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Silkworm Books / Trasvin Publications LP Ethnic and Religious Identities and Integration in Southeast Asia
The research presented in this volume analyzes the impact of ethnic change and religious traditions on local, national, and regional identities. Case studies include the Bru population in Laos/Vietnam, hill tribe populations without citizenship in northern Thailand, the Lua also in northern Thailand, the Pakistani community in Penang, the Rohingya in Myanmar, the Leke religious movement in Thailand/Myanmar, political Islam in Indonesia, Sufi Muslims in Thailand, pluralism in Penang, the Preah Vihear dispute between Thailand and Cambodia, and hero cult worship in Lan Na. Historians and social anthropologists variously tackle these issues of identity and integration within the kaleidoscope of ethnicities, religions, languages, and cultures that make up Southeast Asia.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Kosten- und Erlösrechnung: Eine controllingorientierte Einführung
Aufgrund der Controllingorientierung liegt der Schwerpunkt auf der Grenzplankosten- und Deckungsbeitragsrechnung sowie der Prozesskostenrechnung, die konsistent in den Gesamtaufbau integriert ist. Der Stoff ist in zwölf Lernmodule strukturiert, deren Lernziele und Kontrollfragen das Selbststudium erleichtern. Einführende "Intuitivbeispiele" sowie ein umfangreiches Glossar erleichtern gerade Anfängern das Verständnis. Ein Arbeitsbuch aus demselben Verlag und eine Internetseite ergänzen das Lehrbuch.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Klassenfoto mit Massenmörder: Das Doppelleben des Artur Wilke
Niedersachsen, August 1961. Der Klassenlehrer Walter Wilke wird in seiner Dorfschule aus dem Unterricht abgeholt und später in einem der ersten großen Prozesse über deutsche Verbrechen in Osteuropa verurteilt. In seinem kleinen Ort wird über die Sache nicht gesprochen. Später kehrt der Mann zurück und lebt bis zu seinem Tod 1989 zurückgezogen im Dorf. Seine Frau, mit der er über Jahre in Bigamie gelebt hatte, ist die beliebte Landärztin. Jürgen Gückel, mehrfach ausgezeichneter Gerichtsreporter, geht einer Spur nach. Einer Geschichte, die ihn seit der Schulzeit beschäftigt, denn Walter Wilke war sein erster Lehrer. Gückel rekonstruiert einen einzigartigen Lebensweg: Walter war in Wahrheit Artur Wilke, der die Identität seines gefallenen Bruders angenommen hatte. Artur selbst war studierter Theologe und Archäologe, im Dritten Reich der SS beigetreten, nachweislich an Massenerschießungen von Juden beteiligt, galt als gefürchteter Partisanen-Jäger und wurde nach dem Krieg dann Volksschullehrer. Sein Name ist mit grauenhaften Kriegsverbrechen verbunden, doch zur Rechenschaft gezogen wurde er für seine Taten im Partisanenkampf nie. Das Buch zeichnet nicht nur eine spektakuläre deutsche Biografie im 20. Jahrhundert nach die Entwicklung eines Intellektuellen zum Täter und die Verneinung jeglicher persönlicher Schuld, das Wegsehen der Gesellschaft. Es zeigt auch auf, wie schwierig das Erinnern ist, wie unterschiedlich Erlebtes bewertet wird und wie schwer die Erarbeitung historischer Wahrheit letztlich ist. Auch nach der Sichtung mehrerer zehntausend Seiten Gerichtsakten und anderer Dokumente bleiben scheinbar einfache Fragen offen. Eine wahre Geschichte über Bigamie und Theologie, Verbrechen und Vertuschung, über die deutsche Nachkriegsgesellschaft und über eine familiäre Tragödie.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Reforms of Civil Procedure in Germany and Norway
Norwegian civil procedure used to be heavily influenced by German and Austrian law. Even the new Civil Procedure Act of 2005 does not represent a full break with the German roots of Norwegian civil procedure. Further, although not a member of the European Union, the Norwegian participation in the European Economic Area leaves the approximation of the laws of civil procedure in the EU relevant also in the Norwegian context. Considering the common heritage and acknowledging the common challenges on the national and European level, the stage should be set for a fruitful comparison of German and Norwegian civil procedure.A major obstacle for genuine interaction of German and Norwegian law on civil procedure has always been the language barrier. Thus, a very first German translation of the 2005 Act has been prepared and annexed to this book together with an English translation. With contributions by:Christoph Althammer, Inge Lorange Backer, Halvard H. Fredriksen, Ulrich Haas, Wolfgang Hau, Burkhard Hess, Volker Lipp, Henry J. Mæland, Anna Nylund, Jørn Ø. Sunde
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Westermann Berufl.Bildung Steuerungstechnik für Metallberufe. Lernfeld Steuerungstechnische Systeme Lösungen
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Westermann Berufl.Bildung Steuerungstechnik für Metallberufe. Schulbuch
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Springer International Publishing AG Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization: 24th International Conference, IPCO 2023, Madison, WI, USA, June 21–23, 2023, Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization, IPCO 2023, held in Madison, WI, USA, during June 21–23, 2023. The 33 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 119 submissions. IPCO is under the auspices of the Mathematical Optimization Society, and it is an important forum for presenting present recent developments in theory, computation, and applications. The scope of IPCO is viewed in a broad sense, to include algorithmic and structural results in integer programming and combinatorial optimization as well as revealing computational studies and novel applications of discrete optimization to practical problems.
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Kales Press Butterflies: Reflections, Tales, and Verse
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Oxford University Press Handbook of Neurologic Music Therapy
Neurologic Music Therapy (NMT) is a form of music therapy developed for people suffering from cognitive, sensory, or motor dysfunctions - arising from neurological diseases of the nervous system. People who can benefit from this therapy include sufferers from: stroke, traumatic brain injury, Parkinson's and Huntington's disease, cerebral palsy, Alzheimer's disease, autism, and other neurological diseases affecting cognition, movement, and communication (e.g., MS, Muscular Dystrophy, etc). The Handbook of Neurologic Music Therapy is a comprehensive landmark text presenting a new and revolutionary model of music in rehabilitation, therapy and medicine that is scientifically validated and clinically tested. Each of the 20 clinical techniques is described in detail with specific exercises, richly illustrated and with pertinent background information regarding research and clinical diagnoses. The book is a 'must have' for all neurologic music therapists and those who want to become one, clinicians, university faculty, and students alike. Physicians and therapists from other disciplines will find this tome an important guide to provide new insight how music can contribute significantly to brain rehabilitation and how Neurologic Music Therapists can be effective interdisciplinary providers in patient care.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Space Weather: Physics and Effects
The editors present a state-of-the-art overview on the Physics of Space Weather and its effects on technological and biological systems on the ground and in space. It opens with a general introduction on the subject, followed by a historical review on the major developments in the field of solar terrestrial relationships leading to its development into the up-to-date field of space weather. Specific emphasis is placed on the technological effects that have impacted society in the past century at times of major solar activity. Chapter 2 summarizes key milestones, starting from the base of solar observations with classic telescopes up to recent space observations and new mission developments with EUV and X-ray telescopes (e.g., STEREO), yielding an unprecedented view of the sun-earth system. Chapter 3 provides a scientific summary of the present understanding of the physics of the sun-earth system based on the latest results from spacecraft designed to observe the Sun, the interplanetary medium and geospace. Chapter 4 describes how the plasma and magnetic field structure of the earth's magnetosphere is impacted by the variation of the solar and interplanetary conditions, providing the necessary science and technology background for missions in low and near earth's orbit. Chapter 5 elaborates the physics of the layer of the earth's upper atmosphere that is the cause of disruptions in radio-wave communications and GPS (Global Positioning System) errors, which is of crucial importance for projects like Galileo. In Chapters 6-10, the impacts of technology used up to now in space, on earth and on life are reviewed.
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Edition Axel Menges Sit in China: An Excursion through 500 Years of the Culture of Sitting
Text in English & German. The way we sit simultaneously defines privileges, social status, power, and taboos. Parallel to the presentation of China as the guest of honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2009, the Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt presents a panorama of Chinese sitting culture through a period of five centuries. Exclusive, noble Ming chairs stand side by side with chairs of the 18th and 19th century used by the middle class of that time. Limited sitting sculptures by renowned artist designers such as Shao Fan, Freeman Lau, Kenneth Cobonpue, XYZ-Design and Ji Liwei, who is also in charge of the interior design of the Chinese pavilion at the book fair, are confronted with the bourgeois sofas and sitting of the Chinese middle class of today. The "Bastard Chairs" of migrant workers and the homeless, day-to-day seats improvised out of pure need and made of trash and leftover materials, are commented in the sitting contexts of celebrities: emperors and courtesans, politicians and pop stars, athletes and students of product design show how sitting was done formerly and is done today. It ranges from a man of letters from the Ming era to the Qianglong emperor on the throne to Mao and Nixon in characteristic armchairs in Mao's best room. The most famous contemporary Chinese artist, Ai Weiwei, will also be represented with an excerpt of his grandiose chair performance at the Dokumenta XII. Of course, product piracy, which -- as the typical Chinese dipping figure "Shanzhai" -- has mean-while adopted characteristics that define society, is also dealt with.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Kükenthal - Zoologisches Praktikum
Seit über 110 Jahren wird der „KÜKENTHAL" in der Ausbildung von Studierenden der Biologie und verwandter Fächer eingesetzt. In den letzten Auflagen wurden viele neue Erkenntnisse aufgenommen und vermehrt funktionelle Aspekte berücksichtigt. Eine ganze Reihe von Abbildungen wurde durch ansprechendere ersetzt, um die ästhetische Komponente stärker zu betonen. Inhaltliche Straffungen ermöglichten es, den Umfang nahezu beizubehalten.Speziell Studienanfänger sind mit dem Problem konfrontiert, die Vielfalt der Organismen in ein System einzuordnen, das ihnen noch fremd ist. Die systematische Übersicht am Ende des Buches ist in der 27. Auflage stark erweitert und vierfarbig bebildert. Die Histologie der Tiere als wichtigem Aspekt in der Lehre ist ergänzt. Verbesserte detaillierte, farbige Situszeichnungen der wichtigsten Präparationstiere verbessern die Anschaulichkeit des Buches.
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Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Reden Der Unterweisung
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Sociology of Knowledge
This authoritative two volume collection presents both the classic articles and the most important recent literature which are essential for an understanding of the sociology of knowledge. Topics covered in Volume I include the intellectual precursors and emergence of the sociology of knowledge; the classical sociology of knowledge; and the sociology of knowledge dispute. Volume II focuses on more contemporary sociologies of knowledge and the future of the debate.
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WW Norton & Co Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse of the Third Reich
In a bunker deep below Berlin’s Old Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler and his new bride, Eva Braun, took their own lives just after 3:00 p.m. on April 30, 1945—Hitler by gunshot to the temple, Braun by ingesting cyanide. But the Führer’s suicide did not instantly end either Nazism or the Second World War in Europe. Far from it: the eight days that followed were among the most traumatic in modern history, witnessing not only the final paroxysms of bloodshed and the frantic surrender of the Wehrmacht, but the total disintegration of the once-mighty Third Reich. In Eight Days in May, the award-winning historian and Hitler biographer Volker Ullrich draws on an astonishing variety of sources, including diaries and letters of ordinary Germans, to narrate a society’s descent into Hobbesian chaos. In the town of Demmin in the north, residents succumbed to madness and committed mass suicide. In Berlin, Soviet soldiers raped German civilians on a near-unprecedented scale. In Nazi-occupied Prague, Czech insurgents led an uprising in the hope that General George S. Patton would come to their aid but were brutally put down by German units in the city. Throughout the remains of Third Reich, huge numbers of people were on the move, creating a surrealistic tableau: death marches of concentration-camp inmates crossed paths with retreating Wehrmacht soldiers and groups of refugees; columns of POWs encountered those of liberated slave laborers and bombed-out people returning home. A taut, propulsive narrative, Eight Days in May takes us inside the phantomlike regime of Hitler’s chosen successor, Admiral Karl Dönitz, revealing how the desperate attempt to impose order utterly failed, as frontline soldiers deserted and Nazi Party fanatics called on German civilians to martyr themselves in a last stand against encroaching Allied forces. In truth, however, the post-Hitler government represented continuity more than change: its leaders categorically refused to take responsibility for their crimes against humanity, an attitude typical not just of the Nazi elite but also of large segments of the German populace. The consequences would be severe. Eight Days in May is not only an indispensable account of the Nazi endgame, but a historic work that brilliantly examines the costs of mass delusion.
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Random House USA Inc Hitler: Downfall: 1939-1945
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Vintage Publishing Hitler: Volume I: Ascent 1889–1939
Selected as a Book of the Year by the New York Times, Times Literary Supplement and The TimesDespite his status as the most despised political figure in history, there have only been four serious biographies of Hitler since the 1930s. Even more surprisingly, his biographers have been more interested in his rise to power and his methods of leadership than in Hitler the person: some have even declared that the Führer had no private life. Yet to render Hitler as a political animal with no personality to speak of, as a man of limited intelligence and poor social skills, fails to explain the spell that he cast not only on those close to him but on the German people as a whole. In the first volume of this monumental biography, Volker Ullrich sets out to correct our perception of the Führer. While charting in detail Hitler’s life from his childhood to the eve of the Second World War against the politics of the times, Ullrich unveils the man behind the public persona: his charming and repulsive traits, his talents and weaknesses, his deep-seated insecurities and murderous passions.Drawing on a wealth of previously neglected or unavailable sources, this magisterial study provides the most rounded portrait of Hitler to date. Ullrich renders the Führer not as a psychopath but as a master of seduction and guile — and it is perhaps the complexity of his character that explains his enigmatic grip on the German people more convincingly than the clichéd image of the monster. This definitive biography will forever change the way we look at the man who took the world into the abyss.
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Arado: Ar 196 Germany’s Multi-Purpose Seaplane
The famous and versatile World War II German seaplane.
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University of California Press The Wandering Holy Man: The Life of Barsauma, Christian Asceticism, and Religious Conflict in Late Antique Palestine
Barsauma was a fifth-century Syrian ascetic, archimandrite, and leader of monks, notorious for his extreme asceticism and violent anti-Jewish campaigns across the Holy Land. Although Barsauma was a powerful and revered figure in the Eastern church, modern scholarship has widely dismissed him as a thug of peripheral interest. Until now, only the most salacious bits of the Life of Barsauma—a fascinating collection of miracles that Barsauma undertook across the Near East—had been translated. This pioneering study includes the first full translation of the Life and a series of studies by scholars employing a range of methods to illuminate the text from different angles and contexts. This is the authoritative source on this influential figure in the history of the church and his life, travels, and relations with other religious groups.
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Clairview Books What is Art?: Conversation with Joseph Beuys
Joseph Beuys' work continues to influence and inspire practitioners and thinkers all over the world, in areas from organizational learning, direct democracy and new money forms to new art pedagogies and ecological art practices. Here, in dialogue with Volker Harlan - a close colleague, whose own work also revolves around understandings of substance and sacrament that are central to Beuys - the deeper motivations and insights underlying 'social sculpture', Beuys' expanded conception of art, are illuminated. His profound reflections, complemented with insightful essays by Volker Harlan, give a sense of the interconnectedness between all life forms, and the foundations of a path towards an ecologically sustainable future.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Die Hochschule als interkultureller Aushandlungsraum: Eine Bildungs-Exploration am Beispiel eines internationalen Studiengangs
Die in diesem Band dargestellten Fallstudien zu einem internationalen Hochschulstudiengang dienen der Exploration und Sensibilisierung. Aufmerksam gemacht wird auf Bruch-, Konvergenz- und Emergenzstellen, die sich aus der Internationalisierung im Alltag der Hochschullehre für die kulturell diversen Akteure ergeben. Die sich aus der Exploration heraus aufdrängende Frage, welche Form der Hochschulbildung von welcher „Kleinen-sozialen-Lebens-Welt“ her ausgehandelt wird, soll später in einer ethnographischen Fallstudie geklärt werden. Eine solche Fallstudie vorbereitend, kommt die Bildungs-Exploration mit der Entwicklung eines an der Lebensweltanalytischen Ethnographie orientierten Forschungsdesigns zum Abschluss.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Bach unter den Theologen: Themen, Thesen, Temperamente
Die Frage nach "Bach unter den Theologen" wird durch die Jahrhunderte hindurch verfolgt: von den theologischen Prägungen und Zeitgenossen Bachs über die Frage nach Vergessen und Wiederentdecken um 1800 bis hin zu der monumentalen Bach-Monographie Albert Schweitzers. Sie läuft zu auf die Frage nach dem gegenwärtigen Verhältnis der Theologie zu Bach und jenes von Bach zur Theologie. Der vorliegende Band versammelt die acht Beiträge des theologischen Symposiums, das im Rahmen des 93. Bachfestes der Neuen Bachgesellschaft 2018 mit dem Thema "Bach bearbeitet" in Tübingen stattfand. Der Umgang mit Bach ist, so wird in diesen Beiträgen deutlich, tief in theologische und kulturelle Entwicklungen eingebettet - und Bach bleibt immer mehr als ein Stück kulturelle Erinnerung: Er war und ist Herausforderung und Anregung.
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Walter de Gruyter Immanuel Kant 1724-2024: Ein Europäischer Denker
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Walter de Gruyter & Co Handbuch Der Tonstudiotechnik
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Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Gröbner Bases: A Computational Approach to Commutative Algebra
The origins of the mathematics in this book date back more than two thou sand years, as can be seen from the fact that one of the most important algorithms presented here bears the name of the Greek mathematician Eu clid. The word "algorithm" as well as the key word "algebra" in the title of this book come from the name and the work of the ninth-century scientist Mohammed ibn Musa al-Khowarizmi, who was born in what is now Uzbek istan and worked in Baghdad at the court of Harun al-Rashid's son. The word "algorithm" is actually a westernization of al-Khowarizmi's name, while "algebra" derives from "al-jabr," a term that appears in the title of his book Kitab al-jabr wa'l muqabala, where he discusses symbolic methods for the solution of equations. This close connection between algebra and al gorithms lasted roughly up to the beginning of this century; until then, the primary goal of algebra was the design of constructive methods for solving equations by means of symbolic transformations. During the second half of the nineteenth century, a new line of thought began to enter algebra from the realm of geometry, where it had been successful since Euclid's time, namely, the axiomatic method.
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Next Factory Ottensen The Great Redesign: Frameworks for the Future
We live in a world that's constantly redesigned. Today's redesign is tomorrow's vintage look. But times of crisis rapidly change the picture. Suddenly, the whole world is in dire need of a proper redesign. From capitalism to communication, from work to supply chains, from cities to office space - it's hard to find an area of our lives that's not due for an overhaul. This is a challenge, but also a huge opportunity: to design a better world.
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V&R unipress GmbH Metaphors for Leading - Leading by Metaphors
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Lit Verlag Visual Arts and Religion
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Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH In-Space Manufacturing and Resources: Earth and Planetary Exploration Applications
Comprehensive resource covering all in-space manufacturing and planetary resource exploration endeavors. The space economy is developing quickly, and pivotal events have brought us to a strong inflection point. This unique book includes fundamental and ground-breaking innovations in the field and is meant to quickly get readers up to speed on many different facets of space and planetary resource exploration, such as: Space health & medicine Space biology & space farming Space chemistry & space mining Space construction & advanced materials production Space policy, law & economics Presenting a snapshot of the expanding space economy and manufacturing applications in low-Earth orbit, along with resource utilization capabilities in development for Moon and Mars missions, this an indispensable source for all researchers and commercial companies working on space and planetary resource exploration.
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De Gruyter Elements of Discrete Mathematics: Numbers and Counting, Groups, Graphs, Orders and Lattices
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Political Events and Economic Ideas
The influence of political developments on the evolution of economic thought is the main theme behind this book. As the authors reveal throughout the book, history has shown many times that political events can trigger the formulation of new economic conceptions that in turn influence the future economic development of a country. The papers are arranged into five main areas of interest: monetary theory and policy economic crisis in France and the emergence of the physiocratic school the co-evolution of political ideas and economic thought in different countries and periods in Europe continuity and discontinuity in Russian economic thought attempted economic solutions to the problems posed by the Great Depression and the associated political transformation. Political Events and Economic Ideas will hold great appeal and interest for researchers and scholars of political thought, as well as historians of economic thought worldwide.
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Emerald Publishing Limited Beyond the Pandemic?: Exploring the Impact of Covid-19 on Telecommunications and the Internet
This book contains an Open Access chapter The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted economies and society globally. In addressing the crisis, the Internet proved incredibly important in enabling many to shift physical work, education, and social activities online and facilitating the tracking of the progress of the pandemic. Beyond the Pandemic? is the first edited collection to concentrate on the dynamic and complex relationship between the Internet and the role it played in responding to the pandemic. Covid-19 accelerated the digital economy transformation, changing the way work, education, and social engagement is organized, potentially permanently. The collection of international scholars who contributed to this volume offer insightful perspectives on how the Internet ecosystem responded and was changed as a consequence of Covid-19; the sectoral consequences of shifting activity online that the Internet enabled for many, but not for all; and the implications for regulatory policies. Given how central digital technologies are to all aspects of business, society, and government, Beyond the Pandemic? is integral to the exploration of the sectoral consequences of the Internet for business managers, policymakers and researchers engaged in planning and study for the digital economy future and planning for future pandemics.
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Next Factory Ottensen Parallelwelten: We are now in a different world (special edition)
The joint forces of digital and analogue allow for a myriad of different worlds for us to live in. In German they are called Parallelwelten (= parallel worlds). This book investigates these parallel worlds from different angles: technological, corporate, scientific, cultural, economic and political.
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Lone Pine Publishing,Canada Bugs of Northern California
Televion's Nature Nut, John Acorn, teams up with nature illustrator Ian Sheldon to craft a witty and personable book about the myriad insects and arachnids found throughout the diverse habitats of Northern California.
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Arc Publications Memorial to the Future
It is no coincidence that the poet Volker von Törne was, for many years, the Director of Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste (Action for Atonement - Service for Peace), the German charitable organisation for education and reparation in countries throughout the world that have suffered under fascism and other oppressive regimes. His father had been a member of the SS in Germany in the Second World War, and as a consequence, his poetry is written from the perspective of someone who suffered, through no fault of his own, from terrible guilt after the war. This selection from von Törne's collected poems is particularly significant in that it is a powerful and moving articulation of the psychological burden still carried by countless people today whose voices are not often heard, a burden which von Törne's powerful, poignant and sometimes angry poetry helps us all the better to understand.
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Amberley Publishing The Price of Freedom: Courage in the Shadow of the Berlin Wall
Berlin 1966, a city divided by an impenetrable wall erected by the communist German Democratic Republic. Together with his friends, the West German student Volker G. Heinz is looking for ways to help would-be fugitives escape from East to West. Their search ends at Checkpoint Charlie, the most heavily secured border crossing of the Berlin Wall. By hiding the fugitives in the trunk of a diplomat's car, Volker G. Heinz helps more than sixty East German citizens flee to the West. But when the Stasi picks up his trail, Heinz is arrested and interrogated for months in their secret headquarters - today a much visited memorial. In a spectacular move, following secret negotiations and a show trial, Heinz is swapped for two Soviet spies. Uniquely personal, this account of bravery and sacrifice is history at its most vivid.
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Kales Press Trees: An Anthology of Writings and Paintings
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC International Organization
The third edition of this popular core textbook provides wide-ranging coverage of the structure, internal working, policies and performance of international organizations such as the UN, EU, IMF and World Bank. Such organizations have never been so important in addressing the challenges that face our increasingly globalised world. This book introduces students to theories with which to approach international organizations, their history, and their ability to respond to contemporary issues in world politics from nuclear disarmament, climate change and human rights protection, to trade, monetary and financial relations, and international development. Underpinning the text is the authors' unique model that views international organizations as actual organizations. Reacting to world events, political actors provide the 'inputs' which are converted by the political systems of these organizations (through various decision-making procedures) into 'outputs' that achieve varying levels of real-world impact and effectiveness. This is the perfect text for undergraduate and postgraduate students of politics and international relations taking courses on International organization and global governance, as well as essential reading for those studying the UN, the EU and Globalization. New to this Edition: - Draws on the most recent research in the field and considers some of the significant world events of the last decade to ensure that the book is completely up to date. - Two separate chapters considering Trade and Development, and Finance and Monetary Relations respectively. - Fully accounts for the challenges to international organizations by the emerging powers, the Trump administration and Brexit
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Praxis der Viszeralchirurgie: Gastroenterologische Chirurgie
Der Band aus der dreibändigen Reihe „Praxis der Viszeralchirurgie“ liefert eine umfassende Wissensbasis und praxisnahe Entscheidungshilfen für den Chirurgen sowie für seine Partner: Alle chirurgisch relevanten benignen Erkrankungen der gastrointestinalen Organe sind fundiert und detailliert beschrieben. Renommierte Autoren aus der Chirurgie und ihren Nachbargebieten geben differenzierte, wissenschaftlich begründete Empfehlungen zu Diagnostik und Therapie. Die Neuauflage wurde an den aktuellen wissenschaftlichen Stand angepasst.
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Pushkin Press Summer Before the Dark: Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth, Ostend 1936
A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week It's as if they're made for each other. Two men, both falling, but holding each other up for a time. Ostend, 1936: the Belgian seaside town is playing host to a coterie of artists, intellectuals and madmen, who find themselves in limbo while Europe gazes into an abyss of fascism and war. Among them is Stefan Zweig, a man in crisis: his German publisher has shunned him, his marriage is collapsing, his house in Austria no longer feels like home. Along with his lover Lotte, he seeks refuge in this paradise of promenades and parasols, where he reunites with his estranged friend Joseph Roth. For a moment, they create a fragile haven; but as Europe begins to crumble around them, they find themselves trapped on an uncanny kind of holiday, watching the world burn. 'Evocative, sharply drawn portraits... an engrossing history' Kirkus, starred review 'Sparkling...Weidermann's storytelling is piquant' Publishers Weekly 'Brilliantly researched and riveting' Die Welt
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University of Nebraska Press The Self-Propelled Island
The Self-Propelled Island is the first unabridged English translation of Jules Verne’s original story featuring a famous French string quartet that is abducted by an American businessman and taken to Standard Island to perform for its millionaire inhabitants. The quartet soon discovers that Standard Island is not an island at all, but an immense, futuristic ship possessing all the features of an idyllic haven. Equipped with the most opulent amenities, Standard Island travels the Pacific Ocean, traversing the south archipelagos and stopping at many “sister” islands for the pleasure of its well-heeled inhabitants. These inhabitants soon meet with the danger, in its various forms, that is inherent in ocean travel. Meanwhile, the French quartet is witness to the rivalry that exists between the two most powerful families onboard, a rivalry that keeps the future of the island balancing on the edge of a knife. First published in English in 1896, the novel was originally censored in translation. Dozens of pages were cut from the story because English translators felt they were too critical of Americans as well as the British. Here, for the first time, readers have the pleasure of reading The Self-Propelled Island as Verne intended it.
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Neukirchener Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Biblisch-Theologische Studien: Auslegungen â Anfragen â Alternativen
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Dienstleistungsinnovationen durch Digitalisierung: Band 2: Prozesse – Transformation – Wertschöpfungsnetzwerke
Dieses Buch stellt neue Geschäftsmodelle und Methoden vor, mit denen Dienstleistungsinnovationen durch den Einsatz digitaler Technologien erfolgreich umgesetzt werden.Ein Schwerpunkt des zweiten Bandes sind neue Methoden für die digitale Transformation von Dienstleistungsprozessen in der Industrie, Logistik und Gesundheitsbranche. Das Buch stellt dabei auch besondere Herausforderungen und Lösungen für die digitale Transformation kleiner und mittlerer Unternehmen (KMU) vor und zeigt, wie dort neue Geschäftsmodelle umgesetzt werden. Die Entwicklung und Nutzung digitaler Plattformen stellt abschließend eine spezifische Perspektive auf neue Kooperationsformen in Wertschöpfungsnetzwerken dar. Zahlreiche Umsetzungsbeispiele zeigen konkret und praxisnah auf, wie Unternehmen digitale Geschäftsmodelle selbst entwickeln, neue Methoden sicher anwenden und Dienstleistungsinnovationen erfolgreich realisieren können.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Praxishandbuch Human Resources: Management - Arbeitsrecht - Betriebsverfassung
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