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This volume assesses the fundamental changes in Irish society over the last several decades, changes that have led to a more prosperous, more economically self-sufficient and more outward-looking nation. The text includes a social profile of Irish citizens over time.

An up to date short study which examines the key debates on British economic performance since 1914. Rex Pope considers the indicators and measures involved in assessing economic performance and then looks at issues affecting the economy such as the role of government, British entrepreneurship, the state of world markets, the effect of the two world wars and the importance of cultural attitudes towards industry.

Ludwig Boltzmann arguably played the key role in establishing that submicroscopic structures underlie the ordinary world. He had a tremendous impact on late 19th-century and early 20th-century physics, and he anticipated many contemporary ideas, including Kuhn's theory of scientific revolutions and recent theories of knowledge based on Darwinian principles. This book is the first accessible biography of this important figure. Without relying o...

In this study, Bosworth looks at Alexander the Great's activities in Central Asia and Pakistan, drawing a bleak picture of massacre and repression comparable to the Spanish conquest of Mexico. He investigates the evolution of Alexander's views of empire and concept of universal monarch, and documents the representation of Alexander by historians of antiquity. The book is directed to specialists and general readers alike.

In this volume, some of the world's leading political and constitutional theorists come together to debate Michael Sandel's celebrated thesis that the United States is in the grip of a flawed public philosophy - "procedural liberalism." Practical, topical issues of immigration, gay marriage, federalism, adoption, abortion, corporate speech, militias, and economic disparity are debated alongside theories of civic virtue, citizenship, identity, ...

Presents a study of Pelagius, and the social and religious world of the late fourth and early fifth-century West.

Der Finanzdienstleistungssektor ist durch zunehmenden intra- und intersektoralen Wettbewerb gekennzeichnet. Dies resultiert einerseits aus der Deregulierung und der Liberalisierung der Finanzmärkte innerhalb der Europäischen Union, andererseits aus der Globalisierung und der Internationalisierung der Märkte. Durch Informations- und Kommunikationstechniken können Banken und Kreditinstitute flexibel und schnell auf Kundenbedürfnisse reagieren un...

Structuralism has had a profound impact on disciplines ranging from literary theory to sociology, from history to psychoanalysis. Francois Dosse tells the story of structuralism's beginnings in postwar Paris to its culmination as a movement that would reconfigure French intellectual life and reverberate throughout the Western world. This essential guide is a cogent map of the dizzying array of personalities and ideas involved in the movement.

This collection of multi-authored essays not only refashions and revises critical understandings of the early modern dramatist Ben Jonson and his canon of work, but is also self-reflexive about the process. It includes original essays by both established and emergent Jonson scholars, and employs materialist, feminist and queer theory in the production of its readings of Jonsonian playtexts and masques, familiar and otherwise. It is intended to...

This text provides a transcription of some 923 letters to and from Samuel Jones Loyd, Lord Overstone, between 1804 and 1883. Overstone maintained that he had destroyed his correspondence before he died. The editor's discovery of some 350 of them in 1964 now offers an understanding of Overstone.

Betraying the Omaha Nation is the first comprehensive history during the years of 1790-1916. Tracing events from the Omahas' glory days under Chief Black Bird through the loss of most of their land during the World War I era. Judith A. Boughter brings to light the Omahas' complex and ultimately tragic story.Unlike many Plains tribes, the Omahas never had a clash with the U. S. Army, instead, beginning in the nineteenth century, they became ent...

Das Buch bietet einen Überblick über das Betriebswirtschaftsstudium an deutschen Fachhochschulen. Es ist zugleich ein Wegweiser zum Auffinden geeigneter Studiengänge mit Angaben zu Zulassungsvoraussetzungen und Bewerbungsfristen.

Actuaries are experts in assessing risk, so it is not surprising that over the past few years they have become involved in many new areas of financial planning, including the appraisal of major capital projects. In this collection of essays published to celebrate the Institute of Actuaries' 150th Anniversary, leading experts describe how actuarial concepts have contributed to many important social and financial developments, and how these idea...

This reference work should help to rejuvenate the imagination through documenting the mythological expression of an age-old desire to interpret and control the natural phenomena of the earth, sea and sky. In more than 350 entries, the connections between myths and natural phenomena are illuminated.

`Identity' attracts some of social science's liveliest and most passionate debates. Theory abounds on matters as disparate as nationhood, ethnicity, gender politics and culture. However, there is considerably less investigation into how such identity issues appear in the fine grain of everyday life. This book gathers together, in a collection of chapters drawing on ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, arguments which show that identiti...

Thorsten Kraege zeigt, wie maßgeschneiderte Führungsinformationssysteme für die Konzerntypen Finanzholding, Managementholding und Stammhauskonzern geschaffen werden können.

Der Autor entwickelt ein Modell, das die Bedürfnisse des Kunden und die Anforderungen des Anbieters zusammenführt, und zeigt, wie die Kapazitätsziele der Marktteilnehmer miteinander harmonisiert werden können.

Andreas Mann präsentiert eine detaillierte Analyse der strategischen Wirkung des Service als eigenständiges Marketinginstrument, des Einflusses von Service auf den Unternehmenserfolg sowie der Erfolgsfaktoren des Servicemanagements.

Es zeigt sich, daß durch das Internet neue und bisherige Anbieter zu Konkurrenten der Verlage heranwachsen und sich damit nachhaltig die Struktur der Pressebranche und der Wettbewerb verändern.