Case Studies in Finance links managerial decisions to capital markets and the expectations of investors. At the core of almost all of the cases is a valuation task that requires students to look to financial markets for guidance in resolving the case problem. The focus on value helps managers understand the impact of the firm on the world around it. These cases also invite students to apply modern information technology to the analysis of managerial decisions. The cases may be taught in many different combinations. The eight-part sequence indicated by the table of contents relates to course designs used at the authors' schools. Each part of the casebook suggests a concept module, with a particular orientation.

The volume assembles articles taking an interdisciplinary perspective on problems of medieval studies research into the concept of memoria, the humanist culture of memoria, and remembrance as thematized in recent and contemporary literature. The studies focus first on two major topics: a) the problem of what is meant by 'cultural memory', how it ties in with identity, and the way this concept has changed through the ages; and b) fictionality. The rest of the volume is given over to a discussion of the relation between remembrance and apperception, a subject only given marginal attention in the recent research literature.

Scherffer's work, written in 1640, was the first German translation of the Latin elegies composed by the Belgian Jesuit Hermann Hugo for his extremely popular and influential emblem book "Pia Desideria." The translation is fully in line with the cultural patriotism and irenical proclivities of the court of Brieg, where Scherffer was organist and princely tutor. Herman literary history has emphasized Scherffer's special position within Silesian Baroque literature, stressing his affinity to the so-called 'low' style. So far however there has been no complete edition of his works. This reprint is the first to make a work of this Silesian author generally available again. The editor's postface provides information on the Latin original, describes the genesis and later influence of Scherffer's translation and situates it within the historical and literary context of the age.

Michael Schilling stellt in diesem 2007 erschienenen Erstlingswerk in insgesamt sieben Kapiteln und auf 120 Seiten einen Querschnitt seiner Arbeiten vor, die in den vergangenen 20 Jahren entstanden sind. Er beschftigt sich dabei unter anderem mit den Themen "Nacht," "Natur," "Protest," "Liebe" und dem "Leben als Kunst." Viele seiner Gedichte sind dabei von der Gedankenwelt des Buddhismus beeinflusst und inspiriert. Gedichte zu schreiben und zu verffentlichen heit fr ihn, sich ein Stck weit selbst blo zu stellen und dem Leser sein Innerstes zu ffnen, was er im ersten Kapitel auch zum Ausdruck bringt. Michael Schilling erlaubt mit diesem ersten Gedichtband dem geneigten Leser einen Einblick in sich selbst, seine Gedankenwelt und schlgt in diesen Gedichten gleichzeitig eine biographische Brcke ber zwei Jahrzehnte dichterischen Schaffens.