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Las ciencias sociales cubren un amplio campo, y los siete enfoques que presenta este libro introductorio son significativos para la Sociología, Política, Economía, Derecho, Psicología e Historia. La preocupación del autor es clarificar la estructura lógica, suposiciones metodológicas, e implicaciones prácticas de las diferentes teorías expuestas. El orden cronológico de la presentación ilustra el desarrollo de las teorías y el modo en que son afectadas por el cambio social. Contra la perspectiva histórica de la teoría del hombre de Aristóteles, la teoría egoísta de Hobbes, y la idea del sistema social de Adam Smith, se establecen los modernos gigantes: Marx y la teoría de la acción social de Weber. Finalmente, Alfred Schutz sirve de puente a desarrollos recientes como la Etnometodología. Los últimos capítulos consideran algunos de los problemas filosóficos que subyacen a las principales diferencias que existen entre los siete tipos de teoría social. En esta misma colección, el libro de

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Der Lehrer, der eines Tages keinen Schritt mehr in die Schule setzen kann, die Managerin, die sich morgens schon geschafft wie nach einem 12-Stunden-Tag fühlt, der Krankenpfleger, der nur noch zynisch über seine Patienten spricht – sie alle könnten unter Burnout leiden. Burnout ist ein Phänomen, das in jedem Beruf und in beinahe jeder Lebenslage auftreten kann: bei Lehrern und Pflegepersonal, bei Künstlern und Entwicklungshelfern, aber auch bei Ingenieuren und Professorinnen. Und die ersten Stadien haben fast alle schon einmal erlebt.Burisch hat als Experte für die Thematik eine umfassende Theorie des Burnout-Syndroms entwickelt, die er auf sehr lebendige und mit Fallbeispielen veranschaulichte Weise darstellt. Dabei spricht er sowohl Fachleute als auch Betroffene an – trotz hohen theoretischen Niveaus verliert er nie den Bezug zu Alltagserfahrungen aus dem Auge.Geschrieben für Betroffene und Interessierte, klinische Psychologen, psychologische und ärztliche Psychotherapeuten, Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologen, Mitarbeiter in Beratungsstellen.

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Die Bundesregierung steht an der Spitze einer hierarchisch organisierten Verwaltungsbürokratie. Trotzdem muss ihre Funktion von der Verwaltung unterschieden werden. Mathias Honer zeigt, dass das Grundgesetz der Bundesregierung eine eigenständige Funktion im Verfassungssystem zuweist. Er beleuchtet, welchen spezifischen funktionellen Beitrag die Bundesregierung aufgrund ihrer institutionellen Entscheidungsbedingungen für die gewaltengeteilte Rechtserzeugung erbringt. Zusammengefasst zu einer grundgesetzlichen "Theorie der Regierung" überträgt er diese Erkenntnisse auf konkrete rechtsdogmatische Probleme. Neben Fragestellungen im Verhältnis von Regierung, Parlament und Verwaltung eröffnet sich hierfür insbesondere ein aktuelles Anwendungsfeld in Gestalt der Regierungskommunikation. Der verfassungsrechtlichen Untersuchung gehen methodische Überlegungen voraus, die die Ermittlung und Anwendung einer "Theorie der Regierung" leiten.

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Since its incorporation into the Japanese nation-state in 1879, Okinawa has been seen by both Okinawans and Japanese as an exotic “South,” both spatially and temporally distinct from modern Japan. In The Limits of Okinawa, Wendy Matsumura traces the emergence of this sense of Okinawan difference, showing how local and mainland capitalists, intellectuals, and politicians attempted to resolve clashes with labor by appealing to the idea of a unified Okinawan community. Their numerous confrontations with small producers and cultivators who refused to be exploited for the sake of this ideal produced and reproduced “Okinawa” as an organic, transhistorical entity. Informed by recent Marxist attempts to expand the understanding of the capitalist mode of production to include the production of subjectivity, Matsumura provides a new understanding of Okinawa's place in Japanese and world history, and it establishes a new locus for considering the relationships between empire, capital, nation, and identity.

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The International Working Men's Association, now called the First International, was the first successful attempt to organize labor on local, national, and international levels. It emerged after the great outpouring of socialist ideology, primarily French, prior to the 1860s and before the rooting of labor unions and socialist parties in the latter part of the nineteenth century. The First International in France is designed to serve as a history of the First International in France, as well as serve as a basic reference for those whose interest or research touches on the International. When used in conjunction with key texts by Roger Morgan, Henry Collins, and Max Nettlau, it will be useful in producing a much-needed synthesis of the International as a whole.

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What is ?justice? from the perspective of contemporary Arabo-Islamic philosophy? Kaouther Karoui takes a transcultural approach, open to different philosophical traditions, and seeks to decenter Western notions of normativity. She focuses on two thinkers, namely the feminist Fatima Mernissi (d.2015) and Mohamed Arkoun (d.2010), a well-known critic of hegemony and orthodoxy. She situates their thinking within current debates among Arab thinkers and brings their ideas into dialog with Western political philosophy. This study thus challenges stereotypes about the Arab-Islamic world by discussing postcolonial theories of gender justice, political freedom, and religion.

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Weltweit vereinheitlichte Musterverträge bestimmen die Vertragsgestaltung im grenzüberschreitenden Finanzverkehr. Diese Musterverträge werden von privaten Organisationen wie der International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), der Loan Market Association (LMA) und der International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) geschaffen. Torsten Kindt zeigt, dass auf Grundlage der Muster ein bereichsspezifisches transnationales Vertragsrecht entsteht, das jedoch auf vielfältige Weise mit dem staatlichen Recht verwoben bleibt. Er entwickelt Leitlinien für einen responsiven Umgang mit musterbasierten transnationalen Verträgen im staatlichen Kollisions-, Vertrags- und Internationalen Zivilverfahrensrecht, die auch über den Finanzbereich hinaus zu einem produktiven Zusammenwirken privater und staatlicher Ordnung beitragen können.

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Von Existentialismus und Existenzphilosophie über die Kritische Theorie der Frankfurter Schule, Habermas und Popper zu Feminismus und Postmoderne. Bei den utopischen Entwürfen kommen auch die Ideen der Belletristik zu Wort. Zudem werden Rawls, die new contractarians und der Kommunitarismus vorgestellt. Ein Ausblick auf die globalisierte Welt.

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Many Americans believe that their own government is guilty of shocking crimes. Government agents shot the president. They faked the moon landing. They stood by and allowed the murders of 2,400 servicemen in Hawaii. Although paranoia has been a feature of the American scene since the birth of the Republic, in Real Enemies Kathryn Olmsted shows that it was only in the twentieth century that strange and unlikely conspiracy theories became central to American politics. In particular, she posits World War I as a critical turning point and shows that as the federal bureaucracy expanded, Americans grew more fearful of the government itself--the military, the intelligence community, and even the President. Analyzing the wide-spread suspicions surrounding such events as Pearl Harbor, the JFK assassination, Watergate, and 9/11, Olmsted sheds light on why so many Americans believe that their government conspires against them, why more people believe these theories over time, and how real conspiracies--such as the infamous Northwoods plan--have fueled our paranoia about the governments we ourselves elect. This 10th Anniversary Edition includes a new epilogue on conspiracy theories and the 2016 election and its aftermath.

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Die Geschichte der neuzeitlichen Rechtswissenschaft, ihre Theorie und Methode stehen im Mittelpunkt des Werkes von Jan Schröder. Er hat mehr als vier Jahrzehnte lang Studien zur Geschichte der Rechtswissenschaft von der Frühen Neuzeit bis zum 20. Jahrhundert veröffentlicht und gilt als einer der besten Kenner der Materie. Der vorliegende Band 2 führt seine Aufsatzsammlung fort und enthält 28 der wichtigsten zwischen 1987 und 2022 entstandenen Arbeiten. Er beginnt in der frühesten Neuzeit ("Zur Bedeutung der Wörter in der Rechts- und Sprachtheorie der frühen Neuzeit") und endet mit Abhandlungen zum späten 20. Jahrhundert (u.a. "Die Fischereirechte des Staates in Württemberg"; "Verzichtet unser Rechtssystem auf Gerechtigkeit?").Erstmals erscheinen hier Aufsätze über Johannes Reuchlin, die Geschichte der Wissenschaftsgeschichte des Rechts und die Geschichte der juristischen Begriffsbildung. Den Band ergänzen eine Reihe von Nachrufen, ein Geburtstagsglückwunsch und zwei Dankesreden.

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Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller!Times, Sunday Times, and Financial Times Book-of-the-Year Selection! Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Have you read that certain people shouldn't practice yoga or cook Chinese food? Or been told that being obese is healthy, that there is no such thing as biological sex, or that only white people can be racist? Are you confused by these ideas, and do you wonder how they have managed so quickly to challenge the very logic of Western society?In this probing and intrepid volume, Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay document the evolution of the dogma that informs these ideas, from its coarse origins in French postmodernism to its refinement within activist academic fields. Today this dogma is recognizable as much by its effects, such as cancel culture and social-media dogpiles, as by its tenets, which are all too often embraced as axiomatic in mainstream media: knowledge is a social construct; science and reason are tools of oppression; all human interactions are sites of oppressive power play; and language is dangerous. As Pluckrose and Lindsay warn, the unchecked proliferation of these anti-Enlightenment beliefs present a threat not only to liberal democracy but also to modernity itself.While acknowledging the need to challenge the complacency of those who think a just society has been fully achieved, Pluckrose and Lindsay break down how this often-radical activist scholarship does far more harm than good, not least to those marginalized communities it claims to champion. They also detail its alarmingly inconsistent and illiberal ethics. Only through a proper understanding of the evolution of these ideas, they conclude, can those who value science, reason, and consistently liberal ethics successfully challenge this harmful and authoritarian orthodoxy—in the academy, in culture, and beyond.

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Hans Kelsen gilt als wichtigster Vordenker der Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit im 20. Jahrhundert. Seine Konzeption einer zentralen Gerichtsinstanz mit machtvoller Normenkontrollkompetenz ("negativer Gesetzgeber") gegenüber dem Parlament ergibt sich aber nicht nur aus dem rechtsstaatlichen Vorrang der Verfassung. Kelsen begründet dies in seinen beiden Texten von 1929 und 1931 in bahnbrechender Weise vielmehr demokratietheoretisch und verteidigt so das Verfassungsgericht als Element pluralistischer Demokratie gegen Carl Schmitts Konzeption eines präsidialen Hüters der politischen Einheit "Volk". Kelsen dringt damit zu einem modernen Verständnis der Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit durch, das mit den tradierten Argumenten einer vermeintlichen Unvereinbarkeit mit Gewaltenteilung und Demokratie ebenso aufräumt wie mit dem Mythos einer 'unpolitischen' Verfassungsjustiz. Rezensionen der 2. Auflage: "Die beiden rund 90 Jahre alten Texte sind auch heute noch erstaunlich gut lesbar. [...] Es ist ein großes Verdienst von Verlag und Herausgeber, die beiden Klassiker zur Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit wieder verfügbar gemacht zu haben." Christian Raap BWV 2020, 71-72

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Since its incorporation into the Japanese nation-state in 1879, Okinawa has been seen by both Okinawans and Japanese as an exotic “South,” both spatially and temporally distinct from modern Japan. In The Limits of Okinawa, Wendy Matsumura traces the emergence of this sense of Okinawan difference, showing how local and mainland capitalists, intellectuals, and politicians attempted to resolve clashes with labor by appealing to the idea of a unified Okinawan community. Their numerous confrontations with small producers and cultivators who refused to be exploited for the sake of this ideal produced and reproduced “Okinawa” as an organic, transhistorical entity. Informed by recent Marxist attempts to expand the understanding of the capitalist mode of production to include the production of subjectivity, Matsumura provides a new understanding of Okinawa's place in Japanese and world history, and it establishes a new locus for considering the relationships between empire, capital, nation, and identity.

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This volume constitutes the first critical edition and translation into any modern language of a dānanibandha, a classical Hindu legal digest devoted to the culturally and religiously important topic of gifting. Specifically, it is a critical edition—based upon all identifiable manuscripts—and complete, annotated translation of the Dānakānda (“Book on Gifting”), the fifth section of the encyclopedic Krtyakalpataru (c. 1114–1154) of Laksmīdhara and the earliest extant dānanibandha. David Brick has included an extensive historical introduction to the text and its subject matter.

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If you want to know your Socrates from your Sartre and your Confucius from your Kant, strap in for this whirlwind tour of the highlights of philosophy. Philosophy is a quest for wisdom and knowledge; philosophia in Ancient Greek literally means “love of wisdom”. The aim of philosophy is to ask and explore life’s big questions to help us work out what we can know and how we can live a good life. Today, in a world of fake news, embarking on a quest for truth couldn’t be more important. This pocket-sized introduction to important philosophers and key philosophical ideas includes accessible primers on: The early Greek philosophers and the “big three”: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle Key schools of philosophy from around the world – from ancient philosophy right up to the present day – and their impact on modern life Insights into the main questions philosophers have explored over the years: Who am I? What is the meaning of life? Do I have free will? Practical applications for the theories of Descartes, Kant, Wollstonecraft, Marx, Nietzsche and many more. This illuminating little book will introduce you to the key thinkers, themes and theories you need to know to understand how human ideas have sculpted the world we live in and the way we think today. A perfect gift for anyone taking their first steps into the world of philosophy, as well as for those who want to brush up their knowledge.

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Persuasively arguing for the inclusion of overlooked female figures whilst simultaneously bridging feminist theory and critical historiography, Historical Female Management Theorists features four literary non-fiction, fictitious conversations with historic female proto-management theorists from Canada and the United States: Frances Perkins (1880-1965), Hallie Flanagan (1890-1969), Madeleine Parent (1918-2012), and Viola Desmond (1914-1965). These women have been noted for their contributions in various fields, however their accomplishments and lessons have largely been overlooked by management and organizational history. A variety of archival, biographical and media sources are combined with Williams’s own sense-making and learnings to stitch together a believable, but fictional encounter, introducing a method for feminist historical inquiry – ficto-feminism. A blend of auto-ethnography, collective biography and fictocriticism, this new method explores mechanisms to enact personal agency in subject and writer, featuring a novel narrative, storytelling style inspired by fictional writing. Historical Female Management Theorists is essential reading for both feminist scholars and management historians.

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This is the first comprehensive text on the history of color theories since Halbertsma's book of 1947. Color is discussed in close connection with the evolution of ideas of light and vision. The book has chapters on the ancient Greek ideas of vision and color; on the contributions of Arabic science; on the Scientific Revolution from Kepler to Newton; on the early history of the three-color hypothesis; on the trichromatic theory and defective color vision; and on Goethe's, Schopenhauer's and Hering's theories. New understanding of the structure and functions of the retina and the brain finally results in the modern science of color vision. A History of Color has been written for ophthalmologists, optometrists and others who are interested in visual science and its history. The book requires no specialized knowledge.

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To some, science is simply a means to an end; to others it is an almost spiritual meditation on theoriesand formulae.The Curious World of Science embraces both views and much more besides. Focusing on the human endeavours at the heart of science, it presents a miscellany of essential classifications, intriguing biographies, amusing curiosities, and irresistible trivia. Bite-size morsels of text explore the worlds of physics, chemistry, biology, and maths, while also venturing into those magical areas where science meets art.This illustrated edition is brimming with graphics and illustrations, and includes a system of icons to signpost different paths through the miscellany. From the Large Hadron Collider rap to the sins of Isaac Newton, it offers a dizzying flight through the wonderfully human world of scientific knowledge.

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Given the growing importance of Eastern European countries in the development of the EU, there is an urgent need to reconstruct the recent dynamic developments in women's work and care in these societies, and the socio-political determinants thereof. Considering their specific cultural, economic and historical development, it can be assumed that the trends and determinants of women's labour market trajectories in CEE countries differ significantly from those in the other European countries that have frequently made up the basis for established theories in social and labour market research. This being the case, can 'standard' theoretical approaches, mostly modelled on evidence from Western Europe, be transferred to the analysis of Eastern European countries? This edited collection scrutinises pivotal aspects of women's careers in Eastern Europe, providing a detailed overview of trends and determinants of women's employment in Eastern Europe, and reflecting critically on theoretical approaches in social and labour market research.

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