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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Real change extends beyond individuals-it requires a shift in how we lead, collaborate, and shape systems. The second of this two-volume work delves into the power of collective leadership to drive systemic transformation. Featuring diverse contributions from the global IDG movement, it offers insights, tools, and stories that inspire action toward sustainability. Together, we can move beyond isolated efforts to co-create a future where inner development fuels lasting societal change. The first volume From 'I' to 'We' complements the themes and issues raised here in a creative and explorative format. 482 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Real change extends beyond individuals-it requires a shift in how we lead, collaborate, and shape systems. The second of this two-volume work delves into the power of collective leadership to drive systemic transformation. Featuring diverse contributions from the global IDG movement, it offers insights, tools, and stories that inspire action toward sustainability. Together, we can move beyond isolated efforts to co-create a future where inner development fuels lasting societal change. The first volume From 'I' to 'We' complements the themes and issues raised here in a creative and explorative format. 482 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The GDR always claimed it was a sovereign state. Did it provide for its own security, or to what extent did it depend on Soviet guarantees and military support This is one of the guiding questions orienting this volume. A chronological overview, placing the essential stages of the GDR's military history within the context of the period, is followed by a systematic analysis of the most relevant aspects: the book covers, among other topics, the organization of the armed forces, the military as an educational agency, or the effects of the hypermilitarization on the East German state's economy and society. Finally, the book asks why all the armed formations together failed to protect the GDR's Socialist Party regime when, in 1989, the citizens took to the streets and demanded reforms. It is meant for students who need a swift introduction into the topic, and for a general readership interested in GDR history and military history. 216 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The GDR always claimed it was a sovereign state. Did it provide for its own security, or to what extent did it depend on Soviet guarantees and military support This is one of the guiding questions orienting this volume. A chronological overview, placing the essential stages of the GDR's military history within the context of the period, is followed by a systematic analysis of the most relevant aspects: the book covers, among other topics, the organization of the armed forces, the military as an educational agency, or the effects of the hypermilitarization on the East German state's economy and society. Finally, the book asks why all the armed formations together failed to protect the GDR's Socialist Party regime when, in 1989, the citizens took to the streets and demanded reforms. It is meant for students who need a swift introduction into the topic, and for a general readership interested in GDR history and military history. 216 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The 19th Century British novel continues to delight readers and populate syllabi of survey courses as well as specialized electives. Because there is such a tremendous volume of literature that emerged from England during this century, this volume offers a guided, chronological tour through the century, featuring authors including Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, and many more. This volume is meant to provide a reading list for students and educators interested in these texts, including excerpts, images (some of which are taken from the novels themselves), external online resources, and appendices. In addition, this volume features links to essays by 19th century authors contemplating their own work and position in their moment, as well as suggested reading lists for contemporary scholarship on the novel broadly construed. As an educational resource, this volume contains many of the tools and texts that are important for new readers of the 19th century British novel as well as educators building survey courses or specialized electives with an eye towards accessibility and convenience.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - How can top teams lead strategically within multi-layered and shifting contexts and conditions to excel and achieve sustainable success Amidst today's rapidly evolving global economy, where multicultural, globally dispersed, and pluralistic organizations grapple with unprecedented challenges and also opportunities, this is a pressing question. Strategic Contextual Leadership is meticulously tailored for CEOs and top team members operating within the intricate mosaic of multicultural, context-rich and dynamic organizations. Its in-depth analysis unravels the subtleties of strategic leadership, and dissects the pivotal roles of CEOs and top executives and teams to scrutinize how leaders successfully and responsibly manage uncertainty, both internally and externally. Replete with practical tools, real-world case studies, and exercises, this book unveils the Strategic and Contextual Leadership Framework (SCL) designed to equip top management teams with indispensable skills precisely customized to their specific contexts. It will empower executive teams to think strategically, wield contextual intelligence, communicate with precision, make judicious financial decisions, foster emotional intelligence, and kindle innovation within their teams and organizations to enhance overall organizational performance.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Real change extends beyond individuals-it requires a shift in how we lead, collaborate, and shape systems. The second of this two-volume work delves into the power of collective leadership to drive systemic transformation. Featuring diverse contributions from the global IDG movement, it offers insights, tools, and stories that inspire action toward sustainability. Together, we can move beyond isolated efforts to co-create a future where inner development fuels lasting societal change. The first volume From 'I' to 'We' complements the themes and issues raised here in a creative and explorative format.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Make America Great Again movement in the United States gives voice to a rising nationalism and tribalism we see around the world, from Modi's India, to Putin's Russian, Orban's Hungary, and Netanyahu's Israel. Against such a tribalism is the dream of a world citizenship, the cosmopolitan ideal that sees all human beings as part of one large political world. Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism is dedicated to exploring the humanity of both tribal affiliation and cosmopolitan dreams. Volume 13 of the HA. The Yearbook of Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities centers on the compelling theme of tribalism and cosmopolitanism. Inspired by the 2024 Hannah Arendt Center Conference Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism: How Can We Imagine a Pluralist Politics, it brings together contributions by prominent thinkers such as Sebastian Junger, Fintan O'Toole, Seyla Benhabib, Niobe Way, Leon Botstein, Lyndsey Stonebridge, and more, featuring insightful conversations and talks held at the conference, alongside in-depth essays that build on and expand on the themes of tribalism and cosmopolitanism. An illuminating anthology of texts relating to both tribalism and cosmopolitanism from Anthony Appiah, Hannah Arendt, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Cicero, Emile Durkheim, Epictetus, Sigmund Freud, Immanuel Kant, Ibn Khaldûn, Martha Nussbaum, and more enriches the volume. The goal is to offer a broad introduction to the inquiry into the human tension between our need to belong to tribes and our aspirations to cosmopolitan humanism. Present scholarship and canonical texts are put into conversation to provide an extended sourcebook of ideas for the interested reader.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -By zooming in on African Studies in Germany, this book deals with questions around knowledge production on Africa and its diaspora; the workings of epistemic and geographic locations in 'knowing' Africa; anti-Black structures in German academia; the making and sustaining of a canon and the role of the university as a gate-keeper of certain knowledges; and renderings of universalism and African history. It also engages with the specific German unease and delay to remember its colonial past and the attached problematique of discussing race and Blackness in Germany. As such, the collection interrogates the history, politics and affects of these developments within the project and politics of knowledge production on Africa. It features chapters written by students of African Studies based in different Universities in Germany from the B.A. to the Ph.D. level. The volume highlights their fresh insights on and theorizations of African Studies from their historically grounded epistemic and geographic locations. The chapters also problematize the disconnect between African Studies and African(a) Studies, critiquing how the fetishization of the 'local' and the 'micro' informs and shapes Africanist scholarship. Thoughts on African Studies: Conversations at ASWAD and ASAA Conferences 206 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -By zooming in on African Studies in Germany, this book deals with questions around knowledge production on Africa and its diaspora; the workings of epistemic and geographic locations in 'knowing' Africa; anti-Black structures in German academia; the making and sustaining of a canon and the role of the university as a gate-keeper of certain knowledges; and renderings of universalism and African history. It also engages with the specific German unease and delay to remember its colonial past and the attached problematique of discussing race and Blackness in Germany. As such, the collection interrogates the history, politics and affects of these developments within the project and politics of knowledge production on Africa. It features chapters written by students of African Studies based in different Universities in Germany from the B.A. to the Ph.D. level. The volume highlights their fresh insights on and theorizations of African Studies from their historically grounded epistemic and geographic locations. The chapters also problematize the disconnect between African Studies and African(a) Studies, critiquing how the fetishization of the 'local' and the 'micro' informs and shapes Africanist scholarship. Thoughts on African Studies: Conversations at ASWAD and ASAA Conferences 206 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Depending on the global, but also the European context, peace ethical perspectives on the Russian-Ukrainian war differ considerably. While many Northern, Western, Middle and South Eastern European states stress the illegitimacy and illegality of Russia's invasion in Ukraine according to international law, some European and many states in the global South and East take a different stance. Thus, important international agents like South Africa have abstained from voting on UN resolution A/RES/ES-11/1 (March 2nd, 2022) and also the renewed resolution A/ES-11/L.7 (February 23rd, 2023); Brazil's president Lula da Silva claims neutrality in the conflict. South African officials understand Russia as a long-standing ally and the conflict as a recalibration of the global order - and they don't stand alone with that view. This book brings together voices from theology, political science and peace ethics from three continents for an intercontinental public theological and interdisciplinary conversation on peace ethics that takes decolonial perspectives into account without giving up claims of universal validity of human rights. 274 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Depending on the global, but also the European context, peace ethical perspectives on the Russian-Ukrainian war differ considerably. While many Northern, Western, Middle and South Eastern European states stress the illegitimacy and illegality of Russia's invasion in Ukraine according to international law, some European and many states in the global South and East take a different stance. Thus, important international agents like South Africa have abstained from voting on UN resolution A/RES/ES-11/1 (March 2nd, 2022) and also the renewed resolution A/ES-11/L.7 (February 23rd, 2023); Brazil's president Lula da Silva claims neutrality in the conflict. South African officials understand Russia as a long-standing ally and the conflict as a recalibration of the global order - and they don't stand alone with that view. This book brings together voices from theology, political science and peace ethics from three continents for an intercontinental public theological and interdisciplinary conversation on peace ethics that takes decolonial perspectives into account without giving up claims of universal validity of human rights. 274 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The GDR always claimed it was a sovereign state. Did it provide for its own security, or to what extent did it depend on Soviet guarantees and military support This is one of the guiding questions orienting this volume. A chronological overview, placing the essential stages of the GDR's military history within the context of the period, is followed by a systematic analysis of the most relevant aspects: the book covers, among other topics, the organization of the armed forces, the military as an educational agency, or the effects of the hypermilitarization on the East German state's economy and society. Finally, the book asks why all the armed formations together failed to protect the GDR's Socialist Party regime when, in 1989, the citizens took to the streets and demanded reforms. It is meant for students who need a swift introduction into the topic, and for a general readership interested in GDR history and military history.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Thoughts on African Studies: Conversations at ASWAD and ASAA Conferences.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Depending on the global, but also the European context, peace ethical perspectives on the Russian-Ukrainian war differ considerably. While many Northern, Western, Middle and South Eastern European states stress the illegitimacy and illegality of Russia's invasion in Ukraine according to international law, some European and many states in the global South and East take a different stance. Thus, important international agents like South Africa have abstained from voting on UN resolution A/RES/ES-11/1 (March 2nd, 2022) and also the renewed resolution A/ES-11/L.7 (February 23rd, 2023); Brazil's president Lula da Silva claims neutrality in the conflict. South African officials understand Russia as a long-standing ally and the conflict as a recalibration of the global order - and they don't stand alone with that view.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Polyurethanes are among the most commercially significant specialty polymers, with an annual production volume of 25 million metric tons. Their manufacturing process utilizes liquid reactive components, and the wide variety of starting materials enables the creation of a diverse range of products for the consumer, transportation, industrial, and construction industries. This book discusses the synthesis of isocyanates and polyols, along with their polymerization, linking the structures of the starting components to the polymer morphology and mechanical properties of the resulting polymers. It provides a fundamental introduction to polymer physics, processing, and foam formation while focusing on three main applications of polyurethane: low-density rigid foam, low-density flexible foam, and elastomers. The book is suitable for graduate students in chemistry, materials science, and industrial chemistry, as well as for those new to the polyurethanes industry. 250 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book analyzes the ideas and forms of international cooperation between Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and fascist movements from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Ireland, and Britain. The study examines how fascists attempted to unite across borders by forming international organizations and networks, hosting conferences and exhibitions, disseminating multilingual publications, and exchanging propaganda. Their transnational cooperation was fuelled by shared ideas of ultranationalism, anti-liberalism, anti-communism, antisemitism, racism, white supremacism, and Europeanism. The book argues that fascist internationalism, marked by contradictions, limitations, and an Italo-German rivalry, emerged in the 1930s as a counter-reaction to liberal and communist internationalism. The epilogue discusses reverberations in the Second World War and the postwar period and outlines the relevance of this history for understanding contemporary forms of far-right internationalism. 399 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book analyzes the ideas and forms of international cooperation between Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and fascist movements from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Ireland, and Britain. The study examines how fascists attempted to unite across borders by forming international organizations and networks, hosting conferences and exhibitions, disseminating multilingual publications, and exchanging propaganda. Their transnational cooperation was fuelled by shared ideas of ultranationalism, anti-liberalism, anti-communism, antisemitism, racism, white supremacism, and Europeanism. The book argues that fascist internationalism, marked by contradictions, limitations, and an Italo-German rivalry, emerged in the 1930s as a counter-reaction to liberal and communist internationalism. The epilogue discusses reverberations in the Second World War and the postwar period and outlines the relevance of this history for understanding contemporary forms of far-right internationalism. 399 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Polyurethanes are among the most commercially significant specialty polymers, with an annual production volume of 25 million metric tons. Their manufacturing process utilizes liquid reactive components, and the wide variety of starting materials enables the creation of a diverse range of products for the consumer, transportation, industrial, and construction industries. This book discusses the synthesis of isocyanates and polyols, along with their polymerization, linking the structures of the starting components to the polymer morphology and mechanical properties of the resulting polymers. It provides a fundamental introduction to polymer physics, processing, and foam formation while focusing on three main applications of polyurethane: low-density rigid foam, low-density flexible foam, and elastomers. The book is suitable for graduate students in chemistry, materials science, and industrial chemistry, as well as for those new to the polyurethanes industry. 250 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In the period of mid-twentieth-century decolonization, when nationalism and globalism were hotly contested, East Africans nurtured regionalism in their intellectual and creative work. This book looks beyond political projects of federation to recover ideas and practices of regionalism, their remarkable longevity and their significance for understanding possibilities of radical change. In doing so, it tells a different story about the fate of the category of East Africa, building on a body of scholarship about the imagined political communities of decolonizing Africa, and rejecting narratives that explain the failure of regional integration as the immediate consequence of postcolonial authoritarianism or global economic crisis. 320 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In the period of mid-twentieth-century decolonization, when nationalism and globalism were hotly contested, East Africans nurtured regionalism in their intellectual and creative work. This book looks beyond political projects of federation to recover ideas and practices of regionalism, their remarkable longevity and their significance for understanding possibilities of radical change. In doing so, it tells a different story about the fate of the category of East Africa, building on a body of scholarship about the imagined political communities of decolonizing Africa, and rejecting narratives that explain the failure of regional integration as the immediate consequence of postcolonial authoritarianism or global economic crisis. 320 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Der Band führt in die Frühe Kaiserzeit ein, eine besonders gut dokumentierte Phase der römischen Geschichte (ca. 30 v. Chr. bis ca. 120 n. Chr.). Er bietet sozial-, kultur-, und imperiengeschichtliche Perspektiven auf die Entstehung und Entwicklung der römischen Monarchie und den Wandel der wichtigsten Institutionen in Rom und im Reich wie etwa des Senats oder der Armeen. 301 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Der Band führt in die Frühe Kaiserzeit ein, eine besonders gut dokumentierte Phase der römischen Geschichte (ca. 30 v. Chr. bis ca. 120 n. Chr.). Er bietet sozial-, kultur-, und imperiengeschichtliche Perspektiven auf die Entstehung und Entwicklung der römischen Monarchie und den Wandel der wichtigsten Institutionen in Rom und im Reich wie etwa des Senats oder der Armeen. 301 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Real change extends beyond individualsit requires a shift in how we lead, collaborate, and shape systems. The second of this two-volume work delves into the power of collective leadership to drive systemic transformation. Featuring diverse contributions from the global IDG movement, it offers insights, tools, and stories that inspire action toward sustainability. Together, we can move beyond isolated efforts to co-create a future where inner development fuels lasting societal change. The first volume From 'I' to 'We' complements the themes and issues raised here in a creative and explorative format.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Riling up the Base argues that stereotypes (especially those relating to immigration, race/ethnicity, and gender), not policies, secured Trumps election win and the ongoing support he enjoys. From his 2015 campaign announcement through his presidential term and in his time out of office, Donald Trump has used stereotypes as a routine feature in his rhetoric. This book defines them as a crucially important strategy for attracting, retaining, and energizing voters. Covering topics like persuasion, agenda setting, critical race theory, and semiotics, the authors use a holistic and interdisciplinary approach to unpack how Trump motivates his base. This book provides a full aggregate explanation of the seemingly mesmerizing attachment and adoration his core supporters feel by explaining the way seemingly disparate theories work both alone and together to expose the mechanisms at play.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book analyzes the ideas and forms of international cooperation between Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and fascist movements from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Ireland, and Britain. The study examines how fascists attempted to unite across borders by forming international organizations and networks, hosting conferences and exhibitions, disseminating multilingual publications, and exchanging propaganda. Their transnational cooperation was fuelled by shared ideas of ultranationalism, anti-liberalism, anti-communism, antisemitism, racism, white supremacism, and Europeanism. The book argues that fascist internationalism, marked by contradictions, limitations, and an Italo-German rivalry, emerged in the 1930s as a counter-reaction to liberal and communist internationalism. The epilogue discusses reverberations in the Second World War and the postwar period and outlines the relevance of this history for understanding contemporary forms of far-right internationalism.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Polyurethanes are among the most commercially significant specialty polymers, with an annual production volume of 25 million metric tons. Their manufacturing process utilizes liquid reactive components, and the wide variety of starting materials enables the creation of a diverse range of products for the consumer, transportation, industrial, and construction industries. This book discusses the synthesis of isocyanates and polyols, along with their polymerization, linking the structures of the starting components to the polymer morphology and mechanical properties of the resulting polymers. It provides a fundamental introduction to polymer physics, processing, and foam formation while focusing on three main applications of polyurethane: low-density rigid foam, low-density flexible foam, and elastomers. The book is suitable for graduate students in chemistry, materials science, and industrial chemistry, as well as for those new to the polyurethanes industry.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Drawing on a wide range of archives, historical publications, oral history, graphic, audiovisual and web sources, Geert Castryck presents Kigoma-Ujiji as both shaping and being shaped by global transformations. On the surface, the book offers almost two centuries of urban history on Lake Tanganyika in western Tanzania, close to the Burundian and Congolese borders, in a place that has been a transport hub throughout that time. Beneath the surface, it is also about major transformations on a global scale, and about people dealing with and coping with these global challenges far from the supposed global powerhouses. Urbanization and infrastructure, colonization and decolonization, liberalization and democratization, war refugees, world heritage and translocal identities are the entry points for interpreting transformations that are local and global at the same time. The author uses the analytical categories of 'liminal space' and 'portal of globalization' to link the marginality and uncertainty that characterize the successive transformations in Kigoma-Ujiji with the urban resilience and creativity used to manage these transformations. 264 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Drawing on a wide range of archives, historical publications, oral history, graphic, audiovisual and web sources, Geert Castryck presents Kigoma-Ujiji as both shaping and being shaped by global transformations. On the surface, the book offers almost two centuries of urban history on Lake Tanganyika in western Tanzania, close to the Burundian and Congolese borders, in a place that has been a transport hub throughout that time. Beneath the surface, it is also about major transformations on a global scale, and about people dealing with and coping with these global challenges far from the supposed global powerhouses. Urbanization and infrastructure, colonization and decolonization, liberalization and democratization, war refugees, world heritage and translocal identities are the entry points for interpreting transformations that are local and global at the same time. The author uses the analytical categories of 'liminal space' and 'portal of globalization' to link the marginality and uncertainty that characterize the successive transformations in Kigoma-Ujiji with the urban resilience and creativity used to manage these transformations. 264 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Drawing on a wide range of archives, historical publications, oral history, graphic, audiovisual and web sources, Geert Castryck presents Kigoma-Ujiji as both shaping and being shaped by global transformations. On the surface, the book offers almost two centuries of urban history on Lake Tanganyika in western Tanzania, close to the Burundian and Congolese borders, in a place that has been a transport hub throughout that time. Beneath the surface, it is also about major transformations on a global scale, and about people dealing with and coping with these global challenges far from the supposed global powerhouses.…