Anschaffungsvorschläge für Hodgkins, E

5. August 2024. Paris, Roland Garros. Im Finale gegen Carlos Alcaraz gewinnt Novak Djokovic jenen Titel, der ihm in seiner Sammlung noch gefehlt hat: Olympisches Gold. Nach seinem Matchball weint der oft so unterkühlt wirkende Serbe hemmungslos. Novak Djokovic ist ein Phänomen. Niemand, weder Federer noch Nadal, keine Steffi Graf und keine Serena Williams, ist erfolgreicher als der serbische Superstar, der bei den US Open 2023 seinen 24. Grand-Slam-Einzeltitel gewann. Doch wer ist der Mensch hinter dem Sportler, der nicht nur mit spektakulären Siegen Schlagzeilen macht, sondern abseits des Platzes für so manche Kontroverse sorgt? Tennis-Autor Mark Hodgkinson zeichnet in seiner umfassenden Biografie, für die er mit Wegbegleitern, Mentoren, Trainern und Rivalen gesprochen hat, das Bild einer ebenso faszinierenden wie komplexen Persönlichkeit, die sich durch ihr Streben nach Perfektion und unkonventionelle Überzeugungen auszeichnet.

» Kleine Auszeiten im Alltag ist eine ebenso kurze wie nützliche Anleitung für das müßige Leben. In 24 Kapiteln erläutert das Buch die verschiedenen Möglichkeiten, nichts zu tun. Diese kleinen Tricks können überall angewendet werden, und das bei geringen bis gar keinen Kosten. Indem Sie den simplen Schritten folgen, wird sich Ihre Anspannung verflüchtigen, Ihr Leben wird vergnüglicher und einfach gut.« Unterhaltsam und kurzweilig zeigt Tom Hodgkinson, wie Auszeiten zu einem festen Bestandteil im Alltag werden können. Von entschleunigender Lektüre und Tagebuchschreiben über die Wiederentdeckung alter Spiele, besondere Formen der Meditation bis zum Waldbaden und ziellosen Flanieren in der Stadt-- hier ist für alle etwas dabei. Und dass zudem die schönsten Dinge im Leben häufig umsonst sind - das zeigt dieses Buch mit erfrischender Leichtigkeit.

The future of our world over the next decade is being shaped by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that seek to uphold children's wellbeing and, by their call to leave no one behind and to reach the furthest behind first, shine a spotlight on the world's most vulnerable populations including children and adolescents living in poverty and exclusion. The transformative steps promised in the SDGs to 'shift the world onto a sustainable and resilient path' assumes greater significance in the post-COVID-19 world where structural exclusions are starkly exposed and deep societal inequalities thickly underlined. This volume seeks to address the main drivers of poverty, exclusion, urbanization, and violence against children and adolescents and investigates how knowledge, information, data collection, measurement, and monitoring can support strategies and innovations to effectively implement the SDGs by drawing on data and experience from several countries across the world including Bangladesh, Colombia, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Kenya, Malawi, MENA countries, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Suriname, and Thailand. As a result, it contributes to revealing the politics of social inclusion, o?ering policy proposals towards overcoming inequality and exclusion among children and adolescents.

A comprehensive guide to the law, practice and procedure relating to the admission of expert evidence in courts, tribunals, official enquiries and other proceedings, including arbitration. It gives detailed guidance to those involved in the pre-trial preparation of expert evidence or the presentation or questioning of it in court. Covers expert evidence in both civil and criminal proceedings Sets out general principles and deals with the application of those principles in specific contexts Covers courts, tribunals, official enquiries and arbitration Provides guidance for pre-trial preparation of expert evidence, including such issues as bias, privilege and confidentiality Discusses when expert evidence can be used Details methods of questioning expert evidence in court Looks at the form and content of expert evidence, including that produced by machines, devices and other apparatus Considers methods of proof, dealing with psychological and psychiatric evidence; land and building valuation; forensic sciences and techniques; actuarial, accountancy and market research; evidence with a mathematical element; and proof of foreign law Deals individually with different fields of litigation: personal injury cases; construction claims; intellectual property; criminal sentencing; drink/driving offences; obscenity; and matrimonial and other proceedings involving children Includes all important statutory provisions and rules, and extracts from relevant cases Makes comparative reference to various other common law jurisdictions, including Scotland, Canada, USA, Australia, NZ and Ireland Covers new developments including guidance on the use and admissibility of expert evidence in civil cases, guidance on the instruction of experts to give evidence in civil claims, a practice direction giving assistance to judges in criminal cases on the admissibility and weight to be attached to expert evidence, and a new interpretation of the test for the admissibility of expert evidence under CPR r.

This volume provides up-to-date and nuanced analysis across a wide spectrum of capital punishment issues. The essays move beyond the conventional legal approach and propose fresh perspectives, including a unique critique of the abolition sector. Written by a range of leading experts with diverse geographical, methodological and conceptual approaches, the essays in this volume challenge received wisdom and embrace a holistic understanding of capital punishment based on practical experience and empirical data. This collection is indispensable reading for anyone seeking a comprehensive and detailed understanding of the complexity of the death penalty discourse.

This self-contained handbook provides a carefully researched, compact source of key earth science information and data, logically sorted by subject matter, and then cross-referenced. Appealing to both experts and non-experts alike, the book presents earth science and environmental science as closely intertwined. It includes tables of the global distributions of fossil fuels, contrasted by tables of the distribution of non-fossil energy sources. Concise explanations cover the subject matters of geology, geophysics, oceans, atmosphere with attention to environmental implications and resources.

This volume provides analyses of a range of subjects and issues in the death penalty debate, from medicine to the media. The essays address in particular the personal complexities of those involved, a fundamental part of the subject usually overridden by the theoretical and legal aspects of the debate. The unique personal vantage offered by this volume makes it essential reading for anyone interested in going beyond the removed theoretical understanding of the death penalty, to better comprehending its fundamental humanity. Additionally, the international range of the analysis, enabling disaggregation of country specific motivations, ensures the complexities of the death penalty are also considered from a global perspective.

The essays selected for this volume develop conventional abolition discourse and explore the conceptual framework through which abolition is understood and posited. Of particular interest is the attention given to an integral but often forgotten element of the abolition debate: alternatives to capital punishment. The volume also provides an account of strategies employed by the abolition community which challenges tired methodologies and offers a level of transparency previously unseen. This collection tackles complex but fundamental components of the capital punishment debate using empirical data and expert observations and is essential reading for those wishing to comprehend the fundamental issues which underpin capital punishment discourse.