Stell dir vor, du machst eine Reise und findest dabei die Liebe deines Lebens. Ihr seid füreinander bestimmt und habt gemeinsame Zukunftspläne. Doch dann kommt alles anders. Du wachst eines Tages auf und kannst dich an nichts von alledem erinnern. Nicht an die Reise und auch nicht an die Person, der du dein Herz geschenkt hast. Dein Leben ist wieder so, wie es immer war. Nur in deinen Träumen erwachen Erinnerungen und Sehnsüchte, denn Träume vergessen nie. Aber reichen Träume aus, um alles...

The “astonishing” (People) and definitive biography that unlocks the “riveting” (Vogue) story of Vivian Maier, the nanny who lived secretly as a world-class photographer, featuring nearly 400 of her images, many never seen before, placed for the first time in the context of her life.Vivian Maier, the photographer nanny whose work was famously discovered in a Chicago storage locker, captured the imagination of the world with her ma...

Nella periferia di Los Angeles, il 17 luglio 1955, apriva per la prima volta i suoi cancelli Disneyland. Quasi trentamila persone si riversarono nei viali mai calpestati prima, un fiume in piena di bambini pronti a lasciarsi meravigliare. Lì, tra famiglie, figuranti e pupazzi, c'era Vivian Maier, una tata di origine francese da poco trasferitasi sulla West Coast in cerca di un nuovo incarico. La donna girovagava da sola tra la folla con una macchina fotografica in mano: dopo anni di scatti...

Sans l'improbable découverte d'un lot de photographies anonymes lors d'une vente aux enchères en 2007, le travail de Vivian Maier n'aurait jamais été connu. Cette photographe hors norme (New York, 1926 ¿ Chicago, 2009) a produit, tout au long de sa vie, une œuvre considérable (plus de 140 000 images), jamais montrée de son vivant. Fine observatrice de son époque, elle a su saisir avec acuité l'universalité de la condition humaine. Reconnue comme l'une des artistes majeures du XXe siècle, l...

Parole officers (POs) support rehabilitation and desistance but face mental health challenges and occupational stressors. Parole Work in Canada provides novel insight into the occupational routines, mental health impacts, and identities of this oft-overlooked group of correctional workers. The authors conducted 150 interviews with POs employed in Canada’s federal correctional system and traverse prison and community spaces in their analyses. They also examined how workplace cultur...

The Art of Systems Architecting, Fourth Edition, provides structured heuristics to improve the least structured, most art‑like elements of systems design. It offers unique techniques to bridge the difference between scientific engineering and qualitative design along with comprehensive methods for combining architectural design with digital engineering. This book illustrates how to go from model‑based systems architecture to model‑based systems engineering and includes case studie...

St. Paul/Biglerville Prize WinnerNamed Best Major Publication by Concordia Historical InstituteDuring the anxiety-laden period from the Great Depression through World War II to the Cold War, Americans found a welcome escape in the new medium of radio. Throughout radio's "Golden Age," religious broadcasting in particular contributed significantly to American culture. Yet its historic role often has been overlooked.In...

Durante uno scavo, un teschio viene gettato da una benna dentro il cassone di un camion. Saranno i resti di Guido Astolfi?La famiglia dell'imprenditore e l'intera comunità di Litore ne sono certi.Astolfi era sparito nel nulla una sera di settembre di trentasei anni prima, ma le indagini erano state archiviate per l'impossibilità di trovare l'uomo o il suo corpo e non c’erano prove sufficienti per inchiodare un colpevole.La scoperta dell'intero scheletro poco al di sott...

Deve accadere ora.Non può tornare indietro, ma soprattutto, non vuole**.**Un casolare incendiato nelle colline attorno a Litore; un tavolo da gioco con tre vittime semicarbonizzate, questa è la scena che si trovano di fronte l'ispettore Alex Maier e la sua squadra investigativa che dovranno indagare mentre una terribile tempesta che proviene dal mare sta per abbattersi sulla città e minaccia di distruggere la scena ...

Now updated for web-based research, the third edition of The Data Game introduces students to the collection, use, and interpretation of statistical data in the social sciences. Separate chapters are devoted to data in the fields of demography, housing, health, education, crime, the national economy, wealth, income and poverty, labor, business, government, and public opinion polling. The concluding chapter is devoted to the common problem of ambiguity in social science statistics.

This book introduces students to the collection, uses, and interpretation of statistical data in the social sciences. It would suit all social science introductory statistics and research methods courses. Separate chapters are devoted to data in the fields of demography, housing, health, education, crime, the economy, wealth, income, poverty, labor, business statistics, and public opinion polling, with a concluding chapter devoted to the common problem of ambiguity. Each chapter includes m...

Verlassen stehen sie da.Niemand hat sie seit Jahren beachtet.Kein Mensch kümmert sich mehr darum.Die Steine sind verwittert, die Inschriften oft kaum mehr lesbar. Gras, Moos, wild aufgegangene Bäumchen oder Sträucher verdecken sie beinahe ... Doch nicht nur von der Welt fast vergessene Mahnmale und Gedenksätten bergen die verschiedensten Geheimnisse. Auch hinter Grabsteinen stecken oft mysteriöse bis gruselige Geschichten. Und manchmal ist sogar ein u...