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The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (Christmas Classics Series): Fantasy Classic

By: E. T. a. Hoffmann

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The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (Christmas Classics Series): Fantasy Classic

By: E. T. a. Hoffmann

The Nutcracker and the Mouse King is a Christmas Classic written in 1816, by E. T. A. Hoffmann on which the famous ballet The Nutcracker is based. In the story young Marie Stahlbaum's favorite Christmas toy, the Nutcracker, comes alive and, after defeating the evil Mouse King in battle, whisks her away to a magical kingdom populated by dolls. The story begins on Christmas Eve at the Stahlbaum house. Marie, seven, and her brother, Fritz, eight, sit outside the parlor speculating about what kind of present their godfather, Drosselmeyer, who is a clockmaker and inventor, has made for them. They are at last allowed in, where they receive many splendid gifts... E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) was a German Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist.

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8027331633

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9788027331635

India and the China Crisis

By: Steven A. Hoffmann

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India and the China Crisis

By: Steven A. Hoffmann

The earliest accounts of the Sino-Indian boundary dispute cast India as the victim of Chinese betrayal and expansionism, but a more favorable image of China vis-a-vis India has appeared since the 1970s. Since then, China has been portrayed as the victim of India's self-righteous intransigence, with the 1962 India-China war occurring because China was provoked into practicing a justifiable form of realpolitik. These two seemingly irreconcilable academic schools of thought still exist. In this case study of India's decision-making between the years of 1959 and 1963, the critical first years of its border conflict with China, Steven A. Hoffmann takes an important step in reconciling the conflicting views of the crisis and of the ascribed reasons for the war that ensued in 1962. Drawing on interviews with Indian officials, military officers, and political leaders and on memoirs and other sources gathered during concentrated research in India, England, and North America between 1983 and 1986, the author provides previously unknown material on the perceptions and realities of Indian decision making. A model for international crisis behavior, as proposed by Michael Brecher, is used to help establish a balanced treatment of information and offer insights into such questions as why India and China both failed to understand one another's frontier psychologies and strategies, and why the Nehru government did not succeed in managing the conflict. This richly detailed and carefully researched approach is invaluable in this time when India and China are once again exploring ways to establish a solid relationship. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

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0520377885

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9780520377882

Co-operative Workplace Dispute Resolution

Organizational Structure, Ownership, and Ideology

By: Elizabeth A. Hoffmann

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Co-operative Workplace Dispute Resolution

Organizational Structure, Ownership, and Ideology

By: Elizabeth A. Hoffmann

Understanding the complex dynamics involved in workplace disputes helps improve the way organizations deal with unwelcome but inevitable occurrences. These issues have been researched from different perspectives, but previously such research has failed to ask how flattened organizational form might impact ways of resolving disputes, focusing instead on what occurs in conventional, hierarchical organizations only. In Co-operative Workplace Dispute Resolution, Elizabeth Hoffmann considers the question of how workplace disputes are raised in the absence of formal hierarchy. In contrast to conventionally organized businesses, co-operatives attempt to evenly distribute power and ownership and encourage worker control through egalitarian ideologies, flattened management structures and greater information sharing. Like conventional businesses, though, they still pursue goals relating to profit and efficiency. Dr Hoffmann argues that lessening hierarchy and sharing power, as occurs in co-operatives, provides insight into how greater worker involvement and ownership might operate in a less extreme and more modest form in conventional mainstream business. This book focuses on dispute resolution strategies at matched pairs of worker co-operatives and conventional businesses in three very different industries: coal mining, taxicab driving, and wholefood distribution. The author’s central finding is that the worker co-operative members have access to more dispute resolution strategies than their conventionally employed counterparts. This leads to the conclusion that benefits might be achieved by conventional businesses that wish to embrace specific attributes usually associated with co-operatives, including management-employee cooperation, shared ownership, or greater workplace equality.

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Routledge

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1317159667

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9781317159667

Lactation at Work

Expressed Milk, Expressing Beliefs, and the Expressive Value of Law

By: Elizabeth A. Hoffmann

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Lactation at Work

Expressed Milk, Expressing Beliefs, and the Expressive Value of Law

By: Elizabeth A. Hoffmann

In recent decades, as women entered the US workforce in increasing numbers, they faced the conundrum of how to maintain breastfeeding and hold down full-time jobs. In 2010, the Lactation at Work Law (an amendment to the US Fair Labor Standards Act) mandated accommodations for lactating women. This book examines the federal law and its state-level equivalent in Indiana, drawing on two waves of interviews with human resource personnel, supervising managers, and lactating workers. In many ways, this simple law - requiring break time and privacy for pumping - is a success story. Through advocacy by allies, education of managers, and employee initiative, many organizations created compliant accommodations. This book shows legal scholars how a successful civil rights law creates effective change; helps labor activists and management personnel understand how to approach new accommodations; and enables workers to understand the possibilities for amelioration of workplace problems through internal negotiations and legal reforms.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108804640

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9781108804646

Extreme Environmental Change and Evolution

By: Ary A. Hoffmann,Peter A. Parsons

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Extreme Environmental Change and Evolution

By: Ary A. Hoffmann,Peter A. Parsons

Most natural populations intermittently experience extremely stressful conditions. This book discusses how such conditions can cause periods of intense selection, increasing both phenotypic and genetic variation, and allowing organisms with novel characteristics to be first generated and then established in the population. The authors argue that stressful conditions can have a major impact on the environment, backing up their arguments with evidence from the fossil record. They suggest further that, as a consequence, periods of stress must be taken into consideration when long term conservation strategies are planned, particularly as stressful conditions are becoming increasingly prevalent as a result of human activities. This broad overview will be of great interest to students and researchers in the field of evolutionary biology, genetics, ecology, palaeontology and conservation biology.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521446597

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9780521446594

A Systematic Catalogue of the Zygaenidae

(Lepidoptera: Zygaenidae)

By: Hoffmann,W G Tremewan

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A Systematic Catalogue of the Zygaenidae

(Lepidoptera: Zygaenidae)

By: Hoffmann,W G Tremewan

This work reflects modern concepts of systematics at the generic, specific and subspecific levels and aims to update the now outdated catalogue by Reiss & Tremewan (1967), and to bring stability into the nomenclature. The author, date and literature reference of each nominal taxon are cited, together with full synonymies. Type localities of taxa at species and subspecies levels are provided, as well as the range of each species and the distribution of each subspecies. Larval host-plants are listed under each zygaenid species (and vice-versa) and are also indexed by family and species. Literature references are annotated with the same key-words that were used in the Bibliography, to which the Catalogue is a companion and to which this work also contains an updating supplement. It concludes with an index of valid nominal taxa and their synoyms.

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9004632190

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9789004632196

Society of Pleasures

Interdisciplinary Readings in Pleasure and Power During the Reign of Louis XIV

By: Kathryn A. Hoffmann

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Society of Pleasures

Interdisciplinary Readings in Pleasure and Power During the Reign of Louis XIV

By: Kathryn A. Hoffmann

In the days of Louis XIV, the experience of pleasure was as much a social and political tool as an essential ingredient in personal life. From the Memories of Louis XIV comes the term "society of pleasures" to describe the masses who lived under Louis's rule, the collective body that became enthralled in the trances of pleasure and thus secured within the bonds of regal power. Kathryn Hoffmann, in an interdisciplinary volume, explores this society by studying the strange couplings of pleasure, power, and knowledge that took shape within it. Across tales of harems and figs, narratives on chocolate and secret histories, she analyzes the politics of pleasure and knowledge arising in notions of public rights, conundrums of aesthetics, and the politics of erotics. In so doing, Hoffmann reveals that the society of pleasures was not law, or policy, or an exact procedure of totalizing power, but a state and a people where the logic of pleasure always contained the trap of violent oppression; a place where desire and force, the caress and the grip, informed and fed upon each other. A unique work that manages to intertwine both canonical literary works and documents from the margins of history, philosophy, and gastronomy, Society of Pleasures locates the passions and essence of a legendary society and traces the routes to the modern in the fissures of an absolutist dream."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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Palgrave Macmillan

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0312165072

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9780312165079

POETRY ITS ORIGIN NATURE & HIS

By: Frederick A. Hoffmann

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POETRY ITS ORIGIN NATURE & HIS

By: Frederick A. Hoffmann

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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1363501216

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Book's by A. Hoffmann

The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (Christmas Classics Series): Fantasy Classic

The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (Christmas Classics Series): Fantasy Classic

India and the China Crisis

India and the China Crisis

Co-operative Workplace Dispute Resolution

Co-operative Workplace Dispute Resolution

Lactation at Work

Lactation at Work

Extreme Environmental Change and Evolution

Extreme Environmental Change and Evolution

A Systematic Catalogue of the Zygaenidae

A Systematic Catalogue of the Zygaenidae

Society of Pleasures

Society of Pleasures

POETRY ITS ORIGIN NATURE & HIS

POETRY ITS ORIGIN NATURE & HIS

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