As a child, Hank Baldwin was always a troublemaker. As an adult, he doesnt fare much better. He joins the familys Southern California poultry business and cares for his ailing mother, but his propensity to cause mischief never wavers. After his mothers death, though, Hank spirals into a dark depression and gets involved with the towns dark underbelly.Lost and lonely, Hank becomes friends with his neighbor, Vic Carver. The two hatch a daring plan to launch a drug smuggling ring. The...

Ganzheitliche Nachhaltigkeit erfordert einen umfassenden Wandel von Produkten, Unternehmen und globalen Wertschöpfungsketten. Kapitalmärkte werden eine entscheidende Rolle dabei spielen, diese Transformation zu finanzieren und voranzutreiben. Aber wie? Hochkarätige Entscheiderinnen und Entscheider aus Politik und Praxis beziehen in diesem Buch Stellung: Sie formulieren klare Erwartungen aus Sicht aller relevanten Interessengruppen, schildern aktuelle Best Practices aus dem Kapitalmarktumfe...

The idea in Post Green: Literature, Culture, and the Environment is not to create another binary like East/West, but rather a call for a shift in the order of perception. The contributors signal a movement from the conventional understanding of green thinking—acknowledging human-centered limitations of the green approaches and recognising the immense possibilities and holistic perspectives that a symbiotic human-nature perspective offers. This book proposes to move beyond the monoculture o...

Volume 33 of Theatre History Studies explores war. War is a paradox—horrifying and compelling, galvanizing and devastating, a phenomenon that separates and decimates while at the same time creating and strengthening national identity and community bonds. War is the stuff of great drama.War and theatre is a subject of increasing popularity among scholars of theatre. The essays in this special edition of Theatre History Studies brings together a unique collection of...

The detection of gravitational waves in 2015 has been hailed a scientific breakthrough and one of the most significant scientific discoveries of the 21st century. Gravitational-wave physics and astronomy are emerging as a new frontier in understanding the universe.Advanced Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Detectors brings together many of the world's top experts to deliver an authoritative and in-depth treatment on current and future detectors. Volume I is devoted to the essentials of gr...

Crisis and Commonwealth: Marcuse, Marx, McLaren advances Marcuse scholarship by presenting four hitherto untranslated and unpublished manuscripts by Herbert Marcuse from the Frankfurt University Archive on themes of economic value theory, socialism, and humanism. Contributors to this edited collection, notably Peter Marcuse, Henry Giroux, Peter McLaren, Zvi Tauber, Arnold L. Farr and editor, Charles Reitz, are deeply engaged with the foundational theories of Marcuse and Marx with regard to...

Critical pedagogy, political economics, and aesthetic theory combine with dialectical and materialist understandings of science, society, and revolutionary politics to develop the most radical goals of society and education. In Philosophy and Critical Pedagogy: Insurrection and Commonwealth, Marcuse’s hitherto misunderstood and neglected philosophy of labor is reconsidered, resulting in a labor theory of ethics. This develops commonwealth criteria of judgment regarding the real an...

A swoonworthy YA supernatural romcom where two academic rivals are trapped as ghosts to haunt the same house.They'd kill each other...if they weren't already dead.Tessa Sinclair is a winner. Winner of spelling bees, science fairs, and scholarships. So when she finds herself unexpectedly dead after a graduation party in an abandoned mansion, she's none too pleased. What's worse, her Harvard-bound, Mr. Perfect academic rival, Reed Walker, is there too―deceased, smug, and anno...

Teamgeist, Freundschaft und ein Hauch Magie - die Zauberkicker verwandeln gemeinsam jeden Schuss zum Tor. Unruhe auf Schloss Tannwald! Für den neuen Trainer zählen vor allem Disziplin und Leistung. Obendrein werden Ben und seine Freunde nun ständig von einem Social Media Team begleitet. Schon bald spielen sie gegen ein Influencer-Team, das sich nur selbst vermarkten will. Werden Ben, Mika und Robin es schaffen, Trainer Taylor und den gewohnten Internatsalltag zurückzugewinnen?

Teamgeist, Freundschaft und ein Hauch Magie - die Zauberkicker verwandeln gemeinsam jeden Schuss zum Tor. Sportlichkeit und Fairness scheinen nicht allen so wichtig zu sein wie Ben, Robin und ihrer neuen Freundin Mika, einer blitzschnellen Stürmerin. Zumindest hält das magische Maskottchen Pelé zu Ben und unterstützt ihn in seiner Probezeit im Fußballinternat. Doch gegen fiese Gegenspieler und miese Wirtschaftsbosse hilft selbst Maskottchenmagie nicht. Ist vielleicht sogar das Internat in ...