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New Asian companies are emerging with global ambitions, as old western brands disappear or are overtaken. In this book, seventeen Euro Asia experts present conceptual and empirical regional research that reflects the emerging multiplicity in Asia and comprehensively shows how the 'old world' must respond, and what will define success and failure.

The current trend toward machine-scoring of student work, Ericsson and Haswell argue, has created an emerging issue with implications for higher education across the disciplines, but with particular importance for those in English departments and in administration. The academic community has been silent on the issue--some would say excluded from it--while the commercial entities who develop essay-scoring software have been very active. " Machi...

Der vorliegende Sammelband faßt die Ergebnisse einer internationalen Tagung zusammen, die vom 1. bis 3. Dezember 2004 an der Université Paul Verlaine - Metz stattfand. Er ist Teil eines Forschungsvorhabens des Centre d'études germaniques interculturelles de Lorraine, das sich den deutschen Intellektuellenmilieus vom ausgehenden 19. bis zur Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts widmet. Entsprechend den bereits erschienenen Bänden zu den sozialistischen (2...

Bietet Gouvernementalität als Denkmuster eine neue Orientierung und Theorieperspektive für die Erziehungswissenschaft? In den Beiträgen des Bandes wird das Potenzial des Ansatzes von Michel Foucault systematisch diskutiert und der Beginn einer lebhaften Auseinandersetzung mit der gouvernementalitätstheoretischen Perspektive in pädagogischen Subdisziplinen dokumentiert. Es wird deutlich, dass die Denkfigur der Gouvernementalität zentrale Fragen...

Intended for ages 6-10, this book explains what a life cycle is. It features detailed diagrams and colourful photographs that help explain the life cycles of many different kinds of animals, including mammals, birds, snakes, lizards, fish, frogs, insects, spiders, and worms.

Niemand war näher dran am "Tor des Jahrhunderts": Hans Tilkowski erlebte das berühmte 3:2 von Wembley, das die Weltmeisterschaft 1966 entschied, als Torwart der deutschen Nationalmannschaft. Noch heute wird er, wo immer er in der Öffentlichkeit erscheint, mit der Frage begrüßt: War der Ball drin - oder nicht? Doch Tilkowski, damals einer der weltbesten Torhüter, hat mehr zu erzählen als die Wahrheit über das Wembley-Tor. Er berichtet über sein...

Headlong, dust-billowing suspense thriller, the best yet from Peter Craig.

Saltville, Virginia, lies on the banks of the North Fork of the Holston River on the border between Smyth and Washington Counties. Its history began very long ago, in fact, archeological evidence suggests extensive human habitation there for more than 14, 000 years. Saltville was named because it was a source of salt, -and by the end of the 18th century, a thriving industry was born. During the Civil War, Saltville attained considerable import...

The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education is a national voluntary organization of colleges and universities that prepare the nation's teachers and other educational personnel. Located in Washington, D.C., AACTE is the leader for innovation in teacher education.

Based on periodic ethnographic fieldwork over a span of fifteen years, Martinez shows how impoverished plantation dwellers find ways of coping with the alienation that would be expected while laboring to produce goods for the richer countries. Despite living in dire poverty, these workers live in a thoroughly commodified social environment. Ritual, eroticism, electronic media, household adornment, payday-weekend "binging" are ways even chronic...

Constrasting queer life today and in years past, this landmark book brings together autobiographies, poetry, film studies, maps, documents, laws, and other texts to explore the meaning and practice of the word queer.

Der im italienischen Staatssystem traditionell verankerte Zentralismus ist vermutlich ein wesentlicher Grund für die missliche Lage der nationalen und regionalen Wirtschaft. Mit staatlichen Investitionen und europäischen Strukturfondsmitteln wird seit mehreren Jahren versucht, die Wirtschaftslage der italienischen Regionen ¿ besonders der Regionen des Mezzogiorno ¿ zu verbessern. Während sich in einzelnen Regionen Fortschritte hinsichtlich der...

Providing an analysis of the Tibet question, this work explores essential themes and issues concerning modern Tibet. It considers such topics as representations and sovereignty, economic development and political conditions, the exile movement and human rights, historical legacies and international politics, identity issues and the local society.

Social theorists dwell on the canonical works of Marx, Weber, and Durkheim but little on the theories of the major contemporary macrotheorists. This book fills this gap with a focus on the work of four modern theorists who have taken on the larger questions spawned by classical social theory. C. Wright Mills, Marvin Harris, Immanuel Wallerstein, and Gerhard Lenski have examined such phenomena and processes as the rise and impact of capitalism,...

Bristol, originally known as West Woods, formed later than other Colonial towns. Bristol's mother town of Farmington was settled in 1640 and became a town in 1645, but pioneers did not lay out the remote and unpopulated section of Farmington until 1721. The Jerome, Matthews, and Lewis families created the New Cambridge Parish in 1742, and it was this parish that separated from Farmington and finally formed the town of Bristol in 1785. In Brist...

Covering both team and individual sports that include tennis, golf, and motor racing, this handbook explores what we know, what we do not know, what is stable, what is changing, what is certain, and what is controversial in sports economics. It addresses issues in particular sports or comparisons among sports.

Shows how major shifts in federal policy are spurring local public housing authorities to demolish their high-rise, low-income developments, and replace them with affordable low-rise, mixed income communities. This book focuses on Chicago, and that city's affordable housing crisis.

An exhaustive guide to the collapse of the Enron Corporation and other financial scandals that erupted in the wake of the market downturn of 2000, this book is an essential resource for students, teachers and professionals in corporate governance, finance, and law.

Decatur has a long history of patriotic service, both on and off the field of battle. Decatur volunteers participated in six major campaigns including the Black Hawk War (1832), the Mexican War (1846-1848), the Civil War (1861-1865), the Spanish-American War (1898), World War I (1917-1918), and World War II (1941-1945). Their record of distinguished service includes the presence of five generals and six Congressional Medal of Honor winners in ...

Enthusiasm for aviation exploded after Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic in May 1927. The National Air Races, held in Cleveland between 1929 and 1949, collectively represent one of the most significant aviation events of the 20th century. Cleveland's newly constructed municipal airport, the world's largest airport facility at the time, along with its permanent 50, 000-seat bleachers, won the city hosting rights to the event. ...