Kelinu waits for a birthday card from the Queen of England. He has a few years to go but he'll wait. His niece thinks he's a fool. He was in the service of the Queen only a year, all those years ago. Times have changed. In these stories people strive to make a place, a living, a life with meaning in a new country or sense in an old one: from zero hour contracts in Bridgend and Munich to scraping a living as a mermaid on the streets of Barcelona. A woman tends a beautiful garden she knows will be taken away from her while another sends her child to a school concert dressed as a dinosaur. A man attends yet one more demonstration while another explains to his daughter where he is really from. In this diverse and fascinating anthology, writers from across Europe embark on a journey of independence and belonging.

The six poets whose work is included in this collection have become known to the wider Czech readership in the past ten to fifteen years, despite the fact that they belong to two very different generations: the generation exiled by the totalitarian regime of pre-Velvet Revolution Czechoslovakia - whether from public literary life or from the country itself - and the younger generation which started publishing in the late 1990s. Both were faced with the task of mending the broken continuity of Czech poetry, reclaiming the sources of its inspiration - whether it may be the subconscious and dreams, the undercurrents of human relationships, or closely observed everyday objects and situations which acquire a poetic and ontological significance - and, ultimately, with the task of restoring the very medium of poetic expression, language itself.

'Six Slovenian Poets' is the first in a new series of bilingual anthologies which brings the work of a younger generation of poets from across Europe to a wider English-language readership, a series which aims to keep a finger on the pulse of the 'here-and-now' of European poetry. The six poets represented here -- three men and three women -- are all under 40, have all been published for the first time within the past decade, and all (though in very different ways) break with, and re-evaluate, the Slovenian literary tradition. This tradition is outlined in the informative introduction to the anthology by Ales Debeljak, from which is becomes clear that these young poets may have more in common with their peers from the rest of Europe and North America than with their Slovenian forebears. Energetic, unexpected, at times hard-hitting, this volume makes for an exciting and thought-provoking beginning to the 'New Voices from Europe and Beyond' anthology series.

'Six Basque Poets' is the second volume in a new series of bilingual anthologies which brings the work of contemporary poets from Europe and beyond to a wider English-language readership, a series which aims to keep a finger on the 'here and now' of international contemporary poetry. The six poets included in this collection -- Rikardo Arregi, Bernado Atxaga, Felipe Juaristi, Miren Agur Meabe, Kirmen Uribe and Joseba Sarrionandia -- have played a defining role in the development of Basque-language poetry in the last 30 years, since the arrival of what is now referred to as the 'democratic age' in Spain and the Basque Country. They represent the diversity of voices and poetic schools that populate the contemporary Basque literary scene where a variety of tendencies has emerged in recent decades. Direct, moving and thought-provoking, the poetry in the present volume gives us insight into the preoccupations of a literary milieu which may be marginalized by its use of an ancient language not spoken outside its territory but which is as powerful and original in its production as any of the literary centres in today's Europe.

In this title, 20 young poets, two each from the ten Eastern and Central European countries acceding to the European Union in May 2004, are represented, the 'new poetics' from the 'new Europe'. It is a parallel-text volume, with original language/English translation on facing pages.

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2001 im Fachbereich BWL - Unternehmensfuhrung, Management, Organisation, Note: 2,0, Universitat Paderborn (Wirtschaftswissenschaften), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Inhaltsangabe: Einleitung: Die Globalisierungstendenz und das Internet sind die Entwicklungen, die das 21. Jahrhundert momentan am meisten beeinflussen. Beide haben nicht nur Einfluss auf die wirtschaftliche und politische Entwicklung ganzer Lander, sondern auch auf den Menschen als Individuum. Das Zusammenwachsen der europaischen Markte im Rahmen der Europaischen Union, verbunden mit der Einfuhrung des Euro als allen Mitgliedslandern gemeinsame Wahrung, die Offnung der osteuropaischen Markte sowie der weltweite Abbau von Zollschranken sind zunachst einmal politische Entwicklungen, die sich nachhaltig auf die wirtschaftlichen Rahmenbedingungen auswirken. Vor allem Grossunternehmen nutzen die dadurch entstandenen Chancen. Bevolkerungswachstum, technische Innovationen und veranderte Konsumentenbedurfnisse fuhren daruber hinaus zu neuen Marktstrukturen, die auch kleine und mittelstandische Unternehmen dazu zwingen, sich im globalen Wettbewerb zu behaupten und sich immer wieder auf veranderte Bedingungen einzustellen. Nicht zuletzt dank der technologischen Entwicklung des Internet fallt es diesen zunehmend leichter, auf internationalen Markten prasent zu sein und grenzuberschreitende Geschafte zu tatigen. Unterstutzend wirkt dabei vor allem die Entwicklung, die das Internet als Kommunikationsmittel in den letzten Jahren durchlaufen hat. Heutzutage kann sich jeder, der Zugang zu einem Computer hat, problemlos Informationen aus dem Internet beschaffen. Produkte und Dienstleistungen werden immer ofter uber das Internet verkauft. Online-Marktplatze, B2B und B2C sind Begriffe geworden, die im Wirtschaftsleben zum Alltag gehoren. Vor allem fur Unternehmen, die ihre Geschaftstatigkeit sichern und ausbauen wollen, sind diese Begriffe und deren Umsetzung von grosser Wichtigkeit. Das Internet