In „Bubu“ dokumentiert der 1933 geborene Peter Lesser um seinen 65. Geburtstag herum (24.6.1998) mit enormer Erinnerungskraft und unverstelltem Blick Kindheits- und Jugenderlebnisse in Spiel- und Sportgruppen und in Schulklassen mit all ihren gruppendynamischen Prozessen und Konflikten aus der diktaturgeprägten Zeit in Chemnitz vor und nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Für den späteren Gründer der Hamburger Institution „sportspaß e.V.“ stand schon damals die Sportbegeisterung immer im Mittelpunk...

It's 1910, and Theodulf Sauer has finally achieved a position befitting his ego: master lighthouse keeper at a newly commissioned station towering above Lake Superior. When his new wife, Willa, arrives on the first spring ferry, it's clear her life has taken the opposite turn: after being summoned home from college to Duluth when her father dies, she and her scheming mother find themselves destitute, and Willa is rushed into this ill-suited arranged marriage.As the lighthouse stati...

The authors have brought together important research into little-explored topics that are applicable to the field of counselling and psychotherapy. Each contributor has undertaken qualitative research into their chosen topic, and this book disseminates that research in a highly accessible manner. The aim of the volume is to inform counsellors and psychotherapists, and those in allied professions who support and care for people, towards developing a greater awareness of issues they may enco...

Discover the most effective way of giving a professional presentation and making a sale at the same time. Aimed at anyone selling products, services or skills, this book provides invaluable tips and techniques to improve your performance and achieve greater sales. Whether you are working in a large sales team, are a small business owner or an entrepreneur, discover secrets to: • More effective planning and preparation • Using words that influence • Stronger delivery • Impactful demonstrati...

Gut genug zu sein, reicht manchmal nicht. Dennoch setzen sich viele Menschen genau dieses Ziel. Tim Grover aber sagt: Wirklich kompromisslose Menschen – die Cleaners – sind Raubtiere, die dunkle Seiten haben und es ablehnen, "gut" sein zu wollen. Und ob Sie es schon wissen oder nicht, Sie haben eine dunkle Seite. Nutzen Sie sie – sie könnte Ihre größte Gabe sein. Seit über zwei Jahrzehnten hilft Tim Grover US-Spitzensportlern dabei, ihre Leistungsgrenzen immer weiter zu verschieben und ihr...

Featuring essays by world-renowned scholars, Diasporas charts the various ways in which global population movements and associated social, political and cultural issues have been seen through the lens of diaspora.Wide-ranging and interdisciplinary, this collection considers critical concepts shaping the field, such as migration, ethnicity, post-colonialism and cosmopolitanism. It also examines key intersecting agendas and themes, including political economy, security, race, gender,...

This widely-studied play is one of the best sellers of the Shakespeare canon. This production is the sixth Shakespeare play in the series undertaken by Naxos AudioBooks in conjunction with Cambridge University Press.

On the rocky shores of Lake Superior, a piercing story of selfhood and determinism develops: is the future what we’re handed or what we make of it?It’s 1910, and Theodulf Sauer has finally achieved a position befitting his ego: master lighthouse keeper at a newly commissioned station towering above Lake Superior. When his new wife, Willa, arrives on the first spring ferry, it’s clear her life has taken the opposite turn: after being summoned home from college to Du...

This re-issued work, first published in 1980, represents a work of normative political philosophy which argues positively for the centrality of the obligation to meet the various demands of social need in our society, and will be of particular interest to students of politics, philosophy, social politics and administration.Bringing the insights of analytical Political Philosophy to bear on the issues of social welfare and welfare provision, the authors discuss such issues as the ba...

Hamlet, which dates from 1600-1601, is the first in Shakespeare’s great series of four tragedies, the others being Othello (1603), King Lear (1605) and Macbeth (1606). In writing this extraordinary play Shakespeare effectively reinvented tragedy after an interval of roughly two thousand years we have to go back to the Greek dramatists of fifth-century Athens to find anything of comparable depth and maturity.

EXQUISITE DESTINATIONS:When we are young, we dream dreams. We fantasize about things we want to do, places we want to go, what we wish to be. Then, it is up to us, to time, chance and fortune, as to whether those dreams will come true.A native of Nova Scotia, Peter L. McCreath grew up in the west end of Toronto, but has lived the last fifty odd years back in rural Nova Scotia. He is an educator and historian by training, but an entr...

This volume follows on from The Lesser-Known Varieties of English (Cambridge, 2010), by documenting a further range of varieties that have been overlooked and understudied. It explores varieties spoken by small groups of people in remote regions as diverse as Malta, Bermuda, the Netherlands Antilles, Brazil, the Cook Islands, and Palau. The varieties explored are as much a part of the big picture as major varieties and it is the intention of this collection to spark further interest in the...