An entertaining, enlightening, and "engrossing" journey through Europe's most charismatic and enigmatic city ( The Christian Science Monitor).It isn't Europe's most beautiful city, or its oldest. Its architecture is not more impressive than that of Rome or Paris; its museums do not hold more treasures than those in Barcelona or London. And yet, Peter Schneider tells us, when citizens of New York, Tel Aviv, or Rome ask him where he's from and he mentions the...

The first book in the explosive Hunting Grounds Trilogy. Toby Fox’s journalism internship at the Daily Mail starts unexpectedly when he agrees to investigate an international human trafficking syndicate. With street-smart delinquent, Isobelle Samuels, by his side, Toby searches for the evidence needed to reveal the Hunting Grounds to the world. But there are powerful people with a different plan. It’s the story that was never meant to be told. Can Toby Fox find a way?

Learn how to grow roses with confidence with this guide from the editor of the annual Combined Rose List ."Schneider's book speaks with authority the advice a rose lover needs for extending uses of one of the world's favorite flowers. . . . This work deserves a place on the shelves of public libraries and of rose lovers." — The Philadelphia InquirerRoses have almost unlim...

In the Field of Unintended Consequences is a book of poems featuring ecological and philosophical themes. It is largely unrhymed verse but breaks into rhymed verse at times in a style that is influenced by rap and other popular music.

Understanding Galois representations is one of the central goals of number theory. Around 1990, Fontaine devised a strategy to compare such p-adic Galois representations to seemingly much simpler objects of (semi)linear algebra, the so-called etale (phi, gamma)-modules. This book is the first to provide a detailed and self-contained introduction to this theory. The close connection between the absolute Galois groups of local number fields and local function fields in positive characteristi...

This second edition has been updated and substantially expanded. Starting with the description of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, this cogently written textbook introduces the reader to the astronomy of galaxies, their structure, active galactic nuclei, evolution and large scale distribution in the Universe. After an extensive and thorough introduction to modern observational and theoretical cosmology, the focus turns to the formation of structures and astronomical objects in the early Uni...

Since the first edition of this text was published, endovascular technique has become a mainstay of vascular care, treating disease that would have previously required open surgery. This book provides a step-by-step approach to endovascular intervention and aims to assist clinicians in the development and refinement of skills that are now essential

The best new writing, photography, art, and reportage from and about Berlin—in the series that's "like a literary vacation" ( Publishers Weekly).In 1990s Berlin, the scars of a century of war were still visible everywhere: coal stoves, crumbling buildings, desolate minimarts, not a working buzzer or elevator. To visit the city then was a hallucinatory experience, a simultaneous journey into the past and into the future.The abandoned ruins, the hidden...

The reactions to the German edition of this book have been most contradic tory. While some readers found the book absolutely unnecessary ("Surgery is learned from practice, not from theory"), others were enthusiastic (" Just the sort of book I have always needed "). In my opinion the divergent recep tion of the book is best explained by the comment of my friend, BALDER GLOOR *, who called the book a "grammar of eye surgery". Indeed there are people who can learn a language by practice alon...

An important aim behind the restructuring of Germany’s and Europe’s electricity systems is to reduce the environmental burden, especially with respect to greenhouse gas emissions, of the current systems. Emissions must be brought down to a level that is sustainable in the long run and consistent with greenhouse gas emission reduction goals. Meeting these goals will require a system (as best as current knowledge suggests) that will be able to cope simultaneously with the fundamental demands...

For more than a quarter of a century, Pat Schneider has helped writers find and liberate their true voices. She has taught all kinds--the award winning, the struggling, and those who have been silenced by poverty and hardship. Her innovative methods have worked in classrooms from elementary to graduate level, in jail cells and public housing projects, in convents and seminaries, in youth at-risk programs, and with groups of the terminally ill. Now, in Writing Alone and with Others, Schneid...

Reversible Destiny traces the history of the Sicilian mafia to its nineteenth-century roots and examines its late twentieth-century involvement in urban real estate and construction as well as drugs. Based on research in the regional capital of Palermo, this book suggests lessons regarding secretive organized crime: its capacity to reproduce a subculture of violence through time, its acquisition of a dense connective web of political and financial protectors during the Cold War er...