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Located in central New Jersey, Fort Dix has been training soldiers since its founding in 1917. More than three million men and women have passed through its gates since it was built as one of the original sixteen army camps to train and mobilize soldiers for World War I. Using historical images, Fort Dix chronicles the history of life in an army camp from 1917 to the present. The fort, once known as Camp Dix, has experienced many changes over ...

Industrialist and early settler George May operated a dock along the Great Egg Harbor River in what later became Mays Landing in the Township of Hamilton. The May family, along with families with names such as Pennington, Gaskill, Wheaton, Clark, and others, developed industry and commerce along the river, encouraging settlement and eventually developing a town. The Township of Hamilton was established on February 5, 1813, organized from lands...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Veränderte Marktsituationen und technischer Wandel machen es für Unternehmen erforderlich, wenn deren Erfolgskonzepte nicht mehr greifen, sich zu entwickeln. In dieser Arbeit sollen zu verschiedenen Unternehmensentwicklungsstadien passende Beratungsbausteine zur Überwindung der Entwicklungskrisen und -schwellen vorgegeben werden. Hierzu wird das fünf Phasenmodell von Larry E. Greiner mit dem St. Gallener Managementko...

Inhaltsangabe:Gang der Untersuchung: Innerhalb dieser Diplomarbeit wird unter dem Themenabschnitt ¿wertorientierte Unternehmensführung¿ ausschließlich auf den sogenannten Shareholder Value-Ansatz (im folgenden SHV-Ansatz genannt) eingegangen. Deshalb soll im ersten Abschnitt der vorliegenden Arbeit untersucht werden, inwieweit der Shareholder Value-Ansatz als Instrument zur Bewertung von unternehmenspolitischen Entscheidungen eingesetzt werde...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Der deutsche Einzelhandel sieht sich zunehmend mit dem Phänomen Kundenkarte konfrontiert. Dieses Kommunikationsinstrument wird in der Literatur vielfach nur unter ökonomischen Gesichtspunkten diskutiert. Große Relevanz für die Kundenkarte haben jedoch auch rechtliche Vorschriften, insbesondere die des Wettbewerbs- und Datenschutzrechts. Ihr volles Potential entwickelt die Kundenkarte erst in Kombination mit entsprech...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Die Beratung bei Übernahmen und Fusionen hat in den letzten Jahren stark an Bedeutung gewonnen. Um die komplexen Probleme eines M&A-Prozesses zu lösen, bieten qualifizierte Fachleute ein differenziertes Spektrum von Dienstleistungen an. Das breit gefächerte Beratungsangebot reicht von der strategischen Beratung im Vorfeld der Transaktion über die eigentliche Transaktionsabwicklung bis hin zur Integrationsphase. Ziel ...

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An anthology of testimonials from Latina/Chicana feminists - some of whom are well known - which give insight into their personal life experiences and break barriers and assumptions.

Cultural historian Marjorie Garber offers incisive and witty commentary on what men and women today really want in her enlightening study of what may be the most meaningful relationship any of us will ever have.Real estate has become a form of "yuppie pornography.” Hopes of summer romance have given way to hopes of summer homes, and fantasies of Romeo have been replaced by fantasies of remodeling. Even real estate ads are flirtatious in their ...

This book examines Mikhail M. Speranskii's attempt to codify Russian law in the 1820 and 1830s -- that was the last major bureaucratic project of this important Russian statesman and an aspect of his long career that has been largely ignored by historians. Based on material from the Manuscript Division of the Russian National Library, the Russian State Historical Archives, and the Archives of the Academy of Sciences (all in St. Petersburg, Rus...

This collection of merchant documents is essential reading for any student of economic developments in the Middle Ages who wishes to go beyond the level of textbook summaries. Different aspects of economic life in the Mediterranean world are delineated in the light of a rich variety of articles and other contemporary writings, drawn from Muslim and Christian sources. From commercial contracts, promissory notes, and judicial acts to working man...

--Bev Scott, principal, Bev Scott Consulting, author, "Consulting on the Inside

Winner of the 1980 United Daily Literature Competition, this novel about love, betrayal, family life, and the power of tradition in small-town Taiwan was an instant bestseller when first published in Taiwan. At once a bittersweet romance and a vividly detailed portrait of life in a southern Taiwanese coastal town in the 1970s, A Thousand Moons on a Thousand Rivers captures the intimacy of agricultural life in the midst of an increasingly indus...

This volume presents recent advances in computational fluid dynamics. The topics range from fundamentals and computational techniques to a wide variety of applications in astronomy, applied mathematics and meteorology.

Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil examines the dynamic interplay between the Brazilian government and the Xavante Indians of central Brazil in the context of twentieth-century western frontier expansion and the state’s indigenous policy. Offering a window onto Brazilian developmental policy in Amazonia and the subsequent process of indigenous political mobilization, Seth Garfield bridges historical and anthropological approaches to re...

More personally revealing than anything Achebe has written, Home and Exile-the great Nigerian novelist's first book in more than ten years-is a major statement on the importance of stories as real sources of power, especially for those whose stories have traditionally been told by outsiders. In three elegant essays, Achebe seeks to rescue African culture from narratives written about it by Europeans. Looking through the prism of his experience...

This book presents the Buddhist approach to facing the inevitable facts of growing older, getting sick, and dying. These tough realities are not given much attention by many people until midlife, when they become harder to avoid. Using a Buddhist text known as the Five Subjects for Frequent Recollection, Larry Rosenberg shows how intimacy with the realities of aging can actually be used as a means to liberation. When we become intimate with th...

Boxing seemed to spring up in Detroit as early as 1900: heavyweight champ Jim Jeffries and future heavyweight champ Tommy Burns fought that year. With the emergence of Joe Louis in the 1930s and Thomas Mearns in the late 1970s, Motown enjoyed surges of interest in the sport. At the dawn of a new millenium, the presence of three casinos has given the sport another revival of interest in the city.Metro Detroit Boxing showcases over 180 photograp...

Canton and Collinsville lie fourteen miles west of the state capital, Hartford, along the Farmington River in the scenic Farmington Valley. Incorporated in 1806, the town has grown from a farming community to a factory town built around the Collins Company, worldrenowned manufacturer of axes and edge tools from 1826 to 1966. The closing of the Collins Company brought a new era of change and growth to a suburban community of unique character an...

On July 24, 1701, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac and his band of about 50 soldiers and fur trappers landed on the banks of the Detroit River and built Fort Pontchartrain. The village of Detroit became the fur trading capital of North America, tempting thousands of immigrants from around the globe. Showcased in nearly 200 photographs is the continued legacy of working class struggle in the Midwest's "Union Town."Detroit has always been a haven fo...