New Releases by Veronika

This time the boys find themselves in cottage country making up spooky tales about staying out of the forest. Tales from the Philippines and Native American legends are told until the boys can almost see strange characters at their dinner table that night.

Ghostly tales of strange things lurking in forbidden places tie these three stories together. The boys have been warned not to go into a certain room while they are pet-sitting for the neighbor, but, of course, their bravado leads to a session of one-upmanship and the distinct possibility that the cats they are looking after may not be cats at all. Stories from Russia, the United States, and the West Indies are highlighted.

Master''s Thesis from the year 2010 in the subject Economics - International Economic Relations, grade: 1,3, King`s College London, course: MA European Studies, language: English, abstract: From the 1940s to the 1980s large enterprises in Europe was clearly the dominant form of business organisation. Small businesses were believed to be less efficient than their larger counterparts and only marginally involved in innovative activities. This has gradually changed to the extent that, at present, national and supranational policy-makers have given strong priority to entrepreneurship and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Scholars argue that the outlook of the European economies has undergone a transformation from the managed to the entrepreneurial economy. This sharp change of direction has been primarily driven by a combination of factors including: the growing importance of the knowledge-economy in terms of occupational choices, factors of production and changing patterns of commercial activities; concerns for high unemployment rates, declining international competitiveness in comparison to the USA and Japan and rates of economic growth as well as an evidence of shifting patterns of consumer demand. Evidently, a new vision of the EU’s economic strategy has been conceived in terms of the belief that economic, social and environmental goals must go hand in hand in the 21st century. In the centre of this vision is the innovative entrepreneur who is believed to be a major ingredient for the revitalisation of European economies. The subject of entrepreneurship has been the topic of scholarship and research in a variety of academic fields. The interdisciplinary nature of scholarship reflects the subject as entrepreneurship itself is a multifaceted social and economic phenomenon. However, since there is no explicit horizontal entrepreneurship policy domain at the European level, the topic has not caught sufficient attention from European Union public policy analysts. The main purpose of the dissertation is to discuss how the EU accommodates the image of ‘entrepreneurial economy’ within its policy-making apparatus. A generalisation of ‘European’ entrepreneurial economy has been made which underlines the supranational level of analysis and gives more attention to what has been undertaken collectively rather than individually by Member States.

Here are five first books for fledgling readers that offer the enjoyment of a good story along with the thrill of accomplishment that comes from independent reading. Written in short, easy phrases with carefully selected vocabulary and plentiful illustrations, each book helps youngsters achieve success as they have fun. The series follows three friends who love to share stories. In each book, one is reminded of a well-known story: Little Red Riding Hood in It''s Not About the Hunter!, Beauty and the Beast in It''s Not About the Rose!, Snow White in It''s Not About the Apple!, Cinderella in It''s Not About the Pumpkin!, and Hansel and Gretel in It''s Not About the Crumbs! As one friend starts, the others are reminded of versions they know so each volume has three stories within one framework. The stories come from around the world, and Veronika Martenova Charles provides a note at the end of each book to describe the origins. Easy-To-Read Wonder Tales is a great first step in developing a lifelong love of reading, and it makes a fine companion to Veronika Martenova Charles''s series, Easy-To-Read Spooky Tales.

Here are five first books for fledgling readers that offer the enjoyment of a good story along with the thrill of accomplishment that comes from independent reading. Written in short, easy phrases with carefully selected vocabulary and plentiful illustrations, each book helps youngsters achieve success as they have fun. The series follows three friends who love to share stories. In each book, one is reminded of a well-known story: Little Red Riding Hood in It''s Not About the Hunter!, Beauty and the Beast in It''s Not About the Rose!, Snow White in It''s Not About the Apple!, Cinderella in It''s Not About the Pumpkin!, and Hansel and Gretel in It''s Not About the Crumbs! As one friend starts, the others are reminded of versions they know so each volume has three stories within one framework. The stories come from around the world, and Veronika Martenova Charles provides a note at the end of each book to describe the origins. Easy-To-Read Wonder Tales is a great first step in developing a lifelong love of reading, and it makes a fine companion to Veronika Martenova Charles''s series, Easy-To-Read Spooky Tales.

Here are five first books for fledgling readers that offer the enjoyment of a good story along with the thrill of accomplishment that comes from independent reading. Written in short, easy phrases with carefully selected vocabulary and plentiful illustrations, each book helps youngsters achieve success as they have fun. The series follows three friends who love to share stories. In each book, one is reminded of a well-known story: Little Red Riding Hood in It''s Not About the Hunter!, Beauty and the Beast in It''s Not About the Rose!, Snow White in It''s Not About the Apple!, Cinderella in It''s Not About the Pumpkin!, and Hansel and Gretel in It''s Not About the Crumbs! As one friend starts, the others are reminded of versions they know so each volume has three stories within one framework. The stories come from around the world, and Veronika Martenova Charles provides a note at the end of each book to describe the origins. Easy-To-Read Wonder Tales is a great first step in developing a lifelong love of reading, and it makes a fine companion to Veronika Martenova Charles''s series, Easy-To-Read Spooky Tales.

Veronika van Duin began her career forty years ago as a homemaker. Beginning with love, enthusiasm, and idealism, she quickly discovered that she had underestimated the magnitude of the task, which left her feeling inadequate and guilty much of the time, as well as alone and occasionally lonely. Out of those humbling feelings, Homemaking and Personal Development came into being. In it, the author offers support and hope for other homemakers, revealing the discoveries that provided her--and many in her workshops and courses--with basic tools for overcoming personal hindrances. In this wonderfully uplifting book, van Duin provides exercises for restoring and maintaining equilibrium, gaining understanding, creating joy, validating feeling, maintaining vitality and drive, developing insight, finding freedom, and much more. Homemaking and Personal Development will help mothers and fathers enjoy a richer, more fulfilling experience in the home.

Presents easy-to-follow sewing instructions for making monster creations, which in addition to being toys can double as mp3 player covers, backpacks, or pillows.

Having been warned to stay away from the high waters of the local creek, the boys’ imaginations run as swiftly as the stream. Before they know it, they have scared themselves silly with stories like The Children with Green Teeth, from Britain; The Deadly Beach, from Hawaii; and The Waterman, from Central Europe.

More than 150 games, from quiet games to energy-burning activities that need minimal set-up time and supplies found around the house.

In A Rainbow Over the River the author tells her remarkable story, from her earliest glimpses of the Other Side to her most recent excursions ''over the river''. In the second part of the book she records an intensely moving diary of her mother''s passing, rich in love, care and a profound understanding of suffering. She describes how, despite the sadness of losing their mother, Veronika''s family see the death as a transition to a new existence, and ultimately as a great festival of life.

In this highly original study, Veronika Grimm discusses early Christian texts dealing with food, eating and fasting. Modern day eating disorders often equate food with sin and see fasting as an attempt to regain purity, an attitude which can also be observed in early Christian beliefs in the mortification of the flesh. Describing first the historical and social context of Judaism and the Graeco-Roman world, the author then proceeds to analyse Christian attitudes towards food. Descriptions of food found in the Pauline Epistles, the Acts of the Apostles, Tertullian or Augustine are compared to contemporary Jewish or Graeco-Roman pagan texts. Thus a particular Christian mode of fasting is elaborated which influences us to the present day; ascetic fasting for the suppression of the sexual urges of the body. Winner of the 1995 Routledge Ancient History Prize

This study discusses texts, written between the first and fifth centuries AD, that address Christian conduct with respect to food, eating and fasting, by setting them into the historical and social contexts in which their authors lived. From Feasting to Fasting, the Evolution of a Sin traces the early history of conflicting attitudes to food. It will be of interest not only to historians of late antiquity, but also to those searching for historical roots of modern attitudes.

The present paper describes the initial phase of a collaboration between Hungarian lexicographers and computational linguists aimed at compiling the new version of The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language. This research thread focuses on the automatic sense induction of Hungarian adjectives in attributive positions, and their salient nominal contexts, with a particular emphasis on polysemies. The proposed methodology is intended to facilitate lexicographers’ work in characterizing both the micro- and macrostructure of adjectives in a monolingual setting. A corpus-driven, unsupervised graph-based approach was employed, which, as per our expectations, could potentially reduce the reliance on human intuition, especially in the ambiguous domain of polysemic sense distinctions. Initially, distributional criteria for meaning distinction were introduced, followed by the description of the employed algorithm. The algorithm models adjectival semantics using two unique subgraphs: connected graph components are used to model adjectival semantic domains, while maximally connected subgraphs, so called cliques, model polysemies. Automatically induced meaning distinctions were validated using salient nominal context candidates extracted from corpus data. We expect that while connected graph components aid in characterizing the adjectival macrostructure, cliques provide lexicographers with useful insights for establishing the adjectival microstructure. These hypotheses were also tested: we investigated the extent to which the proposed framework can assist expert lexicographers during the dictionary compilation process by comparing a sample of our automatically obtained results to the previous version of The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language.