When You Went Away

When You Went Away

By: Michael Baron

I thought about moving to Maine. Or maybe Halifax. Somewhere entirely different from suburban Long Island for the entirely different life Reese and I would have the life I never planned for him and now needed to make as good as possible. It might have been healthier to move, to not be reminded by the washing machine and the planter on the porch and the crooked street sign at the end of the block and the bagel shop on 25A that Maureen would never share any of these things with me again. But we couldn’t move. If we moved and Tanya ever came back, she wouldn’t know where to find us. And I refused to believe that she wouldn’t ever come home again. Staying meant I  needed to get back to work. And getting back to work meant finding a babysitter for Reese. It’s entirely possible that one of the first four people I interviewed for the job would have taken good care of my son. [download]  

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The Ten Commandements

The Ten Commandements

By: Dr. Laura Schlessinger and Rabbi Stewart Vogel

Believing in God is a relatively recent experience in my life. My father, born a Jew in Brooklyn, New York, never  mentioned God, religion, or Judaism except for one all-encompassing criticism of the Jewish Passover service. He said how, at a very young age, he walked out of his parents’ Passover seder celebration screaming that he “wouldn’t celebrate the wholesale slaughter of Egyptian children.” “Boy, that is terrible!” I thought, and that subject, or anything about Judaism, for that matter, was never discussed again. Imagine my surprise when, some forty years later, while attending a Passover seder in a synagogue, we got to the part where the Ten Plagues are recited, culminating in the death of the firstborn of Egypt, and we dipped a finger into red wine and dropped onto a plate those symbolic tears of compassion, sympathy, and anguish from the Jewish people in response to the suffering of the Egyptians. [download]

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The Ten Year Nap

The Ten Year Nap

By: Meg Wolitzer

ALL AROUND THE COUNTRY, the women were waking up. Their alarm clocks bleated one by one, making soothing sounds or grating sounds or the stirrings of a favorite song. There were hums and beeps and a random burst of radio. There were wind chimes and roaring surf, and the electronic approximation of birdsong and other gentle animal noises. All of it accompanied the passage of time, sliding forward in liquid crystal. Almost everything in these women’s homes required a plug. Voltage stuttered through the curls of wire, and if you put your ear to one of the complicated clocks in any of the bedrooms, you could hear the burble of industry deep inside its cavity. Something was quietly happening. BIP BIP BIP. By a bed on this Monday morning in fall, the first alarm went off in a house with cedar shingles in a small, buffed suburb, and a woman sat up, the prospects of the entire day rising before her. BOOP BOOP BOOP. [download]

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War for The Oaks

War for The Oaks

By: Emma Bull

Ideally, works of fiction don’t need to be explained. When I see one of those scholarly and well-crafted essays that always seem to precede a volume of Jane A usten or Dorothy Parker, I skip it. Yes, I do. If it looks promising, I come back and read it when I’m done with the fiction. But I’d rather not know beforehand that a character is based on the author’s brother, or that the author had just been cruelly rejected by his childhood sweetheart when he began chapter 10. I like biography; but Charlotte Bronte isn’t Jane Eyre, and Louisa A lcott isn’t Jo March, and I don’t want to be lured into thinking otherwise if the author doesn’t want me to. I wonder sometimes how authors would feel if they read the introductions that spring up in front of their works after they’re too dead to say anything about them. [download]

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Theoritical Foundations of Law and Economics

Theoritical Foundations of Law and Economics

By: Mark D. White

Models constitute a central element in the methodology of economic analysis of law. John Brown’s model of accident law and others’ models of settlement and litigation, for instance, have provided numerous insights into tort law and to civil procedure respectively. Other models have been less successful. Despite their ubiquity, however, the role of models in economic analysis of law has been little discussed. How do models explain? How, or what, do we learn from them? What explains the differential success of models?What makes a model a good one? Under what circumstances ought policymakers rely on the results of a model? These questions are notoriously difficult, in part because the concept of a model is itself unclear. I shall address the question of what makes a “good” model by discussing in detail two narrow classes of models of adjudication that have often been understood as competitive. [download]

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The Power of Looks

The Power of Looks 

By: Bonnie Berry

Turning the page of the newspaper, I saw the double full-page advertisement, in color, for a department store. The picture was of four people, one woman and three men. They were extraordinarily attractive, white, young, and apparently financially successful. The woman was lounging on the hood and windshield of a mint condition vintage convertible Mercedes, wearing a short dress which was well above her knees and with her long blonde hair flowing over the top of the windshield. The three men, all showing perfect white teeth, were casually but elegantly dressed. In the back of the Mercedes was a beautiful wooden canoe, spotless and shiny. The setting was idyllic. The people were in a wooded area with a very inviting lake behind them, apparently about to enjoy an outing in their canoe. [download]

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The Big Book of Kids Knits

The Big Book of Kids Knits 

By: Zoe Mellor

This garments, toys and accessories in this book have been specially designed for babies, toddlers and pre schoolers. Soft Yarn have been chosen to be gentle on young skin, and the gorgeous, colour schemes will grace any nursery. In cotton cnady you will find summer, weight project knitted in cotton yarns, perpect for warm days or cool summer evening. A pretty dress, cute cardigans and even a beautiful blanket are designed in feresh colours with sunshine in mind. Wrap up warm will leave you feeling snig as a bug, with chunky sweaters, a conforting blanket and easy jackets to keep the wind at bay. Ideal for days in the park kicking up fallen leaves or collecting shells on the beach. If you’re looking for something a little more adventure, why not try some of the designs in Fun To Wear? Here you will find a Fairy Dress, Firate Sweater and Funky Tank Top. [download]

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The Bargain

The Bargain 

By: Mary Jo Putney

The fourth Earl of Cromarty was buried with all the pomp and dignity due his rank. The village church bell tolled solemnly as he was laid to rest in a misty rain, all of the male members of his household dressed in black and suitably somber. The late earl had been a handsome, forceful man, fair of mind and quick to laugh. His dependents had all been vastly proud of him. Chief mourner was the earl’s only child, Lady Jocelyn Kendal. At the postfuneral gathering, she performed her duties with impeccable grace, her pale, perfect features still as a marble angel under her sheer black mourning veil. She and her father had been very close. This would be Lady Jocelyn’s last official act at Charlton Abbey, since her Uncle Willoughby was now the owner. If she resented the fact that she had been transformed from mistress to guest in her childhood home, she concealed her feelings. [download]

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Terrorism in Southeast Asia

Terrorism in Southeast Asia 

By: Bruce Vaughn and Emma Chanlett-Avery

Over the past year, one of the most significant developments in the war against radical Islamist militants in Southeast Asia has been the developing conflict in the south ofThailand. Ongoing separatist violence in the southern provinces has reinforced concern about indigenous and transnational terrorism inThailand. These developments have prompted action from Thai government officials and renewed questions about links to broader networks. As the death toll has mounted, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has come under fire for his handling of the situation. Most regional observers stress that there is no convincing evidence to date of serious Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) involvement in the attacks in the southern provinces. In addition, the attacks have not targeted foreigners and have remained limited to a particular geographical area. [download]

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The Risk Modeling

The Risk Modeling 

By: Greg N. Gregoriou and Christian Hoppe

Financial engineers should study past crises and model breakdowns rather than simply extrapolate from recent successes. The first part of this chapter reviews the 2008 disaster in convertible bonds and convertible arbitrage. Next, activity in nineteenth-century option markets is examined to explore the importance of modern theory in pricing derivatives. The final section reviews the linkage between theory and practice in bridge building. The particularly interesting analogy is the constructive direction taken by engineers after the highly visible, catastrophic failure of the Tacoma Narrows Bridgein Washingtonin 1940. Engineers were reminded that highly realistic models may increase the likelihood of failure if they reduce the buffer against factors ignored by the model. Afterward, they focused efforts on making bridges robust enough to withstand eventualities they did not fully understand and could not forecast with accuracy. [download]

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Sex, Power and Consent

Sex, Power and Consent 

By: Anastasia Powell

CONTEMPORARY WESTERN CULTURE has been described as the ‘age of raunch’, ‘generation sex’ and generation SLUT (Sexually Liberated Urban Teens). These are the times of an unprecedented sexualised, sex-crazed and sex-everywhere culture, following the so-called liberation of the 1960s and 1970s. The rules for negotiating a sexual relationship have changed and are still changing. Today’s young people meaning those born in and after 1982, collectively referred to as ‘Generation Y (Gen-Y)’ or ‘Millennials’ are negotiating their early love and sexual relationships in an increasingly fluid and uncertain environment. The apparent mellowing of traditional values towards sex, marriage and the family mean that Gen-Y is redefining these new rules. But just what is it about these rules that is changing? In what ways have they changed already? In what ways are they still the same?. [download]

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Seduce Me in Flames

Seduce Me in Flames

By: Jacquelyn Frank 

Her heart beat harshly, her breath rasping in the back of her throat. What could it mean? What could he want? The same questions swirled around in her head again and again as she strode through the palace hallways with an air of confidence she did not feel. There had never been a sense of confidence, a sense of security in her life. Even when her father had supposedly loved her, she had never felt that sense of cocooning comfort that a child was supposed to feel when in the presence of her protector. She supposed his treatment of her these last years had proven her very intuitive, even at toddling age. He had once professed a magnificent love for her mother. There were those in her household who swore, to this day, that her mother had been the great love of his life. [download]

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Stalin’s Genocides

Stalin’s Genocides

By: Norman M. Naimark

This short book really an extended essay is intended to argue that Stalin’s mass killings of the 1930s should be classified as “genocide.” This argument is made more difficult by the fact that there was no single act of genocide in the Soviet case, but rather a series of interrelated attacks on “class enemies” and “enemies of the people,” metonyms for diverse alleged opponents of the Soviet state. Episodes of mass killing also took a variety of forms, some involving mass executions, others exile in special settlements and camps of the Gulag, where many hundreds of thousands died from the unusually harsh character of arrest, internment, and interrogation, on the one hand, and hellish conditions of transport, housing, sustenance, and forced labor, on the other. [download]

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Romancing The Shadow

Romancing The Shadow 

By: J. Gerald Kennedy and Liliane Weissberg

S:uch recent events as the torching of black churches “across the South, the hate crime in Jasper, Texas, and threatening, anonymous letters to the heads of minority colleges and universities remind us that racial differences continue to stir fear and loathing In a republic dedicated to “liberty and justice for all.” The monstrous paradox embedded in the Declaration of Independence and incompletely resolved by the Civil War haunts the millennial United Stateswith a long legacy of injustice and resentment. In Faces at the Bottom of the Well, Derrick Bell has expressed the bleak conclusion that racism is an “integral, permanent, and indestructible component” of American society (ix), and observers such as journalist Carl Rowan have predicted a latter-day “race war.” [download]

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Rotters

Rotters 

By: Daniel Kraus 

This is the day my mother dies. I can taste it right off: salt on my lips, dried air, the AC having never been switched on because she died from heart failure while reclining in front of the television, sweating in her underwear, her last thought that she needed to turn on the air because poor Joey must be roasting in his bedroom. Pulmonary embolism: it is what killed everyone on her side of the family and now it has killed her, while I slept, and this salt is the bitter taste of her goodbye. Turns out, her heart is not what got her. There are her usual morning noises. The apartment door unbolts and unlocks. I kneel on my bed to look out the window. The dawn is piss yellow but beautiful because it is another day and she is alive, and I am alive, and the city around us is screaming with life. [download]

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Not Quite A Lady

Not Quite A Lady 

By: Loretta Chase

The trouble with Darius Carsington was, he had no heart. Everyone in his family agreed that the Earl of Hargate’s youngest son had started out with one. Everyone agreed that he had not, at the outset, seemed destined to be the most aggravating of Lord Hargate’s five sons. Certainly he was not so very different from the others in appearance. Two of his brothers, Benedict and Rupert, had inherited Lady Hargate’s dark good looks. Darius, like Alistair and Geoffrey, had Lord Hargate’s golden brown hair and amber eyes. Like all of his brothers, Darius was tall and strong. Like the others, he was handsome. Unlike the others, he was scholarly, and always had been. He’d commenced aggravating his father by insisting on going to Cambridge, though all the males of the family had always attended Oxford. Cambridgewas more intellectually rigorous, he said. [download]

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Q & A Series Family Law

Q & A Series Family Law 

By: Tracey Aquino

Although the incidence of nullity petitions in practice is very small, less than 300 petitions per year, nullity nevertheless forms part of many family law syllabuses. A question can usually be guaranteed if nullity is a feature of your course, and by careful planning you should achieve a good result. Some courses highlight the conflict of laws, or foreign element, to nullity, and the following questions are a mixture of those containing entirely English nullity issues and those containing a foreign element. Nullity is still essential for those who wish to end their marital obligations, but who are opposed for religious or social reasons to divorce. It is also possible to end a marriage within one year of it taking place if nullity proceedings succeed. [download]

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Queer Renaissance Historiography

Queer Renaissance Historiography

By: Vin Nardizzi, Stephen Guy and Will Stockton

In the years since the publication of Jonathan Goldberg’s Queering the Renaissance (1994), a large amount of scholarship on queerness and sexuality in Renaissance literature has appeared in print or been delivered at conferences and colloquia. In this book, we seek to both reflect on and make a unique contribution to this body of scholarship. In The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England, one of the books that has transformed our field as scholars of Renaissance sexuality and which we cite here pars pro toto, Valerie Traub says that in writing her book she assumed “neither that we will find in the past a mirror image of ourselves nor that the past is so utterly alien that we will find nothing usable in its fragmentary traces” (2002: 32). To some extent, we share Traub’s aims, and we certainly admire her work, but we would question her emphasis on the category of use. [download]

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Performance Driven IT Management

Performance Driven IT Management 

By: Ira S. Sachs 

There is no such thing as an IT project in isolation from its business change program. (Getting IT Right for Government, Intellect, June 2000) • Despite organizations implementing numerous best practices, information technology (IT) implementations remain risky and can often have questionable business value propositions. • An improved IT management approach is needed based on understanding and maintaining the business value proposition from concept through to implementation. LARGE IT PROGRAMS are inevitably fraught with risks that often result in cost and schedule overruns, lack of functionality, less-than-envisioned business impact, and at times outright program failure. These results have plagued large IT acquisitions and modernization programs for decades despite the use of more structured acquisition processes…[download]

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Quantitative Trading Systems

Quantitative Trading Systems 

By: Howard B. Bandy

Be Quantitative analysis, I mean the application of mathematically based trading system models to financial data. Quantitative techniques can be very sophisticated, require advanced mathematics, and be applied to exotic financial instruments. But many of the concepts can be applied to trading stocks, mutual funds, and futures using readily accessible data, computers, and programs. This book present some techniques that should help traders expand from fundamental analysis and the chartist aspect of technical analysis to more mathematial techniques that lend themselves to statistical validation. I may be preaching to the choir in this first section, but I think it is important to clarity some distinctions about trading, investing, and the sources of information. [download]

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Leadership Under Pressure

Leadership Under Pressure

By: Colonel Bob Stewart 

At just after 5 am a telephone ring woke me. As I stirred I heard huge explosions close together; incoming artillery fire? Quickly pulling the phone to my ear, I recognized the voice at the far end. ‘Bob, is that you?’ ‘Yes, I’m hereBryan.’ ‘Do you know what’s going on? The whole place has erupted. It’s gone crazy. We’re stuck in the middle of a major battle. You’re miles away, on the wrong side of the lines’, said Major Bryan Watters, my second in command. The battalion operations room at Vitez was actually only some 20 miles from me as the crow flies, but it could only be reached by scaling a seriously large mountain on a winding, icy road. Last night I’d decided to stay in Zenica because the European Community ambassador had suggested we ate together. Afterwards it was late. [download]

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Ventrue Lords Over The Damned

Ventrue Lords Over The Damned 

By: Will Hindmarch
The first Ventrue were the secret masters of the great city of Troy. They emerge from the shadows of prehistory as minor gods, just visible over the shoulders of legendary kings. They dwelled among the living as lares (household gods) and mares (the lingering shades of beloved ancestors). Often thought of as gods or ghosts, they were in fact undying flesh and blood, as we are now. The Ventrue of Troy concerned themselves with the fates and fortunes of their own household kine, not the whole of the city. The greatest families of Ilium had their lares as well, to be sure, counseling them as they faced difficult decisions as the living lords of Troy; but the lares were devoted to their households, whether the kings of the kine dwelled within or not, and could just as easily be found influencing local merchants or tradesmen. [download]

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Moral Combat

Moral Combat 

By: Heidi M. Hurd

Moral philosopher have often feared what we must do is in some manner or another inconsistent with what we can do. Some have worried that morality may be literally contradictory: It may command us both to do certain acts and to refrain from doing those act. Thus some have thought, for example, that we may be both categorically obligated not to kill and categorically obligated to kill in self defense. If threatened with deadly force, we thus do wrong whatever we do. Others have thought that, while morality may not be contradictory, it may be conflicted: it may impose on individuals obligations that cannot be simultaneously satisfied. Sartre, for example, thought it possible that a man might be obligated both to join the free French to defend against Naziism and to stay at home to administer to his failing mother. [download]

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Neurospeak

Neurospeak 

By: Robert Masters

I t is rare that we ever have truly unique experiences. This little book, however, will surely provide its readers with experiences whichare unique. The uniqueness may or may not be in the end the result of any particular chapter, or of the book as a whole, but lies rather in the fact that significant bodily changes will be occurring in response to almost every paragraph, in some cases, to every sentence. At the conclusion of a chapter or “exercise,” the reader may discover such changes as the following: that one foot or hand moves better than the other and is also more clearly sensed; that the body has somehow become a bit looser or taller or more erect; that altered states of consciousness have been experienced, leading to altered visual and other perceptions of the environment; and that a variety of changes of different kinds have been experienced from one exercise to the next. [download]

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Mystery

Mystery 

By: Jonathan Kellerman

Like a con man on the run,L.A.buries its past. Maybe that’s why no one argued when the sentence came down: The Fauborg had to die. I live in a company town where the product is illusion. In the alternate universe ruled by sociopaths who make movies, communication means snappy dialogue, the scalpel trumps genetics, and permanence is mortal sin because it slows down the shoot.L.A.used to have more Victorian mansions than San Francisco but L.A.called in the wrecking ball and all that handwork gave way to thirties bungalows that yielded to fifties dingbats, which were vanquished, in turn, by big-box adult dormitories with walls a toddler can put a fist through. Preservationists try to stem the erosion but end up fighting for the likes of gas stations and ticky-tack motels. [download]

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Illustrated Yoga

Illustrated Yoga 

By: Maran Graphics

Yoga is beneficial for everyone, regardless of age or physical ability. The aim of practicing yoga is to improve your physical, mental and spiritual well being. This chapter introduces you to the different types of yoga and explores the fundamentals of yoga, including relaxation, meditation and poses. You will also learn about the many benefits of yoga and how to incorporate this versatile activity into your lifestyle. Yoga focuses on improving your physical, mental and spiritual well-being. The goal of yoga is to harmonize your body, mind and spirit through a combination of poses, meditation and breathing exercises. Unifying your body, mind and spirit allows you to achieve a sense of wholeness, peace and self-realization. In addition to achieving inner peace, practicing yoga has many physical and mental benefits. For example, the physical exercise involved in yoga can increase your strength and flexibility. [download]

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HTML in 10 Simple Steps or Less

HTML in 10 Simple Steps or Less

By: Robrt G. Fuller and Laurie Ann Ulrich

Welcome to HTML in 10 Simple Steps or Less. Our mission in writing this book is to provide a quick and accessible way for you to learn Hypertext Markup Language the lingua franca of the World Wide Web. We hope this book provides a resource that beginning and intermediate HTML coders can use to improve their Web development skills. It is also our hope that it fills multiple roles as both a teaching tool and a reference once you expand your skills. Each part in this book pertains to a different aspect of HTML and Web production, and we devote each task within the parts to building a specific piece of Web page content. We’ve laid out these tasks in 10 steps or less so they’re easy to internalize and become part of your personal skill set. [download]

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Independent and Supplementary Prescribing

Independent and Supplementary Prescribing

By: Molly Courtenay and Matt Griffiths

In 1986, recommendations were made for nurses to take on the role of prescribing. The Cumberlege report , Neighbourhood nursing: a focus for care (Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) 1986), examined the care given to clients in their homes by district nurses (DNs) and health visitors (HVs). It was identifi ed that some very complicated procedures had arisen around prescribing in the community and that nurses were wasting their time requesting prescriptions from the general practitioner (GP) for such items as wound dressings and ointments. Th e report suggested that patient care could be improved and resources used more eff ectively if community nurses were able to prescribe as part of their everyday nursing practice, from a limited list of items and simple agents agreed by the DHSS. [download]

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Integrationmanagement in der Unternehments IT

Integrationmanagement in der Unternehments IT 

By: Gernot Dern

Die Unternehmens-IT größerer Unternehmen ist in den letzten Jahren hohem Veränderungsdruck ausgesetzt, dem die Verantwortlichen in der Informationstechnologie (IT3) mit bestenfalls gleich bleibenden IT-Budgets gerecht werden müssen4. Dieser Veränderungsdruck ist im Wesentlichen auf drei treibende Kräfte zurückzuführen. Die erste besteht in der Zunahme regulatorischer Anforderungen und ist die Folge von Trends wie der Globalisierung. Dies bedeutet u. a.: > Internationale Gesetzgebungsinitiativen ziehen nationale Implementierungen nach sich, die von international agierenden Unternehmen gleichzeitig bedient werden müssen (e. g. Standards und Prinzipien zur Rechnungslegung wie IFRS und Umsetzung in nationale Standards wie US-GAAP5). > International agierende und hier im Besonderen öffentlich gelistete Unternehmen müssen ein umfangreiches, sich ständig weiterentwickelndes Spektrum von Melde  und Offenlegungspflichten durch die Lieferung von Berichten und Kennzahlen erfüllen. [download]  

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Happiness is Free

Happiness is Free 

By: Hale Dwoskin and Lester Levenson

What Is Happiness? Quite simply put, happiness is you being your Self. Not the limited self that you pretend to be most of the time, but the unlimited Self that you are and have always been. This is the Self that is always effortlessly present before, during, and after everything else that appears in your experience. You are the radiant yet changeless background that allows for everything else to exist. If that is true, you may be wondering, why is it so hard to discover and why have there been so many books written on the topic including this one? The answer to that is not as simple. We have spent eons pretending to be anything but unlimited. In fact, we have become so good at this pretending to be limited that we have forgotten that it is just a game, a pretense. We now spend most of our time bolstering the illusion that we have created for ourselves, leaving very little time for the inner reflection that can set us free from this totally self-imposed and artificial sense of limitation. [download]

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Go The Fuck to Sleep

Go The Fuck to Sleep 

By: Adam Mansbach

The cats nestle close to their kittens now. The lambs have laid down with the sheep. You’re cozy and warm in your bed, my dear. Please go the fuck to sleep. The windows are dark in the town, child. The whales huddle down in the deep. I’ll read you one very last book if you swear You’ll go the fuck to sleep. The eagles who soar through the sky are at rest And the creatures who crawl, run, and creep. I know you’re not thirsty. That’s bullshit. Stop lying. Lie the fuck down, my darling, and sleep. The wind whispers soft through the grass, hon. The field mice, they make not a peep. It’s been thirty-eight minutes already. Jesus Christ, what the fuck? Go to sleep. All the kids from day care are in dreamland. The froggie has made his last leap. Hell no, you can’t go to the bathroom. You know where you can go? The fuck to sleep. [download]

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Early Education

Early Education 

By: Janet B. Mottely and Anne R. Randall

Questions about quality early childhood education (ECE) have been the subject of international OECD studies but not much related research has been done in Hong Kong (HK). The OECD studies are important as results indicate that the early years of human development affect later learning and behaviour. Findings have led to increased investment in ECE in various countries. Currently, there are generous investments for preschool improvement in HK that have one goal in common-the improvement of instruction and student learning. One underlying assumption of these new schemes is that teachers make significant contributions to school improvement. However, few efforts have been made in HK to connect existing functions of preschool improvement to major conceptions of learning that influence teaching practice. [download]

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Global Warming Trends

Global Warming Trends 

By: Julie Kerr Casper, Ph.D.

The Earth’s climate is always changing. The most obvious changes that have taken place over the course of geologic time are the shifts from glacial (ice age) periods to interglacial (non–ice age) periods. The Earth has had several “ice ages” throughout time, during which ice covered large portions of the Earth’s surface, then melted back to nearly nothing. Scientists know the Earth’s climate is always naturally changing, but with the amount of human interference today, the questions have become: How are humans changing it? Are they endangering the future? And what will the Earth be like for our children, grandchildren, and future generations? These are the very issues that I would like you the reader to ponder as you gain insight into the problem. What long-term effects will our current decisions and lifestyle choices have on future generations?. [download]  

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Die Schwalbe, die Katze, die Rose und der Tod

Die Schwalbe, die Katze, die Rose und der Tod 

By: Hakan Nesser

Im nächsten Leben möchte ich ein Olivenbaum sein. Sie machte eine vage Geste mit der Hand zum Abhang hin, über den die Dämmerung schnell hinabsank. Die können mehrere hundert Jahre alt werden, habe ich gehört. Das klingt doch beruhigend, findest du nicht? Hinterher würde ihm immer mal wieder einfallen, dass das ihre letzten Worte waren. Über den Olivenbaum und das beruhigende Gefühl. Es war sonderbar. Als trüge sie irgendetwas Großes, Sublimes mit sich auf die andere Seite. Etwas Erhabenes, die Spur einer Art Einsicht, an der es ihr eigentlich mangelte. Gleichzeitig erschien es ihm natürlich auch etwas eigentümlich, dass sie eine so allgemeine und eigentlich ja ziemlich nichts sagende Reflexion machte, direkt nach diesen schrecklichen Worten, die ihr Schicksal so definitiv besiegelten. Die ihr Leben beendeten und ihrer Beziehung ihre letztendliche Bestimmung verliehen. [download]

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Green Rider

Green Rider 

By: Kristen Britain

The granite was cold and rough against the gray cloaked man’s palms. It was good, solid granite, from the bones of the earth itself. He traced barely perceptible seams between the huge blocks of the wall. It was the seams, he believed, that held the key. The key to the wall’s destruction. The wall towered above him to some unknown height. It was many feet thick, and it followed Sacoridia’s southern border for hundreds of miles, from the EastSeato UllemBayin the west. It protected Sacoridia and the rest of the lands from Kanmorhan Vane, which in the common meansBlackveilForest. The wall had endured for a thousand years. It had been built after the Long War at the turn of the First Age. For a thousand years, the denizens of the dark forest had grown restless, had festered, trapped behind the wall. [download]

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Corporate Law and Economic Analysis

Corporate Law and Economic Analysis 

By: Lucian Arye Bebchuk

Drafts of all the articles in this volume were presented in a conference at HarvardLawSchoolin November 1986. The conference was sponsored by the Harvard Law School Program in Law and Economics. I wish to thank the John M. Olin Foundation which, through its generous grant to the Law and Economics Program, made possible the organization of the conference and the preparation of this volume. The purpose of the conference and of this volume has been to put together research work at the frontier of the economic analysis of corporate law, especially work on the main policy questions now confronting this area of the law. The last decade has brought certain corporate transactions and arrangements to the forefront of public attention and public debate. [download]

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Depression in Primary Care

Depression in Primary Care

By: Simon Gilbody and Peter Bower

We both have a bit of a reputation as systematic reviewers, and a glance down our CVs means that we are guilty as charged. Frankly, it is not always the best reputation to have. Systematic reviews are sometimes seen as largely technical in nature, ignoring the complex and messy reality of healthcare delivery and reducing everything to a few calculations and a pretty graph. Th ey are also seen as the preserve of methodologically and statistically minded types, the sort of people who are excessively concerned with minutiae and routinely miss the wood while comprehensively searching for the best concealed trees. Part of the reason for creating this book was to show that reviews can be more than that – that it is possible to link the review process with complex policy issues, and to use the insights generated from reviews to assist in decision making in ways… [download]

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Critical Practices in International Theory

Critical Practices in International Theory 

By: James Der Derian 

I have done my best over the course of a chequered academic career not to force a logical order upon a resistant past or to trim my ideas to fit a disciplinary conformity. Having now collected a diverse mix of journal articles, magazine essays, op-ed pieces, a book review and a one-act play, to be published under the pretense that works produced over the course of two decades might possibly add up to a coherent whole, I cannot help but feel complicit in a literary felony  and compelled to provide a defense. Adequate justification is hampered by the need to explain why these essays were written in the first place, entailing a shot-gun marriage of retrospection and introspection that I fear, like dream interpretation, would be much more convincing to the dreamer than the interpreter. [download]

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Conquer The Crash

Conquer The Crash

By: Robert R. Prechter

How many times over the past decade have you heard glowing reports about the “New Economy”? hundreds, maybe thousands of times, right? Those of you who have been living on a desert island of who are reading this book fifty years from now can experience the same thing vicariously through figure 1-1, which displays the accelerating frequency with which the global media have been referring to the “New Economy” year after year. It’s been everywhere. Economists celebrate the broadening “service economiy” and proclaim that economic growth in the new information Age has been “unprecedented” in its vibrancy, resilience and scope. Rhetoric is cheap. Evidence is something else. What would you say if you discovered that we have not had anything near a new economy, that all that talk is a lie? [download]

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Dearest Pet on Bestiality

Dearest Pet on Bestiality 

By: Midas Dekkers

People love animal a stroke here. A pat there, a quick nuzzle in that gorgeous fun. The amount of cuddling they get is enough to make a person jealous. In Hollanddogs are petted more than people. Not as thoroughly, though: that one spot. Somewhere down below, generally remains untouched. The high regard in which love for animals is held is matched only by the fierceness of the taboo on having sex with them. Those who do give in to their impulses are soon as wallowing contemptibly in the mire. Hence, in spite of the dangling penises and the cries of females on heat. The eroticism of our dogs and eats is completely ignored. With these darlings we adopt the role not to lover, but of master or mistress. Yet however indecent. It does happen: sex with animals. The ultimate consequence of  love for them. Making love with them. [download]

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Choices in Friendships

Choices in Friendships 

By: David Knox and Caroline Schacht

When Wilbur and Orville Wright (of the famous Wright brothers) reviewed the progress of previous “experts” about how to fl y, they noticed a preoccupation with getting the machines off the ground with little attention to controlling the craft once in fl ight. Our focus in this text is not only those choices that help to launch a loving relationship but also those choices that help to ensure a long-lasting, durable fl ight. We encourage a proactive approach of taking charge of your life and making wise relationship choices. The World Health Organization defi nes health as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infi rmity. This defi nition underscores the importance of social relationships as an important element in our individual and national health. [download]

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British Women Poets

British Women Poets 

By: Stephen C. Behrendt

What We Know and What We Thought We Knew. At the beginning of A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens insists that we bear in mind that Jacob Marley’s death is a fact. “There is no doubt that Marley was dead,” the narrator tells us. “This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of this story” (39). Any effective tale relies on the ability of its hearer and its teller to distinguish between what is and what merely seems to be: Ebenezer Scrooge must learn this as surely as Hamlet had to learn it. When it comes to assessing the poetry written and published by women in the British Islesduring the Romantic period, it is useful to separate what we know from what we only think we know. For this is not a tale simply about the Romantic literary canon or about the cultural wars that have during recent years attended the interrogation of that canon, at least in the academic world. [download]

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Caesar’s Civil War

Caesar’s Civil War 

By: Adrian Goldsworthy 

Although originally a monarchy, Romehad become a Republic near the end of the sixth century BC. Such political revolutions were commonplace in the city-states of the ancient world, but after this Romeproved remarkably stable, free from the often violent internal disputes that constantly beset other communities. Gradually at first, the Romans expanded their territory, and by the beginning of the third century BC they controlled virtually all of the Italian peninsula. Conflict with Carthage, which began in 265 (all dates are BC unless stated otherwise) and continued sporadically until that city was utterly destroyed in 146, resulted in the acquisition of overseas provinces. By this time Romedominated the entire Mediterranean world, having defeated with ease the successor kingdoms which had emerged from the break-up of Alexander the Great’s empire. [download]

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Deadly Promise

Deadly Promise

By: Brenda Joyce 

Francesca Cahill may have been born into society, in fact, she was an heiress of a very marriageable age, but recently she had become the city’s most famous (and infamous) amateur sleuth. Having spent her entire life flouting both the spoken and unspoken rules of convention, being well-read, highly educated and an active reformer, she was already considered both unmanageable and an eccentric. Her behavior of the past three months had not aided her flailing personal reputation. For she had helped the police commissioner, Rick Bragg, solve several ghastly crimes even making the headlines of some of the city’s most reputable dailies. All this while further scandalizing a good portion of society not to mention her own family. [download]

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City of Ember

City of Ember 

By: Jeanne Du Prau

In the city of Ember, the sky was always dark. The only light came from great flood lamps mounted on the buildings and at the tops of poles in the middle of the larger squares. When the lights were on, they cast a yellowish glow over the streets; people walking by threw long shadows that shortened and then stretched out again. When the lights were off, as they were between nine at night and six in the morning, the city was so dark that people might as well have been wearing blindfolds. Sometimes darkness fell in the middle of the day. The city of Emberwas old, and everything in it, including the power lines, was in need of repair. So now and then the lights would flicker and go out. These were terrible moments for the people of Ember. [download]

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180 Creative Ideas

180 Creative Ideas 

By: Luisa Gerasimo and Sally Walker

With so much clamoring for students’ attention, it can be a battle to have them “tune in” to the lesson at hand or to you.With 180 Creative Ideas for Getting Students Involved, Engaged, and Excited, we’ve tried to offer inspirational resources in a range of subject areas for you, the teacher, for each day of the typical school year (and some ideas for summer school). Some of these 180 ideas have appeared as “Curriculum Connections” in The Teacher’s Calendar, an annual reference listing interesting holidays, events, anniversaries, and more that would be of interest in your classroom.We’ve selected the best of these “Curriculum Connections” from the last five years and added lots of other ideas to create this new book that can be used year after year. [download]

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1001 Ways to Stay Young Naturally

1001 Ways to Stay Young Naturally 

By: Susannah Marriott

We are the generations who are determined to stay young forever. Whether you were part of the youth movements that createdWoodstockand theGlastonburyfestival, punk rock and rave culture, hip hop and the first and second summers of love or are simply facing up to your first gray hairs and wondering how to live a greener life, you probably feel as I do. How can we possibly grow old? Our role models are still living the life writing classic tunes, designing showstopping collections, becoming the face of global cosmetics companies so why shouldn’t we? We have fought to do it our way. Believing individuals could make a difference, we campaigned for women’s and gay rights and against wars and the establishment. A worldwide study suggests this makes us more likely to be sexually satisfied into our 80s and beyond. [download]

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A Dark Sicilian Secret

A Dark Sicilian Secret 

By: Jane Porter

Jillian Smith drew a deep breath as she walked along the jagged cliff overlooking the stormyPacific Ocean, relishing the fresh air, stunning scenery and a rare moment of freedom. Things were definitely looking up. She hadn’t seen Vittorio’s men in over nine months and she was certain that if she was careful, they’d never find her here, in this small, private coastal town just a few miles outsideCarmel,California. For one, she didn’t use her name, Jillian Smith, anymore. She had a new identity, April Holliday, and a new look blonde, tan, as if she were a Californianative instead of a striking brunette from Detroit. Not that Vitt knew she was from Detroit. Nor could he know. It was imperative she keep Vittorio, the father of her baby, as far away from her as possible. [download]

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7th Heaven

7^th Heaven

By: James Patterson and Maxine Paetro 

TINY LIGHTS WINKED on the Douglas fir standing tall and full in front of the picture window. Swags of Christmas greenery and dozens of cards decked the well-appointed living room, and apple logs crackled in the fireplace, scenting the air as they burned. A digitized Bing Crosby crooned “The Christmas Song.” “Chestnuts roasting on an open fire. Jack Frost nipping at your nose . . .” Henry Jablonsky couldn’t see the boys clearly. The one called Hawk had snatched off his glasses and put them a mile away on the fireplace mantel, a good thing, Jablonsky had reasoned at the time. It meant that the boys didn’t want to be identified, that they were planning to let them go. Please, God, please let us live and I’ll serve you all the days of my life. Jablonsky watched the two shapes moving around the tree, knew that the gun was in Hawk’s waistband. [download]

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A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors

A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors 

By: Lizzie Collingham

In 1994 I drank my first lassi at Dipti’s Pure Drinks in the Colaba area of Bombay. Its thick, velvety sweetness was seductive. During my stay in the city I kept on returning for more. I also ate my first vegetarian thali in a workingman’s eatery, and wondered about the state of the kitchens when a rat sat on my foot. At the home of John and Susan Gnanasundaram in MadrasI discovered the delights of Indian home cooking: spongy idlis with freshly made, bright green, sharp, coriander chutney for breakfast and rich chicken curries for dinner. None of it tasted like the Indian food I was used to in British Indian restaurants. A few months later I became very ill with cholera. While I was recovering I could only manage to eat tea and toast. I also discovered that tourist hotels still served the food of the Raj and recuperated on a diet of yellow omelettes. [download]

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