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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Peter Delpeut, filmmaker and former deputy-director of the Nederlands Filmmuseum (now known as Eye Film Instituut Nederland) argues that in every profession there are topics that remain unspoken. They are not willingly kept secret: we are simply unable to speak about them. Within the domain of film preservation, the film fragment is one of these unspeakable matters. And yet film fragments, often unidentified or decaying, populate archives in great quantities. Since 1990, a unique case in the archival world, the Filmmuseum has been preserving and proudly presenting such fragments in compilations called 'Bits & Pieces'. The success of this initiative proves that film fragments captivate the beholder: they ¿speak¿ to the audience because of their very incompleteness. It also shows that fragments can be a valuable asset for a film archive and are therefore worthy of preservation. This essay argues that film fragments, like other forms of ruins, are invaluable sources of constructive philosophical reflection: beautiful and yet incomplete, hard to define, they invite archivists and audiences to reflect critically upon the history of cinema, its canons, its selections and exclusions.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 60 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Santals and Oraons of Bangladesh: A Study of Changing Economic Life in the Barind Region¿ is an account of changing economic life of the tribals, most whom long been settled in Bangladesh. The author through his systematic training in Anthropology and International Development has presented the changing economic condition as well as socio-economic problems of the tribals and an urgency of a separate Tribal Development Plan for their development. The students of social sciences, especially, Anthropology and Development Studies along with the practitioners of both the Government and non-governmental organizations in Bangladesh, civil society and the communities/tribals itself will be benefited out of the endeavour of the author. The book contains some empirical insights/cases as well as directions which helps understand the problems of tribals in the Barind region of Bangladesh especially. Any error or unconscious mistake in the book is treated as the author¿s responsibility that he seeks advices and comments from general readers and scholars in the field of ethnic studies.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 112 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This study explores the ways in which moshing and extreme metal music reflects and informs the social worlds of metal fans. It investigates how underground subcultural practices contribute to our understandings of how violence, pain, and pleasure can be thought with compassion and possibility in leisure. Key concepts such as liminality (Turner, 1979), Dionysian aesthetics (Maffesoli, 1993; Bataille, 1986/1989), and Cagean philosophy (Cage, 1957; Kostelanetz, 1996) are used to examine the nuances and subtleties of moshing culture, practices and behaviours in Edmonton,Canada. Themes of physicality and reality of participating in a moshpit, pit etiquette, negotiation of space within the moshpit, and the significance of moshing for local metal fans are explored. The study accentuated how tensions, pleasures, and resistant practices are necessary in creating meaningful leisure experiences and calls on us to re-think the ways in which marginal leisure practices can be included within dominant leisure discourses.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 92 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in the topic of European Identity, both on a discursive and on a practical level. Despite the ambiguity of the concept, in view of the continuous enlargement and changing borders of the European Union, identity started being perceived as a possible solution towards peace keeping, successful implementation of politics and achievement of the kind of unity necessary for holding Europe together. The present study looks into the possibilities of becoming European by an extensive study of one of the most popular top-down initiatives of the European Union, the European Capitals of Culture Programme. 'You can't fall in love with the common market' Jacques Delors said to point that while free trade is necessary,it is definitely not sufficient. While there can be no denial to the possibility of falling for a grandiose project like the one discussed in the book, it remains to be seen in how far such a programme manages to instill the desired feeling of Europeaness.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 80 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Written out of the author¿s awareness of the problems many students and young researchers encounter when writing their research papers, this book is a simplified presentation of the fundamentals of research. Its technically simple style is aimed at making the book accessible to people of all academic persuasions. Most research studies or projects begin with a written proposal. For this reason, the book starts with a section on how to write a good standard research proposal. In the second section, the book discusses in detail the way in which a research project, dissertation or thesis must be outlined once the research proposal has been accepted. Chapter three looks specifically at a journal paper/article as another very important type of research paper. It gives a brief survey of important points to bear in mind when writing a journal article as well as the structure such a paper is expected to follow. Chapter four is a brief presentation of some of the methods of citation and reference styles commonly used in research.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 120 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Crowdfunding is a development that recently caught a lot of attention. Over the last years, many crowdfunding platforms have been established and often proved to be successful in raising money. This phenomenon has been highlighted in the media as a new form of fund raising that has the potential to lead to revolutionary business models. On the basis of its increased efficiency, it is claimed that crowdfunding may even lead to a paradigm shift in the established ways of present-day funding. Even so, crowdfunding remains a topic on which academic research is, to present date, very limited. The result is that the concept of crowdfunding is not well defined, which leaves much room for discussion. The scale on which crowdfunding takes place is to a large extent still unknown. This research is of an exploratory and descriptive nature, in order to bring more insight to the phenomenon of crowdfunding.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 68 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The goal of this book is to assess and identify the determinants of foreign direct investment in Ethiopian economy, particularly associated with economic growth potential. The increasing trend of globalization over the last decades has led to strong growth of foreign direct investment which can bring many advantages to host countries like bringing technology transfer, raising foreign funds, creating employment opportunities, producing competitive business environment, helping human capital formation and so on. As a result of these advantages of FDI, currently several developing countries are actively seeking foreign investment by taking measures that embody economic and political reforms designed to enhance their investment environment.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 96 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book looks at the brand repositioning. How it can be implemented and why we need to reposition the brand Literature suggests that customer form an image through a fusion of all signals released by the brand. Brands try to encourage customers to perceive the attributes they seek as being strongly associated with the brand. The brand has definitely gone much further from its original concept of identification because of today¿s highly competitive world where only the best can survive hence customer perception is very critical. Positioning is not about the product, but what they buyer thinks about the product or organisation. Companies need to reposition its brand when it starts struggling to survive in the market. In this book Skoda motors case history has been used. Research reflected that how Skoda brand improve their market growth and reposition itself from being unreliable to durable cars manufacturer image and the factors involved in their successBooks on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 88 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -More difficulties are facing the growing number of railway projects in different parts of the world, as well as, other big capital investment projects. Organizations and researchers are searching for methods to improve the performance in terms of cost, time, and quality. One of the identified key areas of improvement is interface management. This work tries to establish a clear link between IM and project management, by exploring various common areas, such as the body of knowledge, and roles and responsibilities. Then it goes a step further by creating a complete Project Interfaces Management (PIM) Process, that includes six sub-processes based on the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle. This work is built upon actual railway project documentation prepared by leading organizations in the industry, and inspired by the structure of the PMBOK® Guide published by the Project Management Institute in 2008. These two characteristics will enable this process first to communicate with project management processes and to be further applied in the wider range of construction projects. This work will add up to the IM body of knowledge and is meant to be considered as a guide to IM common practices.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 88 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Over 80 % of organizational change efforts fail, management literature says. No wonder, as change is continuous and difficult, if not impossible, to manage. This book reports on an empirical research into 9 organizations, at the early stages of a merger. Organizational storytelling is used as an interactive intervention showing how lived and co-constructed stories mobilize people for change efforts. It addresses the temporal aspects of intentional change efforts, offering a much better chance of success than attempting to manage organizational change in a linear fashion. Experience how stories create cultural embedding through a common language in the 9 organizations, leaving management one step behind the change they, themselves, initiated.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 112 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Over three and a half decades the Iraqi population lived as a shadow of the dictator, Saddam Hussein. A shadow put before a choice of either following its bearer or falling at his hands. The Kurds were among those who refused to be ruled by him and became one of the ethnic groups perceived by Saddam as a threat. Consequently, ¿darnkness¿ fell upon them, taking lives of hundreds of thousands, leaving others deeply traumatized. After the fall of the Bäath Party to the U.S. troops in March 2003 the Kurds along with most of the Iraqis rejoiced over the end of their sufferings. Excitement, hope and belief in a better future were interlaced with demands for retribution, revenge and fear. Scars of the past were dealt with the measures that Transitional Justice offered, namely retribution, vetting and reparations. This study looks at the impact that Transitional Justice had on the Kurds of Iraq and particularly on their emotions and attitudes.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 64 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Finance was not considered so important for business organizations before the industrial revolution because methods of productions were very simple, labor was more important than capital and finance at that time. So these things didn¿t create any problems. Nowadays finance is considered as the life blood of every business and achieved the most important place in today¿s business. Any business whether large scale or small scale requires finance for its operations. So many businesses approach the lending institutions at some point or the other in order to get some finance in terms of loans. A lending institution appraises the proposal and then decides whether to lend the money or not. This process is generally termed as credit appraisal. Credit appraisal is a process of assessing the credit worthiness of a borrower. The process of credit appraisal has assumed increased significance, particularly during the time of economic downturn .The book is a comprehensive and a thorough examination of the components of a project.The area of study in Corporate Banking in Indian Overseas Bank would include- Working Capital Financing and Term loan financing.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 80 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Mass media play a significant role during the election process by urging citizens to vote and as well as in setting the media and political agenda. In a fragile democracy, such as Kosovo, media have enormous responsibility and are a key component to create expedient environment that stimulate the system of democratic values in society. Media, politicians and voters are the crucial factors that commonly pursue influence. The research study argues that many media in Kosovo have filed to fulfill its task toward the public opinion. Thus, media during the election process in 2007 have not protected and promoted the interest of citizens, haven¿t build an agenda in people¿s interest and, have extremely disengaged them to participate in voting process and public sphere.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 52 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Stories of lengthy wait lists for subsidized housing assistance are rampant in newspapers, housing advocacy groups and tenant organizations and this anecdotal evidence often points to populous cities with large housing agencies as having the most unreasonable wait times. Is this phenomenon a result of housing agency size or are there other determinants that lead to longer applicant duration on the waitlist This study hypothesized that larger public housing agencies (PHAs) have longer average wait times for applicants and that within the agencies¿ spectrum of programs, voucher programs have longer average wait times than public housing programs. Previous studies had either focused solely on waitlist characteristics or the effect of agency size on management efficiency. This study provides quantitative analysis on the relationship between agency size (i.e. the number of units administered) and average applicant wait time, which is largely absent from existing literature.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 88 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Globalized world business development without proper eye on the training of the employees is impractical. Due to the economic slowdowns, training has become more important, as training is going to facilitate the existence of any business sector or group. Appropriate training programmes assist employee feat through comprehensive acquisition of skills and knowledge and implementing them to the work environment to have maximum output. For the maximum output in the banking sector to achieve competitive advantage, organisations need to focus on the improvement areas related to the development of banking sector. This research aims to examine and analyze different training methods for different levels of an organisation and identify the problems that management countenance in an economic recession, and to examine problems solving steps to develop effective training programmes. This study will assist in the future development of the training method models for organisation, administrators as well as provide an essential framework for the future study on training, planning, and implementation effectiveness even in a critical juncture of a financial recession around the world.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 80 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This analysis explores women¿s Orthodox monastic life in contemporary Romania. It presents the results of a three-week long field research in two monasteries and focuses on three main aspects: the connections between the monastic setting and the outside world, nuns¿ everyday routines, and religious experiences. The first part describes the impact of the external realm on monastic life and shows how nuns negotiate their interactions with profane space. The second and third parts deal with the ways in which nuns¿ subjectivities are reshaped inside the monastery. The main argument is that nuns evolve between two sets of binaries: inside (monastic setting)¿outside (external world) and interior (spirit)¿exterior (body). These become essential in considering some broader problematics: women and postsocialism, daily practices in monastic life and the importance of bodily disciplines and voluntary will in reshaping one¿s subjectivity.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 100 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Evaluation of development projects is becoming more and more important to both aid agencies, governments and beneficiaries. It has been found that most of evaluation of projects' outcomes were conducted and filtered according to the project sponsors lens without taking into account all the stakeholders involved in it. The book tries to correct such a mistake by evaluating an ongoing development project sponsored by the World Bank by including all partners (sponsor, government and beneficiaries) into the outcomes evaluation process. Methods applied, include questionnaire, interviews and field group discussions. The results found that, despite the argument that the amount could be usefully invested into the private sector, most of the stakeholders acknowledged that the project was a success. Review of this project highlighted common mistakes into the project evaluation, inherent issues found on the ground and several recommendations were presented.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 104 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Manufacturing sector plays a significant role in the growth of economy. Cost efficiency and effectiveness have always been the critical factors to achieve cost competitiveness in manufacturing organizations. Various CMS are adopted for value creation through cost management and control. These CMS need to be carefully selected, implemented and managed to get the desired outcomes. Organizational culture dimensions affect the selection and implementation of these strategies. The organizations promoting innovation as a culture are more likely to achieve cost competitiveness through CMS. This text contributes to and extends existing studies by providing insights into the effects of organizational culture on CMS by empirically testing the linkages. It provides a theoretical background for further future researches in the area, and provides with information that could be used by the manufacturing sector organizations to achieve and enhance value creation through CMS.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 76 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Like other developing countries, in South and South-East Asia, infant and child mortality has been given paramount importance by both academicians and policy makers. This is because this mortality is comparatively high here. This book illustrates infant and child mortality and factors affecting it in the context of different programmes and policies implemented by various conutries of the region. Also the book compares intra-country and inter-country comparisons of infant and child mortality levels. The book extensively discusses various child health programmes and their effects on infant and child mortality from 1970 to 2006. In addition to that the book also discusses various aspects of demographic, socio-economic and cultural practices that significantly affect infant and child mortality in this region. The book is of immense use in studies related to demography and public health.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 116 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book focuses on the experiences of African women diagnosed with both HIV/AIDS and cervical cancer. What is it like to live with both the diagnosis of HIV/AIDS and cervical cancer The experience of physical symptoms, of living with HIV/AIDS and cervical cancer as well as the emotional experience were explored and described. The diagnosis of a chronic disease may be a painful and distressing experience for women. The pain that they go through may be a prevailing physical and psychological issue in their lives. Explaining one's own reactions and feelings to other people can lead to new insights into oneself and one's own experiences (Johnson, 2003). Furthermore, self-disclosure create the potential for trust, caring, commitment, growth, self-understanding and friendship, and further, 'to like me, to trust me, to be committed to our relationship, to facilitate my personal growth and self-understanding, and to be my friend, you must know me'.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 100 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This is a model business plan for a start-up of an information brokering small business, originally presented as a master's project. Athough the names of the company and the co-owners are fiticious, the plan was based on the activities of an existing information brokering company. The business plan is a very important document to the enterpreneurs. It helps to describe what needs to be accomplished and to provide information to potential investors or to a bank that would finance the enterprise.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 72 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -More than 800 million people throughout the world and particularly in developing countries do not have enough food to meet their basic dietary needs (FAO, 1996). The problems of hunger and food insecurity is a global dimensions and are likely to persist and even increase dramatically in some regions, unless urgent and concerted action is taken, given the anticipated increase in the world¿s population and the stress on natural resources. Jigawa State being the 8th most populous state in Nigeria with 4.3 million people based on 2006 Population Census, in addition, the state is blessed with large expanse of agricultural land of 2.24 million hectares (JARDA, 2009) but unfortunately, the state is ranked as the 11th poorest in the country with 79.0% level of poverty (NBS, 2012). The research dwells on the Primary sources of data (cross sectional) using Descriptive and inferential tools of analysis, specifically Logit Regression analysis. The study however, used cost ¿ of ¿ calories on food consume by households as a bench mark to differentiate between food insecure households and food secure households.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 108 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Managing human capital is the biggest challenge before any company. To gain a competitive edge in the market, motivation of the human capital is a must. Universalistic theories of motivation were proposed to guide the managers in the concerned field. Major approaches that have led to understanding of motivation are Maslow's need-hierarchy theory, Herzberg's two- factor theory, Vroom's expectancy theory, Adams' equity theory and others. According to Maslow, employees have five levels of needs (1943): physiological, safety, social, ego, and self- actualizing needs. Herzberg's work categorized motivation into two factors: motivators and hygiene factors (1959). Different views on motivation are given by various people. This research is devoted to examining how the universalistic theories of motivation are applicable in the LML ltd. The findings of the study are based on the results of a survey conducted to ascertain how these motivation theories impacted the company.Further eight motvational factors are ranked along with analysing the policies practised in LML acting as motivator to motivate employees.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 112 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In Effects of Merger and Acquisition in Companies, the authors address some of the most critical consequences of M&A in Listed and Non Listed Companies in Sweden. Research findings on the consequences of post-M&A performance have generated several results, although most of which are inconsistent. This book pursues multiple measures of performance in post-M&A research, and it also analyses and evaluates existing performance indicators that have been employed in other literatures with focus on the Swedish market for listed and non listed companies.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 72 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The manufacturing industry contributes significantly to the Australian economy, specifically contributing 12.2% to the Australian Gross Domestic Product (GDP) (Australian Bureau of Statistics 2007). As such, in order to enable this industry to maintain its competitiveness, the Australian State and Federal Government encourages Lean manufacturing by providing Lean organisational training. This study analyses the effects of Lean manufacturing on, supplier relationships, customer involvement, production line efficiency, employee empowerment and financial results. Using a questionnaire administered to mangers of Lean manufacturing firms in New South Wales, Australia, employee empowerment and financial results were highly regarded by managers as outcomes of Lean implementation. The overriding results found that the implementation of Lean manufacturing processes was perceived by managers to a positive effect on production line efficiency. This study will assist the Australian Government in its decision making regarding its ongoing support for Lean manufacturing training within organisations.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 120 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The gender gap has been one of the major challenges of the education sector particularly in developing countries. As part of the developing countries Ethiopia also experiences this challenge in the education sector. Although many books have been written about the gender gap in education in Ethiopia, Most of the available literatures seem to present as if the gender gap in schools is always in favor of male students. This study has two Purposes: First to compare the gender gap across different types of schools in Addis Ababa and analyze the socio-economic conditions that contribute to such gender gap in different types of schools. Second the study examines the relationship of students¿ socio-economic background and their performance in schools. According to the findings of the study, the gender gap in performance in schools is a reflection of the socio-economic background of students. This book will be valuable asset for students and those who are interested in the education and development related issues and make further research in the field.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 80 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The most popular carbon credit used as the offset is the Certified Emission Reductions (CERs) which is the carbon credit generated from the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project activity. This thesis examines how to manage risk in the CDM market. Three categories of risks were found: 1) compliance risk; 2) non-creation risk; 3) volume risk. The top-down approach was applied to assess the risks by using the global CDM pipeline data as an input. In the end, the statistically analysis provides the result of assessment from each type of risk. The results show that project type and location have high correlation to the risks. On average, most projects have the volatility of the performance around 25%-40%. To manage risk efficiently, an investor should apply risk factors to discount the expected number of CERs to reflect an individual risk profile of the project. Buying an option or insurance could also help to mitigate and hedge an unforeseen incident to the project.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 104 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -African universities have much to learn from world class universities. According to Judge Albie Sachs (Pistorius, 2004), ¿a true Afro-centered universe is not one cut off from Europe or the rest of the world, but one that enriches its own civilization with the best that the rest of the world has to offer¿. Hyperlinks have facilitated such relationships between universities. Hence, African universities must create links with world class universities. But to what extent are these links created between African and world universities What is the motivation for creating these links and the disciplinary distribution pattern The monograph, 'Webometric Analysis of Links between African and World Universities' examines these.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 116 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book investigates the new construct of ¿knowledge quality¿ amongst SMEs. Initially by delineating the main dimensions of knowledge quality which are intrinsic knowledge quality, contextual knowledge quality, and actionable knowledge quality and also examining the essential antecedents of knowledge quality, including, functional diversity, absorptive capacity, and knowledge networks. Apart from examining the aforementioned concepts, the study examines the relation between knowledge quality and innovation. Data are reaped from questionnaire issued to SMEs inside industrial parks of Tehran city (capital of Iran) and descriptive statistics, frequency statistics as well as regression analysis are applied.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 108 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Environment and women are linked like a chain to each other. Development of one can certainly be the reason of upholding the situation of the other and vis-à-vis. In the arena of water women play a key role of associating the water with the human world. Hence, we need to understand the dynamics of the inner affiliation between women and water. Accordingly, this research examined the gender sensitivity of the National Water Policy Bangladesh, 1998. The underlined causation of the research was to figure out whether the National Water Policy is gender sensitive or not so that, a more gender sensitive Water Policy framework for formulation and implementation could be recommended for future reference which can foster women empowerment in the long run. The research has been done upon the theoretical foundation of liberal feminism using the theories of ¿Strategic Gender Interests¿ by Molyneux and ¿Feminist Environmentalism¿ by Bina Agarwal and the theory of ¿Redistribution and Recognition¿ by Nancy Fraser. The outcome has shown that, in Bangladesh, the framed Water Policy was not generated in gender sensitive manner and there are evident flaws in implementation of the policy.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 108 pp. Englisch.