D Stoll: 6 books

The authors explore the fresh water crisis of Himalayan Asia. While the region hosts some of the world's mightiest rivers, it is also home to rapidly modernizing, increasingly affluent, and demographically multiplying societies, ensuring the rapid depletion of water resources and of disputes over ownership of transboundary waters.

For years scientists have searched for a "magic bullet" to relieve the pain of depression and other mood disorders -- safe enough for nursing mothers, children with ADHD, and the elderly, without the side effects associated with medicines like Prozac, Zoloft, and lithium. Now the search may finally...

Few subjects in gynecology, let alone in medicine in general, have provoked such inter­ est or study as cervical cancer. Although the wealth of monographs and books publish­ ed on the subject would seem to obviate the need for more, the great advances made in the medical sciences and in gynecological...

Rising costs and increasing global competition press institutions to do more with less. At the same time, deep budget cuts and a general social and political impatience have revived calls for reform in educational affordability, curriculum, and outcome measurement. Yet within this environment, a myriad...

An Samhain sind die Grenzen zwischen den Welten besonders durchlässig. Doch nicht nur Bedrohliches wagt sich an den Übergängen hindurch. Zarte Bande zwischen mythischen Gestalten und sonderbaren Wesen werden geknüpft. Der Funke springt über, wenn Hexen ihre sanften Seiten entdecken und Menschen...

Unwegsame Landschaften und seltsame Wesen. Rätselhafte Aufgaben und geheimnisvolle Begegnungen. Magie und Mutproben. Ob die griechischen Versepen, die isländischen Sagas oder das Nibelungenlied – seit jeher beschäftigt sich Literatur mit abenteuerlichen und fantastischen Stoffen. Als im 20. Jahrhundert...