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At age thirty in 1919, Adolf Hitler had no accomplishments. He was a rootless loner, a corporal in a shattered army, without money or prospects. A little more than twenty years later, in autumn 1941, he directed his dynamic forces against the Soviet Union, and in December, the Germans were at the gates of Moscow and Leningrad. At that moment, Hitler appeared - however briefly - to be the most powerful ruler on the planet. Given this dramatic turn of events, it is little wonder that since 1945 generations of historians keep trying to explain how it all happened. This richly illustrated history provides a readable and fresh approach to the complex history of the Third Reich, from the coming to power of the Nazis in 1933 to the final collapse in 1945. Using photographs, paintings, propaganda images, and a host of other such materials from a wide range of sources, including official documents, cinema, and the photography of contemporary amateurs, foreigners, and the Allied armies, it distills our ideas about the period and provides a balanced and accessible account of the whole era

Anlässlich des 100. Geburtstags der beiden fast gleichaltrigen Protagonisten hat der emeritierte Tübinger katholische Theologe Kuschel (zuletzt "Keine Religion ist eine Insel") aus Sekundärquellen ein Gespräch über die gemeinsamen Wurzeln der drei monotheistischen Religionen rekonstruiert, das der ehemalige deutsche Kanzler Helmut Schmidt (1918-2015) und der einstige Staatspräsident Ägyptens Anwar as-Sadat (1918-1981) während einer zweitägigen Schiffsreise auf dem Nil im Jahr 1977 miteinander geführt haben. Diesem Religionsgespräch sind vier Kapitel mit ausführlichen Hintergrundinformationen zur damaligen Lage in Deutschland (RAF-Terror, Nato-Doppelbeschluss u.a.) und in Ägypten (Krieg gegen Israel, Camp David u.a.) vorangestellt. In der Buchmitte sind einige Schwarz-Weiss-Fotografien konzentriert. Im Anhang Literaturverzeichnis, Anmerkungen und Personenregister. - Eine anschauliche Darstellung der konkreten Begegnung der beiden Staatsmänner und ein Beitrag zum notwendigen Trialog zwischen Juden, Christen und Muslimen im Interesse des Weltfriedens

Sparta's dominance over other Greek states was greatly hampered and finally ended because of the impossibility of maintaining its power in the face of oliganthropia, an irreversible demographic shortfall of its citizen manpower. In Spartan Oliganthropia, Timothy Doran examines the population decline of the Spartiates in the Classical and Hellenistic eras, a reduction from 8,000 to fewer than 1,000. The causes and consequences of this decline are significant not only for ancient Greek history, but also for population studies of pre-industrial societies and population dynamics more generally. This work offers a fresh survey of representative modern scholarship on this phenomenon as well as its own conclusions, discussing topics such as elite under-reproduction, wealth polarization, the link between female empowerment and low birthrates, and ideological notions of eugenic exclusivity, suggesting avenues for further research

Elephans photographicus : media archaeology and the history of photography / Erkki Huhtamo -- A mirrow with wings : photography and the new era of communications / Simone Natale -- The traveling daguerreotype : early photography and the U.S. postal system / David M. Henkin -- The telegraph of the past : Nadar and the time of photography / Richard Taws -- With eyes of flesh and glass eyes : railroad image-objects and fantasies of human-machine hybridizations in the mid-nineteenth-century United States / Nicoletta Leonardi -- Peer production in the age of collodion : the bromide patent and the photographic press, 1854-1868 / Lynne Berger -- Two or three things photography did to painting / Jan von Brevern -- Uniqueness multiplied : the daguerrotype and the visual economy of the graphic arts / Steffen Siegel -- Photographs in text : the reproduction of photographs in nineteenth-century scientific communication / Geoffrey Belknap -- In the time of Balzac : the daguerrotype and the discovery/invention of society / Peppino Ortoleva -- Sound photography / Anthony Enns -- Photography, cinema, and perceptual realism in the nineteenth century / Kim Timby -- The double-birth model tested against photography / André Gaudreault and Philippe Marion -- Afterword : media history and history of photography in parallel lines / Geoffrey Batchen and Lisa Gitelman

Eingeführter Einstiegstitel für die Erstellung von Personalkonzepten bereits ab Klein- und Mittelbetrieben. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf dem Instrumentarium für Weiterbildung und Qualifikationsanpassung der Mitarbeiter. Mit Bedarfsfeststellung, Planung und Durchführung der Förder- und Bildungsmassnahmen. Ziel: fortlaufende Befähigung des Personals für sich ändernde Aufgaben und Vorbereitung von Führungskräften auf eine ganzheitliche Führung. Die Bedeutung der Personalentwicklung wird durch Fachkräftemangel und neue Aufgaben noch verstärkt (Digitalisierung: hier z.B. ein Kapitel über E-Learning). Verständlich geschrieben, gute Gliederung, Beispiele. Auch für Studieneinsteiger geeignet. (2)

The drums beat, an old man in a grand robe mutters incantations and three brides on horseback led by their grooms on foot proceed to the Naxi Wedding Courtyard, accompanied, watched and photographed the whole way by tourists, who have bought tickets for the privilege. The traditional wedding ceremonies are performed for the ethnic tourism industry in Lijiang, a World Heritage town in southwest China. This book examines how heritage interacts with social-cultural changes and how individuals perform and negotiate their identities through daily practices that include tourism, on the one hand, and the performance of ethnicity on the other. The wedding performances in Lijiang not only serve as a heritage 'product' but show how the heritage and tourism industry helps to shape people's values, dreams and expectations. This book also explores the rise of 'romantic consumerism' in contemporary China. Chinese dissatisfaction with the urban mundane leads to romanticized interests in practices and people deemed to be natural, ethnic, spiritual and aesthetic, and a search for tradition and authenticity. But what, exactly, are tradition and authenticity, and what happens to them when they are turned into performance?