This is the story of the decline and fall of an empire, a region devastated by war, and a world stage fundamentally transformed by the Russian Revolution. Bauer's magisterial work -- available in English for the first time in full -- charts the evolution of three simultaneous, overlapping revolutionary waves: a national revolution for self-determination, which brought down imperial Austro-Hungary; a bourgeois revolution for parliamentary republics and universal suffrage; and a social revolution for workers' control, factory councils, and industrial democracy. The brief but crowning achievement of Red Vienna, alongside Bauer's unique theorization of an "integral socialism" -- an attempted synthesis of revolutionary communism and social democracy -- is a vital part of the left's intellectual and historical heritage. Today, as movements once again struggle with questions of reform or revolution, political strategy, and state power, this is a crucial resource. Bauer tells the story of the Austrian Revolution with all the immediacy of a central participant, and all the insight of a brilliant and original theorist.

This is the story of the decline and fall of an empire, a region devastated by war, and a world stage fundamentally transformed by the Russian Revolution. Bauer's magisterial work - available in English for the first time in full - charts the evolution of three simultaneous, overlapping revolutionary waves: a national revolution for self-determination, which brought down imperial Austro-Hungary; a bourgeois revolution for parliamentary republics and universal suffrage; and a social revolution for workers' control, factory councils, and industrial democracy. The brief but crowning achievement of Red Vienna, alongside Bauer's unique theorization of an "integral socialism" - an attempted synthesis of revolutionary communism and social democracy - is a vital part of the left's intellectual and historical heritage. Today, as movements once again struggle with questions of reform or revolution, political strategy, and state power, this is a crucial resource. Bauer tells the story of the Austrian Revolution with all the immediacy of a central participant, and all the insight of a brilliant and original theorist.

During the first half of the twentieth century, Austrian socialist thinkers - chief among them Otto Bauer, Rudolf Hilferding, Karl Renner, and Max Adler - emerged from and helped transform Austrian Social Democracy into one of Europe's best organized and most effective political and social movements. Through its expertly selected and introduced original documents this wide-ranging volume offers English readers the most thorough effort to date to provide a representative sampling of the Austro-Marxists' key theoretical ideas.

Produkthaftung - die Verantwortung f}r das verkaufte Produkt betrifft Ingenieure, Naturwissenschaftler, aber auch Unternehmer und Kaufleute. Ein sich explosionsartig entwickelndes Rechtsgebiet mit erheblichen Anforderungen an die Arbeit der Unternehmen, ihrer F}hrungskr{fte und Mitarbeiter wird f}r diese Zielgruppen verst{ndlich dargestellt, aufbereitet mit auswertbaren Handlungsanweisungen f}r die Bew{ltigung t{glicher praktischer Probleme, von der Konstruktion }ber Fertigung, Kundendienst bis zu den unterschiedlichen Vertriebsformen. H{ufig propagierte Modebewegungen werden auf ihre rechtliche Bedeutung gepr}ft und (Irr-)Wege als solche begr}ndet dargestellt, um Unternehmen und ihre F}hrungskr{fte vor vorhersehbaren und vermeidbaren Fehlhandlungen zu warnen. Als Gemeinschaftsdarstellung eines erfahrenen Autorenteams werden praktische Erfahrungen einer der f}hrenden Versicherungen ausgewertet, deren Aufgabe eine (Ver-)Sicherung gegen unberechtigte Anspr}che ist.

Qualitatssicherung bedeutet wesentlich mehr als Einhaltung der Normen ISO 9000. Die Haftungsbegrenzung des Herstellers oder Lieferanten setzt die Einhaltung der Qualitatsanspruche voraus.
Daruber hinaus werden aber auch andere Rechtsgrundlagen verbindlich anwendbar, die fur die Betroffenen in der Industrie in der Diskussion um ISO 9000 zuruckgetreten sind. Mit diesem Buch aus der Praxis erlautern die Autoren die Rechtsgrundlagen fur die betroffenen Ingenieure und Manager."

In nearly two decades since Samuel P. Huntington proposed his influential and troubling 'clash of civilizations' thesis, nationalism has only continued to puzzle and frustrate commentators, policy analysts and political theorists. No consensus exists concerning its identity, genesis or future. Are we reverting to the petty nationalisms of the nineteenth century or evolving into a globalized, supranational world? Has the nation-state outlived its usefulness and exhausted its progressive and emancipatory role? Opening with powerful statements by Lord Acton and Otto Bauer - the classic liberal and socialist positions, respectively - Mapping the Nation presents a wealth of thought on this issue: the debate between Ernest Gellner and Miroslav Hroch; Gopal Balakrishnan's critique of Benedict Anderson's seminal Imagined Communities; Partha Chatterjee on the limitations of the Enlightenment approach to nationhood; and contributions from Michael Mann, Eric Hobsbawm, Tom Nairn, and Jurgen Habermas.