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Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Was "Political Correctness" (PC) ist, scheint fast jeder zu wissen: Man sagt nicht mehr "Neger", sondern "Farbiger", und diese Art der Problemlösung stammt aus Amerika. Dies dürfte etwa die landläufige Vorstellung von PC sein. Indes, so einfach ist der Fall nicht. PC ist mehr als ein paar neue Wörter. Seit einigen Jahren kann man immer wieder einmal in den verschiedenen Feuilletons lesen, daß eine ganze Welle von Mo...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Das rapide Wachstum des Marktes für Finanzderivate seit Mitte der achtziger Jahre hält bis heute mit sogar steigenden Zuwachsraten ungebrochen an. Die Deutsche Bundesbank hat in ihrer Sonderveröffentlichung über bilanzunwirksame Geschäfte deutscher Banken vom Juni 1998 per März 1998 ein Nominalvolumen derivativer Geschäfte i.H.v. 20.588 Mrd. DM gegenüber 13.894 Mrd. DM im Vorjahr festgestellt. Bereits seit Mitte 1996...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Die vorliegende Arbeit befaßt sich mit der multimedialen Internet-Anwendung "AUDIO ON DEMAND IM WORLD WIDE WEB" und bedeutet "Radio auf Abruf im Internet". Im Internet/World Wide Web können mit Hilfe dieser Technik bereitgestellte Audio-Daten weltweit angehört werden. Die einzelnen Begriffe werden in der Arbeit ausführlich definiert und erklärt. Diese schriftliche Ausarbeitung ist jedoch nur ein Teil der Diplomarbei...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Diese Diplomarbeit befaßt sich mit der Entwicklung eines Konferenzdienstes, das heißt einer allgemeinen Gruppenkommunikationsfunktionalität. Die Kommunikation verschiedener Mitglieder einer Gruppe, welche sich an unterschiedlichen Orten befinden, ist ein wesentlicher Faktor für den Erfolg eines Unternehmens. Sprach- oder Videokommunikation ersetzen immer öfter die Reisetätigkeit und sparen somit Kosten ein. Neben di...

Against the Odds is a wise and practical blend of research and experience written to be understood by teachers and parents. Janine Bempechat has written a book we all need to read, one that will stretch us in nurturing the development of ?at risk children." ?Sister Ann Dominic Roach, superintendent of schools, Archdiocese of Boston

This book is an excellent work of scholarship. It seeks to redefine the early modern English economy by rejecting the concept of capitalism, and instead explores the cultural meaning of credit, resulting from the way in which it was economically structured. It is a major argument of the book that money was used only in a limited number of exchanges, and that credit in terms of household reputation, was a 'cultural currency' of trust used to tr...

Offers insights into how progress might be made towards a socialist ethical community.

A critical overview of the current debate and topical thinking on international comparative investigations in mathematics education. The contributors are all major figures in international comparisons in mathematics. The book highlights strengths and weaknesses in various systems worldwide, allowing teachers, researchers and academics to compare and contrast different approaches. A significant contribution to the international debate on standa...

Across the world, cities are becoming larger, as populations drift from the country into urban areas. At the same time, the mentally ill are leaving the mental hospitals and new forms of care are being found in the community. The best ways in which services for the mentally ill can be organized in the community is still a matter for debate, and as cities become larger problems may become greater., This text compares mental health services in L...

An examination of drunkenness and the writer in the Romantic age. Areas of focus include: Wordsworth's poems and essays on the drunken career of Robert Burns, Charles Lamb's essays and letters, and Coleridge's drinking songs and essays about drunkenness.

The book traces the origins of change in general education in the last years of the Soviet Union and afterwards in the Russian Federation. It describes what happened during perestroika and glasnost and the struggles for liberalization which were finally given official recognition in 1998. After the anti-Gorbachev coup in 1991, with the disintegration of Soviet and Communist power, decentralization and regionalization developed, together with t...

Drawing on aspects of Foucauldian feminist theory Thomas Hardy, Femininity and Dissent offers original and detailed readings of six critically under-valued novels: Desperate Remedies, A Pair of Blue Eyes, The Hand of Ethelberta, A Laodicean, Two on a Tower and The Well-Beloved , demonstrating Hardy's peculiarly modern appreciation of how individuals negotiate the forces which shape their sense of self. Tracing his interest in the evolutionary ...

This book traces the rise of the French National Front and presents an analysis of the organisation's origins, structure and doctrine which concludes that the Le Pen phenomenon represents a modern and sophisticated form of fascism. The authors offer a critical assessment of how political parties and anti-racist organisations have responded to the National Front's exploitation of the immigration issue and examine the political arguments accompa...

The goal of this book is to investigate further the interdisciplinary interaction between Mathematical Analysis and Topology. It provides an attempt to study various approaches in the topological applications and influence to Function Theory, Calculus of Variations, Functional Analysis and Approximation Theory. The volume is dedicated to the memory of S Stoilow.

Hebrews, which is part of the NIV Application Commentary Series, helps readers learn how the message of Hebrews can have the same powerful impact today that it did when the author first wrote it.

Each year three to four million women are severely assaulted by their husbands, ex-husbands or boyfriends. Battery is the single major cause of injury to women. And Christians are not exempt. Women are being choked, spat upon, hit, pushed, bitten, dragged by the hair and kicked -- by Christian husbands. Unfortunately, the church has all too often ignored this uncomfortable subject. Citing their finding from extensive research and summarizing e...

This book provides an introduction to the design of a variety of telescopes, mounts, and drives suitable for the home-constructor. Projects include instruments that range from a shoestring budget to specialist devices that are not commercially available. The skill level of each project is indicated and advice is provided as to what is sensible to construct, given what is commercially available. Hints and tips are included, as well as listings ...

Many books cover permanent astronomical objects, but few consider transient, out-of-the-ordinary astronomical phenomena. This book covers a wide range of topics, from the partly-predictable to the totally unpredictable. At one end: of the scale, it gives advice on the best ways to observe meteors, and at the other end:, it describes the best methods for undertaking painstaking searches for new comets and supernovae. The book also includes mate...

This text represents a cross-disciplinary look at the human factors developments in the nuclear power industry, with wider applications for the entire industrial sector. Technical, psychological and social aspects of industrial safety come under the

Although Sparta's early history is not clear, by the end of the 8th century most of the other cities of Lakedaimon had been reduced to subject status. The Lakedaimonians were the only full time army in ancient Greece and were thus truly an elite force. The institutions of the state and the system of education were organised with a view to creating superbly trained soldiers. Nick Sekunda examines this unique military machine in this book descri...