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Moving Pictures/Stopping Places
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 401

Moving Pictures/Stopping Places

Mobility has long been a defining feature of modern societies, yet remarkably little attention has been paid to the various 'stopping places'_hotels, motels, and the like_that this mobility presupposes. If the paradoxical qualities of fixed places dedicated to facilitating movement have been overlooked by a variety of commentators, film-makers have shown remarkable prescience and consistency in engaging with these 'still points' around which the world is made to turn. Hotels and motels play a central role in a multitude of films, ranging across an immensely wide variety of genres, eras, and national cinemas. Whereas previous film theorists have focused on the movement implied by road movies ...

Sustainable Business
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 371

Sustainable Business

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A Handbook of Business Transformation Management Methodology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 574

A Handbook of Business Transformation Management Methodology

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-04-08
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book provides an integrative Business Transformation Management Methodology, the BTM2, with an emphasis on the balance between the rational aspects of transformation and the often underestimated emotional readiness of employees to absorb and accept transformation initiatives. Comprising four phases - Envision, Engage, Transform, and Optimize - the methodology integrates expertise from areas such as strategy, risk, and project management. Covering the formal and informal structures and roles needed for a successful transformation, the authors cover a wide range of theory to help understand the phenomenon of transformation. A '360-degree' view on what business transformation means and how to manage it successfully, this handbook is suitable for business executives dealing with organizational change. A range of illustrative case studies ensure this is also a valuable resource for academics interested in change and transformation management.

The Marriage of Maria Braun
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

The Marriage of Maria Braun

Commentary and criticism on Fassbinder's film "The marriage of Maria Braun"

Touring Beyond the Nation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

Touring Beyond the Nation

From the Grand Tour to nudist beaches, this volume investigates the rise of modern tourism in Europe and highlights the many connections between European countries in their approach to and development of a transnational tourist industry. This is an essential addition to the library of those studying the history of tourism, popular culture and leisure in Europe, and will also provide interest to scholars of transnational topics, including Europeanization and globalization.

Days of Twilight, Nights of Frenzy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 330

Days of Twilight, Nights of Frenzy

Werner Schroeter was a leading figure of New German Cinema. In more than forty films made between 1967 and 2008, including features, documentaries, and shorts, he ignored conventional narrative, creating instead dense, evocative collages of image and sound. For years, his work was eclipsed by contemporaries such as Wim Wenders, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, and Alexander Kluge. Yet his work has become known to a wider audience through several recent retrospectives, including at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Written in the last years of his life, Days of Twilight, Nights of Frenzy sees Schroeter looking back at his life with the help of film critic and friend Claudia Lenssen....

Children of the Laboring Poor
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 513

Children of the Laboring Poor

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This volume provides fascinating new insights into the agency of the laboring poor in early modern Europe. Based on more than 5,000 biographical accounts of orphans in the city of Augsburg, it explores their responses to changing social and economic circumstances and their utilization of social institutions and mores.

Die Fakultät für Maschinenwesen und Betriebswirtschaften/The Faculty of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 114

Die Fakultät für Maschinenwesen und Betriebswirtschaften/The Faculty of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

The history of the Faculty of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering is as old as that of the TU Wien. As intended by its founders, the former Imperial Royal Polytechnic Institute worked closely together with industry and business, addressing topics from the very beginning that one would today assign to the Faculty of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. In correspondence with overall technological progress, the research topics and teaching fields of the faculty have undergone continual, often even revolutionary, development and change. This commemorative volume provides both a historical overview of the evolution of the faculty as well as exemplary highlights and striking characteristics of the developments of the last 50 years in particular.

Handbook of Nanophysics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 888

Handbook of Nanophysics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-09-17
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  • Publisher: CRC Press

The tools of nanodiagnostics, nanotherapy, and nanorobotics are expected to revolutionize the future of medicine, leading to presymptomatic diagnosis of disease, highly effective targeted treatment therapy, and minimum side effects. Handbook of Nanophysics: Nanomedicine and Nanorobotics presents an up-to-date overview of the application of nan

Changing Life
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 544

Changing Life

In laboratories all over the world, life -- even the idea of life -- is changing. And with these changes, whether they result in square tomatoes or cyborgs, come transformations in our social order -- sometimes welcome, sometimes troubling. Changing Life offers a close look at how the mutable forms and concepts of life link the processes of science to those of information, finance, and commodities. These essays -- about planetary management and genome sequencing, ecologies and cyborgs -- address actual and imagined transformations at the center and at the margins of transnational relations, during the post-Cold War era and in times to come.