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The Second Edition surveys the historical connections between religion and health and grapples with the distinction between the terms ''religion'' and ''spirituality'' in research...

Wie ihre gesamte Generation sind Kevin und Arthur geplagt von den Sorgen um die Zukunft des Planeten. Als Studenten der Agrarwissenschaften lernen sie sich bei einer Vorlesung über Würmer kennen, werden bald unzertrennliche Freunde und schwören sich, ihren Beitrag zu einem Leben im Einklang mit der Natur zu leisten - mithilfe der Würmer und zum Wohle derselben. Kevin, Sohn von Landarbeitern, gründet ein Start-up-Unternehmen für Wurmkompostierung und erfährt rasanten Erfolg. Arthur, Pariser Stadtkind, versucht, in der Normandie den von Pestiziden ruinierten Acker seines Großvaters...

This bestselling author s wonderfully moving adventure-love story takes us to Japan in 1913. When his US Navy officer father dies, teenage Sam Pinkerton discovers he s the son of a Japanese mother, and follows his heart to find her. Too late. Madam Butterfly ended her life with a samurai blade.

Whether American or Japanese, he s an outcast desperately alone in the strange and dangerous lower depths of Nagasaki, struggling to stay alive. A wily criminal Japanese kid helps...

The social sciences have been heavily influenced by modernization theory, focusing on issues of economic growth, political development and social change, in order to develop a predictive model of linear progress for developing countries following a Western prototype. Under this hegemonic paradigm of development the world tends to get divided into simplistic binary oppositions between the West and the rest, us and them and self and other .

Proposing to shift the discussion on what constitutes the Other as opposed to the Self from philosophy and cultural studies to the social...

An Essential Guide to Control Engineering Fundamentals

Understand the day-to-day procedures of today's control engineer with the pragmatic insights and techniques contained in this unique resource. Written in clear, concise language, Practical Control Engineering shows, step-by-step, how engineers simulate real-world phenomena using dynamic models and algorithms. Learn how to handle single and multiple-staged systems, implement error-free feedback control, eliminate anomalies, and work in the frequency and discrete-time domains. Extensive appendices cover...

Let the Saints' lives guide and touch your life each day

The life of a saint is the life of an ordinary person lived well. And that's the life readers will discover in this delightful and often surprising collection of words and wisdom from saints throughout the ages. A lovely and inspiring gift book, 365 Saints illuminates how the saints actually lived, detailing their hopes, fears, joys, and sorrows, as well as their lesser-known idiosyncracies and saying. Witty and wondrous, simple and sublime, 365 Saints offers a full year of meditations and practical...