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Europe Reforms Labour Markets

– Leaders‘ Perspectives –

By: Aart De Geus,Eric Thode,Christiane Weidenfeld

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Europe Reforms Labour Markets

– Leaders‘ Perspectives –

By: Aart De Geus,Eric Thode,Christiane Weidenfeld

Focusing on the perspectives of policy-makers, the book's purpose is to closely examine the factors that make for successful/unsuccessful labor market related policy reforms. The aim is to reveal the political aspects, namely the chances, challenges and impediments to designing labor market reforms and to establish the conditions under which successful labor market reforms can be advocated, adopted and implemented (process). The work includes exclusive interviews with twelve former European prime ministers about the labour market reforms they initiated in their respective countries: Wolfgang Schüssel Anders Fogh Rasmussen Andrus Ansip François Fillon Gerhard Schröder Georgios Papandreou Mario Monti Jan Peter Balkenende Jerzy Buzek Iveta Radicová Luis Rodríguez Zapatero Tony Blair

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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311038583X

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9783110385830

Visions of the Courtly Body

The Patronage of George Villiers, First Duke of Buckingham, and the Triumph of Painting at the Stuart Court

By: Christiane Hille

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Visions of the Courtly Body

The Patronage of George Villiers, First Duke of Buckingham, and the Triumph of Painting at the Stuart Court

By: Christiane Hille

In 1603, the beginning of the Stuart reign, painting was of minor importance at the English court, where the elaborately designed masques of Inigo Jones served as the prime medium of royal representation. Only two decades later, their most celebrated performer, George Villiers, the First Duke of Buckingham had assembled one of the largest and most significant collections of painting in early seventeenth-century Europe. His career as the personal and political favourite of two succeeding monarchs – James I and Charles I – coincides with the commission of a number of highly ambitious portraits from the hands of Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck that displayed his body in spectacular manner. As the first comprehensive study of Buckingham’s patronage of the visual arts, this book is concerned with the question of how the painted image of the courtier transferred strategies of social distinction that had originated in the masque to the language of painting. Establishing a new grammar in the competing rhetorics of bodily self-fashioning, this recast notion of portraiture contributed to an epistemological change in perceptions of visual representation at the early modern English court, in the course of which painting advanced to the central art form in the aesthetics of kingship.

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Walter de Gruyter

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305006255X

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9783050062556

Rewriting Language

How Literary Texts Can Promote Inclusive Language Use

By: Christiane Luck

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Rewriting Language

How Literary Texts Can Promote Inclusive Language Use

By: Christiane Luck

Inclusive language remains a hot topic. Despite decades of empirical evidence and revisions of formal language use, many inclusive adaptations of English and German continue to be ignored or contested. But how to convince speakers of the importance of inclusive language? Rewriting Language provides one possible answer: by engaging readers with the issue, literary texts can help to raise awareness and thereby promote wider linguistic change.

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206

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UCL Press

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1787356671

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A Block in Time

A New York City History at the Corner of Fifth Avenue and Twenty-Third Street

By: Christiane Bird

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A Block in Time

A New York City History at the Corner of Fifth Avenue and Twenty-Third Street

By: Christiane Bird

Gotham meets The Island at the Center of the World in this dazzling history of a single block in Manhattan from the Age of Exploration to the present. This is the story of New York City, told through the prism of one block, bordered by Twenty-third Street to the south, Twenty-fourth Street to the north, Fifth Avenue and Broadway to the east, and Sixth Avenue to the west. It's a story of forest and cement, bird cries and taxi horns, theaters and factories, gambling dens and gourmet foods. It's also the story of high life and low life, immigrants and tourists, farmers and aristocrats, crooked cops and moral reformers, toy stores and social climbers--from Solomon Pieters, a former slave who was the first owner of the block, to Alexander “Clubber” Williams, the notorious police officer of the 1870s who accepted bribes and wielded his club with equal impunity, to Marietta Stevens, whose Sunday-night socials and scheming became the stuff of legend. Greed and generosity, guilt and innocence, extravagance and degradation--all have flourished on this one Manhattan block, emblematic of the city as a whole. Venturing from the opulent halls of the Fifth Avenue Hotel to grimy Sixth Avenue brothels, from the era of the Lenape to that of the Dutch, from the Gilded Age to the twentieth century, when the block and the city were transformed into something closely resembling the Manhattan we know today, A Block in Time takes us on a dynamic, exhilarating tour of history. Welcome to New York, past and present, and hear all the sordid and edifying stories this small patch of land has to tell.

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393

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1632867443

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9781632867445

From Anesthesia to X-Rays

Innovations and Discoveries That Changed Medicine Forever

By: Christiane Nockels Fabbri

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From Anesthesia to X-Rays

Innovations and Discoveries That Changed Medicine Forever

By: Christiane Nockels Fabbri

Easy to read and to use, this A-to-Z mini-encyclopedia covers the most important medical innovations of the last 200 years. Medical innovation is an extremely important topic—and one to which relatively little study has been devoted. This volume is designed to introduce readers to the history and development of key advances in the science and practice of medicine. It explores issues in medical history and provides perspective on contemporary scientific research and innovation. It also provides a backdrop against which to evaluate current headlines, such as the discoveries of live samples of smallpox virus in an unused storage room at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and incidents of bubonic plague in China and Colorado. Although the entries in this single-volume resource describe how each innovation works, this is not intended as a technical text. Instead, the focus is on the context in which each innovation was developed and on its lasting importance in the field of medicine. Through these fascinating accounts, readers will be able to trace the evolution and legacy of key innovations and to see how other sectors of society—such as industry and the military—have affected and been affected by advances in the field of medicine.

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173

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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ISBN 13

9798216087403

The Rise of Market Society in England, 1066-1800

By: Christiane Eisenberg

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The Rise of Market Society in England, 1066-1800

By: Christiane Eisenberg

Focusing on England, this study reconstructs the centuries-long process of commercialization that gave birth to the modern market society. It shows how certain types of markets (e.g. those for real estate, labor, capital, and culture) came into being, and how the social relations mediated by markets were formed. The book deals with the creation of institutions like the Bank of England, the Stock Exchange, and Lloyd’s of London, as well as the way the English dealt with the uncertainty and the risks involved in market transactions. Christiane Eisenberg shows that the creation of a market society and modern capitalism in England occurred under circumstances that were utterly different from those on the European continent. In addition, she demonstrates that as a process, the commercialization of business, society, and culture in England did not lead directly to an industrial society, as has previously been suggested, but rather to a service economy.

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175

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Berghahn Books

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1782382593

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9781782382591

The Women Impressionists

A Sourcebook

By: Russell T. Clement,Christiane Erbolato-Ramsey,Annick Houze

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The Women Impressionists

A Sourcebook

By: Russell T. Clement,Christiane Erbolato-Ramsey,Annick Houze

This reference organizes and describes the primary and secondary literature surrounding Mary Stevenson Cassatt, Berthe Morisot, Eva Gonzalès, and Marie Bracquemond, four major women Impressionist artists. The Impressionist group included several women artists of considerable ability whose works and lives were largely ignored until the advent of feminist art criticism in the early 1970s. They studied, worked, and exhibited with their male counterparts including Degas, Manet, Monet, and Pissarro. The entries provide extensive coverage of the careers, critical reception, exhibition history, and growing reputations of these four female artists and discuss women Impressionists in general as they shared the challenges of becoming accepted as professional artists in late 19th-century society. Containing nearly 900 citations of manuscripts, books, articles, reproductions, films, exhibitions, and reviews, this unique sourcebook will appeal to both art and women's studies scholars. Each artist receives a biographical sketch, chronology, information about individual and group exhibitions and reviews, and a primary and secondary bibliography, which captures details about the artist's life, career, and relationship with other artists. An art works index and names index complete the volume.

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212

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313032467

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9780313032462

Neither East Nor West

One Woman's Journey Through the Islamic Republic of Iran

By: Christiane Bird

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Neither East Nor West

One Woman's Journey Through the Islamic Republic of Iran

By: Christiane Bird

Combining reminiscence, travelogue, history, and interviews with Iranians from all walks of life, a journey through modern-day Iran reveals a nation shrouded by misunderstanding, cultural stereotypes, and hostility.

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420

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Simon and Schuster

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0671027565

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9780671027568

Migrants and Health

Political and Institutional Responses to Cultural Diversity in Health Systems

By: Christiane Falge,Carlo Ruzza

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Migrants and Health

Political and Institutional Responses to Cultural Diversity in Health Systems

By: Christiane Falge,Carlo Ruzza

Integrating newcomers and minorities into the social fabric of receiving countries has become one of the crucial challenges of contemporary Western societies. This volume seeks to understand patterns of changing institutional practices and public policies where the challenges of including cultural diversity into the social fabric are most pronounced: namely the health care system. In recent years, pro-migrant organizations and anti-racist activists have repeatedly voiced and politicized demands to improve migrants' access to the health-care system giving rise to a lively debate about migrants' access to health-care and responsiveness of institutions to their needs. In a nutshell the book achieves the following: - Provides a conceptual framework to link patterns of political advocacy/mobilization and processes of migrants' socio-political inclusion - Integrates the (multi-disciplinary) literature on political mobilization and accommodating cultural diversity in an innovative fashion - Presents a comparative study on accommodating diversity in the health care system from a comparative transatlantic perspective - Generates insight into best practices in the health care system that will be of interest to scholars as well as practitioners in the field. The analysis of health care provision offers an opportunity to test new public policy strategies and the policy consequences of the now widespread aspiration to include citizens more fully in designing and implementing them.

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Routledge

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1317096576

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9781317096573

Empowering Visions

The Politics of Representation in Hindu Nationalism

By: Christiane Brosius

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Empowering Visions

The Politics of Representation in Hindu Nationalism

By: Christiane Brosius

Illustrated throughout with over 80 full colour images, Empowering Visions explores the role of images and mass media in Hindutva, the cultural-nationalist movement that moved to the forefront of politics in India in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The author investigates when, why and in what way the moving image, and videos in particular, came to play a central role in the process of self-representation and self-constitution of Hindu nationalist groups and organizations in the overlapping domains of politics, religion and economics.The videos analysed here have been included in massive public political spectacles such as election rallies and patriotic pilgrimages. They have also been employed for in-house indoctrination and emotive mobilization of militant cadres for temporary, often violent, agitation. With the help of these media, different political and cultural-religious organizations, subsumed under the umbrella of Hindutva, have attempted to constitute notions of 'Indianness' as 'Hinduness', to challenge and provoke both the government in power and specific minority groups such as the Muslims in India. How this was done, who stood behind the making of the videos and how they were made up and distributed, are questions that lie at the heart of this study. At a time when public attention is focused on transnational, and mostly Islamicist movements, "Empowering Visions" argues that both transnationalism and nationalism have to be treated with equal attention, and to some extent ought to be seen as intertwined processes. This book is unique in its presentation and discussion of profound ethnographic data through interviews with a variety of spokesmen for the Hindutva movement. It also offers an in-depth analysis of visual and audio-visual material that has so far been unrecognized and unexplored in scholarly works.

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380

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Anthem Press

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1843311348

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9781843311348

A Sourcebook of Gauguin's Symbolist Followers

Les Nabis, Pont-Aven, Rose + Croix

By: Russell T. Clement,Annick Houzé,Christiane Erbolato-Ramsey

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A Sourcebook of Gauguin's Symbolist Followers

Les Nabis, Pont-Aven, Rose + Croix

By: Russell T. Clement,Annick Houzé,Christiane Erbolato-Ramsey

Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) played a seminal role in Post-Impressionist France. In his writings and work, he favored emotional responses to nature over intellectual uses of lines, color, and composition. In 1888 he and Emile Bernard developed a new style called Synthetism. Three groups of Gauguin's symbolist followers—Pont Aven, Les Nabis, and Rose + Croix pursued and extended the Synthetist vision. This sourcebook focuses on the most prominent adherents of the three schools directly affected by Gauguin's symbolism. This is the first comprehensive, single-volume guide and bibliography of artists in these three important French avant-garde movements. This work covers the entire careers of 16 artists by providing biographical sketches, chronologies, citations to primary and secondary literature and exhibitions.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313085102

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9780313085109

The Witness House

Nazis and Holocaust Survivors Sharing a Villa During the Nuremberg Trials

By: Christiane Kohl

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The Witness House

Nazis and Holocaust Survivors Sharing a Villa During the Nuremberg Trials

By: Christiane Kohl

Offers a glimpse into an Allied guesthouse where victors, vanquished, and victims lodged together during the Nuremberg trials.

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279

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Other Press, LLC

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1590513797

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9781590513798

Studying the Enemy

Japan Hands in Republican China and Their Quest for National Identity, 1925-1945

By: Christiane Reinhold

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Studying the Enemy

Japan Hands in Republican China and Their Quest for National Identity, 1925-1945

By: Christiane Reinhold

Unlike the majority of contemporary scholarly works that examine Sino-Japanese relations between 1925 and 1945, this study de-emphasizes the story of conflict and war in favor of one that revolves around the way in which the Chinese intellectually encountered the "enemy", the Japanese.

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Routledge

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1317795016

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Europe Reforms Labour Markets

– Leaders‘ Perspectives –

By: Aart De Geus,Eric Thode,Christiane Weidenfeld

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Europe Reforms Labour Markets

– Leaders‘ Perspectives –

By: Aart De Geus,Eric Thode,Christiane Weidenfeld

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The Witness House

Nazis and Holocaust Survivors Sharing a Villa During the Nuremberg Trials

By: Christiane Kohl

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The Witness House

Nazis and Holocaust Survivors Sharing a Villa During the Nuremberg Trials

By: Christiane Kohl

Offers a glimpse into an Allied guesthouse where victors, vanquished, and victims lodged together during the Nuremberg trials.

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A Block in Time

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From Anesthesia to X-Rays

From Anesthesia to X-Rays

The Rise of Market Society in England, 1066-1800

The Rise of Market Society in England, 1066-1800

The Women Impressionists

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Neither East Nor West

Neither East Nor West

Migrants and Health

Migrants and Health

Empowering Visions

Empowering Visions

A Sourcebook of Gauguin's Symbolist Followers

A Sourcebook of Gauguin's Symbolist Followers

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The Witness House

Studying the Enemy

Studying the Enemy

Europe Reforms Labour Markets

Europe Reforms Labour Markets

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The Witness House

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