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Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Offshore-Zentren spielen bei den internationalen Finanztransaktionen und in der Vermögensverwaltung eine führende Rolle. Es wird geschätzt, daß mehr als die Hälfte des weltweiten Kapitalflusses von Offshore-Zentren stammen. Aufgrund immer schärferer Mißbrauchsbestimmungen der Hochsteuerländer gegen bekannte Steueroasen sind Doppelbesteuerungsabkommen immer wichtiger, um Steuervorteile aus der Zwischenschaltung von Ba...

The book looks at the development of policing in a town noted for its high levels of crime. Through a detailed study of policing and police work over the period c. 1840-1914 it shows how the turbulent community of the early Victorian years was turned into a policed society by the end of the century.

British Identities, Heroic Nationalisms, and the Gothic Novel, 1764-1824 considers three interlocking developments of this period: the emergence of the Gothic novel at a time when national upheavals required the construction of a new nationalist identity, the Gothic novel's redefinition of heroes and heroism in that nationalist debate, and changes within class and gender as well as audience and author relations. The scope of this study extends...

This is a succinct and elegant argument for the specificity of a philosophy of tragedy, as opposed to a poetics of tragedy espoused by Aristotle.

This book examines the Jewish community of Morocco in the late 18th and early 19th centuries through the life of a merchant who was the chief intermediary between the Moroccan sultans and Europe .

This book analyses the use of modelling in charting the survival of financial and industrial enterprises. The author shows how to use models effectively, and goes on to consider the pitfalls that can occur. The book contains plenty of practical examples, making this a useful 'how to' guide.

Qualified school administrators, particularly district superintendents, are among the most sought after professionals of the new century. Due to a perceived national shortage, consultants, search firms, and state school board associations are courting these highly trained women and men with attractive salaries, lucrative benefits packages, and other perks usually reserved for chief executive officers in the corporate world.

Jewish Polity and American Civil Society is a study of the civic and political engagements of American Jews as mediated by their communal and denominational institutions. The book explores how the various branches of the organized Jewish community seek to influence public affairs.

In The Adventures of Transcendental Philosophy, critical theory scholar Eduardo Mendieta examines the philosophical origins of discourse ethics through the prism of Apel's thought. Mendieta finds that Apel fundamentally transformed German philosophy, which had become stagnant in the years before World War II, and deeply influenced later thinkers such as JYrgen Habermas.

The Time Is Out of Joint presents an examination of Shakespeare's distinctly modern confrontation with time and temporality, the difference between the truth of the fact, that of theory, and that of interpretation and revelatory truth, and finds that Shakespeare anticipated post-metaphysical philosophy and its central concerns at a time when modern metaphysics had not yet reached it speak.

The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system! Gentle giants or giant monsters? That's the question Jack and Annie have about gorillas when the Magic Tree House sweeps them to the mountains of Africa. There they meet a group of amazing and sometimes frightening mountain gorillas. Annie knows how to play with the creatures right away. But Jack is left out. Will the...

Examines the entire history of Hitler's racial war, including the murderous role of the Wehrmacht in the extermination of Jews, Jewish resistance, and the role of German citizens as both enablers and witnesses.

Third version of a long-standing textbook that examines the self in everyday life.

Third version of a long-standing textbook that examines the self in everyday life.

Fire on the Rim combines an idealist's call for social justice, cultural difference, and environmental sustainability with a realist's recognition of the continuing need for balance of power security relations around the Pacific Rim. Although this melding of idealist and realist elements is sure to meet opposition on the Right and Left alike, the author's call for moral realism is a vital step toward an Asia policy fit for the twenty-first cen...

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In The Adventures of Transcendental Philosophy, critical theory scholar Eduardo Mendieta examines the philosophical origins of discourse ethics through the prism of Apel's thought. Mendieta finds that Apel fundamentally transformed German philosophy, which had become stagnant in the years before World War II, and deeply influenced later thinkers such as J rgen Habermas.

Die sich st¿ig erweiternden M¿glichkeiten der angewandten Humangenetik stellen Recht und Ethik vor stetig neue Herausforderungen. Was wollen und sollen wir wissen? Wieviel Vorhersage vertr¿ der Mensch? Der vorliegende Band enth¿ drei Vortr¿ aus einer Ringvorlesung, die sich aus der Perspektive der drei gro¿n Fachrichtungen der Jurisprudenz den medizinrechtlichen Problemen der Humangenetik n¿rn. Hinzugef¿gt sind die Referate des anschlie¿nden S...

Russlands Übergang zu einem marktwirtschaftlichen System ist in einer neuen kritischen Phase. Dieser Band behandelt Fragen der Wachstumspolitik, des Strukturwandels und der internationalen Integration ebenso wie ein Einwirken des Internationalen Währungsfonds und anderer Organisationen. Dabei sind unterschiedliche Sichtweisen auf die Reformproblematik in Russland berücksichtigt, einschließlich verfassungspolitischer Aspekte. Thematisiert werde...

Virtue of Civility in the Practice of Politics is a book at the intersection of ethical theory, political philosophy and Christian belief. The book argues that there is a true political virtue: civility. Civility is a virtue that is directed toward the political opponent. MacIntyre's schema for understanding a virtue is used to show how civility contributes to better human living in a variety of contexts: business, family life, church life, an...