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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
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Employability is attracting growing attention from researchers and
practitioners alike given the contemporary employment landscape -
one characterized by technological changes, ageing populations, and
competitive organizational environments. This interest is in part
motivated by the realisation that employability implies a win-win
situation as employable workers have stocks of knowledge, skills,
and abilities, and they are flexible and open to change. However,
the role of the employer and specifically their investments in
Human Resource Management policies and practices are largely absent
in the current employability discourse. Employability is usually
regarded as an individual asset in which employees carry almost all
responsibility for employability maintenance and development.
Remarkably little has been done to remedy the neglect of the
employer perspective and advance knowledge and practice. This book
brings together contributions from an international team of
renowned management scholars who explore how Human Resource
Management investments affect workers' employability. Drawing on
empirical evidence from all over the world, this book informs
researchers, practitioners, and students in the fields of business
and management, especially those with a particular interest in HRM
and organizational behaviour. The chapters in this book were
originally published as a special issue of The International
Journal of Human Resource Management.
On June 18, 1965, thirty B-52s took part in the first Strategic Air
Command B-52 bombing mission in Vietnam, a mission that, if carried
out successfully, might have halted the war in its tracks. Before
two of the aircraft could deliver their payload, they collided
midair, killing eight men as both planes exploded over the South
China Sea. In Collision Over Vietnam, Lieutenant Don Harten, a
pilot in the combat mission, recounts the harrowing yet miraculous
true story of how he survived the B-52 collision and how he lived
through the crash of his rescue plane to fly almost 200 more
missions in the war. A remarkable account of comradery, courage,
and loss, Collision Over Vietnam is sure to make its name in
history as did the brave men who fought in Vietnam.
Could the Vietnam War have been prevented? Only you can answer that
after reading this thought provoking, fact-based book about the
mission that would have left Ho Chi Minh in such a position of
weakness that he would have been forced to negotiate an end to the
war before it began.
On June 18, 1965, thirty B-52s took part in the first Strategic Air
Command B-52 bombing mission in Vietnam, a mission that, if carried
out successfully, might have halted the war in its tracks. Before
two of the aircraft could deliver their payload, they collided
midair, killing eight men as both planes exploded over the South
China Sea. In Collision Over Vietnam, Lieutenant Don Harten, a
pilot in the combat mission, recounts the harrowing yet miraculous
true story of how he survived the B-52 collision and how he lived
through the crash of his rescue plane to fly almost 200 more
missions in the war. A remarkable account of comradery, courage,
and loss, Collision Over Vietnam is sure to make its name in
history as did the brave men who fought in Vietnam.
Could the Vietnam War have been prevented? Only you can answer that
after reading this thought provoking, fact-based book about the
mission that would have left Ho Chi Minh in such a position of
weakness that he would have been forced to negotiate an end to the
war before it began.
Das vorliegende Buch bietet Lehrenden eine schrittweise Einführung
zur Planung und Durchführung der Peer
Instruction Lehrmethode in der Physik. Mit der
vorliegenden deutschen Übersetzung des Buches von
Harvard-Professor Eric Mazur, der diese Methode entwickelt und
erstmals eingesetzt hat, erhalten Lehrende unmittelbar anwendbare,
gut durchdachte Arbeitsmaterialien für die Grundlagenvorlesung
Physik in allen technischen und naturwissenschaftlichen
Studiengängen. In einem ersten Teil wird die
grundlegende Peer Instruction Philosophie
vorgestellt. In einem zweiten Teil finden sich:• 243
Verständnisfragen im Multiple-Choice-Format• 109
Verständnisaufgaben für die Physikklausur• zwei bewährte
diagnostische Tests, die das konzeptuelle Verständnis der
Newton’schen Mechanik der Studierenden überprüfen. Für
Lehrende sind sämtliche erwähnte Unterrichtsmaterialien auf der
Verlagsseite des Buches aufbereitet und abrufbar. Zusätzlich
findet sich auf der begleitenden
Webseite peerinstruction.net ein Forum für
Austausch und Beiträge von Anwendern dieser Methode. Diese
didaktische Methode, die eine Variante des 'Inverted Classroom'
darstellt, ist seit über 20 Jahren nicht nur in der Physik,
sondern auch in anderen Studienfächerfächern erfolgreich im
Einsatz. Die Grundidee einer Abstimmung und anschließender
Diskussion zwischen den Studierenden über eine von der Lehrperson
gestellten Multiple-Choice-Frage ist als aktivierendes Element in
verschiedensten Lehrsituationen flexibel einsetzbar. Ein
elektronisches Abstimmungssystem ist dafür nützlich, aber nicht
zwingend.
The recent explosion of investment treaty arbitration marks a major
transformation of both international and public law, above all
because of the manner in which states have delegated core powers of
the courts to private arbitrators. This book outlines investment
treaty arbitration as a public law system and demonstrates how the
system goes beyond all other forms of international adjudication in
giving arbitrators a comprehensive jurisdiction to determine the
legality of sovereign acts and to award public funds to businesses
that sustain loss as a result of government regulation. The
analysis also reveals some startling consequences of transplanting
rules of commercial arbitration into the regulatory sphere. For
instance, the system allows public law to be interpreted by
arbitrators in private as a matter of course, with limited scope
for judicial review. Further, arbitrators can award compensation to
investors in ways that go beyond domestic systems of state
liability, and these awards may then be enforced in as many as 165
countries, making them more widely enforceable than any other
adjudicative decision in public law. The system's mixture of
private arbitration and public law undermines accountability and
openness in judicial decision-making. But, most importantly, it
poses a unique and fundamental challenge - hitherto neglected by
other commentators - to the principle of judicial independence. To
address this, this book argues that the system be replaced with an
international investment court, properly constituted according to
public law principles, and made up of tenured judges.
Erstmals wird die Rezeption des Rassenkonzepts und des
rassenhygienischen und -politischen Diskurses in der Padagogik in
ganzer Breite dokumentiert. Es wird gezeigt, dass es ab 1933 eine
umfangreiche Produktion entsprechender Schriften gegeben hat: Eine
Bibliographie, die die Autoren erstellt haben, enthalt rund 2000
Titel. Daran wird deutlich, dass die Padagogik einen auch
quantitativ beachtlichen Beitrag zur Vermittlung und Fundierung der
Ideologie der Rassenhygiene geleistet hat."
Investment arbitrators rely on sovereignty for their legal status
just as investor-state disputes usually stem from disagreements
about the role of the state in society. As a result, investment
arbitration is a vehicle for the exercise of sovereign authority
and a site for contesting sovereign choices. This book investigates
and evaluates the decision-making record and policy trajectory of
international investment arbitration, from theoretical, doctrinal,
and empirical perspectives. It analyses the extent to which the
system used to resolve disputes impacts on the role of government,
affecting diverse constituencies, as opposed to limiting itself to
case-specific disputes between a single business enterprise and
state entity. The book provides a comprehensive review of known
awards in order to determine the types of government measures that
have triggered disputes. It investigates how investment arbitrators
have exercised their authority in recent case law. It provides a
review of the approaches adopted in the reasoning of investment
treaty tribunals on questions of judicial deference and respect for
sovereign decision-makers. In doing so, it determines whether
investment tribunals have taken a predominantly assertive approach
to investor protection, without regard to their relative lack of
accountability, capacity, or proximity in some cases. This approach
does not sit comfortably with the relative restraint seen by
domestic and international courts in similar contexts. The book
argues that the unique characteristics of investment treaty
arbitration make the experience of domestic judicial review more
pertinent to international investment arbitration than to any other
contexts for international adjudication. However, it argues that
mediating devices in some form should be incorporated into the
process in order to solve the tension between the extensive scope
and potency of international investment arbitration as an important
site of global governance, and the challenges of the review
function in reviewing decisions which have strong claims to having
comprehensive regulatory expertise, inclusive decision-making,
electoral or other public accountability, or greater proximity to
the underlying facts and context. Online Appendices
Governments are rightly discussing reform of investment treaties,
and of the incredibly powerful system of 'investor-state dispute
settlement' (ISDS) upon which they rest. At their core, ISDS
treaties are flawed because they very firmly institute wealth-based
inequality under international law. In this book, Van Harten
explores these claims in the light of the history of early ISDS
treaties showing their ties to decolonization and, at times,
extreme violence and authoritarianism. Focusing on early ISDS
lawsuits and rulings, it is revealed how a small group of lawyers
and arbitrators worked to create the legal foundations for massive
growth of ISDS since 2000. ISDS-based protections are examined in
detail to demonstrate how they give exceptional advantages to the
wealthy. Various examples are also offered of how the protections
have been used to reconfigure state decision-making and shift
sovereign minds in favour of foreign investors. Lastly, the ongoing
efforts of governments to reform ISDS are surveyed, with a call to
go further or, best of all, to withdraw from the treaties. This
book is essential reading for anyone wanting to know more about the
shady world of investment protection.
Evo Morales is one of the world's most controversial political
leaders. His story is extraordinary: poor shepherd-boy, persecuted
coca grower, self-professed admirer of Che Guevara, hero of the
anti-globalization movement, and first indigenous president of
modern Latin America. The story of the social movement turned
political party he is a part of -- the Movimiento Al Socialismo
(MAS) -- is also exceptional: originally founded as a splinter of
an ultra-right party, it was given as a gift for the coca growers
after they had been banned several times for spurious reasons to
register their own party, and went on to become an irresistible
force for indigenous rights in Bolivia. In this insightful and
revealing book, Sven Harten explains the success of the MAS and its
wider consequences, showing how Morales has become the symbol for a
new political consciousness that has entailed de-stigmatizing
indigenous identities. In many ways, the analysis of Morales's
political trajectory serves as a mirror for democracy in Bolivia.
It reveals the challenge of squaring the rupture with a discredited
past with the continuity of democracy and the aim of representing
an entire society.
During the 1970s and 1980s, the technique of mutation breeding made
a substantial, although often poorly recognized, contribution to
crop improvement. Later, as the techniques of molecular biology
become more widely adopted by plant breeders, this comprehensive
summary sets mutation breeding in that context and relates it to
other breeding techniques, including those most recently developed.
The book opens with a general introduction to plant breeding and a
review of the development of mutation breeding, including
consideration of the strengths and weaknesses of the technique.
Chapters covering the underlying theory are followed by sections
which consider more practical aspects such as in vitro techniques,
techniques used for seed propagated crops and techniques used for
vegetatively propagated crops. Case studies and examples are
included throughout and a list of almost 1400 references provides a
valuable resource for those new to the field.
Dieses Lehrbuch fasst alle wesentlichen, fur das Studium eines
MINT-Faches relevanten Inhalte der Physik zusammen und hilft
physikalisches Grundwissen aufzufrischen. Es unterstutzt
Studienanfanger dabei, die Routine in der konkreten Anwendung, die
an der Hochschule vorausgesetzt wird, zu festigen. Dabei folgt die
Stoffauswahl dem Mindestanforderungskatalog Physik, den ein
Arbeitskreis aus Professoren der baden-wurttembergischen
Hochschulen fur angewandte Wissenschaften zusammengestellt hat. Die
Grundbegriffe aus Mechanik, Elektrizitat, Warmelehre und Optik
werden verstandlich dargestellt und durch zahlreiche Abbildungen
veranschaulicht. Durch mehr als 111 UEbungsaufgaben mit Loesungen
kann der Leser seine Fahigkeiten selbstandig uberprufen, erweitern
und trainieren. So bietet dieses Werk als Bruckenkurs eine optimale
Vorbereitung fur die Vorlesungen zur Physik - und leistet auch
daruber hinaus in ersten zwei Semestern zur Vorbereitung von
UEbungszetteln und den ersten Klausuren wertvolle Dienste.
The recent explosion of investment treaty arbitration marks a
revolutionary change in both international and public law, above
all because it demonstrates how states have unwittingly privatized
key powers of the courts in public law.
This book outlines investment treaty arbitration as a public law
system, by precisely demonstrating the significance of giving
arbitrators comprehensive jurisdiction to decide regulatory
disputes between business and state. In doing so, it exposes some
startling consequences of transplanting rules of commercial
arbitration into the regulatory sphere. First, private arbitrators
can award compensation to investors in ways that go well beyond
domestic systems of state liability in public law. Second, these
awards can be enforced in as many as 165 countries, making them
more widely enforceable than other judicial decisions in public
law. Third, public law can be interpreted in private as a matter of
course, without any appeal to a court to correct errors of law.
The conflict between private arbitration and public law poses a
serious challenge to open and accountable judging. But the critical
flaw of the system - hitherto neglected - is its threat to judicial
independence based on security of tenure. Under investment
treaties, business claims against the state are decided by
privately-contracted adjudicators, who win appointments only as
more claims are brought. Thus, as the book explains, the 'judge'
has a financial stake in how public law is interpreted and in the
outcome of the dispute. While it is laudable to use international
adjudication to resolve controversial disputes, the benefits of a
global economy are no excuse for corrupting our historictradition
of independent courts.
Kreativitat und utopisches Denken sind Voraussetzungen fur die
Innovationsfahigkeit einer Gesellschaft. Die Grundlagen solcher
Fahigkeiten werden in der Kindheit und Jugend gelegt; deshalb hat
die Padagogik an ihrer Entwicklung einen wesentlichen Anteil.
Dieses Buch zeigt, wie das Konzept der Kreativitat und des
utopischen Denkens in der padagogischen und
erziehungswissenschaftlichen Theoriebildung aufgenommen wurde und
welche Utopien die Padagogik selbst in ihrer Geschichte
hervorgebracht hat. Es leistet somit einen Beitrag zu einer
erziehungswissenschaftlichen Theorie sozialen Wandels, in der es um
die Bedeutung von Bildung und Erziehung fur Prozesse innovativen
und kreativen sozialen Wandels geht."
UEber Missbrauch und sexuelle Gewalt wird oft unsachlich
diskutiert, weil die Ergebnisse der empirischen und theoretischen
Forschung noch zu wenig berucksichtigt werden. Diesem Mangel
versucht diese Arbeit abzuhelfen. Gestutzt auf die angelsachsische
Forschung entwickelt der Autor einen sozialisationstheoretischen
Deutungsansatz, der aus der Sackgasse polarisierender
Schuldzuweisungen hinausfuhrt. Sexuelle Gewalt hat ihren Ursprung
in der geschlechtsspezifischen Sozialisation und Erziehung und wird
sich letztlich nur in dem Mass aufloesen lassen, wie sich,
pointiert formuliert, Manner an der primaren Erziehung beteiligen.
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