From the desert to JerusalemThe desert is a solitary place, where vital resources are scarce. The word desert conjures up images of struggle, hardship, and loneliness.Yet, it is in the desert that the season of Lent begins. There we find Jesus, fasting forty days, and undergoing temptation by the devil.God used the desert to prepare Jesus for his mission. What is otherwise a place of desolation and despair became the necessary starting point on the ...

Exploring the mechanisms underlying performance comparisons, Performance Comparison and Organizational Service Provision investigates how such assessments shape hospitals’ service provision and medical professionals’ work.With a focus on U.S. health care, this study outlines how medical quality was defined and compared in the hospital sector from the late 19th century to the present. Developing a novel theoretical framework to investigate performance comparisons, several d...

Nero ist auch in der Version 10 unbestritten die Nummer eins unter den Brennprogrammen. Allerdings bietet das Nero-Paket eine fast unüberschaubare Vielfalt an Optionen und Möglichkeiten, was es manchmal schwierig macht, das richtige Programm und die richtigen Einstellungen zu finden. Dieses Buch zeigt Ihnen, wie Sie problemlos und mit hoher Qualität CDs, DVDs und Blu-ray-Discs mit Musik, Filmen und Daten brennen und wie Sie Ihr System per Backup vor Schaden schützen.

Dans cette série fantastique, partez pour une expérience scientifique dans laquelle vous ferez une découverte surprenante, qui risque de bouleverser l'équilibre naturel de la planète et questionnera la survie même de l'humanité. Et si les mégalodons, de gigantesques requins préhistoriques, vivaient encore aux plus profond des océans ? C'est la découverte révolutionnaire que fait Kim Melville, océanologue réputée, lors d'une expédition commanditée par un milliardaire excentrique. Son but : ...

The COVID pandemic has shaken the material and social foundations of the world more than any event in recent history and has highlighted and exacerbated a longstanding crisis of care. While these challenges may be freshly visible to the public, they are not new. Over the last three decades, a growing body of care scholarship has documented the inadequacy of the social organization of care around the world, and the effect of the devaluation of care on workers, families, and communities. In ...

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Heris Serrano—formerly a commander in the Regular Space Service—must take whatever job she can get after her resignation under a cloud. What she can get is the captaincy of a rich old lady's space yacht...a rich old horsewoman, who has little liking for the military, and whose spoiled nephew Ronnie (and his equally spoiled friends) have been foisted on her after his folly embarrassed the family. Lady Cecelia's only apparent interest is horses—she intends to go fox hunting on the private pl...

In the bustling streets of St. Louis, two cousins have a dream: to travel west with a wagon train of supplies and make a fortune in trade. Preacher needs a job and is heading west anyway. But he doesn´t bargain on the beautiful woman who sneaks her way into the wagon train and the trouble she brings on board. Then, before he can wash his hands of the whole bunch, he´s suddenly in a fight for his life. Sensing easy prey, outlaws in a lawless land have swooped down on the band of pilgrims al...

Saint City has always been Dante Valentine's home. It's where she grew up, it's where her dead are buried and it's where she learned to hunt.Now, one call from an old friend will bring her back to investigate a murder too close to home for anyone's comfort. But theone person she trusted has just betrayed her.Sometimes revenge is best served demon-hot...

Falcon MacCallister's father, Jamie Ian, was a legend in the West, but Falcon's quest for justice has driven him onto what many consider the wild side of the law.Famed as a gunslinger, feared for his lethal speed and accuracy, Falcon decides to make it a fair fight when he comes upon a man being attacked by a bandit gang in the Dakota Territory. The man is Teddy Roosevelt, the original Rough Rider himself.Soon Falcon and Teddy are entangled in a web of robbery, kidnapping a...

Bounty hunting is a helluva job, but it pays the bills. And it lets necromance Dante Valentine forget her issues. Like struggling with her half-demon side and the memory of her lover's death.Now psychics all over the city are being savagely murdered and a piece of the past Dante thought she'd buried is stalking the night with a vengeance. Too bad she's got no way to tell which fiend — or friend — to trust. Or that her most horrifying nightmares are gathering to take one kick-ass bo...

Organisationen produzieren vielfältige Bewertungen von Personen. Der Band fragt nach Funktionen und Folgen organisierter Personenbewertung und danach, wie der Organisationskontext Personenbewertung prägt. Bewertungssoziologisch geht der Band der Vermutung nach, dass sich die Bewertung von Personen systematisch von der Bewertung anderer Objekte unterscheidet: Personen sind sakrale Objekte der Moderne, deren Bewertung sich als überaus heikel erweist, aber gerade in Organisationskontexten den...