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The Financial System Limit by investment manager David Kauders FRSA, is now published in print. This book challenges Keynesian policy assumptions followed by central banks.
View Rights PortalThe Financial System Limit by investment manager David Kauders FRSA, is now published in print. This book challenges Keynesian policy assumptions followed by central banks.
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View Rights PortalProf. Alexander (Ali) Blankstein Seine große Liebe zu Mensch und Natur führte ihn weltweit an ferne Ufer. Abgesehen von seinem Stethoskop, das er mitnimmt, um Menschen zu helfen, führt Prof. Blankstein in seinem Reisegepäck stets auch eine Kamera mit sich, mit der er in seiner Freizeit die Mimik und die Körpersprache der verschiedensten Tiere verewigt. Über Jahre hinweg konzentrierte er sich dabei vor allem auf das Fotografieren von Kühen aller Art vor dem Hintergrund der zauberhaften Schweizer Landschaft. In jüngster Zeit begannen seine kleinen Enkelkinder, sich zunehmend für diese Fotografien zu interessieren. Daraus entstand die Idee, diese zu veröffentlichen und einem breiten Kinderpublikum zugänglich zu machen. Ilan Bachar, Autor und Journalist, nahm diese Aufgabe auf sich. Er fügte die einfühlsamen Fotografien von Prof. Blankstein zu einer Geschichte in Reimen zusammen, die kleinere und größere Kinder bezaubert. Es ist Ilan Bachars viertes Buch und das erste einer Serie von originellen Kinderversen. Miri Küchel-Blankstein sammelte die Fotografien und brachte diese zu Ilan Bachar, dem Autor und Shuki Duchovni, dem Grafiker, woraus „Die Kuh hat Geburtstag“ geboren wurde. Prof. Alexander (Ali) Blankstein Seine große Liebe zu Mensch und Natur führte ihn weltweit an ferne Ufer. Abgesehen von seinem Stethoskop, das er mitnimmt, um Menschen zu helfen, führt Prof. Blankstein in seinem Reisegepäck stets auch eine Kamera mit sich, mit der er in seiner Freizeit die Mimik und die Körpersprache der verschiedensten Tiere verewigt. Über Jahre hinweg konzentrierte er sich dabei vor allem auf das Fotografieren von Kühen aller Art vor dem Hintergrund der zauberhaften Schweizer Landschaft. In jüngster Zeit begannen seine kleinen Enkelkinder, sich zunehmend für diese Fotografien zu interessieren. Daraus entstand die Idee, diese zu veröffentlichen und einem breiten Kinderpublikum zugänglich zu machen. Ilan Bachar, Autor und Journalist, nahm diese Aufgabe auf sich. Er fügte die einfühlsamen Fotografien von Prof. Blankstein zu einer Geschichte in Reimen zusammen, die kleinere und größere Kinder bezaubert. Es ist Ilan Bachars viertes Buch und das erste einer Serie von originellen Kinderversen. Miri Küchel-Blankstein sammelte die Fotografien und brachte diese zu Ilan Bachar, dem Autor und Shuki Duchovni, dem Grafiker, woraus „Die Kuh hat Geburtstag“ geboren wurde
Prof. Alexander (Ali) Blankstein Seine große Liebe zu Mensch und Natur führte ihn weltweit an ferne Ufer. Abgesehen von seinem Stethoskop, das er mitnimmt, um Menschen zu helfen, führt Prof. Blankstein in seinem Reisegepäck stets auch eine Kamera mit sich, mit der er in seiner Freizeit die Mimik und die Körpersprache der verschiedensten Tiere verewigt. Über Jahre hinweg konzentrierte er sich dabei vor allem auf das Fotografieren von Kühen aller Art vor dem Hintergrund der zauberhaften Schweizer Landschaft. In jüngster Zeit begannen seine kleinen Enkelkinder, sich zunehmend für diese Fotografien zu interessieren. Daraus entstand die Idee, diese zu veröffentlichen und einem breiten Kinderpublikum zugänglich zu machen. Ilan Bachar, Autor und Journalist, nahm diese Aufgabe auf sich. Er fügte die einfühlsamen Fotografien von Prof. Blankstein zu einer Geschichte in Reimen zusammen, die kleinere und größere Kinder bezaubert. Es ist Ilan Bachars viertes Buch und das erste einer Serie von originellen Kinderversen. Miri Küchel-Blankstein sammelte die Fotografien und brachte diese zu Ilan Bachar, dem Autor und Shuki Duchovni, dem Grafiker, woraus „Die Kuh hat Geburtstag“ geboren wurde. An German-language eBook edition was published in spring 2015 by Lindenfels Von Pressel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main. 24 pages,22X28 CM
This autobiographical work centers on literary creativity. Poet Ali Jaafar Alallaq recollects his academic and professional experiences, as well as their diverse ventures into poetic, literary, critical, and academic writing earlier in his life. The book covers the poet’s upbringing in a humble, impoverished village, his family’s subsequent move to Baghdad in the early 1950s, and his journey up until the present day. ///The biography details a plethora of human, cultural, and poetic events that impacted Alallaq’s perspective on events he witnessed, interacted with, or was involved in. These events range in intensity and scope, spanning from his childhood years in the countryside to navigating significant societal changes in Baghdad, and from his early explorations in writing and literary journalism to pursuing doctoral studies in the United Kingdom. He reflects on enduring two destructive wars that displaced Iraq’s people, leading to a life of exile and reliance on divine providence under the night sky. ///Beginning in 1991, Alallaq began a long period abroad that included six years of teaching at Sanaa University, followed by ten years of work at the United Arab Emirates University from 1997 to 2015. He produced a remarkable body of poetry and critical works during his tenure as a university instructor and his active involvement in cultural and poetic affairs in Sanaa and later in the UAE, which continues to this day. ///In this book, Alallaq takes on several roles, including narrator, contemplator, restorer, and descriptor, and expresses himself using elevated literary language. As a result, the work serves as an aesthetic testament to the purity of language as well as a cohesive account of the ups and downs of daily life. Despite living and working in a prosperous and stable environment for many years, he remains emotionally and imaginatively connected to the events and struggles affecting his country and the Arab world. He continues to document his aesthetic and patriotic testimony of current happenings, as clearly evidenced in his present autobiography.
Problem behaviours are often the result of how an animal thinks and feels, genetics, and environmental influences. Steering away from just description diagnoses and focusing instead on emotional and cognitive causes, this book provides a practical approach to diagnosing, treating, and managing behaviour pathologies in dogs and cats. Beginning by addressing cases in the first opinion practice, this book then considers physical disorders that may lead to or exacerbate abnormal behavior. From there, the focus shifts to mental and emotional health, from an assessment of normal behavior and giving juveniles an optimal start in life, to diagnosing mental and emotional disorders, addressing emotions such as anxiety and frustration, and how to manage these issues - by modifying behavior, managing the animal's environment, training, and, when necessary, the use of medications. The second half of the book then addresses owner concerns, including management problems, aggression, affective disorder, elimination disorder, abnormal and repetitive behaviours and ageing-related problems. With an emphasis on helping first line veterinarians identify common presentations and offer help to owners, this book: - Addresses both normal and abnormal behaviour in cats and dogs from an emotion and cognition perspective; - Provides behaviour modification protocols, and drug doses and indications; - Includes handouts to be used both within the practice and with clients to help the veterinary surgeon manage the case. Written by international experts, the book translates their insights and experience into approaches taken in behavioural medicine. Also including the most up-to-date drugs, it is an important resource for both small animal veterinarians and students of veterinary medicine or animal behaviour.
This book probes the causes of and conditions for the preference of the members of the British-Bangladeshi community for a religion-based identity vis-à-vis ethnicity-based identity, and the influence of Islamists in shaping the discourse. The first book-length study to examine identity politics among the Bangladeshi diaspora delves into the micro-level dynamics, the internal and external factors and the role of the state and locates these within the broad framework of Muslim identity and Islamism, citizenship and the future of multiculturalism in Europe. Empirically grounded but enriched with in-depth analysis, and written in an accessible language this study is an invaluable reference for academics, policy makers and community activists. Students and researchers of British politics, ethnic/migration/diaspora studies, cultural studies, and political Islam will find the book extremely useful. ;