"Life in Trinidad as described by Mr. Naipaul through the eyes of a "street arab" in "Miguel Street" is enchanting, mysterious, varied and richly comic. His happy-go lucky community, in what to the stranger's eye would be a slum, abounds in eccentric characters: indeed everyone is eccentric, and tolerant of other eccentrics." - The ScotsmanLife in Trinidad as described through the eyes of a street arab.

The world of "Crick Crack, Monkey" is a dual one. Tee, the central character, is suspended between the warmth, spontaneity, and exuberance of Tantie's household, into which she and her brother are received when their father immigrates to England, and the formality and pretension of her Aunt Beatrice's world, which Tee is obliged to enter when she wins a scholarship. Tee's initiation into the middle class is an uneasy one: she is confused and disturbed by the discrimination of color and class that she learns at Aunt Beatrice's hands and by the attitudes and values that divide her two aunts. Tee's shifting perceptions find no resolution, only acknowledgment that coherence will require a mature revaluation of her experience.

Best known for the scene-stealing city of Dubrovnik, Croatia's Dalmatian Coast also offers the stunning city of Split, the vibrant resort town of Hvar and natural beauty in abundance - think pristine beaches, craggy coves and vineyards perched on hillsides. Make the most of your trip to this historic region with DK Eyewitness Top 10. Planning is a breeze with our simple lists of ten, covering the very best that Dubrovnik and the Dalmatian Coast have to offer and ensuring that you don't miss a thing. Best of all, the pocket-friendly format is light and easily portable; the perfect companion while out and about. DK Eyewitness Top 10 Dubrovnik and the Dalmation Coast is your ticket to the trip of a lifetime. Inside DK Eyewitness Top 10 Dubrovnik and the Dalmation Coast you will find: - Detailed Top 10 lists of Dubrovnik and the Dalmatian Coast must-sees including Dubrovnik's Old City Walls, Split's Diocletian's Palace, Vis and Hvar - Easy-to-follow itineraries including ideas for day trips, weekends and a week's worth of plans to make the most out of each and every day - Expert advice: honest recommendations on Dubrovnik and the Dalmation Coast's most interesting areas, with the best places for shopping, eating out and sightseeing, with top tips on getting ready, getting around and staying safe - Themed lists including the best family attractions, outdoor activities, old towns, beaches and much more - Detailed maps including a laminated pull-out map of Dubrovnik and the Dalmatian Coast, plus four full-colour area maps - Covers: Dubrovnik and the Dalmatian, Coast Highlights, Old City Walls - Dubrovnik, Stradun - Dubrovnik, Rector's Palace - Dubrovnik, Lokrum, Vis, Korcula Town, Trogir, Diocletian's Palace and Other Sights in Split, Hvar, Pelješac Peninsula, The Dalmation Islands, The Makarska Riviera and Split, Southern Dalmatia Looking for more on Croatia's culture, history and attractions? Don't forget to check out DK Eyewitness Croatia. About DK Eyewitness: At DK Eyewitness, we believe in the power of discovery. We make it easy for you to explore your dream destinations. DK Eyewitness travel guides have been helping travellers to make the most of their breaks since 1993. Filled with expert advice, striking photography and detailed illustrations, our highly visual DK Eyewitness guides will get you closer to your next adventure. We publish guides to more than 200 destinations, from pocket-sized city guides to comprehensive country guides. Named Top Guidebook Series at the 2020 Wanderlust Reader Travel Awards, we know that wherever you go next, your DK Eyewitness travel guides are the perfect companion.

Manuel Neukirchner lässt das legendäre Halbfinale der Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 1982 zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich in Form eines fünfaktigen Theaterstücks noch einmal gegenwärtig werden. Bei der Figurenrede handelt es sich um die tatsächlichen Aussagen der Protagonisten aus Interviews, Autobiografien oder Gesprächen. Leser/-innen können eintauchen in das Geschehen, das Einzug in das nationale Gedächtnis von Frankreich und Deutschland fand.

Das Deutsche Fußballmuseum in Dortmund zeigt zur Fußball-Europameisterschaft 2024 eine große Medienkunstausstellung zum Thema „Der Fußball in der Malerei der künstlerischen Moderne“. Der Katalog versucht eine Gesamtdarstellung des Fußballs in der Malerei der Moderne - so etwas hat es in dieser Form noch nicht gegeben. Ausstellung und Katalog werden ein herausragender Bestandteil des Kulturbegleitprogramms zur Fußball-Europameisterschaft '24 sein.

The Funding Atlas 2018 is the latest in a series of detailed reports on key figures relating to publicly funded research in Germany published by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation). In this year's Funding Atlas, data from public providers of third-party funding have been consulted and evaluated to obtain the key indicators. This English version of the Funding Atlas presents selected findings from the more comprehensive German edition. The DFG Funding Atlas furnishes reliable indicators of the effectiveness and competitiveness of publicly funded research in Germany. It documents how research locations are developing their profiles and their attractiveness for international scientists.

This white paper identifies the main issues and major recommendations for German astronomical research. Their implementation will require initiative from all partners and will allow German astronomers and astrophysicists to continuously play a leading role in their field.

The Funding Atlas is a reporting system (previously referred to as the Funding Ranking) employed by the German Research Foundation (DFG) to provide information in the form of indicators of key developments in publicly funded research in Germany every three years. This English version of the Funding Atlas 2012 presents selected findings from the more comprehensive German edition. At the core of the report are indicators that provide information on which subject areas have received funding at higher education and other research institutions in the period 2008-2010. This report also includes, as a supplement not found in the German edition, the decisions on the Excellence Initiative, which were taken shortly after the German edition of the Funding Atlas 2012 was published. The report also addresses the subject of internationality by presenting selected indicators that show how attractive Germany?s research institutions are for visiting scientists. In summary, the DFG Funding Atlas furnishes reliable indicators of the effectiveness and competitiveness of publicly funded research in Germany. It documents how research locations are developing their profiles and their attractiveness for international scientists.

This handbook provides a complete and detailed overview of piling systems and their application. The design and construction of piled foundations is based on Eurocode 7 and DIN 1054 edition 2010 as well as the European construction codes DIN EN 1536 (Bored piles), DIN EN 12699 (Displacement piles) and DIN EN 14199 (Micropiles). These recommendations also deal with
- categorisation of piling systems,
- actions on piles from structural loading, negative skin friction and side pressure,
- pile resistances from static and dynamic pile test loading as well as extensive tables with the pile load-bearing capacity of nearly all piling systems based on values from practical experience,
- pile groups,
- performance of static and dynamic test loading and integrity tests,
- load-bearing behaviour and verifications for piles under cyclical, dynamic and impact actions
- quality assurance for construction.
An appendix with numerous calculation examples completes the work.
As part of the approval procedure for offshore wind energy structures, the Federal Office for Shipping and Hydrography (BSH) demands verifications according to the new Chapter 13 ("Load-bearing behaviour and verifications for piles under cyclical, dynamical and impact actions") of the EA Pfahle (the recommendations of the Piling working group - 2nd edition), which deals with external pile resistance for the foundations of offshore wind energy structures and the types of verifications to be provided under cyclical actions.
The publication of the EA-Pfahle recommendations by the Piling working group of the German Society for Geotechnics (DGGT), which works with the same members as the piling standards committee NA 00-05-07, is intended to provide assistance for engineers active in the design, calculation and construction of piled foundations. The recommendations can thus be considered as rules of the technology and as a supplement to the available codes and standards.

The completely revised and extended Recommendations deal with all questions relevant to the planning and dimensioning of geosynthetics-reinforced earth structures. In addition to the demands on materials and analysis principles, the applications of geosynthetics in a range of foundation systems, ground improvement measures, highways engineering projects, in slopes and retaining structures, and in landfill engineering are discussed.
The Recommendations have been supplemented by the following sections:
- reinforced earth structures over point or linear bearing elements,
- foundation systems using geotextile-encased columns,
- bridging subsidence,
- dynamic actions of geosynthetic-reinforced systems.
The remaining sections have been fundamentally revised and updated in line with current standards and codes of practice.

This book examines the changing roles and functions of the soybean throughout world history and discusses how this reflects the complex processes of agrofood globalization. The book uses a historical lens to analyse the processes and features that brought us to the current global configuration of soy. From its origins as a peasant food in ancient China, today the protein-rich soybean is by far the most cultivated biotech crop on Earth, used to make a huge variety of food and industrial products, including animal feed, tofu, cooking oil, soy sauce, biodiesel and soap. While there is a burgeoning amount of literature on how the contemporary global soy web affects large tracts of our planet’s social and ecological systems, little attention has been given to the questions of how we got here and what alternative roles the soybean has played in the past. This book fills this gap and demonstrates that it is impossible to properly comprehend the contemporary global soybean chain, or the wider agrofood system of which it is a part, without looking at both their long and short historical development. However, a history of the soybean and its changing roles within equally changing agrofood systems is inexorably a history about globalization. Not only does this book map out where soybeans are produced, but also who governs, wields power and accumulates capital in the entire commodity chain from production to consumption, as well as identifying the institutional context the global commodity chain operates within. The book concludes by considering the soybean’s future role in a desirable agrofood system which improves human health, culture and livelihoods, and the provision of ecosystem services. This book is essential reading for students and scholars interested in agriculture and food systems, global commodity chains, globalization, environmental history, economic history and social-ecological systems.

The recommendations summarise the state of the art. Their aim is the proper exploitation of the ground for geothermal purposes without adversely affecting the ground or the groundwater on the one hand and the operation of the system and nearby buildings on the other. The recommendations should be used during consulting, design, installation and operation in order to achieve optimum and sustainable use of the ground at a specific location. Authorities responsible for supervising and approving projects can use the recommendations as a guide when taking decisions and making stipulations. The Geothermal Energy Study Group was set up in Bochum in 2004 and became the joint DGGV/DGGT study group in 2007. Some 20 specialists from universities, authorities and engineering consultants are active in the group and meet two or three times a year.

Anyone working in the rehabilitation arena these days is fully aware of the potential for litigation. Whether you are a counselor, life care planner, case manager, researcher, nurse, or technical expert, the chances of being called to give a deposition or make a courtroom appearance increase daily. Today, the role of the rehabilitation professional is not getting any easier. With litigation more than a possibility in any disability or catastrophic illness case, rehabilitation experts, both plaintiff and defense, need to present themselves in the very best light possible. Guide to Rehabilitation Testimony: The Expert's Role as an Educator offers something for everyone, novice and expert alike. Here are 10 comprehensive chapters of courtroom-tested procedures that work. Also provided are 11 valuable appendices. In over 23 years of working as a rehabilitation professional, Dr. Deutsch has spent thousands of hours giving testimony. Here are tried and proven methods of handling yourself and your material in a legal setting.

Meet Brick and Wax, two bright eighteen-year-olds looking for a route out of poverty. When Baltimore was engulfed in riots in 2015 they helped loot pharmacies, stealing over $100 million worth of opiates. The plan: to use their gang connections and programming skills to set up a high tech drug delivery service. The result: the teens became America's youngest drug lords, in the process sparking bloody gang warfare and a nationwide wave of addiction and murder. Now mixing in deadly circles, Brick and Wax soon found their own lives were on the line . . . As gripping and compulsive as a thriller, Pill City takes us into the heat of the action as Brick and Wax outwit the FBI and DEA, gang members like Damage and Lyric live and die by their own brutal code, the cops battle to stop the carnage, and a high-school coach risks a bullet to get addicts into rehab. Even today the teens' identity has not been uncovered, and one is prospering in Silicon Valley. Award-winning criminal justice reporter Kevin Deutsch has interviewed all the key players and interweaves their stories to tell a gritty, hard-hitting story of survival in the Baltimore underworld.

The iconic restaurant famous for "Breakfast at Brennan's" was a Creole favorite and New Orleans staple for decades before its closure in 2013. Now available in paperback, these classic recipes are sprinkled with both family and restaurant history and seasoned with the original illustrations. This collection is a must for everyone with a craving for true New Orleans flavor!

Taken together, the chapters in this book outline a theory and a practice of painting ecstatic ordinarinesses in contemporary, diverse American queer life. To do so, it offers the first sustained study of five individually renowned twenty-first-century queer painters—Gio Black Peter, Doron Langberg, Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Salman Toor, and João Gabriel—who have achieved substantial recognition from international museums, galleries, and critics working with short-form reviews but not yet from academics producing large-scale studies. This study argues for a broad understanding of what constitutes the queer American art of our time and for a broad sense of who can help to fashion American culture and history, including art by African American, Southeast Asian, Muslim and Jewish American, South American, and gender nonconforming queer artists. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, contemporary art, gender studies, and queer studies.

Following on from previous publications in 1997, 2000, 2003 and2006, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German ResearchFoundation) presents its fifth "Funding Ranking", an overview ofthe distribution of awards to universities and non-universityresearch institutions in Germany. The scope of the report hasincreased considerably compared to previous editions. Alongside thereport's central indicator - DFG awards per individual researchinstitution - the document also covers a wide range of additionalindicators regarding publicly financed research in one of theworld's leading industrial countries. For the first time, the report also includes information on R&Dfunding for selected federal programmes, for thematic prioritieswithin the European Union's Sixth Framework Programme, and forcollaborative industrial research funded by the German Federationof Industrial Cooperative Research Associations "Otto vonGuericke". The third party funding indicators, which each depictindividual aspects of publicly financed research, represent intotal approximately 80 percent of all public third party fundingfor university research.