Product Description: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, ISBRA 2013, held in Charlotte, NC, USA, in May 2013. The 25 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions...read more

Product Description: Der Kern der Vorsatzanfechtung nach § 133 InsO besteht in den subjektiven Tatbestandsmerkmalen des Gläubigerbenachteiligungsvorsatzes des Schuldners und der Kenntnis des Anfechtungsgegners. Die Schwierigkeiten bei der Anwendung der Vorsatzanfechtung bestehen dabei weniger in den materiell-rechtlichen Anforderungen an diese Merkmale, als in der beweiskräftigen Feststellung der inneren Tatsachen in einem Anfechtungsprozess...read more

Product Description: Daniel Schwartz examines the views on friendship of the great medieval philosopher Thomas Aquinas. For Aquinas friendship is the ideal type of relationship that rational beings should cultivate. Schwartz argues that Aquinas fundamentally revises some of the main features of Aristotle's paradigmatic account of friendship so as to accommodate the case of friendship between radically unequal beings: man and God...read more

Product Description: Francisco Suárez is arguably the most important Neo-Scholastic philosopher and a vital link in the chain leading from medieval philosophy to that of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. Long neglected by the Anglo-Saxon philosophical community, this sixteenth-century Jesuit theologian is now an object of intense scholarly attention...read more

Product Description: The men who wrote the Constitution designed a government aimed at resolving divergent sectional and commercial interests. In the process, they created institutions that served to balance two competing forces in American life: liberty and equality...read more

Product Description: Central Asia is the subject matter of this moving travelogue by an accomplished photographer working in the tradition of the great 19th century explorers. Alive to the present, conscious of the past, Daniel Schwartz is without inhibition in documenting everything that he seeks out or that comes his way...read more

Culled from the photograph archives of the Swiss magazine du, a historical collection is organized in thematic sections that consider such topics as war, the United States, and children.

Product Description: Culled from the photograph archives of the Swiss magazine du, a historical collection is organized in thematic sections that consider such topics as war, the United States, and children.

A series of remarkable duotone photographs captures one of humankind's greatest achievements, the Great Wall of China, tracing the vast monument as it passes through various landscapes and natural wonders from the border of North Korea to Central Asia.

Product Description: In "Delta", Daniel Schwartz has made a powerful, yet dispassionate record of these vast, densely populated, intensely cultivated and exploited areas. Though richly endowed by nature, the deltas are becoming less and less able to support their multiplying populations whose survival is becoming increasingly precarious...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Left with his grandfather until his parents are settled in Detroit, Sammy learns to respect and love the old man as they care for an injured crane together.

Product Description: Drawing directly on original manuscripts, this collection comprises the major short stories published after Kafka’s death. It includes The Great Wall of China, Blumfeld, An Elderly Bachelor, Investigations of a Dog and his great sequences of aphorisms, with fables and parables on subjects ranging from the legend of Prometheus to the Tower of Babel...read more

Gathers landscapes, still lifes, and photographs of sculpture, actors, museums and ruins in Greece