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Sorbonne symposium : Adam Smith on empire, the invisible hand and the progress of society / guest editor: Benoit Walreavens -- Intorduction / Benoit Walreavens -- Adam Smith and Immanuel Kant as critics of empire : international trade companies and global commerce versus jus commercii / Fotini Vaki -- Apoikia and colonia : Smith's comments on the 'recent disturbances' in the colonies / Roberto Resende Simiqueli -- Smith on the colonialism and republicanism of the moderns compared with that of the ancients / Barry Stocker -- Adam Smith's four-stages theory of socio-cultural evolution : new insights from his 1749 lecture / Thierry C. Pauchant -- The idea of historical progress in the transition from englightenment historiogrpahy to classical political economy / Nathanial Wolloch -- Adam Smith's invisible hand : a brief history / Toni Vogel Carey -- Adam Smith in intrenation's contexts / guest editor : Jeng-Guo S. Chen -- Introduction / Jeng-Guo S. Chen --

The first volume of The Cambridge History of Communism deals with the tumultuous events from 1917 to the Second World War, such as the Russian Revolution and Civil War, the revolutionary turmoil in post-World War I Europe, and the Spanish Civil War. Leading experts analyse the ideological roots of communism, historical personalities such as Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky and the development of the Communist movement on a world scale against this backdrop of conflict that defined the period. It addresses the making of Soviet institutions, economy, and society while also looking at mass violence and relations between the state, workers, and peasants. It introduces crucial communist experiences in Germany, China, and Central Asia. At the same time, it also explores international and transnational communist practices concerning key issues such as gender, subjectivity, generations, intellectuals, nationalism, and the cult of personality

Presents an Australian perspective on the issues in expressive arts in early childhood education by authors who are researching, teaching and actively involved in the arts as theatre directors, painter designers, adjudicators, advisers, actors or arts administrators in community organizations at the national and international level. It constitutes a collective look at the arts and young children. This volume covers a wide spectrum of arts areas, including the roles of the teacher as co-worker, collaborator, guide, facilitator and stage-manager; the tertiary educator in indigenous art, improvizational drama, and movement and dance; and the early childhood adviser in national, non-commercial television production. In addition, there is discussion on the national broadcasting standards required for children's commercial television production in Australia, the value of language and literature in the lives of young children and experimental programmes for theatre companies and symphony orchestras.

Dienstleistungen machen den weitaus größten Teil der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Wertschöpfung aus. Dabei weisen Dienstleistungen eine ganze Reihe betriebswirtschaftlicher Besonderheiten auf, die eine einfache Übertragung der Erkenntnisse aus dem Sachleistungsmanagement unmöglich werden lassen. -- Daher werden in der komplett überarbeiteten dritten Auflage von Dienstleistungs-Marketing-Management folgende Gebiete vertieft erläutert: -- • Begriff und Abgrenzung von Dienstleistungen -- • Kennzeichen -- • Dienstleistungsstrategie -- • Dienstleistungsangebot -- • Dienstleistungsentgelt -- • Dienstleistungskommunikation -- • Dienstleistungsverfügbarkeit -- • Dienstleistungspräsentation -- • Personalen interner Faktor -- • Dienstleistungsprozesse -- • Personaler Externer Faktor -- • Informationsbasis -- • Internationales Dienstleistungsmanagement -- • e-Services -- • Institutionale und sektorale Besonderheiten. -- Dabei dienen zahlreiche Beispiele aus der Dienstleistungspraxis und über 160 Abbildungen zur Veranschaulichung. / »Services-Marketing-Management« -- Services account for the largest part of overall economic output. They have managirial peculiarities which do not allow an easy transfer of knowledge from the goods management. The new edition of Services-Marketing-Management is suitable for professionals and managers in service companies or service centers of business and administration, as well as for students of economic programs and participants of demanding practical training

This book highlights various aspects of shale gas production and discusses the associated problems, which have greatly influenced the current situation on the global gas market. It focuses on issues such as production technologies, environmental protection, and the impacts of shale gas production on human beings. Further, it investigates the role of shale gas in the development and implementation of foreign policy of many nations that welcomed the possibility to produce this hydrocarbon in their own countries. Taking into consideration the information published by world energy research centers, the prospects of shale gas production in different regions of the world are examined in detail. Given its coverage and scope, the book will greatly benefit specialists in the areas of hydrocarbon production, international relations and foreign policy, world economics and technologies, ecology and environmental protection

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Part I: Historical and Empirical Studies -- 1 Historical Perspectives of Popular Culture -- 2 The Debate Over Art and Popular Culture: A Synopsis -- Excursus A: Notes on the Theater and the Sermon -- 3 Eighteenth Century England: A Case Study -- Excursus B: The Debate on Cultural Standards in Nineteenth Century England -- 4 The Reception of Dostoevski in Pre-World War I Germany -- 5 The Biographical Fashion -- 6 The Triumph of Mass Idols -- Excursus C: Some Thoughts on the 1937 Edition of International Who's Who -- Part II: Contributions to the Philosophy of Communication -- 7 On Sociology of Literature (1932) -- 8 On Sociology of Literature (1948) -- 9 Humanistic Perspectives of David Riesman's -- 10 Popular Culture: A Humanistic and Sociological Concept

"Cover " -- "Inhalt" -- "Abbildungen" -- "Tabellen" -- "Abkürzungen" -- "Vorwort und Danksagung" -- "1. Einführung" -- "Politik der Sichtbarkeit und transnationale Bewegungen" -- "Unterschiedliche LGBT-Rechte innerhalb Europas" -- "Gründe für das Gewähren oder Vorenthalten von LGBT-Rechten" -- "Alternative Erklärungen" -- "Wie entsteht Wandel?" -- "Wie ist dieses Buch aufgebaut?" -- "2. Politik der Sichtbarkeit und LGBT-Rechte in Europa" -- "Die Politik der Sichtbarkeit" -- "Wandel durch Sichtbarkeit" -- "Sichtbarkeitskanäle" -- "Anfechtung: Wahrnehmen von Bedrohung, Internalisierung neuer Normen" -- "Anwendungsbereiche und Limitationen: die Valenz der Sichtbarkeit" -- "Forschungsdesign und -methoden" -- "3. Transnationale Bewegungen: Gelegenheiten, Akteure und Mechanismen" -- "Europäisierung und Gelegenheiten für den transnationalen Aktivismus" -- "Mobilisierung über die Strukturen des schwul-lesbischen Lebens" -- "Normunternehmer" -- "Mechanismen des Wandels in Polen" -- "Zusammenfassung und Schlussfolgerungen" -- "4. Einhaltung der neuen Normen: Die Gesetzgebung zum Schutz von LGBT-Rechten" -- "Gespaltenes Europa: innerstaatlicher versus transnationaler Einfluss" -- "Wie verbreiten sich Rechtsgesetze?" -- "Analyse der Einführung der Pro-LGBT-Gesetzgebung" -- "Partnerschaftgesetze – ein besonderer Fall" -- "Zusammenfassung und Schlussfolgerungen" -- "5. Internalisierung neuer Normen: Einstellung gegenüber sexuellen Minderheiten" -- "Wie lässt sich Einstellungswandel erklären?" -- "Analyse der Einstellungen gegenüber LGBT-Minderheiten" -- "Gesetzgebung als Sichtbarkeit" -- "Zusammenfassung und Schlussfolgerungen" -- "6. Polens und Sloweniens Antwort auf internationale Normen" -- "Unterschiedliche Bedrohungswahrnehmungen in Europa" -- "Sichtbarkeit und Bedrohungswahrnehmung" -- "Wie manifestiert sich Bedrohung?

"Inhaltsverzeichnis" -- "Vorwort. Reflexive Resilienz: Der Beitrag des Bayerischen Forschungsverbundes ForChange zum Resilienzdiskurs" -- "Literatur" -- "1 Einleitung. Vom multidisziplinären Vergleich von Resilienzkonzepten zu interdisziplinären Lernprozessen" -- "Literatur" -- "Teil I Streitfrage Resilienz. Zwischen Kritik und Rekonstruktion" -- "2 Resilienz als Trendkonzept. Über die Diffusion von Resilienz in Gesellschaft und Wissenschaft" -- "1 Einleitung" -- "2 Gesellschaftliche und wissenschaftliche Diffusion von Resilienz" -- "3 Methoden" -- "3.1 Culturomics" -- "3.2 Artikelzählungen" -- "3.3 Zitationsanalyse" -- "4 Ergebnisse und Diskussion" -- "4.1 Gesellschaftliche Diffusion des Resilienzbegriffs" -- "4.1.1 Situation in Deutschland" -- "4.1.2 Internationaler Vergleich" -- "4.2 Wissenschaftliche Diffusion des Resilienzbegriffs" -- "4.3 Gesellschaftliche und wissenschaftliche Diffusion im Vergleich" -- "4.4 Disziplin-übergreifende Beziehungen" -- "5 Limitationen" -- "6 Implikationen und Fazit" -- "Literatur" -- "3 Resilienz – Macht – Hoffnung. Der Resilienzbegriff als diskursive Verarbeitung einer verunsichernden Moderne" -- "1 Einleitung" -- "2 Der Resilienzbegriff braucht die Krise" -- "3 Der Resilienzbegriff als Symptom einer Reflexiven Moderne" -- "3.1 Die verunsichernde Moderne" -- "3.2 Der Resilienzbegriff als Reaktion auf die objektivierte Verunsicherung und eine auf Dauer gestellte Krisenhaftigkeit" -- "4 Die verschiedenen Vorstellungen hinter dem Resilienzbegriff" -- "4.1 Resilienzbeobachtungen" -- "4.2 Resilienz als Anpassungsfähigkeit" -- "4.3 Die problematische Übertragung des Resilienzbegriffs in sozialwissenschaftliche Disziplinen" -- "5 Resilienz als Fortsetzung der Governance mit anderen Mitteln" -- "5.1 Der Governance- und der Resilienzbegriff als Reaktion auf Entgrenzungsprozesse

"This title was first published in 2000. Drawing upon fieldwork conducted with Amnesty International, the Labour Party, Tenants' Associations and the Exodus collective, this work examines the nature of political activism. The author combines Habermasian theory and empirical fieldwork to critically analyze the nature of the political public sphere. While adopting a Habermasian approach, Clark recognizes the problems and limitations associated with notions of civil society and communicative action. An empirically formed critical stance is maintained throughout the work. Three main themes are drawn from this research: an analysis of structures of political participation; presentation of a typology of political activism?; analysis of the public process of participation. Essential reading for those studying public participation and its relationship to activism, as well as for students of politics, public policy and sociology."--Provided by publisher.

"Given the urgency of environmental problems, how we communicate about our ecological relations is crucial. Environmental Communication Pedagogy and Practice is concerned with ways to help learners effectively navigate and consciously contribute to the communication shaping our environmental present and future. The book brings together international educators working from a variety of perspectives to engage both theory and application. Contributors address how pedagogy can stimulate ecological wakefulness, support diverse and praxis-based ways of learning, and nurture environmental change agents. Additionally, the volume responds to a practical need to increase teaching effectiveness of environmental communication across disciplines by offering a repertoire of useful learning activities and assignments. Altogether, it provides an impetus for reflection upon and enhancement of our own practice as environmental educators, practitioners, and students."--Provided by publisher.

This second volume in the Palgrave Studies in Practice: Global Fashion Management series focuses on core strategies of branding and communication of European luxury and premium brands. Brand is a critical asset many firms strive to establish, maintain, and grow. It is more so for fashion companies when consumers purchase styles, dreams and symbolic images through a brand. The volume starts with an introductory chapter that epitomizes the essence of fashion brand management with a particular emphasis on emerging branding practices, challenges and trends in the fashion industry. The subsequent five cases demonstrate how a family workshop from a small town can grow into a global luxury or premium brand within a relatively short amount of time. Scholars and practitioners in fashion, retail, branding, and international business will learn how companies can establish a strong brand identity through innovative strategies and management.

This book explores comparative political theory through the study of a range of places and periods with contributions from a diverse group of scholars. The volume builds on recent work in political theory, seeking to focus scholarly attention on non-Western thought in order to contribute to both political theory and our understanding of the modern globalized world. Featuring discussions of international law and imperialism, regions such as South Asia and Latin America, religions such as Buddhism and Islam, along with imperialism and revolution, the volume also includes an overview of comparative political theory. Contributing scholars deploy a variety of methodological and interpretive approaches, ranging from archival research to fieldwork to close studies of texts in the original language. The volume elucidates the pluralism and dissensus that characterizes both cross-national and intra-national political thought.

The book provides an overview of key issues in the debate concerning the emergence of active citizenship in Europe. The specific focus of enquiry is the promotion of patterns of civic and political engagement and civic and political participation by the EU and the relative responses drawn by organizations of the civil society operating at the supranational level and in Italy, Turkey and the UK. More specifically, it addresses key debates on the engagement and participation of organized civil society across the permanent state of euro-crisis, considering the production of policy discourses along the continuum that characterized three subsequent and interrelated emergency situations (democratic, financial and migration crises) that have hit Europe since 2005. Active Citizenship in Europe will be of interest to students and scholars in a range of fields, including sociology, politics, European studies and international studies.

"This book sheds light on financial decision making and lays down the major biases in human behavioral decision making, such as over-confidence, naive extrapolation, attention, and risk aversion, and how they lead investors and corporations to make considerable mistakes in investment. It draws on a large body of literature, from psychology and social psychology to, most importantly, behavioral economics and behavioral finance. It also looks at the progress in behavioral finance research over recent decades and includes research outputs based on retail and institutional investors from the United States, China, and many other international financial markets. The book focuses on China's financial reforms and economic transition and includes many cases from that country to highlight the importance of behavioral finance and investor education. It therefore provides much needed in-depth understanding of the Chinese capital market"--The publisher.

This book offers a new approach to studying foreign aid in the 21st century. While most analysts focus on the differences between traditional and emerging donors, Stallings and Kim here argue that a more important distinction is between East Asian donors and their western counterparts. Asian donors - Japan, South Korea, and China - cross the traditional and emerging divide and demonstrate a particular approach to development that draws on their own dramatic success. As East Asia continues its upward trajectory of economic development, the politics of aid can reveal surprising truths about the objectives and mechanisms of soft power and diplomacy in creating new networks in the region. This book will be of interest to NGO workers, scholars, and students of international relations, a critical part of research into Asia's rise and the emerging spheres of influence.