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Detached, alienated people, many of them functioning with a pathologically developed false self, barely navigate life's challenges. Our cultural emphasis on autonomy and separateness has led to a retreat from valuing interpersonal, communal dependence and has greatly contributed to a rise in the number of people whose suffering is often expressed in addictions and personality disorders. Using actual patient material including diaries and lette...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Die folgende Diplomarbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Erstellung eines Computerprogramms zur Berechnung und Bemessung von Brettschichtholzträgern, welches den Schwerpunkt der Diplomarbeit darstellt. Allein der Ausdruck des Quellcodes umfasst 1898 DIN A4 Seiten. Die Berechnungen dieses Programms basieren auf der Grundlage des Entwurfs zur neuen E DIN 1052 (Ausgabe 05/2000). Der endgültige Weißdruck wird voraussichtlich i...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Dienstleistungen haben in den modernen Industriegesellschaften in den letzten Jahrzehnten stark an Bedeutung gewonnen. Entsprechend der 3-Sektoren-Theorie nach Fourastié (1950) und Clark (1957) ist der tertiäre Sektor (Dienstleistungen) inzwischen zum stärksten Wirtschaftszweig in der deutschen Volkswirtschaft herangewachsen. Dienstleistungen spielen jedoch nicht nur im Zusammenhang mit dem Wachstum des tertiären Sek...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Aktienkursgebundene Managervergütungen in Form von so genannten Executive Stock Options (ESOs) werden in den USA bereits seit 1920 verwendet und haben nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg immer stärker an Bedeutung gewonnen. Mitte der achtziger Jahre versuchten auch in Deutschland börsennotierte Aktiengesellschaften, vergleichbare Entlohnungsarrangements zu etablieren. Doch erst in letzter Zeit haben ESOs hier zu Lande zunehme...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Der Entwurf der neuen Baseler Eigenkapital (EK)-Vereinbarung (Basel II oder Der neue Baseler Akkord) des Baseler Ausschusses für Bankenaufsicht ist der Ausgangspunkt der aktuellen Diskussion um Ratings und deren Auswirkungen auf das Kreditgewerbe und die Unternehmen. In Zeiten zunehmender Liberalisierung und Globalisierung der Märkte sowie des technischen Fortschritts hat sich an den Finanzmärkten in den letzten Jahr...

In Affective Teaching, Lynne Rompelman extends the research on the affective domain by incorporating students' and teachers' voices regarding the nature of caring of teachers within an academic setting.

This distinctive collection by scholars from around the world focuses upon the cultural, educational, and political significance of Richard Rorty's thought. The nine essays which comprise the collection examine a variety of related themes: Rorty's neopragmatism, his view of philosophy, his philosophy of education and culture, Rorty's comparison between Dewey and Foucault, his relation to postmodern theory, and, also his form of political liber...

Why did Karl Marx want to exclude politics and the market from his vision of a future socialism? Allan Megill begins with this question. In answering it, he forces the reader to rethink Marx's entire intellectual project. Karl Marx: The Burden of Reason has important implications for how we think about the usability of Marx's work today. It will be of interest both to those who wish to reflect on the fate of Marxism during the era of Soviet Co...

Teaching history should not be reciting an endless list of dead men, entombed between the covers of a textbook. Instead, Breaking Away from the Textbook offers a fascinating journey through world history. Not a comprehensive, theory-heavy guide, this book focuses on

Teaching history should not be reciting an endless list of dead men, entombed between the covers of a textbook. Instead, Breaking Away from the Textbook offers a fascinating journey through world history. Not a comprehensive, theory-heavy guide, this book focuses on

Engendering Church explores the power, processes, and circumstances that brought about the new gender relations in the African Methodist Church--one of the largest African American denominations in the U.S. Dodson's historical account of the church and its many changes shows that unless women hold church positions, they are overlooked as proactive agents of organizational power. She also links the church to broader social change. When women be...

Completely updated, with a new section on using the computer in the cataloging function, this new edition of a classic will be a welcome tool for the volunteer or paraprofessional in a small library.

Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 was the beginning of the United States' battle with Japan during World War II. In the months following the attack, Japan was successful in a series of victories throughout Southeast Asia and the Western Paci

Min provides a critical overview of Asian American identity issues among second generation ethnic Asians. From the social constructionist perspective, the book is an anthology of empirical studies of Asian Americans' ethnic or pan-ethnic identities, examining ethnic attachments among second-generation Filipino, Vietnamese, Indian, Korean Americans, Chinese and Japanese Americans.

A brief introduction to the history, archaeology, art, language, and culture of the Indus Valley civilization, written by the leading North American Indus archaeologist.

Cantinflas and the Chaos of Mexican Modernity is a revealing probe into the life and times of Mario Moreno, Latin America's most famous film star from the 1940s to the 1970s. This book helps to illuminate the social and cultural history of twentieth-century Mexico. Cantinflas (Moreno's film persona) was the most popular movie star in Mexican history. A fast-talking, nonsensical character, he helped Mexicans embrace their rich mestizo identity ...

One night, anthropologist Cathy Winkler awoke from a deep sleep to discover a rapist standing by her bed. For the rest of that night, she lived a woman's worst nightmare as she was repeatedly raped and beaten by the stranger. The pain of those four hours was dwarfed by the frustration of her decade-long fight to find the rapist and bring him to justice. Winkler, a brilliant observer and ethnographer, chronicles her story of triumph over advers...

Besides recounting the exemplary life of Monsignor John Joseph Egan, An Alley in Chicago briefs us on the firebrand priests and lay people who radiated the power and Zlan that made Catholics across the country look to the heartland, to ChicagoOs Catholic moment. They sought leadership in marriage education, in neighborhood empowerment, in urban ministries, in ecuminism, in race relations, in community organizing, from these indefatigable Chica...

Mit Hilfe der neo-institutionalistischen Finanzierungstheorie untersucht Bettina Niederöcker Finanzierungsalternativen in traditionellen und innovativen kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen (KMU).

Jessika Orth untersucht, ob sich kleine und mittelständische Versicherungsmakler als Anbieter qualitativ hochwertiger Dienstleistungen von ihren Mitbewerbern abgrenzen und sich auf dem Versicherungsmarkt als eigenständige Anbieter für Firmenkunden behaupten können.