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Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934, Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello (18671936) explored such themes as the relativity of truth, the vanity and necessity of illusion, and the instability of human personality. In this famous play, an expressionistic parable set in a small Italian town in the early twentieth century, Pirandello skillfully dramatizes these issues.The observer Laudisi derides the townspeople for their insistence on knowing the secrets of Mrs. Frola and her married daughter: Why does Mrs. Frola live alone and not with her daughter? Why do the two never visit each other? The answers to these questions lie at the heart of this play and at the center of Pirandello's artistic vision. Presented in an excellent new English translation, this inexpensive edition will delight students and lovers of modern drama.

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"In this collection of their poetry, published under gender-concealing pseudonyms, we get an intimate glimpse of their fears, hopes, faith, and desires."  Haunted Library"This collection is not only for fans of the Bronte Sisters and classic rhyming poetry but also for readers that crave heartbreaking gothic angst."  Eastside Middle SchoolAmong the most talented siblings in English literary history, the Bronte sisters are best remembered for their novels: Emily's Wuthering Heights, Charlotte's Jane Eyre, and Anne's Tenant of Wildfell Hall, among other works. It is less well known that the sisters also composed a considerable amount of fine poetry. This volume contains forty-seven poems by all three sisters. Selections include Charlotte's "Presentiment," "Passion," two poems on the deaths of her sisters, and six more. There are twenty-three poems by Emily (considered the best poet of the three), including "Faith and Despondency" and "No Coward Soul Is Mine." The works of all three sisters share the qualities of intelligence, awareness, and heartfelt emotion, expressed in simple, highly readable verse. Gathered in this handy, inexpensive collection, the poems represent a superb introduction to a lesser-known aspect of the Brontes' literary art.

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Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, Candace Ward

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Two air force pilots race to stop an Iraqi bioweapon in this thriller filled with "white-knuckle flight scenes" from a New York Timesbestselling author (Kirkus Reviews).

 


A scientist charged by Saddam Hussein with pioneering a horrific breakthrough in biological warfare, Shakir Abbas defects at the American embassy to warn the world of the new weapon. America's worst nightmare has come trueand now US forces must scramble to put together a plan to destroy the weapon of mass destruction.


 


When the operation goes awry in Saudi Arabia, Col. Will Westerman commandeers a C-141 transport to get the Special Forces team into Iraq. With the help of air force buddy Col. Doug Harris, Westerman reaches his target only to discover that the unthinkable has happened. Now they must use all their ingenuity, daring, and adrenaline to stop a worldwide catastropheand survive what looks increasingly like a suicide mission.


 


From the bestselling author of Pandora's Clock and the Kat Bronsky seriesa pilot and Operation Desert Storm veteran himselfthis is a "gripping" aviation thriller (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) featuring "thoroughly realistic background detail and an entirely too plausible plot" (Kirkus Reviews).

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A scientist and a pilot's daughter investigate a top-secret computer program that can control any plane in the sky in this spine-tingling thriller from New York Timesbestselling author John J. Nance


For eighteen months, Dr. Ben Cole has worked to develop Skyhook, a highly advanced autopilot that can direct aircraft from the ground. On the first test run, something goes wrong over the Gulf of Alaska plunging Cole's plane toward a supertanker at maximum speed. But moments before impact, the computer switches off, saving his life.


 


Seeking answers, Cole joins forces with April Rosen, whose pilot father narrowly missed his own midair collision over the same waters where Skyhook was tested. Unraveling the mystery of these near-disasters pits Cole and Rosen against shadowy forces within the Pentagon who will go to dangerous lengths to keep the public from discovering the true purposeand the real dangersof Skyhook.

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An FBI hostage negotiator confronts a commercial pilot who has hijacked his own plane in this spellbinding thriller from New York Timesbestselling author John J. Nance


Airline pilot Ken Wolfe does not rattle easily. But when he learns that Rudolph Bostich is on his flight, his face goes pale. Bostich, the presumptive nominee for US Attorney General, bungled the case against the man who kidnapped and killed Wolfe's daughter. The pilot is prepared to do whatever it takes to get revengeeven setting off a bomb on a plane full of passengers.


 


FBI agent, psychologist, and rookie hostage negotiator Kat Bronsky now has one hundred and thirty lives riding on her every word. As Bronsky speaks with the volatile Wolfe, she realizes she must solve the mystery of an eleven-year-old girl's murderin a matter of hoursto avert disaster.

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A Workbook for Public and Nonprofit Organizations

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Creating and Implementing Your Strategic Plan is the companion workbook to Bryson's landmark book, Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations, a step-by-step guide to putting strategic planning into effect. Using revised, easy-to-understand worksheets, the authors provide clear instructions for creating a strategic plan tailored to the needs of the individual organization. With more material on stakeholder analysis, visioning, strategic issue identification, and implementation, this new edition is the best resource for taking leaders, managers, and students through every step of the strategic planning process.

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Since the 17th Century, legends, stories and folkloric accounts of these mythological beings have fascinated and enthralled humanity. No one place or historical period during these decades can lay claim to their origins or if indeed they really do exist. But they have tantalised and captivated us for generations. Come on a journey that begins in a bathhouse in Ancient Greece in 383 BC and traverses the Mediterranean to the Isles of Greece and beyond. Journey through time and experience the violent confrontations and erotic encounters all the way to the splendour, colour and excitement of London, Paris and Italy in the mid 19th century. Experience the throbbing of bloodlust  for power  for revenge  for power  even for love, as our narrator, this dark hero of torment and desire makes his journey through eternity. 

Meet the slayers and the helpers, the protectors and the prey. Feel the elation, the despair and the relentless hunger that drives an immortal soul.

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PROSTATE CANCER  ME, my DOCTOR and HOPE!

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Steve had never written a book before and never thought he would. After unexpectedly enduring a prostate cancer experience and the subsequent outcome, he felt inspired to put pen to paper.
His inspiration was fueled in the hope that the book raises awareness and ultimately makes a difference for other men and their families who have, or are, facing a prostate cancer journey. Hopefully, it sends an important message in relation to the diagnosis and shows them that there are also amazing alternatives in treatment available to them.
He is a firm believer that things happen for a reason. If he hadnt contracted prostate cancer his book would not be a reality today. After a lot of soul searching he chose not to follow the conventional/mainstream path of treatment, the norm. He has his wife Karen to thank for that.
Steves book is very different to the normal cancer books on the shelf in as much as it is a unique marriage of the human story, a cutting-edge scientific, nutritional approach to diagnosis and treatment and a reference book at the same time.

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Remembering Ben Chifley: memories and stories from his family and friends

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Set against the turbulent years of both, World Wars, The Great Depression and the Cold War, this book traces Ben Chifleys life from 
his early years on his grandfathers farm to his ascent as Prime Minister. Written by those who knew and loved him, previously 
unpublished material is used to give a unique insight into the character of one of Australias best loved Prime Ministers.
The book was started at the request of John Chifley, Bens nephew. It has been written and put together over a number of years 
by his family.

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Tales From a Wordsmith is a collection of seven short stories that will take you to a new fantasy realm. Reminisce with Matilda and The Wordsmith as they tell cautionary tales and relive their adventures doing what they do best, telling stories. Travel to an island always buzzing with activity or meet the Queen who bargained with The Fates. In this small collection you will be provoked and each story will leave you feeling something different. Delve into these pages and be a part of the travels, the conflicts and the creatures as told by The Wordsmith and Matilda.

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In der Forschung werden die Erinyen gemeinhin als gottliche Wesen behandelt. Uneinigkeit besteht jedoch im Hinblick auf ihren Status, ihre Funktionen und ihre Rolle im Kult. Dieses Buch bietet die erste umfassende Untersuchung der verschiedenen Verwendungs- und Erscheinungsweisen von erinys in der Literatur der archaischen und klassischen Zeit und im Kult. Der Fokus liegt dabei auf Punkten, die in der Forschung vernachlassigt worden sind, wie dem Gebrauch von erinys als Appellativ in abstrakter Bedeutung, der Verbindung von erinys mit einem Genitiv der Person oder der Vorstellung von Erinys als personaler Einzelmacht. Der Verfasser zeigt, dass alle Verwendungs- und Erscheinungsweisen von erinys miteinander korrespondieren und wie z. B. bei moira/Moira/Moirai Ausdruck eines Konzepts sind, das in Religion und Gesellschaft eine zentrale Rolle spielte. Bei erinys ist dieses Konzept der Fluch, und zwar im weiteren Sinn als Verfluchung und Fluchzustand. Dieser erweiterte Fluchbegriff erklart nicht nur die Assoziationen von erinys/Erinys/Erinyes mit Rache und Gerechtigkeit, Zorn und Zerstorung, schicksalhafter Notwendigkeit und gesellschaftlichem Nutzen, er bildet auch den Kern der Kulte der Semnai theai und Eumeniden.

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Die Bamberger Bischofe von 1693 bis 1802. Das exemte Bistum Bamberg 4

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Mit den Bischofsviten von 1693 bis 1802 liegt nun die vollstandige Bischofsreihe des Bistums Bamberg vor. Der Band reicht vom Beginn des Pontifikats des Lothar Franz von Schonborn bis zur Sakularisation unter Christoph Franz von Buseck. Damit fallen der Barockkatholizismus, Ansatze zur absolutistischen Herrschaft und die Aufklarung in den Untersuchungszeitraum.Mit Lothar Franz und Friedrich Karl von Schonborn, Adam Friedrich von Seinsheim und Franz Ludwig von Erthal werden Furstbischofe erfasst, die weit uber den Bamberger Raum hinaus Bedeutung hatten. Die ebenso umfassenden wie markanten Bischofsportrats berucksichtigen auch literar- und kunstgeschichtliche Fragestellungen. Ein eigener Abschnitt enthalt Kurzbiographien der Weihbischofe, Generalvikare, Fiskale und Kanzler und stellt damit die eigentlichen Trager der geistlichen Verwaltung vor. Uber die individuellen Biographien hinaus werden auch langerfristige Entwicklungen wie die Herausbildung absolutistischer Regierungsformen oder der Wandel des Bischofsideals im Zuge der Aufklarung deutlich.

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Auf dem Weg zu einem klinischen Pragmatismus

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Medizinethik wie auch Pflegeethik werden allgemein als Disziplinen verstanden, die das Handeln von Menschen auf die Geltung seiner Ziele, Motivationen und Resultate hin untersucht. Ausgangspunkt solcher Formen der Ethik bildet die zum Problem gewordene Situation, in der vermeintlich eindeutige Grundziele, wie zum Beispiel Lebensverlangerung einerseits und Leidensverminderung andererseits, miteinander in Konflikt geraten. Es stellensich dann Fragen, deren praxisanleitende Beantwortungen von einer Pflegeethik gefordert werden. In der theoretisch fundierten Beantwortung dieser Fragen jedoch entfernen sich Medizin- und Pflegeethik von dem, was Menschen tun und erleiden.  Mit Hilfe der seinsgeschichtlichen Hermeneutik Heideggers und des amerikanischen Pragmatismus, vertreten durch John Dewey und Richard Rorty, entwickeln die Autoren eine Methode, die - jenseits sogenannter Grundfragen einer medizinischen Ethik - alltagliche Krisen des heutigen klinischen Miteinanders im Spannungsfeld technischer Medizin und individueller Situation losungsorientiert neu verstehen lasst. Jene werden - derart als Fragen von Mitgefuhl und Selbstbestimmung neu verstanden - zu Chancen einer verantwortungsvollen klinischen Praxis. Die Krankenpflege bildet dabei als neu belebter metaphorischer Fundus den poietischen Horizont dieser Praxis, deren methodischer Vollzug von der Ausbildung bis zum beruflichen Handeln arztlichen und pflegenden Klinikpersonals reicht. Die kulturellen, sprachlichen, rechtlichen und institutionellen Bedingungen des Handelns in Kliniken werden auf den Prufstand gestellt und neu bewertet. Schlielich wird die Methode eines Klinischen Pragmatismus, als neue Ethik der Pflege, anhand von einschlagigen Fallbeispielen aus der Praxis beispielhaft angewandt.

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Die monumentale Widerlegung "Gegen Julian" des Erzbischofs von Alexandrien, Kyrill (um 378444 n.Chr.), zahlt zu den wichtigsten Dokumenten fur die geistigen Auseinandersetzungen zwischen Heiden und Christen in der Spatantike, einer haufig mit der Gegenwart verglichenen Umbruchzeit. Kyrill unternimmt darin den Versuch, die Argumente, die der vormals selbst christlich erzogene Kaiser Julian (361363) in seiner angriffigen Streitschrift "Gegen die Galilaer" im Anschluss an fruhere heidnische Intellektuelle gegen das Christentum vorgebracht hatte und die offensichtlich noch weit uber dessen Tod hinaus unter Christen wie Nichtchristen keine geringe Wirkung entfalteten, Punkt fur Punkt zu entkraften. Die ersten funf Bucher dieser nicht nur fur die Rekonstruktion von Julians Schrift "Gegen die Galilaer" fundamentalen Apologie werden hier erstmals in einer modernen kritischen Edition veroffentlicht. Vorausgeht eine von den beiden Hauptherausgebern gemeinsam verfasste Einleitung, in der die direkte und die indirekte Uberlieferung des Werkes sowie die Grundzuge der Edition skizziert, ausserdem Julians Streitschrift und Kyrills Widerlegung in kurzen Essays vorgestellt werden.

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_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Die vom Institut fur Kirchenrecht und rheinische Kirchenrechtsgeschichte an der Rechtswissenschaftlichen Fakultat der Universitat zu Koln betreute Sammlung "Entscheidungen in Kirchensachen seit 1946" bietet die Judikatur staatlicher Gerichte zum allgemeinen Religionsrecht und zum Verhaltnis von Kirche und Staat. Die Sammlung ist die einzige ihrer Art im deutschsprachigen Raum. Sie bildet zugleich ein Dokument der Zeitgeschichte. Es ist beabsichtigt, kunftig auch die fur die Verhaltnisse in Deutschland relevante Rechtsprechung europaischer Gerichtshofe in die Sammlung einzubeziehen._x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_

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Iranische Hieb-, Stich- und Schutzwaffen des 15. bis 19. Jahrhunderts

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Die Sammlungen des Museums fur Islamische Kunst der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin und des Deutschen Historischen Museums (Zeughaus) in Berlin

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Die iranischen Waffen des 15. bis 19. Jahrhunderts sind laut einhelliger Meinung von Fachleuten in ihren Formen und Ornamenten die asthetisch gelungensten Metallarbeiten ihrer Zeit. Diese Publikation, die erste deutschsprachige seit 1955, stellt Waffentypen, insbesondere aus Damast-Stahl, aus Sammlungen zweier prominenter Museen in den Mittelpunkt. Sie stellt damit weltweit eine der wenigen umfangreichen wissenschaftlichen Bearbeitungen dieses Themas dar, das auch von (Waffen-)Sammlern mit groem Interesse verfolgt wird. Den Kern der Publikation bildet die kunstgeschichtliche und asthetische Betrachtung der Waffengattungen und ihrer Ornamentik. Die Waffen werden entsprechend ihrer Typisierung, des Materials und der Ornamentik in ihrer Form und Funktion bestimmt. Das Verhaltnis von Form und Funktion sowie deren Umspielung und Transformation in der Ornamentik bestimmen die Herangehensweise an das Material. Untersucht werden die Widerspiegelungen von Schutz, Abschreckung und Drohung in Material und Epigraphie, also die apotropaische Wirkung von Waffe und Rustung. Das vorgestellte Material ist uberwiegend unpubliziert und erganzt so die wichtigsten Sparten um charakteristische Beispiele.

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The Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae includes texts written by Byzantine historiographers and chroniclers as well as other documents of historical relevance from the 4th to the 15th centuries. The main objective of each volume is the presentation of a critical text based on all extant manuscripts; a detailed introduction informing about the author and the work as well as the manuscripts and their relation to each other is included in addition to several apparatus and indices.

The current status of the publications in the series, which appear in various publishing houses, is recorded annually in the Journal of Byzantine Studies (JOEB) / Jahrbuch der Osterreichischen Byzantinistik.

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As a genre situated at the crossroad of rhetoric and fiction, declamatio offers the freedom to experiment with new forms of discourse. Placing the literariness of declamatio into the spotlight, this volume showcases declamation as a realm of genuine literary creation with its own theoretical underpinning, literary technique and generic conventions. Focusing on the oeuvre of (Ps)Quintilian, this volume demonstrates that these texts constitute a genre on their own, the rhetorical and literary framework of which remains not yet fully mapped. It is of interest to students and scholars of Rhetoric and Roman Literature.

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Martin T. Dinter, Charles Guérin, Marcos Martinho

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Urban Political Development in the United States and the United Kingdom

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In Blazing the Neoliberal Trail, Timothy Weaver asks how and why urban policy and politics have become dominated, over the past three decades, by promarket thinking. He argues that politicians such as Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher targeted urban areas as part of their far broader effort to remake the relationship between markets, states, and citizens. But while neoliberal policies were enacted in both the United States and the United Kingdom, Weaver shows that there was significant variation in the ways in which neoliberal ideas were brought to bear on institutional frameworks and organized interests. Moreover, these developments were not limited to a 1980s right-wing effort but were also advanced by Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, whose own agendas ultimately reinforced neoliberal ideas and practices, though often by default rather than design. The enduring impact of these shifts is evidenced today by the reintroduction of enterprise zones in the United Kingdom by Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne and by President Obama's announcement of Promise Zones, which, despite appearances, are cast in the neoliberal mold.

By highlighting the bipartisan nature of the neoliberal turn, Weaver challenges the dominant narrative that the revival of promarket policies was primarily driven by the American GOP and the United Kingdom's Conservative Party. Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews with key political actors, Weaver examines national-level policies, such as enterprise zonesplace-based articulations of neoliberal ideasin case studies of Philadelphia and London. Through an investigation of national urban policy and local city politics, Blazing the Neoliberal Trail shows how elites became persuaded by neoliberal ideas and remade political institutions in their image.

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Since the 1980s a number of countries have established truth commissions to come to terms with the legacy of past human rights violations, yet little is known about the achievements and shortcomings of this popular transitional justice tool. Drawing on research on Chile's National Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and exploring the scholarship on thirteen other transitional contexts, Onur Bakiner evaluates the success of truth commissions in promoting policy reform, human rights accountability, and the public recognition of human rights violations. He argues that although political elites often see a truth commission as a convenient way to address past atrocities, the findings, historical narratives, and recommendations of such commissions often surprise, upset, and discredit influential political actors. Even when commissions produce only modest change as a result of political constraints, Bakiner contends, they open up new avenues for human rights activism by triggering the creation of new victims' organizations, facilitating public debates over social memory, and inducing civil society actors to monitor the country's human rights policy.

Bakiner demonstrates how truth commissions have recovered basic facts about human rights violations, forced societies to rethink the violence and exclusion of nation building, and produced a new dynamic whereby the state seeks to legitimize its central position between history and politics by accepting a high degree of societal penetration into the production and diffusion of official national history. By doing so, truth commissions have challenged and transformed public discourses on memory, truth, justice, reconciliation, recognition, nationalism, and political legitimacy in the contemporary world.