Willi Geismeier is proving to be a headache for the Nazis yet again as leader of the Flower Gang - a secret organisation helping people flee Germany. But is his cover about to be blown? 1944. Captain Charlie Herder's plane is shot down in woods near Munich. A week later, he has managed to evade capture by the SS, but for how much longer? As the American pilot desperately tries to make his way to the French border, a huge manhunt ensues. Former Munich police detective Willi Geismeier is still proving to be a thorn in the side of the Gestapo in his new incarnation as leader of the Flower Gang, a flourishing network of secret operatives helping Jews and others escape Germany. But a catastrophe occurs when the gang's plan to help Charlie is compromised, and Willi faces a race against time to work out how their scheme was derailed if he and his operatives are to stand a chance of surviving the war . . .

Former Munich police detective Willi Geismeier is drawn out of hiding to find a deranged serial killer. Former Munich detective Willi Geimeiser is a wanted man. He sacrificed his career and put his life on the line by exposing a high-ranking Nazi official as a murderer, and is now in hiding in a cabin deep in the Bavarian forest. But when his friend, Lola, is savagely attacked, Willi returns to Munich in disguise and under a new identity - Karl Juncker - determined to find the perpetrator. Meanwhile, the discovery of the body of a woman in the River Isar leads Willi's old colleague and friend, Detective Hans Bergemann, to uncover similar disturbing murders stretching back years. A serial killer who preys on young women is running loose on Munich's streets. Could they be responsible for the attack on Lola, and can Willi catch a deranged murderer before the Gestapo catches him?

In a world of growing nationalism, a quiet few are determined to resist. This gripping historical mystery explores the darkest days of the early 20th century. Munich, 1920. Detective Willi Geismeier has a problem: how do you uphold the law when the law goes bad? The First World War has been lost and Germany is in turmoil. The new government in Berlin is weak. The police and courts are corrupt. Fascists and Communists are fighting in the streets. People want a savior, someone who can make Germany great again. To many, Adolf Hitler seems perfect for the job. When the offices of a Munich newspaper are bombed, Willi Geismeier investigates, but as it gets political, he is taken off the case. Willi continues to ask questions, but when his pursuit of the truth itself becomes a crime, his career - and his life - are in grave danger.

Former Munich police detective Willi Geismeier is drawn out of hiding to find a deranged serial killer. Former Munch detective Willi Geimeiser is a wanted man. He sacrificed his career and put his life on the line by exposing a high-ranking Nazi official as a murderer, and is now in hiding in a cabin deep in the Bavarian forest. But when his friend, Lola, is savagely attacked, Willi returns to Munich in disguise and under a new identity - Karl Juncker - determined to find the perpetrator. Meanwhile, the discovery of the body of a woman in the River Isar leads Willi's old colleague and friend, Detective Hans Bergemann, to uncover similar disturbing murders stretching back years. A serial killer who preys on young women is running loose on Munich's streets. Could they be responsible for the attack on Lola, and can Willi catch a deranged murderer before the Gestapo catches him?

Corporate Social Responsibility beschaftigt inzwischen viele Unternehmen und ist auch (wieder) zu einem akademischen Forschungsfeld geworden. Die Autoren greifen in diesem Buch Aspekte dieses Themas auf und betrachten vor allem die beiden Kernfragen - das ethische Selbstverstandnis in der BWL und die Folgen unternehmerischen Handelns unter ethischen Gesichtspunkten."

2 Anleihen ..................................................... 5 2.1 Vorbemerkungen ........................................... 5 2.2 Das Barwertkonzept ......................................... 7 2.2.1 Die Barwertformulierung bei flacher Zinskurve. . . . . . . . .. . . 7 . . . 2.2.1.1 Unterjahrige Kuponzahlungen sowie kontinuierliche Verzinsung .................................... 10 2.2.2 Analyse des Preisgeftiges ............................... 12 2.2.2.1 Marktwert in Abhangigkeit von Kuponhohe und Tilgung 14 2.2.2.2 Marktwert in Abhangigkeit von der Restlaufzeit. . . . .. . 15 2.2.2.3 Marktwertanderung aufgrund von Zinsanderungen. . . .. 17 2.2.3 Alternative Barwertformulierungen ....................... 20 2.2.3.1 Die Barwertformulierung bei gegebenenSpot Rates . . .. 20 2.2.3.2 Die Barwertformulierung bei gegebenenForward Rates 21 2.3 Renditeorientierte Beurteilung ................................ 22 2.3.1 Die Effektivverzinsung ................................. 22 2.3.2 Die Effektivverzinsung unter Beriicksichtigung von Steuern . .. 29 2.3.3 Die Effektivverzinsung als Selektionskriterium. . . . . . . .. . 33 . . . . 2.4 Preisorientierte Beurteilung .................................. 37 2.4.1 Das Arbitrageportefeuille ............................... 37 2.4.2 Die fristigkeitsabhangige Rendite als Selektionskriterium . . .. . 40 2.4.3 Das Arbitragekonzept im Nachsteuerfall ................... 47 2.5 Rendite-Risikoorientierte Beurteilung .......................... 52 2.5.1 Das Auslosungsrisiko bei Serientilgung .................... 52 2.5.1.1 Die Relevanz der Anzahl der erworbenen Serien . . . .. . 52 2.5.1.2 Die Bestimmung der Fristigkeit mit Hilfe der Mittleren Restlaufzeit ............................ 54 2.5.2 Das Tilgungsterminrisiko ............................... 56 2.5.2.1 Erwartete Kiindigungspolitik ...................... 56 2.5.2.2 Risikopramie und Risikomessung .................. 57 2.5.3 Das Bonitatsrisiko ..................................... 61 2.5.3.1 Erwartete Bonitat und Risikopramie ................ 61 2.5.3.2 Zur Diversifikation des Bonitatsrisikos . . . . . . . .. . 67 . . . .

"Literate crime thrillers don't get much better than this." "--Publishers Weekly "(starred) on "L'Assassin"""

Peter Steiner has thoroughly impressed sophisticated thriller mavens everywhere with his critically acclaimed novels featuring ex-CIA operative Louis Morgon. Now, in what is indubitably Steiner's finest book to date, Louis attempts to solve a mystery with roots going back as far as World War II.

When Louis purchases a rundown house in Saint-Leon-sur-Deme, he quickly goes to work fixing it up. However, during the renovations, he discovers evidence of a long forgotten crime hidden beneath the floorboards. Unable to leave a good mystery unsolved, he enlists the help of his friend Renard, a French cop, and sets out to discover exactly what happened in this small French village during the Nazi occupation.

As Louis and Renard search for the answer to a decades-old question, they encounter an unforgettable cast of characters, including Simon, a Jew from Berlin who leads a French resistance cell, a Nazi colonel who is not at all what he seems, and Marie Piano, whose bravery is unmatched. Soon, Louis is pulled into the secrets and lies of the past as he begins to call into question the very nature of guilt and innocence in times of war.

Compelling, arresting, and complex, "The Resistance "is a thriller that will appeal to fans of John le Carre and Graham Greene.

In this exceptional follow-up to the highly praised "Le Crime," """ex-spy "Louis Morgon is in France living a quiet life of good food, good wine, and good friends. When his house is burglarized, he thinks nothing of it. But neither the burglar nor the motive for the burglary is as simple as it seems. And the consequences of the seemingly trivial break-in will lead Louis and his loved ones to the ends of the earth--and quite possibly to the ends of their lives.

A cross between "The Spy Who Came In From the Cold" and "A Year in Provence", this highly acclaimed thriller (published in hardback as "A French Country Murder") is a thoroughly original and completely engaging crime novel of international espionage. When Louis Morgan finds a dead body on the doorstep of his charming little house, he teams up with the local gendarme to solve a murder. Charming and delectable eccentricities a la Francais abound.

"A disturbing, menacing novel . Strongly recommended for all readers interested in this era or in a free press. Fans of Rebecca Cantrell's "Hannah Vogel" series will recognize the bleak atmosphere" - Library Journal Starred Review, September PICK OF THE MONTH In a world of growing nationalism, a quiet few are determined to resist. This gripping historical mystery explores the darkest days of the early 20th century. Munich, 1920. Detective Willi Geismeier has a problem: how do you uphold the law when the law goes bad? The First World War has been lost and Germany is in turmoil. The new government in Berlin is weak. The police and courts are corrupt. Fascists and Communists are fighting in the streets. People want a savior, someone who can make Germany great again. To many, Adolf Hitler seems perfect for the job. When the offices of a Munich newspaper are bombed, Willi Geismeier investigates, but as it gets political, he is taken off the case. Willi continues to ask questions, but when his pursuit of the truth itself becomes a crime, his career - and his life - are in grave danger.

Russian Formalism, one of this century's most important movements in literary criticism, has received far less attention than most of its rivals. Examining Formalism in light of the most recent developments in literary theory, Peter Steiner here offers the most comprehensive critique of the movement to date.

Former Munich police detective Willi Geismeier is drawn out of hiding to find a deranged serial killer. Former Munch detective Willi Geimeiser is a wanted man. He sacrificed his career and put his life on the line by exposing a high-ranking Nazi official as a murderer, and is now in hiding in a cabin deep in the Bavarian forest. But when his friend, Lola, is savagely attacked, Willi returns to Munich in disguise and under a new identity - Karl Juncker - determined to find the perpetrator. Meanwhile, the discovery of the body of a woman in the River Isar leads Willi's old colleague and friend, Detective Hans Bergemann, to uncover similar disturbing murders stretching back years. A serial killer who preys on young women is running loose on Munich's streets. Could they be responsible for the attack on Lola, and can Willi catch a deranged murderer before the Gestapo catches him?

The Prague Linguistic Circle came into being on the afternoon of October 6, 1926, when five Czech and Russian linguists gathered to hear a lecture by a German colleague. From this international beginning, the interests of the group grew to first encompass language in all its functional heterogeneity and then finally all of culture, which the Circle conceived of as a structure of sign systems. Semiotics was thus the overarching discipline for the Prague School, serving to organize all phenomena shared and exchanged by a cultural community. In recent years increasing attention has been paid to the importance of the Prague School, but writing about it has frequently been marred by misconceptions. The central aim of this volume is to correct those misconceptions and to present the diversity of interests within the Prague School-literary criticism, linguistics, theory of theater, folklore, and philosophy. These essays by Bogatyrev, Jakobson, Karcevskij, Mukarovsky, Rieger, Vodicka, and Honzl are here translated into English for the first time. Some have a special historical value in illuminating critical stages of structuralist thinking; others reveal the timeliness of the School's contributions for the theoretical conflicts of our day. Each essay is accompanied by an informative introductory note, and the whole is followed by the editor's "Postscript," tracing the roots of structuralist aesthetics.

The Czech President Vaclav Havel, a force on behalf of international human rights and his country's most celebrated dissident, first gained prominence as a playwright. During the period when Havel was blacklisted by the Czechoslovakian government for his political activism, productions of his work in and around Prague were regarded as subversive acts.

The Beggar's Opera is a free-wheeling, highly politicized adaptation of John Gay's well-known eighteenth-century work of the same name. The play, reminiscent of Havel's earlier Garden Party and The Memorandum, is up to his best satirical standard. Like the Brecht/Weill Threepenny Opera, Havel's play uses an underworld milieu to explore the intermingled themes of love, loyalty, and treachery.

Paul Wilson's new English translation of The Beggar's Opera is lively, idiomatic, and sensitive to underlying linguistic and political issues. The Cornell edition contains an Introduction by Peter Steiner that details the November 1, 1976, premiere of the play in the Prague suburb of Horni Pocernice, the reaction of the Czech secret police, and the measures the government took to punish and discredit those involved in the production. Eleven photographs -- of the playwright, the actors, the theatre, and the actual performance -- enhance the texture of the book.