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Eat Surf Live

The Cornwall Travel Book

By: Vera Bachernegg,Katharina Maria Zimmermann

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Eat Surf Live

The Cornwall Travel Book

By: Vera Bachernegg,Katharina Maria Zimmermann

Eat Surf Live is a whole new approach to travel guides with its beautiful photography and wonderful design, which showcases the best of Cornwall. Travel with the authors as they visit secret spots, encounter local personalities and taste their way through this foodie Mecca. Part travel guide, part photo journal, part recipe book, Eat Surf Live is brimming with tips for a successful stay in this surfer's paradise.

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Summersdale Publishers LTD

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1786856875

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The Transformation of the Social Right to Healthcare

Evidence from England and Germany

By: Katharina Böhm

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The Transformation of the Social Right to Healthcare

Evidence from England and Germany

By: Katharina Böhm

This pathbreaking book investigates welfare state change in the area of health care- a field widely neglected by comparative welfare state research. While some work on health care expenditure exists, health care rights have not been systematically studied since social rights have exclusively focused on entitlement to cash benefits. Addressing this research gap, Böhm analyses in what way the social right to health care has been modified in the course of general welfare state transformation since the late 1970s. Taking England and Germany as examples, she assesses how health care reforms conducted under the conditions of constrained budgets, demographic ageing, and rapid medical progress, have altered access to and generosity of public health care systems over the past 35 years. The book’s findings significantly increase our understanding of social rights and reveals fundamental differences of approach: while Germany provides absolute and enforceable rights to health care for each (entitled) individual, English social health care rights are directed towards the population as a whole and contingent upon the availability of resources, i.e. they are not absolute and not enforceable. This distinction between individual and collective social rights will be an important contribution to the theory of social rights given its applicability to other types of social rights and its usefulness in tracing changes in social rights over time.

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Routledge

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1317013549

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9781317013549

Environmental Impact Assessment in the United Kingdom and Germany

Comparision of EIA Practice for Wastewater Treatment Plants

By: Katharina Marr

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Environmental Impact Assessment in the United Kingdom and Germany

Comparision of EIA Practice for Wastewater Treatment Plants

By: Katharina Marr

First published in 1997, this volume examines wastewater treatment plants in the UK and their counterparts in Germany in the wake of the International Study of the Effectiveness of Environmental Assessment (1996). Having originated in the United States National Environment Policy Act of 1969, the basic concept of EIAs has been adopted around the world and are highly diverse today. This study aims to examine, compare and suggest improvements for EIA practices as applied to wastewater treatment in the UK and Germany.

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Routledge

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0429831951

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9780429831959

Fictions of Dementia

Narrative Modes of Presenting Dementia in Anglophone Novels

By: Susanne Katharina Christ

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Fictions of Dementia

Narrative Modes of Presenting Dementia in Anglophone Novels

By: Susanne Katharina Christ

Taking its cues from both classical and post-classical narratologies, this study explores both forms and functions of the representation of dementia in Anglophone fictions. Initially, dementia is conceptualised as a narrative-epistemological paradox: The more those affected know what it is like to have dementia, the less they can tell about it. Narrative fiction is the only discourse that provides an imaginative glimpse at the subjective experience of dementia in language. The narratological modelling of four ‘narrative modes’ elaborates how the paradox becomes productive in fiction: Depending on the narrative perspective taken, but also on the type of narration, the technique for representing consciousness and the epistemic strategy of narrating dementia, the respective narrative modes come with different prerequisites and possibilities for narrating dementia. The analysis of four contemporary Anglophone dementia fictions based on the developed model reveals their potential functions: Fiction allows readers to learn about the challenges of dementia, grants them perspective-taking, it trains cognitive flexibility, and explores the meaning of memory, knowledge, narrative and imagination, and thus also offers trajectories of a cultural coping with dementia.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110789876

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9783110789874

A Political History of Big Science

The Other Europe

By: Katharina C. Cramer

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A Political History of Big Science

The Other Europe

By: Katharina C. Cramer

This book investigates the political history of Big Science in Europe in the late twentieth century and the early twenty-first century, characterised by the founding histories of two collaborative, single-sited facilities namely the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France and the European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser (European XFEL) in Schenefeld, Germany. Under the heading of the other Europe, this book presents the history and politics of European Big Science as an alternative road to (Western) European integration besides the mainstream political integration process of the European Economic Community and the European Union. It shows that Big Science has a role to play in European politics and policymaking and that the crucial and unavoidable symbiosis between science, technology and politics brings the creation of Big Science projects back to geopolitical realities.

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Springer Nature

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3030500497

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9783030500498

Handbook of Reading Theological German

By: Christopher Ryan Jones,Katharina Hirt

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Handbook of Reading Theological German

By: Christopher Ryan Jones,Katharina Hirt

The Handbook of Reading Theological German is the premier resource for equipping those interested in reading and translating original German source materials and preparing academics for German comprehension examination. The book is ideal for students in biblical studies, church history, Jewish studies, and theology. Coauthored by Katharina Hirt, a native German speaker and professional linguist, and Christopher Ryan Jones, a native English speaker and doctoral candidate in biblical studies, this collaboration draws on the latest developments in linguistics to present a cutting-edge teaching methodology for graduate students learning to read German for research. Attuned to the specific needs of English speakers learning German, this handbook is well suited for independent study or for use in the classroom. Providing abundant exercises and readings, Jones and Hirt’s work provides an excellent entry point for students required to learn theological German. The Handbook of Reading Theological German provides: An introduction to German grammar A demonstration of the role that German theology has had in the development of modern Jewish and Christian practices. Guided readings and biographies of six major German theologians and philosophers Further, advanced readings with minimal guidance from contemporary authors in the areas of Hebrew Bible, New Testament, Jewish studies, church history, and theology, so that students can focus on literature from their chosen field of study

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Zondervan Academic

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0310119391

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9780310119395

Goethe's Art of Living

By: Katharina Mommsen,Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,John Whaley

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Goethe's Art of Living

By: Katharina Mommsen,Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,John Whaley

Goethe researcher Katharine Mommsen draws the reader into the fascinating life of Germany's greatest literary genius, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832). We discover how ordinary items such as the food we eat or the beverages we drink, and everyday activities like hiking, ice-skating, horseback riding, dancing the waltz, and music-making acquire fresh meaning within Goethe's own pantheistic life philosophy. He directed his wisdom toward keeping body and soul healthy, lively, focused, and strong as a basis for a fuller life - for him it became an essential part of the poet's worldly gospel. This book which is composed around hundreds of excerpts from Goethe's works, correspondences and conversations transcends biography, and shows us the poet's art of living in its richness in wit and wisdom, goodness, and love for humanity.

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Trafford Publishing

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1412003393

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9781412003391

Personalized Medicine as Innovation

What Can Germany Learn from the USA

By: Katharina Kichko

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Personalized Medicine as Innovation

What Can Germany Learn from the USA

By: Katharina Kichko

Katharina Kichko supports the first Personalized Medicine learnings as she provides an approach overview in general as well as reimbursement and regulatory policies in particular. In focus stays analysis of the current Personalized Medicine in the U.S. and Germany as well as its preconditions for a wider implementation in the medical practice. Results have shown that the U.S. – as early knower – have the most projects as well as personalized drugs and therapies, while Germany – as a follower – has a significant number of projects and personalized products and more to come in future.

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Springer Nature

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3658278439

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9783658278434

The Re-Use of Urban Ruins

Atmospheric Inquiries of the City

By: Hanna Katharina Göbel

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The Re-Use of Urban Ruins

Atmospheric Inquiries of the City

By: Hanna Katharina Göbel

How do urban ruins provoke their cultural revaluation? This book offers a unique sociological analysis about the social agencies of material culture and atmospheric knowledge of buildings in the making. It draws on ethnographic research in Berlin along the former Palace of the Republic, the E-Werk and the Café Moskau in order to make visible an interdisciplinary regime of design experts who have developed a professional sensorium turning the built memory of the city into an object of aesthetic inquiry.

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Routledge

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1317630211

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The Music of Joseph Joachim

By: Katharina Uhde

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The Music of Joseph Joachim

By: Katharina Uhde

Joseph Joachim (1831-1907) was arguably the greatest violinist of the nineteenth century. But Joachim was also a composer of virtuoso pieces, violin concertos, orchestral overtures and chamber music works. Uhde's book will be thestandard work on the music of Joseph Joachim for many years to come.

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Boydell & Brewer

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1783272848

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Corporate Responsibility and Human Resource Management

A Path from Antecedents to Impacts

By: Lena Katharina Göbel

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Corporate Responsibility and Human Resource Management

A Path from Antecedents to Impacts

By: Lena Katharina Göbel

In the past 30 years, corporate social responsibility (CSR), including the link between CSR and human resource management (HRM), has entered the agenda of managers and management researchers. In this context, "Responsible HRM" refers to the complete employee lifecycle, focusing on fair and transparent pay allocation and promotion decisions, especially with regard to discrimination based on demographic aspects such as gender, age, and race. Organizations can use Responsible HRM to tackle "grand challenges", such as (gender) inequality, within the organization and beyond, thus contributing to global problem solving. The empirical studies of this dissertation are at the intersection of CSR and HRM. They stress antecedents as well as the impact of CSR and Responsible HRM. Study 1 takes a broad and multifaceted perspective on CSR and its impact on organizational reputation. The remaining three studies focus on Responsible HRM and gender equality: Study 2 uses a comprehensive survey data analysis to explore the effects of the German "Transparency in Wage Structures Act", which aims to reduce the gender pay gap. Study 3 examines antecedents and outcomes of equality-enhancing HRM practices, especially pay transparency, by studying the relationships of works councils and management. Study 4 identifies the organizational advantages of promoting female employees into leadership positions, thus speaking to the problem of inequality in career opportunities.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3947095082

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9783947095087

Introduction to Symplectic Dirac Operators

By: Katharina Habermann,Lutz Habermann

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Introduction to Symplectic Dirac Operators

By: Katharina Habermann,Lutz Habermann

This volume is the first one that gives a systematic and self-contained introduction to the theory of symplectic Dirac operators and reflects the current state of the subject. At the same time, it is intended to establish the idea that symplectic spin geometry and symplectic Dirac operators may give valuable tools in symplectic geometry and symplectic topology, which have become important fields and very active areas of mathematical research.

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Springer

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3540334211

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9783540334217

Wheat - An Exceptional Crop

Botanical Features, Chemistry, Utilization, Nutritional and Health Aspects

By: Herbert Wieser,Peter Koehler,Katharina A. Scherf

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Wheat - An Exceptional Crop

Botanical Features, Chemistry, Utilization, Nutritional and Health Aspects

By: Herbert Wieser,Peter Koehler,Katharina A. Scherf

Wheat - An Exceptional Crop: Botanical Features, Chemistry, Utilization, Nutritional and Health Aspects presents the exceptional position of wheat among food crops. The book demonstrates the benefits and drawbacks of wheat from a wheat science, nutrition and technology perspective. Organized into 13 chapters, chapters 1 - 3 present a basic overview of wheat; chapters 4 - 6 explore the overall benefits of wheat for the general population, and chapters 7 - 13 assess wheat-related disorders that affect a small portion of the population. Wheat - An Exceptional Crop: Botanical Features, Chemistry, Utilization, Nutritional and Health Aspects is an exceptional reference for those working in and researching the fields of agronomy, food chemistry, food technology, nutrition, allergology and gastroenterology. - Explores the botanical features of wheat, chemical composition of wheat grains, and the cultivation and milling of wheat - Highlights wheat-based food and feed, wheat-based raw materials, and the nutritional value of wheat - Discusses principles of wheat hypersensitivities and various wheat-related disorders

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Elsevier

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0128217162

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9780128217160

Cartographic Humanism

The Making of Early Modern Europe

By: Katharina N. Piechocki

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Cartographic Humanism

The Making of Early Modern Europe

By: Katharina N. Piechocki

Piechocki calls for an examination of the idea of Europe as a geographical concept, tracing its development in the 15th and 16th centuries. What is “Europe,” and when did it come to be? In the Renaissance, the term “Europe” circulated widely. But as Katharina N. Piechocki argues in this compelling book, the continent itself was only in the making in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Cartographic Humanism sheds new light on how humanists negotiated and defined Europe’s boundaries at a momentous shift in the continent’s formation: when a new imagining of Europe was driven by the rise of cartography. As Piechocki shows, this tool of geography, philosophy, and philology was used not only to represent but, more importantly, also to shape and promote an image of Europe quite unparalleled in previous centuries. Engaging with poets, historians, and mapmakers, Piechocki resists an easy categorization of the continent, scrutinizing Europe as an unexamined category that demands a much more careful and nuanced investigation than scholars of early modernity have hitherto undertaken. Unprecedented in its geographic scope, Cartographic Humanism is the first book to chart new itineraries across Europe as it brings France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Portugal into a lively, interdisciplinary dialogue.

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University of Chicago Press

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022664121X

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9780226641218

National Pastimes

Cinema, Sports, and Nation

By: Katharina Bonzel

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National Pastimes

Cinema, Sports, and Nation

By: Katharina Bonzel

Sports have long fascinated filmmakers from Hollywood and beyond, from Bend It Like Beckham to Chariots of Fire to Rocky. Though sports films are diverse in their approach, style, and storytelling modes, National Pastimes discloses the common emotional and visual cues that belie each sports film’s underlying nationalistic impulses. Katharina Bonzel unravels the delicate matrix of national identity, sports, and emotion through the lens of popular sports films in comparative national contexts, demonstrating in the process how popular culture provides a powerful vehicle for the development and maintenance of identities of place across a range of national cinemas. As films reflect the ways in which myths of nation and national belonging change over time, they are implicated in important historical moments, from Cold War America to the class dynamics of 1980s Thatcherite Britain to the fragmented sense of nation in post-unification Germany. Bonzel shows how sports films provide a means for renegotiating the boundaries of national identity in an accessible, engaging form. National Pastimes opens up new ways of understanding how films appeal to the emotions, using myth-like constructions of the past to cultivate spectators’ engagement with historical events.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496215524

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9781496215529

Commercial Realism and EU Trade Policy

Competing for Economic Power in Asia and the Americas

By: Katharina L. Meissner

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Commercial Realism and EU Trade Policy

Competing for Economic Power in Asia and the Americas

By: Katharina L. Meissner

The European Union (EU) is at the forefront of engaging in external trade relations outside of the World Trade Organization (WTO) with entire regions and economic powerhouses. Understanding why and how the EU engages in one of the most active fields of external relations is crucial. This book fills a gap in the literature by analysing motives on the modes – bilateralism, inter-regionalism, or multilateralism - of EU external trade relations towards regional organizations in Asia and Latin America outside of the WTO. In particular, it examines why the EU turned from interregional to bilateral external trade relations towards these world regions – a question that is, to date, under-researched. By developing and testing an original approach rooted in realist theorizing coined ‘commercial realism’, it examines systematically the explanatory power of commercial realism against liberal-institutionalist approaches dominant in the literature on EU external relations through five in-depth case studies. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students in EU Politics/Studies, EU external relations, inter-regionalism and more broadly to International Relations and International Political Economy.

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Routledge

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1351047620

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9781351047623

Taxing Consumption in the Digital Age

Challenges for European VAT

By: Katharina Artinger

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Taxing Consumption in the Digital Age

Challenges for European VAT

By: Katharina Artinger

Die Digitalisierung hat enorme Auswirkungen auf die Grundidee der Mehrwertsteuer: den Austausch von Leistungen für Konsumzwecke. Die Dissertation konzentriert sich auf den Austausch von scheinbar "kostenlosen" Online-Dienstleistungen und die Zustimmung der Kunden zur Verwertung ihrer persönlichen Daten. Diese können der Mehrwertsteuer unterliegen, wobei die Bemessungsgrundlage auf Grundlage der Anbieterkosten berechnet werden muss. Die Ergebnisse basieren auf einer Analyse der EU-Mehrwertsteuer als Verbrauchsteuer im Vergleich zu anderen theoretischen Konsummodellen. Auch andere digitale Geschäftsmodelle, wie die Sharing Economy oder Bitcoins, können unter die Idee der EU-Mehrwertsteuer als Verbrauchsteuer subsumiert werden. Dissertationspreis der Nürnberger Steuergespräche e.V. 2020

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Nomos Verlag

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3748910452

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9783748910459

Towards Consistency in International Investment Jurisprudence

A Preliminary Ruling System for ICSID Arbitration

By: Katharina Diel-Gligor

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Towards Consistency in International Investment Jurisprudence

A Preliminary Ruling System for ICSID Arbitration

By: Katharina Diel-Gligor

Investor-State arbitration is currently a much-debated topic, both within the legal community and in the public at large. In Towards Consistency in International Investment Jurisprudence, Katharina Diel-Gligor addresses the alleged proliferation of inconsistent decision-making in this field – one of the main points of concern raised in the ongoing discussions. After exploring whether such criticism is appropriate at all, she goes on to examine the different causes, forms, and manifestations of the inconsistencies that exist through a detailed analysis of ICSID arbitration. The author then canvasses possible approaches to reform and concludes that an ICSID preliminary ruling system – the practicalities of which are set out in the study – is a suitable means for enhancing consistency in investment arbitration and moving towards a jurisprudence constante.

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BRILL

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9004337911

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9789004337916

Applied Combustion Diagnostics

By: Katharina Kohse-Hoinghaus,Jay B. Jefferies

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Applied Combustion Diagnostics

By: Katharina Kohse-Hoinghaus,Jay B. Jefferies

The editors have assembled a world-class group of contributors who address the questions the combustion diagnostic community faces. They are chemists who identify the species to be measured and the interfering substances that may be present; physicists, who push the limits of laser spectroscopy and laser devices and who conceive suitable measuremen

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CRC Press

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1498719414

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Unifying and Harmonising Substantive Law and the Role of Conflict of Laws

By: Katharina Boele-Woelki

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Unifying and Harmonising Substantive Law and the Role of Conflict of Laws

By: Katharina Boele-Woelki

Traditionally, conflict of law rules designate only national substantive law as the applicable law. Many unifying and harmonizing substantive law instruments of both States and non-State organizations, however, are designed specifically for application to cross-border relationships. Achieving this objective is, generally, hindered by conflict of law rules. The requirements which non-national law needs to fulfil in order to be accepted as the law governing a cross-border relationship deserve clarification. Not only uniform law, such as the CISG and the envisaged European substantive law instrument for the law of obligations, but, particularly, instruments which are aimed at harmonizing substantive law, challenge the established systems of conflict of laws. In seeking a positive approach towards the application of a law other than national law various aspects need to be considered: (1) is the decision taken by a court or an arbitral tribunal; (2) what field of law (contract/delict/tort or family relationships) is involved; and (3) the objective or subjective (choice by the parties) designation of the applicable law.

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9004249958

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9789004249950

The Human Body in Early Iron Age Central Europe

Burial Practices and Images of the Hallstatt World

By: Katharina Rebay-Salisbury

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The Human Body in Early Iron Age Central Europe

Burial Practices and Images of the Hallstatt World

By: Katharina Rebay-Salisbury

Identities and social relations are fundamental elements of societies. To approach these topics from a new and different angle, this study takes the human body as the focal point of investigation. It tracks changing identities of early Iron Age people in central Europe through body-related practices: the treatment of the body after death and human representations in art. The human remains themselves provide information on biological parameters of life, such as sex, biological age, and health status. Objects associated with the body in the grave and funerary practices give further insights on how people of the early Iron Age understood life and death, themselves, and their place in the world. Representations of the human body appear in a variety of different materials, forms, and contexts, ranging from ceramic figurines to images on bronze buckets. Rather than focussing on their narrative content, human images are here interpreted as visualising and mediating identity. The analysis of how image elements were connected reveals networks of social relations that connect central Europe to the Mediterranean. Body ideals, nudity, sex and gender, aging, and many other aspects of women’s and men’s lives feature in this book. Archaeological evidence for marriage and motherhood, war, and everyday life is brought together to paint a vivid picture of the past.

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1351998722

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9781351998727

Changing Consumer Law in the United Kingdom after Brexit?

A Study in Laws governing Consumer Credit and Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts in the United Kingdom, Germany, Norway and Switzerland

By: Katharina Steinbrück

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Changing Consumer Law in the United Kingdom after Brexit?

A Study in Laws governing Consumer Credit and Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts in the United Kingdom, Germany, Norway and Switzerland

By: Katharina Steinbrück

Dem britischen Gesetzgeber eröffnen sich durch den weitgehenden Wegfall von Bindung an EU-Recht im Verbraucherrecht neue regulatorische Möglichkeiten. Dieses Werk widmet sich der Frage, ob Normen des bisher von der EU bestimmten Verbraucherkredit- und AGB-Rechts beibehalten oder geändert werden sollten. Eine historische Analyse beantwortet die Frage, inwieweit EU-Recht in der Vergangenheit durch das Vereinigte Königreich gestaltet und rezipiert wurde. Auf Grundlage einer umfassenden rechtsvergleichenden Betrachtung wird zudem analysiert, ob alternative europäische Kooperationsmodelle mehr regulatorischen Freiraum bieten und die (Nicht-) Umsetzung von Verbraucherrecht als Vorbild für neue Regulierung im Vereinigten Königreich dienen könnte.

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Nomos Verlag

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3748926553

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9783748926559

The Criminalisation of Social Policy in Neoliberal Societies

By: Elizabeth Kiely,Katharina Swirak

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The Criminalisation of Social Policy in Neoliberal Societies

By: Elizabeth Kiely,Katharina Swirak

From anti-immigration agendas that criminalise vulnerable populations, to the punishment of the poor and the governance of parenting, this timely book explores how diverse fields of social policy intersect more deeply than ever with crime control and, in so doing, deploy troubling strategies. The international context of this book is complemented by the inclusion of specific policy examples across the themes of work and welfare; borders and migration; family policy; homelessness and the reintegration of justice-involved persons. This book incites the reader to consider how we can reclaim the best of the 'social' in social policy for the twenty-first century.

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Policy Press

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1529203015

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9781529203011

Women in the Metropolis

Gender and Modernity in Weimar Culture

By: Katharina von Ankum

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Women in the Metropolis

Gender and Modernity in Weimar Culture

By: Katharina von Ankum

Bringing together the work of scholars in many disciplines, Women in the Metropolis provides a comprehensive introduction to women's experience of modernism and urbanization in Weimar Germany. It shows women as active participants in artistic, social, and political movements and documents the wide range of their responses to the multifaceted urban culture of Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s. Examining a variety of media ranging from scientific writings to literature and the visual arts, the authors trace gendered discourses as they developed to make sense of and regulate emerging new images of femininity. Besides treating classic films such as Metropolis and Berlin: Symphony of a Great City, the articles discuss other forms of mass culture, including the fashion industry and the revue performances of Josephine Baker. Their emphasis on women's critical involvement in the construction of their own modernity illustrates the significance of the Weimar cultural experience and its relevance to contemporary gender, German, film, and cultural studies.

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Univ of California Press

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052091760X

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9780520917606

Can Gamification Close the Engagement Gap of Generation Y?

A pilot study from the digital startup sector in Berlin

By: Avo Schönbohm,Katharina Urban

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Can Gamification Close the Engagement Gap of Generation Y?

A pilot study from the digital startup sector in Berlin

By: Avo Schönbohm,Katharina Urban

Gaming engages. How can employment become more attractive and fun? Only 16% of German employees are fully engaged and willing to go `the extra mile' for their company. This perceived engagement gap - which is aggravated by the new work ethics of Generation Y - offers a significant case for value creation and strategic opportunities for companies worldwide. This book analyses the question of whether gamification has the potential to close this engagement gap. It offers a literature review of the emerging topic and creatively and critically develops new ideas. Data from a pilot study on the digital startup sector in Berlin shows a positive impact of gamification on employee engagement. This informative work is directed at people interested in new business trends, business students, gamification researchers and human resources practitioners.

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Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH

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3832538488

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Günter Grass's "Danzig-Quintet"

Explorations in the Memory and History of the Nazi Era from "Die Blechtrommel" to "Im Krebsgang"

By: Katharina Hall

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Günter Grass's "Danzig-Quintet"

Explorations in the Memory and History of the Nazi Era from "Die Blechtrommel" to "Im Krebsgang"

By: Katharina Hall

This study extends the long-established notion of Grass's 'Danzig Trilogy' to that of the 'Danzig Quintet' - a literary project of epic proportions, which explores the evolution of Germany's relationship to its Nazi past over a period of forty years. The interlocking stories of Die Blechtrommel (1959), Katz und Maus (1961), Hundejahre (1963), örtlich betäubt (1969) and Im Krebsgang (2002) are mediated by the memory and language of seven first-person narrators. Using the dual conceptualisation of memory developed by Freud and Lacan - 'reliving' versus 'recollecting' the past - the author shows how these narrators' accounts assert the reality of the Holocaust (as well as German wartime suffering), while highlighting the reluctance of ordinary Germans to admit their involvement in the Nazi regime. This delineation of the complex relationship of three generations to their history is deepened by the intertextual nature of the quintet. Using the theory of Peter Brooks, Umberto Eco, Shoshana Felman and Hayden White, the study explores how Grass's textual strategies encourage the reader to view all five works as one overarching narrative, while simultaneously avoiding any literary or historical closure. In the process, the study places each book in the context of its moment of production, and also considers the implications of Grass's belated admission, in August 2006, that he served with the Waffen-SS during the final months of World War Two.

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Peter Lang

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3039109014

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9783039109012

Classroom Management and its Impact on Lesson Outcomes in Physics

A multi-perspective comparison of teaching practices in primary and secondary schools

By: Katharina Fricke

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Classroom Management and its Impact on Lesson Outcomes in Physics

A multi-perspective comparison of teaching practices in primary and secondary schools

By: Katharina Fricke

The major purpose of research in the present study was to contribute to the clarification of physics-related learning conditions in the phase when students change from primary to secondary school stage. This purpose goes back to the divergent performance of German primary and secondary school students in the science part of international comparative studies which have placed teachers under considerable pressure to provide an effective working atmosphere in their classrooms including an appropriate use of time for engagement in physics-specific contents. There is a wide consensus that, in developing efficient classroom management strategies, teachers can guarantee a higher amount of academic learning time, which proves relevant not only for students' school performance, but also for fostering their motivation to learn (science). The present study firstly aimed at contributing to the demand of a theoretical conceptualization that regards classroom management in the overall structure of quality of instruction. Against this background, the study suggests a clear, detailed definition of classroom management with three subconstructs discipline, rules and rituals and prevention of disruption, but also addresses the desiderata in terms of subject-specific research on classroom management.

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Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH

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3832543945

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Shared Grasping: a Combination of Telepresence and Grasp Planning

By: Hertkorn, Katharina

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Shared Grasping: a Combination of Telepresence and Grasp Planning

By: Hertkorn, Katharina

Shared Grasping'' describes a new approach to shared autonomy for grasping and manipulation tasks to be used in a telepresence system. It is realized with two assistance functionalities, which simplify the grasping, and a user interface, which merges haptic feedback and visual assistance. User studies confirm a reduction in operator workload and an increase in task performance while maintaining a high immersion of the operator into the remote environment when using the assistance functions.

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KIT Scientific Publishing

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3731504022

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Techniques of Illusion

A Cultural and Media History of Stage Magic in the Late Nineteenth Century

By: Katharina Rein

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Techniques of Illusion

A Cultural and Media History of Stage Magic in the Late Nineteenth Century

By: Katharina Rein

This book explores stage conjuring during its “golden age,” from about 1860 to 1910. This study provides close readings highlighting four paradigmatic illusions of the time that stand in for different kinds of illusions typical of stage magic in the “golden age” and analyses them within their cultural and media-historical context: “Pepper’s Ghost,” the archetypical mirror illusion; “The Vanishing Lady,” staging a teleportation in a time of a dizzying acceleration of transport; “the levitation,” simulating weightlessness with the help of an extended steel machinery; and “The Second Sight,” a mind-reading illusion using up-to-date communication technologies. These close readings are completed by writings focusing on visual media and expanding the scope backwards and forwards in time, roughly to 1800 and to 2000. This exploration will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre and performance studies.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000891488

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The Roman Republic of Letters

Scholarship, Philosophy, and Politics in the Age of Cicero and Caesar

By: Katharina Volk

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The Roman Republic of Letters

Scholarship, Philosophy, and Politics in the Age of Cicero and Caesar

By: Katharina Volk

An intellectual history of the late Roman Republic—and the senators who fought both scholarly debates and a civil war In The Roman Republic of Letters, Katharina Volk explores a fascinating chapter of intellectual history, focusing on the literary senators of the mid-first century BCE who came to blows over the future of Rome even as they debated philosophy, history, political theory, linguistics, science, and religion. It was a period of intense cultural flourishing and extreme political unrest—and the agents of each were very often the same people. Members of the senatorial class, including Cicero, Caesar, Brutus, Cassius, Cato, Varro, and Nigidius Figulus, contributed greatly to the development of Roman scholarship and engaged in a lively and often polemical exchange with one another. These men were also crucially involved in the tumultuous events that brought about the collapse of the Republic, and they ended up on opposite sides in the civil war between Caesar and Pompey in the early 40s. Volk treats the intellectual and political activities of these “senator scholars” as two sides of the same coin, exploring how scholarship and statesmanship mutually informed one another—and how the acquisition, organization, and diffusion of knowledge was bound up with the question of what it meant to be a Roman in a time of crisis. By revealing how first-century Rome’s remarkable “republic of letters” was connected to the fight over the actual res publica, Volk’s riveting account captures the complexity of this pivotal period.

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Princeton University Press

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0691253951

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9780691253954

Subsequent Agreements and Subsequent Practice in Domestic Courts

By: Katharina Berner

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Subsequent Agreements and Subsequent Practice in Domestic Courts

By: Katharina Berner

The book analyses how subsequent agreements and subsequent practice as defined in articles 31 and 32 of the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties have been applied in interpretative reality. Based on the jurisprudence of domestic courts, it elucidates the distribution of power between the parties to a treaty and other actors. To start with, the book traces the origins of subsequent agreements and subsequent practice and places them in their broader legal context. Next, it explores the legal status and effects of subsequent agreements and subsequent practice, explains why such agreements are only rarely used, and defines the relevance of non-party practice in the interpretative process. In closing, it critically examines how domestic courts have approached the normative heart of subsequent practice, i.e. the notion of ‘agreement’. Thus, this book ultimately challenges the traditional assumption that the parties are the joint masters of the treaty.

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Springer

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3662549379

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Participatory Research in Palliative Care

Actions and reflections

By: Jo Hockley,Katherine Froggatt,Katharina Heimerl

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Participatory Research in Palliative Care

Actions and reflections

By: Jo Hockley,Katherine Froggatt,Katharina Heimerl

Participatory research is a relatively new method of researching practice especially within palliative care. It differs from other methodologies in that there is an expectation of action within the research process. The values that underpin participatory research are collaboration, empowerment, and reflection. In the current climate of collaboration and working with people in healthcare, participatory research methods are gaining increasing interest when there is a desire to bring about change. Organisational change is becoming an important focus as we look at ways of not only reducing costs but at the same time improving quality of care. While palliative care puts the patient and family at the centre, Participatory Research in Palliative Care discusses a new research methodology that puts practitioners at the heart of the research process as collaborators who work together with researchers to resolve problems in practice. Divided into three sections, it provides theoretical groundings of action research, a greater focus on exemplars from studies within palliative care, and discusses prominent issues when using such a methodology. All three sections are illustrated by an action research study undertaken by the author within a palliative care setting. Participatory Research in Palliative Care is written by international, multi-disciplinary authors who explore a collaborative approach to embark on research. It will appeal to health and social care professionals, academics undertaking research within palliative care, and the management of organisations where people with end of life care needs are cared for, including long-term care homes.

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OUP Oxford

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0191651982

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9780191651984

Nanoreactor Engineering for Life Sciences and Medicine

By: Agnes Ostafin,Katharina Landfester

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Nanoreactor Engineering for Life Sciences and Medicine

By: Agnes Ostafin,Katharina Landfester

This trail-blazing volume covers nanoreactor essentials, including a review of synthetic procedures and materials used to develop various nanoreactor configurations. It explores nanoreactor theory and design, highlighting the fundamental differences between molecular events in macroscale and nanoscale reactors.

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Artech House

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1596931590

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9781596931596

Goethe and the Poets of Arabia

By: Katharina Mommsen

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Goethe and the Poets of Arabia

By: Katharina Mommsen

A comprehensive account of Goethe's relationship to Arabian culture, mediated by his interest in certain poets and texts and by his highly nuanced attitude toward Islam.

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Boydell & Brewer

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1571139087

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Atlas of the Mammalian Ovary

Morphological Dynamics and Potential Role of Innate Immunity

By: Katharina Spanel-Borowski

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Atlas of the Mammalian Ovary

Morphological Dynamics and Potential Role of Innate Immunity

By: Katharina Spanel-Borowski

In the era of molecular biology, an atlas that allows a rapid understanding of the complexity of ovarian processes is urgently needed. In this book, the author draws upon her own research, conducted over the past three decades, to provide a unique compilation of high-quality illustrations that offer illuminating insights in a readily accessible form. The ovarian follicles, the corpus luteum, and the interstitial cortex are presented as precisely controlled homeostatic compartments. Physiologic cell death forms and leukocyte subtypes are clearly depicted, and the various steps in the ovulatory process are demonstrated in detail. Further topics addressed include the microvascular bed, the plasticity of intraovarian nerves as part of the remodelling processes in the polycystic and the menopausal ovary, and the role of cytokeratin-positive cells as messengers of innate immunity. This atlas will be a fascinating and informative resource for both trainees and more experienced professionals.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642305342

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9783642305344

Local Policies and the European Social Fund

Employment Policies Across Europe

By: Katharina Zimmermann

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Local Policies and the European Social Fund

Employment Policies Across Europe

By: Katharina Zimmermann

This book reviews how local social and employment policy fields react to the European Social Fund (ESF) to determine the role of the ESF in local activation policies. Drawing on both sociology and political science literature on welfare state reforms, the author examines what shapes local policy reactions to ESF and what effects these reactions have on change in local policy fields. Comparing data from 18 local case studies across 6 European countries, and deploying an innovative mixed-method approach, the book presents comparative evidence on everyday challenges in the context of the ESF and discusses how these findings are applicable to other funding schemes.

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Policy Press

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1447346513

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9781447346517

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