Suchergebnisse

Mokhtar Alkhanshali is twenty-four and working as a doorman when he becomes fascinated with the rich history of coffee and Yemen's central place in it. He leaves San Francisco and travels deep into his ancestral home to tour terraced farms high in the country's rugged mountains. He collects samples and organizes farmers and is on the verge of success when civil war engulfs the country. Saudi bombs rain down, the U.S. embassy closes, and Mokhtar has to find a way out of Yemen with only his hopes on his back.

"From the investigative team that produced Clinton Cash, Fraud busts open the ballot box to expose the felons, illegal immigrants, and even corpses that fraudulently foil America's chances for honest election outcomes. Which members of Congress actually lost their races? Which counties have registered voters listed as over 200 years old? Where in America are over 100 percent of an area's voters registered to vote? With exclusive interviews with whistleblowers who have seen the fraud first-hand and backed by state of the art forensic tools and elite investigative acumen, Fraud analyzes the voter rolls to name names and show, in historic detail, how the numbers just don't add up"--

Die Frage, welche Faktoren dazu beitragen, dass sich manche Kinder positiv entwickeln, obwohl sie einer hohen Belastung ausgesetzt sind und warum andere Kinder mit ähnlicher Problematik Entwicklungsstörungen aufweisen, beschäftigt aktuell die Resilienzforschung, mit der sich die Autorin in diesem Buch auseinandersetzt. Darüber hinaus ist es ihr ein Anliegen, aufzuzeigen, wie die aktuellen Erkenntnisse aus der Resilienzforschung für die Praxis genutzt werden können. Anhaltspunkte dafür, wie die Ausbildung und Stärkung von Resilienz in der pädagogischen Arbeit umgesetzt werden kann, sind gerade im Hinblick auf die zunehmenden Belastungen von Kindern wichtig. Ein Paradigmenwechsel in der pädagogischen und psychologischen Praxis findet verstärkt seit den 1990er Jahren statt. Erst seit ca. 20 Jahren wird versucht, neben Risikofaktoren für die Entstehung psychischer Störungen, auch Schutzfaktoren, die für den Erhalt seelischer Gesundheit bedeutsam sind, zu identifizieren. Aus diesem Wechsel der Blickrichtung haben sich neue Wege für die Präventionsforschung ergeben.

"The Circle is the exhilarating new novel from Dave Eggers, best-selling author of A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award. When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users' personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the company's modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae can't believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world--even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins as the captivating story of one woman's ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge"--

The goal of this book is to compare the various versions of Thomas Hobbes' famous and influential theory of the state of nature, and to emphasize their differences. This should provide a better understanding of the development of Hobbes' philosophy as well as dissolve numerous longstanding debates within Hobbes research