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Габриэль Шанель – это национальное достояние, гордость и подлинная жемчужина Франции. Маленьким черным платьем, женским брючным костюмом, культовым парфюмом Chanel № 5, стеганой сумочкой на цепочке, а главное – собственной философией и принципами она элегантно и бескомпромиссно изменила мир моды навсегда. Шанель создала образ современной женщины: красивой, хрупкой и в то же время сильной, стойкой, независимой. Ее жизненный путь впечатляет: нищая сирота, ставшая богатейшей и влиятельнейшей...
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Агата Кристи находится в числе самых известных в мире авторов и самых публикуемых писателей за всю историю художественного слова. Более 60 детективных романов, 19 сборников рассказов,16 пьес общим тиражом свыше четырех миллиардов экземпляров. Эти произведения переведены более чем на 100 языков мира. Агата Кристи – литературный и драматургический памятник Англии. Она жила девизом: «Попробуй всё хоть раз». И она пробовала, искала себя, жила авантюрами. И самой выдающейся из них была ее жизнь....
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Мария Склодовская-Кюри сломала стереотип о том, что женщине не место в науке. Ученая-экспериментатор, член 85 мировых научных обществ, первая женщина, ставшая членом Парижской медицинской академии. Она имела 20 почетных степеней и преподавала в Сорбонне. Склодовская-Кюри успешно сочетала деятельность ученой и хранительницы домашнего очага, будучи женой Пьера Кюри и матерью двух талантливых дочерей. Мировая общественность дважды почтила Марию Склодовскую-Кюри присвоением Нобелевской премии....
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In one of the most famous passages in Maha·bhárata , Dur·yódhana, the heroic but flawed king of the Káuravas, meets his end when he is dishonorably defeated in battle by his arch-enemy, Bhima. Framing a fascinating account of the sacred sites along the river Sarásvati, the duel poignantly portrays the downfall of a once great hero in the face of a new order governed by Krishna, in which the warrior code is brushed aside in order to ensure...
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This volume presents five studies on the relationship between the media and voters. Each examines some aspects of the flow of information to voters during election campaigns and all reflect the assumption that the right to vote must include the right of access and sufficient information to make an informed decision. In separate studies, Jean Crête and Robert MacDermid examine existing studies and data on the relationship between attention to media and voter information and behaviours. Both...
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Command and leadership are very personal endeavours. The manner in which an individual commands others and exercises leadership speaks more to the character and personality of the individual in question than it does to the concept of command or leadership in and of themselves. Intrepid Warriors takes an intimate look at a number of Canada’s finest military commanders and leaders during the crucible of war. Collectively, the chapters in this volume offer invaluable insights into different...
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Special Operations Forces (SOF) have never been an integral element of Canada’s military capability. Although units have existed periodically throughout the country’s history, they have always been in the shadows. However, the terrorist attack in the United States on September 11, 2001, changed that. In the aftermath of 9/11, SOF became the force of choice. Casting Light on the Shadows consists of a series of essays on SOF-related issues written by individuals with specialized knowledge and...
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"Pike’s Portage plays a very special role in the landscape of Canada’s Far North and its human history. It is both an ancient gateway and the funnel for early travel from the boreal forest of the Mackenzie River watershed to the vast open spaces of the subarctic taiga, better known as the «Barren Lands» of Canada. "This book is a rich and wonderful comopendium of stories about this area and the early white explorers, the Dene guides, the adventurers, the trappers, the misguided...
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• A great introduction to Chinese poetry—both classical and contemporary—it provides an accessible overview of Chinese poetry, while also clearly explaining what goes into translating poetry, particularly poetry written in ideogrammic languages and differing formal structures. • Some of the most recognizable and renowned poets in the Chinese language. • Marks Sze not only as a wonderful poet, but as a great translator too. • Michael thinks...
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Latin American cities have always been characterized by a strong tension between what is vaguely described as their formal and informal dimensions. However, the terms formal and informal refer not only to the physical aspect of cities but also to their entire socio-political fabric. Informal cities and settlements exceed the structures of order, control and homogeneity that one expects to find in a formal city; therefore the contributors to this volume – from such disciplines as architecture,...
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Bringing together ethnographic case studies of industrial labor from different parts of the world, Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism explores the increasing casualization of workforces and the weakening power of organized labor. This division owes much to state policies and is reflected in local understandings of class. By exploring this relationship, these essays question the claim that neoliberal ideology has become the new ‘commonsense’ of our times and suggest various...
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AIDS is now the leading cause of death in Africa, where twenty-eight million people are HIV-positive, and where some twelve million children have lost one or both parents to AIDS. In Zimbabwe, 45 percent of children under the age of five are HIV-positive, and the epidemic has shortened life expectancy by twenty-two years. A fifteen-year-old in Botswana or South Africa has a one-in-two chance of dying of AIDS. AIDS deaths are so widespread in sub-Saharan Africa that small children now play a new...
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"An excellent anthology, worthy of the imitations it will engender . . . it will go a long way toward illuminating Confederate history." — The New York TimesFor any student of the War Between the States, this treasury of contemporary documents—all but a few written by Southerners — offers a wealth of insight and perspectives on life in the South during the conflict, how newspapers and periodicals covered events, and how Southerners reacted to the disastrous...
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From the 1970s cult TV show, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, to the current hit musical [i]Spamalot, the Monty Python comedy troupe has been at the center of popular culture and entertainment. The Pythons John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam are increasingly recognized and honored for their creativity and enduring influence in the worlds of comedy and film. Monty Python and Philosophy extends that recognition into the world of...
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Growing out of the Jimi Hendrix Electric Guitar Festivals of the 1990s, the continually expanding Experience Hendrix Tour is now an annual nationwide event, in which leading rock and blues artists pay tribute to Hendrix, with its most ambitious itinerary and biggest impact yet in Spring 2017. 2017 is the fiftieth anniversary of Hendrix’s breakthrough as an intercontinental popular artist, and of the release of the first album of the Jim Hendrix Experience, <i>Are You...
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Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus sparked into life a fascination with science-gone-awry that refuses to die. From 1818 to present-day Hollywood, the story of Victor Frankenstein and his reanimated, stitched-together corpse has inspired (some would say) the very idea of modern science fiction and countless essays, movies, novels, songs, comic-books, and TV shows aiming to capture what was right, wrong, abominable, inevitable, scary, or funny in this classic...
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GSA Top Speakers Edition 2012: praxisnahes Verkaufswissen Auch die Autorinnen und Autoren dieses dritten GSA-Bandes sind allesamt ausgewiesene Experten auf ihrem Gebiet. Sie gehören zu den besten Verkaufstrainern im deutschsprachigen Raum. Als Mitglieder der German Speakers Association verstehen sie sich zudem mehrheitlich als Redner. Ob herausragende Verkäufer gute Redner sein müssen, darf zwar bezweifelt werden. Unbestritten ist jedoch, dass herausragende Redner IMMER auch exzellente...
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Wie entsteht Erfolg? Wie schmiede ich meine Karriere? Wohl jeder setzt sich mit Fragen wie diesen auseinander. Aber haben Sie schon einmal die erfolgreichsten Unternehmer, Consultants und Experten befragt, welche Faktoren den Erfolg wirklich bestimmen? Die Herausgeber Michael T. Wurster und Stefan Hagen haben genau das getan. Dieses Buch begleitet Sie über Ihre ganze Karrierelaufbahn hinweg. Es beinhaltet alles, was Sie schon immer über Karriere wissen wollten: 23 Erfolgsfaktoren, ausgewählt...
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The debates between Daniel Webster of Massachusetts and Robert Hayne of South Carolina gave fateful utterance to the differing understandings of the nature of the American Union that had come to predominate in the North and the South by 1830.To Webster, the Union was the indivisible expression of one nation of people. To Hayne, the Union was the voluntary compact among sovereign states. The Webster-Hayne Debate consists of speeches delivered in the United States Senate in January of 1830.Herman...
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"Ich hoffe baldigst von Ihnen nicht allegromäßig sondern veloce prestissimo das Beste zu hören …"Bekannte Porträts zeigen Ludwig van Beethoven als ernsthaften, ja fast grimmigen Menschen. Gegenüber Freunden und Vertrauten offenbarte er jedoch auch eine gesellige, humorvolle Seite, reich an Witz, Wortspielen, Verballhornungen, Ironie, Sarkasmus und Übermut. Diesem vergnüglichen Beethoven widmet sich der Band u.a. anhand von Briefen, Anekdoten und Ausschnitten aus den Konversationsheften,...
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