In this timely work, the author analyzes the use of private military firms and international interventions of the military. Outsourcing to the private sector takes missions away from the military, but the shift towards international intervention adds new, wider functions to the traditional role of defence. If these two trends continue at the present pace, important security functions will be out of control of parliaments, national governments and international authorities. The state monopoly of violence - an achievement of civilization - is at stake.

In this timely work, the author analyzes the use of private military firms and international interventions of the military. Outsourcing to the private sector takes missions away from the military, but the shift towards international intervention adds new, wider functions to the traditional role of defence. If these two trends continue at the present pace, important security functions will be out of control of parliaments, national governments and international authorities. The state monopoly of violence - an achievement of civilization - is at stake.

Es gibt keine dramatischere physiologische Funktionsanderung im Le ben des Menschen und der Saugetiere als die Umstellung von Kreislauf und Atmung beim 'Obergang vom intrauterinen zum extrauterinen Leben. Da hiervon in erster Linie der Atemgastransport und nicht die Zellatmung betroffen ist, solI insbesondere iiber die Anderung des Gas transportes wahrend der Perinatal zeit berimtet werden. Unser An liegen ist eine Smilderung der Hauptprobleme, ohne eine vollstandige Besprechung des Gebietes anzustreben. Ausfiihrliche Darstellungen von Teilgebieten mit reichem Tatsachenmaterial liegen vor (ASSALI, 1968; BARTELS, 1970; BARTELS und WULF, 1965; DAWES, 1968; METCALFE, BARTELS und MOLL, 1967; MOLL und BARTELS, 1971; RIEGEL, 1965; SMITH, 1959). Eine Einteilung des Steffes ergibt sich durch die Untersmiede des Gas austausches in der Placenta und in der Lunge. Der Sauerstolf, den der Fetus braucht, kann nur iiber die Atemwege der Mutter, das miitter liche Blut und die Placenta in das fetale Blut transportiert werden. Wir werden deshalb zuerst iiber den Gastransport im miitterlichen und fetalen Organismus sprechen und die Besonderheiten, die dabei fiir miitterliches und fetales Blut gelten, behandeln. Weiterhin wird der 'Obertritt der Gase in der Placenta geschildert und schlieBlim die Ventilation und ihre Regulation dargestellt. Die Kenntnis der physiologismen Vorgange bei der Umstellung von placentarer zur Lungenatmung ist eine Voraussetzung fiir die Behand lung der gestorten Funktion. Deshalb solI auf therapeutisme Folgerun gen, die sim aus der Besprechung der physiologischen Befunde ergeben, in einem abschlieBenden Kapitel hingewiesen werden."

From the Introduction: Sudden and unexpected loss of communication is a terrifying, dehumanizing experience that tears away at the essence of life itself. For decades, speech and language pathologists have sought to better understand it. The term aphasia is used to generally describe a condition whereby speech and language skills are partially or totally lost. Aphasia is the result of damage to or disturbance of those areas in the brain responsible for speech and language functions. A tremendous variety of specific impairments can occur to plague the individual with aphasia. Impairments of comprehension, reading disturbances, writing difficulties, and confusion with numerical processes can accompany oral language problems such as word loss, loss of sentence structure, and confusion in utilizing word forms. . . To understand aphasia at this level alone is to miss the full nature of this terribly debilitating condition. For the effect that aphasia has on the person who must bear its consequences is a profound area of interest that is not always understood and. . . seldom considered. Aphasia, My World Alone has been written to help open this often closed door. . . Helen Wulf has put down on paper a depth of feeling, thought, and analysis concerning the aphasic experience that personalizes the disorder in a gripping, readable manner. She delves so deeply into her aphasia that the reader is actually drawn up into the agony and frustration that is the daily burden of the aphasic individual. Speech pathologists who actively work with aphasic patients will immediately recognize the value of Helen Wulf's analysis of her aphasia. Her reactions to various forms of treatment will also be beneficial, especially to those who are allowing certain aphasics to determine which speech and language deficits are most debilitating and, consequently, which area should be emphasized in the initial stages of treatment. Family and friends of the aphasic will be warmly introduced to those inner thoughts so long hidden from their ears. . . This book. . . should be extremely useful in family counseling. . . As many speech pathologists have indicated, the need for "family treatment" is immediate, real, and often of critical importance. . . As the field of aphasia rehabilitation continues its growth ... our ability to help the aphasic and his family will expand. It is felt that in its small way, this book will help make aphasia less of a world alone. A new chapter has been added to this revised edition in which Helen Wulf assesses her feelings and the progress she has made six to eight years post-stroke.