This book examines contemporary attitudes towards ethnic minorities in Germany. These minorities include some of immigrant origin, such as Italians, Turks, and asylum seekers, and the principal non-immigrant minority, Jews. While the findings demonstrate that intense prejudice against minorities is not widespread among Germans, many of whom in fact can be considered immigrant- and minority-friendly, a crystallization of attitudes is also evident: that is, attitudes towards immigrants are strongly correlated with anti-Semitism and with other worldview dimensions, such as positioning in the left-right political spectrum. In this sense, the fundamental question of whether immigrants and other minorities should be regarded as fellow citizens or ethnic outsiders remains relevant in the German context.

The financialization, globalization and industrialization of our food systems make it increasingly difficult to access quality fresh food. In fact, the industrialized global food system is creating products that are less food-like, engendering growing questions about the health and safety of our food supply. In addition, the bio-engineering of food commodities is another factor influencing the growth of industrial farming for an increasingly homogenized, globalized market. This book describes the financialization process in commodity futures markets which transformed commodities into an asset class. Incorporated into the portfolio decisions of investors, commodity prices now behave like all asset prices, becoming more volatile and subject to periodic bubbles. As commodity prices were driven higher in the 2000s, farmland became more valuable, setting off a global land grab by investors, nations, and corporations. More recently, under the financialization food regime, slow growth and low returns encouraged merger activity driven by private equity firms, with food industry corporations as prime targets, leading to increased industry concentration. With government policy focused on supporting corporate interests, there has been a global reaction to the current food system. The food sovereignty movement is taking on the interests behind the global land grab, and the regional food movement in cities across the U.S. is hitting corporations at the bottom line. Food corporations are listening. Is the food movement winning? This book is of interest to those who study political economy, financialization and agriculture and related studies, as well as food systems and commodity future markets.

China looks back on a long history of religious diversity. Though not entirely free from conflicts, it was comparatively much more peaceful than the religious history of the West. What were the reasons? Was it a strong control exercised by the ruling authorities? Was it the powerful ideal of harmony extended to the religious realm? Was it a different sense of religious identity? How translates this heritage into contemporary China, its current politics and its most recent discussions after the liberalization of religions in the 1980s? This volume offers fresh insights by renowned scholars and specialists in the field.

"In the world but not of it" - an expression that has been interpreted in a multitude of ways. With the publication of Rod Dreher's much-debated book The Benedict Option in 2017, the question of just how the church is to exist "in but not of the world" is once again on the minds of many. To provide answers true to the context in which the Western church now finds itself, it is worth first investigating how the question has been answered in the past. In determining what to do today, it helps to understand how we got here in the first place. At the beginning of the fourth century, people were persecuted for being Christians; by the end of the fourth century, people were persecuted for not being Christians. This book is an academic investigation of how three paradigmatic theologians interpreted this so-called Constantinian shift: Eusebius of Caesarea (ca. 260-339), Augustine of Hippo (354-430), and John Howard Yoder (1927-1997). Surprising similarities between the theology of Eusebius and Yoder become apparent, and underlying theological structures of how to interpret what it looks like to be a community that follows Christ are revealed.

Dieses Buch bietet Projektleitern und Informatikern in Forschung und Praxis eine aus Datenbanksicht fundierte EinfA1/4hrung in die Welt von XML und die darauf aufbauenden Standards wie XML Schema, XML Query und XSL/T. Die zentralen Konzepte werden dabei in Beziehung zu konventionellen relationalen und objektorientierten Techniken dargestellt. Die Verwendung konzeptueller Modelle im Zusammenhang mit XML sowie die Aoebertragung auf andere Datenmodelle werden erlAutert. FA1/4r die EinschAtzung der praktischen EinsatzfAhigkeit bietet das Buch eine vertiefte Analyse zahlreicher kommerzieller Produkte wie Oracle 9i, MS SQL Server 2000 oder Tamino. An zwei Anwendungsbeispielen wird der reale Einsatz der vorgestellten Techniken prAsentiert, ein Ausblick auf zukA1/4nftige Entwicklungen unter BerA1/4cksichtigung aktueller Forschungsvorhaben rundet das Buch ab.

The financialization, globalization and industrialization of our food systems make it increasingly difficult to access quality fresh food. In fact, the industrialized global food system is creating products that are less food-like, engendering growing questions about the health and safety of our food supply. In addition, the bio-engineering of food commodities is another factor influencing the growth of industrial farming for an increasingly homogenized, globalized market. This book describes the financialization process in commodity futures markets which transformed commodities into an asset class. Incorporated into the portfolio decisions of investors, commodity prices now behave like all asset prices, becoming more volatile and subject to periodic bubbles. As commodity prices were driven higher in the 2000s, farmland became more valuable, setting off a global land grab by investors, nations, and corporations. More recently, under the financialization food regime, slow growth and low returns encouraged merger activity driven by private equity firms, with food industry corporations as prime targets, leading to increased industry concentration. With government policy focused on supporting corporate interests, there has been a global reaction to the current food system. The food sovereignty movement is taking on the interests behind the global land grab, and the regional food movement in cities across the U.S. is hitting corporations at the bottom line. Food corporations are listening. Is the food movement winning? This book is of interest to those who study political economy, financialization and agriculture and related studies, as well as food systems and commodity future markets.

This collection of essays by major scholars analyze the religious diversity in Chinese religion, bringing together topics from traditional and contemporary contexts and Chinese religions' encounters with Western religion.

This book examines contemporary attitudes towards ethnic minorities in Germany. These minorities include some of immigrant origin, such as Italians, Turks, and asylum seekers, and the principal non-immigrant minority, Jews. While the findings demonstrate that intense prejudice against minorities is not widespread among Germans, many of whom in fact can be considered immigrant- and minority-friendly, a crystallization of attitudes is also evident: that is, attitudes towards immigrants are strongly correlated with anti-Semitism and with other worldview dimensions, such as positioning in the left-right political spectrum. In this sense, the fundamental question of whether immigrants and other minorities should be regarded as fellow citizens or ethnic outsiders remains relevant in the German context.

Die Erforschung der Muskelkrankheiten hat in den letzten 15 Jahren einen auBergewohnlich starken Aufschwung genommen und beschaftigt heute die ver- schiedensten Fachdisziplinen. Dies gilt im besonderen MaBe fUr die erblichen Muskeldystrophien, die unter den primaren Myopathien an Haufigkeit und Pro- blematik fUr den behandelnden Arzt an erster Stelle stehen. Diese WandIung ist zweifellos zu einem groBen Teil der Initiative einzelner Arzte zu verdanken, wobei besonders die Namen von P. E. BECKER (Gottingen), A. T. MrLHORAT (New York), C. M. PEARSON (Los Angeles), G. M. SHY (Philadelphia) und J. N. \VALTON (Newcastle upon Tyne) genannt seien. Sie erkannten, daB diesen Leiden, solange sie nur im Zwischenbereich verschiedener medizinischer Disziplinen Auf- merksamkeit fanden, nicht mit dem vollen Einsatz der gegebenen Forschungs- moglichkeiten begegnet werden kann. Sie griindeten eigene Institute, z. T. auch besondere Gesellschaften, deren Aufgabe in der Organisation und Forderung der wissenschaftlichen Zusammenarbeit aller in Frage kommenden Fachbereiche be- steht. Die daraus hervorgegangenen Impulse fUhrten zwar noch nicht zur Auf- klarung der Pathogenese und der Entwicklung einer kausalen Therapie der Muskeldystrophien. Sie haben aber unsere Kenntnisse iiber die zahlreichen Arten und Vererbungsformen der Myopathien wesentlich vertieft und zur Abgrenzung neuer Krankheitsformen gefiihrt. Dariiber hinaus wurden wesentliche Beitrage zur Morphologie, Elektrophysiologie und vor allem zur Biochemie des gesunden und kranken Muskels erbracht. Bisher empfohlene medikamentose Behandlungs- formen wurden kritisch iiberpriift, optimale Methoden physikalischer Therapie und orthopadischer HilfsmaBnahmen ausgearbeitet. Damit sind die Wege einer weiteren, schlieBlich zum Erfolg fiihrenden Forschung vorgezeichnet.

Projektleiter und Informatiker in Forschung und Praxis finden hier eine fundierte Einfuhrung in XML und die Standards wie XML Schema, XML Query und XSL/T. Die zentralen Konzepte werden dabei in Beziehung zu konventionellen relationalen und objektorientierten Techniken dargestellt. Die Verwendung konzeptueller Modelle im Zusammenhang mit XML sowie die UEbertragung auf andere Datenmodelle werden erklart. Die Analyse zahlreicher kommerzieller Produkte, Anwendungsbeispiele und Entwicklungstrends liefern Orientierungshilfen fur den praktischen Einsatz.

Bei den h{ufigsten Krebserkrankungen werden der Einflu~ des Leidens auf den Patienten und die Familie dargestellt, ebenso wie Einfl}sse der psychosozialen Situation auf den Krankheitsverlauf. In einem Vergleich verschiedener psycho- logischer Ma~nahmen werden m|gliche positive und negative Wirkungen dargestellt. Ein Vergleich verschiedener Nach- sorgesettings und eine 15-Jahres-Nachuntersuchung beim Colorektalkarzinom zeigt die zwichenzeitlichen Ver{nderungen der psychosozialen Rehabilitation.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfangen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen fur die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfugung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden mussen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.

The Bodhicaryavatara ("Entering the Course towards Awakening") is an Indian Mahayana Buddhist companion to the path of a Bodhisattva, someone motivated by the altruistic "spirit of awakening". Unlike many other Buddhist scriptures, much of this text is written in the very touching form of personal reflections. Despite its late composition (7th-8th cent. CE), the Bodhicaryavatara quickly gained widespread recognition and high appraisal in various parts of the Buddhist world and even beyond. Today it is one of the most widely translated Buddhist texts. The 14th Dalai Lama has emphasized the special impact of this scripture on his own spirituality, and a number of Western scholars have praised it as a true gem among the world's religious classics. After many commentaries by Buddhist scholars throughout the centuries, this is the first commentary from a Christian perspective, exploring the deep resonances between the "spirit of awakening" and the "spirit of Christ".

Get fit the old school way. These four routines from the late 1800's and early 1900's are time-tested and practical. Includes text and pictures direct from the old exercise manuals themselves. These full body strengthening routines are easily adapted into a weekly rotation. With the exception of one dumb-bell routine, the remaining three routines require no apparatus and are good for staying fit on the go. These routines are accessible enough for middle-agers to regain their fitness, yet still challenging enough to serve as a tool for those training in their athletic prime.

Industrial Relations in Urban Transportation was first published in 1937. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.In the present era of industrial warfare and violence, this book points a "middle way" in employer-employee relations. It describes the remarkable achievement of the Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway, and Motor Coach Employees of America, which for nearly fifty years has used the machinery of arbitration to settle all labor disputes without resort to strikes. Herein also is probably the first attempt to measure on a nation-wide scale the influence of a union in raising wages and reducing hours.But this is much more than the story of a successful union. It is a complete history of urban transportation in the United States - the first such history to be written. It deals with technological, financial, and regulatory, as well as labor, aspects. The characteristics of transportation work and the type of men attracted to it are carefully analyzed, and there is a chapter devoted to the late nineteenth century conditions which gave birth to unionism.This readable study will be of particular interest to owners, managers, and employees of local transportation systems, to investment bankers and investors, regulatory commissions and city aldermen, public mediators and arbitrators of labor disputes, and students of economic history.