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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.