Iuniverse apr 2006 (11 risultati)

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Although she began her studies in the art of music, playing the piano and violin, Anne S. Knopf soon discovered that she had a natural talent for expressing herself through verse. Various articles about Anne and her poetry have been written in the Miami Herald; The Sun Sentinal and The Sunrise Times in Broward and Dade County, Florida. As well, Ms. Knopf¿s poems have been featured in a number of Florida newspaper publications.Anne is a native New Yorker who cherishes her childhood experiences, having grown up across the street from Central Park West.With topics that tug at the heart-strings of a variety of poetry lovers, Anne brings all of her readers together, with her unique ability to express herself, through compassion and understanding of the human spirit.Ms. Knopf has won numerous awards for her poetry from a number of highly regarded poetry libraries and committees, including: The National Library of Poetry; The Famous Poets Society; The International Library of Poetry; The Annual Poetry Convention, and others.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Kim, a regular high school student, has never experienced life-and-death adventure. But Kim doesn't know the secrets that lie in her mysterious past.Kim knows only what has always been: Earth and her self-involved life with unforgettable friends and a busy family that almost never has time for her. In an instant, everything changes. On her sixteenth birthday, Kim has a dream and finds a guardian that claims she is of the race called Myren. They bring her to their world and call her 'the Chosen.'In this new world, Kim is known as Chloeytriel 'Chloe' Heart, the most powerful mortal alive. She also has a companion that saves her life in a battle that destroys everything. But when he is lost to the dark powers, Chloe finds herself in the middle of the greatest war ever fought. She must fight her lost companion who has now become her immortal enemy.Chloe is destined to rule the Myren and the realms through this great peril, if only she can survive the forgotten world of Fencyre and destroy the only thing left that she loves.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Medical qigong is one of the four main branches of Chinese medicine, and it is the energetic foundation upon which the others (acupuncture, herbal medicine, and medical massage) are based. Medical qigong and tai chi exercises are becoming more popular, but there are few books that discuss how they can be used to help address specific disorders. This book is the first medical qigong book that does not simply introduce a set of exercises that are a part of a general qigong routine. Rather, the exercises provided are those prescribed to patients at qigong hospitals in China. Medical qigong doctors and Chinese medicine hospitals have used these exercises for hundreds of years and yet they are relatively unknown in this country.The first half of the book introduces medical qigong theory from a modern Western scientific perspective as well as from the traditional Daoist and Chinese medicine perspectives, so that the reader will understand why and how medical qigong exercises work. The second half is practical exercises for self-healing. The book introduces guidelines for selecting appropriate exercises, and then the exercises themselves. There are general tonification (strengthening), purgation (sedating), and regulation exercises for health maintenance, followed by sections on specific organ and health disorders. This book targets health care practitioners as well as 'patients,' meaning anyone interested in taking an active role in the healing process.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - PrologueFt. Lauderdale, Florida is a waterfront city that has long been a playground for the rich and famous. Million dollar homes nestle alongside multi-million dollar estates, all of which are built along interconnecting waterways. It is a city where boats number in the tens of thousands. Naturally, such a concentrated abundance of wealth has served to upstart a vast number of waterfront cafes and bars from which party goers and fine diners alike may watch the nightly parade of expensive yachts as they transient the Intracoastal Waterway. It is a parade of affluence and decadence at its finest.The Gold Coast of Florida is an area where wealth goes beyond measurement and is perpetual. There always has been, and always will be, someone bigger and faster-someone with a larger yacht, a faster car, a sleeker jet. The possibilities are directly proportionate to desire and the sky is the limit. Competition is fierce, perhaps even audacious. Yet, that only serves to attract the wealthy. It is a melting pot for the rich. However, for many it has also been their waterloo. Trust Fund Babies-young recipients of inherited fortunes-flock from near and far to jockey into position as potential suitors for devastatingly beautiful women. Those in the know often refer to those beauties as Zoologists. When referred to in this context, a Zoologist is one who is on the hunt for four particular species-a jaguar in her garage, a mink in her closet, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who will pay for it all without questions asked.Unfortunately, those not in the know must learn. Many a wealthy man has relocated to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida to, show them how it is done, only to find himself well laid, but penniless, some three years later. Of course, as with any game of desire, the have nots are always figuring a means to compete with the haves. Enter crime, cons, strippers, smugglers, gambling . . . it would be necessary to update the list daily, for imagination and desire know no holiday. There is but one desire . . . one goal . . . and that desire knows no discrimination whatsoever. In order to compete with the haves one needs nothing more that a burning desire to become a Player.This is a story of some of those Players, so please, read on . . . if you dare.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Shortly before the onset of hostilities in Europe in 1939, the celebrated Italian conductor, Maestro Marcantonio Omodei, departs Rome to accept a position with New York's Metropolitan Opera Company under Toscanini. His wife, Anita, plans to join him after the arrival of their precious baby.Christened Marcus Aurelius, the boy is born amidst the first salvos of the European war. Separated from his family for the duration of hostilities, the Maestro is forced, enemy alien status notwithstanding, to endure the mild discomforts of wartime New York City, while mother and child are left to face an uncertain future. Reconciled to a long separation from the one true love of her life, Anita manages the resulting trials with grit and humor. The experience stirs her to reassess her ancestral values, a process that dramatically transforms not only her world, but also her very being. Through it all, Anita is abetted by two childhood friends: Adriana, a blasphemous and fiercely cynical spinster, and a worldly nun named Eugenia.Wrenched from the fringes of her relatively humdrum purgatory, Anita is swept into the vortex of a developing tempest and the deceptive calm that follows its conclusion.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This is a remarkable book. It is the real life story of a pilot of the famed 91st Bomb Group, the Memphis Belle Group, in World War II, and the missions flown in that Group by the author and his comrades. It follows him from the time his B-17 was shot down over the German-French border, he was rescued and hidden by villagers in the tiny village of Baslieuse, then escaped through a Europe occupied by Nazi forces desperate to escape pursuing Allied armies.The book chronicles, in fascinating detail, the life and training of those young men who made up the heroic 8th Air Force, and describes the affectionate relationship often maintained by their crews with that most famed heavy bomber of all time, the fabled B-17. It includes some of the most tragic stories as well as some of the wryest humor ever written about combat groups.A heavy bomb group consists of 36 heavy bombers. The 91st lost 207 planes during its WWII combat time-32 during the author''s flight tenure. Dr. Anderson uses the words of the extraordinary crews of those planes to describe the training they absorbed, the missions they flew, the results they achieved, the tragedy of watching their planes explode and their friends die, and the heroism that brought so many near fatally damaged planes home with their dead and wounded crews.This is also a story of growing up in pre-war America, and of the growth and development of that sturdy character which enabled these young men and their children and grandchildren to help create today''s world. God bless them, their achievements, and what their heroism made possible so that we could live in the world we do today.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - When the Hungarians revolted against their Russian occupiers in October 1956, their initial success, especially in Budapest, seemed to assure intervention by the West, as Radio Free Europe had almost openly encouraged. But the West abandoned them, their full attention focused on the Suez crisis, and the Soviets brutally crushed the uprising. Young, impetuous 14 year old Elenya Daranyi is embittered by this betrayal. Adding to her fury and despair, an insidious rumor starts not long after her father Geza is appointed to a prominent post in the Communist Government that he is a member of the hated AVO Secret Police.Elenya and Geza are suddenly ostracized and shunned. At his new office, she confronts him, accusing him of neglecting her and her mother who is dying of cancer. Bitterly castigating him for serving the despised Russians, she fails to see the young Russian officer Andrei, who is Geza's assistant, until she whirls about to leave. Then, in a startling moment of ungovernable emotion, the 2 are entrapped in an impossible love. Four short turbulent meetings with Elenya follow before Andrei is assigned to Poland. Eleven years later, in 1968, they meet again in New York, where Andrei has a temporary assignment in the Soviet Mission, and Elenya, a secretary in the Hungarian Mission is assigned to help him.Andrei is determined to marry her before he returns to Europe, but Elenya escapes home on temporary leave, only to discover Geza wants her help working in the Underground, particularly as the Czech crisis looms. When Geza is caught passing military information and dies of a heart attack, Elenya, who has been forced to return to New York, is immediately suspect, and Andrei is forced to give her false information to entrap her. In anguish, knowing he has no choice but to obey these orders, he must face whether or not she has betrayed him.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - When the Founding Fathers, in their collective genius, crafted the U.S. Constitution in 1787, little did they know that their cherished document would become a twenty-first century battleground over such issues as 'Fanfiction,' vulgar and distasteful language, same-sex marriages, and abortion or student demands for equal rights. Nor did they anticipate that their failure to act on the divisive issue of slavery would lead inexorably to America's Civil War. Now, in an extraordinary series of essays, twenty-six unusually perceptive and talented Advanced Placement U.S. Government students at West Potomac High School, Alexandria, Virginia, explore today's constitutional issues in a way the Founders may never have anticipated. This collection of essays traces the original arguments between the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists up to the federal government's recent successful intrusion into such traditional state realms as the drinking age and speed limit on state roads. The students explore the Constitution's relevance to the Internet and what some devotees call 'Fanfiction' and detractors identify as plagiarism. In one essay, the author claims that the American tradition of 'freedom.of the press,' as articulated in the First Amendment, is being eroded daily - not by the government, as originally suspected by the Founding Fathers but by the press themselves. Two essays address the questionable value of the U.S. Constitution in protecting the freedoms of young Americans, especially those in public schools. A third, dealing with a relevant subject, questions whether young Americans, who complain about the electoral system but rarely use the right to vote themselves, even deserve the Twenty-sixth Amendment. When the Founders had completed their work in Philadelphia, they faced a major political challenge: how to convince the American people that the document and the government they had created should be ratified and approved by the people themselves. The political genius they demonstrated by accepting the Bill of Rights four years later is reflected in these essays, each of which looks at the Constitution, complete with its amendments, in light of today's political realities. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Sign Language Interpreters in Court: Understanding Best Practices is the first comprehensive text examining the role and function of sign language interpreters working in the legal arena. Designed for interpreters seeking a principled basis to justify best and emerging practices, the book presents a critical analysis of the constitutional, statutory and ethical foundations underpinning the work of court interpreters. Sign Language Interpreters in Court: Understanding Best Practices offers the theoretical tools for understanding, applying and articulating the various roles and functions undertaken by sign language interpreters in court.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -It remains a challenge to create and manage a professional sales and marketing agency specializing in representing a synergistic group of suppliers to a demanding customer base. \* Initially, the independent manufacturers' representative agency must procure the services of other professionals (CPAs, lawyers, tax consultants, etc.) in order to achieve their business goals. As a result, the initial efforts are to find the appropriate advisory firms to work with. \* Then there is the difficulty of finding employees who add their expertise to the sales team. \* A third challenge is that of investigating the technology systems and data management programs that work in a specific industry. \* And finally, those items are relatively easy to surmount in comparison to finding the right vendors to represent and-at the other end of the equation-create and appropriately service a customer base. During the life of the agency there may be opportunities to reconfigure the business via many avenues: \* seeking new markets \* expanding the customer base or the sales territory \* offering new services \* merging with a similar firm \* selling the business or, purchasing another agency. All opportunities for change must be measured in light of the firm's business plan and strategies for growth. This manual addresses many of the aspects of operating a multiple-line independent manufacturers' representative sales agency. It is truly an entrepreneurial business whose total efforts are focused on the movement of products produced at any point on the globe to the 'local' customer. While challenges present themselves, the rewards can be personally satisfying. 352 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -It remains a challenge to create and manage a professional sales and marketing agency specializing in representing a synergistic group of suppliers to a demanding customer base. \* Initially, the independent manufacturers' representative agency must procure the services of other professionals (CPAs, lawyers, tax consultants, etc.) in order to achieve their business goals. As a result, the initial efforts are to find the appropriate advisory firms to work with. \* Then there is the difficulty of finding employees who add their expertise to the sales team. \* A third challenge is that of investigating the technology systems and data management programs that work in a specific industry. \* And finally, those items are relatively easy to surmount in comparison to finding the right vendors to represent and-at the other end of the equation-create and appropriately service a customer base. During the life of the agency there may be opportunities to reconfigure the business via many avenues: \* seeking new markets \* expanding the customer base or the sales territory \* offering new services \* merging with a similar firm \* selling the business or, purchasing another agency. All opportunities for change must be measured in light of the firm's business plan and strategies for growth. This manual addresses many of the aspects of operating a multiple-line independent manufacturers' representative sales agency. It is truly an entrepreneurial business whose total efforts are focused on the movement of products produced at any point on the globe to the 'local' customer. While challenges present themselves, the rewards can be personally satisfying.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 352 pp. Englisch.…