Kirche ist die Hoffnung der Welt. Doch wie sieht ihre Zukunft aus? In diesem Buch stellen Kirchen und Gemeinden aus der Schweiz, Deutschland und Österreich ihre Vision vor, die sich in der Wirklichkeit stets neu bewähren muss. Kleine Gemeinden und größere, Landes- und Freikirchen, Jugend- und Kommunitätskirche: sie alle verbindet, dass sie mitten im Alltag der Menschen leben. Ihre Vielfalt und die spürbare Ehrlichkeit, mit der die Autoren jeweils Kontext, Vision, aber auch Herausforderunge...

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 192.Antarctic Subglacial Aquatic Environments is the first volume on this important and fascinating subject. With its underlying theme of bridging existing knowledge to future research, it is a benchmark in the history of subglacial lake exploration and study, containing up-to-date discussions about the history and background of subglacial aquatic environments and future explora...

Antarctic Climate Evolution is the first book dedicated to furthering knowledge on the evolution of the world's largest ice sheet over its ~34 million year history. This volume provides the latest information on subjects ranging from terrestrial and marine geology to sedimentology and glacier geophysics. - An overview of Antarctic climate change, analyzing historical, present-day and future developments - Contributions from leading experts and scholars from around the world - Informs and u...

Antarctic Climate Evolution, Second Edition, enhances our understanding of the history of the world's largest ice sheet, and how it responded to and influenced climate change during the Cenozoic. It includes terrestrial and marine geology, sedimentology, glacier geophysics and ship-borne geophysics, coupled with results from numerical ice sheet and climate modeling. The book's content largely mirrors the structure of the Past Antarctic Ice Sheets (PAIS) program (www.scar.org/science/pais),...

The Routledge Handbook of the Polar Regions is an authoritative guide to the Arctic and the Antarctic through an exploration of key areas of research in the physical and natural sciences and the social sciences and humanities. It presents 38 new and original contributions from leading figures and voices in polar research, policy and practice, as well as work from emerging scholars.This handbookaims to approach and understand the Polar Regions as places that are at the forefront of ...