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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.

About the author -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- How to use this book -- The book?s : style and purpose -- Defining suicide and self-harm -- Current service provision : risk assessment, management and medication -- Other approaches to helping the suicidal -- What is solution focused brief therapy? -- Suicide encounters : the crucial first ten minutes -- The solution focused approach in working with the suicidal -- Case study : reg and "the demons calling from the deep" -- Some more case vignettes -- Connecting with people and the shift towards suicide mitigation -- Working on the phone with the suicidal person -- Blaming those who take their lives -- International solution focused applications to suicide prevention -- Zero suicides : should this be our goal? -- Where do we go from here? -- Appendix 1 flow diagram for an episode of treatment -- Appendix 2: specialist solution focused training workshops -- References -- Index

How do National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) address the negative human rights impacts of dictatorial regimes and violent conflict, and thus successfully contribute to transitional justice? This is the focus of this study, which presents examples from the experiences of the NHRIs in Afghanistan, Georgia and Uganda. The provision of justice for past and present violations of human rights should reduce impunity. Addressing the issue of transitional justice facilitates peace processes, but requires strong state institutions and the political will to act. When justice for past and present abuses is denied, conflicts linger on. "Peace-versus-justice" is a false dichotomy, and one that the international community has rightly left behind. The study shows how three NHRIs have interacted with transitional justice aims and processes and draws lessons from what the NHRIs have learned while doing so.

The reader is presented with 20 case examples, so-called Critical Incidents (CIs), which explain how to ensure a smooth encounter between Germany and Russia. The CIs promote empathy and the ability to switch perspectives. At the same time, they allow for new viewpoints in the context of German-Russian interactions. The publication addresses topics such as hospitality and welcoming culture, the expression of frustration and criticism, action processes, professional collaboration, external image, linguistic exchange, and approaches to overcome language barriers. Each of the 20 case examples from everyday life, school, and university are described by means of questions and possible solutions, which participants in language courses and exchange programmes as well as employees of international organisations can use to prepare themselves for short or long-term stays in Germany or Russia.

Over recent decades, local governments in Europe have come increasingly under pressure facing a multitude of old and new challenges. Consequently, a wave of political and administrative reforms aimed at coping with these pressures has changed local governance in many nations. Local governments are not only responsible for efficient administration, high-quality services and a legally correct execution of laws, but also for ensuring legitimacy, democratic participation, accountability and trust – often under the conditions of austerity. This volume presents research findings of an international project on local public sector reforms in 31 countries and derives advice for policymakers to shape the future of local governments in Europe. The authors address basic reform areas and key features of local governance like autonomy, performance and participation. The book targets academics, students and practitioners interested in (the future of) local government

"As policing has recently become a major topic of public debate, it was also a growing area of ethnographic research. Writing the World of Policing brings together an international roster of scholars who have conducted fieldwork studies of law enforcement in disadvantaged urban neighborhoods on five continents. How, they ask, can ethnography illuminate the role of the police in society? Are there important aspects of policing that are not captured through interviews and statistics? And how can the study of law enforcement shed light on the practice of ethnography? What might studying policing teach us about the epistemological and ethical challenges of participant observation? Beyond these questions of crucial interest for criminology and, more generally, the social sciences, Writing the World of Policing provides a timely discussion of one of the most problematic institutions in contemporary society."--Provided by publisher

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.

"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.