Michael S: 742 books
Erinnerung an die Zukunft
Das Zweite Vatikanische Konzil
Language: German
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Das II. Vaticanum hat das Selbstverständnis der katholischen Kirche erneuert und eine dialogische Öffnung zur Moderne vollzogen. Das große und erfreulich positive Echo, das der vorliegende Band gefunden hat, ist Anlass für diese aktualisierte und um einige Beiträge erweiterte Neuauflage. "Hier...
Politische Morde
Vom Altertum bis zur Gegenwart
Language: German
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Historiker, Journalisten und Politologen analysieren in diesem Buch politische Morde an 28 historischen Persönlichkeiten, z.B. Gaius Iulius Cäsar, Thomas Becket, Wallenstein, Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand von Österreich, Mahatma Gandhi, John F. Kennedy, Aldo Moro, Yitzhak Rabin oder Zoran Djindjic,...
by Wulf Amelung, Jürgen Gauer, Fritz Scheffer
Language: German
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: German
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Die 17. Auflage dieses renommierten Lehrbuches vermittelt ein umfassendes Wissen über Böden und deren Schutz. Böden bilden eine der wichtigsten Grundlagen für das terrestrische Leben. Für einen effektiven Schutz und Erhalt dieses Lebensraums braucht es ein grundlegendes Verständnis der Prozesse,...
Grundlagen tiergestützter Dienstleistungen
Tiergestützte Therapie, Pädagogik und Fördermaßnahmen als interdisziplinäres Arbeitsfeld
Language: German
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Welches grundlegende Wissen und welche Kenntnisse benötige ich, um tiergestützt zu arbeiten? Dieser Frage geht das vorliegende Werk in enger Verbindung mit wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen nach. Es legt sein Augenmerk auf relevante Praxisgebiete moderner tiergestützter Dienstleistungen. Diese subsummieren...
by S.M. Vidaurri, Michael Dialynas, Sina Grace
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2018
An all new collection of never before seen stories from Jim Henson’s beloved fantasy classic Labyrinth, including the secret history of Sir Didymus and the vow he once made to guard the bridge over the Bog of Eternal Stench.
by John R. Fultz, Jeffrey Ford, Karin Tidbeck
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Welcome to the weird! Acclaimed author and editor Laird Barron, one of weird fiction's brightest exponents, brings his expert eye and editorial sense to the inaugural volume of the Year's Best Weird Fiction. No longer the purview of esoteric readers, weird fiction is enjoying wide popularity. Chiefly...
by David S. Goyer, Michael Cassutt
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Mankind’s first contact with extraterrestrial life led to an incredible revelation. Their last may lead them to extinction.
Twenty years have passed since the mysterious Near-Earth Object nicknamed Keanu appeared in the night sky and transported humans from all over Earth into its interior....
Called and Chosen
Toward a Spirituality for Lay Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2005
That lay women and men increasingly serve as leaders of institutional ministries in the Church is nothing new. Yet, until now, these lay leaders have longed for theological resources and formational training to help them in their vocation and ministry. Called and Chosen: Toward a Spirituality for...
by Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh, Zoe Trodd, Donna Kornhaber
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Though he was a recipient of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature, American novelist John Steinbeck (1902--1968) has frequently been censored. Even in the twenty-first century, nearly ninety years after his work first appeared in print, Steinbeck's novels, stories, and plays...
by Howard Good, Berrin A. Beasley, Sandra L. Borden
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2007
How far should a reporter go for a story? What's the role of the press at the scene of an emergency, or a murder? Why has journalism suddenly become so susceptible to plagiarism? Here's a book that poses these and other urgent questions—and offers candid answers. At a time when professionals and...
The Lovecraftian Poe
Essays on Influence, Reception, Interpretation, and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
H.P. Lovecraft, one of the twentieth century’s most important writers in the genre of horror fiction, famously referred to Edgar Allan Poe as both his “model” and his “God of Fiction.” While scholars and readers of Poe’s and Lovecraft’s work have long recognized the connection between...
A World of Words
Language and Displacement in the Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
A World of Words offers a new look at the degree to which language itself is a topic of Poe's texts. Stressing the ways his fiction reflects on the nature of its own signifying practices, Williams sheds new light on such issues as Poe's characterization of the relationship between author and reader...
The United States and the International Criminal Court
National Security and International Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2000
American reluctance to join the International Criminal Court illuminates important trends in international security and a central dilemma facing U.S. Foreign policy in the 21st century.
The ICC will prosecute individuals who commit egregious international human rights violations such as genocide....
by John Judis, Alan L. Berger, Bruce S. Warshal
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
When he assumed the presidency in April 1945, Harry S. Truman inherited various international sources of turmoil, including the ambiguity of American policy toward political Zionism. Three years later, President Truman recognized the State of Israel on May 14, 1948, just 11 minutes after the announcement...