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Bringing together a group of international researchers from two educational sub-disciplines - «History of Education» and «Intercultural Education» - the contributions to this volume provide insights into the (pre-)history of intercultural issues in education across a vast range of historical, national-geographical and political contexts. The anthology takes its readers on a fascinating journey around the globe, presenting case studies from Asi...

Zwischen 15 000 und 30 000 europäische Juden fanden in China Zuflucht vor dem Holocaust. Diese Fluchtbewegung war letztendlich abhängig von politisch-bürokratischen Entscheidungen, die von Geschichtsforschern bisher größtenteils unberücksichtigt geblieben sind. Welche Personen und Organisationen ermöglichten die Flucht? Warum war das Ausmaß dieser Fluchtbewegung nicht noch größer? Dies sind einige der Themenschwerpunkte, die in dieser Arbeit a...

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Es gibt eine Vielzahl von Meinungen zu Verfassungsstaat und Demokratie. Auf der aktuellen Grundlage der Wertedebatte diskutiert das Buch die vorpolitischen Grundlagen des freiheitlichen Staates. Der Autor stellt dabei fest, dass sich der freiheitliche Verfassungsstaat nicht als Schöpfer von Werten eignet. Der Staat erfasst den Menschen nicht in allen Lebensbereichen, erkennt gleichwohl die Grundrechte seiner Bürger an und stellt sie unter sein...

Der Desintegrationsprozess der Sozialistischen Föderativen Republik Jugoslawien hat zur Entstehung neuer Nationalstaaten auf der Grundlage ethnischer Zuordnungen geführt. Die menschenrechtlichen Aspekte von StaatsbürgerInnenschaftsgesetzen, verwaltungsrechtlichen Normen und darauf bezogenen Verwaltungsakten zeigen sich in Phasen der territorialen, politischen und sozialen Reorganisation von Staaten in ihrer prekärsten Form. Die Debatten und so...

This book addresses the question of cultural pluralism and its implications for citizenship and national identity in post-war Britain. The author examines the role of underlying public philosophies reflected in laws, policies, and institutional arrangements. When a political community faces challenges of diversity, people explore new principles of social formation, that is, what kind of society they desire based on which methods of maintaining...

This text considers not the beginning or origins of terrorism but how groups that use terrorism end. It explains how terrorism as a tactic is unlikely to disappear, despited the fact that all the groups that employed terrorist violence during the 1960s and 1970s have disappeared in one way or another.

Die Arbeit widmet sich dem Leistungserbringerrecht der häuslichen Krankenpflege im SGB V. Die Pflegeleistungserbringer schließen mit den Krankenkassen Verträge über die Erbringung der Leistungen und deren Vergütung. Dieses Vertragsverhältnis ist in § 132a II SGB V geregelt. Aufgrund des häufig bestehenden, strukturellen Verhandlungsungleichgewichts der Parteien sind die auftretenden Probleme bei den Vertragsverhandlungen bisher nur partiell lö...

Ausgehend vom Erstarken islamistischer Gruppen am Horn von Afrika setzt sich dieses Buch mit deren Bedeutung für die weitere Entwicklung der Region auseinander. Den Schwerpunkt der Betrachtung stellt dabei Somalia dar - zugleich Heimat der bedeutendsten Gruppe namens Al-Shabaab. Auf die Einbeziehung der ökonomischen, gesellschaftlichen sowie historischen Rahmenbedingungen Somalias setzt die Analyse schließlich ebenso wie auf eine Untersuchung ...

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Sir Alex Ferguson said that his brief as Manchester United manager was to "knock Liverpool off their f*****g perch". After over 2, 000 games and 25 seasons, this year he finally succeeded. Following an endless supply of trophies, none meant more to United's global legion of fans than their 19th league title - simply because it finally put Liverpool in their place. It has taken Sir Alex 25 years to establish United as the leader of the champion...

This book is an inquiry into the concept of legitimacy. In stable democratic states, such as the Nordic societies, legitimacy is often taken for granted. However, these essays show that this «treasure of politics» is very fragile. Legitimacy is understood as a gift bestowed on the authorities by citizens, rather than a means used by the authorities in order to remain in power. This emphasizes the role of the citizens rather than of the authori...

Exploring the ways in which transatlantic relationships functioned in the nineteenth century to unsettle hierarchical models of gender, race and national and cultural differences, this collection takes up a rich range of authors and topics, from Charlotte Smith and Charles Brockden Brown to Herman Melville, and from representations of indigenous religion in British Romantic literary discourse to gender and transatlantic travel, the abolitionis...

The State Economic Handbook is a new annual reference book profiling the economy, demography, political environment, and business climates for each of the 50 states. This information, gathered from a variety of sources and clearly presented in one volume, will be of great value to researchers, businesses, news media, and government agencies.

Renaissance Romance examines how and why the fears and expectations surrounding the old genre of romance resonated in early modern England. Examining a range of texts and the fiction of Sir Philip Sidney, Robert Greene and Lady Mary Wroth in particular, Das illustrates the sheer cultural persistence of romance, and reveals how a generational consciousness inherent in the genre transformed the new prose fiction of the period.

This book reviews current trends in the airline industry and its related suppliers, providing an insight into the forces that are changing its dynamics. It examines the factors reshaping the industry's structure with a view to identifying the key issues whose impact will be critical in the future. With contributions from senior industry executives and academics, the objective is to evaluate the core competencies that are determining the curren...

The gripping new thriller by the author of "The Final Days". In Atlanta, Charlie Cortez MD diagnoses his mistress with an unknown neurodegenerative disease that's inducing violent and bloody psychosis. The apparent cause? Consumption of infected human flesh...

This volume presents mayor contributions of Applied Linguistics to the understanding of communications in the professions. The first two parts of this book deal with the theoretical and methodological orientations of professional communication studies, the history and development of professional communication studies, highlighting the discursive turn of Applied Linguistic research that goes far beyond the established paradigm of Language for S...

Between 1921 and 1955, Italian immigrant Simon Rodia transformed broken glass, seashells, pottery, and a dream to "do something big" into a U.S. National Landmark. Readers watch the towers rise from his little plot of land in Watts, California, through the eyes of a fictional girl as she grows and raises her own children. Chronicled in stunningly detailed collage that mimics Rodia's found-object art, this thirty-four-year journey becomes a mes...

This book is the first to comprehensively examine the institutional dynamics that characterize the diplomatic system set up by the European Communities and the European Union ¿ currently the foremost experiment in non-state diplomacy. It analyses European Union Diplomatic Service¿s work on foreign policy and external economic relations, both in Brussels and in the Commission¿s Delegations across the world.