Presenting a new framework for the study of revolutions, this innovative exploration of French, Russian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Cuban, Iranian, South African, and more recent Arab revolutions, provides a theoretically grounded and empirically comprehensive demonstration of how revolutions mean more than mere state collapse and rebuilding. Through the examination of multiple historical case studies, and use of extensive historical examples to explore a range of revolutions, Mehran Kamrava reveals the range and depth of human emotion and motivations that are so prevalent and consequential in revolutions, from personal commitment to sacrifice, determination, leadership ability, charisma, opportunism, and avarice.

Since the publication of the first edition, substantial changes have occurred in the political landscape of Jordan and the Middle East. King Abdullah II has cemented his rule amidst an onslaught of threats which have faced his kingdom since he succeeded his father in 1999. The Syrian civil war has fundamentally shifted the political context of its neighbouring countries, with Jordan experiencing a huge population explosion as people moved across the border from Syria. This second edition of Robins' accessible and succinct survey of Jordanian political history is an account of a century of events within a country whose fortunes are closely identified with its heads of state. Beginning in the early 1920s in the Mandate years, and now benefiting from new material on the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, attempts at democratisation, the collapse of the economy, the Jordan Spring and refugee crisis, this new edition featuring original research brings Jordan's political history into the twenty-first century.

In A Jewish Jesuit in the Eastern Mediterranean, Robert Clines retraces the conversion and missionary career of Giovanni Battista Eliano, the only Jewish-born member of the Society of Jesus. He highlights the lived experience of conversion, and how converts dealt with others' skepticism of their motives. Clines uses primary sources, including Eliano's personal letters, missionary reports, and autobiography, together with scholarship on conversion in the early modern Mediterranean world to illustrate how false and sincere conversion often mirrored each other in outward performance. Devout converts were not readily taken at face value and needed to prove themselves in the moment and over the course of their lifetimes. Consequently, Eliano's story underscores that the mystical, introspective nature of religious belief and the formulation of new spiritual selves came into direct confrontation with the ways in which converts needed to present themselves to others in an age of political and religious turmoil.

Among the many commemorations of World War I, little was made of the 100th anniversary of the secret Treaty of London between Italy and the Western War Allies in April 1915, which sealed the fate of South Tyrol for the duration of the twentieth century by passing it from Austria to Italy. In May 2015, a symposium was held in the medieval Prösels Castle in the Italian Dolomites to mark this historical moment. Contributors set out to explore the political, social and cultural impact of South Tyrol’s existence 'on the threshold' during the twentieth century. Individually and collectively, the essays in this volume challenge the simplistic reading of South Tyrol as merely a geographic region torn between Germanic and Italian cultures; instead, they explore the dynamic effects of its geographical, political and cultural history since 1915. South Tyrol, as a modern regional state in Europe, faces many of the same problems as other European regions, be they individual states or sub-state regions. Most of the contributions in this volume are from academics and intellectuals within the Province of Bolzano/Bozen who negotiate and discuss these issues through their native languages: German, Italian and Ladin. By making their research accessible through English translations and abstracts, this volume seeks to bring their work on historical and contemporary developments in South Tyrol to a wider European and global audience. (https://www.buchhandel.de)

The focus of this monograph lies in the construction of a theory of legal obligation, understanding it as a discrete notion with its own defining traits. In this work, Bertea specifically addresses the question: how should legal obligation be distinctively conceptualized? The conceptualization of legal obligation he defends in this work gradually emerges from a critical assessment of the theories of legal obligation that have been most influential in the contemporary legal-theoretical debate. Building on such critical analysis, Bertea's study purports to offer a novel and unconventional conceptualization of legal obligation, which is characterized as a law-engendered intersubjective reason for carrying out certain courses of conduct.

Reveals how Aaron Copland's complex relationship with the music of Gustav Mahler shaped his vision for American music in the twentieth century

Since the inception of cinema in the late nineteenth century, filmmakers have employed a wide array of precursory aesthetic strategies in the conception and creation of their disparate works. The existence of these traditional antecedents have afforded filmmakers a diverse range of technical and artistic applications towards the construction of their respective cinematic narratives. Furthermore, the socio-political and cultural contexts in which films are conceived often inform the manner in which particular aesthetic sensibilities are selected and deployed. 'Aesthetics and the Cinematic Narrative' provides a concise historical survey of Aesthetics as a practical philosophical discipline and applies several of its underlying principles to the examination of filmic storytelling.

The history and meaning of the Berlin Wall remain controversial, even three decades after its fall. Drawing on an extensive range of archival sources and interviews, this book profiles key memory activists who have fought to commemorate the history of the Berlin Wall and examines their role in the creation of a new German national narrative. With victims, perpetrators and heroes, the Berlin Wall has joined the Holocaust as an essential part of German collective memory. Key Wall anniversaries have become signposts marking German views of the past, its relevance to the present, and the complicated project of defining German national identity. Considering multiple German approaches to remembering the Wall via memorials, trials, public ceremonies, films, and music, this revelatory work also traces how global memory of the Wall has impacted German memory policy. It depicts the power and fragility of state-backed memory projects, and the potential of such projects to reconcile or divide.

A comparative and trans-national study of urban culture in Britain and the United States from the late nineteenth to the twentieth century

Fachkräftemangel und Kostendruck zwingen Unternehmen dazu, den Personalbereich effizienter zu gestalten. Die Rahmenbedingungen dazu bieten agile Organisationen und neue Technologien. Dieses Fachbuch erklärt, wie Sie die frei gewordenen Ressourcen am besten nutzen. Inhalte: Einführung in das Lean Management Optimale Rahmenbedingungen für Lean und Agile im HR-Bereich Lean und Agile: Prinzipien und Methoden Change durch Nutzung von Technologie Arbeitshilfen online: Digitaler Marktüberblick HR-Apps und Tools (https://www.buchhandel.de)

How does international context influence state policies toward religious minorities? Using parliamentary proceedings, court decisions, newspaper archives, and interviews, this book is the first systematic study that employs international context in the study of state policies toward religion, and that compares Turkey and France with regard to religious minorities. Comparing Christians in Turkey and Muslims in France, this book argues that policy change toward minorities becomes possible when strong domestic actors find a suitable international context that can help them execute their policy agendas. The Turkish Islamists used the European Union to transform the Turkish politics that brought a reformist moment for Christians in the 2000s. The Far Right in France utilized the rise of Islamophobia in Europe to adopt restrictive policies toward Muslims. Ramazan K?l?nç argues that the presence of an international context that can favor particular groups over others, shifts the domestic balance of power, and makes some policies more likely to be implemented than others.

While, strictly speaking, Alternate Histories are not Future Narratives, their analysis can shed a clear light on why Future Narratives are so different from past narratives. Trying to have it both ways, most Alternate Histories subscribe to a conflicting set of beliefs concerning determinism and freedom of choice, contingency and necessity. For the very first time, Alternate Histories are here discussed against the backdrop of their Other, Future Narratives. The volume contains in-depth analyses of the classics of the genre.

This collection of in-depth analytical essays celebrates music by female composers from the twelfth to nineteenth centuries. The essays, written by leading music theorists and musicologists, examine select compositions in detail, collectively establishing a foundation for new scholarly research into outstanding compositions created by women

Through accounts of his experience as a local politician and elected once holder, Stephen Condit examines, in 'Anarchism in Local Governance', how his anarchist convictions may have contributed to the administration of his community in a way that empowers citizens towards self-governance and prefiguration of communal anarchist ideals. The hypothesis is that municipal governance and anarchist thought and praxis can both benefit by this kind of encounter. Condit also investigates the emergence of anarchism through citizen participation in civil society as a reality to which the municipality is accountable.

A detailed and moving account of the life of Anneliese Landau, who, in Nazi Germany and later in Émigré California, fought against prejudice to do notable work in music.

Die meisten deutschen Arbeitgeberverbände haben seit einigen Jahrzehnten große Probleme, ihre Mitglieder zu halten oder neue zu gewinnen. Dies hat Auswirkungen auf viele Bereiche des wirtschaftlichen und politischen Systems der Bundesrepublik, wo die Arbeitgeberverbände z.B. in der Sozial- und Umweltpolitik tätig sind, vor allem aber Flächentarifverträge mit Gewerkschaften aushandeln. Die Notwendigkeit zur Umsetzung eines Tarifvertrages ist für Unternehmen an die Vollmitgliedschaft in einem Arbeitgeberverband gekoppelt. Je weniger Unternehmen Mitglieder in einem Arbeitgeberverband sind, desto geringer ist auch die Tarifbindung und desto fraglicher wird zudem, ob die zentrale Rolle der Arbeitgeberverbände in Deutschland noch gerechtfertigt ist. In diesem Band werden die Grundlagen der beschriebenen Prozesse hinterfragt. Dazu wird der Frage nachgegangen, welche Anreize einzelne Unternehmen haben, Mitglied in einem deutschen Arbeitgeberverband zu sein und worauf diese Anreize beruhen. Die zur Beantwortung durchgeführte qualitative Studie stützt sich auf Interviews mit Unternehmen, Arbeitgeberverbänden und Gewerkschaften. Durch ihre breite Streuung über mehrere Branchen, Mitgliedschaftsformen und Regionen Deutschlands gibt sie einen vielschichtigen Einblick in das interessierende Phänomen und klammert auch neuere Entwicklungen wie die OT-Mitgliedschaften nicht aus. Daraus wird abschließend ein Vorschlag einer verallgemeinernden Theorie der Mitgliedschaft in Arbeitgeberverbänden entwickelt

When the Bolsheviks came to power in 1917, they announced the overthrow of a world scarred by exploitation and domination. In the very moment of revolution, these sentiments were put to the test as antisemitic pogroms swept the former Pale of Settlement. The pogroms posed fundamental questions of the Bolshevik project, revealing the depth of antisemitism within sections of the working class, peasantry and Red Army. Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution offers the first book-length analysis of the Bolshevik response to antisemitism. Contrary to existing understandings, it reveals this campaign to have been led not by the Party leadership, as is often assumed, but by a loosely connected group of radicals who mobilized around a Jewish political subjectivity. By examining pogroms committed by the Red Army, Brendan McGeever also uncovers the explosive overlap between revolutionary politics and antisemitism, and the capacity for class to become racialized in a moment of crisis.

A study of women who left their nunneries: their motives and actions, and the consequences for them.

MARIE JAHODA (1907–2001), in Wien geborene Sozialforscherin, wurde vor allem als Koautorin der Studie 'DIE ARBEITSLOSEN VON MARIENTHAL' bekannt. Nach ihrer Ausbürgerung aus Österreich im Jahr 1937 wirkte sie in New York, London und Sussex, wo sie 1973 als Professor of Social Psychology emeritierte. Ihr spezifischer Forschungsstil und ihr Konzept einer LEBENSNAHEN SOZIALFORSCHUNG sind gerade heute wieder hochaktuell und richtungsweisend. BAND 2: ARBEITSLOSE BEI DER ARBEIT Fünf Jahre nach dem Erscheinen von 'Die Arbeitslosen von Marienthal' und nur ein Jahr nachdem sie aus Österreich ausgebürgert worden war, schrieb Marie Jahoda im englischen Exil 1938 diese ethnografische Studie über ein SELBSTHILFEPROJEKT FÜR ARBEITSLOSE BERGARBEITER in Wales. In einem Essay erläutert Meinrad Ziegler die historischen Zusammenhänge, in denen diese Studie entstanden ist. Er rekonstruiert Details des untersuchten Projekts und diskutiert es im Lichte der sozialpsychologischen Bedeutung von Arbeit, die Jahoda in den 1980er Jahren theoretisch ausgeführt hat. BAND 3: AUFSÄTZE UND ESSAYS Dieser Band enthält eine AUSWAHL VON AUFSÄTZEN, ESSAYS UND REDEN MARIE JAHODAS, die zwischen 1937 und 1997 entstanden sind. Sie geben Einblick in die Breite der Fragestellungen, mit denen sich Jahoda in ihrem wissenschaftlichen Arbeitsleben beschäftigt hat. Ihre Forschungen waren stets auf grundlegende PROBLEM- UND KONFLIKTLAGEN der modernisierten GESELLSCHAFTEN DES 20. JAHRHUNDERTS bezogen. In ihren Texten erörtert sie unter anderem die sozialen Bedingungen von Nonkonformität und Unabhängigkeit, das Problem des NATIONALISMUS in einer GLOBALISIERTEN WELT, die Entstehung von VORURTEILEN UND ANTISEMITISMUS sowie Thesen zur sozialpsychologischen BEDEUTUNG VON ARBEIT. (https://www.amazon.de)

Scattering theory provides a framework for understanding the scattering of waves and particles. This book presents a simple physical picture of diffractive nuclear scattering in terms of semi-classical trajectories, illustrated throughout with examples and case studies. Trajectories in a complex impact parameter plane are discussed, and it stresses the importance of the analytical properties of the phase shift function in this complex impact plane in the asymptotic limit. Several new rainbow phenomena are also discussed and illustrated. Written by Nobel Prize winner Roy J. Glauber, and Per Osland, an expert in the field of particle physics, the book illustrates the transition from quantum to classical scattering, and provides a valuable resource for researchers using scattering theory in nuclear, particle, atomic and molecular physics.

After Atomic Junction, along the Haatso-Atomic Road there lies the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission, home to Africa's first nuclear programme after independence. Travelling along this road, Abena Dove Osseo-Asare gathers together stories of conflict and compromise on an African nuclear frontier. She speaks with a generation of African scientists who became captivated with 'the atom' and studied in the Soviet Union to make nuclear physics their own. On Pluton Lane and Gamma Avenue, these scientists displaced quiet farming villages in their bid to establish a scientific metropolis, creating an epicentre for Ghana's nuclear physics community. By placing interviews with town leaders, physicists and local entrepreneurs alongside archival records, Osseo-Asare explores the impact of scientific pursuit on areas surrounding the reactor, focusing on how residents came to interpret activities on these 'Atomic Lands'. This combination of historical research, personal and ethnographic observations shows how Ghanaians now stand at a crossroad, where some push to install more reactors, whilst others merely seek pipe-borne water.

MARIE JAHODA (1907–2001), in Wien geborene Sozialforscherin, wurde vor allem als Koautorin der Studie 'DIE ARBEITSLOSEN VON MARIENTHA' bekannt. Nach ihrer Ausbürgerung aus Österreich im Jahr 1937 wirkte sie in New York, London und Sussex, wo sie 1973 als Professor of Social Psychology emeritierte. Ihr spezifischer Forschungsstil und ihr Konzept einer LEBENSNAHEN SOZIALFORSCHUNG sind gerade heute wieder hochaktuell und richtungsweisend. BAND 2: ARBEITSLOSE BEI DER ARBEIT Fünf Jahre nach dem Erscheinen von „Die Arbeitslosen von Marienthal“ und nur ein Jahr nachdem sie aus Österreich ausgebürgert worden war, schrieb Marie Jahoda im englischen Exil 1938 diese ethnografische Studie über ein SELBSTHILFEPROJEKT FÜR ARBEITSLOSE BERGARBEITER in Wales. In einem Essay erläutert Meinrad Ziegler die historischen Zusammenhänge, in denen diese Studie entstanden ist. Er rekonstruiert Details des untersuchten Projekts und diskutiert es im Lichte der sozialpsychologischen Bedeutung von Arbeit, die Jahoda in den 1980er Jahren theoretisch ausgeführt hat. BAND 3: AUFSÄTZE UND ESSAYS Dieser Band enthält eine AUSWAHL VON AUFSÄTZEN, ESSAYS UND REDEN MARIE JAHODAS, die zwischen 1937 und 1997 entstanden sind. Sie geben Einblick in die Breite der Fragestellungen, mit denen sich Jahoda in ihrem wissenschaftlichen Arbeitsleben beschäftigt hat. Ihre Forschungen waren stets auf grundlegende PROBLEM- UND KONFLIKTLAGEN der modernisierten GESELLSCHAFTEN DES 20. JAHRHUNDERTS bezogen. In ihren Texten erörtert sie unter anderem die sozialen Bedingungen von Nonkonformität und Unabhängigkeit, das Problem des NATIONALISMUS in einer GLOBALISIERTEN WELT, die Entstehung von VORURTEILEN UND ANTISEMITISMUS sowie Thesen zur sozialpsychologischen BEDEUTUNG VON ARBEIT. (https://www.buchhandel.de)

In Badges and Incidents, Michael J. Kaufman undertakes an interdisciplinary investigation of American education law and pedagogy. By weaving together the invaluable insights of law, education, history, political science, economics, psychology, and neuroscience, this book illuminates the ways in which the design of the American educational system does not reflect how human beings live and learn. It examines the principles of the nation's Founders and demonstrates how a distorted presentation of the Founders' views curtailed the development of a truly democratic educational system. The influence of this distortion on several critical Supreme Court decisions is exposed, and these decisions have largely failed to facilitate the educational system the Founders envisioned. By placing contemporary challenges in context and endorsing social constructivist pedagogy as the best path forward, Kaufman's study will prove invaluable to advocates of equity in education, helping them navigate a contentious political climate with an eye toward future reform efforts.

Although the position of Saudi women within society draws media attention throughout the world, young Saudi men remain part of a silent mass, their thoughts and views rarely heard outside of the Kingdom. Based on primary research across Saudi Arabia with young men from a diverse range of backgrounds, Mark C. Thompson allows for this distinct group of voices to be heard, revealing their opinions and attitudes towards the societal and economic transformations affecting their lives within a gender-segregated society and examining the challenges and dilemmas facing young Saudi men in the twenty-first century. From ideas and beliefs about, identity, education, employment, marriage prospects and gender segregation, as well as political participation and exclusion, this study in turn invites us to reconsider the future of Saudi Arabia as a globalized kingdom.

Schlagworte wie Lernen in der Arbeit, informelles Lernen, Kompetenzentwicklung, lernförderliche Arbeitsgestaltung und Validierung kennzeichnen die gegenwärtige betriebliche Bildungsarbeit. Der vorliegende Band 9 der Studientexte Basiscurriculum Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik entwickelt und systematisiert das Konzept der betrieblichen Bildungsarbeit, indem er - den betrieblichen Wandel erläutert, betriebliche Bildungsarbeit definiert und mit dem Leitziel der beruflichen Handlungskompetenz verbindet, - lerntheoretische Ansätze und neue Lernorganisationsformen im Betrieb erörtert und in den Kontext einer lern- und kompetenzförderlichen Arbeitsgestaltung stellt, - Begleitung und Beratung beim Lernen in und bei der Arbeit sowie Kompetenzanalyseverfahren thematisiert, - Den Zusammenhang zum Bildungsmanagement, zum Deutschen Qualifikationsrahmen (DQR) und zur Europäisierung der Berufsbildung herstellt. Die einzelnen Kapitel schließen mit Aufgaben ab; Namen- und Sachwortverzeichnis erleichtern die Handhabung. Die Studientext wendet sich an Studierende der Berufs- und Weitebildung und an das betriebliche Bildungspersonal; darüber hinaus an alle, die sich mit Grundfragen der betrieblichen Bildungsarbeit und des betrieblichen Bildungsmanagements auseinandersetzen möchten. (https://www.buchhandel.de)

Respect for autonomy has become a fundamental principle in human research ethics. Nonetheless, this principle and the associated process of obtaining informed consent do have limitations. This can lead to some groups, many of them vulnerable, being left understudied. This book considers these limitations and contributes through legal and philosophical analyses to the search for viable approaches to human research ethics. It explores the limitations of respect for autonomy and informed consent both in law and through the examination of cases where autonomy is lacking (infants), diminished (addicts), and compromised (low socio-economic status). It examines alternative and complementary concepts to overcome the limits of respect for autonomy, including beneficence, dignity, virtue, solidarity, non-exploitation, vulnerability and self-ownership. It takes seriously the importance of human relationality and community in qualifying, tempering and complementing autonomy to achieve the ultimate end of human research - the good of humankind.

Demonstrates the profound impact of The Poems of Ossian on composers of the Romantic Era and later: Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Massenet, and many others.

The basic premise of bibliotherapy is that information, guidance, wellbeing and solace can be found through reading. This book draws on the latest international practical and theoretical developments in bibliotherapy to explore how librarians, healthcare providers and arts organizations can best support the health and wellbeing of their communities. There is no standard approach to bibliotherapy. This book considers how different theories apply to different types of bibliotherapy, using case studies to illustrate how particular approaches can be used across a broad range of settings and with a variety of user groups. By focusing on the theoretical basis and history of bibliotherapy, as well as current practice, it helps to identify areas in which bibliotherapy could grow as a field of study and of practice. Bibliotherapy programmes using books to support good mental health are found around the world. The editors and their contributors present examples from public libraries, academic libraries and healthcare settings internationally - including the UK, North and South America, and Australasia. Collaboration and diversity are key themes: engaging in bibliotherapy offers librarians key opportunities to collaborate with partners outside the profession, while engaging with more diverse audiences. The book will be of interest not only to researchers and theorists, but equally to those managing bibliotherapy programmes in health, public and academic libraries. It will also be very useful for healthcare providers and those with an interest in wellbeing more generally.

Covering Brahms's 32 song opuses published during four decades of song-writing, this book offers a way of understanding what Brahms believed to be the right poetic basis for his immortal music.

This innovative collection explores how a distinctively British model of sociability developed in the period from the Restoration of Charles II to the early nineteenth century through a complex process of appropriation, emulation and resistance to what was happening in France and other parts of Europe.

A fundamental truth about British power in the nineteenth century and beyond was that Britain was a global power. Her international position rested on her global economic, naval and political presence; and her foreign policy operated on a global scale. This volume throws into sharp relief the material elements of British power, but also its less tangible components, from Britain's global network of naval bases to the vast range of intersecting commercial, financial and intelligence relationships, which reinforced the country's political power. Leading historians reshape the scholarly debate surrounding the nature of British global power at a crucial period of transformation in international politics, and in so doing they deepen our understanding of the global nature of British power, the shifts in the international landscape from the high Victorian period to the 1960s, and the changing nature of the British state in this period.

Call Sign Chaos is a memoir of a life of warfighting and lifelong learning, following along as Mattis rises from Marine recruit to four-star general. It is a journey about learning to lead and a story about how he, through constant study and action, developed a unique leadership philosophy, one relevant to us all.--Dust jacket flap

The collapse of the communist monopoly across Central and Southeastern Europe in 1989/1990 initiated a process of rapid political, economic, and cultural change. While Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia went on to suffer three and a half years of war, all the states of the region have confronted challenges as they dismantled communist institutions and drafted new laws, in some cases ignoring their own laws. Indeed, in certain countries, local politicians have done their best to corrupt the media and the economy, with recent years seeing some states move in an illiberal direction. Throughout the region, however, there has been a strong interest in enjoying the benefits of membership of the European Union and NATO. In this updated second edition, regional specialists comprehensively analyze the post-communist trajectories of the states of Central and Southeastern Europe, encompassing democratization, privatization, corruption, and war. It will appeal to students and scholars, whether they have a specific interest in the region, or are studying European politics more generally.

The 2008 financial crisis led to more and more frequent political attacks on central banks. The recent spotlight on central bank independence is reminiscent of the fiery debates amongst Germany's political elites in 1949 on the same issue; debates that were sparked by the establishment of West Germany in that year. Simon Mee shows how, with the establishment of West Germany's central bank - today's Deutsche Bundesbank - the country's monetary history became a political football, as central bankers, politicians, industrialists and trade unionists all vied for influence over the legal provisions that set out the remit of the future monetary authority. The author reveals how a specific version of inter-war history, one that stresses the lessons learned from Germany's periods of inflation, was weaponised and attached to a political, contemporary argument for an independent central bank. The book challenges assumptions around the evolution of central bank independence with continued relevance today.

During the months before and after he saw Julius Caesar assassinated on the Ides of March, 44 BC, Cicero wrote two philosophical dialogues about religion and theology: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination. This book brings to life his portraits of Stoic and Epicurean theology, as well as the scepticism of the new Academy, his own school. We meet the Epicurean gods who live a life of pleasure and care nothing for us, the determinism and beauty of the Stoic universe, itself our benevolent creator, and the reply to both that traditional religion is better served by a lack of dogma. Cicero hoped that these reflections would renew the traditional religion at Rome, with its prayers and sacrifices, temples and statues, myths and poets, and all forms of divination. This volume is the first to fully investigate Cicero's dialogues as the work of a careful philosophical author.

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is increasingly used to civilize grassroots disabled persons' organizations (DPOs) around the world. The international disability rights movement actively promotes the CRPD's key norm that disabled persons mobilize in support of their rights under the Convention. The unintended consequence of these activities, however, is that local groups focused on social support and service provision, rather than disability-rights advocacy, are targeted for change. While the resources provided by international actors to grassroots organizations provide new opportunities, they also create barriers to local groups' ability to promote full civic participation of their members in the local community. Through a detailed account of grassroots DPOs in Nicaragua, Civilizing Disability Society demonstrates how local organizations navigate pressures from abroad as they attempt to concretely address the health, education and economic needs of their members at home.

English translation and revised edition of the most comprehensive and reliable biography of Claude Debussy.

The book examines to what extent the mediating relation between constituents and their semantics can arise from combinatory knowledge of words. It traces the roots of Combinatory Categorial Grammar, and uses the theory to promote a Humean question in linguistics and cognitive science: Why do we see limited constituency and dependency in natural languages, despite their diversity and potential infinity? A potential answer is that constituents and dependencies might have arisen from a single resource: adjacency. The combinatory formulation of adjacency constrains possible grammars.

Fugal invention has proved a successful line of analytical inquiry in recent studies of repertoires from Josquin to J. S. Bach. Alan Howard brings similar insights to the music of Henry Purcell, and proposes the first analytical approach to his music to examine compositional methods alongside historically contemporary theory, focusing particularly on Purcell's 'artificial' approach to imitative counterpoint. Through this methodology Howard challenges previous responses to Purcell's music that portrayed him as fundamentally conservative. This study offers fresh insights into the musical world in which Purcell lived and worked and situates Purcell's compositional concerns in the broader context of notions of artifice in Restoration culture. Howard thereby offers both a fresh analytical approach - to Purcell's early instrumental works and to his later concerted vocal music - and a critique of the reception history surrounding the fantazias and sonatas in particular.

Learn about the most recent theoretical and practical advances in radar signal processing using tools and techniques from compressive sensing. Providing a broad perspective that fully demonstrates the impact of these tools, the accessible and tutorial-like chapters cover topics such as clutter rejection, CFAR detection, adaptive beamforming, random arrays for radar, space-time adaptive processing, and MIMO radar. Each chapter includes coverage of theoretical principles, a detailed review of current knowledge, and discussion of key applications, and also highlights the potential benefits of using compressed sensing algorithms. A unified notation and numerous cross-references between chapters make it easy to explore different topics side by side. Written by leading experts from both academia and industry, this is the ideal text for researchers, graduate students and industry professionals working in signal processing and radar.

Contention has surrounded the status of minorities throughout Indonesian history. Two broad polarities are evident: one inclusive of minorities, regarding them as part of the nation's rich complexity and a manifestation of its Unity in Diversity motto; the other exclusive, viewing with suspicion or disdain those communities or groups that differ from the perceived majority. State and community attitudes towards minorities have fluctuated over time. Some periods have been notable for the acceptance of minorities and protection of their rights, while others have been marked by anti-minority discrimination, marginalisation and sometimes violence. This book explores the complex historical and contemporary dimensions of Indonesia's religious, ethnic, LGBT and disability minorities from a range of perspectives, including historical, legal, political, cultural, discursive and social. It addresses fundamental questions about Indonesia's tolerance and acceptance of difference, and examines the extent to which diversity is embraced or suppressed.

This book addresses one of the most crucial questions in Southeast Asia: did the election in Indonesia in 2014 of a seemingly populist-oriented president alter the hegemony of the political and economic elites? Was it the end of the paradox that the basic social contradictions in the country's substantial capitalist development were not reflected in organized politics by any independent representation of subordinated groups, in spite of democratization? Beyond simplified frameworks, grounded scholars have now come together to discuss whether and how a new Indonesian politics has evolved in a number of crucial fields. Their critical insights are a valuable contribution to the study of this question.

Is democracy in crisis? The current threats to democracy are not just political: they are deeply embedded in the democracies of today, in current economic, social, and cultural conditions. In Crises of Democracy, Adam Przeworski presents a panorama of the political situation throughout the world of established democracies, places it in the context of past misadventures of democratic regimes, and speculates on the prospects. Our present state of knowledge does not support facile conclusions. 'We should not believe the flood of writings that have all the answers'. Avoiding technical aspects, this book is addressed not only to professional social scientists, but to everyone concerned about the prospects of democracy.

Carina Caruso zeigt, dass es insgesamt ein voraussetzungsreiches Unterfangen darstellt, ein in nahezu allen Bundesländern für Lehramtsstudiengänge integriertes Praktikum so zu gestalten, dass es einen Beitrag zur Professionalisierung angehender Lehrkräfte leistet. Die Ergebnisse der qualitativen und quantitativen Untersuchung, die sich auf das Praxissemester Religionslehre in NRW beziehen und in der vorliegenden Arbeit beschrieben werden, zeichnen ein ambivalentes Bild bezüglich der vom Praxissemester ausgehenden Effekte. Der Inhalt (Kulturelle und religiöse) Diversität und Heterogenität als Ausgangspunkt religiöser Bildung Rahmenbedingungen des Religionsunterrichts und der Religionslehrkräftebildung Professionalität, Professionalisierung und professionelle Handlungskompetenz von (angehenden) Lehrkräften Verhältnis von Wissen und Können sowie Theorie und Praxis Ziele und Effekte schulpraktischer Anteile bzw. des Praxissemesters im Lehramtsstudium Die Zielgruppen Dozierende und Studierende der Erziehungswissenschaft und Theologie (insb. Religionspädagogik) Praktiker im Bereich der beruflichen Fort- und Weiterbildung, Lehrkräfte und Fachleitungen Die Autorin Carina Caruso ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der Universität Paderborn. Sie forscht in den Bereichen Empirische Bildungsforschung und Religionspädagogik/-didaktik. Ihr Schwerpunkt liegt im Bereich der professionellen Entwicklung von Lehrkräften, wobei schulpraktische Anteile im Studium besondere Berücksichtigung finden. .

ulia, an open-source programming language, was created to be as easy to use as languages such as R and Python while also as fast as C and Fortran. An accessible, intuitive, and highly efficient base language with speed that exceeds R and Python, makes Julia a formidable language for data science. Using well known data science methods that will motivate the reader, Data Science with Julia will get readers up to speed on key features of the Julia language and illustrate its facilities for data science and machine learning work. Features: Covers the core components of Julia as well as packages relevant to the input, manipulation and representation of data. Discusses several important topics in data science including supervised and unsupervised learning. Reviews data visualization using the Gadfly package, which was designed to emulate the very popular ggplot2 package in R. Readers will learn how to make many common plots and how to visualize model results. Presents how to optimize Julia code for performance. Will be an ideal source for people who already know R and want to learn how to use Julia (though no previous knowledge of R or any other programming language is required). The advantages of Julia for data science cannot be understated. Besides speed and ease of use, there are already over 1,900 packages available and Julia can interface (either directly or through packages) with libraries written in R, Python, Matlab, C, C++ or Fortran. The book is for senior undergraduates, beginning graduate students, or practicing data scientists who want to learn how to use Julia for data science. 'This book is a great way to both start learning data science through the promising Julia language and to become an efficient data scientist.' Professor Charles Bouveyron INRIA Chair in Data Science Universite Cote d'Azur, Nice, France (https://www.lehmann.de)

A synchronic study that highlights the importance of printed packaging, rather than notes on the page, to the complex relationship between composers, publishers, and consumers of music

One of the greatest challenges in the twenty-first century is to address large, deep, and historic deficits in human development. Democracy at Work explores a crucial question: how does democracy, with all of its messy, contested, and, time-consuming features, advance well-being and improve citizens' lives? Professors Brian Wampler, Natasha Borges Sugiyama, and Michael Touchton argue that differences in the local robustness of three democratic pathways - participatory institutions, rights-based social programs, and inclusive state capacity - best explain the variation in how democratic governments improve well-being. Using novel data from Brazil and innovative analytic techniques, the authors show that participatory institutions permit citizens to express voice and exercise vote, inclusive social programs promote citizenship rights and access to public resources, and more capable local states use public resources according to democratic principles of rights protections and equal access. The analysis uncovers how democracy works to advance capabilities related to poverty, health, women's empowerment, and education.

This volume presents the first truly systematic, multi-disciplinary, and cross-linguistic study of the language and writing system factors affecting the emergence of dyslexia. Bringing together a team of scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, it takes a dual focus on the language-specific properties of dyslexia and on its core components across languages and orthographies, to challenge theories on the nature, identification and prevalence of dyslexia, and to reveal new insights. Part I highlights the nature, identification and prevalence of dyslexia across multiple languages including English, French, Dutch, Czech and Slovakian, Finnish, Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese and Chinese, while Part II takes a cross-linguistic stance on topics such as the nature of dyslexia, the universals that determine relevant precursor measures, competing hypotheses of brain-based deficits, modelling outcomes, etiologies, and intergenerational gene-environment interactions.

Digital literacy is a powerful subject, which supports inclusivity, social mobility and digital citizenship globally. This book brings together thought-leaders and experts in the field, providing a blend of research and practice across sectors, and provides a valuable and timely insight into digital literacy and learning. Digital Literacy Unpacked not only offers a snapshot of innovative approaches to digital literacy, but also intends to provoke discussion, encourage collaboration and inspire – whatever the role or context. The editors open up the whole area of digital literacy in all its kaleidoscopic richness, and provide diverse perspectives, content and ideas to inform thinking and practice. The cross-sectoral and global significance of digital literacy is a key theme of the book. Digital literacy is relevant to higher education, further education, schools, children, and the workplace - but crucially at its heart it is a citizenship and inclusion issue, necessary for the full participation and achievement of all in society. Content covered includes: - a discussion of terminology, institutional approaches, and existing frameworks - digital literacy in learning and teaching - copyright literacy - teaching the use of digital tools and curriculum design - critical approaches to literacy - combatting social exclusion using digital skills. The book will be useful reading for library and information professionals across the sector (higher education, schools, business/corporate, special, public), institutional leaders and managers, and LIS students. It will also be useful reading for educational technologists, learning and teaching professionals.

Diskurs und Diskursforschung bezeichnen nicht nur zwischen den verschiedenen geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Disziplinen, sondern auch innerhalb einzelner Fächer und Forschungsrichtungen ganz Unterschiedliches. Das ist nicht nur für Neuankömmlinge im Feld der Diskursforschungen verwirrend, sondern immer wieder auch für diejenigen, die sich darin schon länger bewegen. Verschiedene Einführungen, Handbücher und Überblicksbeiträge geben hier sicherlich hilfreiche Orientierungen. Der vorliegende Band präsentiert hierzu ein anderes Vorgehen. Er wählt bewusst die Form eines Gesprächs zwischen sechs Vertretern verschiedener Disziplinen mit langjährigen Erfahrungen in der Diskursforschung, um in die unterschiedlichen theoretischen Grundlagen, in Gemeinsamkeiten und Differenzen der Konzepte, Begriffe und Methoden der Untersuchung von Diskursen einzuführen. Das mehrstimmige Gespräch erlaubt dabei eine besondere Form der Verständigung. In der Mündlichkeit kommt nicht nur eine persönlichere Argumentationsweise zum Ausdruck. Vielmehr werden auch unmittelbare Nachfragen, Einwände oder Zustimmungen im dialogischen Austausch möglich. (https://www.buchhandel.de)

An investigation into how soldiers of this period considered and presented themselves.

Like electricity, political power travels through physical materials whose properties govern its flow. Electrical Palestine charts the construction of Palestine's electric grid in the interwar period and its implication in the area's rapid and uneven development. It does so in an effort to rethink both the origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict and the interplay of politics, capital, and technology more broadly. The study follows the co-evolution of the power system and Zionist state-building efforts in Palestine on the conceptual and material level. Conceptually, the design and construction of the system shaped Palestine as a precisely bounded entity with a distinct political, social, and economic character. Materially, the borders of the mandate were mapped onto the power system and structured an ethno-national division of capital, land, and labor. In 1948, these co-evolving forces ultimately carried over into Jewish statehood and Palestinian statelessness...Provided by publisher

New interpretations of an art form ubiquitious in the Middle Ages.

Erfahren Sie in diesem Band umfassend und detailliert, welche Bedeutung enteropathogene Yersinien in der lebensmittelherstellenden Industrie haben und wie einer Verbreitung in die Lebensmittelkette präventiv gegenübergetreten werden kann. Yersiniosen zählen nach Infektionen durch Campylobacter und Salmonellen zu den dritthäufigsten Erkrankungen in Europa. Seit 2012 ist die Anzahl der jährlich übermittelten Erkrankungen in Deutschland etwa gleich geblieben. Besonders Y. enterocolitica und Y. pseudotuberculosis sind als humanpathogene Spezies bekannt und werden in erster Linie über kontaminierte Lebensmittel übertragen. Die meisten Yersiniose Fälle treten sporadisch auf, in den letzten Jahren wurden allerdigns auch einige lebensmittelbedingte Ausbrüche, hervorgerufen durch Y. enterocolitica und Y. pseudotuberculosis, rapportiert. Dieses Buch gibt einen umfassenden Überblick über Eigenschaften, Pathogenität und Erkrankungen von enteropathogenen Yersinien. Die möglichen Infektionsquellen und Infektionswege stehen hierbei im Vordergrund. Präventive Maßnahmen in der lebensmittelherstellenden Industrie und Kontrollen von risikobehafteten Lebensmitteln werden beschrieben. Erfahren Sie auch wie Sie Yersinien in Lebensmitteln nachweisen und die enteropathogenen Yersinien identifizieren. (https://www.buchhandel.de)

In Environmental Law and Economics, Michael G. Faure and Roy A. Partain provide a detailed overview of the law-and-economics methodology developed and employed by environmental lawyers and policymakers. The authors demonstrate how this approach can transcend political divisions in the context of international environmental law, environmental criminal law, and the property rights approach to environmental law. Private law solutions and public regulatory approaches are also explored, including traditional command-and-control and market-based forms of regulation. The book not only shows how the law-and-economics framework can be used to protect the environment, but also to examine deeper questions involving environmental federalism and the effectiveness of environmental law in developing economies. In clear, digestible prose that does not require readers to possess a background in microeconomics or mathematics, the authors introduce the theory and practice of environmental law and economics that have been so critical in the creation of robust environmental policy.

Publish or perish - das alte Motto gilt nach wie vor! Ob für erfahrene Wissenschaftler*innen oder Neulinge im wissenschaftlichen Publizieren. Der Titel gibt praktische Insider-Tipps zu den verschiedenen Möglichkeiten und Hintergründen im erfolgreichen wissenschaftlichen Publizieren. Die überarbeitete Neuauflage befasst sich in einem eigenen Abschnitt mit aktuellen Fragen zum Publizieren im Open Access. Die langjährige Verlegerin Barbara Budrich erläutert anschaulich, was Autor*innen beim wissenschaftlichen Publizieren im Bereich der Sozial-, Erziehungs- und Geisteswissenschaften wissen müssen und beachten sollten. (https://www.buchhandel.de)

Offers a radical political interpretation of history that generates fresh insights into the emancipatory potential of ordinary Nigerians and their precolonial cultural institutions

This collection of essays explores new ways of understanding the Babylonian Exile and the return to Yehud - a formative period in ancient Judaism. Drawing among others on new materials from cuneiform texts, the contributions study how Judean and other exiles interacted with the host society and vice versa, the way in which various biblical books reflect Babylonian culture, and the return migration to Jerusalem--

Research Data Management (RDM) has become a professional topic of great importance internationally following changes in scholarship and government policies about the sharing of research data. Exploring Research Data Management provides an accessible introduction and guide to RDM with engaging tasks for the reader to follow and develop their knowledge. Starting by exploring the world of research and the importance and complexity of data in the research process, the book considers how a multi-professional support service can be created then examines the decisions that need to be made in designing different types of research data service from local policy creation, training, through to creating a data repository.

Americans are not invulnerable to factual information. They do not 'backfire'; facts do not make them less accurate. Instead, they become more accurate, even when corrections target co-partisans. Corrections of fake news yield similar results. Among Republicans, Trump's misstatements are less susceptible to corrections than identical misstatements attributed to other Republicans. While we do not observe facts affecting attitudes, multiple instances of misinformation can increase approval of the responsible politician - but corrections can reduce approval by similar amounts. While corrections do not eliminate false beliefs, they reduce the share of inaccurate beliefs among subjects in this study nearly in half.

Flodoard of Rheims (893/4-966) is one of the tenth century's most intriguing but neglected historians. His works are essential sources for the emergence of the West Frankish and Ottonian kingdoms in the tumultuous decades following the collapse of the Carolingian empire in 888. Yet although Flodoard is a crucial narrative voice from this period, his works have seldom been considered in the context of the evolving circumstances of his turbulent career or his literary aims. This important new study is the first to analyse and synthesise Flodoard's entire output, suggesting that his writings about Rheims, contemporary politics and the Christian past have until now been taken at face value without regard for his own intentions or priorities, and therefore have been misunderstood. Edward Roberts' re-evaluation of the relationship between political participation, historical understanding and authorial individuality casts important new light on the political and cultural history of tenth-century Europe.

The fruits of new research on the politics, society and culture of England in the fourteenth century.

Poetry, fiction, literary history, and politics. These four cornerstone concerns of Roberto Bolaño's work have established him as a representative, generational figure in not only Chile, Mexico, and Spain, the three principal locations of his life and work, but throughout Europe and the Americas, increasingly on a global scale. At the heart of Bolaño's 'poemas-novela', his poet- and poetry-centered novels, is the history and legacy of the prose poem. Challenging the policing of boundaries between verse and prose, poetry and fiction, the literary and the non-literary, the aesthetic and the political, his prose poem novels offer a sustained literary history by other means, a pivotal intervention that restores poetry and literature to full capacity. Framing Roberto Bolaño is one of the first books to trace the full arc and development of Bolaño's work from the beginning to the end of his career.

Cognitive linguists are bound by the cognitive commitment, which is the commitment to providing a characterization of the general principles governing all aspects of human language, in a way that is informed by, and accords with, what is known about the brain and mind from other disciplines. But what do we know about aspects of cognition that are relevant for theories of languagé Which insights can help us build cognitive reality into our descriptive practice and move linguistic theorizing forward? This unique study integrates research findings from across the cognitive sciences to generate insights that challenge the way in which frequency has been interpreted in usage-based linguistics. It answers the fundamental questions of why frequency of experience has the effect it has on language development, structure and representation, and what role psychological and neurological explorations of core cognitive processes can play in developing a cognitively more accurate theoretical account of language.

Does religion influence political participation? This book takes up this pressing debate using Christianity in sub-Saharan Africa as its empirical base to demonstrate that religious teachings communicated in sermons can influence both the degree and the form of citizens' political participation. McClendon and Riedl document some of the current diversity of sermon content in contemporary Christian houses of worship and then use a combination of laboratory experiments, observational survey data, focus groups, and case comparisons in Zambia, Uganda, and Kenya to interrogate the impact of sermon exposure on political participation and the longevity of that impact. Pews to Politics in Africa leverages the pluralism of sermons in sub-Saharan Africa to gain insight into the content of cultural influences and their consequences for how ordinary citizens participate in politics.

An in-depth intellectual history of the Western idea and a passionate defense of its importance to America's future, 'From Plato to NATO' is the first book to make sense of the legacy of the West at a time when it is facing its greatest challenges. Readers of Francis Fukuyama, John Gray, Samuel Huntington, and other analysts of the dilemmas of Western nations in the twenty-first century will find in David Gress's original account a fuller description of what the West really is and how, with the best of intentions, it has been misrepresented. Most important, they will encounter a new vision of Western identity and how it can be recovered. Early in the twentieth century, American educators put together a story of Western civilization, its origins, history, and promise that for the subsequent fifty years remained at the heart of American college education. The story they told was of a Western civilization that began with the Greeks and continued through 2,500 years of great books and great ideas, culminating in twentieth-century progressive liberal democracy, science, and capitalist prosperity. In the 1960s, this Grand Narrative of the West came under attack. Over the next thirty years, the critics turned this old story into its opposite: a series of anti-narratives about the evils, the failures, and the betrayals of justice that, so they said, constituted Western history. The victory of Western values at the end of the cold war, the spread of democracy and capitalism, and the worldwide impact of American popular culture have not revived the Grand Narrative in the European and American heartlands of the West. David Gress explains this paradox, arguing that the Grand Narrative of the West was flawed from the beginning: that the West did not begin in Greece and that, in morality and religion, the Greeks were an alien civilization whose contribution was mediated through Rome and Christianity. Furthermore, in assuming a continuity from the Greeks to modern liberalism, we have mistakenly downplayed or rejected everything in between, focusing on the great ideas and the great books rather than on real history with all its ambiguities, conflicts, and contradictions. The heart of Gress's case for the future of the West is that the New must remember its roots in the Old and seek a synthesis. For as the attacks have demonstrated, the New West cannot stand alone. Its very virtues -- liberty, reason, progress -- grew out of the Old West and cannot flourish when removed from that rich soil. (https://www.lehmann.de)

Auch Sie können Erfolg haben mit Kapitalanlagen in Wohnimmobilien! In diesem Buch erklärt der gelernte Jurist und Banker Alexander Goldwein verständlich und mit konkret durchgerechneten Beispielen, wie Sie mit Wohnimmobilien ein Vermögen aufbauen und finanzielle Freiheit erlangen können. Die Lektüre setzt keine Vorkenntnisse voraus und ist auch für Anfänger geeignet. Der Bestsellerautor Goldwein ist innerhalb weniger Jahre self-made Millionär mit Kapitalanlagen in Wohnimmobilien geworden. Mehrere seiner Ratgeber zu Immobilien sind Bestseller Nr. 1 bei Amazon. In diesem Buch erfahren Sie ganz konkret: Strategien zur sicheren & rentablen Kapitalanlage in Wohnimmobilien Aufspüren lukrativer Renditeimmobilien auch in angespannten Märkten Grundlagen der Immobilienbewertung und Kaufpreisfindung Checklisten zur professionellen Prüfung & Verhandlungsstrategien für den Ankauf Strategien für die optimale Finanzierung und Hebelung der Eigenkapitalrendite Berechnung von Cash-Flow & Rendite mit dem als Bonus erhältlichen Excel-Rechentool Steueroptimierte Bewirtschaftung & Realisierung von Veräußerungsgewinnen Praxisrelevante Grundlagen des Immobilienrechtes (inklusive der Besonderheiten bei vermieteten Eigentumswohnungen) Praxisrelevante Grundlagen des Mietrechtes (inklusive der Regelungen zu Mieterhöhungen) (https://www.buchhandel.de)

ger: Hintergrund: Kein anderes Fach hat in Österreich so lange an der Trennung der Geschlechter festgehalten wie der Sportunterricht. Koedukation im Sportunterricht ist ein vielfach kontrovers diskutiertes Thema, das sich in der Literatur widerspiegelt. Die Frage, ob koedukativer Sportunterricht im Fach Bewegung und Sport sinnvoll ist, wird international breit debattiert.br /br /Zielsetzung: Ziel dieser Studie war es, die aktuelle Sichtweise von Schülerinnen und Schülern sowie von Sportlehrkräften auf Koedukation im Fach Bewegung und Sport zu erheben. Dabei sollte ein differenziertes Modell des koedukativen Sportunterrichts gefunden werden, das Vorteile bestmöglich nutzt und Nachteile weitestgehend reduziert. br /br /Methoden: Zur Erhebung der Einstellungen der Probandinnen und Probanden diente ein Fragebogen bestehend aus vier Teilen (Allgemeines, Inhalte des koedukativen Sportunterrichts, Differenzierte Modellwahl, Einstellung zum koedukativen Sportunterricht). Die statistische Auswertung erfolgte mit dem Statistikprogramm SPSS 24.0. Für die Ermittlung von Unterschieden wurde der Mann-Whitney-U-Test verwendet, für abhängige Stichproben der Friedman- oder Wilcoxon-Test. Der Konsistenznachweis wurde mittels ordinaler Regression und die Unterschiedsprüfung bei nominalen Daten mit dem Chi-Quadrat-Test vollzogen.br /br /Ergebnisse: Es wurden n=400 Schülerinnen und Schüler und n=45 Lehrerinnen und Lehrer des Unterrichtsfaches Bewegung und Sport aus fünf Schulen befragt. Die Erhebung zeigte, dass es ein präferiertes Gesamtmodell je nach Niveau gibt. Schülerinnen und Schüler bevorzugen einen zu 50% koedukativ und einen zu 50% getrennten Sportunterricht und Lehrerinnen und Lehrer favorisieren einen zu 25% koedukativ und zu 75% getrennten Sportunterricht. Weiters konnte eine unterschiedliche Modellwahl je Schulstufe festgestellt werden. In der 5. und 6. Klasse der SEK II wird ein Modell mit 50% Koedukation und in der 7. und 8. Klasse ein Modell mit 75% Koedukation präferiert. Sportlichkeit und Freude am Sportunterricht haben einen signifikanten Einfluss auf die Modellwahl der Schülerinnen und Schüler. Schülerinnen und Schüler wie auch die Lehrkräfte sind der Meinung, dass beide Geschlechter profitieren und keines der Geschlechter in einem koedukativen Sportunterricht benachteiligt wird. Alle Inhalte außer Fußball, Handball, Basketball und Landhockey sowie der Unterrichtsgegenstand „Gymnastik und Tanz“, werden für einen gemeinsamen Unterricht mit Mädchen und Jungen als geeignet betrachtet. br /br /Schlussfolgerung: Zusammenfassend zeigte sich, dass weder Schülerinnen und Schüler noch Lehrerinnen und Lehrer Koedukation im Sportunterricht ablehnen. Für die gesamte SEK II stellt ein Unterricht, in dem 50% der Stunden koedukativ und 50% getrennt unterrichtet werden, den gewünschten Kompromiss und das erstrebenswerte Modell dar. Für die 7. und 8. Klasse ist das 75% Modell jenes mit den größten Chancen für den Schulalltag.

The first comprehensive and authoritative history of work and labour in Africa; a key text for all working on African Studies and Labour History worldwide.

Accounts of international criminal courts have tended to consist of reflections on abstract legal texts, on judgements and trial transcripts. Genocide Never Sleeps, based on ethnographic research at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), provides an alternative account, describing a messy, flawed human process in which legal practitioners faced with novel challenges sought to reconfigure long-standing habits and opinions while maintaining a commitment to 'justice'. From the challenges of simultaneous translation to collaborating with colleagues from different legal traditions, legal practitioners were forced to scrutinise that which normally remains assumed in domestic law. By providing an account of this process, Genocide Never Sleeps not only provides a unique insight into the exceptional nature of the ad hoc, improvised ICTR and the day-to-day practice of international criminal justice, but also holds up for fresh inspection much that is naturalised and assumed in unexceptional, domestic legal processes.

There has been a rapid expansion of academic interest and publications on polycentricity. In the contemporary world, nearly all governance situations are polycentric, but people are not necessarily used to thinking this way. Governing Complexity provides an updated explanation of the concept of polycentric governance. The editors provide examples of it in contemporary settings involving complex natural resource systems, as well as a critical evaluation of the utility of the concept. With contributions from leading scholars in the field, this book makes the case that polycentric governance arrangements exist and it is possible for polycentric arrangements to perform well, persist for long periods, and adapt. Whether they actually function well, persist, or adapt depends on multiple factors that are reviewed and discussed, both theoretically and with examples from actual cases.

Ausgehend von dem beständig wachsenden Interesse an der Gattung Epyllion in der Forschung und mit Blick auf die große Bedeutung und starke Rezeption, die den griechischen Kleinepen seit der Antike zukam und bis in die Moderne fassbar ist, versammelt der Band erstmals in Originalsprache und Übersetzung die sechs wichtigsten, d. h. innerhalb der Gattungsgeschichte bedeutsamsten und zudem über ihre starke Rezeptionsgeschichte nobilitierten Texte: PseudöHesiods Schild, Moschos' Europa, den pseudo-homerischen Froschmäusekrieg, Triphiodors Eroberung Trojas, Kolluthos' Raub der Helena und Musaios' Hero und Leander. In einem Anhang ist als Rezeptionszeugnis der byzantinische Katzenmäusekrieg beigegeben. Der Band enthält einen Essay zur Entstehungs- und Gattungsgeschichte der griechischen Kleinepik, Einführungen in die einzelnen Werke unter Berücksichtigung ihrer Rezeptionsgeschichte und Anmerkungen mit Sacherläuterungen. Mit dem Band zur griechischen Kleinepik wird das wachsende internationale Forschungsinteresse an dieser Gattung flankiert und erstmals einer breiter literarisch interessierten Öffentlichkeit ein umfassender Zugang zu diesen rezeptionsgeschichtlich äußerst bedeutsamen Texten eröffnet.

'H. G. Wells and All Things Russian' is a fertile terrain for research and this volume will be the first to devote itself entirely to the theme. Wells was an astute student of Russian literature, culture and history, and the Russians, in turn, became eager students of Wells's views and works. During the Soviet years, in fact, no significant foreign author was safer for Soviet critics to praise than H. G. Wells. The reason was obvious. He had met - and largely approved of - Lenin, was a close friend of the Soviet literary giant Maxim Gorky and, in general, expressed much respect for Russia's evolving Communist experiment, even after it fell into Stalin's hands. While Wells's attitude towards the Soviet Union was, nevertheless, often ambivalent, there is definitely nothing ambiguous about the tremendous influence his works had on Russian literary and cultural life.

Das Buch eröffnet einen neuen Blick auf die Entwicklung von Führung und Unternehmenskultur. Der Autor und erfahrene Unternehmer erläutert, wie wir die Welt gemäß unserer inneren Haltung deuten können und damit die Zusammenarbeit wirkungsvoll gestalten. Dafür stellt er ein neues, eingängiges Modell vor, für das wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse der Entwicklungspsychologie die Basis bilden. Anhand von zahlreichen Beispielen und Illustrationen bietet das Buch dem Leser viele praktische Anregungen, wie das integrale Verständnis für eine Organisation gefördert werden kann. Und das in allen vier Dimensionen: Verhalten, Kultur, Struktur und Haltung. 'Haltung entscheidet' richtet sich an Unternehmer, Führungskräfte, Coaches, HR-Verantwortliche und alle, die sinnerfüllt und selbstorganisiert arbeiten wollen. (https://www.buchhandel.de)

In 1958, Britain and Denmark both advocated closer European cooperation through the looser framework of the Free Trade Area (FTA) rather than membership of the nascent European Economic Community (EEC). By 1972, however, the situation had changed drastically. The FTA was a long-forgotten concept. Its replacement, the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), seemed economically and politically inept. Now, at the third time of asking, both countries were on the verge of joining the EEC as full members. This compelling analysis compares how the European policies of the British Labour Party and the Danish Social Democrats evolved amid this environment. Based on material from 12 archives in four countries, it updates our knowledge of key moments in both parties' interaction with the integration story, including in the formative stages of the EEC in 1958¬-60 and the negotiations for British and Danish EEC membership in 1961-63, 1967 and 1970-72. More innovatively, this book argues that amid an array of national and international constraints the reciprocal influence exerted by Labour and the SD on each other via informal party contacts was itself a crucial determinant in European policymaking. In so doing, it sheds light on the sources of Labour European thinking, the role of small states like Denmark in the integration process, and the prominence of the Anglo-Scandinavian nexus in the broader narrative of British foreign policy in this period.

While the United States continues to recover from the 2008 Great Recession, the country still faces unprecedented inequality as increasing numbers of poor families struggle to get by with little assistance from the government. Holes in the Safety Net: Federalism and Poverty offers a grounded look at how states and the federal government provide assistance to poor people. With chapters covering everything from welfare reform to recent efforts by states to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients, the book avoids unnecessary jargon and instead focuses on how programs operate in practice. This timely work should be read by anyone who cares about poverty, rising inequality, and the relationship between state, local, and federal levels of government.

This volume provides bridges from the social sciences to business ethics and from the latter to the quality of life, by connecting the research themes of quality of life, social sciences, including public policy-making, and business ethics or corporate responsibility. It builds on the premise that public policy making is essentially a species of good decision making, as explained in the first volume. It shows that, because most developed countries function as market economies whose governments depend on taxation to pay for their services and because a large proportion of government revenue comes from well-regulated, responsible corporations, the quality of people’s lives is highly dependent upon good public policies, taxation and business ethics. The volume presents and examines ethical/moral problems arising in market economies since the first century BCE, including the first appearance of the business case for business ethics, fourteen arguments concerning the neglect of business ethics, business ethics issues for the 1990s and beyond, the loyal agent’s argument, advertising, the importance of trust, public opinion polling, public program evaluation, and a critique of the relatively new monster of super-capitalism. In addition, it deals with connections among the concepts of efficiency, morality, and rationality related to decision making in general and public policy making in particular. Finally, it explains relationships between outcomes measurement and performance indicators in general and performance-based management in public administration, the taxation of net wealth and financial transactions. (https://www.buchhandel.de)

Offers an intimate view of a contemporary composer's creative world and how others may interpret it.

This groundbreaking study understands the 'long history' of human rights in Australia from the moment of their supposed invention in the 1940s to official incorporation into the Australian government bureaucracy in the 1980s. To do so, a wide cast of individuals, institutions and publics from across the political spectrum are surveyed, who translated global ideas into local settings and made meaning of a foreign discourse to suit local concerns and predilections. These individuals created new organisations to spread the message of human rights or found older institutions amenable to their newfound concerns, adopting rights language with a mixture of enthusiasm and opportunism. Governments, on the other hand, engaged with or ignored human rights as its shifting meanings, international currency and domestic reception ebbed and flowed. Finally, individuals understood and (re)translated human rights ideas throughout this period: writing letters, books or poems and sympathising in new, global ways.

A very challenging subject IB chemistry requires tremendous effort to understand fully and attain a high grade. 'IB Chemistry Revision Guide' simplifies the content and provides clear explanations for the material.

Emotions are not universal, but are experienced and expressed in diverse ways within different cultures and times. This overview of the history of emotions within nineteenth-century British imperialism focuses on the role of the compassionate emotions, or what today we refer to as empathy, and how they created relations across empire. Jane Lydon examines how empathy was produced, qualified and contested, including via the fear and anger aroused by frontier violence. She reveals the overlooked emotional dimensions of relationships constructed between Britain, her Australasian colonies, and Indigenous people, showing that ideas about who to care about were frequently drawn from the intimate domestic sphere, but were also developed through colonial experience. This history reveals the contingent and highly politicised nature of emotions in imperial deployment. Moving beyond arguments that emotions such as empathy are either 'good' or 'bad', this study evaluates their concrete political uses and effects.

This new edition offers a fully updated and expanded overview of the field of information organization, examining the description of information resources as both a product and process of the contemporary digital environment. Information Resource Description 2nd edition explains how the various elements and values of descriptive metadata support a set of common information retrieval functions across a wide range of environments. Through this unifying framework, the book provides an integrated commentary on the various fields and practices of information organization carried out by today’s information professionals and end-users. Key topics and updates to the first edition include: recent scholarship published in the field linked open linked data initiatives such as BIBFRAME the new IFLA Library Reference Model and its five user tasks current versions of the key metadata standards contemporary discovery tools and approaches. The book is intended for LIS students taking information organization courses at either undergraduate and postgraduate levels, information professionals wishing to specialize in the field, and existing metadata specialists who wish to update their knowledge.

ger: In this Master’s Thesis we examine Form 13F ownership data and whether it can potentially serve to create a sound investment strategy. We scrape and download 13F filings of all available institutional investment managers from the SEC EDGAR database. The data ranges from the 2nd quarter 2013 to the 4th quarter 2018. This extensive dataset serves to create our institutional stock attention variable. Wethen create sorted decile portfolios and a hedge portfolios based on our variable of interest. An investment strategy is generated and its performance evaluated against the Fama French 5 Factor model. We find mixed results. The performances of the decile portfolios that follow the investment strategy are heavily dependent on the weighting scheme. Moreover, the hedge portfolio designed to capture the institutional stock attention effect yields no economically significant return premium.In addition, the variable is to a substantial degree explained by the Fama-French 5 Factor model. We conclude that the investment strategy is not economically viable.

Sociability may be a key term of reference for eighteenth-century studies as a whole, but it has not yet developed an especially strong profile in music scholarship. Many of the associations that it brings do not fit comfortably with a later imperative of individual expression. W. Dean Sutcliffe invites us to face up to the challenge of re-evaluating the communicative rationales that lie behind later eighteenth-century instrumental style. Taking a behavioural perspective, he divides sociability into 'technical' and 'affective' realms, involving close attention both to particular recurring musical patterns as well as to some of the style's most salient expressive attributes. The book addresses a broad span of the instrumental production of the era, with Haydn as the pivotal figure. Close readings of a variety of works are embedded in an encompassing consideration of the reception of this music.

The synthesis of the Aquatic Biodiversity and Ecosystems Conference (ABEC) 2015, which was held to assess scientific progress over the past twnety-five years, this book provides a comprehensive and global review of work since the 1992 publication of Plant-Animal Interactions in the Marine Benthos. Taking a regional and, where appropriate, habitat perspective, it considers sites of coastal biodiversity from around the world to incorporate a global approach. The volume analyses abiotic and biotic interactions, and the factors determining distribution patterns, community structure and ecosystem functioning of coastal systems. It explores themes of how phylogeography and biogeographic process influence assemblage composition, and hence drive community structure and the respective roles of environmental factors and biological interactions, with the overall goal to establish how general are the processes in different regions and habitats. For researchers, graduate students and academics studying coastal ecosystems, with interest for conservation practitioners managing areas of high biodiversity.

Soziale Ungleichheit und Vielfalt sind Schlüsselthemen der Arbeits- und Organisationsforschung, wurden bislang aber nur selten aus intersektionaler Perspektive betrachtet. Der Band schließt diese Lücke. Er versammelt theoretische und empirische Beiträge, die aufzeigen, wie multiple Benachteiligungen und Diskriminierungen in Unternehmen, Universitäten, Forschung, Parteien, Krankenhäusern, Pflegeagenturen und Gewerkschaften produziert werden und was Organisationen davon abhält, allen Menschen unabhängig von ihrer sozialen Zugehörigkeit gleiche Arbeitsbedingungen zu bieten. (https://www.buchhandel.de)

A sophisticated introduction to contemporary Basque literature that chronicles its growth and success after the death of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco.

Optical lenses have many important applications, from telescopes and spectacles, to microscopes and lasers. This concise, introductory book provides an overview of the subtle art of lens design. It covers the fundamental, optical theory, and the practical methods and tools employed in lens design, in a succinct and accessible manner. Topics covered include first-order optics, optical aberrations, achromatic doublets, optical relays, lens tolerances, designing with off-the-shelf lenses, miniature lenses, and zoom lenses. Covering all the key concepts of lens design, and providing suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter, this book is an essential resource for graduate students working in optics and photonics, in addition to engineers and technicians working in the optics and imaging industries.

Assuming a central place in Muslim life, the Qur'an speaks of one community of the faith, the umma. This unity of the faithful is recognised as the default aspiration of the believer, and in the modern era, intellectuals and political leaders have often vied both to define, and to lead it. Based on case studies of actors such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, and ISIS, James Piscatori and Amin Saikal consider how some appeals to pan-Islam prove useful, yet other attempts at cross-border institutionalisation including the Sunni Caliphate or the modern Shi'i-inspired Islamic Revolution, founder on political self-interest and sectarian affiliations. Accompanied by a range of scriptural references to examine different interpretations of the umma, Piscatori and Saikal explore why, despite it meaning such widely different things, and its failure to be realised as a concrete project, neither the umma's popular symbolic appeal nor its influence on a politics of identity has diminished.

Shows how extensive the naval power of Islamic states was, charts the rise and fall of Islamic navies, and outlines the various wars and campaigns in which Islamic navies were involved.

In James Joyce and the Matter of Paris, Catherine Flynn recovers the paradigmatic city of European urban modernity as the foundational context of Joyce's imaginative consciousness. Beginning with Joyce's underexamined first exile in 1902-03, she shows the significance for his writing of the time he spent in Paris and of a range of French authors whose works inflected his experience of that city. In response to the pressures of Parisian consumer capitalism, Joyce drew on French literature to conceive a somatic aesthetic, in which the philosophically disparaged senses of taste, touch, and smell as well as the porous, digestive body resist capitalism's efforts to manage and instrumentalize desire. This book resituates the most canonical of Irish modernists in a European avant-garde context while revealing important links between Anglophone modernism and critical theory.

This book is concerned with the eighteenth-century typographer, printer, industrialist and Enlightenment figure, John Baskerville (1707-75). Baskerville was a Birmingham inventor, entrepreneur and artist with a worldwide reputation who made eighteenth-century Birmingham a city without typographic equal, by changing the course of type design. Baskerville not only designed one of the world's most historically important typefaces, he also experimented with casting and setting type, improved the construction of the printing-press, developed a new kind of paper and refined the quality of printing inks. His typographic experiments put him ahead of his time, had an international impact and did much to enhance the printing and publishing industries of his day. Yet despite his importance, fame and influence many aspects of Baskerville's work and life remain unexplored and his contribution to the arts, industry, culture and society of the Enlightenment are largely unrecognized. Moreover, recent scholarly research in archaeology, art and design, history, literary studies and typography, is leading to a fundamental reassessment of many aspects of Baskerville's life and impact, including his birthplace, his work as an industrialist, the networks which sustained him and the reception of his printing in Britain and overseas. The last major, but inadequate publication of Baskerville dates from 1975. Now, forty years on, the time is ripe for a new book. This interdisciplinary approach provides an original contribution to printing history, eighteenth-century studies and the dissemination of ideas.

The fourth edition of Journalism Next is updated with the latest technological innovations and media industry transformations, ensuring that Mark Briggs’ proven guide for leveraging digital technology to do better journalism keeps pace with ongoing changes in the media landscape. To keep ahead and abreast of these ever-evolving tools and techniques, Briggs offers practical and timely guidance for both the seasoned professional looking to get up to speed and the digital native looking to root their tech know-how in real journalistic principles. (https://www.amazon.de)

Kitty Clive (1711-1785) was a top London stage star. She dominated spoken as well as musical comedy. From the 1740s onwards, her reputation suffered a sharp decline. For anyone curious about star production in eighteenth-century Britain, her story is not to be missed.

Seit Anfang der 1980er Jahre haben Konstruktivismus und Systemtheorie die Theoriebildung in sozialen, therapeutischen, pädagogischen und betrieblichen Zusammenhängen zunehmend beeinflusst. Ihre Bedeutung für die unterschiedlichen Handlungswissenschaften und für das praktische Handeln wurde ausgiebig und kritisch reflektiert. Holger Lindemann versammelt in diesem Grundlagenwerk zentrale Theorien und Modelle des Konstruktivismus und der Systemtheorie, verständlich und mit vielen Beispielen erklärt. Ausführlich stellt sich der Autor der Frage nach der Bedeutung dieser Grundlagen für unser Handeln und präsentiert ein Modell, das Orientierung für die Praxis bietet. (https://www.buchhandel.de)

Der Krieg um Troja ist Gegenstand von Homers großem Epos Ilias - doch gibt es aus der Antike auch ‚alternative Geschichten‘ dazu: Die lateinischsprachigen Autoren Dictys und Dares nämlich behaupten, Augenzeugenberichte zu bieten und damit authentischer als Homer über Troja zu berichten. Da die griechischsprachige Ilias im Mittelalter und bis zur frühen Neuzeit nicht zugänglich war, haben die beiden lateinischen Werke zudem größte Bedeutung für die Rezeption des Troja-Stoffs bis in die frühe Neuzeit. In den letzten Jahren sind Papyri gefunden worden, die als griechische Vorlagen der lateinischen Werke gelten. Die mit einer ausführlichen Einleitung erschlossene Tusculum-Ausgabe bietet diese Funde erstmals zweisprachig und ermöglicht gemeinsam mit der zweisprachigen Präsentation der Werke von Dictys und Dares einen neuen Zugang zu ‚alternativen Geschichten‘ von Troja

The 7-8th centuries are commonly believed tohave beena stagnant phase of Byzantine historiography. This book investigates the writing of history in Greek and Syriacduring this period through the study of four later chronicles which used lost 7-8th-century sources. The materials shared by these texts shed light on the sources themselves and on the practice of memory keeping among Christians in such a crucial age.

eng: Nowadays, innovation is essential for organizations keeping up with competitors in the same market segment and industry. The following thesis deals with this topic respectively in more detail examines how leadership traits influence an employee’s innovativeness. In order to obtain a considerable and meaningful database, both leaders and their employees are interviewed using a qualitative research approach. Since the Big Five personality dimensions encapsulate a huge amount of personality variables into a compact but comprehensive set of personality constructs, the Big Five serve as a good frame to analyze leadership traits. Particularly interesting is how different degrees of a trait affect an employee. A low degree of a trait influences the employee in a different way than a high degree of the same trait. The findings contribute to academic literature that deals with the relationship between leadership traits and the employee’s innovative behavior. Overall, this study makes it possible to figure out which leadership traits influence employees innovative behavior during an innovation process.

The First World War marked the end point of a process of German globalization that began in the 1870s, well before Germany acquired a colonial empire or extensive overseas commercial interests. Structured around the figures of five influential economists who shaped the German political landscape, Learning Empire explores how their overseas experiences shaped public perceptions of the world and Germany's place in it. These men helped define a German liberal imperialism that came to influence the 'world policy' (Weltpolitik) of Kaiser Wilhelm, Chancellor Bülow, and Admiral Tirpitz. They devised naval propaganda, reshaped Reichstag politics, were involved in colonial and financial reforms, and helped define the debate over war aims in the First World War. Looking closely at German worldwide entanglements, Learning Empire recasts how we interpret German imperialism, the origins of the First World War, and the rise of Nazism, inviting reflection on the challenges of globalization in the current century.

A labor lawyer and publicist of weight in the Weimar Republic, Franz Neumann devoted his 21-year exile, after 1933, to understanding the failure of arrangements supposed to be in the line of social progress. He sought to delineate a new conception of democracy as a vehicle of social change. Learning from Franz Neumann examines Neumann's social and political theory in the context of his career as a practitioner, learner, and teacher.

‘Life Chances, Education and Social Movements’ explains the sociology of life chances, the opportunities and experiences of different generations in Australia, the United States and the UK, and how the differential distribution of life-enhancing opportunities affects our well-being. It is now four decades since the publication of Ralf Dahrendorf's ‘Life Chances: Approaches to Social and Political Theory’ (1979), a surprisingly neglected work that has much to offer by way of explaining some of the social and political challenges of the present era. Dahrendorf's life-chances theory is an expanded and innovative analysis of Max Weber's original notion of ‘Lebenschancen’ and is used to support the theoretical and empirical arguments in Lyle Munro's book. Dahrendorf defines life chances as a function of options (provisions and entitlements) and ligatures (networks that provide a sense of solidarity and belonging). For Dahrendorf, education is arguably the most important option individuals can utilise for improving their well-being and for overcoming social and economic disadvantages. While there are countless sociological accounts of inequality, Munro's study takes a different and novel approach based on Dahrendorf's model according to which education and social movements and their networks function to enhance the life chances of individuals and social groups respectively. Munro emphasises the necessity of formal education and its transformative power in the lives of individuals; he stresses the importance of an individual's life chances of achieving satisfactory levels of literacy, numeracy and oracy during a decade or more of formal schooling.

Presents research conducted in three difficult-to-access Cuban archives with rare textual resources, upon which very little analysis has ever previously been published.

Examines Liszt's piano arrangements of music originally created for other instruments, especially the symphony orchestra and the Hungarian Gypsy band.

The relationship between literature and religion in German is unique in the European tradition. It is essential to the definition of German, Austrian and Swiss cultural identity in both the Protestant and Catholic traditions, and is crucial to our understanding of what has been called the 'special path' of German intellectual life. Offering in-depth essays by leading scholars, Literature and Religion in the German-Speaking World analyses this relationship from the beginnings of vernacular literature in German, via the Reformation, early-modern and Enlightenment periods, to the present day. It shows how such fundamental concepts as 'subjectivity', 'identity' and 'modernity' itself arise from the interrelation between religious and secular modes of understanding, and how this interrelation is inseparable from its expression in literature.

From telephones and transoceanic telegraphy to typewriters and phonographs, the era of Bell and Edison brought an array of wondrous new technologies for recording and communication. At the same time, print was becoming a mass medium, as works from newspapers to novels exploited new markets and innovations in publishing to address expanded readerships. Amid the accelerated movements of inventions and language, questions about media change became a transatlantic topic, connecting writers from Whitman to Kipling, Mark Twain to Bram Stoker and Marie Corelli. Media multiplicity seemed either to unite societies or bring division and conflict, to emphasize the material nature of communication or its transcendent side, to highlight distinctions between media or to let them be ignored. Literature, Print Culture, and Media Technologies, 1880-1900 analyzes this ferment as an urgent subject as authors sought to understand the places of printed writing in the late nineteenth century's emerging media cultures.

eng: This thesis explores several machine learning approaches in the field of natural language processing and tests them for applicability in the front end of innovation. Ideas are the basis for successful innovations. There is a vast number of smart ideas around waiting to be identified. Certain machine learning tools have the potential to support innovators in the identification of promising ideas by analysing extensive amounts of text data and derive meaning from it. In the innovation context, ideas are strongly related to needs. Hence innovation can be interpreted as a matching of needs and solution or as a creative solving of problems. The four different experiments in this research refer to these theoretical concepts. The input data for the machine learning tools is retrieved from an online idea contest calling for innovative product ideas that reduce the plastic waste, and reports by renown organizations and scientists about global plastic pollution. The ideas represent the solution landscape, whereas the reports refer to the need landscape in the area of plastic pollution. The evaluation of the results is mainly guided by the applicability in practice. It reveals rewarding benefits, as well as single shortcomings of the usage of machine learning approaches at the beginning stage of innovation. Moreover, in the course of the thesis the relationship between humans and machines receives particular attention.

1917, the year the United States entered World War I, was transformative for American musical culture. The European performers who had dominated classical concert stages for generations came under intense scrutiny, and some of the compositions of Austro-German composers were banned. This year saw the concurrent rise of jazz music from a little-known regional style to a national craze. Significant improvements in recording technology facilitated both the first million-selling jazz record and the first commercial recordings of full symphony orchestras. In a segregated country, as the US military wrestled with how to make use of several million African Americans who had registered for the draft, James Reese Europe broke down racial barriers with his Fifteenth New York National Guard Band. This book tells the story of this year through the lives of eight performers

Complications during airway management occur frequently when treating children. Although tracheal intubation is a routine procedure, there are no pediatric texts dedicated to this essential practice. The lack of specific resources and knowledge makes treating children with complex airways even more challenging. This landmark book is dedicated to the successful management of the complex pediatric airway. It explores and evaluates current research and covers novel topics such as airway ultrasonography and apneic oxygenation. It delineates the risks associated with intubating children, and their preventative measures. Aimed at clinicians involved in airway management in any form, this book covers the basics of airway management and how to perform a variety of essential techniques. Both occasional and exclusive pediatric clinicians will find this a valuable resource to support best practice. The book is supplemented by additional videos online, enhancing the demonstration of devices and techniques discussed in the text.

Die erfolgreiche Planung und Realisierung von Digitalisierungsvorhaben und die damit einhergehende digitale Transformation sind untrennbar mit erfolgreichem Projektmanagement verbunden. Unabhängig davon, wie ausgeprägt die Reichweite der von digitalen Technologien ausgehenden Veränderungen ist (z.B. Reorganisation von Geschäftsprozessen bis hin zur Veränderung von Geschäftsmodellen), das Handeln im Projektmanagement wird den Ausgang eines Digitalisierungsvorhabens immer maßgeblich beeinflussen. Informatik-Projekte sind in der Praxis oft solche Projekte, deren Zweck die Herstellung neuer oder die wesentliche Veränderung bestehender Informations- und Kommunikationssysteme ist. Viele Informatik-Projekte sind nur teilweise erfolgreich oder werden abgebrochen. Das vorliegende Lehr- und Managementbuch, das in 49 Lerneinheiten gegliedert ist, soll einen Beitrag leisten, Wissen zum Management von Informatik-Projekten zu vermitteln. Die Anwendung dieses Wissens beim praktischen Handeln soll die Erfolgswahrscheinlichkeit von Informatik-Projekten erhöhen, damit in Zukunft möglichst viele Digitalisierungsvorhaben einen positiven Ausgang nehmen. (https://www.buchhandel.de)

Erfolgreiche Unternehmen leben von erstklassigen Entscheidungen in Management, Vorstand und Geschäftsführung. Entscheidungssituationen sind jedoch von Unsicherheit und Risiko geprägt: Chancen und Gefahren (Risiken) sind abzuwägen. Welche Wege zur Entscheidungsfindung unter Unsicherheit überzeugen, beleuchten die Experten der Risk Management Association e. V. (RMA): - Managerhaftung und Compliance: Sorgfaltspflichten zur Haftungsvermeidung von Führungskräften und Organen - Business Judgement Rule gem. § 93 AktG: Ausgestaltung und Wechselwirkungen mit dem Risikofrüherkennungssystem gem. § 91 Abs. 2 AktG - Entscheidungsvorbereitung und Entscheidungsvorlagen: Arbeitsschritte, um die gesetzlich geforderten „angemessenen Informationen“ zu belegen - Zusammenspiel von Controlling und Risikomanagement: Entscheidungsvorbereitung durch Risikoanalyse, Beurteilung von Handlungsoptionen und Prognose. Ein Leitfaden für Entscheidungsträger aller Führungsebenen, die im Einklang mit betriebswirtschaftlichen Grundsätzen und rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen verantwortlich entscheiden. (https://www.buchhandel.de)

Essays on book history, manuscripts and reading during a period of considerable change.

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Wissenschaftliche Mathematik ist eine der wichtigsten Kulturleistungen des antiken Griechenland. Doch wann und wo genau hatte sie ihren Ursprung? Die Einschätzung der Antike, zwischen Thales und Euklid habe Platon eine maßgebliche Rolle gespielt, gilt als Fiktion. Diese Studie wirft einen neuen, modelltheoretischen Blick auf die Zeugnisse und erweist im Gegenteil, dass in der Tat Platon als Schöpfer von axiomatisch-deduktiver Mathematik gelten muss.Grundlage der Analyse ist eine Neubewertung des Diagramms als zentralen Charakteristikums griechischer Mathematik aus modelltheoretischer Perspektive. Eine Untersuchung der Quadratverdopplung im Menon und zur Würfelverdopplung (Delisches Problem) zeigt, dass eine theoretische Mathematik erstmals für Platon bezeugt ist. Dass weiter auch nur Platon ein Motiv hatte, sie zu erfinden, ergibt sich aus der Explikation von Platons Theorie der mathematischen Modellierung anhand des Liniengleichnisses in Verbindung mit dem Nachweis, dass der Timaios als deren praktische Umsetzung fungiert.Die Studie bietet wissenschaftshistorisch neue Einsichten zur Entstehung von Mathematik, philosophiehistorisch zu Platons Ontologie und Epistemologie und modelltheoretisch zu Theorie und Praxis von Modellierung

This book examines the Babylonian backgroundof melothesia, the science of charting zodiac influences on the human body, which transformed older divination by connecting astrology with medical techniques. Special attention is given to a text from late-5th-century Uruk, which is argued to be an important representative of this new approach to the healing arts, previously only known from Greek and medieval astrology.

In his new book, Michael Billig uses psychology's past to argue that nowadays, when we write about the mind, we should use more examples and less theory. He provides a series of historical studies, analysing how key psychological writers used examples. Billig offers new insights about famous analysts of the mind, such as Locke, James, Freud, Tajfel and Lewin. He also champions unfairly forgotten figures, like the Earl of Shaftesbury and the eccentric Abraham Tucker. There is a cautionary chapter on Lacan, warning what can happen when examples are ignored. Marie Jahoda is praised as the ultimate example: a psychologist from the twentieth century with a social and rhetorical imagination fit for the twenty-first. More Examples, Less Theory is an easy-to-read book that will inform and entertain academics and their students. It will particularly appeal to those who enjoy the details of examples rather than the simplifications of big theory.

How do contemporary audiences engage with sacred music and what are its effects?

Myanmar Media in Transition: Legacies, Challenges and Change is the first volume to overview the country's contemporary media landscape, providing a critical assessment of the sector during the complex and controversial political transition. Moving beyond the focus on journalism and freedom of the press that characterizes many media-focused volumes, Myanmar Media in Transition also explores developments in fiction, filmmaking, social movement media and social media. Documenting changes from both academic and practitioner perspectives, the twenty-one chapters reinforce the volume's theoretical arguments by providing on-the-ground, factual and experiential data intended to open useful dialogue between key stakeholders in the media, government and civil society sectors. Providing an overview of media studies in the country, Myanmar Media in Transition addresses current challenges, such as the use of social media in spreading hate speech and the shifting boundaries of free expression, by placing them within Myanmar's broader historic social, political and economic context.

A detailed examination of the March system - the special administrative arrangements which applied on both sides of the border - how it was applied and how it evolved as national political circumstances changed.

Nostalgia for the Future is the first collection in English of the writings and interviews of Luigi Nono (1924-1990). One of the most prominent figures in the development of new music after World War II, he is renowned for both his compositions and his utopian views. His many essays and lectures reveal an artist at the center of the analytical, theoretical, critical, and political debates of the time. This selection of Nono's most significant essays, articles, and interviews covers his entire career (1948-1989), faithfully mirroring the interests, orientations, continuities, and fractures of a complex and unique personality. His writings illuminate his intensive involvements with theatre, painting, literature, politics, science, and even mysticism. Nono's words make vividly evident his restless quest for the transformative possibilities of a radical musical experience, one that is at the same time profoundly engaged with its performers and spaces, its audiences, and its human and social motivations and ramifications--Provided by publisher

IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde declared central bankers and finance ministers to be the heroes of recent economic crises for taking corrective action while national politicians squabbled. What enabled them to do sö In the wake of Brexit, chaotic trade policies in the United States, and resurgent nationalism around the world, national politicians are quarrelling again, meanwhile the markets are roiling. Can we again depend on economic technocrats to save the day for these national politicians and the rest of us? What happens if they fail or, perhaps worse, go too far? In this timely book, Shambaugh answers these questions using recent economic crises in Argentina, the United States and Europe as case studies for analysing the intersections of power, politics and markets. By specifying the interactions between political uncertainty, market intervention, and investor risk, Shambaugh predicts how economic technocrats manage market behaviour by shifting expectations regarding what national politicians will do and whether their policies will be effective.

Pacifist Invasions is about what happens to the francophone lyric in the translingual Franco-Arabic context. Drawing on lyric theory, comparative poetics, and linguistics, it demonstrates how Arabic literature and Islamic scripture pacifically invade French in the poetry of Habib Tengour (Algeria), Edmond Jabès (Egypt), Salah Stétié (Lebanon), Abdelwahab Meddeb (Tunisia), and Ryoko Sekiguchi (Japan). Pacifist Invasions deploys side-by-side comparisons of classical Arabic literature, Islamic scripture, and the Arabic commentary traditions in the original language against the landscapes of modern and contemporary French and francophone literature, poetry, and poetics. Detailed close readings reveal three generic modes of translating Arabic poetics into the French lyric, and the mechanisms by which poets foreignize French, as they engage in a translational and intertextual relationship with the history and world of Arabic literature. Through fine-grained analyses of poetry, translations, commentaries, chapbooks, art books, and essays, Pacifist Invasions proposes a cross-cultural history and rereading of French and francophone literatures in relation to the transversal translations and transmissions of classical Arabic poetics. It offers a translingual, comparative repositioning of the field of francophone postcolonial studies along a fluid, translational Franco-Arabic axis. The vision of the postfrancophone succeeds the point of exhaustion within the French poetic sociolect, with wide-ranging and surprising implications for the study of French and francophone poetry.

This volume brings together a unique collection of legal, religious, ethical, and political perspectives to bear on debates concerning biotechnology patents, or 'patents on life'. The ever-increasing importance of biotechnologies has generated continual questions about how intellectual property law should treat such technologies, especially those raising ethical or social-justice concerns. Even after many years and court decisions, important contested issues remain concerning ownership of and rewards from biotechnology - from human genetic material to genetically engineered plants - and regarding the scope of moral or social-justice limitations on patents or licensing practices. This book explores a range of related issues, including questions concerning morality and patentability, biotechnology and human dignity, and what constitute fair rewards from genetic resources. It features high-level international, interfaith, and cross-disciplinary contributions from experts in law, religion, and ethics, including academics and practitioners, placing religious and secular perspectives into dialogue to examine the full implications of patenting life.

A landmark of scholarship on medieval Scotland. Professor Dauvit Broun University of Glasgow.

Personalverrechnung aktuell führt die Schülerinnen und Schüler schrittweise an dieThematik heran. Sie durchlaufen alle Bereiche der Personalverrechnung und erfahren z. B., wie sie eigene Entgeltabrechnungen kontrollieren und sicherstellen, dass der richtige Betrag ausbezahlt wird. Einige Highlights für Sie: In der Personalverrechnung gibt es laufend Änderungen. Der Band berücksichtigt alle gesetzlichen Neuheiten. Zahlreiche Aufgabenstellungen Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitungen führen durch Demobeispiele NEU: inkl. Exkurs zu Besonderheiten in der Personalverrechnung im Hotel- und Gastgewerbe (https://www.buchhandel.de)

This is the first systematic exploration of the intriguing connections between Victorian physical sciences and the study of the controversial phenomena broadly classified as psychic, occult and paranormal. These phenomena included animal magnetism, spirit-rapping, telekinesis and telepathy. Richard Noakes shows that psychic phenomena interested far more Victorian scientists than we have previously assumed, challenging the view of these scientists as individuals clinging rigidly to a materialistic worldview. Physicists, chemists and other physical scientists studied psychic phenomena for a host of scientific, philosophical, religious and emotional reasons, and many saw such investigations as exciting new extensions to their theoretical and experimental researches. While these attempted extensions were largely unsuccessful, they laid the foundations of modern day explorations of the connections between physics and psychic phenomena. This revelatory study challenges our view of the history of physics, and deepens our understanding of the relationships between science and the occult, and science and religion.

This volume examines the structure of text-based Future Narratives in the widest sense, including choose-your-own-adventure books, forking-path novels, combinatorial literature, hypertexts, interactive fiction, and alternate reality games. How 'radical' can printed Future Narratives really be, given the constraints of their mediä When exactly do they not only play with the mere idea of multiple continuations, but actually stage genuine openness and potentiality? Process-rather than product-oriented, text-based Future Narratives are seen as performative and contingent systems, simulating their

An exploration of the influence of gender on the workings of memory in the Middle Ages.

An in-depth study of the presence and representation of Jews in contemporary Argentine film, focusing on films shot since the year 2000.

Bunt, lebendig und abwechslungsreich ist das Wirtschaftsleben. Endlich gibt es eine Reihe, die die Facetten der betrieblichen Wirklichkeit in die Betriebswelt der Schule bringt! Die Bücher der neuen Reihe 'Praxisblicke': Sie geben konkrete und anschauliche Einblicke in die Wirtschaftspraxis! Aktiv werden die Schülerinnen und Schüler auf ihre Rolle als Arbeitnehmer/-in bzw. Unternehmer/-in und als Konsument/-in vorbereitet. Neben prägnantem Sachtext und vielen Übersichten, die dem Unterricht Struktur geben und systematisches Lernen ermöglichen, werden die Schüler/-innen mit Echtsituationen konfrontiert. So erhalten sie als Trainee tiefe Praxisblicke in das Innenleben verschiedener Unternehmen und Branchen und dürfen sich dabei an Themen- und Aufgabenstellungen erproben. Zudem werden ihre persönlichen Berührungspunkte mit der Wirtschaft anhand von Alltagssituationen der Familie Berger veranschaulicht. (https://www.buchhandel.de)

Usually, when we discuss racial injustice, we discuss racism in our public or political life. This means that we often focus on how the state discriminates on the basis of race in its application and enforcement of laws and policies. This book draws on the synergy of political theory and civil rights law to expand the boundary of racial justice and consider the way in which racial discrimination happens outside the governmental or public sphere. 'Private racism' is about recognizing that racial injustice also occurs in our private lives, including the television and movie industry, cyberspace, our intimate and sexual lives, and the reproductive market. Professor Sonu Bedi argues that private racism is wrong, enlarging the boundary of justice in a way that is also consistent with our Constitution. A more just society is one that seeks to address rather than ignore this less visible form of racism.

Doubt over the trustworthiness of published empirical results is not unwarranted and is often a result of statistical mis-specification: invalid probabilistic assumptions imposed on data. Now in its second edition, this bestselling textbook offers a comprehensive course in empirical research methods, teaching the probabilistic and statistical foundations that enable the specification and validation of statistical models, providing the basis for an informed implementation of statistical procedure to secure the trustworthiness of evidence. Each chapter has been thoroughly updated, accounting for developments in the field and the author's own research. The comprehensive scope of the textbook has been expanded by the addition of a new chapter on the Linear Regression and related statistical models. This new edition is now more accessible to students of disciplines beyond economics and includes more pedagogical features, with an increased number of examples as well as review questions and exercises at the end of each chapter.

This dynamic book considers whether and how the management of records (and archives) differs from the management of information (and data). Can archives and records management still make a distinctive contribution in the 21st century, or are they now being dissolved into a wider world of information governancé What should be our conceptual understanding of records in the digital erä What are the practical implications of the information revolution for the work of archivists and records managers? Geoffrey Yeo, a distinguished expert in the global field, explores concepts of ‘records’ and ‘archives’ and sets today’s record-keeping and archival practices in their historical context. He examines changing perceptions of records management and archival work, and asks whether and how far understandings derived from the fields of information management and data administration can enhance our knowledge of how records function. He argues that concepts of information and data cannot provide a fully adequate basis for reflective professional thinking about records and that record-keeping practices still have distinct and important roles to play in contemporary society.

The US Constitution did not establish a clear division of responsibilities between the national government and state governments, so the distribution of policymaking authority is subject to constant renegotiation and debate. When national lawmakers introduce policy initiatives that implicate the states in important ways, why do state leaders sometimes respond with strong support and other times with indifference or outright hostility? Moving beyond the conventional story that state officials simply want money and autonomy from their national counterparts, this book explains how the states' responses over the short, medium, and long term are shaped by policy design, timing, and the interaction between the two. Reaching across different historical eras with in-depth case studies of policies such as Superfund, the No Child Left Behind Act, and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the book shows how federalism has influenced, and continues to influence, the evolution of American public policy.

An investigation into two important Saints Lives provides a window into the Anglo-Saxon perception of the non-human world.

Essays exploring how England was governed during a tumultuous period.

Running and Clicking examines how Future Narratives push against the confines of their medium: Studying Future Narratives in movies, interactive films, and other electronic media that allow for nodes, this volume demonstrates how the dividing line between film and game is progressively dissolved. Focused on traditional mass media, transitional media, and new media, it also touches on transmedial storytelling and virtual reality, discussions of the political power of the imaginary and of the possible fate of Future Narratives in the post-human hegemony of the simulated real.

Im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung können Datenschutzverletzungen enorme Schäden materieller, aber vor allem immaterieller Natur herbeiführen. Seien es materielle Schäden, etwa durch den Diebstahl von Kreditkartendetails, oder seien es scheinbar kleine immaterielle Schäden, etwa bei der Veröffentlichung privater Nachrichten.Die Frage des Ersatzes derartiger Schäden erhält aufgrund von Art 82 DSGVO erstmals eine umfassende unionsrechtliche Dimension. Antworten darauf können nicht mehr nur alleine durch einen Blick in nationale Gesetzestexte und Urteile gefunden werden.Da auf Unionsebene kein umfassendes Schadenersatzrecht vorhanden ist, eröffnet sich im Zusammenspiel zwischen nationalem Schadenersatzrecht, Art 82 DSGVO und unionaler Rechtsprechung ein bislang in Österreich noch nicht näher behandeltes Forschungsgebiet. Die Arbeit widmet sich diesem neuen Bereich und legt dabei den Schwerpunkt auf die vielfältigen Unterschiede im Vergleich zur Haftung nach den allgemeinen Bestimmungen des bürgerlichen Rechts. Insbesondere werden Unterschiede bei der Bemessung der Höhe des immateriellen Schadens und der Frage des Beweises von Anspruchsvoraussetzungen analysiert. Zudem werden prozessrechtliche Besonderheiten bei der Durchsetzung eines Schadenanspruches nach Art 82 DSGVO herausgearbeitet.Die Arbeit richtet sich an Wissenschaftler und Praktiker im Zivilrecht, Datenschutz-Experten und Datenschutz-Verantwortliche in Unternehmen sowie an Konsumentenschutz- und Verbraucherschutzexperten.

As entertaining as it is informative, this book explores the history of incarceration in the British Isles from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day.

The third volume in the re-launched series Shakespeare on Screen is devoted to film versions and adaptations of King Lear. Bringing together an international group of scholars, the chapters provide new insights and perspectives on what constitutes 'Learness' in a range of films, TV productions, translations, free retellings and appropriations from around the world. Taking 'screen' in its broader sense, it also covers digital material such as video archives, internet movies and YouTube videos. The volume features an invaluable film-bibliography and accompanying online resources include additional essays and an expanded version of the film-bibliography.

Die klassische Moderne war für Frauen Chance und Herausforderung zugleich. Das Leben von Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, geboren 1903 in Loschwitz als Tochter des Werkbundarchitekten Martin Pietzsch, zeigt dies in eindrücklicher Weise. Als junge Frau musste sie ihre Sehnsucht nach Freiheit und Emanzipation, nach Selbstverwirklichung im Beruf mit den traditionellen Erwartungen ihres dominanten Vaters vermitteln. Während ihrer Arbeit in der Berliner Filmindustrie lernte sie 1930 den ehemaligen Bauhausmeister Läszlö Moholy-Nagy kennen. Als seine Ehefrau und Mitarbeiterin und als Mutter seiner Kinder folgte sie ihm nach London und Chicago und war dort Teil der Avant-Garde-Diaspora ? wie viele deutsche Intellektuelle in den USA. Nach Moholys frühem Tod veröffentlichte sie dessen Biografie, Bücher über Architektur und Zeitschriftenartikel. Sie wurde eine einflussreiche und angesehene Wissenschaftlerin und Architekturkritikerin, setzte sich mit der zeitgenössischen Kunst und Architektur auseinander und war eine der frühen Stimmen, die Zweifel am Weg der modernen Architektur äußerten

Sir Henry J. Wood (1869-1944), co-founder and chief conductor of the Proms for nearly half a century, is often noted for his championing of the leading composers of the day, including Richard Strauss, Debussy, Rachmaninov, Ravel and Vaughan Williams. Less known is Wood's pivotal role in advocating and performing the music of J. S. Bach, much of which, incredibly, was unknown in England at the turn of the twentieth century.

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Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) account for about 97-99 per cent of total enterprises and 60-80 per cent of total employment in ASEAN countries. The participation of SMEs is thus crucial for achieving greater regional economic integration amongst ASEAN countries. SMEs are, however, often constrained by many disadvantages that limit their abilities to become importers and exporters. This is well documented in the research literature on trade and firm size. This volume contains selected ASEAN country studies on the participation of SMEs in regional economic integration based on primary microdata. This is supplemented by empirical studies on the role played by East Asian multinational enterprises in the region.

Written by educational researchers and professionals working with children and adolescents in and out of school, this book shows how self-regulation involves more than an isolated individual's ability to control their thoughts and feelings, particularly in a learning environment. By using Vygotsky's cultural-historical psychological theory, the authors provide a unique set of four analytical lenses for a better understanding of how self-regulation, co-regulation, and other-regulation function as a system of regulatory processes. These lenses move beyond a focus on solitary individuals, who self-regulate behavior, to centre on individuals as relational, agential, and contextually situated. As agents, teachers and their students build their learning contexts and are influenced by these self-engineered contexts. This is a dynamic perspective of a social context and underlies the view that regulatory processes are an integral part of a functional system for learning.

Southeast Asian Affairs, first published in 1974, is an annual review of significant trends and developments in the region. It provides comprehensive commentaries to further the understanding of not only the region's dynamism but also of its tensions and conflicts. Thematic chapters examine key issues for the region as a whole whilst country-specific chapters provide detailed roundups of the developments, and their implications, of the year's events.

The volume discusses the notion of space by focusing on the most representative exponents of the Hellenistic schools and explores the role played by spatial concepts in both coeval and later authors who, without specifically thematising these concepts, made use of them in a theoretically original way. Renowned scholars investigate the philosophical significance and bring to light the problematical character of the ancient conceptions of space.

Zu Zeiten einer anhaltenden Urbanisierung stehen Fragen urbaner Nachhaltigkeit zunehmend im Mittelpunkt, zum Beispiel nach dem Verhältnis von Mensch und Natur und hinsichtlich des Zusammenlebens und der Ressourcenverwendung in der Stadt.Mit einem besonderen Schwerpunkt auf kulturell-künstlerischen sowie kreativ-innovativen Initiativen und Projekten analysieren die Beiträger_innen des Bandes unterschiedlichste Strategien einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung am Beispiel der Stadt Hannover auf Makro-, Meso- und Mikroebene. Sie untersuchen das Potential solcher Projekte, die Netzwerke, in denen sie verwirklicht werden, sowie Probleme in deren Umsetzung; und bieten sowohl einen inter- und transdisziplinären Forschungsbeitrag als auch Denkanstöße und Handlungsoptionen für urbane Nachhaltigkeit.

Statistics for the Social Sciences: Moving Toward an Integrated Approach bridges the educational gap between undergraduate and graduate-level courses in social sciences statistics, providing students with a single, focused way to think about statistics, ensuring they have a firm grasp of fundamental knowledge, and introducing advanced topics and concepts. The book approaches the subject matter from a conceptual and practical standpoint. It teaches students how to read and understand empirical research articles and then effectively design and analyze their own studies. Over the course of 12 chapters, students learn about descriptive statistics, null hypothesis significance testing, preparatory data analysis, means comparison procedures, multiple independent group means, correlation, and simple regression. Specific sections explore multiple regression and categorical variables in regression. The final chapters focus on testing the moderation hypothesis. Throughout, students are provided with data analysis examples with annotated output to build practical knowledge, as well as discussion questions and exercises to foster critical thinking and direct application. Innovative and highly accessible, Statistics for the Social Sciences is well suited for upper-level undergraduate or first-year graduate level courses in social sciences statistics. (https://www.lehmann.de)

Incontestably, Future Narratives are most conspicuous in video games: they combine narrative with the major element of all games: agency. The persons who perceive these narratives are not simply readers or spectators but active agents with a range of choices at their disposal that will influence the very narrative they are experiencing: they are players. The narratives thus created are realizations of the multiple possibilities contained in the present of any given gameplay situation. Surveying the latest trends in the field, the volume discusses the complex relationship of narrative and gamep

This book is the first comprehensive history of the anti-diphtheria campaign and the factors which facilitated or hindered the rollout of the national childhood immunization programme in Ireland. It is easy to forget the context in which Irish society opted to embrace mass childhood immunization. Dwyer shows us how we got where we are. He restores Diphtheria's reputation as one of the most prolific child-killers of nineteenth and early twentieth-century Ireland and explores the factors which allowed the disease to take a heavy toll on child health and life-expectancy. Public health officials in the fledgling Irish Free State set the eradication of diphtheria among their first national goals, and eschewing the reticence of their British counterparts, adopted anti-diphtheria immunization as their weapon of choice. An unofficial alliance between Irish medical officers and the British pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome placed Ireland on the European frontline of the bacteriological revolution, however, Wellcome sponsored vaccine trials in Ireland side-lined the human rights of Ireland's most vulnerable citizens: institutional children in state care. An immunization accident in County Waterford, and the death of a young girl, raised serious questions regarding the safety of the immunization process itself, resulting in a landmark High Court case and the Irish Medical Union's twelve-year long withdrawal of immunization services. As childhood immunization is increasingly considered a lifestyle choice, rather than a lifesaving intervention, this book brings historical context to bear on current debate.

Jedes Unternehmen und jede Organisation, gleich welcher Größe oder Branche, braucht eine klare Strategie, um langfristig am Markt zu bestehen und erfolgreich zu sein. Doch oft kommt die Strategieentwicklung aufgrund von Berührungsängsten, Unwissen und operativem Druck zu kurz. Wo fängt man an? Was ist eigentlich das Ziel? Worauf ist zu achten? Wie schafft man die richtige Flughöhé Wie geht das möglichst pragmatisch? Damit Sie effektiv und strukturiert zur passenden Strategie gelangen, hat Stefan Pastuszka eine canvasbasierte Methode zur Strategieentwicklung kreiert: den Strategy Explorer. Mit diesem praxiserprobten Tool lassen sich die relevanten Schritte und Überlegungen zur Entwicklung einer Strategie auf einer einzigen Seite abbilden. So wird auf intuitive, interaktive und schlanke Weise ein in sich stimmiges strategisches Gesamtbild erarbeitet – ideal für Teams, aber auch für die Arbeit allein geeignet. Dabei ist die Methode so praktisch wie genial: Der Strategy Explorer führt Sie in sechs Schritten durch Ihren individuellen Strategieprozess: von der Festlegung des Themas über die Formulierung Ihrer Vision und Mission, die Umfeldanalyse und die darauf aufsetzende SWOT-Analyse bis hin zu den daraus abgeleiteten Handlungsoptionen und Ihrer persönlichen Strategieformulierung. Das Buch erklärt Ihnen auf der Grundlage des logischen Modells leicht verständlich und sofort anwendbar jeden einzelnen Schritt auf dem Weg zur passenden Strategie. Darüber hinaus erfahren Sie, wie Sie ein schlagkräftiges Strategieteam zusammenstellen, den Workshop optimal gestalten sowie kreativ, produktiv und fokussiert mit dem Strategy Explorer arbeiten. Das Buch inspiriert durch zahlreiche anschauliche Beispiele und gibt klare Empfehlungen für die erfolgreiche Umsetzung Ihrer Strategie. Der Strategy Explorer erleichtert den Zugang zum komplexen Thema Strategie, indem er Ihnen einen konkreten Fahrplan an die Hand gibt, mit dessen Hilfe Sie die wichtigen Fragen der Strategieentwicklung bearbeiten und Ihre eigene Strategie formulieren können. (https://www.buchhandel.de)

Die Gesetzessammlung beinhaltet folgende Gesetze: 1. Einkommensteuergesetz 1988 2. Inländische Zweitwohnsitze 3. Liebhabereiverordnung 4. Sachbezugswerteverordnung 5. Bewertung von Sachbezügen betreffend Kraftfahrzeuge bei wesentlich beteiligten Gesellschafter-Geschäftsführern 6. GrundanteilV 2016 7. Durchschnittssätze für Werbungskosten 8. Land- und Forstwirtschaft-Pauschalierungsverordnung 2015 9. Gastgewerbepauschalierungsverordnung 2013 10. Durchschnittssätze für die Gewinnermittlung - Handelsvertreter 11. Durchschnittssätze für die Gewinnermittlung 12. Familienbonus Plus-Absetzbeträge-EU-Anpassungsverordnung 13. Außergewöhnliche Belastungen 14. Leitungsrechte-Datenübermittlungsverordnung 15. Umsatzsteuergesetz 1994 16. Schätzungsrichtlinien für den Eigenverbrauch 17. Umsatzsteuer-Bildungsleistungsverordnung 18. Schrott-Umsatzsteuerverordnung 19. Körperschaftsteuergesetz 1988 20. VO-Passiveinkünfte niedrigbesteuerter Körperschaften 21. Bundesabgabenordnung 22. Barumsatzverordnung 2015 23. Grunderwerbsteuergesetz 1987 24. Unternehmensgesetzbuch 25. Doppelbesteuerung – Einkommen- und Vermögensteuern (Deutschland) 26. Doppelbesteuerung – Einkommen- und Vermögensteuern (Italien) (https://www.buchhandel.de)

Primatology draws on theory and methods from diverse fields, including anatomy, anthropology, biology, ecology, medicine, psychology, veterinary sciences and zoology. The more than 500 species of primate range from tiny mouse lemurs to huge gorillas, and primatologists collect data in a variety of environments including in the field, research facilities, museums, sanctuaries, zoos, and from the literature. The variability in research interests, study animals and research sites means that there are no standard protocols for how to study primates. Nevertheless, asking good questions and designing appropriate studies to answer them are vital to produce high quality science. This accessible guide for graduate students and post-doctoral researchers explains how to develop a research question, formulate testable hypotheses and predictions, design and conduct a project and report the results. The focus is on research integrity and ethics throughout, and the book provides practical advice on overcoming common difficulties researchers face.

eng: The phenomenon coopetition plays a significant role when business firms in the same industry face a common challenge such as solving socio-environmental issues or fostering stakeholder- oriented value. However, in the existing coopetition literature, the examination for this specific concern remains still scarce on both the theoretical and empirical level. For the purpose of narrowing this gap, the aim of this thesis is to integrate the phenomenon of coopetition into the sustainability literature, which includes the concept of stakeholder value creation. In this context, the thesis developed a multidimensional framework that extends the understanding of managing and balancing competition and cooperation to foster stakeholder-oriented value creation. The results categorize four different dimensions, which are essential for stakeholder- oriented value creation in coopetition. These concern inter-organizational proximity, syncretic rent-seeking behavior, collaboration style for conflict management, and socio-environmental value. The findings indicate that by acknowledging and adopting the mentioned categories in a coopetitive partnership, competitors have an increased probability of successfully establishing industry initiatives for sustainability.

Societal transformations are needed across the globe in light of pressing environmental issues. This need to transform is increasingly acknowledged in policy, planning, academic debate, and media, whether it is to achieve decarbonization, resilience, national development plans, or sustainability objectives. This volume provides the first comprehensive comparison of how sustainability transformations are understood across societies. It contains historical analogies and concrete examples from around the world to show how societal transformations could achieve the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals through governance, innovations, lifestyle changes, education and new narratives. It examines how societal actors in different geographical, political and cultural contexts understand the agents and drivers of societal change towards sustainability, using data from the academic literature, international news media, lay people's focus groups across five continents, and international politics. This is a valuable resource for academics and policymakers working in environmental governance and sustainability.

'Imagined Sound' is a unique cartography of the artistic, historical and political forces that have informed the post-World War II representation of Australian landscapes. It is the first book to formulate the unique methodology of 'imagined sound', a new way to read and listen to literature and music that moves beyond the dominance of the visual, the colonial mode of knowing, controlling and imagining Australian space. Emphasising sound and listening, this approach draws out and re-examines the key narratives that shape and are shaped by Australian landscapes and histories, stories of first contact, frontier violence, the explorer journey, the convict experience, non-Indigenous belonging, Pacific identity and contemporary Indigenous Dreaming. 'Imagined Sound' offers a compelling analysis of how these narratives are reharmonised in key works of literature and music.

The Ape that Understood the Universe is the story of the strangest animal in the world: the human animal. It opens with a question: How would an alien scientist view our species? What would it make of our sex differences, our sexual behavior, our altruistic tendencies, and our culturé The book tackles these issues by drawing on two major schools of thought: evolutionary psychology and cultural evolutionary theory. The guiding assumption is that humans are animals, and that like all animals, we evolved to pass on our genes. At some point, however, we also evolved the capacity for culture - and from that moment, culture began evolving in its own right. This transformed us from a mere ape into an ape capable of reshaping the planet, travelling to other worlds, and understanding the vast universe of which we're but a tiny, fleeting fragment. Featuring a new foreword by Michael Shermer.

Post-war British culture was initially dominated by religious-led sexual austerity and, from the sixties, by secular liberalism. Using five case studies of local licensing and a sixth on the BBC, conservative Christians are exposed here as the nation's censors, fighting effectively for purity on stage, screen and in public places. The Anglican-led Public Morality Council was astonishingly successful in restraining sex in London's media in the fifties, but a brazen sexualised culture thrived amongst the millions of tourists to Blackpool, whilst Glasgow and the Isle of Lewis were gripped by conservatism. But come the late 1960s, tourists took Blackpool's sexual liberalism home, whilst progressive Humanism burrowed into Parliament and the BBC to secularise moral reform and the national narrative. Using extensive archival research, Callum G. Brown adopts a secular gaze to show how conservative Christians lost the battle for the nation's moral culture.

Reproduction is a fundamental feature of life, it is the way life persists across the ages. This book offers new, wider vistas on this fundamental biological phenomenon, exploring how it works through the whole tree of life. It explores facets such as asexual reproduction, parthenogenesis, sex determination and reproductive investment, with a taxonomic coverage extended over all the main groups - animals, plants including 'algae', fungi, protists and bacteria. It collates into one volume perspectives from varied disciplines - including zoology, botany, microbiology, genetics, cell biology, developmental biology, evolutionary biology, animal and plant physiology, and ethology - integrating information into a common language. Crucially, the book aims to identify the commonalties among reproductive phenomena, while demonstrating the diversity even amongst closely related taxa. Its integrated approach makes this a valuable reference book for students and researchers, as well as an effective entry point for deeper study on specific topics.

This book examines whether continuous-time models in frictionless financial economies can be well approximated by discrete-time models. It specifically looks to answer the question: in what sense and to what extent does the famous Black-Scholes-Merton (BSM) continuous-time model of financial markets idealize more realistic discrete-time models of those markets? While it is well known that the BSM model is an idealization of discrete-time economies where the stock price process is driven by a binomial random walk, it is less known that the BSM model idealizes discrete-time economies whose stock price process is driven by more general random walks. Starting with the basic foundations of discrete-time and continuous-time models, David M. Kreps takes the reader through to this important insight with the goal of lowering the entry barrier for many mainstream financial economists, thus bringing less-technical readers to a better understanding of the connections between BSM and nearby discrete-economies.

What is the purpose of comparative constitutional law? Comparing constitutions allows us to consider the similarities and differences in forms of government, and the normative philosophies behind constitutional choices. Constitutional comparisons offer 'hermeneutic' help: they enable us to see 'our' own constitution with different eyes and to locate its structural and normative choices by references to alternatives evident in other constitutional orders. This Cambridge Companion presents readers with a succinct yet wide-ranging companion to a modern comparative constitutional law course, offering a wide-ranging yet concise introduction to the subject. Its twenty-two chapters are arranged into five thematic parts: starting with an exploration of the 'theoretical foundations' (Part I) and some important 'historical experiences' (Part II), it moves on to a discussion of the core 'constitutional principles' (Part III) and 'state institutions' (Part IV); finally it analyses forms of 'transnational' constitutionalism (Part V) that have emerged in our 'global' times.

Technical standards like USB, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth are ubiquitous in the modern networked economy. They allow products made and sold by different vendors to interoperate with little to no consumer effort and enable new market entrants to innovate on top of established technology platforms. This groundbreaking volume, edited by Jorge L. Contreras, assesses and analyzes legal aspects of technical standards and standardization beyond those covered in its companion volume (patents, competition, and antitrust). Bringing together leading international experts, advocates, and policymakers, it focuses on key areas of technical standardization law including administrative, trade, copyright, trademark, and certification law. This comprehensive, detailed examination sheds new light on the standards that shape the global technology marketplace and will serve as an indispensable tool for scholars, practitioners, judges, and policymakers everywhere.

This Companion provides a comprehensive analysis and appraisal of all of Scott's available (published and unpublished) music and a broad picture of his entire output in literary, dramatic and philosophical genres.

We live in times of transparency. Digital technologies expose everything we do, like, and search for, and it is difficult to remain private and out of sight. Meanwhile, many people are concerned about the unchecked powers of tech giants and the hidden operations of big data, artificial intelligence and algorithms and call for more openness and insight. How do we - as individuals, companies and societies - deal with these technological and social transformations? Seen through the prism of digital technologies and data, our lives take new shapes and we are forced to manage our visibilities carefully. This book challenges common ways of thinking about transparency, and argues that the management of visibilities is a crucial, but overlooked force that influences how people live, how organizations work, and how societies and politics operate in a digital, datafied world.

Gender is a fascinating category, which has grown steadily in importance across the humanities and social sciences. The book centres on the core of the category within language. Each of the seven contributions provides an independent account of a key part of the topic, ranging from gender and sex, gender and culture, to typology, dialect variation and psycholinguistics.

What do men and women desiré For what will they barter their immortal souls? These two questions have haunted Western society, and these persistent queries find their fullest embodiment in the Faust legend. This memorable story, told and retold in novels, prose fiction, and drama, has also profoundly influenced music, art, and cinema. Sara Munson Deats explores its impact, tracing the development of the Faust topos from the seminal works of Marlowe and Goethe to the large number of dramatic and cinematic adaptations which have fascinated audiences and readers throughout the centuries. Her study traces the durability of this legend and its pervasive influence on the literature of the Western world, in which it has been adapted across time, languages, and nations to reflect the concerns of a given era or place. This is the first comparative analysis of the Faust legend in drama and film.

The first cohesive Faust narrative in facsimile form, German transcription, and (first-ever) English translation, plus a history of Faust illustrations and an assessment of Faust's historicity.

The Gulf of Mexico Basin is one of the most prolific hydrocarbon-producing basins in the world, with an estimated endowment of 200 billion barrels of oil equivalent. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the basin, spanning the US, Mexico and Cuba. Topics covered include conventional and unconventional reservoirs, source rocks and associated tectonics, basin evolution from the Mesozoic to Cenozoic Era, and different regions of the basin from mature onshore fields to deep-water subsalt plays. Cores, well logs and seismic lines are all discussed providing local, regional and basin-scale insights. The scientific implications of seminal events in the basin's history are also covered, including sedimentary effects of the Chicxulub Impact. Containing over 200 color illustrations and 50 stratigraphic cross-sections and paleogeographic maps, this is an invaluable resource for petroleum industry professionals, as well as graduate students and researchers interested in basin analysis, sedimentology, stratigraphy, tectonics and petroleum geology.

The demonization, internment, and deportation of celebrated Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Dr. Karl Muck, finally told, and placed in the context of World War I anti-German sentiment in the United States.

Frank Jackson's knowledge argument imagines a super-smart scientist, Mary, forced to investigate the mysteries of human colour vision using only black and white resources. Can she work out what it is like to see red from brain-science and physics aloné The argument says no: Mary will only really learn what red looks like when she actually sees it. Something is therefore missing from the science of the mind, and from the 'physicalist' picture of the world based on science. This powerful and controversial argument remains as pivotal as when it was first created in 1982, and this volume provides a thorough and incisive examination of its relevance in philosophy of mind today. The cutting-edge essays featured here break new ground in the debate, and also comprehensively set out the developments in the story of the knowledge argument so far, tracing its impact, past, present, and future.

Roman letters demonstrate that language has imperium: the power to resolve problems, to negotiate relationships and to construct identities. This book combines sociolinguistic and historical approaches to explore how that power is deployed by the bilingual elite of the Roman Republic and Empire, offering the first systematic analysis of Greek code-switches in the letters of Cicero, Pliny, Marcus Aurelius and Fronto and in the Lives of Suetonius. Greek was a subtle tool within Latin epistolary communication, and an analysis of letter writers' bilingual practices reveals their manipulation of language to manage relationships between peers and across hierarchical or political divides, uncovering the workings of politics and society. Comparative analysis of Roman and modern code-switching contributes to the debate on how bilingual strategies in letters evolve and how they relate to oral and literary language. The language of letters illuminates the Roman world and its entanglements with Greek language and culture.

Volume I of the Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations recounts the Australian peacekeeping missions that began between 1947 and 1982, and follows them through to 2006, which is the end point of this series. The operations described in The Long Search for Peace - some long, some short; some successful, some not - represent a long period of learning and experimentation, and were a necessary apprenticeship for all that was to follow. Australia contributed peacekeepers to all major decolonisation efforts: for thirty-five years in Kashmir, fifty-three years in Cyprus, and (as of writing) sixty-one years in the Middle East, as well as shorter deployments in Indonesia, Korea and Rhodesia. This volume also describes some smaller-scale Australian missions in the Congo, West New Guinea, Yemen, Uganda and Lebanon. It brings to life Australia's long-term contribution not only to these operations but also to the very idea of peacekeeping.

The idea of military necessity lies at the centre of the law of armed conflict and yet it is less than fully understood. This book analyses which legal limits govern the commander's assessment of military necessity, and argues that military necessity itself is not a limitation. Military necessity calls for a highly discretionary exercise: the assessment. Yet, there is little guidance as to how this discretionary process should be exercised, apart from the notions of 'a reasonable military commander'. A reasonable assessment of 'excessive' civilian losses are presumed to be almost intuitive. Objective standards for determining excessive civilian losses are difficult to identify, particularly when that 'excessiveness' will be understood in relative terms. The perpetual question arises: are civilian losses acceptable if the war can be won? The result is a heavy burden of assessment placed on the shoulders of the military commander.

Examines the divided loyalties of the descendants of Ireland's Anglo-Norman conquerors during the wars against the Irish confederate rebels.

The Performance of Listening in Postcolonial Francophone Culture argues that globalized media has allowed for efficient transmission of transnational culture, and in turn, our everyday experiences are informed by sounds ranging from voices, to music, to advertising, to bombs, and beyond. In considering cultural works from French-speaking North Africa and the Middle East all published or released in France from 1962-2011, Solheim's study of listening across cultural genres will be of interest to any scholar or lay person curious about contemporary postcolonial France. This book is also a primer to contemporary Francophone culture from North Africa and the Middle East. Some of the French-speaking world's most renowned and adored artists are the subject of this study, including preeminent Algerian feminist novelist, filmmaker and historian Assia Djebar (1936-2015), the first writer of the Maghreb to become part of the Académie Française; celebrated Iranian graphic novelist and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis, Chicken with Plums); the lauded Lebanese-Québecois playwright and dramaturge Wajdi Mouawad (Littorial, Incendies), and Lebanese comic artist and avant jazz trumpeter Mazen Kerbaj, whose improvisation with Israeli fighter jets during the 2006 Israeli War, Starry Night, catapulted him to global recognition. An interdisciplinary study of contemporary Francophone cultures, this book will be of interest to French scholars and students in literary studies, performance studies, gender studies, anthropology, history, and ethnomusicology.

Eighteenth-century Britain is often understood as a time of commercial success, economic growth, and improving living standards. Yet during this period, tens of thousands of men and women were imprisoned for failing to pay their debts. The Poverty of Disaster tells their stories, focusing on the experiences of the middle classes who enjoyed opportunities for success on one hand, but who also faced the prospect of downward social mobility. Tawny Paul examines the role that debt insecurity played within society and the fragility of the credit relations that underpinned commercial activity, livelihood, and social status. She demonstrates how, for the middle classes, insecurity took economic, social, and embodied forms. It shaped the work that people did, their social status, their sense of self, their bodily autonomy, and their relationships with others. In an era of growing debt and the squeeze of the middle class, The Poverty of Disaster offers a new history of capitalism and takes a long view of the financial insecurities that plague our own uncertain times.

This book uses different perspectives on argumentation to show how we create arguments, test them, attack and defend them, and deploy them effectively to justify beliefs and influence others. David Zarefsky uses a range of contemporary examples to show how arguments work and how they can be put together, beginning with simple individual arguments, and proceeding to the construction and analysis of complex cases incorporating different structures. Special attention is given to evaluating evidence and reasoning, the building blocks of argumentation. Zarefsky provides clear guidelines and tests for different kinds of arguments, as well as exercises that show student readers how to apply theories to arguments in everyday and public life. His comprehensive and integrated approach toward argumentation theory and practice will help readers to become more adept at critically examining everyday arguments as well as constructing arguments that will convince others.

Integrating both scientific and philosophical perspectives, this book provides an informed analysis of the challenges of formulating a universal theory of life. Among the issues discussed are crucial differences between definitions and scientific theories and, in the context of examples from the history of science, how successful general theories develop. The central problem discussed is two-fold: first, our understanding of life is still tacitly wedded to an antiquated Aristotelian framework for biology; and second, there are compelling reasons for considering that familiar Earth life, which descends from a last universal common ancestor, is unrepresentative. What is needed are examples of life as we don't know it. Potential sources are evaluated, including artificial life, extraterrestrial life, and a shadow biosphere right here on Earth, and a novel strategy for searching for unfamiliar life in the absence of a definition or general theory is developed. The book is a valuable resource for graduate students and researchers studying the nature, origins, and extent of life in the universe.

Engaging with contemporary debates about the sources that shape our understanding of the early Muslim world, Najam Haider proposes a new model for Muslim historical writing that draws on Late Antique historiography to challenge the imposition of modern notions of history on a pre-modern society. Haider discusses three key case studies - the revolt of Mukhtar b. Abi 'Ubayd (d. 67/687), the life of the Twelver Shi'i Imam Musa al-Kazim (d. 183/799) and the rebellion and subsequent death of the Zaydi Shi'i Imam Yahya b. 'Abd Allah (d. 187/803) - in calling for a new line of inquiry which focuses on larger historiographical questions. What were the rules that governed historical writing in the early Muslim world? What were the intended audiences for these works? In the process, he rejects artificial divisions between Sunni and Shi'i historical writing.

This revisionist study of Restoration literature and culture demonstrates how important the decades between 1660 and 1700 were in transforming, enlarging and diversifying English-language poetry. Wright challenges the longstanding narrative of Restoration poetry as a male, urban, London-centric form obsessed with the contemporary, arguing persuasively that this schema omits crucial literary works and relationships. Framed around three detailed case studies of neglected aspects of Restoration poetry, the book explores the depth of Spenser's influence, the importance of poetry flourishing in Ireland, the significance of natural landscapes and the vital role of women: both as readers, and writers. This book presents a diverse literary Restoration steeped in historical self-awareness and anxieties, engaged with the world outside England's capital, and open to new voices. Its impressive scope encompasses myriad little-known writers, while extensive historical research underpins its fresh perspectives on poets such as Dryden, Rochester, Cowley, Milton, Marvell and Behn.

The early Middle Ages is not a period traditionally associated with free speech. It is still widely held that free speech declined towards the end of Antiquity, disappearing completely at the beginning of the Middle Ages, and only re-emerging in the Renaissance, when people finally learned to think and speak for themselves again. Challenging this tenacious image, Irene van Renswoude reveals that there was room for political criticism and dissent in this period, as long as critics employed the right rhetoric and adhered to scripted roles. This study of the rhetoric of free speech from c.200 to c.900 AD explores the cultural rules and rhetorical performances that shaped practices of delivering criticism from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, examining the rhetorical strategies of letters and narratives in the late antique and early medieval men, and a few women, who ventured to speak the truth to the powerful.

The Seismic Wavefield provides a guide to the understanding of seismograms in terms of physical propagation processes within the Earth. The focus is on the observation of earthquakes and man-made sources on all scales, for both body waves and surface waves. Volume I begins with a survey of the structure of the Earth and the nature of seismic wave propagation using examples of observed seismograms. The second part provides a full development of the theoretical background for seismic waves. Volume II covers local and regional seismic events, global wave propagation, and the three-dimensional Earth. The combination of observation and theoretical development with a strong visual focus will greatly appeal to graduate students in seismology. The book will also be valuable to researchers and professionals in academia and the petroleum industry.

For centuries, the sorites paradox has spurred philosophers to think and argue about the problem of vagueness. This volume offers a guide to the paradox which is both an accessible survey and an exposition of the state of the art, with a chapter-by-chapter presentation of all of the main solutions to the paradox and of all its main areas of influence. Each chapter offers a gentle introduction to its topic, gradually building up to a final discussion of some open problems. Students will find a comprehensive guide to the fundamentals of the paradox, together with lucid explanations of the challenges it continues to raise. Researchers will find exciting new ideas and debates on the paradox.

The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention is the first comprehensive review of the contributions of this important institution to understanding arbitrary detention today. The Working Group is a body of five independent human rights experts that considers individual complaints of arbitrary detention, adopting legal opinions as to whether a detention is compatible with states' obligations under international law. Since its establishment in 1991, it has adopted more than 1,200 case opinions and conducted more than fifty country missions. But much more than a jurisprudential review, these cases are presented in the book in the style of a treatise, where the widest array of issues on arbitrary detention are placed in the context of the requirements of multilateral treaties and other relevant international standards. Written for both practitioners and serious scholars alike, this book includes five case studies and a foreword by Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu.

This book collects seventeen previously published essays by John Armstrong concerning the British coastal trade. Armstrong is a leading maritime historian and the essays provided here offer a thorough exploration of the British coastal trade, his specialisation, during the period of industrialisation and technological development that would lead to modern shipping. The purpose is to demonstrate the whether or not the coastal trade was the main carrier of internal trade and a pioneer of the technical developments that modernised the shipping industry. Each essay makes an original contribution to the field and covers a broad range of topics, including the fluctuating importance of the coastal trade and size of the coastal fleet over time; the relationship between coastal shipping, canals, and railways; a comparison between the coastal liner and coastal tramp trade; the significance of the river Thames in enabling trade; coastal trade economics; maritime freight rates; the early twentieth century shipping depression; competition between coastal liner companies; and a detailed study of the role of the government in coastal shipping. The book also contains case studies of the London coal trade; coastal trade through the River Dee port; and the Liverpool-Hull trade route. It contains a foreword, introduction, and bibliography of Armstrong's writings. There is no overall conclusion, except the assertion that coastal shipping plays a tremendous role in British maritime history, and a call for further research into the field.

In Third Party Funding, Gian Marco Solas, for the first time, describes third party funding (TPF) as stand-alone practice within the wider litigation and legal services' markets. The book reports on legal issues related to TPF in both common law and civil law jurisdictions, and in the international context. It then discusses the incentives and economics of TPF transactions in different legal contexts while explaining how the practice emerged and how it is likely to develop. In addition, the book offers practical insights into TPF transactions and analyzes a number of regulatory proposals that could affect its use and desirability. This work should be read by scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and anyone else interested in how TPF is changing the practice of law.

Examining differing perceptions of threats and the subsequent alliance choices of two Arab states, Saudi Arabia and Syria, during three pivotal wars in the region: the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), the Lebanon War (2006), and the Gaza War (2009), May Darwich analyses how ideational and material forces influence leaders' perceptions in the Middle East, and their broader international relationships. Using these comparative cases studies, Darwich advances our understanding of why, and the conditions under which, identity can play a predominant role in shaping the perception of threat in some cases, whilst material power is predominant in others. By engaging in significant debates about the role identity and material power in shaping state behaviour in the Middle East, this study has significant implications for international relations theory and beyond.

This book, geared toward academic researchers and graduate students, brings together research on all facets of how time and causality relate across the sciences. Time is fundamental to how we perceive and reason about causes. It lets us immediately rule out the sound of a car crash as its cause. That a cause happens before its effect has been a core, and often unquestioned, part of how we describe causality. Research across disciplines shows that the relationship is much more complex than that. This book explores what that means for both the metaphysics and epistemology of causes - what they are and how we can find them. Across psychology, biology, and the social sciences, common themes emerge, suggesting that time plays a critical role in our understanding. The increasing availability of large time series datasets allows us to ask new questions about causality, necessitating new methods for modeling dynamic systems and incorporating mechanistic information into causal models.

First full analysis of the rich records surviving from medieval English town courts.

Between the end of the Middle Ages and the early nineteenth century, the long-established structures and practices of European trade, agriculture, and industry were disparately but profoundly transformed. Revised, updated, and expanded, this second edition of Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe narrates and analyses the diverse trends that greatly enlarged European commerce, permanently modified rural and urban production, gave birth to new social classes, remade consumer habits, and altered global economic geographies, culminating in capitalist industrial revolution. Broad in chronological and geographical scope and explicitly comparative, Robert S. DuPlessis' book introduces readers to a wealth of information drawn from throughout Eastern, Western and Mediterranean Europe, as well as to classic interpretations, current debates, new scholarship, and suggestions for further reading.

Grenzübergreifende Praktiken und Strukturen sind allgegenwärtig und gut dokumentiert. Dennoch gibt es keine einheitliche Theorie des Transnationalismus. Das Buch schlägt vor, Transnationalismus als ein Ergebnis grenzübergreifender Prozesse zu betrachten. Transnationalismus gleicht nicht einer Struktur, sondern verweist auf das, was innerhalb der Strukturen passiert, und fokussiert dessen Folgen. Das Buch argumentiert, warum es unzureichend ist, bisher nationalstaatlich gedachte Modelle auf eine weitere und territorial gedachte Skala zu projizieren, wie es in der Forschung zu Formen der grenzübergreifenden Konnektivität üblich ist. Transnationalismus als Paradigma interessiert sich für Re-Konfigurationen der Macht und Arrangements lokaler Kulturen, die aufgrund der Porosität der Nationalstaaten und der globalen Vernetzung neue Bedeutungen produzieren. Das transnationale Paradigma hilft, das Aufeinandertreffen multipler Zugehörigkeiten, Praktiken und Dispositionen zu verstehen. (https://www.buchhandel.de)

Trusting Records in the Cloud presents key findings of InterPARES Trust, an international research project that has investigated issues of trust in, and trustworthiness of records and data online, with respect to privacy, accessibility, portability, metadata and ownership. The project has produced theoretical and methodological frameworks for the development of local, national and international policies, procedures, regulations, standards and legislation, to ensure public trust grounded on evidence of good governance, strong digital economy and persistent digital memory. Topics include: risks and remedies to the contracts the public must enter into with service providers implementing retention and disposition schedules in the cloud understanding the role of metadata in cloud services for chain of custody rethinking issues of appraisal, arrangement and description preservation as a series of services implementable by a variety of preservation actors information governance, risk management, and authentication practices and technologies. Readership: This book is essential reading for records and archives managers, information professionals and organizations that are using or intend to use the cloud for the creation, management and preservation of their information; records and archives students and educators; individuals working in the academic, government and private sectors, and members of the public concerned about their personal information in the cloud.

Intelligenz hat es heute schwer. In den Wissenschaften ist sie als logozentrisches Weltbild längst infrage gestellt. Paradigmenwechsel und Methodenallerlei haben das helle Licht der Aufklärung eingetrübt. Der geistige Fortschritt zerbröselt in der Anarchie frei flottierender Intelligenzsysteme, die nimmer-müde neues Wissen und beliebige Erkenntnisse freisetzen. Neue Mythen in Tüten! Aufgewärmt über der Social-Media-Glut und schließlich als leuchtender Pfad schimmernd. Um dann andernorts wieder als übertriebene Pose oder schwelendes Fundstück aufzutauchen. Ready to be mashed up again! Im Reagenzglas oder im schwarzen Loch irgendeines Ereignishorizonts. Hot shit! Der Schein der Intelligenz ist das neue Licht. Und das offenbare Wissen um die eigene Intelligenz schafft Allmachtsfantasien und diskursive Ausgrenzung. Das Kursbuch begibt sich deshalb auf eine Spurensuche. Überall dorthin, wo sich Intelligenz zu definieren versucht. Im Gehirn. In der Schule. In Robotern. In der Cloud. Die Autoren und Autorinnen erklären, erläutern, informieren und analysieren, wo wir noch warum Intelligenz vermuten dürfen. Eine Reise in die letzten Refugien intelligenter Forschung und noch intelligenteren Lebens. (https://www.buchhandel.de)

Virgil's fourth Eclogue is one of the most quoted, adapted and discussed works of classical literature. This study traces the fortunes of Eclogue 4 in the literature and art of the Italian Renaissance. It sheds new light on some of the most canonical works of Western art and literature, as well as introducing a large number of other, lesser-known items, some of which have not appeared in print since their original publication, while others are extant only in manuscript. Individual chapters are devoted to the uses made of the fourth Eclogue in the political panegyric of Medici Florence, the Venetian Republic and the Renaissance papacy, and to religious appropriations of the Virgilian text in the genres of epic and pastoral poetry. The book also investigates the appearance of quotations from the poem in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century fresco cycles representing the prophetic Sibyls in Italian churches.

Der vorliegende Band bietet die erste deutsche Übersetzung, Einleitung und Kommentierung von Aristoteles, Historia animalium, Buch V seit H. Aubert und F. Wimmers Ausgabe aus dem Jahr 1868. Aristoteles behandelt darin die Fortpflanzung der Lebewesen, insbesondere der Schaltiere, Schwämme, Seeanemonen, Krebse, Kopffüßer, Insekten und Reptilien. Die Fortpflanzung der übrigen Lebewesen wird in den Büchern VI und VII besprochen (in Vorbereitung). In der Einleitung und dem Kommentar wird Buch V unter philologischen, historischen, philosophischen und biologischen Gesichtspunkten analysiert. Leitende Fragestellungen sind: Wie arbeitete Aristoteles als Biologe und als Autor? Wie gestaltet sich das Verhältnis zur späteren Schrift De generatione animalium (Über die Entstehung der Lebewesen) und zu den übrigen zoologischen Schriften? Großzügige Indices und ein Verzeichnis der antiken und modernen Tiernamen erleichtern die Benutzung.

Christian Democratic actors and thinkers have been at the forefront of many of the twentieth century's key political battles - from the construction of the international human rights regime, through the process of European integration and the creation of postwar welfare regimes, to Latin American development policies during the Cold War. Yet their core ideas remain largely unknown, especially in the English-speaking world. Combining conceptual and historical approaches, Carlo Invernizzi Accetti traces the development of this ideology in the thought and writings of some of its key intellectual and political exponents, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. In so doing he sheds light on a number of important contemporary issues, from the question of the appropriate place of religion in presumptively 'secular' liberal-democratic regimes, to the normative resources available for building a political response to the recent rise of far-right populism.

Revealing what is 'Islamic' in Islamic art, Shaw explores the perception of arts, including painting, music, and geometry through the discursive sphere of historical Islam including the Qur'an, Hadith, Sufism, ancient philosophy, and poetry. Emphasis on the experience of reception over the context of production enables a new approach, not only to Islam and its arts, but also as a decolonizing model for global approaches to art history. Shaw combines a concise introduction to Islamic intellectual history with a critique of the modern, secular, and European premises of disciplinary art history. Her meticulous interpretations of intertextual themes span antique philosophies, core religious and theological texts, and prominent prose and poetry in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Urdu that circulated across regions of Islamic hegemony from the eleventh century to the colonial and post-colonial contexts of the modern Middle East.

With this groundbreaking text, discover how wireless artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to determine position at centimeter level, sense motion and vital signs, and identify events and people. Using a highly innovative approach that employs existing wireless equipment and signal processing techniques to turn multipaths into virtual antennas, combined with the physical principle of time reversal and machine learning, it covers fundamental theory, extensive experimental results, and real practical use cases developed for products and applications. Topics explored include indoor positioning and tracking, wireless sensing and analytics, wireless power transfer and energy efficiency, 5G and next-generation communications, and the connection of large numbers of heterogeneous IoT devices of various bandwidths and capabilities. Demo videos accompanying the book online enhance understanding of these topics. Providing a unified framework for wireless AI, this is an excellent text for graduate students, researchers, and professionals working in wireless sensing, positioning, IoT, machine learning, signal processing and wireless communications.

Ausgehend von einem breiten Selbstverständnis der Disziplin wird in diesem Buch der Bogen von der Entstehung der Wirtschaftspädagogik über ihre Handlungsfelder hin zur Entwicklung der wirtschaftspädagogischen Professionalität und den aktuellen Forschungsschwerpunkten am Institut für Wirtschaftspädagogik an der Universität Graz gespannt. Das vorliegende Buch ist ein Lehrbuch der Wirtschaftspädagogik aus österreichischer Perspektive in der zweiten, komplett überarbeiteten und erweiterten Auflage, das einerseits den Studierenden als Grundlage und Begleitung zur Verfügung steht und das andererseits auch für alle anderen, an der Wirtschaftspädagogik Interessierten, gedacht ist. (https://www.buchhandel.de)

Andrew O. Winckles is Assistant Professor of CORE Curriculum (Interdisciplinary Studies) at Adrian College. Angela Rehbein is Associate Professor of English at West Liberty University.

World trade and investment law is in crisis: new and progressive ideas are needed. Rules that facilitated globalization and supported global economic growth are being challenged. A system of global governance that once seemed secure is now at risk as the United States ignores the rules while developing countries struggle to escape restrictions. Some want to tear global institutions and agreements down while others try desperately to maintain the status quo. Rejecting both options, a group of trade and investment law experts from 10 countries, South and North, have joined hands to propose ideas for a new world trade and investment law that would maintain global growth while distributing costs and benefits more fairly. Paying special attention to those who have suffered from trade dislocation and to restrictions that have hampered innovative growth strategies in developing countries, they outline a progressive trade and investment law agenda in World Trade and Investment Law Reimagined.

The spectacle of the wounded body figured prominently in the Middle Ages, from images of Christ's wounds on the cross, to the ripped and torn bodies of tortured saints who miraculously heal through divine intervention, to graphic accounts of battlefield and tournament wounds--evidence of which survives in the archaeological record--and literary episodes of fatal (or not so fatal) wounds. This volume offers a comprehensive look at the complexity of wounding and wound repair in medieval literature and culture, bringing together essays from a wide range of sources and disciplines including arms and armaments, military history, medical history, literature, art history, hagiography, and archaeology across medieval and early modern Europe.

Das Verfassen wissenschaftlicher Arbeiten in englischer Sprache ist heute in vielen Studienrichtungen unerlässlich. Gleichzeitig stellt es für Studierende meist eine große Herausforderung dar. Dieses Buch leitet zur richtigen Arbeitsweise und zum korrekten Sprachgebrauch an und schließt damit eine Lücke in der einschlägigen Literatur. Anhand zahlreicher Beispiele werden sowohl gelungene Texte analysiert als auch typische Fehler deutschsprachiger Studierender korrigiert. Success in science depends nowadays on effective communication in English. This workbook is specifically designed to give under- and post-graduates confidence in writing scientific English. Examples and exercises show how to avoid common errors and how to rephrase and improve scientific texts. The generation of a model manuscript enables the reader to recognise how scientific English is constructed and how to follow the conventions of scientific writing. Guidelines for structuring written work and vocabulary lists will encourage young scientists to develop a concise and mature style. (https://www.buchhandel.de)