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Today, economic success is seen as depending on the creation of a high-skilled workforce. This is the first book to offer a comparative examination of national routes to a 'high skill' economy.

This is an anthology of writing about the sea from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. It is extraordinarily varied, including fiction and non-fiction, prose and poetry, documentary accounts, and oceanographic writing. Familiar names, such as Byron, Defoe, Melville, and Conrad are well represented, but there are many new names too.

Deconstructing Ireland examines the course by which the history of modernity and colonialism has constructed an idea of "Ireland, " produced more often as a citation than an actuality. The author's approach -- using Derridean deconstruction in alliance with positions in postcolonial and Subaltern Studies -- illuminates the way in which national identity is constructed and reconfigured through a fascinating range of material, including literatu...

These rhetorical texts by Apuleius, second-century Latin writer and author of the famous novel Metamorphoses or Golden Ass, have not been translated in English since 1909. They are some of the very few Latin speeches surviving from their century, and constitute important evidence for Latin and Roman North African social and intellectual culture in the second century AD. They are the work of a talented writer who is being increasingly viewed as...

Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels is an accessible and unique anthology of travel and colonial writing in the English Renaissance, selected to represent the world-picture of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century readers in England. It includes not just the narratives of discovery of the New World but also accounts of cultures already well known through trade links, such as Turkey and the Moluccan islands, and of places that featured just as signif...

The first dictionary of its kind to provide an exhaustive comparative treatment of the influence of English on other European languages. Covering sixteen selected languages from different language families, entries consist of words which are recognizably English in form and which appear in at least one of the languages tested. Entries are comprised of a brief definition, followed by a summary paragraph containing a wealth of historical and lin...

This unique reference is a comprehensive encyclopedia dedicated to the institutions, religion, politics, and culture in Muslim societies throughout the world. Placing particular emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World containsover 750 articles in four volumes on Muslims in the Arab heartland as well as South and Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Americas.An invaluable resource, the ...

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Massive US bestselling thriller, compared to Grisham by reviewers and readers.

Based on research presented at the Ninth International Conference of the International Association for Travel Behaviour Research (IATBR), this volume captures major developments in the field. It presents contributions within seven themes including methodological developments in choice analysis, and longitudinal perspectives in choice modelling.

One of the first works to analyze and compare recent shifts in patterns of industrial relations across late-industrializing and post-socialist economies, this volume features original, timely essays on distinct responses to common economic pressures associated with "globalization." As unions in late-developing countries engaged in economic liberalization, and as unions in post-socialist economies cope with the break down of command economies, ...

Take a look through the lens of acclaimed photographer Steve Bonge, who has traveled worldwide for years to capture the best of modern tattoo art. On the other side youll meet an incredible assembly of personalitiesmen and women, young and old, who have adorned their bodies in spectacular ways. Hundreds of gorgeous color photos both hone in on intricate details, and pull back to encompass a culture of people who are unafraid to show their true...

Ambivalent Europeans examines the implications of living on the fringes of Europe. In Malta, public debate is dominated by the question of Europe, both at a policy level - whether or not to join the EU - and at the level of national identity - whether or not the Maltese are 'European'. Jon Mitchell identifies a profound ambivalence towards Europe, and also more broadly to the key processes of 'modernisation'. He traces this tendency through a ...

In der 1968 gegründeten Reihe erscheinen Monographien aus den Gebieten der Griechischen und Lateinischen Philologie sowie der Alten Geschichte. Die Bände weisen eine große Vielzahl von Themen auf: neben sprachlichen, textkritischen oder gattungsgeschichtlichen philologischen Untersuchungen stehen sozial-, politik-, finanz- und kulturgeschichtliche Arbeiten aus der Klassischen Antike und der Spätantike. Entscheidend für die Aufnahme ist die Qua...

Recounts the struggles of a young Thai woman to become a Buddhist nun and the challenges and rewards of that life.

Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (Parts I and II) (1915 - 1916)This collection of twenty-four volumes is the first full paperback publication of the standard edition of The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud in EnglishIncludes:Parapraxes (1915)Dreams (1915-16)

Engaging Political Philosophy" investigates the political philosophies of Hobbes, Rousseau, Locke, Mill, Rawls, and Marx and reveals the scope and limits of the philosophical tradition they helped to forge. Investigates the political philosophies of Hobbes, Rousseau, Locke, Mill, Rawls, and Marx. Reveals the scope and limits of the philosophical tradition they helped to forge. Provides a cohesive narrative about modern political philosophy. Se...

Was haben Carlos Santana, die Suchmaschine Lycos und die Frauenzeitschrift Brigitte gemeinsam? Richtig: im Hintergrund steht das Unternehmen Bertelsmann mit seinen Töchtern Bertelsmann Music Group, Gruner + Jahr und noch vielen anderen. Schon lange vor dem Internetzeitalter verstand sich Bertelsmann als "pluralistisches Verlagshaus der Alternativen". Aber was in Deutschland von vielen noch mit einem angestaubten Verlagsnamen assoziiert wird, h...

Die Autorin analysiert auf der Basis einer Aktantenanalyse (als Anhang beigegeben) die unterschiedlichen Vorstellungen zur politischen Struktur der Provinz Juda, die dem Esra-Nehemia-Buch zugrunde liegen: Verständnis, Gliederung und Abgrenzung der Bevölkerung, Verteilung von Macht und Entscheidungskompetenzen, Verhältnis zur achämenidischen Herrschaft. Drei Verfassungskonzepte und deren theologische Leitlinien werden ausgearbeitet und geben Ei...

The nineteenth volume of the standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud.