Sämtliche soziale Einrichtungen stehen tagtäglich vor dem Problem: Wie sollen sie angesichts staatlicher Mittelkürzungen, angesichts der steigenden Zahl von Rentenempfängern und angesichts des wachsenden Wettbewerbsdrucks weiter bestehen können? Wie sollen sie weiterhin gute inhaltliche Arbeit leisten und dabei auch noch wirtschaftlich klug agieren?
Diesem Dilemma können Sozialinstitutionen nur entkommen, indem sie sich mit ihrer Zukunft auf s...
Given during a conference on spiritual values in education and life attended by many prominent people of the time, Steiner's Oxford lectures present the principles of Waldorf education at the highest cultural level. "The Manchester Guardian reported: "Steiner's lectures...brought to us in a very vivid way an ideal of humanity in education. He spoke to us about teachers who, freely and unitedly, unrestricted by external prescription, develop th...
They were a courageous new breed of settlers, seasoned by the Revolution and tempered by the fires of frontier wars, who struck out across a vast continent to win the West. From the Cumberland Gap and Ohio headwaters, they funneled through Kentucky, enduring the bloody massacres of avenging Cherokee and the threat of a Spanish tyranny that forbade them to cross the Mississippi. Somewhere ahead in the shadows of the setting sun was the land whe...
Brown-skinned men and women dance Jarocho across the cultural landscape of Mexican stages and festival grounds. Jarocho's Soul traces the development of an Afro-Mexican dance style and contrasts Mexican performance of mixed race identity with United States ethnic art performances.
This book offers the first full historical treatment of a music theatre that was once at the centre of London's West End. From the late Victorian period to the early 1920s, musical comedy was the single most popular form of 'legitimate' theatre entertainment. This lively account establishes musical comedy as one of the first industrial cultures and offers fascinating insights into how it functioned ideologically as a celebrated embracing of th...
This book begins with an exposition of the basic theory of vector spaces and proceeds to explain the fundamental structure theorem for linear maps, including eigenvectors and eigenvalues, quadratic and hermitian forms, diagnolization of symmetric, hermitian, and unitary linear maps and matrices, triangulation, and Jordan canonical form. Material in this new edition has been rewritten and reorganized and new exercises have been added.
Microeconomic Reform in Britain: Delivering Opportunities for All provides a comprehensive guide to the extensive microeconomic reforms implemented over the last 6 years to realise the UK Government's goals: a stronger more enterprising economy and a fairer society. This companion volume to Reforming Britain's Economic and Financial Policy: Towards Greater Economic Stability , published in 2002, offers a detailed account of a programme of refo...
This book provides the following 10-step guide to the art and science of interpreting qualitative and quantitative market research evidence and successfully applies this to business decision-making.
1. Analyzing the right problem
2. Understanding the big information picture
3. Compensating for imperfect data
4. Developing an effective analysis strategy
5. Establishing the interpretation boundary
6. Applying the 'knowledge filters'
7. 'R...
In this fully illustrated instructional guide to Thai Yoga Massage, Kam Thye Chow leads readers through every aspect of this ancient bodywork therapy--from its origins in Thai Buddhist temples to a detailed presentation of classic postures. Photos.
Die erfolgreiche Anastasia-Reihe findet in diesem Band eine Fortsetzung, die an Tiefe nicht hinter den früheren Bänden zurücksteht. In diesem Band geht es vor allem um Energie. Das Wesen eines Menschen besteht aus einer Vielzahl verschiedener Energien. Eine dieser Energien ist die Gedankenkraft. Denn der Gedanke ist der Ursprung aller Dinge. Die Kraft der Gedanken muss trainiert und gefördert werden. Die richtige Lebensweise und Ernährung sind...