In 1896 the Prussian Ministry of Education requested a report to be written about the state of higher education in the United States in order to evaluate developments in academia in the USA. The Berlin minister's aide Friedrich Althoff commissioned the report from economist Prof. Dr. Johannes Conrad (Halle) who had published an empirically oriented history of universities in Germany a decade earlier. Conrad was particularly qualified to write such a report also because he had been the teac...

Lehren aus der Pandemie Auch 2021 drehte sich wieder vieles in der Welt um das Thema Corona, in anderen Facetten, aber durchaus länger, als man gehofft hatte. Die Krise hat weiterhin Themen nationaler wie internationaler Politik und Wirtschaft beeinflusst, und entsprechend widmeten sich die Veranstaltungen und Gespräche den Themen «Pandemie und Politik». Das Jahrbuch präsentiert eine Rückschau auf unsere renommierten Rednerinnen und Redner sowie unseren Austausch mit ihnen. Mit Beiträgen v...

SWING, BABY, SWINGLuscious Lane Peterson was a swinger, but now the high-bouncing brunette was swinging as she never had before—with a rope tied tight around her deep throat. One look at the shapely corpse, and Hardy was ready to plunge into action.His list of suspects looked like a sexual who's-who of the kinky set, from a hard-as-nails lady named Natasha to a mattress-soft playmate named Faith, and from a hang-loose superstud named Miklos to an up-tight tycoon named Butle...

A fast paced mystery set in New Amsterdam, the summer of 1664. Sheriff Pieter Tonneman, still mourning his wife's death, is coping with unruly Dutch settlers, soldiers, sailors, Indians, African slaves and free Africans, an insular Jewish community of merchants and traders, and now a murder followed by a mysterious fire. Even worse, British warships, cannons ready, sail into the harbor and demand surrender. Across the East River in Breukelen, a British army is poised to attack. Tonneman mu...

WHO KILLED THE GIRL THAT EVERYBODY LOVED TO LOVE?"Kiss me, Kate," was an invitation that luscious Kate Arnheim almost never turned down, as a great many people discovered to their infinite pleasure. Patrick Hardy was one of them, and when a knife- wielding killer gave her the final kiss-off, blood wasn't the only red that Hardy saw.To strip the world of a talent like Kate's was a sin that Hardy couldn't forgive. But hunting suspects in Kate's little blue book was like going...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Reversible Computation, RC 2023, held in Giessen, Germany, during July 18–19, 2023.The 11 full papers and 3 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows:Foundations; Reversible Programming; Quantum Computing; and Quantum Circuits.

HARDY was a very private eye who preferred sex to slaughter, and classy cuisine to common crime. Pleasure before business was his motto, and the only way he got entangled in the case of a murdered beauty named Dorothy Robbins was when her lovely, loving sister Peg made Hardy a proposition he couldn't turn down.At first the caper seemed right up Hardy's alley, as he moved through a New York underground of call girls and strippers, probing for the truth and enjoying every minute of it. But w...

A/C, D/C AND DEATH!...The Duchess liked sex any way, any time, with anyone who took her fancy—and her fancy was fantastic. There was her strong and silent chauffeur, her black boyfriend, her horny hit man, not to mention a trio of the most luscious nude models this side of a centerfold.The moment the Duchess got her hot hands on Hardy, he knew that to her he was just another sex object. But Hardy was one object who never objected to being used—until bouncing bodies started ...

A BLOODY TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANEWhen Patrick Hardy got together with a bunch of former college buddies, it definitely was not like old times. They were all big boys now, with larger-than- life lusts and death-size problems. One was hooked on hash and hippie teeny-boppers, another was into high-pressure wheeling-dealing and high-priced hookers, and the third was on the make for any deal or dame he could get his overheated hands on.They all had just one thing in common. Somebod...

The LASER Summer School is intended for professionals from industry (engineers and managers) as well as university researchers, including PhD students. Participants learn about the most important software technology advances from pioneers in the field.Since its inception in 2004, the LASER Summer School has focused on an important software engineering topic each year. This volume contains selected lecture notes from the 10th LASER Summer School on Software Engineering: Leading-Edge...

Martin H. Meyer - senior pastor, author, translator, academic teacher. He graduated from Clark University (MSc in Professional Communication) and University of Wroclaw (MA in Journalism and Social Communication), and did courses on diplomacy, political science and pedagogics. Father of three wonderful kids. Husband of one and dear wife. Lives with his family in Lubin, south-eastern part of Poland.

Combining the heart of her Newbery Honor-winning fiction and the spirit of her legendary Baby-Sitters Club series, Ann M. Martin introduces a timeless new series for girls.Flora and Ruby do not want to move to Camden Falls. But they don't really have a choice -- their parents are dead and their grandmother, Min, is taking them in. It's strange to be in a new place. But luckily, it's a very welcoming place.Min runs a sewing store, Needle & Thread, at the heart of Main Street in Camd...