The Passionate Fictions of Eliza Haywood examines the formal and ideological complexities of her prose and demonstrates how Haywood's texts deft traditional schematization.
This study explores the implications of Bernard Lonergan's approach to the philosophy of history in a number of distinct but related contexts, covering a variety of intellectual disciplines. The book offers a dialogue between Lonergan's critical realism and Voegelin's existential exegesis.
The tension between nationalism and internationalism has been a major feature of world politics since the end of the Cold War. Based on a Nobel symposium, this collection brings together an international selection of acclaimed authors from a wide variety of academic disciplines. The book combines focused case-studies and more theoretically based material to examine critically the post-Cold War political landscape. Subjects covered include: * c...
Daniel Clowes was born in 1961. He is the creator of the comic books Eightball, Ghost World, which was made into a film by the director Terry Zwigoff, David Boring, and Ice Haven. His adaptation of his own Ghost World graphic novel for the screen earned him an Oscar nomination. A regular contributor to the New Yorker, McSweeney¿s, and The Best American Comics, he lives in California with his wife.
Winner of the Kemper and Leila Williams Book Prize for the Best Book on Louisiana History, French Roots in the Illinois Country creates an entirely new picture of the Illinois country as a single ethnic, economic, and cultural entity. Focusing on the French Creole communities along the Mississippi River, Carl J. Ekberg shows how land use practices such as medieval-style open-field agriculture intersect with economic and social issues ranging f...
Communiquer, entrer en relation avec l'Autre tout en conservant la richesse de sensibilités différentes, voilà un des grands enjeux de nos sociétés modernes. L'ouvrage propose, après une présentation détaillée de la communication interculturelle telle qu'elle a été développée aux États-Unis, une critique de ces théories et porte le débat sur la conception de la différence culturelle et du rapport à l'Autre. En se basant sur des études de cas p...
There is a growing interaction between economists and sociologists engaged in the study of organizations' strategies. This volume moves the discussion to the next level by focusing the discussion, and taking a step toward systematizing some of the relationships between economic and sociological approaches to strategic management.
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Im ersten Schritt der Arbeit wird der Begriff des ¿Normalarbeitsverhältnisses¿ definiert und aufgrund verschiedener Wesensmerkmale von den abweichenden atypischen Beschäftigungsformen abgegrenzt, um ein einheitliches Verständnis der Begriffe sicherzustellen.
Das folgende Kapitel erläutert die Möglichkeiten und Motive der internen und externen betrieblichen Beschäftigungsflexibilisierung. Als Beispiele für...
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Die aktuelle Situation in vielen großen Unternehmen ist durch einen massiven Wandel der Organisations- und Managementstrukturen geprägt. Dezentrale teamorientierte Organisationsformen ersetzen vielfach traditionelle hierarchische und bürokratische Organisationen. Zusätzlich ersetzen langfristige strategische Partnerschaften oder lose Kooperationsformen zwischen Unternehmen mehr und mehr marktliche Einzeltransaktionen...
Learn how to develop your reasoning skills and how to write well-reasoned proofs Learning to Reason shows you how to use the basic elements of mathematical language to develop highly sophisticated, logical reasoning skills. You' ll get clear, concise, easy-to-follow instructions on the process of writing proofs, including the necessary reasoning techniques and syntax for constructing well-written arguments. Through in-depth coverage of logic, ...
