An einem sonnigen Morgen im Juli wird am Ufer des Gardasees die Leiche einer jungen Frau angespült. Ein Carabiniere, als Erster am Fundort, geht von einem Unfall aus: Immer wieder unterschätzen Touristen die Gefahr plötzlich aufziehender Stürme, für die der See berühmtberüchtigt ist. Er will die Akte schließen, ehe sie überhaupt angelegt wurde. Commissario Achille Peroni aber ist überzeugt, dass die Frau nicht ertrunken ist. Und er kann die Tote identifizieren. Erst vor drei Tagen hat er e...

The Saratoga Battlefield is part of the National Park Service and a beloved destination for millions. The story of the battles is more than a military study of a critical turning point in the Revolutionary War. It is a significant component in defining the northeastern United States and the way Americans see each other and work with one another. It is also a story of the land and the people. Today, the National Park Service and other partners promulgate the story and the lessons learned. T...

Achille Peroni, erhält den Auftrag, sich um das Verschwinden einer jungen Frau zu kümmern, die in dem italienischen Badeort Jesolo als Sängerin gearbeitet hat. Es scheint sich lediglich um eine Routineangelegenheit zu handeln. Doch je intensiver Peroni sich mit dem Fall beschäftigt, desto mehr fasziniert ihn die geheimnisvolle schwarzhaarige Schönheit. Schon bald muss er feststellen, dass er mit seinen Untersuchungen in ein Wespennest gestoßen ist. Der Satanskult hat Einzug gehalten in die...

Achille Peroni, der Rudolfo Valentino der italienischen Polizei, stammt aus Neapel. Er ist hin- und hergerissen zwischen seiner Bewunderung für die rationale Ermittlungsarbeit à la Scotland Yard und seinen Wurzeln - fast wäre er selbst als Straßenjunge geendet. Ebenso hin- und hergerissen ist er zwischen seiner Angst und seiner monströsen Eitelkeit, die ihn zu halsbrecherischen Bravourstücken verführt. Inspektor Achille Peroni hat's nicht leicht, muss er sich doch gegen alle Vorurteile beh...

Training for and pursuing a career in science can be treacherous for women; many more begin than ultimately complete at every stage. Characterizing this as a pipeline problem, however, leads to a focus on individual women instead of structural conditions. The goal of the book is to offer an alternative model that better articulates the ideas of agency, constraint, and variability along the path to scientific careers for women. The chapters in this volume apply the metaphor of the road to a...

At the heart of Christian ethics is the biblical commandment to love God and to love one's neighbor as oneself. But what is the meaning of love? Scholars have wrestled with this question since the recording of the Christian gospels, and in recent decades teachers and students of Christian ethics have engaged in vigorous debates about appropriate interpretations and implications of this critical norm.In Love and Christian Ethics, nearly two dozen leading experts analyze and assess t...

A “second nuclear age” has begun in the post-Cold War world. Created by the expansion of nuclear arsenals and new proliferation in Asia, it has changed the familiar nuclear geometry of the Cold War. Increasing potency of nuclear arsenals in China, India, and Pakistan, the nuclear breakout in North Korea, and the potential for more states to cross the nuclear-weapons threshold from Iran to Japan suggest that the second nuclear age of many competing nuclear powers has the potential to be eve...

Ectodermal Dysplasias (ED) are a diverse group of genetic disorders characterized by congenital defects of two or more ectodermal structures (e.g., sweat gland, tooth, nail, hair), that count about 100 different manifestations. Therefore, the multidisciplinary aspect is a novel but crucial approach to correctly diagnose and treat this kind of diseases and eventually direct patients to specialized centers. A new classification has been proposed as well as new therapeutic options, such as th...

Much wisdom and inspiration may be gained from this material which has never before appeared in book form, Observations will enable the reader to observe his own life more carefully so as to make it more of what it should be.

The local church is meant to function as a healing and helping community that cares for God's people. But what if, instead of grace and care, someone experienced harm and hurt? When the church becomes a place of abuse and silence, the pain leaves people spiritually disoriented and alone. These individuals may wonder if they will ever feel safe around God's people again. Instead of running to God and his people, they run as far away as possible.St. John defines church hurt as any un...

An anthology of plays and original radio dramas from the prolific playwrightBorn and brought up in the East End of London, Bernard Kops came to fame in the late 1950s as part of British drama’s ‘New Wave’. A lyrical chronicler of Jewish family life, he is often compared to Arnold Wesker and Harold Pinter, though his work is more sentimental and surreal.In a 50-year career, he wrote 10 novels, numerous poetry collections, two autobiographies and over 40 stag...

The Indian Ocean region has rapidly emerged as a hinge point in the changing global balance of power and the geographic nexus of economic and security issues with vital global consequences. The security of energy supplies, persistent poverty and its contribution to political extremism, piracy, and related threats to seaborne trade, competing nuclear powers, and possibly the scene of future clashes between rising great powers India and China—all are dangers in the waters or in the littoral ...