Journalist Michael Meyer has spent his adult life in China, first in a small village as a Peace Corps volunteer, the last decade in Beijing--where he has witnessed the extraordinary transformation the country has experienced in that time. For the past two years he has been completely immersed in the ancient city, living on one of its famed hutong in a century-old courtyard home he shares with several families, teaching English at a local elementary school--while all around him "pr...

From the highly praised author of The Last Days of Old Beijing, a brilliant portrait of China today and a memoir of coming of age in a country in transition.In 1995, at the age of twenty-three, Michael Meyer joined the Peace Corps and, after rejecting offers to go to seven other countries, was sent to a tiny town in Sichuan. Knowing nothing about China, or even how to use chopsticks, Meyer wrote Chinese words up and down his arms so he could hold conversat...

The incredible story of Benjamin Franklin’s parting gift to the working-class people of Boston and Philadelphia—a deathbed wager that captures the Founder’s American Dream and his lessons for our current, conflicted age.Benjamin Franklin was not a gambling man. But at the end of his illustrious life, the Founder allowed himself a final wager on the survival of the United States: a gift of two thousand pounds to Boston and Philadelphia, to be lent out to tradesmen o...

‘Makes the case for Annie Besant as a truly eminent Victorian, as brilliant and fearless as she was beautiful’ The Times_________London, 1877. A petite young woman stands before an all-male jury, about to risk everything. She takes a breath, and opens her defence.Annie Besant and her confidant Charles Bradlaugh are on trial for the crime of publishing a birth control pamphlet. Remarkably, Annie is defending herself against o...

In the tradition of In Patagonia and Great Plains, Michael Meyer's In Manchuria is a scintillating combination of memoir, contemporary reporting, and historical research, presenting a unique profile of China's legendary northeast territory. For three years, Meyer rented a home in the rice-farming community of Wasteland, hometown to his wife's family. Their personal saga mirrors the tremendous change most of rural China is undergoing, in the form of a privately he...

Kein anderes Finanzprodukt verkörpert die deutsche Seele so perfekt wie der Bausparvertrag. Er verspricht Planbarkeit über Jahrzehnte, ignoriert Inflation und ignoriert Rendite zugunsten des ultimativen Ziels: den eigenen vier Wänden. Dieses Buch erzählt die Geschichte von Georg Kropp und der Gründung der ersten Bausparkasse in den 1920er Jahren. Aus den Trümmern der Hyperinflation und akuter Wohnungsnot entstand ein kollektives Finanzierungssystem, das auf purem Vertrauen und rigoroser Sp...

Leadership doesn't come with a map-but it might come with a quest.Weird is the New Normal is not your average leadership book. Blending vivid storytelling with deep insight, this one-of-a-kind narrative follows Arcanus, a wizard navigating a turbulent, enchanted world that just happens to mirror the chaos of modern leadership. Along the way, he encounters strange allies, surprising challenges, and moments of clarity that illuminate what it really means to lead with purpose...

Häufig ist zu hören, dass Mathematik schwierig, nicht anwendbar und formal sei, die Schulmathematik der Grund- und unteren Sekundarstufe jedoch einfach, anwendbar und verständlich. In beiden Ansichten verbirgt sich jedoch nur die halbe Wahrheit.Fangen wir doch einfach einmal bei der Arithmetik in der Grundschule an: Warum hat eine Rechenoperation wie die Division eigentlich nur ein einziges Ergebnis? Woher kommen die natürlichen Zahlen? Die elementare Mathematik beruht bei Weitem n...

Dieses E-Book wendet sich vorwiegend an Leser mit einem biomedizinischen Interesse und unterstützt sie bei der Planung und Auswertung von klinischen Studien und Experimenten im Labor. Es stellt die grundlegenden Methoden der deskriptiven und induktiven Statistik umfassend dar. Regressionsmodelle werden praxisnah anhand von typischen biomedizinischen Beispielen erläutert.Üblicherweise analysiert man seine Daten heutzutage mit geeigneter Statistiksoftware. Hier werden Auswertungen mit...

Leadership doesn't come with a map-but it might come with a quest.Weird is the New Normal is not your average leadership book. Blending vivid storytelling with deep insight, this one-of-a-kind narrative follows Arcanus, a wizard navigating a turbulent, enchanted world that just happens to mirror the chaos of modern leadership. Along the way, he encounters strange allies, surprising challenges, and moments of clarity that illuminate what it really means to lead with purpose....

Diese der Neuen Politikgeschichte verpflichtete Studie untersucht die Repräsentationspolitik der Weimarer Republik anhand der drei Staatsbesuche, die zwischen 1920 und 1933 stattfanden. Durch die umfangreiche Auswertung der einschlägigen deutschen und englischen Archivbestände, sowie die Einbeziehung der nationalen wie internationalen Pressereaktionen wird ihre große politische und gesellschaftliche Bedeutung deutlich. Der Mythos von der «symbolarmen Republik» erweist sich in der Analyse a...

Brought to you by Penguin.London, 1877. A petite young woman stands before an all-male jury, about to risk everything. She takes a breath, and opens her defence.Annie Besant and her confidant Charles Bradlaugh are on trial for the crime of publishing a birth control pamphlet. Remarkably, Annie is defending herself against obscenity charges 45 years before women can practice law in England. At a time when women were expected to be obedient, ...