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In this article the Bauhaus school's style is seen as representative of architecture and design in the context of contemporary global society. Bauhaus has influenced generations of artists, architects, and designers – in Germany, the North and South Americas, and beyond, including, for instance, and with particular significance, the architecture and design of Brazil. The legendary Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, who had German roots, designed for the Berlin Hansaviertel, and for the Brazilian capital, and other architectural projects. His architecture and design fulfilled the central demands of the Bauhaus school: that it should be functional and create a sense of community. Contemporary architecture and design in this style therefore offers new achievements and knowledge based on the current politics of sustainable development, and social and economic integration, alongside the essential Bauhaus heritage of function and community. This proposal covers the new possibilities of the Bauhaus worldview: the creation of new forms for depicting human ideals, through a focus on aesthetics and technology, combined with Niemeyer's impact on architecture and design, still vibrant at the beginning of this century in Brazil. New styles and forms have arisen as offshoots from Bauhaus, which convey the values of each culture through the construction of a collective 'picture' world. The Bauhaus of today expresses the culture industry, dialectically considering innovation and applied art as a path from the modern design of the industrial revolution to 'eco-design'. In this sense, Bauhaus is still significant in its role of linking together art, technology, and industry. Innovation as a dynamic determination of the moment, present in all epochs, is understood as a potent force for maintaining tradition. In addition to a chronological record of the influence of Bauhaus, the significant projects of Niemeyer will be discussed. Finally, this proposal presents two perspectives on the 'schism' between architecture and technology. ...

Explores meaning of business leadership in the social sector; case of LTC, a French catering company employing disadvantaged individuals. Social and political dilemmas of unemployment, promotion of employment for the disadvantaged, and success and growth strategies of LTC, and replication of the LTC model.

This paper investigates energy efficiency issues in modern lifts, based on the VDI 4707 guidelines, in the context of KLEEMANN-LESS research project, funded by national resources and the EU. The above analysis is applied to various lift types manufactured by the Greek multinational company ΚLEEMAN HELLAS. The obtained results indicate the relationship between critical technical parameters, such as the elevator driving system type and the standby energy consumption, according to the aforementioned standard. Furthermore, in the current work, new techniques for energy savings are proposed, employing realistic scenarios, which significantly enhance energy efficiency. Experimental work shows that an energy saving of up to 40% can be achieved. The outputs of the current work are not limited to lift models manufactured by KLEEMAN HELLAS, but concern the majority of lift manufacturers as well. ; This work has been supported by the research program "Less energy consumption in elevators (LESS)", Project Code 09SYN-32-829, within the Greek Research Activity 'COOPERATION'. This is co-financed by the European Union (European Social Fund) and Greek national funds.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- 1 Introduction: studying privacy, digital anthropology, and Pentecostalism -- 2 Method and reflection -- 3 Setting the field: people, place, language, and technology -- 4 Treasures of darkness: nightlife & -- surveillance -- 5 Hidden and incomplete: Middle-Class houses -- 6 In a relationship with God: the discretness of Social Media -- 7 Conclusions: towards an ethnography of privacy -- Index.

The relevant scientific problems include characterizing different models of public order in the context of divergence of economic development; deepening the understanding of public welfare as a measure to meet the needs and results of public policy; assessment of the cognitive and practical potential of modern concepts of historical and institutional explanation of the differentiation of the world economy for the optimization of regulatory measures of economic policy in Ukraine. The purpose of this article is to determine the features of the relationship between the nature of institutions, in particular institutional models of public order, on the one hand, and economic development and social welfare on the other. The research methodology combines the tools of evolutionary economic theory, comparative analysis and institutional history. The theoretical basis is the idea of D. North on the types of institutional models of public order. Despite the historical and national features of the formation and functioning of different economic systems, their success and failure can be explained on the basis of typology of North's models. The open access model is more conducive to economic growth and social welfare. Ensuring the institutional conditions for the realization of human rights, economic freedom and legal protection contributes to higher results. Instead, the restricted access model is characterized by slow economic growth and vulnerability to challenges, low level of social consolidation and economic solidarity, dominance of hierarchical ties and insecurity of property rights. It has been proven that institutional changes aimed at increasing public welfare should ensure the transformation of the economic model towards greater availability of resources and opportunities, replacing extractive relations and vertical relations with partnerships and horizontal relations. Economic policy analysis and evaluation is an important component of successful institutional transformations.

The world of wine encompasses endless variety. Consumers want to understand what makes one bottle of wine different from another; vintners need to know how to communicate what makes their product distinctive. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork in Italy and France as well as interviews with critics and analysis of market data, Giacomo Negro, Michael T. Hannan, and Susan Olzak provide an unprecedented sociological account of the dynamics of wine markets. They demonstrate how the concepts of genre and collective identity illuminate producers' choices, whether they are selling traditional or nonconventional wines.Winemakers face a fundamental choice: produce an existing style and develop an identity as a proponent of tradition or embrace foreign, new, or emerging categories and be seen as an innovator. To explain this dilemma, Negro, Hannan, and Olzak develop the notion of wine genres, or shared understandings among producers and the public. Genres emerge through the social structure of production, including factors such as group solidarity, social cohesion, and collective action, and become key reference points for critics and consumers. Wine Markets features case studies of the creation of a modern wine genre and a countermovement against modernism in Piedmont, the failure of producers of Brunello di Montalcino in Tuscany to define a clear collective identity, and the emergence of the biodynamic wine movement in Alsace. This book not only offers keen sociological insight into the wine world but also sheds new light on the logic of markets and organizations more broadly

The season's records of a Canadian ice hockey league provided the data for an investigation of aggression in relation to crowd size and competition. Crowd size was positively related to aggression in one season but not in the preceding year. Aggression increased over the three periods of game play but not across the season. League standing and the score existing during play were both significantly related to aggression. However, the aggression displayed by a team in a match was unrelated to their league standing vis a vis that of their opponents. The results are generally discussed within a frustration-aggression framework.

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Editors' Introduction -- From Empathy to Intersubjectivity: The Phenomenological Approach -- Methodological and metaphysical issues -- Philosophy as a Fallible Science -- Back to Husserl. Reclaiming the Traditional Philosophical Context of the Phenomenological 'Problem' of the Other: Leibniz's "Monadology" -- Plural Absolutes? Husserl and Merleau-Ponty on Being-In-a-Shared-World and its Metaphysical Implications -- Egological Reduction and Intersubjective Reduction -- Pathological Reduction and Hermeneutics of the Normal and the Pathological: the Convergence between Merleau-Ponty and Canguilhem -- The experience of self and other -- Empathy, Intersubjectivity, and the World-Orienting Other -- Self: Temporality, Finitude and Intersubjectivity -- Towards Self-divided Subjectivity. Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenological- Ontological Theory of Intersubjectivity -- Phenomenology of the Inapparent and Michel Henry's Criticism of the Noematic Presentation of Alterity -- Perception, emotion, and trust -- Listening to Others: Music and the Phenomenology of Hearing -- (Un)learning to see others. Perception, Types, and Position-Taking in Husserl's Phenomenology -- Envy, Powerlessness, and the Feeling of Self-Worth -- Social Anxiety, Self-Consciousness, and Interpersonal Experience -- Trauma, Language, and Trust -- The social world: empathy, morality, and metapolitics -- Empathy, Sympathetic Respect, and the Foundations of Morality -- Tolerance: A Phenomenological Approach -- Anger, Hatred, Prejudice. An Aristotelian Perspective -- Habit, Attention and Affection: Husserlian Inflections -- Die äusserste Feindschaft: Heidegger, Anti-Judaism, and the War to End All Wars -- Heidegger's Metapolitics: Phenomenology, Metaphysics, and the Volk -- Index