Part of a series of Shakespeare editions, providing the complete original text as well as support materials for teachers and pupils. It features a National Curriculum study programme with activities "before", "during" and "after" encountering the text. Opening double page spreads for each act provide a synopsis of that act and, where appropriate, photographs from productions. Notes are given on left-hand pages, opposite the text.

Far from a victim or an obstacle to Lord Byron's work, Lady Byron was a rebel against the fashionable snobbery of her class, founding the first Infants School and Co-Operative School in England. A poet and a talented mathematician, Lady Byron supported the education of her precocious daughter, Ada Lovelace, now recognised as a pioneer of computer science and she saved from death her "adoptive daughter", Medora Leigh, the child of Lord Byron's incestuous affair with his sister. Lady Byron was adored by the younger abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe and by many notable friends. Yet her complex relationships with her family, including the sister Byron loved, runs like a live wire through this skillfully told, ground-breaking biography of a remarkable woman who made a life for herself and became a leading light in her century.

Acclaimed biographer Julia Markus has written an unprecedented and illuminating portrait of the brilliant, tortured, and controversial James Anthony Froude -- the quintessential Victorian, father of modern biography, historian, diplomat, and prodigal son. J. Anthony Froude expertly captures the roiling cultural history of a century through one man's dynamic life. From his birth in 1818 to his death in 1894, J. Anthony Froude embodied the issues and complexities of his time. Through the story of his life, Markus elucidates the major ideological issues of the nineteenth century -- sexuality, colonialism, and the widespread challenges to religion's long-held cultural primacy. In beautifully crafted prose, Markus reveals the compelling life of one of the most important thinkers of the Victorian age -- the brutality of his early education, his troubled relationship with his father, his expulsion from Oxford, his dramatic and dazzling literary career, his delicious political incorrectness, his two marriages, his relationships with his children, his friendships with such disparate luminaries as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Cardinal Newman, his diplomatic work for Prime Minister Disraeli, and his complex relationship with Thomas Carlyle, his spiritual father and the subject of his most famous biography. A. L. Rowse, historian and author, called Froude the "last great Victorian awaiting revival." No life of the period is more poignant, no destiny more fascinating, than that of this man who in his books and his actions reflected the triumphs and the errors of his society.

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich BWL - Personal und Organisation, Note: 1,7, Hochschule fur Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Zeitarbeit hat in den letzten Jahren immer mehr an Bedeutung in der Gesellschaft gewonnen. Im Zuge der Hartz-Gesetze und der damit einhergehenden Deregulierung der Arbeitnehmeruberlassung ist der Zeitarbeitsbranche ein regelrechter Boom widerfahren und die Anzahl der Zeitarbeitnehmer hat sich seit 2004 innerhalb von zwei Jahren nahezu verdoppelt. Seit jeher wird Zeitarbeit in den Medien stark diskutiert. Wahrend Leiharbeit auf der Arbeitgeberseite ein wichtiges Flexibilisierungsinstrument darstellt, um Beschaftigungsschwankungen im Unternehmen auszugleichen, steht diese in standiger Kritik bei den Gewerkschaften. Niedriges Lohnniveau im Vergleich zu dem betriebseigenen Personal, soziales Abseits sowie geringe Ubernahmechancen sind einige zu nennende Faktoren, die kritisch beurteilt werden. Nichtsdestotrotz wird auf der anderen Seite argumentiert, dass Zeitarbeit einen Einstieg in das Berufsleben ermoglicht und somit zur Beendigung der Arbeitslosigkeit fuhrt. In dieser Arbeit wird aufgezeigt, inwiefern Zeitarbeit tatsachlich als Sprungbrett in das Erwerbsleben angesehen werden kann.