Lehrbuch der Finanzwissenschaft: Theil 1. Die Finanzverfassung Europas

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1885 edition by F. A. Brockhaus, Leipzig. Fünfte, neubearbeitete Auflage

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From workplace to school, from professional sports to the armed services, the advent of drug-testing procedures has stirred debate and controversy. Although designed to detect and thereby curtail the use of illicit drugs, this well-intentioned procedure involves difficult issues which require informed decision making. In this thought-provoking and practical book, Robert Coombs and Louis Jolyon West introduce readers to the complex world of drug testing. Written in nontechnical language for those concerned with substance abuse issues, the authors explore drug-testing methodology and offer guidelines for selecting the appropriate screening techniques. The questions concerning "voluntary" testing, individual rights-of-privacy, and the psychological effects of mandatory testing are also discussed. Separate chapters are devoted to testing in the military, in athletics, and in private industry. Other topics include the politics of drug-testing and the treatment and counseling of drug abusers. This fascinating and important work offers crucial information for policymakers, parents, employers and employees, and will be of particular value to those who are or will be the subjects of drug screening. By telling the story of drug testing, this book enlightens and clarifies the national debate.

Drug testing in the workplace: Basic issues, answers, and options for employers (Employer guide series)

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Drug testing in the workplace: Basic issues, answers, and options for employers (Employer guide series)
Mark A De Bernardo
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Drug Testing: Issues and Options
Robert H., and West, Louis Jolyon [editors] Coombs
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Describes a consistent set of relations between the structure of polymers and their commercially important thermal and mechanical properties for engineering applications--facilitating the development of a framework of polymer physics to explore new application areas without prior correlations. Includes methods for the easy calculation of input parameters and tabulates the most important parameters for 250 polymers.

Group Interaction Modelling of Polymer Properties

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Group Interaction Modelling of Polymer Properties
David Porter
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House Made of Dawn, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1969, tells the story of a young American Indian named Abel, home from a foreign war and caught between two worlds: one his father's, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons and the harsh beauty of the land; the other of industrial America, a goading him into a compulsive cycle of dissipation and disgust.

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Powerful!!!.......2007-10-06

N.Scott Momaday like myself is a Native Oklahoman, and that makes me proud. His work is a work of Native power; it breathes in and breathes out as if it were a living being. The Pulitzer Prize was definitely well-deserved in the case of this book.
There is an almost magical sense of being to the characters. Like the overwhelming majority of the people in this state, I am a mix of several Native Bloods and White. Momaday's work speaks in a strong, honest voice to all who will listen. The characters are real; I have known them, lived among them, went to school with their children and watched the way of life Momaday seeks to capture fade into another realm.
His words are words of power; they hold truth and strength and they weave a story as expertly as the tribal storytellers of that lost generation. His voice is the voice of Native America. It carries the heartache and sorrow of a people relegated to change brought on by another culture. It relects the nature and the understanding that so many aim for but never reach.
I have read this work multiple times now and never fail to be moved by its strength and definition of character. I will read it again, and I will continue to recommend it to all who want to hear an authentic Native voice. This is a people speaking through Momaday.

Depressing to Say the Least.......2006-06-04

This book was assigned as a college reading assignment for an American Literature course, so I knew right off that I wasn't in for a real literary treat. The criteria for a reading assignment are: a main character must suffer and then die, and language and plot must work to confuse the reader. If you're looking for an entertaining read, do not choose this novel. If, however, you are looking to read something for the sole purpose of telling others that you have read it, and wish to brag at dinner parties and other things of that nature, this is probably the book for you. Personally, I like to believe that I have better things to do than read something that is depressing, boring, and poorly written.

A book worth reading........2004-10-04

In Momaday's Pulitzer Prize winning novel "House Made of Dawn," a young Native-American Indian named Abel, returns to Walatow Reservation in New Mexico from World War II. Only to discover that he is caught between two worlds. This book is a great example of Native-American fiction, it reveals the hardships of the Native-Americna people. Anyone who loves a good book based on storytelling and myth will find this book a must-read. It draws the reader in, with it's vivid description of the landscapes and ceremonies. At first I was a bit apprehensive in reading this book, because I have been told this is not a good book to read if you're reading Momaday's work for the first time. Yet, I enjoyed reading it, I apprieciated Momaday's effort to draw the reader in with the struggle of Native-American Indians living in industrial America. I recommend this book to anyone who is in search of a good book.

Enigmatic Story.......2004-05-07

This novel is a fascinating, albeit challenging, read. The basic plot and the main characters do emerge upon a first reading, but the book needs to be read at least twice for one to see its richness. I find it especially interesting to read _House Made of Dawn_ along with _Way to Rainy Mountain_. Reading both books makes each of them clearer and yields a richer understanding of Momaday's artistry. It also would be useful to read a great about Kiowa folklore and history between different readings of both books.

A Special Kind of Dawn.......2004-04-09

This 1969 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel alternates between vivid observations of nature coupled with intense word pictures which are a joy for the reader to enigmatic sketches that can leave the reader with a sense of bewilderment as to the possible symbolic meaning. This patchwork construction of the piece begs a second reading of the work even by the careful reader. This is not a work to be undertaken lightly but will be most rewarding to the careful reader.

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With great respect and attention to detail, Momaday tells a story of four days in the lives of Native American people who are struggling to maintain their identity in the ever-changing and approaching modern world.

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Jaskoski's Cliffs Notes on Momaday's House Made of Dawn.......2005-01-13

I almost wish I had remained unaware of the existence of Cliffs Notes on this masterpiece of American letters. House Made of Dawn not only won Scott Momaday the Pulitzer Prize for fiction but also brought American Indian Literature into the "canon." The availability of Cliffs Notes on this novel is certainly a strong indication of its importance to the college curriculum. Though Jaskoski's treatment will aid the student somewhat in navigating the fragmented time scheme and shifting points of view in Momaday's writing, I am troubled by the many explanations which are riddled with confusions, omissions, and inaccuracies.

Trouble, as far as I am concerned, begins as early as the first chapter, which intends to review the life and background of the novel's author. For example, for Jaskoski to summarize Scott Momaday's personal journey, which was supposed to retrace the Kiowa's mythic migration, as traveling north from Oklahoma to South Dakota (Cliffs Notes p. 7) is confusing to the reader, who later learns in Tosamah's sermon that the autobiographical journey actually started by following the course of the Yellowstone River, and continued south (not north!) by crossing the Big Horn River to reach Devil's Tower, all places in Montana and Wyoming, not South Dakota (House Made of Dawn p. 130).

Confusion continues in the introduction to the novel with regard to Abel's stabbing of the albino, an event which does not take place in a cornfield (Cliffs Notes p. 9) but across the highway from Paco's Bar among the dunes near a telegraph pole (House Made of Dawn p. 82). The presence of the telegraph pole is especially salient because it evokes an actual murder near San Ysidro, New Mexico, to which Momaday has referred in letters quoted by Mathias Schubnell (N. Scott Momaday: The Cultural and Literary Background p. 102). Also in the introduction, Jaskoski obfuscates rather than clarifies when she does not bother to explain what a "49" party is (Cliff Notes pp. 10, 52). Since Momaday does not use this term in his novel, Jaskoski unnecessarily introduces jargon accessible only to a small segment of readers familiar with pan-Indian culture.

The "critical essay" on witchcraft makes available only an incomplete explanation of Abel's motivation for killing the albino (Cliffs Notes p.70). To simply dismiss the witchcraft that Abel attributes to the albino as enigmatic fails to take into consideration clear textual clues which Jaskoski herself points outs (Cliffs Notes p. 32). Francisco was aware of the hidden presence of the albino, who was watching him work in his cornfield (House Made of Dawn p. p.67), a behavior traditionally identified with witches attempting to curse someone's crops and harvests. Staring, even from afar, peering into windows, or otherwise fixing your gaze on individuals of any age, is considered malicious in Native belief systems (See Clyde Kluckhohn's Navajo Witchcraft and Elsie Parson's The Pueblo of Jemez).

The suggested genealogies are also less than satisfactory. For instance, Abel's chart (Cliffs Notes p. 44) has a glaring omission in failing to list Fray Nicolás as Francisco's possible father. Both the novel (House Made of Dawn p. 205) and Jaskoski herself (Cliffs Notes p. 63) suggest that possibility. Furthermore, Jaskoski's listing of Porcingula Pecos as "possibly" Abel's grandmother (Cliff Notes p. 44) becomes illogical when she later acknowledges, as the novel reveals, that Francisco turned away from Porcingula after their child was stillborn (Cliff Notes p. 63). Following the genealogies, the pertinent maps are somewhat helpful; however, in the accompanying explanatory text to the enlargement of the greater Albuquerque area, Jaskoski erroneously suggests that Abel would likely have taken old Route 66 "on his way from California to Jemez" (Cliffs Notes p. 46). Yet, the novel is unambiguous in Abel's making the return trip to the Southwest by train, the more common mode of long-distance transportation in the early 1950s, and Jaskoski herself describes the events in those terms in the section covering February 20 (Cliffs Notes p. 51).

The most glaring errors emerge in the glossaries, which, one would think, are supposed to be one of the more helpful aids in accessing the esoteric meanings in the novel. For example, the entry for "pueblo" (Cliffs Notes p. 17) defines these Native settlements as "city states," an incorrect characterization of this kind of society because it implies an urban context with a central authority and a substantial population. Though politically autonomous, pueblo communities have decentralized tribal kinship structures with low populations. Before European contact, puebloans had essentially Neolithic cultures. The entry for "Tanoan" shows confusion regarding linguistic classifications (Cliffs Notes p. 23). Tewa and Towa are not language "groups" in the same sense that Tanoan is; instead, they are simply languages which are members of the Tanoan group. In the same glossary (Cliffs Notes p. 23), Jaskoski defines "Pecos" insufficiently as a river in Texas to the south and east of Jemez. While the Pecos River does empty into the Rio Grande in Texas, the major part of its course runs through New Mexico. Furthermore, the name "Pecos" is used by Momaday to refer primarily to the abandoned historic pueblo, situated near the headwaters of the river by the same name. Pecos is also a surname at Jemez Pueblo. The entry for "Torreon" as a city in Mexico (Cliffs Notes p. 32) is true enough but completely irrelevant regarding this novel. The Torreón which Momaday mentions (House Made of Dawn p. 59) is a small settlement of mostly Navajos in northern New Mexico. The definition for "Tsegihi" is incomplete (Cliffs Notes p. 58). In Navajo it simply means "place among the rocks" with implications of sacred ground (See Scott Momaday's The Names p. 70). The sacred place invoked in the House Made of Dawn prayer is certainly not located along the northern Rio Grande, as Jaskoski loosely suggests, but in the San Juan River basin (See Susan Scarberry-Garcia's Landmarks of Healing p. 7). The claim that "ketoh" is a type of tobacco (Cliffs Notes p. 59) is completely off the mark. The object by that name in the novel is a wristlet made of silver. The explanation for "Yeí bichai" as Holy People (Cliff Notes pp. 60, 70) is inaccurate. The term for Holy People is simply "Yeí"; however, the full term "Yeí bichai" refers to Talking God or Grandfather of Gods and may also be applied to the nine-day Nightway ceremonial, during which various dancers impersonate twelve gods or "Yeí". Finally, Jaskoski's pseudo-translation of the Jemez phrase "kethá ahme" as "I'm a little bit of something" (Cliffs Notes p. 64) appears to be entirely fabricated since Momaday, in his essay "On Indian-White Relations: A Point if View," gives the meaning of the same phrase as "home" (The Man Made of Words p. 51).

Whatever assistance Cliffs Notes, though generally a respected and trusted resource, attempt to offer the student of this novel is undermined by the errors of someone who clearly does not know the novel sufficiently. Inaccuracies lead to distortions, and distortions are a danger to the role literature plays in such processes as identity formation and personal growth. House Made of Dawn is a crucial work for American Indian communities, and thus it deserves a more careful treatment.

House Made of Dawn the Names the Gourd Dancer: Tsoai and the Shieldmaker

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House Made of Dawn the Names the Gourd Dancer: Tsoai and the Shieldmaker
N. Scott Momaday
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Landmarks of Healing: A Study of House Made of Dawn

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Landmarks of Healing: A Study of House Made of Dawn
Susan Scarberry-Garcia
Manufacturer: Univ of New Mexico Pr
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House Made of Dawn

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N. Scott Momaday
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N.SCOTT MOMADAY
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N. Scott Momaday
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N. Scott Momaday
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House Made of Dawn
M. Scott Momaday
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Tea cozy without a pot

A cosy Cosy

Another Sweet Mystery

Tea, Cake, and Murder

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Chamomile Mourning (Tea Shop Mystery)
Laura Childs
Manufacturer: Berkley Hardcover
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Gunpowder Green

ASIN: 0425202518

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Another tempest in a teapot from the national bestselling author of The Jasmine Moon Murder.

At Charleston's Spoleto festival, teashop owner Theodosia Browning is far from festive when the Poet's Tea is forced indoors by rain. But rain proves to be the least of her problems after a local auction house owner plummets from a balcony to his death-and it looks like someone helped him over the edge.

With a full kettle of suspects, Theodosia investigates and uncovers a criminal enterprise of art forgery, fraud--and murder--that leads her into the murky swamps of the South Carolina Lowcountry. Now, she's hot on the heels of a criminal who plans on showing her just how dangerous it is to stick her sensitive nose where it doesn't belong.

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Tea cozy without a pot.......2007-09-07

This is another Tea Shop Mystery starring Theodosia Browning and her buddies. All of the characters are very nice except, of course, the killer and we don't really have a take on that person until the very end. This is a very light read with little or no substance to the story.

A cosy Cosy.......2007-06-18

I greatly enjoy the tea shop mysteries. The characters are likeable, and believable. I am not looking for great literature when I read to relax, nor do I want to be frightened to death. The tea shop mysteries fill the bill. I have read three and enjoyed them all.

Another Sweet Mystery.......2007-05-31

This is the 3rd Tea Shop Mystery I've read and I enjoyed it. It's not great literature, but it's still a great way to occupy the bus ride to/from work. It's pretty much the same as the others in the series, of course, with a new murder. The one thing that I found annoying is that the author kept talking about how beautiful Theo is and how wonderful her hair is. Theo seems pretty much perfect with a perfect life and I would like to see a bit more realism with her. My other little gripe is when she veers away from the plot. For example, the bits with Earl Grey the service dog are pretty much pointless. Again, Theo is a saint with an angel of a dog. A service dog is a wonderful thing, but there's no need to have an entire chapter in every book dedicated to the trip to the senior home. It would be different if a clue came out of it. Other than that, it's still a good story with wonderful atmosphere.

Tea, Cake, and Murder.......2007-03-25

This is only one of the Tea Shop mystery series, and while it's not quite a good as some of the others, it's still a pleasant read. The Theodosia Browning and the Indigo Tea Shop are hired to cater the first Poet's Tea for the Heritage Society, but when a huge storm blows into Charleston, Theodosia's event along with her cake is ruined by by a falling body.

The dead body is the chairman of the Heritage Society and with the annual Spring Art Auction less than a week away, it's imperative that the murderer be brought to justice. One of Haley's friend is the prime suspect and Theodosia,Haley and Drayton want to clear her name and solve yet another myatery.

As usual, Laura Childs beguiles the reader with little bits of tea information and descriptions of yummy offerings at the Indigo Tea Shop. This along with the interactions of the characters, the clues, the suspects, the red herrings, makes this charming cozy a fun read.

Author or still the Ad Exec?.......2006-10-05

Laura Childs' books make for a fun, light read, I'll not deny it. They are great for the bus ride home from work. My one irritation when reading this series is that her books appear to be sponsored by "Jeep" and other products. Ms. Childs can't say "Theo gets in her car" or "she opens her handbag/purse". I feel her publisher must be whichever corporate sponsor is paying her to plug their products. In some cases identifying a product works, but in Chamomile Mourning I was bludgeoned to death with "Jeep". That said, if you read whatever "generic" fits instead of Laura Child's product plugs, the books are quite fun.

Chamomile Mourning, Gunpowder Green (Tea Shop Mystery, volumes 2, 6)

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Chamomile Mourning, Gunpowder Green (Tea Shop Mystery, volumes 2, 6)
Laura Childs
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Gunpowder Green: The Indigo Tea Shop, Charleston's favorite spot of tea, has just come out with its latest flavor: Gunpowder Green. Theodosia Browning cannot wait to hear its praises as it is unveiled at the annual yacht race. But when she hears the crack of an antique gun meant to end the race, a member of Charleston's elite falls dead. Theodosia has a hunch that his demise was no accicent-and will go out of her way to prove it. But if she doesn't act fast, Theo will find herself in hot water with some boiling-mad Charlestonians-and more than a little gun-chai. Chamomile Mourning: Charleston, S.C., is alive with music, dancing, and the arts as the Spoleto festival gets underway. But Indigo Tea Ship owner Theodosia Browning feels far from festive when the inaugural Poet's Tea is forced into one of the Heritage Society's austere halls by rain. And when it rains, it pours-as proven when a respected auction house owner plummets from the balcony, landing dead on Therdosia's specially-prepared cake. Worse yet, it looks like someone helped him over the edge. With a full kettle of suspects, Theodosia pursues an investigation into the murky swamps of the Low Country, where she uncovers a thriving criminal enterprise of art forgery, fraud-and murder.

Chamomile Mourning, Gunpowder (Tea Shop Mystery, volumes 2, 6)

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Tea Shop Mystery Series: Death by Darjeeling, Gunpowder Green, Shades of Earl Grey, English Breakfast Murder, The Jasmine Moon Murder, Chamomile Mourning, Blood Orange Brewing (Set of 7 Mystery Novels)

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