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Experience the confusion, bravery, and hope of the Vietnam War era through the eyes of fourteen-year-old Jake Edwards, in author Helene Forst's poignant coming-of-age novel, "Stoked - 1969."

For ages 12 to adult.

The world has gone completely crazy.

At least that's how it looks to Jake Edwards, whose whole life is upended in the blink of an eye.

Struggling with dyslexia and unable to read, Jake is sent to live with his wacky grandmother in the Adirondack Mountains in a last ditch effort to further his education.

But with his older brother off to war and America divided...

Mit diesem Buch konnen angehende Facharzte in der Anasthesie, Wiedereinsteiger sowie Facharzte ihr Fachwissen optimal uberprufen bzw. auffrischen. Zusammengefasst wurden dafur die CME-Beitrage aus dem Jahr 2015 aus der Springer-Fachzeitschrift "Der Anaesthesist."

Alle Beitrage orientieren sich an der Weiterbildungsordnung "Facharzt fur Anasthesiologie," wurden von Experten verfasst, sind didaktisch hervorragend aufbereitet und spiegeln die aktuellen Themen oder Trends des Faches wider. Sie eignen sich in dieser ubersichtlichen Zusammenfassung optimal zur Wissensauffrischung oder zur...

Forst begins by identifying this right from the perspective of moral philosophy. Then, through an innovative, detailed critical...

In this collection of essays, the first translation into English of the ground-breaking Normativitat und Macht (Suhrkamp 2015), Rainer Forst presents a new approach to critical theory. Each essay reflects on the basic principles that guide our normative thinking. Forst's argument goes beyond 'ideal' and 'realist' theories and...

Since the time AIDS and HIV infection were first discovered, no medical cures have been developed. It became clear early on that education would be the cornerstone in the fight against AIDS, and that assessment remains true in the 1990s. This book describes how to tailor HIV education and prevention efforts to specific communities, including how to identify those most at risk, what types of interventions are most appropriate to those communities, how to engage those most at risk, and the role of participatory evaluation in determining the effectiveness of community education efforts.

The increasing reliance on private security services raises questions about the effects of privatization on the quality of public police forces, particularly in high-crime, low-income areas. In an effective pro-and-con format, two experts on policing offer two strikingly different perspectives on this trend towards privatization. In the process, they provide an unusually thoughtful discussion of the origins of both the public police and the private security sectors, the forces behind the recent growth of private security operations, and the risks to public safety posed by...