Beim Militär dienen Nebelkerzen unter anderem dazu, die eigenen Truppen zu tarnen. In der Rhetorik werden sie als Ablenkungsmanöver verstanden. Tarnung und Ablenkung – darum geht es in diesem Buch, das sich ganz aktuell mit den besonders grausamen Morden an Derek und Nancy Haysom befasst, die 1985 in den USA für Aufsehen und Entsetzen sorgten. Doch wer war der wirkliche Mörder? Gleich eingangs beschreibt der Autor eine grundlegende Schwierigkeit, die Wahrheit zu finden: Wer sich ohne Vorkenntnisse mit den Haysom-Morden befasst, stößt schnell auf ein Problem, und zwar die außergewöhnliche Komplexität und Vielschichtigkeit des Falles. Es gibt viele neue Wendungen und „Scheinbeweise.“ Dadurch entsteht der Eindruck von Unübersichtlichkeit. Anfangs scheint alles noch recht einfach, als der deutsche Diplomatensohn Jens Söring gesteht, den Doppelmord ausgeführt zu haben, wozu ihn seine Freundin Elisabeth Haysom – die Tochter der Opfer –angestiftet haben sollte. Doch ab 1990, als er im Prozess sein Geständnis widerrief, verkomplizierte sich der anfängliche Sachverhalt enorm: Der Angeklagte setzte an die Stelle seines Geständnisses eine neue Version der Abläufe am Mordtag. Nun sollte plötzlich seine Ex-Freundin die Morde begangen haben, wahrscheinlich unterstützt von einem unbekannten Mann. Söring wollte die Tat nur aus Liebe auf sich genommen haben, und um Haysom vor dem elektrischen Stuhl zu bewahren. War Jens Söring unschuldig? Das wollte auch der Autor herausfinden: Im Zuge meiner Recherchen zu dem Fall und den Ereignissen in der weiteren Folge habe ich versucht, so gut wie alle verfügbaren Informationen beizuziehen und auszuwerten. Es war, als arbeite man sich durch ein Dickicht vor. Schon bald kristallisierten sich jedoch Zusammenhänge und Erkenntnisse heraus, die verblüffend waren und den Fall insgesamt in einem neuen Licht erscheinen lassen. Manchmal drängte sich der Eindruck auf, dass immer wieder versucht worden war, die Wahrheit zu verdunkeln und zu vernebeln. Ein unerwarteter Glücksfall ergab sich für den Autor, als er sich am 29. November 2021 in Hamburg zu einem ausführlichen Gespräch mit Jens Söring treffen und über seine Sicht auf den Doppelmord-Fall sprechen konnte: Wir haben uns fast sieben Stunden lang unterhalten. Es war ein äußerst spannendes und instruktives Gespräch, das wir führten. Aber ist Söring auch glaubwürdig? Am Ende seiner sehr detaillierten und spannend zu lesenden Erwägungen kommt Stang zu einem eindeutigen Urteil.
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This book is a collection of ISRM suggested methods for testing or measuring properties of rocks and rock masses both in the laboratory and in situ, as well as for monitoring the performance of rock engineering structures. The first collection (Yellow Book) has been published in 1981. In order to provide access to all the Suggested Methods in one volume, the ISRM Blue Book was published in 2007 (by the ISRM via the Turkish National Group) and contains the complete set of Suggested Methods from 1974 to 2006 inclusive. The papers in this most recent volume have been published during the last seven years in international journals, mainly in Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering. They offer guidance for rock characterization procedures and laboratory and field testing and monitoring in rock engineering. These methods provide a definitive procedure for the identification, measurement and evaluation of one or more qualities, characteristics or properties of rocks or rock systems that produces a test result.
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Ein neuheidnischer Steinkreis entsteht. In diesem Buch wird, angefangen bei der Idee, über die Planung hinaus, bis zum Bau und der Fertigstellung, die Entstehung einer neuheidnischen Ritualstelle in Form eines Steinkreises beschrieben. Ausführlich werden auch Probleme und deren manchmal verblüffend einfache Lösungen dafür aufgezeigt. Insgesamt 29 Bilder, davon 18 in Farbe, dokumentieren das Entstehen und die Nutzung dieser Steinsetzung und einer weiteren Ritualstätte. Am Rande wird eine Feierlichkeit beschrieben, die noch nicht auf einer derartigen Stätte stattfinden konnte, weil diese damals noch nicht zur Verfügung stand, aber inzwischen gut auf so einer Stätte stattfinden könnte. Volker Meyer Autorenseite: https://volker-meyer-autorenseite.jimdosite.com/
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<div> This volume focuses on the intangible elements of human cultures, whose relevance in the study of archaeology has often been claimed but rarely practiced. In this book, the authors successfully show how the adoption of ethnoarchaeological perspectives on non-material aspects of cultures can support the development of methodologies aimed at refining the archaeological interpretation of ancient items, technologies, rituals, settlements and even landscape. </div> <div> <br> </div> <div> The volume includes a series of new approaches that can foster the dialogue between archaeology and anthropology in the domain of the intangible knowledge of rural and urban communities. The role of ethnoarchaeology in the study of the intangible heritage is so far largely underexplored, and there is a considerable lack of ethnoarchaeological studies explicitly focused on the less tangible evidence of present and past societies. Fresh case studies will revitalize the theoretical debate around ethnoarchaeology and its applicability in the archaeological and heritage research in the new millennium. </div> <div> <br> </div> <div> Over the past decade, ‘intangible’ has become a key word in anthropological research and in heritage management. Archaeological theories and methods regarding the explorations of the meaning and the significance of artifacts, resources, and settlement patterns are increasingly focusing on non-material evidence. Due to its peculiar characteristics, ethnoarchaeology can effectively foster the development of the study of the intangible cultural heritage of living societies, and highlight its relevance to the study of those of the past. </div>
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The Blackfeet were hunters, travelling from place to place on foot. They used implements of stone, wood, or bone, wore clothing made of skins, and lived in tents covered by hides. Dogs, their only tame animals, were used as beasts of burden to carry small packs and drag light loads. The stories here told come down to us from very ancient times. Grandfathers have told them to their grandchildren, and these again to their grandchildren, and so from mouth to mouth, through many generations, they have reached our time. Those who wish to know something about how the people lived who told these stories will find their described in the last chapter of this book. Contents: Two Fast Runners The Wolf Man Kŭt-o-yĭs´, the Blood Boy The Dog and the Root Digger The Camp of the Ghosts The Buffalo Stone How the Thunder Pipe Came Cold Maker's Medicine The All Comrades Societies The Bulls Society The Other Societies The First Medicine Lodge The Buffalo-painted Lodges Mīka´pi—red Old Man Red Robe's Dream The Blackfeet Creation Old Man Stories The Wonderful Bird The Rabbits' Medicine The Lost Elk Meat The Rolling Rock Bear and Bullberries The Theft From the Sun The Smart Woman Chief Bobcat and Birch Tree The Red-eyed Duck The Ancient Blackfeet
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This carefully crafted ebook: "No Man's Land (Unabridged)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Herman Cyril McNeile (1888-1937) commonly known as H. C. McNeile or Sapper, was a British soldier and author. Drawing on his experiences in the trenches during the First World War, he started writing short stories and getting them published in the Daily Mail. McNeile's stories are either directly about the war, or contain people whose lives have been shaped by it. His war stories were considered by contemporary audiences as anti-sentimental, realistic depictions of the trenches, and as a "celebration of the qualities of the Old Contemptibles". Extract: "It was from the top of the Rock that they watched their evil-smelling boat depart, to plug on northward up the home trail, unperturbed by naval battles or rumours thereof. And it was from the top of the Rock they first saw the smoke of the P. and O., outward bound, on which they were destined to complete the journey. Below lay the bay, dotted with German and Austrian ships caught on the high seas at the outbreak of war; a destroyer was going half-speed towards the Atlantic; a cruiser lay in dock, her funnels smoking placidly. "So long." The gunner subaltern waved a weary hand from his point of vantage, where he was inspecting life with a telescope. "There's your barge, but she won't leave till to-morrow. If this goes on for much longer, my nerves will give way under the strain. The excitement is too great."
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<p>This book presents state of the art knowledge on the psychopathology, clinical symptomatology, biology, and treatment of hallucinations in patients with psychoses and affective disorders. The opening section describes and examines the origins of the hallucinatory symptoms associated with schizophrenia, bipolar disorders, and drug- or substance-induced psychoses. In addition, progress in understanding of hallucinations in children and adolescents and chronic hallucinatory disorder is reviewed, and the value of a Research Domain Criteria approach in elucidating the emergence of auditory hallucinations is explained. The biological basis of hallucinations is then closely scrutinized with reference to recent genetic research, neurochemical studies, and functional and structural neuroimaging data. Outcomes of a meta-analysis of diffusion tensor imaging studies regarding the association between white matter integrity and auditory verbal hallucinations are highlighted. The closing chapters focus on the roles of drug treatment and electric and magnetic brain stimulation techniques. The book will be of wide interest to psychiatrists and clinical psychologists.</p>
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<p>This monograph surveys the theory of quantitative homogenization for second-order linear elliptic systems in divergence form with rapidly oscillating periodic coefficients in a bounded domain. It begins with a review of the classical qualitative homogenization theory, and addresses the problem of convergence rates of solutions. The main body of the monograph investigates various interior and boundary regularity estimates that are uniform in the small parameter e>0. Additional topics include convergence rates for Dirichlet eigenvalues and asymptotic expansions of fundamental solutions, Green functions, and Neumann functions.</p> <p>The monograph is intended for advanced graduate students and researchers in the general areas of analysis and partial differential equations. It provides the reader with a clear and concise exposition of an important and currently active area of quantitative homogenization.</p>
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