Now available in paperback, William C. Banfield’s acclaimed collection of interviews delves into the lives and work of forty-one Black composers. Each of the profiled artists offers a candid self-portrait that explores areas from training and compositional techniques to working in a exclusive canon that has existed for a very long time. At the same time, Banfield draws on sociology, Western concepts of art and taste, and vernacular musical forms like blues and jazz to provide a frame for t...

Killing Abel is a work of fiction based on the first passages of the book of Genesis in the Old Testament of the Christian BibleFrom "In the beginning . . ." to the Great Flood, the Bible only says about two words per year of history, for that period on earth. Not very much. From Noah to Jesus, the Bible provides us with one hundred times that amount of history to guide man.Killing Abel takes the two words per year that God gave us, not changing a single one or changing a s...

Not all the folks who roamed the Old West were cowhands, rustlers, or cardsharps. And they certainly weren’t all heroes.Give-a-Damn Jones, a free-spirited itinerant typographer, hates his nickname almost as much as the rumors spread about him. He’s a kind soul who keeps finding himself in the wrong place at the wrong time.That’s what happened in Box Elder, a small Montana town. Tensions are running high, and anything—or anyone—could be the fuse to ignite them: a recently re...

In September 2016, the provocative essay “The Flight 93 Election” galvanized many voters by spotlighting the stakes ahead in November and reproaching complacent elements of the Right. It also drew disparagement from many who judged it too apocalyptic in its assessment of the options facing the electorate.Its author, Michael Anton―writing as “Publius Decius Mus”―addressed the main criticisms of his argument soon afterward in a “Restatement on Flight 93.” A new criticism emerged late...

Band 5 der True Crime-Bestseller-Reihe: Der abschließende Höhepunkt von Michael Tsokos' True-Crime-Reihe um Rechtsmediziner Dr. Fred Abel, in dem ein religiöser Attentäter seine Opfer in Aufzügen attackiertBerlin wird von einer Reihe islamistischer Anschläge erschüttert. Ein Attentäter attackiert Menschen in Aufzügen – wiederholt, mit eskalierender Gewalt. Dabei agiert der Unbekannte so geschickt, dass keine Überwachungskamera ihn zeigt, keine Zeugen ihn beschreibe...

Israel and the Nations: Paul's Gospel in the Context of Jewish Expectation provides various perspectives of leading contemporary scholars concerning Paul’s message, particularly his expressed expectation of the end-time redemption of Israel and its relation to the Gentiles, the non-Jewish nations, in the context of Jewish eschatological expectation. The contributors engage the increasingly contentious enigmas relating to Paul’s Jewishness: had his perception of living in a new era in Chris...

In der Kinder- und Neuroorthopädie ist es wichtig, rechtzeitig zwischen einer normalen und behandlungsbedürftigen Entwicklung unterscheiden zu können. Das Zusammenspiel von Wachstum und Entwicklung, Sensomotorik und Biomechanik beeinflusst die Form und Funktion des Bewegungsapparates. Immer häufiger können genetische und metabolische Erkrankungen diagnostiziert werden, die sich auf den Bewegungsapparat auswirken. Dadurch ergeben sich neue spezifische Behandlungsmöglichkeiten. Im Gegensatz ...

The Black Berets have met the enemy—and he lives next door!Letting a struggling Chicano gas company run its pipeline across their Louisiana land struck the Black Berets as a good idea—especially once Cowboy got an eyeball on Isabella Cifuentes, its stunning, sultry president. But the contract, it seemed, contained some very fine and lethal print.A Texas oil magnate allied with a fanatical right-wing cult had made an unholy alliance to keep the territory fre...

Five nuclear bombs are in the hands of an unidentified madman somewhere in the Sahara. Or so the Black Berets have been led to believe.When a bloody raid in Libya turns up nothing but a camp of terrorists who know nothing about any bombs, the elite American fighters find themselves ordered to Portugal to follow up a new lead. Once there, they learn every undercover agent from every country working in Portugal has been taken out of play, leaving the door wide open for staging an apo...

Das Werk führt die Krankenhäuser konkret und praxisnah von der krankenhausindividuellen Risikoanalyse zum passgenauen Alarm- und Einsatzplan. Es behandelt die wichtigsten Themen aus dem Bereich Krankenhausalarm- und Einsatzplanung (KAEP). Begonnen bei den Grundsätzen für die Erstellung eines KAEP als primärer Überblick über die detaillierte Abhandlung der Alarmierung und der im Krankenhaus aufgestellten Führungsstrukturen werden die potenziell entstehenden Sonderlagen in einzelne Bereiche ...

In a world where relationships usually struggle due to miscommunication and unmet needs.Understanding the love language of a woman offers profound and insightful guide to foster lasting connections and Fulfilling relationships.This captivating book delves into the layers of a woman's heart and unraveling the mysterious uniqueness of her love language.This book will take the reader on an enlightening journey which unveils the various ways in which women express and r...

«Il "meglio" è davanti a noi e non nel passato; per questo, come dice la tradizione rabbinica, la sfida non lascia scampo: interpretare o morire». Così fratel MichaelDavide in questo suo libro, che è il seguito ideale di Preti senza battesimo? Se in quel testo l'autore aveva dato inizio a una profonda riflessione sul senso del ministero presbiterale, a partire dalla crisi che lo stesso sta vivendo negli ultimi decenni, sia al suo interno che agli occhi del mondo, nelle presenti pagine appr...