinungsbild CI-Strategie in der Praxis: Selbstbild-, Fremdbildanalyse, Planung, Ums...