This report reviews Jordan’s public health expenditure and develops options to enhance spending efficiency that support the government’s health and fiscal consolidation efforts. The particular focus of the mission was to provide support on: (1) overall health spending analysis, (2) support country efforts to develop and implement an affordable path to expand health coverage, (3) identify areas where the Ministry of Finance can build capacity and support reform efforts.
The Girl Detective has been locked in a large estate with Gregor, the young man whom everyone suspects of being a vampire, only to learn he has a rare disease that won’t allow him to venture outside during the day. While Nancy’s friends George and Bess and boyfriend Ned are locked outside the estate, Nancy and Gregor are trapped inside with a crazed woman who believes Gregor is a real vampire, and that she must destroy him!
These four Stefan Zweig stories, newly translated by the award-winning Anthea Bell, are among his most celebrated and compelling work. The titular tale is a devastating depiction of unrequited love, which inspired a classic Hollywood film, directed by Max Ophüls and starring Joane Fontaine. Elsewhere in the collection, a young man mistakes the girl he loves for her sister, two erstwhile lovers meet after an age spent apart, and a married woman repays a debt of gratitude to her childhood sweetheart. Expertly paced, laced with the acutely accurate psychological detail and empathy that are Zweig's trademarks, this is a powerful addition to Pushkin's growing collection of his work.
Like the movements of a sonata in a minor key, the short stories in Trio in D minor cover a full range of emotions--from ecstatic joy to the depths of despair. Each tale leads its characters on a journey they did not expect to take--a journey from which there is no return. In "K.626," Professor Richard Holyfield is accepted to an arts in education program in Vienna, Austria, where he will study Mozart. There he meets the beautiful and intelligent Baroness Edith von Bruckner, who introduces him to the mysterious K.626 Society. Translator Frank Boucher learns a deadly lesson about love when he tracks down the author of the steamy pieces in "Harmless Little Stories." In the story "The Nightingale," Roberto and Ingrid Delgado seem to have the perfect marriage, but loneliness and busy schedules can sometimes drive even the most loving marriage apart. From Vienna to Chicago and New York to the Dominican Republic, love is the constant theme of Trio in D minor. For some, love is a carousel of delight, on which they wish to ride forever; but, for others, it is a nightmarish journey to eternal pain and suffering.
Animus in Anima is a metaphysical journey between mythology and sensory experience. The protagonist Ana-Maria, starting from retracing moments of her personal life, takes us along a path that is both personal and universal. The book unfolds in a series of chapters in each of which there is a different companion of adventure, who becomes the main character of a carnal and, at the same time, metaphysical experience which will end with a reflection on the meaning of human existence. In the book, love takes various forms, of which, however, the carnal one turns out to be in the end the true element that can lead to ecstasy and spiritual enrichment. Cosmin Stefan Georgescu is an author of Romanian origins fascinated from an early age by writing. Although his parents were both school teachers, he decided to take another path and become a doctor, graduating in 1997 from Carol Davila University of Medicine in Bucharest. In 1996 he passed USMLE exam (USA). In 2001 he returned to work in his hometown where, in his spare time, he took care of organizing cultural and charitable events. Since 2015, he has been living and working in France. He is a member of the Society of Physician Writers in Romania. He was awarded the Romanian “Sentimental Twilight” Prize in 2020 and the Critics’ Prize for his work Letters to God return to sender in 2021.
An aphorism, a memorable phrase full of meaning. Often you don’t need many words to express a concept, you just need to find the right ones. Georgescu Cosmin-Stefan provides us with a series of useful aphorisms for every occasion, explaining life with the right words. Cosmin Stefan Georgescu was born in Romania, on the 28th of December 1971. From an early age he was fascinated by words. He liked listening to his parents reading him bedtime stories, he used to learn a lot of poems by heart and recite them proudly. His first models were his parents, both of them teachers. However, Cosmin did not follow in his parents’ footsteps. He decided to become a doctor. He graduated from “Carol Davilla” Medical University in Bucharest in 1997. In 2001 he started working as a doctor in his hometown. In his free time, he worked for the local television, organized cultural and charitable events. In 2015 he went to France and ever since he has been living and working there. He wrote and published the following books in Romania, UK and France: “The Kiss that Severs Us” poems Publishing House Presco 1994; “Advice I Would Give to No One” aphorisms Publishing House Litera Ortodoxa 2011; “Aphorisms Made at Giurgiu” Publishing House Cronos 2015; “The Tin Ring” poems Publishing House Rotipo 2019; “Letters to God returned to sender” Publishing House Europe Books 2020 UK; “Conseils que je ne donnerais à personne”- aphorismes - Les Editions Baudelaire 2020, France; “The Maiorescunians”- novel Publishing House Europe Books 2021, UK; “Full- moon above the Vosges” – novel Publishing House Europe Books 2021 UK; “Animus in Anima” – novel Publishing House Europe Books 2021, UK; “Full- moon above the Vosges” – novel (Romanian version) Publishing House Junimea 2021, Romania. He has won the following awards: - Romanian Prize “Sentimental Twilight” Literary revue, aphorisms 2020; -The Critics’ Prize with the work “Letters to God return to sender” of the Switzerland Literary Prize 2021.
The Magical Publishing Pen is published by Mary Celeste Press. The collected stories of M. Stefan Strozier vary widely in theme and yet the protagonist is always a male of a certain age. As arranged here, the stories represent a chronological arc of a man's life from boyhood to adulthood. Stylistically, the stories show an arc too, as a story about a young man was written when the author was a young man, and a story about an older man was written when the author was older, for example. Magical Realism, framed stories, humor, satire, action, different points-of-view, and crisp dialog pervade the stories. This collection is a portrait of an artist as a young to mid-aged man.
SOLID principles are an essential part of object-oriented software development and have proven to be valuable tools for developing clean, maintainable and extensible code. In industrial automation engineering, especially in programming controllers with IEC 61131-3, it is of particular importance to develop robust and reliable systems. In this book, SOLID principles are presented in detail and explained with examples in IEC 61131-3. It also illustrates how the application of these principles improves the maintainability, extensibility, and reliability of software systems. In addition to the SOLID principles, the principles KISS, DRY, LoD and YAGNI are also presented. These do not belong to the group of SOLID principles, but they are a helpful addition.
An atmospheric and complicated saga of crimes that criss-cross the narrow strait between Sweden and Denmark...great cop characters...and some imaginatively grisly perps."— Sunday Times Would you kill for the one you love? That's the question that international bestseller Stefan Ahnhem's The Ninth Grave: A Fabian Risk Novel seeks to answer in this spine-tingling thriller set six months before the events in Victim Without a Face. On a cold winter evening, the Swedish minister of justice disappears without a trace from the short walk between the house of Parliament and his car. At the same time the wife of a famous Danish TV-star is found brutally murdered in her luxury home north of Copenhagen. Soon more bodies are discovered, all missing different body parts. As criminal investigator Fabian Risk and Danish counterpart Dunja Hougaard race to put the pieces together, they are dragged into a conspiracy worse than anyone could imagine.
This study explores the grammar of focus particles in German. It gives a thorough description and analysis of focus particle constructions and links their syntactic, semantic, and information structural properties to their prosodic characteristics. The study also shows that focus particles present a particularly well-suited subject for the investigation of the modularity of grammar in general. The first part of the book deals with the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of focus particle constructions and results in a modular account of the relation between their word order, information structure, and meaning. The second part presents a corpus study and several speech production and perception experiments investigating the prosodic realization of the constructions. The integration of these two lines of research results in a comprehensive theory of focus particles and of the interaction of grammar and information structure in German.
Like the movements of a sonata in a minor key, the short stories in Trio in D minor cover a full range of emotions--from ecstatic joy to the depths of despair. Each tale leads its characters on a journey they did not expect to take--a journey from which there is no return. In "K.626," Professor Richard Holyfield is accepted to an arts in education program in Vienna, Austria, where he will study Mozart. There he meets the beautiful and intelligent Baroness Edith von Bruckner, who introduces him to the mysterious K.626 Society. Translator Frank Boucher learns a deadly lesson about love when he tracks down the author of the steamy pieces in "Harmless Little Stories." In the story "The Nightingale," Roberto and Ingrid Delgado seem to have the perfect marriage, but loneliness and busy schedules can sometimes drive even the most loving marriage apart. From Vienna to Chicago and New York to the Dominican Republic, love is the constant theme of Trio in D minor. For some, love is a carousel of delight, on which they wish to ride forever; but, for others, it is a nightmarish journey to eternal pain and suffering.
This book introduces formal grammar theories that play a role in current linguistic theorizing (Phrase Structure Grammar, Transformational Grammar/Government & Binding, Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar, Lexical Functional Grammar, Categorial Grammar, Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Construction Grammar, Tree Adjoining Grammar). The key assumptions are explained and it is shown how the respective theory treats arguments and adjuncts, the active/passive alternation, local reorderings, verb placement, and fronting of constituents over long distances. The analyses are explained with German as the object language. The second part of the book compares these approaches with respect to their predictions regarding language acquisition and psycholinguistic plausibility. The nativism hypothesis, which assumes that humans posses genetically determined innate language-specific knowledge, is critically examined and alternative models of language acquisition are discussed. The second part then addresses controversial issues of current theory building such as the question of flat or binary branching structures being more appropriate, the question whether constructions should be treated on the phrasal or the lexical level, and the question whether abstract, non-visible entities should play a role in syntactic analyses. It is shown that the analyses suggested in the respective frameworks are often translatable into each other. The book closes with a chapter showing how properties common to all languages or to certain classes of languages can be captured.
Wade Jackson has always felt split, his love for playing and writing music competing with his ambition to do well in school. But when his mother dies, this need for order competes with his desire to leave it all behind. What follows is a split in his consciousness that takes him to two very different worlds. Told in alternating chapters that together form one cohesive story, Split follows both Wades as they pursue what they think is the correct path. One Wade continues working hard in school, pulling all-nighters to write a computer code he believes will save the world. The other Wade pursues the dream of being a dive-bar singer, pulling all-nighters to party, gamble, and live on the edge. But when these two worlds begin to collide, each Wade will need to find a balance between control and abandon, order and chaos, life missed and life lost, in order to save himself.
Animus in Anima is a metaphysical journey between mythology and sensory experience. The protagonist Ana-Maria, starting from retracing moments of her personal life, takes us along a path that is both personal and universal. The book unfolds in a series of chapters in each of which there is a different companion of adventure, who becomes the main character of a carnal and, at the same time, metaphysical experience which will end with a reflection on the meaning of human existence. In the book, love takes various forms, of which, however, the carnal one turns out to be in the end the true element that can lead to ecstasy and spiritual enrichment. Cosmin Stefan Georgescu is an author of Romanian origins fascinated from an early age by writing. Although his parents were both school teachers, he decided to take another path and become a doctor, graduating in 1997 from Carol Davila University of Medicine in Bucharest. In 1996 he passed USMLE exam (USA). In 2001 he returned to work in his hometown where, in his spare time, he took care of organizing cultural and charitable events. Since 2015, he has been living and working in France. He is a member of the Society of Physician Writers in Romania. He was awarded the Romanian “Sentimental Twilight” Prize in 2020 and the Critics’ Prize for his work Letters to God return to sender in 2021.
A casual introduction, a challenge to a simple game of chess, a lovers' reunion, a meaningless infidelity: from such small seeds Zweig brings forth five startlingly tense tales--meditations on the fragility of love, the limits of obsession, the combustibility of secrets and betrayal. To read anything by Zweig is to risk addiction; in this collection the power of his writing--which, with its unabashed intensity and narrative drive, made him one of the bestselling and most acclaimed authors in the world--is clear and irresistible. Each of these stories is a bolt of experience, unforgettable and unique. Five of Stefan Zweig's most powerful novellas, containing some of his most famous and best-loved work: • Burning Secret • A Chess Story • Fear • Confusion • Journey into the Past (Stand alone paperback editions of individual novellas from Pushkin and New York Review of Books will remain in print.)
The Coming Spring (Przedwiosnie), Zeromski's last novel, tells the story of Cezary Baryka, a young Pole who finds himself in Baku, Azerbaijan, then a predominantly Armenian city, as the Russian Revolution breaks out. He becomes embroiled in the chaos caused by the revolution, and barely escapes with his life. Then, he and his father set off on a horrendous journey west to reach Poland. His father dies en route, but Cezary makes it to the newly independent Poland. Cezary sees the suffering of the poor, yet his experiences in the newly formed Soviet Union make him suspicious of socialist and communist solutions. He is an outsider among both the gentry and the working classes, and he cannot find where he belongs. Furthermore, he has unsuccessful and tragic love relations. The novel ends when, despite his profound misgivings, he takes up political action on behalf of the poor. Zeromski, whose vivid, assured style is instantly recognizable, was a writer with a strong social conscience, taking up the concerns of the poor and downtrodden.
A book that is read with interest and pleasure, a fascinating universe that encapsulates the author’s feelings, a compendium of images, scents and melodies. A collection of memories collected over the years. A tribute to “Ion Maiorescu” of Giurgiu, a model school, with great teachers and a rich history. Written on the 150th anniversary of its foundation. Cosmin Stefan Georgescu was born in the town of Giurgiu, Romania, on the 28th of December 1971. From an early age he was fascinated by words. He liked listening to his parents reading him bedtime stories, he used to learn a lot of poems by heart and recite them proudly. His first models were his parents, both of them teachers. However, Cosmin did not follow in his parents’ footsteps. He decided to become a doctor. He graduated from “Carol Davilla” Medical University in Bucharest in 1997. In 1996 he passed USMLE exam (USA) and in 2000 he passed TOFEL exam. In 2001 he started working as a doctor in his hometown. In his free time, he worked for the local television, organized cultural and charitable events. He is a member of the Society of Physician Writers in Romania. In 2015 he went to France and ever since he has been living and working there. He wrote and published the following books in Romania and UK: - The Kiss that Severs Us poems Publishing House Presco 1994; - Advice I Would Give to No One aphorisms Publishing House Litera Ortodoxa 2011; - Aphorisms Made at Giurgiu Publishing House Cronos 2015; - The Tin Ring poems Publishing House Rotipo 2019; - Letters to God returned to sender Publishing House Europe Books 2020 UK; - Conseils que je ne donnerais à personne - aphorismes - Les Editions Baudelaire 2020, France. He has won the following awards: - Romanian Prize “Sentimental Twilight” Literary revue, aphorisms 2020; - The Critics’ Prize with the work “Letters to God return to sender” of the Switzerland Literary Prize 2021.
This book introduces formal grammar theories that play a role in current linguistic theorizing (Phrase Structure Grammar, Transformational Grammar/Government & Binding, Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar, Lexical Functional Grammar, Categorial Grammar, Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, ConstructionGrammar, Tree Adjoining Grammar). The key assumptions are explained and it is shown how the respective theory treats arguments and adjuncts, the active/passive alternation, local reorderings, verb placement, and fronting of constituents over long distances. The analyses are explained with German as the object language. The second part of the book compares these approaches with respect to their predictions regarding language acquisition and psycholinguistic plausibility. The nativism hypothesis, which assumes that humans posses genetically determined innate language-specific knowledge, is critically examined and alternative models of language acquisition are discussed. The second part then addresses controversial issues of current theory building such as the question of flat or binary branching structures being more appropriate, the question whether constructions should be treated on the phrasal or the lexical level, and the question whether abstract, non-visible entities should play a role in syntactic analyses. It is shown that the analyses suggested in the respective frameworks are often translatable into each other. The book closes with a chapter showing how properties common to all languages or to certain classes of languages can be captured.
This book introduces formal grammar theories that play a role in current linguistic theorizing (Phrase Structure Grammar, Transformational Grammar/Government & Binding, Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar, Lexical Functional Grammar, Categorial Grammar, Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Construction Grammar, Tree Adjoining Grammar). The key assumptions are explained and it is shown how the respective theory treats arguments and adjuncts, the active/passive alternation, local reorderings, verb placement, and fronting of constituents over long distances. The analyses are explained with German as the object language. The second part of the book compares these approaches with respect to their predictions regarding language acquisition and psycholinguistic plausibility. The nativism hypothesis, which assumes that humans posses genetically determined innate language-specific knowledge, is critically examined and alternative models of language acquisition are discussed. The second part then addresses controversial issues of current theory building such as the question of flat or binary branching structures being more appropriate, the question whether constructions should be treated on the phrasal or the lexical level, and the question whether abstract, non-visible entities should play a role in syntactic analyses. It is shown that the analyses suggested in the respective frameworks are often translatable into each other. The book closes with a chapter showing how properties common to all languages or to certain classes of languages can be captured. The book is a translation of the German book Grammatiktheorie, which was published by Stauffenburg in 2010. This book is a new edition of http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/25, http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/195 and http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/255.
Illustrated throughout with stills from the film, The Art of Looking is a unique appreciation of the art of Alfred Hitchcock, made even more valuable by the first publication in any form of the full dialogue of a screen masterpiece.
One of the themes I play around with is the idea of mountains fading in the distance, becoming transparent and flying. I have done this through the use of Canada Geese, which I have personally trained to fly in "V" formation. My goal is to encourage these majestic birds to spell my name across the sky. The most difficult letter of course is "S" because you have to get two flocks to fly in opposite directions on a near collision course.
Branko is a gay Serbian teenager. He knows that this combination rarely leads to happiness and chooses to keep his homosexuality a secret. But then he meets Dejana and her friends, who try to coax him out of his shell. Given the opportunity, will Branko find the courage to be who he is? Would it even be worth the possible consequences if he did? Zasto? - Why? is a story about friendship, love and family. But most importantly, it's a story about self-expression and self-discovery.
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