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This biography examines the life of Helen Keller using easy-to-read, compelling text. Through striking historical and contemporary images and photographs and informative sidebars, readers will learn about Keller's family background, childhood, education, and time as a world-renowned activist and speaker. Informative sidebars enhance and support the text. Features include a table of contents, timeline, facts page, glossary, bibliography, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO

In this landmark study, now celebrating thirty years in print, Paul Rabinow takes as his focus the fieldwork that anthropologists do. How valid is the process? To what extent do the cultural data become artifacts of the interaction between anthropologist and informants? Having first published a more standard ethnographic study about Morocco, Rabinow here describes a series of encounters with his informants in that study, from a French innkeeper clinging to the vestiges of a colonial past, to the rural descendants of a seventeenth-century saint. In a new preface Rabinow considers the thirty-year life of this remarkable book and his own distinguished career

Intro -- [Titel] -- Content -- Foreword -- Instrumental Memory -- Dresden in the wake of Germany -- "During the raid, we watched as the bombs fell like manna from heaven." -- "Look around you, now you know." -- One Nation on the Screen: Dresden -- Slaughterhouse Dresden -- Frauenkirchen Mania -- From Memorial Space to Learning Place -- Dresdner Monument Stories -- Dresden Christ Superstar -- Dresden calls -- Legislated Commemoration -- Suddenly, Unexpectedly, Senseless? -- "Yesterday Dresden, today Korea, and tomorrow the whole world." -- Make do and mend -- "But who ever asked us for pardon? Pardoning died in the deathcamps." -- "It was meant as a provocation to make people think about what is really going on in Germany at the moment." -- Chronology of the protests -- [Impressum].

This book is an update of the first BACC assessment, published in 2008. It offers new and updated scientific findings in regional climate research for the Baltic Sea basin. These include climate changes since the last glaciation (approx. 12,000 years ago), changes in the recent past (the last 200 years), climate projections up until 2100 using state-of-the-art regional climate models and an assessment of climate-change impacts on terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems. There are dedicated new chapters on sea-level rise, coastal erosion and impacts on urban areas. A new set of chapters deals with possible causes of regional climate change along with the global effects of increased greenhouse gas concentrations, namely atmospheric aerosols and land-cover change. The evidence collected and presented in this book shows that the regional climate has already started to change and this is expected to continue. Projections of potential future climates show that the region will probably become considerably warmer and wetter in some parts, but dryer in others. Terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems have already shown adjustments to increased temperatures and are expected to undergo further changes in the near future. The BACC II Author Team consists of 141 scientists from 12 countries, covering various disciplines related to climate research and related impacts. BACC II is a project of the Baltic Earth research network and contributes to the World Climate Research Programme

Earth System Sciences; Atmospheric Sciences; Baltic Sea; Environmental Impacts; Regional Climate Change; Regional Climate Projections

In 2016 the German Environment Agency (UBA) and the German Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG) organised a conference on plastics in freshwater environments on behalf of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB). 220 attendants from 20 European and two non-European countries attended the conference. The objective was to exchange knowledge on plastics in European freshwater environments and to discuss its environmental and societal implications. In preparation of the conference an informal questionnaire was sent to water management agencies in Europe with questions on monitoring, risk awareness and management options. This publication contains the abstracts of the oral presentations.

In this book, leading authors in the field discuss developments of Ambient Assisted Living. The contributions have been chosen and invited at the 7th AAL congress, Berlin. It presents new technological developments which support the autonomy and independence of individuals with special needs. As the technological innovation raises also social issues, the book addresses micro and macro economical aspects of assistive systems and puts an additional emphasis on the ethical and legal discussion. The presentation is supported by real world examples and applications.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of probably the most horrific solo terrorist operation the world has ever seen. On 22 July 2011 Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people when he bombed the Government District in Oslo, before he conducted a shooting attack against a political youth camp at Utya. The main focus of the book is on the operational aspects of the events, particularly the target selection and decision-making process. Why did Breivik choose the targets he finally attacked, what influenced his decision-making and how did he do it? Using unique source material, providing details never published before, the authors accurately explain how even this ruthless terrorist acted under a number of constraints in a profoundly dynamic process. This momentous work is a must read for scholars, students and practitioners within law enforcement, intelligence, security and terrorism studies.

Cover -- CONTENTS -- CONTEXT -- RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AND OUTLOOK -- PERFORMANCE UNDER THE PROGRAM AND POLICY DISCUSSIONS -- A. Program Performance -- B. Fiscal Policy -- C. Fiscal and Structural Reforms -- D. Monetary, Exchange Rate, and Financial Sector Policies -- PROGRAM MONITORING -- STAFF APPRAISAL -- BOX -- Inland Revenue Act -- FIGURES -- 1. Real Sector -- 2. Fiscal Sector -- 3. Financial Market -- 4. Foreign Exchange and Reserves -- 5. Monetary and Financial Sector -- TABLES -- 1. Selected Economic Indicators, 2014-21 -- 2a. Summary of Central Government Operations, 2014-21 (In billions of rupees ) -- 2b. Summary of Central Government Operations, 2014-21 (In percent of GDP) -- 2c. Summary of Central Government Operations, 2016-17 -- 2d. Central Government Financing Needs, 2015-18 -- 3a. Monetary Accounts, 2014-17 -- 3b. Monetary Accounts, 2015-17 -- 4a. Balance of Payments, 2014-21 -- 4b. Balance of Payments, 2016-17 -- 4c. Gross External Financing, 2014-21 -- 5. Financial Soundness Indicators-All Banks, 2012-16 -- 6. Reviews and Purchases under the Three-year Extended Arrangement -- 7. Projected Payments to the Fund, 2016-2029 -- ANNEXES -- I. Debt Sustainability Analysis -- II. Tax Policy Options -- APPENDIX -- I. Letter of Intent -- Attachment I. Technical Memorandum of Understanding.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- How to Use This Book -- Guiding Ideas -- 22 Games -- 1. Arms Crossed: When conditions change, habits must change. -- 2. Avalanche: Understand the implicit rules. They can produce different results than desired or expected. -- 3. Balancing Tubes: You can't achieve long-term goals with short-term perspective. -- 4. The Bathtub Game: A level will decline only if outflows are greater than inflows. -- 5. Biodiversity Game: You can't change only one thing. -- 6. Circles in the Air: Our perspective affects the actions we take in complex systems. -- 7. Frames: To obtain consensus be clear about the mental framework you are using. -- 8. Group Juggle: Adding one more apparently minor problem can sometimes collapse the whole system. -- 9. Hands Down: When trying to understand a complex situation, don't limit your focus to where the action is. -- 10. Harvest: Over the long term, individuals often get more from cooperation than from competition. -- 11. Hit the Target: Delays between perception and response can lead to overshooting the goal. -- 12. Living Loops: It's easier to reach your goals by building a system that achieves them for you. -- 13. Paper Fold: With exponential growth, small growth rates can quickly lead to extremely large numbers. -- 14. Paper Tear: One-way communication is much less effective than interaction. -- 15. Pens: Sustainability depends more on culture than on technology. -- 16. Space for Living: Thinking outside the box can produce win-win solutions. -- 17. Squaring the Circle: Without a shared goal, cooperation is ineffective. -- 18. Thumb Wrestling: Life is not a zero-sum game. -- 19. Triangles: If you want big changes, look for the high-leverage points. -- 20. Warped Juggle: Incremental changes produce improvements -- structural changes produce transformation.

Based on unique source material, the authors provide a detailed insight into the operational aspects of the 22nd July 2011 attacks in Norway, particularly focusing on Anders B. Breivik's targeting and decision-making process. It explains how even this ruthless terrorist was affected by a number of constraints in a profoundly dynamic process