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The leading authority on the materials and techniques of painting. Index; illustrations. Translated and revised by Eugen Neuhaus. Product details Format Paperback | 435 pages Dimensions 140 x 203 x 38mm | 590g Publication date 31 Oct 1984 Publish...

This book seeks to balance normative prescriptions on fiscal policy with its practical aspects in the context of the Indian scenario. In doing so, it brings together views of leading experts from academic and policy spheres. It highlights the specificities of Indian fiscal policy and studies current issues like the impact of development expenditures, the Goods and Services Tax (GST), the challenge of reducing subsidies and different aspects of political economy. India's Fiscal Policy discusses rapid developments in the field following the fiscal stimulus of 2008, subsequent attempts at fiscal consolidation and the formation of the NDA government. It focuses on policy and political considerations and adopts a wider approach for the analysis of fiscal policy by taking into consideration aspects such as the effectiveness and targeting of social expenditures, which are essential for a critical analysis of the Indian policy matrix. Product details ...

How the rise of the West was a temporary exception to the predominant world order What accounts for the rise of the state, the creation of the first global system, and the dominance of the West? The conventional answer asserts that superior technology, tactics, and institutions forged by Darwinian military competition gave Europeans a decisive advantage in war over other civilizations from 1500 onward. In contrast, Empires of the Weak argues that Europeans actually had no general military superiority in the early modern era. J. C. Sharman shows instead that European expansion from the late fifteenth to the late eighteenth centuries is better explained by deference to strong Asian and African polities, disease in the Americas, and maritime supremacy earned by default because local land-oriented polities were largely indifferent to war and trade at sea. Europeans were overawed by the mighty Eastern empires of the day, which pioneered key military innovations and were the greatest early m...

Comprised of illustrative clinical cases, this unique pocket guide presents descriptions of patients who have symptoms, physical signs or laboratory abnormalities that they believe are due to disorders of the endocrine system (hormone secreting glands and overall metabolism) but which are not, or probably are not, due to an endocrine disorder. These are common situations in the clinical practice of endocrinology. Each chapter includes clinical cases illustrating differing presentations and outcomes, and each individual case description is followed by a discussion that includes the differential diagnosis of these symptoms, signs and/or lab abnormalities and why they are not likely due to endocrine disease or, alternatively, why and how a deeper exploration for endocrine disorders might be needed. In all cases, an emphasis is placed on listening to the patient and providing a respectful and compassionate response and approach to evaluation and management of the proposed disorder. Discuss...

When Saâdane Afif was awarded the prestigious Günther-Peill Prize in 2012, he ended up in Düren, a small provincial town in North Rhine-Westphalia. He used this location as an opportunity to reflect on the idea of 'Here' (Ici)' and 'There' (Là-bas). Afif transported Düren's station lights together with the loudspeakers and platform announcements into the museum setting. He invited friends to write songs on the themes of 'Here' and 'There' and designed two posters for Ici. and Là-bas. - the titles of the two-part multimedia installation. Ici. was shown in the Leopold-Hoesch-Museum & Papiermuseum Düren and Là-bas. at the 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art and in the Kunsthaus Glarus in Switzerland. The two-part artist book includes views of the installation, the fifteen lyrics by different poets, and essays by Diedrich Diedrichsen, Juan A. Gaitán, and Rein Wolfs on the French conceptual artist's way of working. ...

"The Corona crisis and the Need for a Great Reset" is a guide for anyone who wants to understand how COVID-19 disrupted our social and economic systems, and what changes will be needed to create a more inclusive, resilient and sustainable world going forward. Thierry Malleret, founder of the Monthly Barometer, and Klaus Schwab, founder and executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, explore what the root causes of these crisis were, and why they lead to a need for a Great Reset.Theirs is a worrying, yet hopeful analysis. COVID-19 has created a great disruptive reset of our global social, economic, and political systems. But the power of human beings lies in being foresighted and having the ingenuity, at least to a certain extent, to take their destiny into their hands and to plan for a better future. This is the purpose of this book: to shake up and to show the deficiencies which were manifest in our global system, even before COVID broke out. ...

High-velocity change is the fundamental challenge facing companies today. Few companies, however, are prepared to continuously innovate-because they focus on the short-term and do not emphasize the wisdom needed to make sure that their interests are aligned with those of society. Practical wisdom is the bases of continuous innovation, where companies ceaselessly and repeatedly creating new knowledge, disseminating it throughout the organization, and converting knowledge to action over time. In The Wise Company, legendary management experts Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi highlight how various companies have confronted the challenge of rapid change to create new products and new ways of doing business that benefit employees, consumers, and society. The key: a relentless self-renewal process where companies realize the future they envisions, rather than only responding to changes in the environment. Nonaka and Takeuchi argue that while knowledge-creating companies focusing on tacit...

This book offers timeless wisdom that will lead to a more fulfilling and meaningful life. The 21 Ways are simple but profound guidelines for creating a True Adult, whose behaviors and beliefs are chosen because of the personal power and integrity they provide readers in dealing with life. These empowering behaviors also help to heal the wounded Inner Child that we are now responsible for healng, protecting and nurturing. Product details Format Paperback | 120 pages Dimensions 140 x 216 x 6mm ...

Bereits im Grundschulalter können Kinder unter Angst- und Stresssymptomen wie Anspannung, Konzentrations- oder Schlafschwierigkeiten leiden. Die Kapitän-Nemo-Geschichten helfen Kindern dabei, sich zu entspannen und so Angst und Unruhe abzubauen. Die Entspannungsgeschichten sind für Kinder im Alter von etwa fünf bis zwölf Jahren konzipiert und eignen sich sowohl zum Vorlesen als auch zum selbstständigen Lesen. Leitfigur ist Kapitän Nemo, der die Kinder zu Reisen durch die Weltmeere mit dem Unterwasserboot Nautilus einlädt. Bei abwechslungsreichen Ausflügen in die Unterwasserwelt besuchen sie u.a. einen Korallenwald, suchen eine Schatzkarte, reiten auf Riesenschildkröten oder erkunden die Unterwasserstadt Atlantis. Die Geschichten zielen darauf ab, den Kindern Strategien zur Selbstberuhigung und Entspannung zu vermitteln, die sie selbstständig in schwierigen Alltagssituationen anwenden können. Darüber hinaus sind die Geschichten auch als Hörgeschichten in Form von Audio-CDs erhältlich....

Das Lehrwerk fördert die professionelle Haltung angehender Erzieher/-innen und unterstützt durch Impulse zur Selbstreflexion und zur Lernortvernetzung.Beispiele und fachliche Grundlagentexte sowie Hinweise Zum Weiterdenken aus allen sozialpädagogischen Handlungsfeldern und mit den verschiedenen Zielgruppen bilden die generalistische Ausbildung ab.Wichtige Querschnittsthemen - Partizipation, Inklusion, Prävention, Sprachbildung, Medienkompetenz, Wertevermittlung oder Nachhaltigkeit - sind in beiden Bände verankert und als spezielle Aufgaben formuliert.Der Schwerpunkt des zweiten Bandes liegt auf der sozialpädagogischen Bildungsarbeit; zusätzlich stellt er alle Bildungsbereiche ausführlich mit vielen Praxisanregungen dar.Ein gemeinsames Stichwortregister in beiden Bänden vereinfacht die Navigation zwischen den Inhalten der Lehrbücher.] Product details Format ...

This is the first book in the new series Constitutional Systems of the World, and as such launches what is set to become an invaluable resource for all students and teachers of constitutional law and politics. The book provides an outline of the principles and doctrines which make up the United Kingdom constitution. The chapters are written in sufficient detail for anyone coming to the subject for the first time to develop a clear and informed view of how the constitution is arranged and how it works. The main themes include: a description of the history, sources and nature of the constitution; later chapters deal with: constitutional principles, the role of the Crown, Parliament and the electoral system, government and the executive, the constitutional role of courts including the protection of human rights, the territorial distribution of power between central, devolved and local government and the European Union dimension. Secondly, the book offers an analytical discussion of the de...

Before Damien Hirst stuffed a shark, before Basquiat picked up a spray can, before Andy Warhol started The Factory, a pile of unwanted Jackson Pollocks changed everything. From them emerged the first major modern art dealer. It was 1947, and the art world would never be the same. From the early days on 57th Street, to the rise of SoHo in the 60s, to the emergence of Chelsea as the hotbed of art galleries, we see the meteoric rise and the devastating falls of the most renowned dealers: Larry Gagosian, David Zwirner, Arne Glimcher, and Iwan Wirth. With unparalleled access, the longtime Vanity Fairreporter tells us the story of contemporary art through the people who coddled, supported, and funded the likes of Jeff Koons, and Cy Twombly. It's a story of backstabbing, betrayals, fruitful partnerships, genius, and ever larger sums of money. The world of contemporary art is inextricable from the wild wealth and naked financial opportunism that surrounds it. ...

Translated by W.H.White and A.K.Stirling. With an Introduction by Don Garrett. Benedict de Spinoza lived a life of blameless simplicity as a lens-grinder in Holland. And yet in his lifetime he was expelled from the Jewish community in Amsterdam as a heretic, and after his death his works were first banned by the Christian authorities as atheistic, then hailed by humanists as the gospel of Pantheism. His Ethics Demonstrated in Geometrical Order shows us the reality behind this enigmatic figure. First published by his friends after his premature death at the age of forty-four, the Ethics uses the methods of Euclid to describe a single entity, properly called both 'God' and 'Nature', of which mind and matter are two manifestations. From this follow, in ways that are strikingly modern, the identity of mind and body, the necessary causation of events and actions, and the illusory nature of free will. Product details ...

The sixth title in the number one bestselling CHERUB series! James uncovers corruption where he least suspects it ... When an MI5 operation goes disastrously wrong, James Adams needs all of his skills to get out of Russia alive. Meanwhile, his sister Lauren is on her first solo mission, trying to uncover a brutal human trafficking operation. And when James does get home, he finds that his nightmare is just beginning ... CHERUB agents have one crucial advantage: adults never suspect that children are spying on them. For official purposes, these children do not exist. Product details For ages 12-17 Format Paperback | 352 pages ...

Wie kann man Kindern und Jugendlichen heutzutage die Inhalte des alten Testaments vermitteln? Irene Johanson antwortet auf dieses Bedürfnis von Eltern und Lehrern mit einem praktischen Beispiel: knapp und verständlich, in zeitloser Sprache wird das Alte Testament hier - im Gegensatz zu vielen anderen Nacherzählungen - nicht nur in Auszügen, sondern in seiner ganzen Fülle nachgezeichnet. Die künstlerisch vollendeten Illustrationen von Ninetta Sombart runden das Werk kongenial ab. Product details For ages 9+ Format Paperback | 317 pages Dimension...

This volume brings together for the first time John von Neumann's long-out-of-print articles on computer architecture, programming, large-scale computing, and automata theory. A number of significant papers in these areas that were not included in the multivolume John von Neumann. "Collected Works" (1963) have now been reprinted here. These pioneering articles - written between the mid-1940s and the mid-1950s - are of enduring value not only to computer historians but to computer scientists at the vanguard of current research. Most of today's computers are still constructed in accordance with the "von Neumann architecture," and his technique of flow charting remains basic in the domain."Papers of John von Neumann on Computers and Computer Theory" is volume 12 in the Charles Babbage Institute Reprint Series for the History of Computing. Product details ...