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Der ADP-Prozessmonitor stellt ein ganzheitliches Lerninstrument für Unternehmen dar, die langfristigen Erfolg durch altersdifferenzierte und demographieorientierte Personalarbeit erzielen wollen. Die Ergebnisse einer umfangreichen Recherche aus Wissenschaft und Praxis...
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Frauen verdienen weniger als Männer. Die geschlechtsspezifische Lohnlücke beträgt nach Angaben des Statistischen Bundesamtes hierzulande rund 23 Prozent. Ist dieser Befund bereits der Beweis für eine Frauendiskriminierung? Die Arbeit geht der Frage nach, ob und wie der...
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Diese Arbeit fühlt sich der von L. Wittgenstein angedeuteten und von R. Keller entwickelten Gebrauchstheorie der Sprache verbunden. Kellers instrumentalistische Bedeutungstheorie geht davon aus, dass Zeichen allein aufgrund ihrer Gebrauchskonventionen zu...
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Die Arbeit erhielt den zweiten Platz beim Prix de la meilleure thèse de l’Université de Luxembourg 2012. Über 200.000 Menschen pendeln in der Großregion SaarLorLux über eine nationale Grenze an ihren Arbeitsplatz. Sie sind Gegenstand dieser Studie, die das...
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The subject of this book are migration journeys of highly skilled workers. By focusing on migration as a journey, the research considers all stages of migration (remigration in particular) and complements the approach to the phenomenon with a life-long perspective. In...
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Das Buch gibt einen Einblick in die reiche Geschichte der Zukunftsentwürfe. Dabei spannen die Beiträge einen Bogen von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Die unterschiedlichen literarischen Formate – Utopien, Zukunftsvorstellungen, Gedankenexperimente – finden ebenso...
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This book paints a picture of poor older people’s life-worlds in Beijing, China. Instead of viewing them as pitiful recipients of vulnerabilities and deprivations, this book sheds light on how poor older people exert their active agency to live through their life...
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Many social workers, health care staff and teachers maintain high standards of professionalism, often in stressful and challenging circumstances. However, research also reveals instances where individual practitioners and managers, or whole organisations, fail to act...
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This book brings out the way in which the twentieth century philosopher R. M. Hare has attempted to break the deadlock to which his contemporary moral theories had been led, i.e. irrationalism and relativism. Taking his point of departure from these theories, he...
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The collapse of communism has opened up Russia and East-Central Europe to outside influences and enabled new lifestyle choices and forms of religious expression. Based on extensive ethnographic research, this collection uses a variety of theoretical perspectives and...
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Global market competition and the political responses to globalization transform urban societies and states, and thus the cultures of capital cities in contemporary Europe. Vienna’s cultural district Museumsquartier and the planned Humboldt Forum on Berlin’s...
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This volume contains articles most of which present empirical studies in the field of systematic musicology. Contributions in particular deal with aspects of melody including modeling and computer-assisted analysis as well as with various issues in sound and music...
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This book argues that since 2001 the primary discursive context for articulating a European identity within the EU has increasingly become the idea of a common foreign policy for Europe. A new grand project of making Europe a true global player is being put forth and it...
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For much of history, pirates and buccaneers constituted one of the most serious threats to maritime activities all over the world. More recently, apart from adventure stories and swashbuckling films, maritime piracy was largely thought of as a thing of the past. This...
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In Exile and Identity in Autobiographies of Twentieth-Century Spanish Women, Karla P. Zepeda studies the experience of exile and its effects on identity in three autobiographies:In Place of Splendor by Constancia de la Mora, Memoria de la melancolía by María Teresa...
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In the 1930s, the crises brought about by the Depression, climatic devastation, and the rearmament of Europe led Americans from all walks of life to believe that capitalism and technology had synthesized into a monstrous force that threatened the human race. And yet,...
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Das frühe 20. Jahrhundert ist geprägt durch einen umfassenden Ausbau technischer und organisatorischer Funktionszusammenhänge und -ensembles, der sich quer durch alle öffentlichen Bereiche zieht. Die Erhöhung von Umschlaggeschwindigkeiten von Gütern, Personen und...
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What is it to care for another human being? How do we show compassion for each other? Is ‘social care’ an activity only for paid professionals? This book sets out on a radical re-examination of the nature of social care, the way it is practised, and its purpose. Rather...
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This multidisciplinary edited volume examines wide-ranging exchanges between France and its Mediterranean neighbours and their impact. It questions the changing notion of a Mediterranean space and its representation, centrality and relevance in terms of France’s...
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Die glanzvolle Herrschaft der Burgunderherzöge bedeutete einen Höhepunkt in der europäischen Kulturgeschichte. Ereignisse wie die Schlacht bei Murten und die Schlacht von Nancy beeinflussten das kulturelle Selbstverständnis insbesondere der Schweizer, Niederländer und...
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