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Ecrits is the essential source for anyone who seeks to understand this seminal thinker and his influence on contemporary thought and culture.

During the First World War the pioneer anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski found himself stranded on the Trobriand Islands, off the eastern coast of New Guinea. By living among the people he studied there, speaking their language and participating in their activities, he invented what became known as 'participant-observation'. This new type of ethnographic study was to have a huge impact on the emerging discipline of anthropology. In Sex and R...

One of the most fascinating men of his generation, W.H.R. Rivers was a British doctor and psychiatrist as well as a leading ethnologist. Immortalized as the hero of Pat Barker's award-winning Regeneration trilogy, Rivers was the clinician who, in the First World War, cared for the poet Siegfried Sassoon and other infantry officers injured on the western front. His researches into the borders of psychiatry, medicine and religion made him a prom...

In On the Nature of the Psyche Jung presents a masterly overview of his theories of the unconscious, and its relation to the conscious mind.

Modern Man in Search of a Soul is the perfect introduction to the theories and concepts of one of the most original and influential religious thinkers of the twentieth century.

If you don't know your incest taboo from your Oedipal complex, and you want to understand more about the culture we're living in, then Totem and Taboo is the book to read.

In this classic account of madness, Michel Foucault shows once and for all why he is one of the most distinguished European philosophers since the end of World War II. Madness and Civilization, Foucault's first book and his finest accomplishment, will change the way in which you think about society. Evoking shock, pity and fascination, it might also make you question the way you think about yourself.

This stunning and elegiac novel by the author of the internationally acclaimed Wind-Up Bird Chronicle has sold over 4 million copies in Japan and is now available to American audiences for the first time. It is sure to be a literary event.Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best f...

Heutzutage nimmt Burnout in der Arbeitswelt immer größere Ausmaße an. Der heutige Arbeitsplatz wird sowohl in wirtschaftlicher als auch psychologischer Hinsicht oft als ein kaltes, abweisendes, forderndes Umfeld empfunden. Die Menschen fühlen sich emotionell, physisch und geistig erschöpft, unsicher, unverstanden, unterbewertet und ihrer Arbeit fremd. Das Buch räumt mit dem Mythos auf, dass die Arbeitnehmer allein schuld sind an ihrer Erschö...

The creation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory in the 1920s saw the birth of some of the most exciting and challenging writings of the twentieth century. It is out of this background that the great critic Theodor Adorno emerged. His finest essays are collected here, offering the reader unparalleled insights into Adorno's thoughts on culture. He argued that the culture industry commodified and standardized all art. In turn this suffoca...

Allen Smithee specializes in the mediocre. He is versatile. He is prolific. And he doesn't exist. From 1969 until 1999, Allen Smithee was the pseudonym adopted by Hollywood directors when they wished not to be associated with films ostensibly of their making . Encompassing over fifty films of various stripes -- B movies, sequels, music videos, made-for-TV movies -- Smithee's three decades of work affords the authors of this volume a unique opp...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Die Unternehmensbewertung im neuen Jahrtausend ist bestimmt durch Einflüsse der globalen Finanz- und Kapitalmärkte, insbesondere der Einflüsse Nordamerikas, sowie einer fortschreitenden Globalisierung der Wirtschaft. Eine zunehmende Anzahl von Unternehmensfusionen, Börsengängen und die starke Ausrichtung der Unternehmen auf das ¿Shareholder Value¿-Konzept machen die Ermittlung von Unternehmenswerten beispielsweise du...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Der Aufsichtsrat der deutschen Gesellschaften: Seit seiner Entstehung stets ein Objekt der Kritik, prägte er auch in den letzten Monaten die öffentliche Diskussion und die Kommentare der Wirtschaftspresse. Die Holzmann-Krise, das Bilanzierungsverhalten der HypoVereinsbank, der Bremer Vulkan, die Metallgesellschaft, Balsam oder die Schneider-Affäre: Bei allen Skandalen und Firmenzusammenbrüchen stand zuletzt der Aufsi...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Während die Betrachtungen der BWL sich früher auf die innerbetrieblichen Abläufe konzentrierten, steht inzwischen fest, dass die Beziehungen zwischen Unternehmen, auch wenn diese wirtschaftlich und rechtlich selbständig sind, eine große Rolle spielen. Um bestimmte Strukturen in der Realität erklären zu können entstanden im Laufe der Zeit sogenannte Netzwerkansätze, die sich mehr und mehr mit dem Beziehungsgeflecht vo...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Die gegenwärtige gesellschaftliche Entwicklung leitet zu Umbrüchen, die die Lebensbedingungen der Individuen und die Grundlagen und Ausgestaltung gemeinschaftlichen, sozialen Lebens ebenso betreffen wie die Funktionsprinzipien und Aufgabenstellungen von Institutionen. Dadurch wird gesellschaftliches, institutionelles und individuelles Leben gestaltungsoffen für neue Konstellationen, Kooperationen und insgesamt neue A...

Situating the debate in a global context, this book examines the future of social security and looks at the role of the financial markets versus the state in the provision of pensions and in the financing of the economy generally.

Masquerade, both literal and metaphorical, is now a central concept on many disciplines. This timely volume explores and revisits the role of disguise in constructing, expressing and representing marginalised identities, and in undermining easy distinctions between 'true' identity and artifice.The book is interdisciplinary in approach, spanning a diverse range of cultures and narrative voices. It provides provocative and nuanced ways of thinki...

The current high demand for fish and increased awareness of the role of the environment in supporting human well being has led to a situation where attitudes to inland water resources are changing rapidly.Trends in resource use and environmental impact are very evident in inland waters which are particularly vulnerable as they act as collectors of all the activities occurring in their basins and rank as some of the most endangered ecosystems i...

Breasted's pioneering English translations of all available historical documents of ancient Egypt.Supplementary Bibliographies and Indices

Breasted's pioneering English translations of all available historical documents of ancient Egypt.The Eighteenth Dynasty