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''Makes the case for Annie Besant as a truly eminent Victorian, as brilliant and fearless as she was beautiful'' The Times _________ London, 1877. A petite young woman stands before an all-male jury, about to risk everything. She takes a breath, and opens her defence. Annie Besant and her confidant Charles Bradlaugh are on trial for the crime of publishing a birth control pamphlet. Remarkably, Annie is defending herself against obscenity charges 45 years before women can practice law in England. At a time when women were expected to be obedient, Annie''s fearless voice was a sensation and spotlighted issues of sex, censorship and morality. A Dirty, Filthy Book tells the gripping story of a little-known pioneer who refused to accept the role that the establishment assigned her, and chose instead to resist.

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This book covers the two-year odyssey of us owning an RV, from the decision to purchase our RV (named Winnie by my daughters) to the day we finally sold her. Spoiler alert: I am a bad driver and made so many mistakes. The book covers our travels across this great country but mostly highlighting some of the ill-fated decisions that were made. The book also provides helpful hints to those owning (or considering owning an RV) with the hope that your travels will include not being splashed in the face with poop water.

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Der Dichter Hermann Bahr schrieb 1906 in seiner Wien-Monographie, dass die Stadt "im Qualm und Dunst der Vergangenheit" ächze – eine Diagnose, die auf die damals starke Präsenz von Geschichts- und Erinnerungskultur verweist. Entsprechend bietet die vorliegende Studie ein Panorama musikbezogener Spielarten der Auseinandersetzung mit Vergangenheit in Wien um 1900. Anhand einer großen Quellenvielfalt wird die zentrale Bedeutung von Geschichtsvergewisserung für die Musikkultur der Wiener Moderne insbesondere im Zusammenhang mit dem Urbanisierungsprozess der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts untersucht. Dabei werden Musikausstellungen genauso betrachtet wie verschiedene musikalische Erzeugnisse, unter anderem Richard Strauss'' und Hugo von Hofmannsthals "Rosenkavalier".

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Rabbi, educator, intellectual, and community leader, Leo Baeck (1873-1956) was one of the most important Jewish figures of prewar Germany. The publication of his 1905 Das Wesen des Judentums (The Essence of Judaism) established him as a major voice for liberal Judaism. He served as a chaplain to the German army during the First World War and in the years following, resisting the call of political Zionism, he expressed his commitment to the belief in a vibrant place for Jews in a new Germany. This hope was dashed with the rise of Nazism, and from 1933 on, and continuing even after his deportation to Theresienstadt, he worked tirelessly in his capacity as a leader of the German Jewish community to offer his coreligionists whatever practical, intellectual, and spiritual support remained possible. While others after the war worked to rebuild German Jewish life from the ashes, a disillusioned Baeck pronounced the effort misguided and spent the rest of his life in England. Yet his name is perhaps best-known today from the Leo Baeck Institutes in New York, London, Berlin, and Jerusalem dedicated to the preservation of the cultural heritage of German-speaking Jewry. Michael A. Meyer has written a biography that gives equal consideration to Leo Baeck''s place as a courageous community leader and as one of the most significant Jewish religious thinkers of the twentieth century, comparable to such better-known figures as Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, and Abraham Joshua Heschel. According to Meyer, to understand Baeck fully, one must probe not only his thought and public activity but also his personality. Generally described as gentle and kind, he could also be combative when necessary, and a streak of puritanism and an outsized veneration for martyrdom ran through his psychological makeup. Drawing on a broad variety of sources, some coming to light only in recent years, but especially turning to Baeck''s own writings, Meyer presents a complex and nuanced image of one of the most noteworthy personalities in the Jewish history of our age.

Dies ist die Geschichte des Landbriefträgers Christian Brand und mehr noch seiner Ehefrau Anna Katharina Krings, die beide Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts im Deutsch Belgischen Grenzgebiet in den Orten Manderfeld und Losheim das Licht der Welt erblickten. Der Ehemann konnte seinen Beruf als Spätfolge des Ersten Weltkrieges nicht mehr ausüben. Daraufhin ließ sich das Ehepaar mit ihren inzwischen vier Kindern in Losheim, Eifel nieder. Ein entsprechendes Förderprogramm der damaligen Reichsregierung für deutschstämmige Landarbeiterfamilien machte es ihnen möglich, ein Haus zu bauen und verpflichtend als Landarbeiter zu leben. Doch das Schicksal machte der Familie einen gehörigen Strich durch die Rechnung, jedenfalls sah es zunächst danach aus. Christian erlag seinem Kriegsleiden im Jahr 1928, als sich das Haus in der Rohbauphase befand. Nun musste Witwe Anna mit ihren vier unmündigen Kindern sehen, dass sie zurechtkam. Doch sie baute das Haus trotz aller Schwierigkeiten, die ihr Behörden und Banken verursachten. Heute ist es von der Bildfläche verschwunden und im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes ist Gras darüber gewachsen. Nichts erinnert mehr an das Haus Nr. 22. Neben der Familiengeschichte und der Geschichte des Hauses stellt der Autor die Landschaft und den Ort zur Zeit der Jahrhundertwende vor. Ebenso widmet er der Familie von Roesgen, die den Posthof betrieb und der Eisenbahn Jünkerath-Weywertz ein eigenes Kapitel. Erinnert wird aber auch an viele Menschen der damaligen Zeit aus dem Ort Losheim und Umgebung, mit der die Familie nachgewiesenermaßen in Kontakt stand. Zahlreiche, teils farbige Abbildungen.

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Michael Meyer-Blanck skizziert in diesem Werk reformatorische und gegenwartige Denkbemuhungen, gefolgt von einer Phanomenbeschreibung, bei der zwischen dem Gebet als Handlung und dem Gebet als Haltung unterschieden wird. Dazu gehort ein Blick auf Kunst, Musik, Literatur, Naturerleben, Gesundheit und die Leiblichkeit des Betens. Er untersucht die Geschichte des Gebets, wobei u.a. die zunehmende Scham gegenuber dem Beten beschrieben wird. Daraufhin behandelt er das Beten in denkerischer und biblischer Verantwortung, u.a. anhand des Psalters, des Vaterunsers und der neuzeitlichen Wendung zum Subjekt; schliesslich kommen die komplexen Fragen des an Jesus Christus gerichteten Gebets und des Bittgebets zur Sprache. Zuletztbefasst er sich mit religionspadagogischen, poimenischen und liturgischen Aspekten sowie dem Gebet in digitalen Medien und dem multireligiosen Gebet.

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From the highly praised author of The Last Days of Old Beijing, a brilliant portrait of China today and a memoir of coming of age in a country in transition. In 1995, at the age of twenty-three, Michael Meyer joined the Peace Corps and, after rejecting offers to go to seven other countries, was sent to a tiny town in Sichuan. Knowing nothing about China, or even how to use chopsticks, Meyer wrote Chinese words up and down his arms so he could hold conversations, and, per a Communist dean''s orders, jumped into teaching his students about the Enlightenment, the stock market, and Beatles lyrics. Soon he realized his Chinese counterparts were just as bewildered by China''s changes as he was. Thus began an impassioned immersion into Chinese life. With humor and insight, Meyer puts readers in his novice shoes, introducing a fascinating cast of characters while winding across the length and breadth of his adopted country --from a terrifying bus attack on arrival, to remote Xinjiang and Tibet, into Beijing''s backstreets and his future wife''s Manchurian family, and headlong into efforts to protect China''s vanishing heritage at places like "Sleeping Dragon," the world''s largest panda preserve. In the last book of his China trilogy, Meyer tells a story both deeply personal and universal, as he gains greater – if never complete – assurance, capturing what it feels like to learn a language, culture and history from the ground up. Both funny and relatable, The Road to Sleeping Dragon is essential reading for anyone interested in China''s history, and how daily life plays out there today.

Die Psychoanalyse nach Jacques Lacan ist im deutschsprachigen Raum zwar in verschiedenen geisteswissenschaftlichen Kontexten präsent, ihre klinische Relevanz ist demgegenüber jedoch viel weniger klar und wird kaum diskutiert. Dieses Buch widmet sich zentralen Themen der psychoanalytischen Klinik, die auch für Psychiatrie, Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie großes Gewicht haben: Übertragung, Angst, Vorgespräche sowie Neurose, Perversion und Psychose. Darüber hinaus wird diskutiert, ob auch der Begriff "Borderline" einen Platz in einer an Lacan orientierten Diagnostik hat. Schließlich wird eine von Lacan und Dolto inspirierte psychoanalytische Arbeit mit Kindern vorgestellt.

Explores the change most of rural China is undergoing via the story of a privately held rice company that has built new roads, introduced organic farming, and constructed apartments for farmers in exchange for their land rights.

Dieses Lehrbuch verwirklicht zwei Ziele: Einerseits bietet es eine Einführung in die Vorgehensweise zur wissenschaftlichen Analyse von gesprochenen oder geschriebenen Texten. Andererseits werden insgesamt 15 Methoden und Verfahren aus der Linguistik und der Soziologie dargestellt und diskutiert. Die Darstellung erfolgt nach einer einheitlichen Gliederung und ermöglicht damit einen direkten Vergleich. Umfangreiche kommentierte Literaturverweise erleichtern den vertieften Zugang zur Thematik. Damit schafft dieses Werk den derzeit umfassendsten Überblick über sozialwissenschaftliche Methoden der Textanalyse.

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''Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!'' This declamation by president Ronald Reagan when visiting Berlin in 1987 is widely cited as the clarion call that brought the Cold War to an end. The West had won, so this version of events goes, because the West had stood firm. American and Western European resoluteness had brought an evil empire to its knees. Michael Meyer, in this extraordinarily compelling account of the revolutions that roiled Eastern Europe in 1989, begs to differ. Drawing together breathtakingly vivid, on-the-ground accounts of the rise of Solidarity in Poland, the stealth opening of the Hungarian border, the Velvet Revolution in Prague, and the collapse of the infamous wall in Berlin, Meyer shows that western intransigence was only one of the many factors that provoked such world-shaking change. More important, Meyer contends, were the stands taken by individuals in the thick of the struggle, leaders such as poet and playwright Vaclav Havel in Prague; Lech Walesa; the quiet and determined reform prime minister in Budapest, Miklos Nemeth; and the man who realized his empire was already lost and decided, with courage and intelligence, to let it go in peace, Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev. Michael Meyer captures these heady days in all their rich drama and unpredictability. In doing so he provides not just a thrilling chronicle of perhaps the most important year of the 20th century but also a crucial refutation of American mythology and a misunderstanding of history that was deliberately employed to lead the United States into some of the intractable conflicts it faces today.

Journalist Michael Meyer has spent his adult life in China, first in a small village as a Peace Corps volunteer, the last decade in Beijing--where he has witnessed the extraordinary transformation the country has experienced in that time. For the past two years he has been completely immersed in the ancient city, living on one of its famed hutong in a century-old courtyard home he shares with several families, teaching English at a local elementary school--while all around him "progress" closes in as the neighborhood is methodically destroyed to make way for high-rise buildings, shopping malls, and other symbols of modern, urban life. The city, he shows, has been demolished many times before; however, he writes, "the epitaph for Beijing will read: born 1280, died 2008...what emperors, warlords, Japanese invaders, and Communist planners couldn''t eradicate, the market economy can." The Last Days of Old Beijing tells the story of this historic city from the inside out-through the eyes of those whose lives are in the balance: the Widow who takes care of Meyer; his students and fellow teachers, the first-ever description of what goes on in a Chinese public school; the local historian who rallies against the government. The tension of preservation vs. modernization--the question of what, in an ancient civilization, counts as heritage, and what happens when a billion people want to live the way Americans do--suffuse Meyer''s story.

From the introduction by Waid Water When they asked me to write the intro to this book, it didn''t seem too dangerous, so I considered it. We''re stuck out here orbiting Zebulon. I don''t know if we''ll ever get home.

Relates the experiences and ideas of the nineteenth-century abolitionist.

Vordiplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich BWL - Rechnungswesen, Bilanzierung, Steuern, Note: sehr gut, Universität Zürich (Institut für Rechnungswesen und Controlling), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In den vergangenen Jahren wurden Mitarbeiter und vor allem das obere Management immer häufiger mittels Optionen und anderen Eigenkapitalinstrumenten vergütet. Ein Grund für die Beliebtheit dieser Form der Vergütung ist eine an die Interessen der Aktionäre ausgerichtete Unternehmensführung. Denn durch die anteilsbasierte Entlohnung soll das Management in eine eignerähnliche Position versetzt werden und somit dem Unternehmen im Sinne der Shareholder-Value Ausrichtung Mehrwert verschaffen. Die Höhe der Vergütungen durch Aktienoptionsprogramme nahmen in den vergangenen Jahren jedoch Ausmasse an, die nicht mit den Aktionärinteressen zu vereinbaren sind. Vor allem die Transparenz litt unter diesem Umstand, da das IASB bis anhin keine Regelungen bezüglich der bilanziellen Erfassung von anteilsmässigen Vergütungen aufwies. Erst im Jahr 2001 widmete sich das IASB dem Thema der anteilsmässigen Vergütung, als sie im Jahresbericht der IOSCO dazu aufgefordert wurde. Im Februar 2004 wurde dann der IFRS 2 Standard publiziert. Nach IFRS bilanzierende Unternehmen haben für Rechnungslegungsperioden, beginnend mit dem 1.1.2005, IFRS 2 anzuwenden. Künftig sollen alle anteilsmässigen Vergütungen zu ihrem Fair Value erfolgswirksam erfasst werden. Dies betrifft jedoch nicht nur Transaktionen mit Mitarbeitern, sondern auch Geschäftsvorfälle mit anderen Parteien, bei denen Güter oder Dienstleistungen gegen Ausgabe von Eigenkapitalinstrumenten erhalten werden. Somit kommt das IASB der Forderung nach mehr Transparenz und einer erfolgswirksamen Erfassung anteilsmässiger Vergütungen nach. Der IFRS 2 Standard ist für nach IFRS bilanzierende Unternehmen für Rechnungsperioden ab dem 1.1.2005 anzuwenden. Anteilsbasierte Entlohnungen für den Erhalt von Gütern oder Dienstleistungen sind erfolgswir

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