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Excerpt: "Margery Schopper was born in the year of our Lord 1404, on the Tuesday after Palm Sunday. My uncle Christan Pfinzing of the Burg, a widower whose wife had been a Schopper, held me at the font. My father, God have his soul, was Franz Schopper, known as Franz the Singer. He died in the night...

Das beste Geschenk für die bucklige Verwandtschaft? Geschichten über die bucklige Verwandtschaft! Denn mit schwarzem Humor kommt man besser durch die Feiertage. Die Familie wird immer anspruchsvoller: Oma lehnt den fair gehandelten Seitanbraten ab. Die papierdünne Cousine akzeptiert die Mousse...

»Das Stemmeisen in meiner Hand war kalt. Aber der Weihnachtsmann war noch da. Aus seiner Bude hörte ich Frauenlachen.« Schokoladig süß oder schmerzhaft schaurig, voller besinnlicher Träume oder tödlicher Illusionen und manchmal alles auf einmal: so kann die Weihnachtszeit auch sein! – Mit...

FOR all students of Sanskrit philology and Indian history Âpastamba's aphorisms on the sacred law of the Aryan Hindus possess a special interest beyond that attaching to other works of the same class. Their discovery enabled Professor Max Müller, forty-seven years ago, to dispose finally of the Brahmanical...

Erleben Sie die Märchen und Sagen aus aller Welt in dieser Serie "Märchen der Welt". Von den Ländern Europas über die Kontinente bis zu vergangenen Kulturen und noch heute existierenden Völkern: "Märchen der Welt" bietet Ihnen stundenlange Abwechslung.

Voller Sorge verfolgt das Ehepaar Weber den Aufstieg Adolf Hitlers. Der Vater ist Sozialdemokrat und fürchtet die Nationalsozialisten von Anfang an. Denn er rechnet mit dem Schlimmsten: Krieg! Während Gerd, der jüngste Sohn, das Jungvolk ablehnt, wird Karl-Heinz, der ältere, schon früh ein überzeugter...

How does a mother show her love? By bringing her baby everywhere! In this touching tribute to a mother's love, tigers, kangaroos, otters, penguins, and more keep their young close no matter where they go.

Benvenuto è il nome di un ragazzo in gamba dell’Italia del Sud, che negli Anni Settanta emigra in Germania insieme alla famiglia per inseguire il sogno di una nuova vita. Ma tra i suoi nuovi compagni di quella terra straniera, riuscirà mai a sentirsi davvero benvenuto? Una storia sincera e forte,...

Capitalize on the First All-in-One Guide to Monitoring, Identifying, and Solving Problems of Ageing Water Wells Water Well Rehabilitation and Reconstruction offers water resource professionals the first comprehensive guide to the mechanical, chemical, and microbiological ageing processes of...

Gives readers a more thorough understanding of DEM and equips researchers for independent work and an ability to judge methods related to simulation of polygonal particles Introduces DEM from the fundamental concepts (theoretical mechanics and solidstate physics), with 2D and 3D simulation methods...

Service provisioning in ad hoc networks is challenging given the difficulties of communicating over a wireless channel and the potential heterogeneity and mobility of the devices that form the network. Service placement is the process of selecting an optimal set of nodes to host the implementation...

The book revolves around the public international law aspects of the destructive use of cyberspace by state actors and non-state actors, encompassing cyberwar, cyberterrorism, and hacktivism, but excluding cybercrime. For the purpose of delimitation, it also addresses cyberespionage and political activism...

The observations made by Paracelsus concerning the dose-effect relationship of poison are generally just as applicable to health­ threatening vibration. With regard to kind, intensity, and duration of the vibration, the "dose" is decisive as to whether the conse­ quences are detrimental,...