Beauty in African Thought: A Critique of the Western Idea of Development investigates how the concept of beauty in African philosophy and related qualitative social sciences may contribute to a richer intercultural exchange on the idea of development. While working within frameworks created in post-colonial and arguably neo-colonial times, African thinkers have reacted against the mainstream view that restricts the meaning and scope of good development to economic growth and western-style education. These thinkers have worked toward a critical self-understanding of the potentials inherent in cultural, spiritual, and political traditions since pre-colonial times. Edited by Bolaji Bateye, Mahmoud Masaeli, Louise Muller, and Angela Roothaan, this collection explores branches of thought from wisdom or oral traditions to political thought and philosophy of culture. This book is urgent reading material for any policy maker, scholar, or student wishing to attend to the voices of African(ist) thinkers who search for alternative approaches to global questions of development in a time of climate change and increasing socio-economic inequality.

This book analyzes the British attitude to one of the dominant issues of 19th-century Europe. Both in Germany and beyond, politicians grappled with the German Question—the twin problem of uniting the many German states and of intergrating the resultant Reich into the European states system. This original study explores how the makers of British foreign policy responded to these issues between the July Revolution of 1830 and Bismarkch's "Wars of German Unification," and explains what kind of united Germany they wanted to see.

Governing New Democracies is a fully comparative study of decision-making processes in the cabinets of ten post-communist countries of East-Central and South-Eastern Europe. It is based on interviews collected from over 300 ministers to such questions as how far do cabinet members participate in cabinet meetings, how do they assess their prime ministers, how do they relate to their departments and to the civil servants under them. Thus, this book provides the first comprehensive panorama of life in cabinet governments from those who are the main actors in these institutions.

First published in 1920, this translation of Dr. Muller-Lyer's famous book will appeal to all who are interested in labour problems at the time. It contains a series of studies of the different economic phenomena of the day, describing the gradual evolution of each from the earliest times, with an indication of the probable trend of future developments. The inter-connection of the different conditions so described is well illustrated, and each chapter ends with a brief summary of its subject matter. The accounts of the various stages of food production, of clothing, of housing and of the use of tools contain in a brief and readable form the results of the investigations of the past century.

This book poses the question: How can we organize society in such a way that our disagreement about facts and norms works to the benefit of everyone? In response, it makes the argument for polycentric democracy, a political arrangement consisting of various political units that enjoy different degrees of independence. It is argued that to progress towards justice, we first need to change our attitude towards reasonable disagreement. Theorists have always viewed reasonable disagreement as nuisance, if not as a threat. However, this work puts forward that the diversity of perspectives which underlie reasonable disagreement should be viewed as a resource to be harvested rather than a threat to be tamed. Resting on two key arguments, the author proposes the idea of polycentric democracy as the most capable method of making pluralism productive. The book explores what such a political order might look like and concludes that only an institutional system which is capable of profiting from diversity, such as polycentric democracy, might reasonably be expected to generate an overlapping consensus. Continuing in the tradition of Karl Popper and Friedrich August von Hayek, this book lies at the intersection of philosophy, political economy and political theory. It will be of great interest to academics and scholars working in philosophy, politics and economics.

Der Herzbeutel ist ein Stiefkind der Kardiologen. Seine Existenz wird dem Kliniker vor allem unter pathologischen Umstanden bewuBt, z. B. wenn bei der Pericarditis constrictiva oder bei der Herzbeuteltamponade schwere Storungen der Herzfunktion eintreten. Fiir den Morphologen ist es reizvoll, die Ergebnisse iiber die Funktion des Herzbeutels unter normalen und pathologischen Bedingungen auf der Grundlage einer funktionellen Betrachtung der Morphologie zu erortern. Dieser Versuch solI hier unternommen werden. II. Morpbologie des Herzbeutels 1. Einige makroskopische Befunde Der Herzbeutel umgibt allseitig das Herz als eine in Grenzen dehnbare, binde gewebige Kapsel, die durch den Perikardialspalt von der Herzoberflache getrennt ist. Einige Funktionen des Perikards werden schon aus seiner makroskopischen Betrachtung verstandlich. Der Herzbeutel ist als Scheidewand zwischen Herz und Lungen eingeschaltet und vermag deshalb das Dbergreifen entziindlicher Veranderungen von Lungen und Mediastinum auf das Herz zu verhindern odeI' zumindest zu erschweren. Das Perikard ist breit mit dem Zwerchfell verbunden. Besonders fest ist es in einem ventralen, schmalen, quergestellten Saum mit dem Diaphragma verwebt."

In this essay we discuss epistemological implications of relativistic quantum field theory. The empirical domain of such a theory is formed by phenomena ascribed to subnuclear particles, sometimes still called elementary particles. This latter more traditional design at ionrejects the lasting desire of physicists to eventually second and isolate irreducible constituents of matter. Going down to the atomic level, electrons appear to play such a role, whereas the nuclei of atoms can be considered as compound systems of protons and neutrons, i. e. of two species of particles. This view makes sense, since the respective number of these two types of constituents essentially identifies an atomic nucleus. Extracted from a nucleus, however, the 'free' neutron is an unstable particle: it decays spontaneously into a proton, an electron and an anti-neutrino. In the past fifty years or so basically the bombardment of matter by protons or by electrons in specially devised experiments has revealed a large variety of further subnuclear objects. Successive generations of accelerators and refined collision devices provided higher and higher collision energies. All theses- nuclear objects are termed 'particles' in the physics community, nearly all of these objects are unstable and decay spontaneously into other ones. The respective lifetimes of the distinct types, however, differ widely, ranging from 3 - 25 relatively long(10 sec) to extremely short(10 sec). Because of this huge disparity in lifetime the notion of a particle deserves particular attention, a point laid stress on in our consideration. The study of the physical behaviour of these subnuclear particles led to distinguish three types of interactions: the strong, the electromagnetic and the weak interaction. As the names suggest these interactions differ in their respective strength.

Disraeli claimed that no country suffered more from the foundation of the German Reich than England. Bismarck's empire of 1871 did not, however, strike like a bolt from the blue. The question of German unity had been brewing for decades. Britain and the Germany Question reconstructs the way Victorians pictured the pre-history of the Reich from the July Revolution of 1830 until the eve of the 'Wars of German Unification'. It scrutinises how Britain's foreign political establishment - the diplomats, journalists and politicians who informed, determined and executed British foreign policy - analysed and responded to the Germans' search for a reformed, united and powerful nation state. It lays bare British interests, preconceptions and preoccupations and explains what kind of united Germany Britain would have welcomed. The book thus illuminates three themes crucial to our understanding of nineteenth-century Europe: the international repercussions of German nationalism; Britain's attitude to continental politics; and the interlocking of liberalism, nationalism revolution and reform.

Governing New European Democracies is a fully comparative study of decision-making processes in the cabinets of ten post-communist countries of East-Central and South-Eastern Europe. It is based on interviews collected from over 300 ministers. This book provides the first comprehensive panorama of life in cabinet governments.

F-DUPNeo Die Langform des F-DUPNeo besteht aus zwoelf Subtests und 108 Items. Sie ermoeglicht eine breite und umfassende Diagnose unternehmerischer Eigenschaftspotenziale. Das Profil von Testwerten einzelner Eigenschaften lasst individuelle Starken und Schwachen erkennen. Zudem kann aus den Messwerten der sechs differenzierungsfahigsten Subtests die Groesse des unternehmerischen Gesamtpotenzials er-mittelt werden. Wenn es Grunde gibt, die Diagnose unternehmerischer Potenziale zu oekonomisieren, kann eine Kurzform des F-DUPNeo eingesetzt werden. Sie besteht aus sechs Subtests und hat halb so viele Items wie die Langform. Die betreffenden Subtests zeichnen sich dadurch aus, dass sie besonders gut zwischen selbststandig und an-gestellt tatigen Personen differenzieren. Auch decken sie das Spektrum motivationaler, affektiver, kognitiver und soziale Eigenschaftspotenziale ab.

Verantwortung stellt nicht nur eine individuelle Leitdimension dar, sondern wird zunehmend zu einer voraussetzungsvollen Maxime unternehmerischen Handelns. Gerade in Zeiten von scheinbar ungeahnten Moeglichkeiten, in denen Entscheidungen langfristige Schaden auf diversen Ebenen verursachen koennen, verlangt es Menschen und Unternehmen gleichsam ab, die eigenen Handlungen reflexiv auf ihre Konsequenzen hin zu uberprufen. Die jeweilige Perspektive ist voraussetzungsvoll fur die Gestaltung verantwortungsvollen Handelns. Gesellschaftliche Unternehmensverantwortung ist eine multiprofessionelle Aufgabe. Mit den in diesem essential vorgestellten funf STEPs kann es gelingen, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Schritt fur Schritt in Organisationen zu implementieren.

Das Standardwerk in Neuauflage:
- Komplett neu konzipiert
- Methoden und Anwendungen in der klinischen Medizin
- Stufendiagnostk der wichtigsten klinischen Symptome
- Leitlinien der Gesellschaften
- Qualitatssicherung

Auch 25-30 Jahre nachdem Clozapin als erstes atypisches Antipsychotikum (atypisch = antipsychotisch wirksam ohne motorische Nebenwirkungen) auf den Markt gekommen ist, ist dieses PrAparat in der Behandlung schizophrener Patienten weiterhin indiziert und sehr oft erfolgreich. Die 4-5 neuen atypischen Antipsychotika, die in den letzten 5 Jahren erfreulicherweise dazugekommen sind, haben Leponex nicht verdrAngen kAnnen. Insbesondere in der Behandlung ansonsten weitgehend oder vAllig therapieresistenter Patienten ist Clozapin unbestritten die Substanz, auf die sich die meisten behandelnden A"rzte verlassen. Das groAe klinische und wissenschaftliche Interesse an dieser einzigartigen Substanz wird deutlich durch die hAufige Verabreichung und insbesondere auch durch die weiterhin zahlreichen prAklinischen und klinischen Untersuchungen zum Wirkungsmechanismus, zur Wirkung und zur VertrAglichkeit. Im vorliegenden Buch werden einige der aktuellen Studien vorgestellt.

Die prazise und kompakte Einfuhrung in die Quantenmechanik bietet Studierenden der Physik und der Mathematik die Moglichkeit, sich einen schnellen Uberblick uber die Quantenphysik zu verschaffen oder in gestraffter Form den Prufungsstoff zu rekapitulieren. Zahlreiche Ubungsaufgaben mit kommentierten Losungen erleichtern das Selbststudium."

Workflow-Management-Systeme sind ein wesentlicher Faktor zur Bewaltigung betrieblicher Herausforderungen. Mit dieser Einfuhrung erhalten Unternehmen einen praxisbezogenen Uberblick uber die am Markt erhaltlichen Workflow-Management-Systeme sowie die effiziente Konzeption und Implementierung eines Workflow-Projektes. Industriell nutzbare Beispiele in SAP Business Workflow erleichtern die praktische Umsetzung.