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In his most extraordinary book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. These are case studies of people who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people or common objects; whose limbs have become alien; who are afflicted and yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents. In Dr Sacks's splendid and sympathetic telling, each tale is a unique and deeply human study of life struggling against incredible adversity. 'Oliver Sacks has become the world's best-known neurologist. His case studies of broken minds offer brilliant insight into the mysteries of consciousness' - Guardian Product details Format ...

The feature which distinguishes the great works of materialist thought, from Lucretius' De rerum natura through Capital to the writings of Lacan, is their unfinished character: again and again they tackle their chosen problem. Schelling's Weltalter drafts belong to this same series, with their repeated attempt at the formulation of the 'beginning of the world,' of the passage from the pre-symbolic pulsation of the Real to the universe of logos. F.W.J. Schelling, the German idealist who for too long dwelled in the shadow of Kant and Hegel, was the first to formulate the post-idealist motifs of finitude, contingency and temporality. His unique work announces Marx's critique of speculative idealism, as well as the properly Freudian notion of drive, of a blind compulsion to repeat which can never be sublated in the ideal medium of language. The Indivisible Remainder begins with a detailed examination of the two works in which Schelling's speculative audacity re...

From the end of World War II down to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the primary objective of U.S. foreign policy has been to prevent the expansion of communism. Indeed, that objective was directly embodied in the so-called strategy of containment, a global approach to the pursuit of U.S. national security interests that was first adumbrated by George F. Kennan in 1947 and later became the guiding force in U.S. foreign policy. At first, the concept of containment was applied primarily to Europe. It was there that the threat to U.S. interests from international communism directed from Moscow was first perceived, in the form of Soviet efforts to dominate the nations of Eastern Europe and extend Soviet influence into the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East. Other areas of the world-Asia, Africa, and Latin America-were considered to be less threatened by forces hostile to the free world or more peripheral to U.S. foreign policy concerns. At least that was the view initially proc...

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Sight words, also called high frequency words, are the words that appear with the highest frequency in written text. Working hard to learn these words by sight (memorizing) pays off. It allows kids to free up cognitive resources so they can focus on the tougher words that require strong decoding skills. They are also able to understand the majority of the text if those decoding skills fail. There is more to why sight words are important than just simply the mechanics of reading; they are also fantastic confidence boosters. Sight-word knowledge provides a scaffold of understanding and confidence for new readers who need to use all the other tools in their tool box to complete the job at hand: reading with understanding. Product details Format Paperback | 106 pages ...

. Written by a leading expert in the field . Clearly presents all known auricular diagnostic procedures within a scientific context . Well illustrated with drawings and photos which are easily "read" . Includes the teaching work of a well-known and respected auriculotherapy teacher . Attractive page design and illustrations are included Product details Format Hardback | 320 pages Dimensions 189 x 246 x 20.32mm | 860g ...

DITA VON TEESE Die Pin-up-Queen und Striptease-Tänzerin Dita Von Teese ist berühmt für ihren Kleidungsstil, der sich an der Mode vergangener Jahrzehnte orientiert, für ihr Gespür, sich geschmackvoll in Szene zu setzen, und vor allem für ihre umwerfende Schönheit. Kein Wunder, dass sie heutzutage die neuesten Kreationen von Stardesigner Jean-Paul Gaultier auf dem Laufsteg präsentiert und den berühmtesten Fotografen der Welt Modell steht. Bereits als kleines Mädchen entwickelte Dita Von Teese eine Leidenschaft für die Mu sicalfilme der Vierziger. Sie konnte es kaum erwarten, Ballettunterricht zu nehmen, und begeisterte sich früh für aufwendig gearbeitete Wäsche. BURLESQUE Dita Von Teese zeigt sich auf farbenprächtigen Bildern in atemberaubenden Kostümen und Dessous - angelehnt an die Tradition der New Burlesque. Sie berichtet von deren Anfängen im Amerika des späten 19. Jahrhunderts und erzählt stil sicher die Kulturgeschichte des Striptease. In Wort und Bild erweckt sie vergangene Zeite...

Wer dauernd von Pontius zu Pilatus geschickt wird und irgendwann merkt, dass das nun auch nicht der wahre Jakob ist, der schimpft auf das ganze Tohuwabohu und hat schon drei Redewendungen aus der Bibel gebraucht, vielleicht ohne sich dessen bewusst zu sein. Auf Sand gebaut? ist das Buch zu der erfolgreichen Radiosendereihe Am Anfang war das Wort von NDR 1 Niedersachsen (jeden Sonnabend um 17.40 Uhr). Es enthält 52 Geschichten zu und über Bibelzitate im Alltag. Diese Zitate zeigen, wie allgegenwärtig und aussagekräftig das Buch der Bücher auch heute noch ist, obwohl die darin gesammelten Erzählungen, Gleichnisse und Lebenshilfen mehrere tausend Jahre alt sind. Wer die Bibel aufschlägt, wird sich wundern, wie bekannt, vertraut und spannend viele der Geschichten sind. Die vielen Bibelzitate in unserer Umgangssprache sind ein sicheres Indiz dafür, dass die Bibel keineswegs an Aktualität eingebüßt hat. Product details ...