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Daniel Gross, Yahoo! financial columnist and author of Dumb Money, offers a refreshingly optimistic take on our nation's economic prospects, examining the positive trends that point to a better, stronger future. Financial meltdown, a deep recession, and political polarization—combined with strong growth outside the U.S.—have led to a global bubble of pessimism surrounding the U.S. and its economic prospects. Bloated with debt, outpaced by Chin...

Welche exemplarischen Umbauten und Sanierungen wurden in der Unesco-Stadt Bern durchgeführt, warum ist der fachgerechte Umgang mit wertvoller Baukultur wichtig und was bedeutet er für Stadtbild und Lebensqualität? Der reich bebilderte Tätigkeitsbericht zeigt das kontinuierliche Wirken der Denkmalpflege in den letzten vier Jahren und spricht interessierte Laien genauso an wie Fachpersonen. Bern ist eine schöne Stadt. Ihre Baukultur stellt eine ...

The financial crisis that has gripped this country since last September has had so many twists and turns, it would make for a great drama -- if it all were not so real and damaging. Companies are shutting down and laying off workers, 401ks are melting away, and the government is spending $700 billion dollars to bail out banks and financial institutions -- and that's only the beginning. The financial services industry, and the many industries t...

The Jungle Book is a visual travel diary comprising discreetly staged scenes that reveal the diverse worlds of contemporary Amazonia and its surrounding areas. Photographer Yann Gross worked with different local communities in order to explore their lives in a time of ecological disintegration.

Why did the Holocaust become such a prominent theme in American and European art, literature, and film in the 1990s? Why does so much of this art court controversy? These and related questions motivate this study, a joint effort by two scholars of American culture, one German and the other US-American. The authors link the growing centrality of the Holocaust in art, and the increasingly provocative strategies employed by writers, artists, and...

The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), commonly known as the Wobblies, were among the most well-respected and largest unions in the United States in the early 20th century. Having organized the first major automobile industry strike as well as major coalfield and transit workers strikes, the IWW has a history of being a fierce advocate for the worker. Long before most other unions, IWW welcomed women, African-Americans, and immigrants into...

Over the past two decades the United States and Europe have engaged actively in efforts to prevent conflict and to manage crises around the world. How effective have such efforts been, and how could they be improved? This volume offers recommendations and applies them to specific case studies.

Featuring a rereading of Aristotle, Seneca, Thomas Hobbes, and Judith Butler, this book considers emotions as psychosocial phenomena. It offers insight into the reasons why political passions are distributed to some people but not to others. It explains how psyches are shaped by power.

Die Horaz-Rezeption Lucans war bisher weder für die Lucanphilologie noch für die Horazforschung ein Thema: Die Annahme, Texte würden nur innerhalb ihrer eigenen Gattung rezipiert, verstellte den Blick darauf, dass die lyrischen Gedichte des Horaz als bedeutende Prätexte für das lucanische Epos zu gelten haben. Immer wieder greift Lucan die großen Themen der augusteischen Literatur [z.B. Bürgerkrieg, Pflicht oder Liebe, Romulus und Remus, Troia...

A language guide for Rhaeto-Romanic for English speakers. Rhaeto-Romanic, which goes back as far as the year 15BC., is spoken by nearly 70, 000 people in Switzerland.

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Leading scholars address Heidegger's 1924 lecture course, "Basic Concepts of Aristotelian Philosophy.

Featuring essays by renowned scholars Michael J. Hyde, Theodore Kisiel, Mark Michalski, Otto Pöggeler, and Nancy S. Struever, this book provides the definitive treatment of Martin Heidegger's 1924 lecture course, "Basic Concepts of Aristotelian Philosophy." A deep and original interview with philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer, who attended the lecture course, is also included. Conducted over the course of three years, just prior to his death in 20...

Cisco, AOL oder comroad - Aktien, die allen Investoren etwas sagen dürften. Lange Zeit entwickelten sich die Werte prächtig, bevor sie urplötzlich abstürzten. Doch warum? Diese Titel waren Teil von Spekulationsblasen. Solchen tauchen auf den Märkten immer wieder auf. Wenn sie zusammenbrechen erleiden Anleger meist schmerzhafte Verluste. Langfristig gesehen wirken sie sich jedoch positiv auf die gesamte Wirtschaft aus, wie beispielsweise der Ba...

Princess Diana's death was a tragedy that provoked mourning across the globe, the death of a homeless person, more often than not, is met with apathy. How can we account for this uneven distribution of emotion? Can it simply be explained by the prevailing scientific understanding? Uncovering a rich tradition beginning with Aristotle, "The Secret History of Emotion" offers a counterpoint to the way we generally understand emotions today. Throug...