'Extraordinary ... one of the most moving and uplifting stories of the war' Keith Lowe'A remarkable book' - The TelegraphA gripping account of hidden identity, military courage, and an against-all-odds reunion.Four days after Germany's surrender in May 1945, a young British officer headed east into Germany. But this was no ordinary soldier. Manfred Gans was searching for his family. As a Jewish boy in Nazi ...

'Extraordinary ... one of the most moving and uplifting stories of the war' Keith Lowe'A remarkable book' - The TelegraphA gripping account of hidden identity, military courage, and an against-all-odds reunion.Four days after Germany's surrender in May 1945, a young British officer headed east into Germany. But this was no ordinary soldier. Manfred Gans was searching for his family. As a Jewish boy in Nazi ...

Over the past thirty years, Holt High School in central Michigan has engaged in a quiet revolution that has transformed mathematics teaching and learning in the district. From its roots as a rural high school housed in a single building in the 1980s, the high school mathematics staff has grown an innovative, meaningful high school mathematics curriculum that sees nearly every student in the district completing the equivalent of Precalculus. Tracking was dropped in favor of an evolving suit...

Bei der im Alter besonders bedeutsamen Multidimensionalität psychischer Störungen wird die Patientenversorgung durch die Zusammenarbeit einer Reihe von Berufsgruppen gewährleistet: Ärzte, Psychologen, Pflegekräfte, Ergo-, Physio- oder Künstlerische Therapeuten, Sozialarbeiter u.v.m. Deren Kompetenzen müssen in gut abgestimmter Teamarbeit zusammengeführt werden. Dies setzt eine gemeinsame Sprache und die Kenntnis der Konzepte der jeweils anderen Professionen voraus. Unter dieser Zielsetzung...

Much of current management literature focuses on a limited set of 'classical' value levers, such as cost reduction, sales optimization or mergers & acquisitions, thus neglecting another core value lever: capital investments. That capital investments receive such limited attention is all the more surprising when one considers how vitally important they are to the economy as a whole as well as individual businesses.There is significant value-creation potential in optimizing capital i...

A single-volume reference for managing pediatric spine disorders and diseaseIdeal for neurosurgeons, pediatric neurosurgeons, and orthopedic surgeons, Surgery of the Pediatric Spine is a comprehensive multidisciplinary reference for the surgical management of the most frequently encountered spine problems in the pediatric patient. An overview of developmental and clinical aspects provides essential information on biomechanics, neuroimaging, preope...