Blum: 336 books

Isle of 8 is a journey inside a ship wreak written in a poetry form. The 8 survivors are stranded first at sea then upon a small island, where they find out something interesting.

Dinner Talk draws upon the recorded dinner conversations of, and extensive interviews with, native Israeli, American Israeli, and Jewish American middle-class families to explore the cultural styles of sociability and socialization in family discourse. The thesis developed is that family dinners in...

This is a true story of one ninety year old woman's fight to maintain control of her life. Family relationships fueled the challenges she faced. The mistakes she made, combined with the failures of institutions designed to protect individuals, caused her loss of freedom.

Plunged unwittingly into the events predicted by the ancient Mayan civilization, the thirteenth and final cycle in the aging of the Earth, preceded by great cataclysmic changes, David must solve the riddle of mankind's demise before the sands of time run out on December 21, 2012. He is incredulous...

Wine connoisseur Annie "Halsey" Hall must turn up the heat on a felonious firebug . . . Halsey and the ladies of the Rose Avenue Wine Club are celebrating with newlyweds Penelope and Malcolm, who are thrilled to be opening their new winery. They’re also partnering with a cherished neighborhood...

Die Frau des Offiziers - eine Geschichte von Liebe, Schuld und Vergebung. Fünfzig Jahre lang hat Trudys Mutter kein Wort über ihre Vergangenheit verloren. Doch es gibt ein verstörendes Souvenir, tief vergraben in der Wäscheschublade: ein Familienporträt, auf dem sie und ihre kleine Tochter gemeinsam...

Die ersten Schneeflocken rieseln vom Himmel, doch Mark kann sich nicht darüber freuen. Seit seine Mutter verstorben ist, hat der Achtjährige kein Wort mehr gesprochen. Sein Vater Christoph ist hilflos, und so zieht er sich mit Mark an den einzigen Zufluchtsort zurück, den die beiden kennen: ein...

«Anderswo zuhause» möchte kleinen und grossen Lesern die Welt unserer Buchstaben näher bringen. Für jeden Buchstaben des Alphabets steht ein Wesen, dessen Eigentümlichkeiten in einem Gedicht beschrieben werden, in dem der jeweilige Buchstabe möglichst oft vorkommt. «Anderswo zuhause» ist jedoch...

Eigentlich hat Isabell alles, was sie sich wünscht. Eine gute Partnerschaft, Liebe, Geborgenheit – und jede Menge Arbeit. Für Familie und Feierlichkeiten haben sie und ihr Freund Andreas keine Zeit. Wie jedes Jahr steht Weihnachten vor der Tür, und wie immer möchte Isabell über die Feiertage...

So-called string problems are abundant in bioinformatics and computational biology. New optimization problems dealing with DNA or protein sequences are constantly arising and researchers are highly in need of efficient optimization techniques for solving them. One obstacle for optimization...

The anxiety over death persists in everyday life- though often denied or repressed- lingering as an unconscious worry or intuition that typically seems to compromise one’s feelings of well-being and experience in a range of areas; coming out often as malaise, depression, and anger in much conduct....

This publication opens with the inevitable introduction, moves on to the present traditional approach to breeding for yield stability, and then enumerates a detailed discussion of the physiological approach to breeding for resistance to specific stresses. Not all environmental stresses are covered, omitting those for which little can be said today on practical breeding solutions.

The purpose, in writing this, is to inspire and guide other solitary, or small groups of golfers, to follow the dream and experience the unique joy of golf in Scotland. I am just a regular working guy, not wealthy or well to do, just a person who clips coupons for the local food store and simply enjoys...

This book departs from typical cartography textbooks, which tend to focus on the characteristics of the methods and means of expression. Instead, it offers an explanation of the individual perspective on the map as a specific product of civilization, one that constitutes a component of social communication.  The...