Most Popular Books by Sonja

A lamp lit a room on a night of a kind. A tree has fallen, now there is a hut.'' Sonja Donner?s artist?s book is a pocket companion inviting people to gather around it, much like a table or a meal might. It traces the artist?s search for a dwelling as a space, as a community and as a mental state in places and things as she visits, befriends and spends time with them. Donner?s works find their realisation where people assemble to listen to each other and share the experience of being in the world together. The book forms a carry-on archive recorded in photographic notes and short literature including an essay on avian architecture by curator Elina Suoyrjö

An exploration of the Green Belt conservation project between the former East and West Germanies and its relationship to emergent ecosystems, trauma, and memorialization. The first book-length scholarly treatment of Germany’s largest conservation project, the Green Belt, Mnemonic Ecologies by Sonja Pieck presents a new interdisciplinary approach: that effective restoration and conservation of wounded land must merge ecology with memory. Since the Cold War’s end in 1989, German conservationists have transformed the once-militarized border between East and West Germany into an extensive protected area. Yet as forests, meadows, and wetlands replace fences, minefields, and guard towers, ecological recovery must reckon with the pain of the borderlands’ brutal past. The lessons gained by conservationists here, Pieck argues, have profound practical and ethical implications far beyond Germany. Can conservation help heal both ecological and societal wounds? How might conservation honor difficult socioecological pasts? Deeply researched and evocatively written, this beautiful, interdisciplinary investigation into the legacy of war and nature’s resurgence blends environmental history, ethics, geography, and politics with ecology and memory studies. Amid our rampant biodiversity crisis, Mnemonic Ecologies shows why conservation must include humanized landscapes in its purview, thus helping to craft a new conservation ethos that is collaborative, empathetic, and more sensitive to the connections between humans and the places they inhabit.

Do you ever wonder what a dog does in a day? Jazzy time is a twenty-four-hour view of what Jazzy does each day. Lyrical rhyme is accompanied by photographs of Jazzy taken by the author, Sonja McGiboney. The book uses analog clocks to show each hour of the day. Children and adults love the pictures. Classroom activities are available to go with this book.

Angel numbers & scents unearth a truth that has been hidden for years. Reach for the Soap, owner, Narda Hunt, has been receiving signs in the form of numbers telling her she needs to find her half-sisters, Opaline and Ebba. An imminent threat is about to force them to combine their witch powers to survive. One set of angel numbers brings Narda closer to Owin Waters, whom fate has determined is her soulmate. Their special connection sends them to another realm where Narda meets her deceased mother. She reveals the truth behind the special powers that Narda and her sisters possess. With this knowledge, Narda brings to light the evil that is waiting for her and her sisters on their twenty-fifth birthday.

This report by Prof. Dr. Sonja Sackmann, University Bw, Munich, provides an overview of state-of-the-art knowledge with regard to the link between corporate culture and performance as well as approaches that have been used to assess and measure culture in organizations. It discusses different understandings of culture and how they lead to different ways of assessing it. Current methods of culture assessment are compared. The comparison is arranged according to the respective focus on the cultural layer of analyses (e.g., norms, values, beliefs, and assumptions), the origin of dimensions and the purpose of assessment. Most of these approaches are single-method instruments. Along with multiplemethod approaches, they are described and discussed individually, followed by a short assessment of their strengths and weaknesses. In addition, the report provides a more general evaluation of issues related to the assessment of culture and its link to performance, as well as the most promising approaches. These considerations lead to recommendations for the assessment of corporate culture with links to performance.

This sequel to Young Children and Worship provides another educational resource for children. Sonja Stewart''s method and approach are the same as in her earlier book. She provides careful and clear instructions for teachers on creating and using the children''s worship center, a unique worship environment in which children are introduced to the meaning of worship through biblical stories and parables.

What would life be like to share your birthday with millions of people? Gloria White was born on December 24th—Christmas Eve—and is celebrating her 35th birthday when things go terribly wrong. Single and with no love interest in sight, she leaves work only to find her car won’t start. The arrival of the tow truck brings Nick Klaaws, who she has known since grade school, as the driver. Shocked at seeing him, she loses her balance, falls and hits her head. This brings on a visit from a ghost resembling her boss, Mr. SC Rouge. They travel back in time, where he shows her that her soulmate has been in front of her the whole time and takes her to two possible futures. Once back in real time, will fate allow Gloria to make the right choices for love?

A captivating exploration of world religions, from the perspective of a curious kid. Religion around the World: A Curious Kid''s Guide to the World''s Great Faiths explores the world''s major faiths, making the traditions, beliefs, practices, and history of each accessible to kids ages 8-12. This visually compelling book presents each religion as a rich tradition that has served as a force for human connection and good in the world. Colorful illustrations, charts, graphs, maps, and other infographics, along with clear, age-appropriate text, make this an appealing book for browsing, research, and learning. Curious Kids'' Guides present cool and surprising information about Christian and other religions'' history and beliefs in an entertaining, visually engaging way.

A life-changing approach to increasing happiness and fulfillment in everyday life redefines what happiness is and what it is not and introduces activities that emphasize staying active, including exercises in practicing optimism.

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Hamburg (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Nathaniel Hawthorne and American History, language: English, abstract: Nathaniel Hawthorne may be best known for his first novel, "The Scarlett Letter", which is also considered to be the author’s masterpiece. Hawthorne’s second novel, in contrast, has often raised heated debates among critics. Unlike its literary forerunner, "The House of the Seven Gables" provides the reader with a rather cheerful ending. Soon after its first publication, most readers responded positively to the novel’s closure, since they were “already accustomed to the conventions of the domestic novel” (Gallagher 1989: 10). Sophia Hawthorne clearly favoured her husband’s second novel and praised the tale’s ending for its deep-seated “home-loveliness”. Some years later, however, the reviews became less enthusiastic. Many critics began to complain about its rather optimistic and conservative closure. It was often argued that the novel’s cheerful ending “[...] fails to offer a resolution to the social problems” (Goddu 1991:119), which the author so anxiously denounces beforehand. Some modern reviews also accuse Hawthorne of re-establishing hereditary rights in his novel’s ending – and thereby affirming the power of the wealthy. The following paper will examine the social and domestic values offered in the "The House of the Seven Gables", in order to re-evaluate Hawthorne’s narrative in the context of its time. Since the novel’s historical dimension cannot be ignored, this work will also review the importance of the house in antebellum America with regard to its public and private function.

"Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God''s. 1 Corinthians 6:19 & 20 NKJV The Temple Care Workbook is designed for spiritual enlightenment and practical transformation in the areas of weight loss, weight maintenance and nutritional health. How you care for your body is a spiritual issue, being that it is intended to be the permanent residence of God''s very Spirit! Temple Care goes beyond health/bodily and psychological issues. Ultimately, God has created your body to be a spiritual place for holy use and Spirit led care. Therefore, evoking God''s Spirit to empower your spirit in overcoming the destructive desires of your flesh is the only true way to break the bondage of your fleshly appetite. If you are trying to discipline your flesh through your own willpower, then you will often experience great frustration, deceive yourself about the source of your true power, and have temporary success. Growing through the process of truly developing your spiritual nature will bring about long lasting, often completely liberating change in your mind, body and spirit! Temple Care is about walking you through this exciting process of transformation and liberation!

This transformative text has taught the lively art of rhetorical criticism to thousands of readers—becoming a revered standard. With an unparalleled talent for distilling sophisticated rhetorical concepts and processes, Sonja Foss provides an engagingly written, practical guide delineating ten methods of doing rhetorical criticism. Clear instructions describe the process for systematic investigation of symbolic acts and artifacts and the necessary ingredients for well-reasoned explanations and analysis. Accessible sample essays illustrate each method, and the same artifact is analyzed for nine of the methods to reveal the nuances and applicability of different approaches. A deep understanding of rhetorical criticism equips readers to be engaged and active participants in shaping the nature of the world in which they live. A chapter on feminist criticism features the disruption of conventional ideologies and practices. The chapter on narrative criticism highlights storytelling in the digital world. The emphasis on inquiry is invaluable for filtering meaning out of the communication encountered daily—for example, questions to ask, processes to employ for interpretation, assumptions to identify. Understanding rhetoric helps readers judge the effectiveness, accuracy, and impact of symbols.

Managing IT infrastructure has always been challenging, and virtualization and cloud computing make this even more difficult. Authors Spielvogel, John Haworth, and Sonja Hickey explain how to manage IT infrastructure, while encouraging readers to think a different way about some of their decisions.

This is the second edition of this book which considers issues involved in the assessment, analysis, and management of financial risks in banking. It highlights risk-management principles and the accountability of key players in corporate governance process, as well as discussing transparency in bank''s financial statements. It also contains new material including chapters on the management of the treasury function, management of a stable liquidity investment portfolio, and a discussion of proprietary trading activities and asset management liability components. A hardback version is also available (ISBN 0821354655) containing illustrative prototype software and Excel spreadsheets which can be adapted for banking diagnostic processes.