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"This book draws on research within a neo-Weberian and neo-institutionalist perspective to critically analyse national health services in Western Europe. Exploring the challenges posed by neo-liberal policies, it also looks at the impact of the role of the state, the medical profession, the public, and the medical industrial complex in their development. This book makes a vital contribution at a time when health services globally have been under great pressure in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic It is written for academics and advanced students of healthcare, management, public policy, social policy and sociology - in addition to health professionals and policy makers"--

This book offers a comprehensive comparative overview of the development, structure, and policies of trade unions in all the 27 Member States of the EU from 2000 to 2020. It presents an in-depth analysis of the neoliberal challenges facing these organizations and their strategic and policy responses.

"In The Specter of Materialism Petrus Liu examines what "materialism" means for progressive queer theory and Marxist approaches to China's postsocialist economy. Liu recasts the history of queer theory in light of the Beijing Consensus, arguing that North American queer theory's inability to sustain a materialist analysis is the result of its positioning of the United States, rather than China, as the focal point of contemporary global capitalism. Analyzing relations of gender and sexuality that have been reconfigured by China's global capitalist accumulation-such as dagongmei (female migrant laborers in China's export-oriented sunbelt) and money boys (rural-to-urban sex workers)-Liu argues for a materialist queer theory that positions China at the center"--

"Public law is amongst the most fast-moving, contentious, and exciting areas of law to study. The past few years has been a period of unprecedented constitutional and political change. Although the UK has now left the European Union (EU), there is continuing debate over aspects of the post Brexit relationship with the EU, over devolution, and over possible repeal of the Human Rights Act 1998. There is much written on public law and an ever-growing range of key texts for university courses on the subject, including on constitutional and administrative law, as it is often referred to: the big textbooks, shorter works, and a number of 'text, cases, and materials' books. For us, it is this latter type which provides an ideal medium for an account of the legal aspects of the United Kingdom constitution. There are three main reasons. First, it gives students a chance to read at first hand the analysis and arguments of academics and participants in the constitution, most aspects of which are contested: the extracts convey the debates and disagreements most effectively. In selecting the materials for use in this book and adding our commentaries we have attempted to focus on subjects that are in the mainstream of the majority of public law or constitutional and administrative law courses in the United Kingdom. We have focused on legal aspects of the constitution, not least because most users of the book will be studying public law as a core area of their undergraduate law studies, but we hope that non-lawyers will also find the book of value"--

Seit Jahrzehnten sind die von prominenten Autorinnen und Autoren verfassten Essays der Rubrik "Die Gegenwart" ein festes Angebot an die Leser der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung. "Die Gegenwart" gab es als eigenständige Zeitschrift noch vor der Gründung der F.A.Z. "Die Zukunft beginnt jeden Augenblick", hieß es programmatisch am 24. Dezember 1945 in der ersten Ausgabe. Auch heute will das Ressort "Die Gegenwart" nicht nur eine Bestandsaufnahme sein, sondern Orientierung in unübersichtlicher Zeit bieten. Unverändert aktuell bleibt das Credo: "Halten wir uns an diese zuversichtliche Überzeugung, die der Zukunft nur gibt, was der Gegenwart abgerungen worden ist". Die kompakten, exzellent geschriebenen Texte, die dieses Buch versammelt, weisen weit über den Tag hinaus und helfen, das von vielen als "Zeitenwende" empfundene Jahr 2022 in seinen Konsequenzen zu erfassen

"The objective of this book is to collect the state-of-art and innovative ideas on empowering rural communities through the concept of smart village and Industry 5.0 from the expert in the domain of agriculture process improvement, sustainability, irrigation system, transportation, smart education, sanitation, safe drinking water, internal road, tree plantation, health, and many other factors. This book will be able to create interest in the reader to fill the gap between the smart city infrastructure and suitability in the village. This will provide an opportunity for the researcher and developed to think about how a village could get benefit from smart technologies and achieve sustainability"--

"Losing her smile to synkinesis after unresolved Bell's Palsy changed how Faye Linda Wachs was seen by others and her internal experience of self. In Metamorphosis, interviewing over 100 people with acquired facial difference challenged her presumptions about identity, disability, and lived experience. Participants described microaggressions, internalizations, and minimalizations, and their impact on identity. Heartbreakingly, synkinesis disrupts the ability to have shared moments. When one experiences spontaneous emotion, wrong nerves trigger mis-feel and misperception by others. One is misread by others and receives confusing internal information. Communication of and to the self is irrevocably damaged. Wachs describes the experience as a social disability. People found a host of creative ways to reinvigorate their sense of self and self-expression. Like so many she interviewed, Wachs experiences a process of change and growth as she is challenged to think more deeply about ableism, identity, and who she wants to be"--

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Key Players -- 1. My Last Day in the Situation Room -- 2. From the Department of Pediatrics to the Department of Defense -- 3. The Trump Team Calls -- 4. Nature's Warning Shots: H1N1 and Ebola -- 5. The Pandemic Begins -- 6. Who's in Charge? -- 7. Seven Days in March -- 8. FEMA Full-Court Press -- 9. Anybody That Wants a Test . . . -- 10. Rapid Antigen Tests Finally Arrive -- 11. Inside the White House Coronavirus Task Force -- 12. Keeping the United States Biosafe in the Twenty-First Century -- Notes -- Index.

Dieser Reader versammelt Fachbeiträge, die im Rahmen des dreijährigen Projekts "Rassismus, Antisemitismus, Rechtsextremismus - Stärkung von Strafverfolgung und Opferschutz" entstanden sind und bündelt die Analysen, Erkenntnisse und Erfahrungen aus den zwei im Zeitraum 2017 bis 2022 durchgeführten Projekten des Deutschen Instituts für Menschenrechte (DIMR) zu Rassismus und Antisemitismus im Kontext von Strafverfolgung und Opferschutz.

"'Business Groups and the Thailand Economy' examines the role of business groups, specifically state, local and foreign capitals in the economic development of emerging economies and highlights why business groups are essential in helping a country break out of the middle-income trap. Yabushita reviews Thailand's industrial and economic growth strategies through the local and international investors and explains why business groups are one of the key drivers of economic advancement and why they help to avoid the middle-income trap. The author also examines their business power expansion methods, including selection and concentration, political influence, mergers and acquisitions, outward FDI and business alliances. The book concludes with policy recommendations of how the government can engage business groups to accelerate high tech industrialization and create jobs. The middle-income trap issue faced by Thailand would be of interest to many emerging economies especially scholars and policy makers researching on Asian business and management, Asian economies, developmental economics, political economy, policy studies, corporate governance, entrepreneurship, and private company strategic management in emerging countries."

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Author biographies -- Chapter 1 'Organizational semiotics': Toward an integrated research agenda -- Chapter 2 Social semiotics and organization studies: Building an effective bridge -- Chapter 3 The resemiotisation of health information in a family planning organization -- Chapter 4 Organizational identity design: The evolution of a university web homepage -- Chapter 5 The emotional civil servant: On the multimodal construction of affect in 'platform of values' texts of Swedish public authorities -- Chapter 6 Communicating in space: Relating the physical and the social in open-plan offices -- Chapter 7 Redesigning organizations through the built environment: Changes at a university campus -- Chapter 8 How multimodal structures constitute organization: The meaning of structure in offline and online shopping environments -- Chapter 9 'It's not just getting a biopsy': Transposing 'take-home' messages from the operating theatre to a proforma -- Chapter 10 Texturize and texturization in organizational identity design and legitimacy work -- Afterword -- Index.