What has been the significance of sport for the European avant-garde in the first half of the 20th century? From an international and interdisciplinary perspective we show the extent to which avant-garde art and culture was shaped by the dynamic encounter with modern sports. Our focus lies on avant-garde artists, groups, movements and institutions across Europe (including Cubism, Futurism, Vorticism, Purism, Expressionism, Dada, the Bauhaus, Constructivism in Central and Eastern Europe), thereby unfolding the diversity of avant-garde responses to modern sports. The book in front of you includes fascinating readings in the fields of aesthetics, visual cultures, cultural history and politics and highlights why specific kinds of sport such as cycling, boxing and football became important for avant-garde movements and artists.

The autobiography of Eugene Jolas, available for the first time nearly half a century after his death in 1952, is the story of a man who, as the editor of the expatriate American literary magazine transition, was the first publisher of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake and other signal works of the modernist period. Jolas's memoir provides often comical and compelling details about such leading modernist figures as Joyce, Stein, Hemingway, Breton, and Gide, and about the political, aesthetic, and social concerns of the Surrealists, Expressionists, and other literary figures during the 1920s and 1930s. Man from Babel both enriches and challenges our view of international modernism and the historical avant-garde.

Born in New Jersey of immigrant parents, Jolas moved back to France with them at the age of two. He grew up in the "borderland" of Lorraine and later lived in Paris, Berlin, London, and New York, where he pursued a career as a journalist and aspiring poet. As an American press officer after the war, Jolas was actively involved in the denazification of German intellectual life. A champion of the international avant-garde, he continually sought translinguistic, transcultural, and suprapolitical bridges that would transform Western culture into a unified continuum.

Compiled and edited from Jolas's drafts and illustrated with contemporary photographs, this memoir not only reveals the multicultural concerns of"the man from Babel", as Jolas saw himself, but also illuminates an entire literary and historical era.

Why is it that many women believe that working with other women is harder than working with men? A clue: it's not because women actually are harder to work with. After decades of working to help women to succeed at work, Andie Kramer and Al Harris noticed the same thing over and over again: Women's relationships with other women are causing conflict in the workplace and this is hindering careers across the board. Their research demonstrates that at the root of these clashes lie stereotypes, toxic assumptions and societal expectations about how women should behave. Through extensive research and hundreds of interviews, Andie and Al have identified the most fraught scenarios of women working for, working with, supervising, and collaborating with other women. It's Not You, It's the Workplace provides practical, immediately usable techniques that will allow women to develop strong networks that will foster their career success and organizations to structure their policies and practices - unlocking the potential of women in team situations. The companies that succeed in the future will be those where bias no longer blocks women's career satisfaction or advancement to leadership.

Etwa 30 % aller Menschen, die eine Arztpraxis aufsuchen, leiden an seelisch bedingten Erkrankungen. Fur Arzte ist es daher notwendig diese Patienten angemessen zu erkennen, mit ihnen umgehen, sie behandeln oder an Fachvertreter uberweisen zu konnen. Die Grundlagen der psychosomatischen Medizin zu beherrschen ist somit fur Studierende, Arzte aller Fachdisziplinen wie auch fur psychologische Psychotherapeuten unumganglich. Im Klussmann" werden die wichtigsten Krankheitsbilder aller klinischen Fachgebiete aus psychosomatischer Sicht behandelt. Dabei erleichtern Einleitungen und Definitionen den Einstieg in die Materie, zahlreiche Fallbeispiele sorgen fur Anschaulichkeit und stellen den Bezug zur Praxis her. Umfangreiche Hinweise zu weiterfuhrender Literatur, ein Glossar und ein Verzeichnis psychotherapeutisch/psychosomatischer Einrichtungen erhohen den Wert dieses Lehrbuchs als Nachschlagewerk."

More than fifty years after the beginning of the Women's Movement, women are still not "making it" in traditionally male careers. Women start their careers on parity with men but generally end them far earlier, having achieved less status, lower compensation, and less satisfaction than men. Breaking Through Bias explains that it is the stereotypes about women, men, work, leadership, and family that hold women back, and it presents an integrated set of communication techniques that women can use to avoid the discriminatory consequences of these stereotypes. This highly practical book makes clear that women don't need to change who they are to succeed in their chosen careers, and they certainly don't need to act more like men. Women do, however, need to be attuned to the negative gender stereotypes that surround them; they need to anticipate the biases these stereotypes foster, and they need to manage the impressions they make to avoid or overcome these biases. Breaking Through Bias presents unique, practical, and effective advice about how women can at last break through gender bias in the workplace and win at the career advancement game.

This collection of essays investigates the relationship, as fraught as it is fascinating, between writer and art theorist Carl Einstein (1885-1940) and the European avant-garde. Einstein's significance for avant-garde aesthetics and his role in primitivism are probed in light of recent approaches to avant-garde studies, such as post-colonialism and the 'spatial turn'. The volume explores consonances, dissonances, shared and hidden agendas, and contributes to a mapping of some less familiar dimensions of Einstein and those movements of which he was both a part and an avid critic.

The Sudetenland crisis, which had been gathering steam since Anschluss with Austria, suddenly intensified in May 1938, leading Europe to the brink of war. Partial mobilization in Czechoslovakia created 48 hours of panic, as war seemed imminent. Andreas Kramer delves into one of the greatest remaining puzzles in the pre-history of the Second World War, tracing events up to the Munich Agreement."

Dieses Buch erlautert, warum das kundenwertzentrierte Management einen neuen Ansatz in der Unternehmensfuhrung darstellt: Zum einen mehr datengetrieben, zum anderen eher ubergreifend. Fur das Management nehmen die Herausforderungen zu, Entscheidungen mit groesserem Zeitdruck und gleichzeitig unter groesserer Unsicherheit zu treffen. Einerseits fuhren die VUCA-Rahmenbedingungen zu erhoehter Unsicherheit und Komplexitat, andererseits versprechen Themen wie Big Data und Kunstliche Intelligenz aber auch Loesungsansatze in der Entscheidungsfindung, die dem Management im besten Falle Entscheidungen abnehmen koennen. In diesem Kontext nimmt der Aspekt der Kundenzentrierung (oder Customer Centricity) eine wichtige Rolle ein und wird als erfolgstreibender Faktor fur Unternehmen betrachtet (nicht zuletzt nach dem Erfolg des US-amerikanischen eCommerce-Giganten Amazon in den vergangenen 5-6 Jahren). Allerdings stellt der Kundenwert die eigentlich "zentrale" Stellgroesse dar (als Endglied der Erfolgskette des Relationship Marketing: Kundennahe, -zufriedenheit und -bindung/-loyalitat). Der Begriff des Kundenwerts umfasst wiederum zwei unterschiedliche Perspektiven, und zwar die Sicht des Kunden ("Value-to-the-customer") und die Sicht des Unternehmens ("Value-of-the-customer"). Die Autoren zeigen, dass sich beide Facetten in einem integrierten Ansatz verbinden lassen ("Value-to-Value-Segmentierung"). Dies ist deshalb besonders wichtig, weil sich Unternehmen in der praktischen Umsetzung von Kundenwertkonzepten vielfach schwertun, wahrend von Seiten der Wissenschaft das Kundenwert-Konstrukt als das "Mass aller Dinge" propagiert und immer wieder um neue Aspekte erweitert wird. In dieser Konzeption des Value-to-Value-Ansatzes ist das Preismanagement ein wichtiger Ankerpunkt, welcher allerdings nicht isoliert und einseitig betrachtet werden darf: So ist der Begriff des Value-Based Pricing daher teilweise irrefuhrend, wenn dieser haufig mit einem Ausschoepfen von Preisbereitschaften der Kunden gleichgesetzt wird. Vor diesem Hintergrund empfehlen Andreas Kramer und Thomas Burgartz nicht nur die isolierte Analyse und Beurteilung, sondern zudem ein Verstandnis fur das Zusammenwirken der Eckpunkte (Kernfunktionen) Kundennutzen, Pricing und Kosten, wobei insbesondere auch die Schnittstellen zu betrachten sind.

Despite extensive and costly diversity initiatives, little progress has been made in recent years in ending workplace gender inequality. Beyond Bias presents a compelling explanation of the reasons for this failure. Current diversity initiatives focus primarily on "teaching" people to be less biased and more inclusive. But this is the wrong focus. As Beyond Bias make clear, workplace gender inequality is a systemic problem caused largely by the (unintended) discriminatory operation of personnel systems, policies, and practices. Beyond Bias presents the four-prong PATH program for directly attacking this structural discrimination-and with it, individuals' discriminatory conduct: · Prioritize Elimination of Exclusionary Behavior · Adopt Bias-free Methods of Decision-Making · Treat Inequality in the Home as a Workplace Problem · Halt Unequal Performance Evaluations and Leadership Development Opportunities In the authors' characteristically clear and engaging style, Beyond Bias lays out a comprehensive set of actions that organizations can take to ensure women no longer encounter gendered obstacles to their career advancement and find their workplaces engaging, supportive places where they-and everyone-can thrive.