J J Martin: 509 books
Sozialethische Dimensionen in Europa
Von einer Wirtschaftsunion zu einer Wertegemeinschaft
Language: German
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Europa ist nicht nur eine Wirtschafts- und Währungsunion, sondern in hohem Maße auch eine Gemeinschaft der politischen und sozialethischen Werte. Sie sind unverzichtbar in einer grenzüberschreitenden Union, in die jedes Land seine kulturelle Identität mit ihren vielfältigen Werten und Traditionen...
Geschichte des Christentums IV,1
Konfessionelles Zeitalter
Language: German
Release Date: February 14, 2018
In der abendländischen Kirchengeschichte des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts vollzog sich ein vielschichtiger, zur Neuzeit durchbrechender und deshalb in seinen Folgen bis heute prägend gebliebener Umformungsprozess. Die wichtigsten Sinneinheiten, die dabei als Konfessionelles Zeitalter, Pietismus und...
Der Kirchenaustritt
Rechtliches Problem und pastorale Herausforderung
Language: German
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Kann man nach staatlichem Recht aus der kath. Kirche "austreten" und trotzdem weiter zur Glaubensgemeinschaft gehören? Die neu entfachte Debatte führen Experten aus Theologie und Rechtswissenschaft fort. Sie erörtern religionssoziologische, dogmatische, pastorale und kirchenrechtliche...
by Martin Becker, Martin Becker, Jürgen E. Schwab
Language: German
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: German
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Soziale Stadtentwicklung und Gemeinwesenarbeit hat sich als Handlungsfeld Sozialer Arbeit längst etabliert. Der sozialräumliche Ansatz in der Sozialen Arbeit lenkt den Blick auf die grundlegende stadt- und sozialräumliche, d. h. strukturelle Verursachung von Hilfenotwendigkeit und bietet zugleich...
Santa's Christmas Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)
The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Carol, Silent Night, The Three Kings, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Heavenly Christmas Tree, Little Women, The Tale of Peter Rabbit…
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
This holiday, we are offering to you our own Christmas box - filled up to the top with the best Christmas novels, classics to read during holidays, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift...
Something Complete and Great
The Centennial Study of My Ántonia
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
This volume situates My Ántonia as a novel that stands the test of time by including in its pages an extraordinarily wide range of historical, cultural, literary, psychological, thematic, perceptual, and stylistic issues. The volume provides an analysis and assessment of complexities in the novel...
The Meaning of Fossils
Episodes in the History of Palaeontology
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
"It is not often that a work can literally rewrite a person's view of a subject. And this is exactly what Rudwick's book should do for many paleontologists' view of the history of their own field."—Stephen J. Gould, Paleobotany and Palynology
"Rudwick has not merely written...
by Sharon Alker, Emily Hodgson Anderson, Srinivas Aravamudan
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Once merely a footnote in Restoration and eighteenth-century studies and rarely taught, Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave (1688), by Aphra Behn, is now essential reading for scholars and a classroom favorite. It appears in general surveys and in courses on early modern British writers, postcolonial literature,...
The Squam Lake Report
Fixing the Financial System
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
In the fall of 2008, fifteen of the world's leading economists--representing the broadest spectrum of economic opinion--gathered at New Hampshire's Squam Lake. Their goal: the mapping of a long-term plan for financial regulation reform.
The Squam Lake Report distills the wealth of insights...
Hard Choices
Moral Dilemmas in Humanitarian Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 1998
Since Somalia, the international community has found itself changing its view of humanitarian intervention. Operations designed to alleviate suffering and achieve peace sometimes produce damaging results. The United Nations, nongovernmental organizations, military and civilian agencies alike find...
Race, Population Studies, and America's Public Schools
A Critical Demography Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Race, Population Studies, and America's Public Schools: A Critical Demography Perspective explores the paradigm of critical demography—established in the late 1990s which articulates the manner in which the social structure differentiates dominant and subordinate populations. Moreover, critical...
Power Electronics Handbook
Devices, Circuits and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Power electronics, which is a rapidly growing area in terms of research and applications, uses modern electronics technology to convert electric power from one form to another, such as ac-dc, dc-dc, dc-ac, and ac-ac with a variable output magnitude and frequency. Power electronics has many applications...
Writings to Stem Your Existential Dread
Scribes Divided Anthology, Vol. 1: Flash Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Scribes Divided presents an anthology of fifty-three memorable flash fiction stories. Ranging from comedy to horror to romance and from the supernatural to the super-real, these ultra-short tales will stop you in your tracks. In this book, award-winning authors from around the world will terrorize, mesmerize, and tantalize you into forgetting for a moment your Existential Dread.
by John Joseph Adams, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Lynda E. Rucker
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.
This month, we have original fiction from Jessica Amanda Salmonson ("The Garbage Doll") and...