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Die Skepsis gegenüber Auslandsentsendungen wächst. Berichte über gescheiterte Manager und unzufriedene Familien lassen ambitionierte Nachwuchskräfte zögern. Wer den Schritt ins Ausland dennoch wagt, profitiert von einzigartigen Lernchancen im interkulturellen Kontext. Vor allem in wirtschaftlich aufstrebenden Märkten wie China und Südkorea locken verantwortungsvolle Positionen in einem dynamischen Arbeitsumfeld. Gundula Ganter stellt aktuell...

Sophia Willoughby, a young Englishwoman from an aristocratic family and a person of strong opinions and even stronger will, has packed her cheating husband off to Paris. He can have his tawdry mistress. She intends to devote herself to the serious business of raising her two children in proper Tory fashion. Then tragedy strikes: the children die, and Sophia, in despair, finds her way to Paris, arriving just in time for the revolution of 1848. ...

Für Ludwig Steinherr ist das Staunen die Voraussetzung für die Produktion von Gedichten - wie die Fähigkeit zum Erstaunen, die noch aus der Kindheit rührt, für die Kunstproduktion überhaupt. Mit "Kometenjäger" wendet sich Steinherr wieder Themen aus Kunst und Wissenschaft zu, huldigt den Astronomen der Vergangenheit und begegnet dabei nicht selten Engeln und Dämonen. Viel ist von "Jenseits", "Zwischenreich" oder auch der "Unterwelt" und "Feuer...

Die Organisation eines Familienzentrums verlangt von verantwortlichen Leitungen und Fachkräften erweiterte Managementkompetenzen. Davon sind vier Ebenen besonders betroffen: die fachliche, die methodisch-strategische, die soziale und die persönliche Ebene. Das Werkstattbuch stellt hierzu praxisrelevante Methoden und Handlungsansätze komprimiert und anschaulich vor. Die Darstellung erfolgt durch Fachleute, die in der jeweiligen Methode ausgewie...

In the early twentieth century, Chinese immigration became the focal point for racial panic in Britain. Fears about its moral and economic impact - amplified by press sensationalism and lurid fictional portrayals of London's original 'Chinatown' as a den of vice and iniquity - prompted mass arrests, deportations, and mob violence. Even after the neighborhood was demolished and its inhabitants dispersed, the stereotype of the Chinese criminal m...

The Queen of Erotica presents this sizzling new follow-up to the bestselling short story anthologies "Chocolate Flava" and "Caramel Flava.

The Rider of the White Horse is a classic German novella, in which the individual wrestles with the mass, the man with the most elementary forces of nature. The scene of the novella is characterized with vividness in its setting of marsh and sea, it glorifies love, and at the same time it touches themes which deeply occupied Storm, such as the problem of heredity or the relation between father and son. Happiness is won, but it ends in tragedy....

These essays set out to consider the possible future of theology in the light of the so-called postmodern condition. They are necessarily deeply interdisciplinary, since it is a characteristic of post-Enlightenment thought to disintegrate the lines of definition which separate areas of reflection in the human sciences. Theology, we believe, must be exposed to the consequences of what has happened in literature and critical theory if it is to h...

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Rock it Come Over describes the music and lore of slavery from the early sixteenth century through emancipation in 1838 to the mid twentieth century. Lewin explores the role of music in the lives of the slaves as a method of communication, as a form of resistance and subversion, as a repository of oral history and beliefs, and, ultimately, as a means of survival.The work is based on decades of research into the music sung and played by the wor...