"Squint," Margit Novack's unique memoir, opens our eyes to the abundant possibilities of later life. She pairs profound and memorable personal stories with larger themes -- downsizing, caregiving, forgiveness, estrangement, and more -- and shows that with the right perspective and "re-visioning," the future is rich with possibility.Realistic, compassionate, substantive, and uplifting, Margit Novack's "Squint" is a guidebook that leaves us better equipped for the years ahead.

For thirty years, Modeling the Figure in Clay has been an indispensable anatomical resource for people who think, see, and understand form best in the round: sculptors. In the thirtieth anniversary edition of this classic work, master sculptor Bruno Lucchesi invites you on a guided tour of the human form. Follow him as he creates a figure in clay—literally from the inside out—starting with the skeleton, laying on the muscles to show male and female anatomy, and finishing with a co...

As a result of a multi-volume research project, funded by the Thyssen Foundations (Stiftung zur Industriegeschichte Thyssen and Fritz Thyssen Stiftung), ten books were published that served to greatly advance the available knowledge on the Thyssen family and their companies. The results of this project are summarized in this volume which provides both an explanation of how the project was conceptualized and executed and a detailed case study of a family and their business during the late-n...

Marit of Svelten had always been lonely, and now she was close to death. To give her some happiness in her last hours, her hero Christoffer Volden declared his love for her and promised to marry her.But when Marit, against all expectations, made an astonishing recovery, Christoffer got cold feet. His honour as one of the Ice People forbade him to break his word – but he was already engaged to the wealthy Lise-Merete Gustavsen ….

In the past few years, we’ve seen many data products based on predictive modeling. These products range from weather forecasting to recommendation engines like Amazon's. Prediction technology can be interesting and mathematically elegant, but we need to take the next step: going from recommendations to products that can produce optimal strategies for meeting concrete business objectives.We already know how to build these products: they've been in use for the past decade or so, but ...

This edited volume presents a distinctive approach for exploring pedagogical frameworks, methods, and strategies for teaching thematically about women’s rights using social studies trade books. After an introductory chapter by Jeremiah Clabough that provides a compelling rationale for thematic teaching of women’s rights issues and controversial topics, Natalie Keefer and Tori Flint situate the remaining chapters within the context of theory and research on women’s rights issues and include...

Christa Lind had been chosen to give birth to the exceptional child of the Ice People who was destined to take up the fight against Tengel the Evil himself. Christa’s stepfather wanted her to marry the widower Abel, a good Christian. But he was twice as old as Christa and already had seven sons. She much preferred Linde-Lou, the poor son of a smallholder, who had an irresistible sense of mystery about him …

Villemo is a force of nature. Her fiery red hair and striking beauty leave a strong impression on everyone who meets her. And her yellow eyes mark her out as one of The Ice People with supernatural powers. She's young, wilful and headstrong, so when she falls in love with the dangerous Eldar, no one can convince her to turn back. But Villemo's story is dangerously entwined with a blood feud - and the threat of rebellion between Norway and Denmark. As Villemo learns about love, and the star...

André Brink had been chosen to find the stricken members of the Ice People in his generation. The search led him to Trondheim, where an unfortunate woman had given birth to a stillborn, badly deformed child. Could the Ice People have descendants other than those he knew of? André found Mali, the suffragette, and the very helpful Nette. A clue led the three of them to Sweden, where an unfathomable evil waited to take an awful revenge …

Tengel the Evil was ready to conquer the world. Slowly but surely, he was closing in on the black water, which would give him unlimited power.The chosen members of the Ice People, headed by Nataniel, had been sent to stop Tengel the Evil. But now Nataniel was stuck in the Great Abyss – a place from which nobody had ever managed to escape …

In a gloomy valley deep in the Transylvanian Alps there lay an isolated village and an imposing castle. Numerous men had lost their way when travelling there, and none had ever been seen again. When Heike Lind and his companions, Mira and Peter, arrived there they soon discovered that the villagers lived in a constant, paralysing state of fear – a fear that was somehow connected with the ladies who lived in the castle, the Princess Feodora and the stunningly beautiful Nicola ....

The essays in this book cover a fast-paced 150 years of Vatican diplomacy, starting from the fall of the Papal States in 1870 to the present day. They trace the transformation of the Vatican from a state like any other to an entity uniquely providing spiritual and moral sustenance in world affairs. In particular, the book details the Holy See’s use of neutrality as a tool and the principal statecraft in its diplomatic portmanteau. This concept of “permanent neutrality,” as codified in the ...