"A married vicar with a passion for a young single woman, a bitter publican, a Peeping Tom, a resentful church warden: our human frailties are still much as they always have been.Over three hundred years ago, the Reverend Robert Foulkes arrived as the new incumbent at the wealthy parish of Stanton Lacy, Shropshire. Charismatic, 'exceedingly followed and admired', he set off a chain of events which led to his hanging at Tyburn in 1679.What irrational impulse could have brought a man of the Church to such a squalid end? Historian Peter Klein has pieced together remarkable documentary evidence which shows a village seething with jealousies, covetousness and sexual intrigue. Their eloquent new vicar was the catalyst for the moving and powerful tragedy that followed.Awaiting execution, in Newgate gaol, Foulkes wrote his confessional pamphlet, An Alarme for Sinners, which was an immediate C17th best-seller.Today the ancient church of Stanton Lacy still stands and there inscribed on a wall plaque, along with other less notorious vicars, is the name of Reverend Robert Foulkes and the dates he served there. In this remarkable book, Peter Klein unfolds the full story of Robert Foulkes for the first time.From the scaffold, Foulkes addressed the crowd: 'You may in me see what sin is, and what it will end in.'A true story ""more real than any historical novel - more moving, more evocative, more human."" John FowlesJacketed paperback, includes 'character list' book mark."

The Civic Imagination provides a rich empirical description of civic life and a broader discussion of the future of democracy in contemporary America. Over the course of a year, five researchers observed and participated in 7 civic organisations in a mid-sized US city. They draw on this ethnographic evidence to map the 'civic imaginations' that motivate citizenship engagement in America today. The book unpacks how contemporary Americans think about and act toward positive social and political change while the authors' findings challenge contemporary assertions of American apathy. This will be an important book for students and academics interested in political science and sociology.

The Civic Imagination provides a rich empirical description of civic life and a broader discussion of the future of democracy in contemporary America. Over the course of a year, five researchers observed and participated in 7 civic organisations in a mid-sized US city. They draw on this ethnographic evidence to map the 'civic imaginations' that motivate citizenship engagement in America today. The book unpacks how contemporary Americans think about and act toward positive social and political change while the authors' findings challenge contemporary assertions of American apathy. This will be an important book for students and academics interested in political science and sociology.

The process of heating and reshaping plastics sheet and film materials has been in use since the beginning of the plastics industry. This process is known as thermoforming. Today this process is used for industrial products including signage, housings, and hot tubs. It also produces much of the packaging in use today including blister packs, egg cartons, and food storage containers. This process has many advantages over other methods of producing these products, but it has some limitations. This book has a twofold purpose. It is designed to be used as a text book for a course on thermoforming. It is also intended to be an application guide for professionals in the field of thermoforming including manufacturing, process and quality engineers, and managers. This book is focused on process application rather than theory. It refers to real products and processes with the intent of understanding the real issues faced in this industry. In addition to materials and processes, part and tool design are covered. Quality control is critical to any operation and this is also covered in this text. Two areas of focus in today's industry include Lean operations and environmental issues. Both of these topics are also included. Table of Contents: Introduction / Plastics Materials / Thermoforming Process Overview / The Forming Process / Part Design Mold / Tool Design / Quality Control Issues / Lean Operations / Environmental Issues

"With its ... over thousand] detailed and expansive footnotes drawing on twenty-four different archive collections in eight countries and three continents and an enormous secondary literature, this is one of the best researched regional studies of the Holocaust ever to appear. It is helped by the fact that the authors are also always so cognizant of what was happening elsewhere in Europe at the same time and thus frequently draw out the relationship between seemingly haphazard local decisions and trends across Europe...Indeed, the way in which the book 'makes sense' of complex institutional behavior is at times breathtaking...The precision in the detail and the scope of the contextualization make this one of the more important works to appear on the Holocaust in recent years." . English Historical Review

"This very readable and well documented study fills an important gap in the Holocaust literature: it offers insight into the microcosm reflecting the entire terrifying and murderous scenario of the SS State." . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

" This] excellent study of the Riga ghetto, informed by Eastern European sources and available now in English translation, provides a precise and ghastly description of what the liquidation] meant for the local Jews. With laudable thoroughness, they describe the organized shooting of Jews, the first form of industrial-scale mass murder." . The New York Review of Books

Ghetto, forced labor camp, concentration camp: All of the elements of the National Socialists' policies of annihilation were to be found in Riga. This first analysis of the Riga ghetto and the nearby camps of Salaspils and Jungfernhof addresses all aspects of German occupation policy during the Second World War. Drawing upon a broad array of sources that includes previously inaccessible Soviet archives, postwar criminal investigations, and trial records of alleged perpetrators, and the records of the Society of Survivors of the Riga Ghetto, the authors have produced an in-depth study of the Riga ghetto that never loses sight of the Latvian capital's place within the overall design of Nazi policy and the all-of-Europe dimension of the Holocaust.

Andrej Angrick, a native of Berlin, is a historian, consultant, and researcher affiliated with the Hamburg Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Culture. He has published numerous articles about the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and co-edited "Der Dienstkalender Heinrich Himmlers 1941/42" (1999) and "Die Gestapo nach 1945: Karrieren, Konflikte, Konstruktionen" (with Klaus-Michael Mallmann, 2009), as well as "Besatzungspolitik und Massenmord: Die Einsatzgruppe D in der sudlichen Sowjetunion 1941-1943" (2003).

Peter Klein, a Berlin-based historian, consultant, and researcher affiliated with the Hamburg Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Culture, has published widely on the Holocaust and German occupation in various parts of central and eastern Europe during the Second World War. Klein was the editor of "Die Einsatzgruppen in der besetzten Sowjetunion 1941/1942" (1997) and a co-editor of "Der Dienstkalender Heinrich Himmlers 1941/42" (1999). He is the author of "Gettoverwaltung Litzmannstadt" (2009).

Ray Brandon is a freelance translator, historian, and researcher based in Berlin. A former editor at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, English Edition, he is co-editor, with Wendy Lower, of "The Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimony, Memorialization."

"With its ... over thousand] detailed and expansive footnotes drawing on twenty-four different archive collections in eight countries and three continents and an enormous secondary literature, this is one of the best researched regional studies of the Holocaust ever to appear. It is helped by the fact that the authors are also always so cognizant of what was happening elsewhere in Europe at the same time and thus frequently draw out the relationship between seemingly haphazard local decisions and trends across Europe...Indeed, the way in which the book 'makes sense' of complex institutional behavior is at times breathtaking...The precision in the detail and the scope of the contextualization make this one of the more important works to appear on the Holocaust in recent years." . English Historical Review

"This very readable and well documented study fills an important gap in the Holocaust literature: it offers insight into the microcosm reflecting the entire terrifying and murderous scenario of the SS State." . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Ghetto, forced labor camp, concentration camp: All of the elements of the National Socialists' policies of annihilation were to be found in Riga. This first analysis of the Riga ghetto and the nearby camps of Salaspils and Jungfernhof addresses all aspects of German occupation policy during the Second World War. Drawing upon a broad array of sources that includes previously inaccessible Soviet archives, postwar criminal investigations, and trial records of alleged perpetrators, and the records of the Society of Survivors of the Riga Ghetto, the authors have produced an in-depth study of the Riga ghetto that never loses sight of the Latvian capital's place within the overall design of Nazi policy and the all-of-Europe dimension of the Holocaust.

Andrej Angrick, a native of Berlin, is a historian, consultant, and researcher affiliated with the Hamburg Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Culture. He has published numerous articles about the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and co-edited Der Dienstkalender Heinrich Himmlers 1941/42 (1999) and Die Gestapo nach 1945: Karrieren, Konflikte, Konstruktionen (with Klaus-Michael Mallmann, 2009), as well as Besatzungspolitik und Massenmord: Die Einsatzgruppe D in der sudlichen Sowjetunion 1941-1943 (2003).

Peter Klein, a Berlin-based historian, consultant, and researcher affiliated with the Hamburg Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Culture, has published widely on the Holocaust and German occupation in various parts of central and eastern Europe during the Second World War. Klein was the editor of Die Einsatzgruppen in der besetzten Sowjetunion 1941/1942 (1997) and a co-editor of Der Dienstkalender Heinrich Himmlers 1941/42 (1999). He is the author of "Gettoverwaltung Litzmannstadt" (2009).

Ray Brandon is a freelance translator, historian, and researcher based in Berlin. A former editor at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, English Edition, he is co-editor, with Wendy Lower, of The Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimony, Memorialization.

Das Buch beschreibt die mathematischen Methoden der Netzwerk- und Systemanalyse in der Elektro- und Informationstechnik. Besonderer Wert wurde auf leichte Verstandlichkeit und zugangliche Erklarungen gelegt. Uber 200 praxisnahe Beispiele und Ubungsaufgaben mit ausfuhrlichen Musterlosungen unterstutzen die Vermittlung des Lehrstoffes."

In diesem Werk wird untersucht, in welcher Form sich interne elektronische Markte zur Kapitalallokation in bestehenden Hierarchien einsetzen lassen, schwerpunktmassig fur die effiziente Eigenkapitalverwendung in Banken."

Das historische Buch k nnen zahlreiche Rechtschreibfehler, fehlende Texte, Bilder, oder einen Index. K ufer k nnen eine kostenlose gescannte Kopie des Originals (ohne Tippfehler) durch den Verlag. 1905. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: ... grund hervorgehoben.106-107) F r die Praxis d rfte er nur von untergeordneter Bedeutung sein. F r das Verst ndnis des Entwicklungsganges und der Beendigung des zusammengesetzten Schuldverh ltnisses ist er in hohem Masse wichtig. Wird dieser Endigungsgrund ber cksichtigt, so schliesst sich die L cke, die auf den ersten Blick bei den Erl schensgr nden von Einzelforderungen blieb. Sind diese Einzelforderungen durch Erf llung, Aufrechnung, Hinterlegung usw. erloschen, so bricht schliesslich das Schuldverh ltnis als solches in sich zusammen, weil es nicht mehr einen Inhalt hat. Dar ber, ob es sich hier um eine Erscheinung des von uns behandelten Problems der Zweckerreichung handelt, vgl. S. 148 dieses Buches B. II. Kapitel: Zweck und Zweckerreichung. Das Problem des Zwecks. 7. Nachdem in den vorhergehenden Er rterungen der Umfang unseres Problems im allgemeinen abgegrenzt worden und die Vorbegriffe festgelegt worden sind, soll nun der Inhalt unseres Problems, das Wesen der Zvveckerreichung, eingehend untersucht werden. Der Begriff Zweckerreichung" setzt den Begriff Zweck" voraus; dieser ist mithin zun chst zu erforschen. 06) Ausf hrlicher dar ber Klein in der stRZ. I S. 162. 10') Vgl. auch 1. 26 pr. D. 17 i: Julianus quoque scripsit, mandatoris morte solvi mandatum, sed Obligationen) aliquando durare. Hierbei gehen wir von dem Begriff des Zwecks im philosophischen Sinne aus. Nur diese Methode gibt ein Verfahren, mittels dessen bestimmte Begriffe und begr ndete Urteile erreicht werden k nnen. Eine kurze Rechtfertigung dieser Methode schicken wir voraus. Dem Versuche zur n heren Bestimmung des Zweckbegriffs die ...

Blood Red Pleasure continues the story of the young vampire, Mary Hoffman, aka Erica, as she tries to untangle the mistakes she made during her first year as a vampire. Mary and Ana, Mary's creation and lover, need to decide if they want to rebuild their gentlemen's club destroyed in a fire or drop all associations with humans in an effort to stop surveillance by the FBI and CIA who regard them as persons of interest in the torching of their club and a competitors club. They also need to decide on the fate of a Schenectady City Councilwoman who is the only human who knows they are vampires, a woman who wants to be part of their love triangle and hopes to help them secure humans for the blood they need. The story follows them from Schenectady to a castle in Romania to a castle in the Adirondacks and all points near and in between. Blood will flow. A professor will become an unwitting terrorist. The innocent and the guilty will die before Mary and Ana are satisfied.

While politics is serious, after a long and divisive presidential political campaign season, many would just like all the politicians and the news media that encourages them to foam at the mouth to just shut up and go away. This interactive book is meant just for fun and could just as well be titled "The Complete Book of Democratic Wisdom and Knowledge.

Mary Hoffman, aka Erica, the Dancing Valkyrie, the vampire who owns a gentleman's club in Schenectady, NY, continues her growth and experience as a vampire. In this third book in the series, she confronts mistakes made as she tries to untangle herself from those mistakes and extricate herself from being under surveillance by both the FBI and CIA. Who and how many will she need to kill to live freely as a vampire created by God?

Confessions of an Online Male Prostitute is a story about a middle aged married man whose sex life with his wife has been absent for a number of years. Yearning for some sex but not willing to go to bars or pay for some mutual fun, he decides the Internet is the safe way to go and works up the nerve to see if he can get anyone to pay him to take off his clothes and perform what amounts to an online peep show. Of course those who do stop by are gay men. One day, one of his clients asks him to exchange emails to talk and maybe meet. He agrees even though he doesn't consider himself gay. He does because he has unresolved issues from his distant past and tells himself this may be a way to resolve those issues.

The vampire novel "The Vampire Valkyrie" takes off where "The Dancing Valkyrie" concluded and resumes the tale of a young female vampire who just may be the most dangerous vampire in vampire fiction to date. The new novel,"The Vampire Valkyrie," by Pete Klein, is the story of a young vampire woman who is an erotic dancer at a topless club she owns in Schenectady, NY.