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"Zwischen heute und morgen kann so unsagbar viel geschehen ..." Hildegard Knef
Ein neues Jahrzehnt bricht an für die Freundesfamilie aus Köln, Hamburg und San Remo. Die 1960er Jahre versprechen Aufbruch, Wohlstand, Lebensfreude. Auch die Kölner Galerie von Gerda und Heinrich floriert. Tochter Ursula in Hamburg erwartet ihr erstes Kind. Sie ist Elisabeth und Kurt, den lebenslangen Freunden ihrer Eltern, dankbar, dass sie ihr und Joachim ein Zuhause...
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Drei Familien, drei Städte in den Aufbruchsjahren
1. Januar 1950: In Hamburg, Köln und San Remo begrüßt man das neue Jahrzehnt. Gerda und Heinrich Aldenhovens Haus in Köln platzt aus allen Nähten. Heinrichs Kunstgalerie wirft längst nicht genug ab, um all die hungrigen Mäuler zu stopfen. In Hamburg bei Gerdas Freundin Elisabeth und ihrem Mann Kurt macht man sich dagegen weniger Sorgen um Geld. Schwiegersohn Joachim jedoch ist noch immer nicht...
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A window into the Jewish People's connection to Israel-
written especially for Christians.
"Israel has taken Jewish sacred history, peoplehood, and ethics out of the realm of speculation and put them into the crucible of real life experience. In returning the Jewish People to its homeland, Israel has returned Jews to material reality-with all its challenges. The Jewish People's return to the Land returns Judaism to its original vision and the Jewish...
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1997" Jessica Korn, a Freedom Forum Fellow (1997-1998), is an Adjunct Professor of Business at Columbia University.
Jessica Korn challenges the notion that the eighteenth-century principles underlying the American separation of powers system are incompatible with the demands of twentieth-century governance. She demostrates the continuing relevance of these principles by questioning the dominant scholarship...
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As a nomad, Fadumo Korn freely roamed the wild steppes of her native Somalia until her mother delivered her into the hands of an "excisor" to become a woman in the eyes of her tribe by undergoing female genital cutting. But serious complications brought on by the circumcision would force her to leave her home on a journey of survival and self-discovery. Fadumo first traveled to the bustling city of Mogadishu and the household of a wealthy uncle, a...
18) Get into College
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Getting into college is one of life's most daunting challenges. Why not let the experts help? The experts in this case include dozens of college consultants, admissions officers, parents, and, best of all, hundreds of students who have experienced the process firsthand. Individual chapters cover such topics as getting started, preparing for the SAT, deciding which colleges to apply to, perfecting applications and essays, putting one's best foot forward...
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How do Australians view themselves, Australian society and the world around them?
She'll be right … holds a mirror up to Australian society, providing a reflection of who we are as a nation and how we feel about life issues. Australians feel very lucky. Yet we are also deeply unhappy, with anxiety and depression the norm for too many. This book explores the reasons behind this and how we deal with it as a society.
Read this book and you're often...
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Don't Look.Never let them look.The pain is always worse when they know...People are dying, and no one knows why. Knox Ryder dreams of becoming an Authorized medic at The Citadel, a gated haven away from the violent, hand-to-mouth society known as The Grind. The opportunity would literally cost him years of his life-twenty years minimum since he doesn't have the tuition-and when a gruesome accident actually opens the door, he finds the new price of...