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Dieses Essential vermittelt einen grundlegenden Einblick in die Hochachtsamkeit als Ressortgrenzen überwindende Art zu denken und zu handeln. An wachsenden Krisenherden und Umbruchsituationen in Gesellschaft und Politik sind Organisationen, ihre Strukturen und Abläufe nicht gänzlich unbeteiligt....

Der Autor dieses Buches bespricht kleine adaptive Fortschritte, die ganzheitliches vernetztes Denken und Handeln voraussetzen, aus dem eine systemstabilisierende Wirkung erwächst. Biokybernetik und Deglobalisierung verfolgen ähnliche Prinzipien. Daher sind beide sehr geeignet, um das Metaziel Nachhaltigkeit zu stärken.

BOOK 2 IN THE INSPECTOR HANAUD SERIES, in which we again join Ricardo and Hanaud, this time in an ambiguous situation. A young, wealthy vagabond English man, Calladine, whom Ricardo knew before, hastily comes to Ricardo's London home in the morning, while Hanaud happens to be visiting. Calladine,...

A dark tale of adventure, piracy, murder, and revenge set on a rugged Cornish island in the mid-1700s. Told with the literary excellence, the tale begins with a dangerous youth who sat in the stocks, and a girl named Helen, and a gang of men watching a granite house at the edge of the sea.

When Jeanne-Marie Harlowe is poisoned and her adopted daughter is accused of the murder, Inspector Hanaud is called in to investigate.

Captain Stephen Drake steps ashore in Plymouth and is immediately confronted by a reporter wanting his comments on an attack made on him by the editor of the Evening Meteor. Of course, the African expedition had been a disaster, but Drake was ready to take responsibility. He telegraphed a survivor...

Ed Crowe, an English-born travel agent living on Oakville, Ontario, Canada, maintains his involvement as a special consultant with the British Secret Intelligence ServiceMI6taking advantage of his Canadian passport. His prior involvement and success in negotiating with the Kurdish terrorist organization...

First published in 1909, A Thief in the Night is the first novel detailing the exploits and intrigues of gentleman thief A. J. Raffles in late Victorian England. The novel is a darker work than the three preceding short story collections (The Amateur Cracksman, The Black Mask and A Thief in the Night.)...

Raffles had vanished from the face of the town, and even I had no conception of his whereabouts until he cabled to me to meet the 7.31 at Charing Cross next night. That was on the Tuesday before the 'Varsity match, or a full fortnight after his mysterious disappearance. The telegram was from Carlsbad,...

'Mr. Justice Raffles' is the fourth and last book featuring the charming A. J. Raffles. Unlike the three previous works, the book was a full-length novel and featured darker elements than the earlier collections of short stories. In it a jaded Raffles is growing increasingly cynical about British...

First published in 1914. According to Wikipedia: "Ernest William Hornung (7 June 1866 22 March 1921) was an English author and poet known for writing the A. J. Raffles series of stories about a gentleman thief in late 19th-century London. Hornung was educated at Uppingham School; as a result of poor...

Once a beloved clergymen and pillar of the quaint village community that he served, Robert Carlton has fallen upon hard times, brought to his knees by an unspeakable tragedy that soon spirals into a scandal. Cast out of his ecclesiastical role, Carlton is forced to learn how to fend for himself, as...

First published in 1909, A Thief in the Night is the first novel detailing the exploits and intrigues of gentleman thief A. J. Raffles in late Victorian England. The novel is a darker work than the three preceding short story collections (The Amateur Cracksman, The Black Mask and A Thief in the Night.)...