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Along with the increasing deregulation of European utility markets the dynamics of and the competitive pressure in the utility industries have steadily increased over the last years. These changes in the regulatory framework towards an integrated market environment have resulted in new challenges for the management of power and gas companies and in a substantial need for strategic reorientation. In the context of these developments the Handbook Utility Management reflects current challenges in the utility industries and provides solutions from a managerial perspective. The inclusion of...

Schonungslos ehrlich und tief bewegend: die persönliche Geschichte des beliebten TV-Stars und Bestsellerautors Joe Bausch 

Mit aller Härte, die der Vater für nötig hält und die ihm selbst widerfahren ist, erzieht er den Sohn zum Hoferben. Doch der will kein Bauer werden und nichts wie weg aus dem Westerwald, raus aus der Welt der Enge und Verlogenheit. In seinem neuesten Buch spricht Joe Bausch erstmals über die Zeit, in der er tiefste Demütigung, Gewalt und Übergriffe erleben musste. 

Ein Bauernhof im kargen Westerwald, Anfang der Fünfzigerjahre....

»Emotional und offenherzig« Welt am Sonntag

»Ständig fiel ich hin oder irgendwo runter, schlug mir die Knie auf oder den Kopf blutig. Dann tröstete mich Tante Res: 'Das ist gut, so ein kleines Loch im Kopf, sagte sie, dann kann das verrückte Blut abfließen. '« 

Mit aller Härte, die der Vater für nötig hält und die ihm selbst widerfahren ist, erzieht er den Sohn zum Hoferben. Doch der will kein Bauer werden und nichts wie weg aus dem Westerwald, raus aus der Welt der Enge und Verlogenheit. In seinem neuesten Buch spricht Joe Bausch...

Including these stories:

"The Man Who Knew Belle Starr"
"Police Dreams"
"What Feels Like the World"
"Design"
"The Eyes of Love"
"The Fireman's Wife"
"Consolation"
"Letter to the Lady of the House"
"Aren't You Happy for Me?"
"High-Heeled...

When Skip Granger, the assistant coach for the Washington Redskins, first sees Jesse Smoke, she is on the beach in Belize. And she has just thrown a regulation football a mile.

Granger knows that Smoke's talent is unprecedented for a woman, and nearly unparalleled among men. As Granger observes her throughout a season as quarterback for the Washington Divas of the Independent Women's Football League, he decides to sign her to the Redskins, even as he faces losing his job and credibility. As the first woman on a major NFL team, Jesse Smoke's astounding success places her in the...

Will Butterfield can't believe it. His 75-year-old mother, Holly, is drunk and threatening to jump off the roof. Again.

Holly and Fiona, another elderly relative, won't stop tormenting Will and his wife Elizabeth with their bizarre (though often amusing) antics. Between Will's worries about his bookstore, The Heart's Ease, and Elizabeth's troublesome high school students, dealing with "the crazies" has become just too much.

But then something unexpected happens -- Henry Ward, a neighborhood handyman, meets the two old women, and he, his daughter Alison, and grandchildren are...

A 2004 PEN/Malamud Award winner, this collection celebrates the work of American artist Richard Bausch -- a writer the New York Times calls "a master of the short story." By turns tender, raw, heartbreaking, and riotously funny, the many voices of this definitive forty-two-story collection (seven of which appear here for the first time) defy expectation, attest to Bausch's remarkable range and versatility, and affirm his place alongside such acclaimed story writers as John Cheever, Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Carver, and Grace Paley.