The overbuilt horse, a severe ewe neck, pelvic obliquity, injuries to the suspensory ligament, kissing spines and many other issues may be present when a horse is suffering from a weak back. These symptoms are avoidable in most cases if they are dealt with early enough. In this book, Birgit Volesky sums up her experience from over 10 years of practice in osteotherpy and with horses. These have led her to the understanding that 90% of horses have similar functional problems. If these proble...

All he needs is the sword of a true warrior – or so he thinks.England AD 1070. In the fenlands of East Anglia, the Saxon resistance against the Norman king smoulders.Loïc, a young squire, knows that every man has to stand their ground against the rebels, but he only attracts the scorn and spite of the other squires during fighting practice. He must prove himself in combat if he wants to teach the others a lesson and survive a hostile onslau...

The contemporaries of Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743-1819) openly acknowledged his towering importance. Both Fichte and Hegel praised him in the same breath with Kant as having launched the philosophical revolution they sought to complete. Yet for more than a century, misrepresentations of Jacobi's thought have stood in the way of a proper appreciation of his insights. In her study of this long-neglected German philosopher, internationally-renowned Jacobi expert Birgit Sandkaulen interpre...

The Dead Guest – An Amsterdam Mystery (A2 English Reader)A mysterious death in the heart of Amsterdam. A quiet hotel. And a detective who knows that something is not right.When a guest is found dead in a small hotel near the canals of Amsterdam, the case seems simple at first. But detective Jan van der Weert quickly realizes that the story is more complicated. The victim had secrets, and several people in the hotel seem to know more than they say.As...

A desperate heir. A dark secret. A deadly game.England, 1086. Sixteen-year-old Roger is thrust into the role of heir after his brother’s death, yet his father refuses to see him as a worthy successor.Determined to prove himself, Roger seeks solace in Gwennaol, a taciturn girl that might know a dark secret about his father.But seeing her is against his father’s order, and the closer he draws to the truth, the deeper he is entangled in a deadly strugg...

"Doing Fach.Didaktik" beleuchtet das Zusammenspiel von Fachwissenschaft und Fachdidaktik, wie es in der Ringvorlesung an der Universität Innsbruck initiiert wurde. Der Sammelband bietet spannende Einblicke in aktuelle Forschung und Praxis, von inter- und transkulturellem Lernen über innovative Medien wie Instapoetry bis hin zur Aufgabenorientierung im Sprachunterricht. Die Autor:innen vereinen wissenschaftliche Tiefe mit praxisnahen Ansätzen und stellen so wertvolle Impulse für Lehrkräfte,...

Against the background of the interest in ancient Mediterranean connectivity and globalization, the present volume examines local places and local communities. Exploring the interplay between the local and the global, the focus shifts from long-distance connections and 'global' trends to the local dimensions of Mediterranean interactions, highlighting how local contexts engaged with their long-distance counterparts. Given the transformative nature of this period and region, our focus is fi...

Recent developments in aDNA has reshaped our understanding of later European prehistory, and at the same time also opened up for more fruitful collaborations between archaeologists and historical linguists. Two revolutionary genetic studies, published independently in Nature, 2015, showed that prehistoric Europe underwent two successive waves of migration, one from Anatolia consistent with the introduction of agriculture, and a later influx from the Pontic-Caspian steppes which without any...

'I can't remember what it was like being born, but from what they used to tell me it seemed almost as if everything had been fine up to that point.'Standing in her family's two-bedroom flat in the Promised Land, a little girl realizes that once again she won't be getting a cat for her birthday. She's been wanting one ever since she was five – all the way back to when they were living in the refugee camp. In the East, her Grandma made cakes and kept rabbits; now ther...

The modern German classic that has shaped an entire generation.A mother and her two teenage children sit at the dinner table. In the middle stands a large pot of cooked mussels. Why has the father not returned home? As the evening wears on, we glimpse the issues that are tearing this family apart.'I wrote this book in August 1989, just before the Fall of the Berlin Wall. I wanted to understand how revolutions start. It seemed logical to use the figure of a tyrannical father...

Digital media perpetuates every aspect of our lives, including our temporal perceptions. Time and attention have become one of the most precious resources, for users as well as corporate business. This book sheds light on these critical connections and how they influence not only our daily lives, but also how they exist in emerging power structures. It brings advances in the anthropological thinking about time into conversation with theorisations of media to develop an understanding of how...

In everyday life, most people do not reflect seriously on the impacts of architecture and environmental aesthetics on their well-being and health. Originally published in 2001 as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series,reissued now with a new series introduction, Aesthetics, Well-being and Health: Essays within Architecture and Environmental Aesthetics, is an intriguing volume bringing together professionals working in archi...