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Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Einer der bedeutendsten Trends an den globalen Finanzmärkten ist die zunehmende Institutionalisierung der Kapitalanlage, d.h. die verstärkte Verwaltung privater Ersparnisse durch Pensionsfonds, Versicherungen und Investmentfonds. In Deutschland konnten in den letzten zehn Jahren insbesondere Kapitalanlagegesellschaften (KAG) eine stetige Zunahme ihres Anlagevolumens verzeichnen. Der Bedeutungszuwachs dieses Anlegerse...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Ist Basel II der Tod des Deutschen Mittelstandes? Kann Basel II als Schreckgespenst oder Chance verstanden werden? Erzwingt Basel II einen Mentalitätswechsel im Mittelstand? Bedeutet Basel II die stille Revolution in der Finanzierung? Bringt Basel II Entlastung für Mittelstandskredite und somit vor allem den Mittelstand voran? Profitiert also die Mehrzahl von Basel II? Was versteht man überhaupt unter Basel II? Wer o...

Middle East oil and Anglo-American special relations were among the most contentious issues during the Cold War. Oil is crucial to our understanding of Britain's and the USA's Cold War policies in the Middle East. This book presents an in-depth study of the issues of the period and the legacy of oil in the post Cold war era.

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This book focuses on phonons and electrons, which the student needs to learn first in solid state physics. The required quantum theory and statistical physics are derived from scratch. Systematic in structure and tutorial in style, the treatment is filled with detailed mathematical steps and physical interpretations. This approach ensures a self-sufficient content for easier teaching and learning. The objective is to introduce the concepts of ...

Alice Hamilton (1869-1970), a pioneer in the study of diseases of the workplace, a founder of industrial toxicology in the United States, and Harvard's first woman professor, led a long and interesting life. Always a consummate professional, she was also a prominent social reformer whose interest in the environmental causes of disease and in promoting equitable living conditions developed during her years as a resident at Jane Addams's Hull-Ho...

This publication describes the usage of languages in the multilingual society of Ethiopia. It is based on empirical studies conducted in nine states of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia in 1997 and 1998. A research team of German and Ethiopian scholars surveyed about 3, 500 high school students from 35 Ethiopian towns regarding their language behaviour. The data on the distribution of mother tongues and second languages are published...

Im Mittelpunkt der in diesem Band gesammelten Arbeiten stehen zwei verbundene Fragen: die nach der Darstellung geschichtlicher Prozesse in Goethes Faust und die nach der besonderen Theaterform, in der diese Darstellung erfolgt. Faust wird verstanden als tragikomisches Welttheater, dessen zentraler Gegenstand die bürgerliche Gesellschaft in ihrer geschichtlichen Bildung ist, in einer zweiten Dimension der Prozeß der europäischen Zivilisation vo...

The Writing of Rural England 1500-1800 documents and contextualizes the conflicting representations of rural life during a crucial period of social, economic and cultural change. It highlights the dialogues and tensions between agriculture and aesthetics, economics and morality, men and women, leisure and labour. By drawing on both canonical and marginal texts, it argues that early-modern writing not only reflected but played a part in constru...

The author's aim is to reveal the Truth regarding resurrection, near-death experience and humanity's role as 'children of God' to the inquisitive reader.

The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spread of Christianity, Julian is widely regarded as one of Gore Vidal's finest historical novels.Julian the Apostate, nephew of Constantine the Great, was one of the brightest yet briefest lights in the history of the Roman Empire. A military genius on the level of Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great, a graceful and persuasive essayist, and a phi...

Redolent with the scent of lilac and oleander blossoms, and bursting with the flavors of quinces and overripe plums, Strand of a Thousand Pearls is the story of the imagined and actual marriages of the Azizyan girls, their years of yearning, restless and impatient, and the truth of their engagements, miles away from the enchanted realm and imaginary heroes of their dreams. Six years ago, Dorit Rabinyan burst onto the scene with Persian Brides,...

In these unforgettable stories, the acclaimed author of Imagine Me Gone explores lives that appear shuttered by loss and discovers entire worlds hidden inside them. The impact is at once harrowing and thrilling. An elderly inventor, burning with manic creativity, tries to reconcile with his estranged gay son. A bereaved boy draws a thuggish classmate into a relationship of escalating guilt and violence. A genteel middle-aged woman, a long-time...

Before his untimely death in 1982, Lester Bangs was inarguably the most influential critic of rock and roll. Writing in hyper-intelligent Benzedrine prose that calls to mind Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson, he eschewed all conventional thinking as he discussed everything from Black Sabbath being the first truly Catholic band to Anne Murray's smoldering sexuality. In Mainlines, Blood Feasts, Bad Taste fellow rock critic John Morthland has c...

A collection of nine articles written by leading scholars in Britain, Ireland, Italy and the USA on various aspects of the city of St Petersburg during the important first century and a quarter of its existence, from its founding in 1703 to the end of the reign of Alexander I. Cartography, architecture, social history and foreign perceptions are some of the subjects covered in these lively and informed essays.

In a writing career that spanned the 1920s to the 1960s, Anglo-Irish author Elizabeth Bowen created a rich and nuanced body of work in which she enlarged the comedy of manners with her own stunning brand of emotional and psychological depth.In A World of Love, an uneasy group of relations are living under one roof at Montefort, a decaying manor in the Irish countryside. When twenty-year-old Jane finds in the attic a packet of love letters writ...

Join Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer, on a leisurely stroll past The Institute for Soup-Nut Research and The Municipal Birthmark Registry. Savor the smell of a phone booth, circa 1961. Sign up for a guided tour of the oldest continually vacant storefront in America. Attend a championship grave-digging competition, or, should you feel you've wasted yet another day, you can check in for help at a local Misspent Youth Center.In "The Beauty...

This classic work is being reissued with a new preface on the silver anniversary of its original publication.

As delicious a meditation on one man's relationships with the Earth as any you are likely to come upon" ("The New York Times Book Review"), "Second Nature" captures the rhythms of everyday engagement with the outdoors in all its glory and exasperation.

In der vorliegenden sozialhistorischen Analyse wird die bestehende Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie (KJP) in den Rahmen der Geschichte einer Fürsorge eingeordnet, die sich mit dem beginnenden Sozialstaat für Kinder in Zusammenhang mit Armut und Krankheit entwickelte. Ziel dieser Arbeit soll sein, die Ideen und Einstellungen zu erkennen, die unserem professionellen Handeln zu Grunde liegen, ihre Entstehungsgeschichten und vor allem ihre möglichen ...