In 1896 the Prussian Ministry of Education requested a report to be written about the state of higher education in the United States in order to evaluate developments in academia in the USA. The Berlin minister's aide Friedrich Althoff commissioned the report from economist Prof. Dr. Johannes Conrad (Halle) who had published an empirically oriented history of universities in Germany a decade earlier. Conrad was particularly qualified to write such a report also because he had been the teac...

In 1896 the Prussian Ministry of Education requested a report to be written about the state of higher education in the United States in order to evaluate developments in academia in the USA. The Berlin minister's aide Friedrich Althoff commissioned the report from economist Prof. Dr. Johannes Conrad (Halle) who had published an empirically oriented history of universities in Germany a decade earlier. Conrad was particularly qualified to write such a report also because he had been the teac...

A BLOODY TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANEWhen Patrick Hardy got together with a bunch of former college buddies, it definitely was not like old times. They were all big boys now, with larger-than- life lusts and death-size problems. One was hooked on hash and hippie teeny-boppers, another was into high-pressure wheeling-dealing and high-priced hookers, and the third was on the make for any deal or dame he could get his overheated hands on.They all had just one thing in common. Somebod...

HARDY was a very private eye who preferred sex to slaughter, and classy cuisine to common crime. Pleasure before business was his motto, and the only way he got entangled in the case of a murdered beauty named Dorothy Robbins was when her lovely, loving sister Peg made Hardy a proposition he couldn't turn down.At first the caper seemed right up Hardy's alley, as he moved through a New York underground of call girls and strippers, probing for the truth and enjoying every minute of it. But w...

WHO KILLED THE GIRL THAT EVERYBODY LOVED TO LOVE?"Kiss me, Kate," was an invitation that luscious Kate Arnheim almost never turned down, as a great many people discovered to their infinite pleasure. Patrick Hardy was one of them, and when a knife- wielding killer gave her the final kiss-off, blood wasn't the only red that Hardy saw.To strip the world of a talent like Kate's was a sin that Hardy couldn't forgive. But hunting suspects in Kate's little blue book was like going...

A/C, D/C AND DEATH!...The Duchess liked sex any way, any time, with anyone who took her fancy—and her fancy was fantastic. There was her strong and silent chauffeur, her black boyfriend, her horny hit man, not to mention a trio of the most luscious nude models this side of a centerfold.The moment the Duchess got her hot hands on Hardy, he knew that to her he was just another sex object. But Hardy was one object who never objected to being used—until bouncing bodies started ...

Innovation is changing and this exciting book explores how the shift to more collaborative ways of working with users, online communities and the crowd opens up novel business possibilities. The Innovation Opportunity Space approach enables managers, policymakers and academics to better understand emerging new business opportunities. Drawing on the findings of the latest international research, this book provides a systematic and clear understanding of the radical business models that new ...

SWING, BABY, SWINGLuscious Lane Peterson was a swinger, but now the high-bouncing brunette was swinging as she never had before—with a rope tied tight around her deep throat. One look at the shapely corpse, and Hardy was ready to plunge into action.His list of suspects looked like a sexual who's-who of the kinky set, from a hard-as-nails lady named Natasha to a mattress-soft playmate named Faith, and from a hang-loose superstud named Miklos to an up-tight tycoon named Butle...

In a speech he made in 1838, President Abraham Lincoln warned that, if America is ever destroyed, the forces responsible for her destruction would come not from beyond our borders, but instead would come from within. Is America Being Destroyed From Within? considers the critical question of whether the actions of President Barack Obama over the last six years, along with the "liberal" and "progressive" political leaders who support him, represent precisely the type of destruction of Americ...

A fast paced mystery set in New Amsterdam, the summer of 1664. Sheriff Pieter Tonneman, still mourning his wife's death, is coping with unruly Dutch settlers, soldiers, sailors, Indians, African slaves and free Africans, an insular Jewish community of merchants and traders, and now a murder followed by a mysterious fire. Even worse, British warships, cannons ready, sail into the harbor and demand surrender. Across the East River in Breukelen, a British army is poised to attack. Tonneman m...

It's 1675, 11 years have passed since New Amsterdam became New-York and Pieter Tonneman as sheriff brought a murderer to justice and fell in love with the Jewish widow Racqel Mendoza. The marriage has made Racqel an outcast in the small Jewish community. If only Tonneman would convert, she might be once more accepted. Tonneman is no longer sheriff, but a business man. When the governor's prized stallion is slaughtered, and more slaughter occurs, the town becomes fearful of devil worship an...

Lehren aus der Pandemie Auch 2021 drehte sich wieder vieles in der Welt um das Thema Corona, in anderen Facetten, aber durchaus länger, als man gehofft hatte. Die Krise hat weiterhin Themen nationaler wie internationaler Politik und Wirtschaft beeinflusst, und entsprechend widmeten sich die Veranstaltungen und Gespräche den Themen «Pandemie und Politik». Das Jahrbuch präsentiert eine Rückschau auf unsere renommierten Rednerinnen und Redner sowie unseren Austausch mit ihnen. Mit Beiträgen v...