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The Case of the Unshod Corpse
Nick Baumgarten’s team, at full complement again with Pino Beltrametti on board, sees itself confronted with the violent death of a professor. As usual, the investigators are called on to struggle on several fronts at once: the campus of the Brugg-Windisch University of Applied Sciences, where they must cut through a thicket of intrigues, rivalries and a love affair; internally, where District Attorney Cécile Dumont picks apart their theories and insists on solid evidence; and in the local press, where journalist Steff Schwager, tortured by jealousy, vents his spleen. It helps that Nick Baumgarten has at least found happiness in his private life.
A Talent to Kill
Nick Baumgarten's private life is back on track, but the violent death of an Aargau author presents him with a hard nut to crack. For one, there is the gruff, taciturn veterinarian the dead man lived with, happily it seems, but whose alibi is extremely shaky. Then Baumgarten has the Aargau Cultural Commission to deal with, or, more precisely, its former president, Cuno von Ottenfels, who tries to explain how cash flows between the State and culture with a big “C” while hectoring Nick to read more of what he calls good literature. And as always, the journalist Steff Schwager knows way too much and stirs the pot with an article in the Aargauer Zeitung. To top it all off, Nick must hurry to solve his most pressing staffing issue: Peter Pfister is retiring at the end of the month and no replacement is in sight.
Benedict XVI
In these pages Benedict XVI shares his reasons for retiring from the papacy in 2013 in an interview with the author. Many saw his astonishing retirement as a sign of the Church's decline, but he intended it as a seed sown in the hope of bringing the Church a younger, more vigorous leadership in the face of daunting challenges. Among those challenges are the financial and sexual scandals that continue to undermine the Church's mission. When Ratzinger was elected Pope in 2005, he opened a path of purification for the Church, while calling upon the Western world to return to its Christian roots and to build a new humanism for the twenty-first century, and his call for renewal is still relevant. Widely recognized as one of the most important theologians and spiritual leaders of our time, Joseph Ratzinger served throughout the papacy of John Paul II as the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Both men had witnessed how atheistic philosophies and war had ravaged twentieth-century Europe, and they shared in the effort of revealing to modern man his need for God, for redemption in Jesus Christ.
History of the International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS)
Describes the status and the history of the International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS) - the most representative international psychological body.
Investigating Vatican II
Investigating Vatican II is a collection of Fr. Jared Wicks’ recent articles on Vatican II, and presents the Second Vatican Council as an event to which theologians contributed in major ways and from which Catholic theology can gain enormous insigh
A Climber's Guide to the Teton Range, 4th Edition
Features 932 routes including dozens of new routes and a new chapter on the Grand Traverse All-new aerial photography with detailed route overlays This fourth edition of A Climber’s Guide to the Teton Range--years in the making—includes 932 routes on more than 235 peaks and canyon walls. For each route, longtime Teton climbing ranger Renny Jackson supplies difficulty classification, first ascent information, and access to the route, and, as needed, also includes approach considerations, route and/or pitch details, and route of descent. He notes the estimated time needed for the climb and any additional protection needs. Cross-references for each route shown on the topographic figures hel...
Exploitation and Overexploitation in Societies Past and Present
Human impact on landscape can be conceptualised in terms of socially governed ecological systems. In the past the adaptive capacity of human cultural systems has been emphasised. Nowadays, a shift can be recognised towards modified views. Resources are discussed as prerequisites for establishing complex human societies. This includes also a more biologically minded view from the standpoint of the humanities. In such a view, human societal complexes can be understood as systems that manage energy and matters. The concept of social-metabolic regimes has developed in such a context. Cultures, as seen within this paradigm, are not undestood merely as autopoietic symbolic entities but as results of an interaction of material prerequisites and emerging social structures. One might dismiss this as an epistemiological shift, part of the play of science with itself. But it remains unsolved so far in terms of evolutionary theory if the ultimate goal of evolution is reproductive sucess or accessi
The Hotel of Dead Dreams
A nameless male corpse, the victim of foul play, is discovered in a residential neighborhood on the outskirts of Aarau and poses an immediate conundrum for Aargau’s Cantonal Police. But even after they pin down the dead man’s identity a long ten days later, the ensuing hunt for his killer nearly drives Nick Baumgarten to despair. The team’s intensive search for clues among the deceased’s family, in his community, and in Club Landlust will not let them complete the puzzle. Ultimately, almost by chance Pino Beltrametti, Angela Kaufmann and Nick Baumgarten capture their suspect, but at what cost?
Das Zisterzienserkloster Fürstenfeld unter Abt Balduin Helm 1690–1705
Das Kloster Fürstenfeld erlebte unter der Amtszeit von Abt Balduin Helm in den Jahren 1690 bis 1705 eine Blütezeit. Dies zeigte sich vor allem durch den Neubau einer prächtigen barocken Klosteranlage. Fürstenfeld war zudem ein regional aber auch überregional bedeutender Arbeit- und Auftraggeber. Weiter trug eine geregelte Wirtschaftsführung zum Gelingen des Bauprojektes bei. Ein fast 40 Mitglieder umfassender Konvent zeugt von einem Kloster, das häufig Söhnen aus städtisch-bürgerlich geprägten Familien offen stand. Diese hatten dort die Möglichkeit vornehmlich schriftstellerisch tätig zu werden. Ein Beispiel bildet hier der Klostervorsteher selbst, Balduin Helm, der unter anderem auch als bedeutender Prediger in Erscheinung trat. Ein wichtiger Aufgabenbereich der Konventualen lag außerdem in der Seelsorge; hierbei war für das Kloster die Betreuung der regionalen aber auch überregionalen Wallfahrtsorte wie Inchenhofen von Bedeutung. Dieser Blütezeit wurde schließlich durch den beginnenden Spanischen Erbfolgekrieg ein jähes Ende bereitet.
