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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...

»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...

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....

At first, all Lily Austin knows about 19th-century explorer Mary Kingsley is that, 100 years before, she was the first white woman to venture into the heart of Africa. But as Lily begins reading about Mary Kingsley, she becomes more and more fascinated - and discovers in Mary a kindred spirit.

In her own life, Lily feels trapped - on the one hand, she craves family and intimate connection; on the other hand, she has no healthy or satisfying role models. Consequently, as she nears graduation from the University of Virginia, she finds herself uncertain about what to do with her life....

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...

Wives & Lovers is a collection of three short novels from the author whom the Boston Globe calls "one of the most expert and substantial of our writers."

Requisite Kindness -- published here for the first time -- tells the story of a man who must come to terms with a life of treating women badly when he goes to live with his sister and dying mother. Rare & Endangered Species demonstrates how a wife and mother's suicide reverberates in the small community where she lived, and affects the lives of people who don't even know her. Finally,...