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Ein Wochenende lang die Gattin eines wohlhabenden Gutsherren spielen – ein Job, der Schauspielerin Claudia zu gefallen weiß. Vor allem weil sich ihr Auftraggeber Adrian als ein überaus attraktiver Zeitgenosse entpuppt. Doch spürt sie auch, dass sie in seinem Landsitz von Geheimnissen umgeben ist. Die familiären Intrigen seiner Wochenendgäste bringen ihn und Claudia in höchste Gefahr.
Well-Behaved Indian Women
A Lilly's Library Book Club Pick! “A sparkling debut.”—Emily Giffin, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author From a compelling new voice in women's fiction comes a mother-daughter story about three generations of women who struggle to define themselves as they pursue their dreams. Simran Mehta has always felt harshly judged by her mother, Nandini, especially when it comes to her little "writing hobby." But when a charismatic and highly respected journalist careens into Simran's life, she begins to question not only her future as a psychologist, but her engagement to her high school sweetheart. Nandini Mehta has strived to create an easy life for her children in America. From dealing with ...
The Nazi Conscience
Koonz’s latest work reveals how racial popularizers developed the infrastructure and rationale for genocide during the so-called normal years before World War II. Challenging conventional assumptions about Hitler, Koonz locates the source of his charisma not in his summons to hate, but in his appeal to the collective virtue of his people, the Volk.
Language Acquisition in CLIL and Non-CLIL Settings
Language Acquisition in CLIL and Non-CLIL Settings builds a bridge between Second Language Acquisition and Learner Corpus Research (LCR) methodologies to take the evaluation of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) to a new level. The study innovates in two main ways. First, it is based on a highly diversified L2 database which includes learner corpus data as well as experimental data from the same learners. These linguistic components of the database are complemented with extensive information on learner variables, including cognitive and affective factors, which are rarely studied in LCR. Second, the study relies on multifactorial statistical analyses to assess the effectiveness of CLIL itself as well as the impact of the selectivity inherent in the CLIL system, which has frequently been ignored. The linguistic focus of the study is the English passive, which is investigated in CLIL and non-CLIL teaching materials, and subsequently related to learner output.
Dark Matter
A terrifying 1930s ghost story set in the haunting wilderness of the far north. January 1937. Clouds of war are gathering over a fogbound London. Twenty-eight year old Jack is poor, lonely and desperate to change his life. So when he's offered the chance to join an Arctic expedition, he jumps at it. Spirits are high as the ship leaves Norway: five men and eight huskies, crossing the Barents Sea by the light of the midnight sun. At last they reach the remote, uninhabited bay where they will camp for the next year. Gruhuken. But the Arctic summer is brief. As night returns to claim the land, Jack feels a creeping unease. One by one, his companions are forced to leave. He faces a stark choice. Stay or go. Soon he will see the last of the sun, as the polar night engulfs the camp in months of darkness. Soon he will reach the point of no return - when the sea will freeze, making escape impossible. And Gruhuken is not uninhabited. Jack is not alone. Something walks there in the dark...
Mothers and Others
Somewhere in Africa, more than a million years ago, a line of apes began to rear their young differently than their Great Ape ancestors. From this new form of care came new ways of engaging and understanding each other. How such singular human capacities evolved, and how they have kept us alive for thousands of generations, is the mystery revealed in this bold and wide-ranging new vision of human emotional evolution. Mothers and Others finds the key in the primatologically unique length of human childhood. If the young were to survive in a world of scarce food, they needed to be cared for, not only by their mothers but also by siblings, aunts, fathers, friends—and, with any luck, grandmoth...
The Race between Education and Technology
This book provides a careful historical analysis of the co-evolution of educational attainment and the wage structure in the United States through the twentieth century. The authors propose that the twentieth century was not only the American Century but also the Human Capital Century. That is, the American educational system is what made America the richest nation in the world. Its educational system had always been less elite than that of most European nations. By 1900 the U.S. had begun to educate its masses at the secondary level, not just in the primary schools that had remarkable success in the nineteenth century. The book argues that technological change, education, and inequality have been involved in a kind of race. During the first eight decades of the twentieth century, the increase of educated workers was higher than the demand for them. This had the effect of boosting income for most people and lowering inequality. However, the reverse has been true since about 1980. This educational slowdown was accompanied by rising inequality. The authors discuss the complex reasons for this, and what might be done to ameliorate it.
Tango In The Big Mango
Was passiert, wenn Street Photography, Konzeptkunst und Dokumentation sich verbinden? Es entsteht ein einmaliges und vielfältiges Bildpanorama, dem es mit seiner eigenen Vielseitigkeit gelingt, den mal abgründigen, mal schillernden Facettenreichtum der Megalopolis Bangkok festzuhalten. Der Fotograf Peter Nitsch hat mit seinem feinen Gespür für den richtigen Moment und das besondere Detail die Straßen, Menschen und das Leben in der Hauptstadt Thailands eingefangen. Dieser Bildband macht die Betrachtenden zu visuellen Begleitern seiner Entdeckungstour. Durch Nitschs Kamera wird der Rhythmus der Stadt als Tango lesbar, der seine eigenwillige Bewegung dem Zusammenspiel unterschiedlicher Kulturen verdankt. Ein Vergleich, der sich nicht nur verbal auf »Mango« – den Spitznamen Bangkoks – reimt, sondern den süßsauren Geschmack der Frucht in einen visuellen Rausch übersetzt.
