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Will College Pay Off?: A Guide to the Most Important Financial Decision You'll Ever Make (PublicAffairs, 2015) by Peter Cappelli, Reviewed by Nicole Hala.

SHARPES nimmt die Leser(innen) mit auf eine Reise, die von Zeichnungen in prähistorischen Höhlen bis in die Fast-Food-Ketten der Neuzeit reicht. Dabei hilft er – rückgreifend auf ein enormes Wissen über Religion, Geschichte und kulturelle Praktiken und auf eigene Erfahrungen – den "human context of the cow" zu verstehen und zeigt, dass Viehzucht ein unverzichtbarer Teil des zivilisierten Lebens ist. Der Autor besticht durch seinen Humor, seinen engagierten Stil und seinen Detailreichtum in einem eher ungewöhnlichen Gegenstandsbereich.

PurposeThe quest to acquire new customers and retain the existing ones is a challenge for all aviation companies. This paper attempts to assist the aviation companies in tackling this challenge by revealing the most important factors that their customers consider to be the most important while making purchasing choices.Design/methodology/approachDrawing on three separate studies, this paper identifies the most important factors that influence consumers' choice of airlines in an emerging economy context. The first study adopts a qualitative approach with 20 respondents (Max QDA is used for analyzing these data), followed by the second study based on a quantitative survey with 105 participants, and finally, the third study which employs a multi-criteria decision-making technique named fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (AHP) on a sample of 12 expert customers.FindingsThe findings of this paper reveal that customer care quality and on-time arrival are the two most important factors that aviation customers consider while making their purchase decisions. In contrast, baggage allowance and fastest route to destination are the two least considered by aviation customers while making their purchasing choices.Research limitations/implicationsThis study includes only a geographic-specific segment of passengers. Future studies of consumer preferences in the aviation industry may include consumers belonging to other geographic regions. Furthermore, future studies may segment their sample populations based on factors other than age, the purpose of travel and booking medium.Practical implicationsThis investigation attempts to give a rich and holistic understanding of the different factors that influence the aviation choices of consumers of varying segments. This study has significant practical implications as modern-day airlines aim to optimally cater to the needs of their target segments without incurring additional costs on services that consumers do not deem to be as important.Originality/valueThis study highlights the importance attributed to each identified factor by passengers, something that previous research has mostly ignored.

The inter-war period saw a flowering of comparative research on emergency administration in response to the Great Depression. This article argues that Weimar and Nazi Germany was an important point of reference for scholars comparing different policy responses to the Great Depression. Centralization and administrative discretion were considered pivotal for effective crisis governance, irrespective of the political context. The resulting administrative ideology was ignorant of the polycratic realities of the Nazi state and frequently lauded its hierarchical features while condemning the Weimar Republic as anarchic. Faced with the challenge presented by Nazism, of squaring efficiency and accountability in the context of New Deal America, scholars of public administration developed ideas for training a new type of civil servant who was capable of acting beyond the control of legislative institutions. By exploring the ambiguous relationship between public administration and Nazism, this article highlights the complex issues confronting scholars of public administration in times of crisis. Adapted from the source document.

1. Offering permission -- 2. Extending the invitation -- The Prompts -- If you had only thirty days left to live, how would you spend them? Your last day? Your last hour? -- What foods do you remember a departed loved one cooking for you? -- If you were to design your own funeral or memorial, what would it look like? -- Is there an excess of medical intervention at the end of life? -- Do you have your will, advance-care directives, and power of attorney completely, and if not, why? -- What is the most significant end-of-life experience of which you've been a part? -- Why don't we talk about death? -- How do you talk to kids about death? -- Do you believe in an afterlife? -- Would you even consider doctor-assisted suicide? -- What song would you want played at your funeral? Who would sing it? -- Are you an organ donor? -- What does a good death look like? -- What do you want done with your body? -- Are there certain deaths we should never speak of? -- If you could extend your life, how many years would you add? Twenty, fifty, one hundred, forever? -- What do you want your legacy to be? -- How long should we grieve? -- What would you eat for your last meal? -- Is there a way you want to feel on your deathbed? -- What would you want people to say about you at your funeral? -- How do you end a conversation about death?

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: History's Most Important Political Document -- Marxism in a Nutshell -- The Annotated Communist Manifesto -- Preamble -- Section I. Bourgeois and Proletarians -- Section II. Proletarians and Communists -- Section III. Socialist and Communist Literature -- Section IV. Position of the Communists in Relation to the Various Existing Opposition Parties -- Additional Materials -- Afterword: Is the Manifesto Still Relevant? -- Appendix A: Prefaces from Later Editions -- The 1872 German Edition -- The 1882 Russian Edition -- The 1883 German Edition -- The 1888 English Edition -- Appendix B: Engels' The Principles of Communism -- Appendix C: Other Writings by Marx and Engels -- Marx on Alienation -- Demands of the Communist Party in Germany, March 1848 -- The Materialist Conception of History -- History and Revolution -- Colonialism, Racism, Slavery, and the Origins of Capitalism -- On the Irish Question -- The Paris Commune -- The Transition to Communism -- The Realm of Necessity and the Realm of Freedom -- Women's Oppression and Women's Liberation -- The Emergence of Classes and the State -- Marx's Legacy -- Study and Discussion Questions -- A Note on the Translation -- Further Reading -- Glossary -- References -- Index -- Back Cover.