An uproarious, inspiring, and thoroughly engaging memoir by the former Associate Dean at the University of Maryland School of Engineering. With a disarming charm coupled with a gritty determination, Dr. Marilyn Berman Pollans broke down barriers to opportunity and cracked through thick glass ceilings. Her pioneering efforts have resulted in a new generation of women entering the previously male-dominated field of engineering. This jocular and absorbing memoir recounts her struggles, her setbacks, and ultimately the victory of her indomitable spirit.

A major literary event, the publication of the second volume of Peter Weiss's three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance makes one of the towering works of twentieth-century German literature available to English-speaking readers for the first time. The crowning achievement of Peter Weiss, the internationally renowned writer best known for his play Marat/Sade, The Aesthetics of Resistance spans the period from the late 1930s to World War II, dramatizing antifascist resistance and the rise and fall of proletarian political parties in Europe. Volume II, initially published in 1978, opens with the unnamed narrator in Paris after having retreated from the front lines of the Spanish Civil War. From there, he moves on to Stockholm, where he works in a factory, becomes involved with the Communist Party, and meets Bertolt Brecht. Featuring the narrator's extended meditations on paintings, sculpture, and literature, the novel teems with characters, almost all of whom are based on historical figures. Throughout, the narrator explores the affinity between political resistance and art-the connection at the heart of Weiss's novel. Weiss suggests that meaning lies in embracing resistance, no matter how intense the oppression, and that we must look to art for new models of political action and social understanding. The Aesthetics of Resistance is one of the truly great works of postwar German literature and an essential resource for understanding twentieth-century German history.

Peter Weiss's first prose work, The Shadow of the Coachman's Body, was unanimously praised as an original and perfect work of art by critics when it appeared in 1960. Here, in poet Rosmarie Waldrop's stunning translation, Weiss arranges a dark, vividly alive comedy of inert objects in a dismal boarding house-stones, buttons, hooks, needles, chairs, newspapers in an outhouse, clinking tin cups, celestial orbs, sewing machines, an overwound windup music box-which have oblique characters' shadows as their supporting cast. Described by Weiss as a "micro-novel," The Shadow of the Coachman's Body can be obscene, trivial and brutal, and yet it is also peculiarly intimate and offers endless possibilities-like a telescope and kaleidoscope rolled into one.

The book explores recent developments in the international and national prosecution of persons accused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity. It considers the relationship between national and international law, science and practice, with emphasis on the emerging principle of universial jurisdiction and the effect of "the war on terror" on legal norms.

Conversation of the Three Wayfarers is a tale overheard, rather than told directly. Abel, Babel, and Cabel, the wayfarers, carry on a three-sided monologue, each reporting curious incidents-the effect is of three capers rolled into one: a steeplechase performed on a floating pontoon. But are they really three distinct individuals? Why do their lives blend in such a fantastic manner? Weiss's strikingly original prose has an impossibly contained quality, with each sentence doing a perfect double-double backflip before neatly landing. This essential rediscovered work, from the masterful and acclaimed German modernist Peter Weiss, will be a delightful discovery for readers of Kafka, Musil, and Gombrowicz.

"The Investigation" is a dramatic reconstruction of the Frankfurt War Crimes trials, based on the actual evidence given. This testimony, concerning Auschwitz and the atrocities which were enacted there, has been edited and extracted by Peter Weiss into a dramatic document that relies solely and completely on the facts for its effectiveness.
There is no artistic license, no manipulation of facts and figures, no rearrangement of events for theatrical effect. Nameless witnesses stand and recall their appalling memories of Auschwitz, allowing us to bear witness to their painful and painstaking search for truth and, ultimately, justice. What emerges is a chastening and purging documentary of deeply moving power.
Peter Weiss was born in 1916 and settled in Sweden before the outbreak of World War II. Apart from his writing, he was also well known as a painter, theatrical and operatic director, and a film maker. His magnificent play "Marat/Sade," which is also available from Marion Boyars Publishers, established his reputation among English-speakling audiences as a revolutionary dramatist, and has continued to be a bestselling classic. He died in 1982.

A major literary event, the publication of the second volume of Peter Weiss's three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance makes one of the towering works of twentieth-century German literature available to English-speaking readers for the first time. The crowning achievement of Peter Weiss, the internationally renowned writer best known for his play Marat/Sade, The Aesthetics of Resistance spans the period from the late 1930s to World War II, dramatizing antifascist resistance and the rise and fall of proletarian political parties in Europe. Volume II, initially published in 1978, opens with the unnamed narrator in Paris after having retreated from the front lines of the Spanish Civil War. From there, he moves on to Stockholm, where he works in a factory, becomes involved with the Communist Party, and meets Bertolt Brecht. Featuring the narrator's extended meditations on paintings, sculpture, and literature, the novel teems with characters, almost all of whom are based on historical figures. Throughout, the narrator explores the affinity between political resistance and art-the connection at the heart of Weiss's novel. Weiss suggests that meaning lies in embracing resistance, no matter how intense the oppression, and that we must look to art for new models of political action and social understanding. The Aesthetics of Resistance is one of the truly great works of postwar German literature and an essential resource for understanding twentieth-century German history.

Service ist fur Unternehmen aller Branchen ein wesentlicher Teil der Positionierung im Wettbewerb und die Grundlage erfolgreicher Geschaftsmodelle geworden. Doch fallt es Fuhrungskraften immer noch schwer, Chancen und Herausforderungen von Service fur ihr Unternehmen richtig einzuschatzen. Verpasste Chancen, uberzogene Erwartungen und unterschatzte Transformationsrisiken sind die Folge. Im Buch "Service-orientierte Geschaftsmodelle erfolgreich umsetzen" wird systematisch erlautert, wie die Chancen von Service fur die Geschaftsmodelle von Unternehmen erkannt und ausgeschoepft werden koennen - von der Analyse bis hinein in die systematische Umsetzung im Unternehmen. Dafur liefert das Buch praxiserprobte Analyse- und Fuhrungswerkzeuge.

INHALT LANG: Wegweiser Einleitung Begriffe, Konzepte, Systeme Controlling Outsourcing Reengineering Lean Management Hazard Analysis of Critical Control Point (HACCP) Spezifische Richtlinien (GCP, GLP) EN 45001 (Akkreditierung) EN ISO 15189 Point of Care Testing (POCT) Evidence Based Medicine Null-Fehler Programm Total Quality Management (TQM) Bewertungsmodell (EFQM) Benchmarking EN ISO 9000-Reihe ISO 9001:2000 (Zertifizierung) Systemaufbau nach ISO 9001:2000 Vorbereitungen Erhebung des Ist-Zustandes Verbesserung, Umorganisation Forderungen der Norm ISO 9001:2000 Dokumentation Prozessmodell Verantwortung der Leitung Management der Mittel Dienstleistungserbringung (Produnktrealisierung) Messung, Analyse, Verbesserung Bewertung des Qualitatsmanagementsystems Zertifizierungsaudit Total Quality Management (TQM) Patientenleitsystem, Beschilderungen Terminvergabe, Wartezeiten Patientenidentifikation Information, Leistungsangebote Patientenaufklarung Menschliche Kontaktfahigkeit Patientenwohlbefinden, Diskretion Krankenhausinfektionen Schmerzbehandlung Standardisierung und Leitlinien im arztlichen Bereich Schnittstellen, Nahtstellen Bewertungsmodell (EFQM) Kriterien Vergleich mit ISO Benchmarking Abschliessende Gedanken Anhang Abkurzungen Fachbegriffe Symbole Adressen Literaturverzeichnis Sachverzeichnis"

Seit 1969 treffen sieh Wirtschaftswissenschaftler aus Unternehmen und dem Deut- schen Institut fiir Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) regelmaBig im Arbeitskreis Lang- fristprognose, urn die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung von Nachfrage und Produktion der Branchen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland fUr die nachsten Jahre zu disku- tieren. Aus AnlaB der reiehlich zwanzigjahrigen Zusammenarbeit hat der Arbeits- kreis beschlossen, seine Arbeitsweise und Arbeitsergebnisse einer breiten Offent- lichkeit vorzustellen. Dokumentiert werden zwei Szenarien bis zum Jahr 2000 fUr die Bundesrepublik Deutschland in dem Gebietsstand vor dem 3. Oktober 1990. In einem Szenario - dem Referenzszenario - werden die Entwieklungen beschrieben, wie sie der Arbeitskreis Ende der 80er erwartet hat; in einem zweiten Szenario wird versucht, die von der Vereinigung Deutschlands ausgehenden Effekte auf West- deutschland separat abzuschatzen. Eine nach Wirtschaftszweigen gegliederte Prognose fUr das vereinigte Deutsch- land kann gegenwartig nieht erstellt werden, ist doch nicht einmal die Basis - das Niveau der Wirtschaftstatigkeit - der neuen Bundeslander hinreiehend bekannt. Zu unterschiedlich waren die Wirtschaftssysteme wie auch die statistische Erfassung und Darstellung der Wirtschaft. Abgesehen yom Fehlen der Datenbasis, miissen sich in den ostdeutschen Landern auch erst neue Strukturen unter den Bedingungen einer marktwirtschaftlichen Ordnung bilden. Erst dann bestehen die fiir eine fundierte langfristige Prognose notwendigen Voraussetzungen.

MORE Puzzle Tov! is a sequel to the highly popular Puzzle Tov!, a challenging collection of Jewish-themed riddles, puzzles, brainteasers and kosher conundrums. This volume includes some of the most elegant and enigmatic brain-busters ever devised. Dozens of puzzles, at all levels of difficulty, all with a bit of Jewish tradition included, make MORE Puzzle Tov! more fun than a barrel of kosher pickles. You don't have to be Jewish and you don't have to be a math genius to enjoy these delicious brainteasers. More challenging. More educational. More fun. More Puzzle Tov!

When he was 19 years old, Andrew Merey was told by the top neurosurgeons in America that he had less than a year to live. But thanks to an indomitable spirit and a positive mindset, he succeeded in surviving and thriving for another quarter century. In both quantity and quality, Andrew's inspiring life saga demonstrates the power of the mind-body relationship and how one man was able to cope with unimaginable challenges while all the while proclaiming: "I'm Still Smiling!"

This is the story of Rabbi Mika Weiss, who loved the human spirit and continuously risked his own life to save others. He wanted to become a Rabbi from his childhood despite the persecution of the Jews and university professors who continually insulted him. He became the youngest Rabbi in Hungary only to be thrust into the holocaust and its death camps. Here he rose above brutal torture to encourage his fellow Jews to stay alive. After liberation, he became the Chief Rabbi of Debrecen only to find himself again struggling to save lives during the Communist era and Hungarian Revolution. Finally escaping Hungary, he went on to become Chief Rabbi of Finland where he discovered the magnificent history of the brave Finns. He finally moved his family to the US where he became a beloved Rabbi on both the East and West Coasts. This book is based on the Rabbi's prolific sense of detail for people and events and provides insight into the behavior of people during the worst crimes of the century.

A major literary event, the publication of this masterly translation makes one of the towering works of twentieth-century German literature available to English-speaking readers for the first time. The three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance is the crowning achievement of Peter Weiss, the internationally renowned dramatist best known for his play Marat/Sade. The first volume, presented here, was initially published in Germany in 1975; the third and final volume appeared in 1981, just six months before Weiss's death. Spanning the period from the late 1930s to World War II, this historical novel dramatizes antifascist resistance and the rise and fall of proletarian political parties in Europe. Living in Berlin in 1937, the unnamed narrator and his peers-sixteen- and seventeen-year-old working-class students-seek ways to express their hatred for the Nazi regime. They meet in museums and galleries, and in their discussions they explore the affinity between political resistance and art, the connection at the heart of Weiss's novel. Weiss suggests that meaning lies in embracing resistance, no matter how intense the oppression, and that we must look to art for new models of political action and social understanding. The novel includes extended meditations on paintings, sculpture, and literature. Moving from the Berlin underground to the front lines of the Spanish Civil War and on to other parts of Europe, the story teems with characters, almost all of whom are based on historical figures. The Aesthetics of Resistance is one of the truly great works of postwar German literature and an essential resource for understanding twentieth-century German history.

Engineering Communication: From Principles to Practice, 2e, is a writing and communications text designed to guide engineering students through the process of writing polished and professional documents. The text is organized around 18 principles of clear communication derived from linguistic theory that can be applied practically to everyday writing and speaking challenges. The principles are supported by numerous tips found in marginal boxes, exercises in new "Try This" boxes, and writing samples that clearly demonstrate how each principle can be applied to everyday communication challenges. This resource also includes a series of appendices covering the fundamentals of grammar, plus a new primer on ethics for engineers.