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Mythologie ist spannender als jeder Krimi, grausamer als jeder Horrorfilm und leidenschaftlicher als jeder Liebesroman! Wie hiess er doch noch gleich, der Meeresgott bei den Griechen? Was waren bloss die zehn Aufgaben des Herkules? Antworten auf solch typische Fragen nach dem Motto "Wie war das nochmal?" finden Sie in diesem wunderbaren Nachschlagewerk, das zum Schmökern einlädt. Der Schwerpunkt des Buches liegt auf der griechischen und römischen Mythologie, aber auch nordeuropäische Gestalten wie König Artus und Beowulf, weniger bekannte Sagen aus Ägypten und Asien und die Mythen lateinamerikanischer Völker wie den Maya, Azteken und Inkas kommen nicht zu kurz

"Introduction The end is nigh for financial regulation. The financial revolution will not be televised; rather, it will be liked, shared, tweeted, and direct messaged. Data technology, such as "apps" for cellular phones, may prove to be as transformative for investing as the telegraph or even the Internet. But few people understand how these technologies impact investing. This book explores the legal dynamics and ramifications of financial regulations in the digital age and offers readers a detailed, but digestible, account of corporate finance history. It pairs lively narrative with brief applications of economic theory. This provides readers with the historical context and theoretical framework needed to understand the true nature of finance today - and where finance is trending. This book focuses on the impact of technology on investing in regulated markets. Legal regulation is lagging behind technology, leaving ordinary investors and main street entrepreneurs without safe and profitable financial options. This book recommends that "competitive regulation" can improve financial markets. Our story of U.S. corporate finance unfolds in three eras. The first era began with the ratification of the Constitution in the 1790s and ended with the Great Depression in the 1930s. The second era began with the Securities Act of 1933 and ended with the Great Recession of 2007-08. The third era began with the emergence of Bitcoin in 2008 and continues to this day. We are living in the third era of corporate finance. With this timeline in mind, we can see qualities that are particular to each of these eras. The first era is characterized by unbridled capitalism, rugged individualism, and western expansion. In the first era, there were many financial markets across the young nation, but they were relatively disconnected"--

In Eastern Europe privatization is now a mass phenomenon. The authors propose a model of it by means of an illustration from the example of Poland, which envisages the free provision of shares in formerly public undertakings to employees and consumers, and the provision of corporate finance from foreign intermediaries. One danger that emerges is that of bureaucratization. On the broader canvas, mass privatization implies the reform of the whole system, the creation of a suitable economic infrastructure for a market economy and the institutions of corporate governance. The authors point out the need for a delicate balance between evolution - which may be too slow - and design - which brings the risk of more government involvement than it is able to manage. A chapter originating as a European Bank working paper explores the banking implications of setting up a totally new financial sector with interlocking classes of assets. The economic effects merge into politics as the role of the state is investigated. Teachers and graduate students of public/private sector economies, East European affairs; advisers to bankers or commercial companies with Eastern European interests

Chapter 1. Setting the scene for children's rights and education: understanding the aims of education -- Chapter 2. Article 29 and its translation into policy and practice in scotland: an impossible right to education? -- Chapter 3. teaching and learning together": one model of rights-centred secondary teacher preparation in the United States -- Chapter 4. The educational rights of children with disability in Australia -- Chapter 5. Children's educational rights in Poland: policy, school realities and ideological tensions -- Chapter 6. Children's education: from a right to a capability -- Chapter 7. It takes a village to overcome school failure and dropout: innovative educational practices promoting children's educational rights in Portugal -- Chapter 8. The education of first nations children in Australian educational contexts: some children are more equal than others -- Chapter 9. Ability-grouping and rights-based education in the neoliberal era: an irresolvable combination? -- Chapter 10. Participation and social exclusion – are they mutually exclusive phenomena? -- Chapter 11. Education rights and the convergence of provision and participation -- Chapter 12. Small voices bring big messages. Experiences of student voice and inclusion in Spanish schools -- Chapter 13. Inclusive and exclusionary practices concerning a child's voice in preschool: the perspective of polish student teachers' experiences -- Chapter 14. How to recognise and support participation in schools — critical considerations -- Chapter 15 -- Children's human rights and intercultural education: curricular prescriptions and teachers' practices in Switzerland -- Chapter 16. Countering scepticism and mistrust towards children's rights within education: fulfilling article 29 in Mexico through teachers' training on human rights -- Chapter 17. Perspectivising children's rights and education in research: analysing the teaching and learning of children's rights on the basis of human rights education (hre) theory -- Chapter 18. Child rights knowledge and children's education rights. .

We live in a 'risk society' where the identification, distribution and management of risks, from new technology, environmental factors or other sources are crucial to our individual and social existence. In The Social Contours of Risk, Volumes1 and 2, two of the world's leading and most influential analysts of the social dimensions of risk bring together their most important contributions to this fundamental and wide-ranging field. Volume II centres on the analysis and management of risk in society, in international business and multinationals, and globally. The 'acceptability' of risk to an individual depends on the context, whether the larger society or in, for example, a corporate framework. Their work clarifies the structures and processes for managing risks in the private sector and the factors that produce or impede effective decisions. The authors demonstrate that corporate culture is crucial in determining risk management. They analyse the transfer of corporate risk management systems from industrial to developing countries, and how globalization is spreading and creating new kinds of risk - the combination of traditional and modern hazards presented by climate change, technology transfer and economic growth. They describe the new priorities and capacities needed to deal with these enhanced vulnerabilities around the globe.

Der 2. Band der Bibliographie der Friedenstheorien bearbeitet einen Zeitraum, der in der Forschung der letzten Jahrzehnte besonders wenig Beachtung gefunden hat. Es werden fast 300 Autor:innen referiert, davon über 100 ausführlich kommentiert. Damit wird erstmals die Vielfalt der Ansätze erkennbar. Nur zu wenigen dieser Autor:innen gab es bisher einschlägige Literatur, weshalb ausführliche Einleitungen den historisch-politischen und ideengeschichtlichen Kontext der referierten Diskurse vorstellen. Beachtet werden Historiker:innen, politische Kommentator:innen, Völkerrechtler:innen, Ökonom:innen, Soziolog:innen, Philosoph:innen, Theolog:innen und Autor:innen für die Friedensbewegung. Außereuropäische Literatur wird berücksichtigt, soweit sie in europäischen Sprachen bekannt ist.