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Choosing a partner is one of the most consequential and tricky decisions we will ever make. The cost of repeated failure is immense. And yet we are often so alone with the search. Partners used to be found for us by parents and society. Now we are expected to follow our feelings - and so locate people by ourselves, according to intuition. This should be an improvement, but our emotions often pull us towards hugely problematic characters and dynamics. How to Find Love explains why we have the 'types' we do - and how our early experiences give us scripts of how and whom we can love. The book provides a crucial set of ideas to help us make safer, more imaginative and more effective choices in love. Product details Format Hardback | 80 pages ...

Michelin regional maps each contain practical road and route information. Special Michelin reads-like-a-book format for easy use in folding and unfolding. Useful information for planning trips, including gas stations, 24-hour service stations, toll gates, rest areas and service plazas. Clear, precise cartography. Icons pinpoint important travel information. Product details Format Sheet map Dimensions 106.68 x 243.84 x 5.08mm | 90.72g ...

(Guitar Educational). Teach Yourself to Play Guitar has been created specifically for the student with no music-reading background. With lesson examples presented in today's most popular tab format, which also incorporates simple beat notation for accurate rhythm execution, Teach Yourself to Play Guitar offers the beginning guitarist not only a comprehensive introduction to essential guitar-playing fundamentals, but a quick, effective, uncomplicated and practical alternative to the multitude of traditional self-instructional method books. It also: covers power chords, barre chords, open position scales and chords (major and minor), and single-note patterns and fills; includes lesson examples and song excerpts in a variety of musical styles rock, folk, classical, country and more; familiarizes the student with fretboard organization, chord patterns, hand and finger positions, and guitar anatomy by way of easy-to-interpret diagrams, photos and illustrations; provides complete, concis...

Where does my body begin? Where does it end? What is inside my body? What is outside? What is primary? What is secondary? What is natural? What is artificial? Science fiction has long imagined a future fusion of humanity with technology. Today, many of us-especially people with health issues such as autoimmune diseases-have functionally become hybrids connected to other machines and to other bodies. The combination of artificial intelligence with implants, transplants, prostheses, and genetic reprogramming is transforming medical research and treatment, and it is now also transforming what we thought was human nature. Mark C. Taylor identifies this process as "intervolution" and explores how it is weaving together smart things and smart bodies to create new forms of life. Our wired bodies are no longer freestanding individuals, but interconnected nodes in worldwide networks. Recognizing this transformation overturns deeply entrenched distinctions and oppositions between minds...

From a giant of health care policy, an engaging and enlightening account of why American health care is so expensive-and why it doesn't have to be Uwe Reinhardt was a towering figure and moral conscience of health care policy in the United States and beyond. Famously bipartisan, he advised presidents and Congress on health reform and originated central features of the Affordable Care Act. In Priced Out, Reinhardt offers an engaging and enlightening account of today's U.S. health care system, explaining why it costs so much more and delivers so much less than the systems of every other advanced country, why this situation is morally indefensible, and how we might improve it. The problem, Reinhardt says, is not one of economics but of social ethics. There is no American political consensus on a fundamental question other countries settled long ago: to what extent should we be our brothers' and sisters' keepers when it comes to health care? Drawing on the best evidence,...

Hajo Banzhafs Ruf als Tarot-Experte hat zum einen mit der Klarheit seiner Karteninterpretationen zu tun, aber auch damit, dass er eine Reihe höchst praktischer Legesysteme selbst entwickelt oder wieder entdeckt hat. Darin liegt auch eine der Stärken von "Gut beraten mit Tarot". Denn hier werden die 24 wirksamsten Legemethoden vorgestellt, nach Schwierigkeitsgraden und thematischen Schwerpunkten übersichtlich angeordnet. So bietet das breite Spektrum an Legemöglichkeiten nicht nur für jedes Thema die richtige Methode, sondern für jeden Leser den ihm entsprechenden Schwierigkeitsgrad. Sogar an die "Ungeduldigen" - heutzutage eine häufig vorkommende Spezies - hat Hajo Banzhaf gedacht und für sie einen "Schnelleinstieg" konzipiert, mit dessen Hilfe sie sofort loslegen können. Der 2. Teil des Buches wendet sich der Interpretation der Karten auf der jeweiligen Position zu. Dort finden wir Stichworte zur allgemeinen Bedeutung der Karte, zu Beruf, Quintessenz, Ra...

Every information system brought into service in every type of organisation requires user acceptance testing. It is by far the most common activity carried out by non-IT specialists. This book is designed to be a hands-on manual for non-testing specialists to plan and carry out an effective acceptance test of an information system. It provides a structured and step-by-step approach to effective acceptance testing and identifies ways of making the process as simple and cost-effective as possible. Product details Format Paperback | 226 pages Dimensions 170 x 244 ...

Warum? Darum! Wie wachsen Pflanzen? Was passiert beim Arzt? Wie entsteht das Wetter? Das spannende und farbenfrohe Lexikon beantwortet die vielen neugierigen Fragen, die Kinder stellen, um ihre Welt zu begreifen. Wissbegierige kleine Entdecker erfahren hier alles über Themen wie Familie und Alltag oder Natur und Technik. Dabei kombiniert "Mein Kindergartenlexikon" kurze, einfache Texte mit klaren Illustrationen und vielen Fotos. Bunte, übersichtlich gestaltete Themenseiten erklären wichtige Inhalte mit Hilfe von Karten und Grafiken. Die altersgerecht aufbereiteten Informationen sind für Kinder einfach verständlich, so dass auch komplexe Zusammenhänge gut begreifbar werden. Auf diese Weise erweitert das Lexikon gleichzeitig Wissenswelt und Wortschatz. Auch das Lernen in Zusammenhängen wird durch die Sortierung nach Themenbereichen gefördert. Zusätzliche wertvolle Tipps helfen Eltern und Erziehern, Kindern erste Sachtexte nahezubringen. "Mein Kindergartenlexikon" ist ...

Das erfolgreiche Lehrwerk für die 2. Fremdsprache Die Bände 1-4 decken den vierjährigen Lehrgang ab. Der Abschlussband Paso al bachillerato als Übergang zwischen Mittel- und Oberstufe Schwerpunkte: Wiederholung von Grammatik und Wortschatz, Einführung in die TextarbeitMit Themenwortschatz, einer Lern-/Projektaufgabe und Beispielen für kooperative Lernformen] Product details Format Paperback | 104 pages Dimensions 213 x 297 x 17mm | 350g ...

From #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Jennifer Weiner Allison Weiss got her happy ending--a handsome husband, adorable daughter, a job she loves, and the big house in the suburbs. But while waiting in the pediatrician's office, she opens a magazine to a quiz about addiction and starts to wonder...Is a Percocet at the end of the day really different from a glass of wine? Is it such a bad thing to pop a Vicodin after a brutal Jump & Pump class...or if your husband ignores you? The pills help her manage the realities of her good-looking life: that her husband is distant, that her daughter is acting out, that her father's Alzheimer's is worsening and her mother is barely managing to cope. She tells herself that they let her make it through her days...but what if her increasing drug use, a habit that's becoming expensive and hard to hide, is turning into her biggest problem of all? With a sparkling comedic touch and a cast of unforgettable character...

Each year in the United States, more than 625,000 individuals are released from prison. Half will be back in prison within just three years. Many former prisoners who reoffend return home to their old communities, where the same family, friends, drugs, and criminal opportunities await them. In Home Free, David S. Kirk uses Hurricane Katrina as a natural experiment to examine whether residential relocation away from an old neighborhood can lead to desistance from crime. Drawing upon both quantitative and qualitative evidence and data from an experimental housing mobility program, he focuses on the lives of individuals released from Louisiana prisons soon after the hurricane, some who moved away from New Orleans and some who did not. Kirk further explores the impact of the Katrina-induced residential change, which provides a unique opportunity to investigate what happens when individuals move not just a short distance away from home, but to entirely different cities, counties, and socia...

Viele Beschäftigte verstehen ihr Unternehmen nicht mehr: Zielvorgaben erscheinen unerreichbar, Unternehmenseinheiten werden ständig restrukturiert, Führungsaufgaben nicht wahrgenommen. Die Arbeitszeit dehnt sich wie von selbst aus. Teams übernehmen Unternehmerfunktionen, und die Mitglieder setzen sich gegenseitig zunehmend unter Druck. Die persönlichen Beziehungen werden belastet mit dem unternehmerischen Zweck: Was WIR beschlossen haben, müssen ich, du, er, sie als Einzelne einlösen. 'Das unternehmerische Wir' stellt die Formen dar, die die indirekte Steuerung heute in Unternehmen annimmt. Beispiele aus der betrieblichen Praxis illustrieren diese Mechanismen. Mit Auszügen aus aktuellen Führungstheorien wird das veränderte Führungsverhalten erklärt. Eine Darstellung der Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie von Kurt Lewin verdeutlicht, wie bereits seit den 1940er Jahren Mechanismen der Gruppendynamik gezielt für die Profitabilität der Unternehmen eingesetzt werden. Das Konzept...

The world is full of hurt children, and bringing one into your home can quickly derail the easy family life you once knew. Get effective suggestions, wisdom, and advice to parent the hurt child in your life. The best hope for tragedy prevention is knowledge! Updated and revised. Product details Format Paperback | 304 pages Dimensions 152.91 x 229.62 x 21.34mm | 381.02g ...

Written in a contemporary and accessible voice, Drugs: Mind, Body, and Society offers more than knowledge and study skills. It is a multidisciplinary text that provides students with a comprehensive discussion about drugs and drug effects that weaves together physiology, neuroscience, pharmacology, psychology, society, culture, media, history, law, and religion. With an emphasis on critical thinking skills, this book teaches students to evaluate research, assess sources of data, and discern fact from opinion, so that they can make intelligent decisions that improve the quality of their lives.FEATURES*"Thinking Critically About Drugs," a separate section at the start of the book, teaches students how to evaluate data, validate sources, and understand how drug research is conducted*True/False chapter-opening questions, with answers, draw students into the material by asking them provocative questions that challenge commonly held misconceptions about drugs*"Critical Evalu...

Recent decades have seen photography's privileged relationship to the real come under question. Spurred by the postmodern critique of photography in the 1980s and the rise of digital technologies soon thereafter, scholars have been asking who and what built this understanding of the medium in the first place. Photography and Doubt reflects on this interest in photography's referential power by discussing it in rigorously historical terms. How was the understanding of photographic realism cultivated in the first place? What do cases of staged and manipulated photography reveal about that realism's hold on audiences across the medium's history? Have doubts about photography's testimonial power stimulated as much knowledge as its realism? Edited by Sabine T. Kriebel and Andres Mario Zervigon, Photography and Doubt is the first multi-authored collection specifically designed to explore these questions. Its 13 original essays, illustrated with 73 color images, explor...

Ganz auf die gärtnerische Praxis zugeschnittener Überblick über alle relevanten Krankheiten und Schädlinge an Zier- und Nutzpflanzen im Gartenbau. Über 700 charakteristische Farbbilder ermöglichen die zielsichere Diagnose der Krankheitserreger und der durch sie verursachten Schadbilder. Für alle Gärtner in Ausbildung und Beruf. Product details Format Hardback | 288 pages Dimensions 171 x 241 x 20mm | 810g ...

Filled with over 200 colouring pages and more than 150 activity pages for young children, this Bible Story Coloring and Activity Book from The Big Picture Interactive provides hours of fun. Here are some of the great activities your kids will love: Word searches, Mazes, Connect the dots, Hidden messages, Fill in the blank, Secret code, Matching, Find it, Unscramble, and more! Product details Format Paperback | 384 pages Dimensions 216 x 279 x 20.32mm | 500g ...

TWIN SOULS: For the lovers, is a collection of my experience with true love, with excerpts of advice based on those experiences. It promotes love, happiness, peace, and healthy connections. This one is for the lovers, to know how to keep that love growing, and to keep your relationship healthy. If you currently haven't found that special love, this book is also for you, so you never accept less than you're worth. It gives hope for love. It gives a special perspective of how love appears when you least expect it, not when you're searching for it. Product details Format Paperback | 72 pages Dimensions ...

Diese unbestritten authentische Erinnerungen von Friedelind Wagner, der Tochter von Winifred und Siegfried Wagner, führen mitten in eine "Familiendynastie, deren Handlungen verzweifelt den Machenschaften des Denver-Clans ähneln" (Luzerner Zeitung). Gleichzeitig präsentieren sie die Geschichte "Bayreuths" von 1918 bis 1939, ergänzt durch Eva Weissweilers Aufarbeitung der neuesten Forschungsergebnisse und der biographischen Stationen dieses aufregenden Frauenlebens bis hin zu Friedelinds Tod im Jahr 1991. Product details Format Paperback | 350 pages Dimensions 123 ...

Deliciously simple recipes using just four ingredients or fewer - and which are quick too! Product details Format Paperback | 96 pages Dimensions 208.03 x 276.1 x 11.94mm Publication date 01 Jan 2005 Publisher ...

This volume critically reassesses the history and impact of international law in Italy. It examines how Italy's engagement with international law has been influenced and cross-fertilized by global dynamics, in terms of theories, methodologies, or professional networks. It asks to what extent historical and political turning points influenced this engagement, especially where scholars were part of broader academic and public debates or even active participants in the role of legal advisers or politicians. It explores how international law was used or misused by relevant actors in such contexts. Bringing together scholars specialized in international law and legal history, this volume first provides a historical examination of the theoretical legal analysis produced in the Italian context, exploring its main features, and dissident voices. The second section assesses the impact on international law studies of key historical and political events involving Italy, both international an...

Nell'opera "Invidia e Gratitudine", pubblicata nel 1957, la celebre psicoanalista Melanie Klein condensa quarant'anni di lavoro psicodinamico con bambini e adulti. Il testo analizza in profondità lo sviluppo del rapporto primordiale del bambino con il suo primo oggetto, la madre, e individua nell'inevitabile situazione di dipendenza del neonato verso di lei la scintilla che accende l'invidia, costituzionalmente presente in ogni essere umano. L'amore e la gratitudine verso la madre sono dunque, in misura variabile, soffocati dalle fantasie distruttive e queste a loro volta impediscono al bambino di sperimentare pienamente sia la bontà della madre che la propria, ostacolando la costituzione di un oggetto interno buono che è il fondamento della sicurezza e della serenità interiori. La Klein non tralascia di considerare nei dettagli ogni possibile elaborazione dell' invidia, dei suoi derivati e dei relativi meccanismi difensivi, corredando le sue tesi...