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"There is a force in our everyday lives that we aren't even aware of-and it's so powerful it threatens to derail otherwise promising careers and lives: microstress. It's the hidden epidemic of small moments of anxiety that infiltrate both our work and personal lives. Because each individual microstress is so small, it doesn't trigger the normal stress response in our brains to help us deal with it. Instead, the microstress just embeds in our minds, accumulating along with scores of other microstresses, day-to-day and week-to-week. The long-term effect is devastating: microstress invisibly weighs us down, damages our physical and emotional health, and contributes to a decline in our overall well-being. What's more, microstress is baked into our lives. The source of microstress is seldom a classic antagonist, such as a demanding client or jerk boss. Instead, it comes from the people-in and out of work-with whom we are closest: our friends, family, and colleagues. The good news is that once you learn about microstress, you can fight back. Drawing on fresh research, Rob Cross and Karen Dillon will teach you how to recognize and manage the most common forms of microstress, and even remove some from your life. Compelling interviews with high achievers who've endured their share of microstress bring to life best practices that show you how to build resilience against microstress, and ultimately how to find purpose in your everyday life, using it as an antidote to your own microstress. It's time to break free from the microstress that's stealing your life. Start here"--

Die EU führt zum 1. Oktober 2023 ein ⁠CO2⁠-Grenzausgleichssystem (⁠CBAM⁠) ein. Die Grundidee besteht darin, im Ausland produzierte emissionsintensive Güter mit dem gleichen CO2-Preis zu belegen wie in der EU hergestellte Güter. Damit soll verhindert werden, dass die heimische Industrie, die im Rahmen des EU-ETS steigende CO2-Kosten zu tragen hat, in Länder ohne vergleichbare CO2-Bepreisung verlagert wird. Dies wäre nicht im Sinne des Klimaschutzes. Das Factsheet erklärt Ziele und Funktionsweise des neuen Klimaschutzinstruments.

Introduction -- 1. The study of interest groups -- 2. The system of interest representation in Portugal -- 3. Associational involvement and political participation in Portugal: Insights from a longitudinal and comparative study -- 4. Interest groups, political representation and citizen preferences -- 5. Seeking access to policy-makers: Interest group strategies -- 6. Interest groups in the parliamentary arena -- 7. Interest groups in the media -- 8. Portuguese interest groups and the European Union -- 9. Conclusions.

Chapter 1. Socialism Collapsed Regardless Of How Long The Progressive Society "Built" It! -- Chapter 2. Marxist Perspective on the Capitalist Economy -- Chapter 3. Capitalism's Contradictions and Reasons of Its Collapse -- Chapter 4. Theoretical Socialism or the First Phase of Communism -- Chapter 5. Communism as the Higher Phase of Communist Society -- Chapter 6. Economic Contradictions of Socialism -- Chapter 7. Socialist System in the 20th Century -- Chapter 8. Administrative Cycles in the Soviet Union -- Chapter 9. Disadvantages of Soviet Economic Model -- Chapter 10. Socialism with Chinese Characteristics -- Chapter 11. Back to the Future -- Chapter 12. Transformation of Socialist Countries. Market Socialism in China -- Chapter 13. The Economic Transformation of the USSR -- Chapter 14. The Dissolution of the Soviet Union -- Chapter 15. Wrecks of Socialism.

1. Introduction: Mosaics of the post-Soviet economic transition in Russia -- 2. Early concepts of economic growth and implications for Russia -- 3. Endogenous economic growth and human capital -- 4. Sustainable economic growth and development -- 5. Economic crises and sustainable growth in Russia -- 6. Economic growth in Russia in the 1990s and 2000s -- 7. Economic growth in Russia in the 2010s and 2020s -- 8. Consumption, Investment, Debt, Inflation, and Unemployment in Russia -- 9. Structure of foreign trade in Russia -- 10. Conclusion: Transition to sustainable economic growth.

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The American Political History and Jurisprudence Behind Congressional Delegation of the Investigative Power -- Chapter 3: Congressional Delegation of Its Power to Monitor Policy Implementation -- Chapter 4: The Politics of Overseeing the Federal Bureaucracy -- Chapter 5: Punctuated Delegation and the Politics of Administrative Law.

Part I History and Overview -- 1. Teaching Chinese in the Anglophone World: An Overview of the New Zealand Case -- 2. Chinese as a Heritage Language in New Zealand: A Historical Overview -- 3. The Teaching of Mandarin Chinese in New Zealand's Schools: Where Have We Come From? Where Are We Now? Where Are We Going? -- 4. The Journeys of the Confucius Institutes in New Zealand: The What, the Why, the How, the Challenges -- 5. Teaching Classical Chinese at New Zealand Universities: A Languacultural Perspective -- Part II Chinese as a Heritage Language -- 6. Identity and Practicality: Complex Factors Influencing Chinese Immigrant Children's Heritage Language Learning in Aotearoa New Zealand -- 7. The Role of Heritage Culture and Language Learning in Nurturing Gifted Chinese Students in New Zealand schools -- 8. Heritage Language Learners' Intercultural Communicative Competence Development and Identity Exploration in the New Zealand Secondary School Context -- 9. Identity and Investment in Chinese Language Learning: Perspectives from Dialect-Background Heritage Learners in New Zealand -- Part III Chinese Language Teachers and Teaching -- 10. Creating a Sustainable Mandarin Language Programme in an Aotearoa New Zealand primary school: Complexities and Achievement -- 11. Privileging Māori and Chinese: Translanguaging in Chinese as an Additional Language Teaching in Aotearoa New Zealand -- 12. Teaching Chinese in New Zealand Secondary Schools: What Teachers Say about Grammar Teaching? -- 13. Preservice Chinese Language Teachers' Conceptions of Assessment in New Zealand -- Jiani Yun, Mary Hill, Christine Biebricher -- 14. Chinese Language Teachers' Beliefs about Language Pedagogy in New Zealand Universities -- 15. Teaching Chinese Heritage children in New Zealand to Read Chinese Characters in a Community School through a Progressive Character Reading Method -- 16. A Think-aloud Method for Developing Pedagogies for Teaching Chinese Characters to New Zealand Tertiary Students -- Part IV Distance Learning and Study Abroad -- 17. New Zealand Learners and Chinese Tutors Co-constructing Learning/teaching Environments in Videoconferencing Session -- 18. Enhancing a Distance Chinese Teaching Course in New Zealand -- 19. Virtual Peer Mentoring for Language Teacher Professional Development: A Framework towards the Aotearoa/New Zealand Context -- 20. Virtual Study Abroad Language Programmes: An Inferior Stand-in or a Promising Opportunity? -- 21. A Sociocultural Study of Learning Strategies of New Zealand Learners of Chinese during Study Abroad -- 22. Wayfinding for Chinese Language Education Research.

15 Autorinnen und Autoren schreiben über ein Thema, über das in der Literatur bislang geschwiegen wurde: Abtreibungen. Sie erzählen von Mutterschaft und Freundschaft, von religiösen und politischen Zwängen und den drastischen Folgen sexueller und rassistischer Gewalt. Doch so verschieden die Welten und Erfahrungen der Protagonistinnen auch sind, der unbedingte Wille zur Selbstbestimmung eint sie alle. Mit Erzählungen von Theresia Enzensberger, Sophia Fritz, Charlotte Gneuß, Lena Gorelik, Annett Gröschner, Monika Helfer, Yael Inokai, Tilman Rammstedt, Raphaëlle Red, Jayrôme C. Robinet, Emilia Roig, Daniel Schreiber, Karosh Taha, Stefanie de Velasco und Katharina Volckmer

"For strategy and organization studies scholars in business and management, defence studies, public policy and government. We argue for a fundamental reversal of strategy. No longer about calculating and controlling the world, it becomes an organizational practice of asking a basic question: how to be 'at home' in a world that is beyond our reach"--