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A Different Journey
Eric McGrann is a young man who is filled with uncertainty as he enters the adult world of college and career decisions on the cusp of the 1960s. But his twin, who had shared an almost identical life before, seems to know exactly what he wants to do in life. Watching his brothers progress only makes Eric more undecided. He is drawn to the ever-changing kaleidoscope of the world around him as he heads from his native Minneapolis to the West Coast to seek answers to questions he has not yet formed. Stopping first in Los Angeles and later San Francisco, Eric is drawn to several unique people who share their life views with him. In Los Angeles, he learns about love. In the Bay Area, he experiences the antiwar movement. On his voyage of discovery, the love of a girl from his home town sustains him as Eric tries on more than one identity before he settles in Seattle. There, he finds himself and discovers his true passion.
Theories of Sustainable Development
While sustainability has become a buzzword in discussions about the environment and development, work on theories of sustainable development has received much less attention. However, theory is vital as understanding the origins and development of the concept is the key to achieving successful implementation of sustainability. This book offers an interdisciplinary collection of research articles on the theories of sustainable development, drawing on a wide range of subjects including history, politics, governance, complex systems, economics and philosophy. It advocates viewing sustainable development not only as the establishment of a permanent, globally practicable and future-capable mode o...
Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe
The collapse of state socialism ushered in dramatic political and economic change, producing new freedoms and opportunities, but also new challenges and disappointments. Focusing on laborers, professionals, youth, women, sexual minorities, foreign students, and emigrants, Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe explores these multifaceted changes and people’s varied experiences of them. The featured narratives complicate hegemonic representations of transformation, revealing ruptures and continuities, progress and reversals. Highlighting the multi-directionality of change over the last thirty years, the book reappraises 1989 as an epochal event for all.
How Memory Divides
This book examines the paradox of collective identity in eastern Germany in the wake of German reunification. Following the fall of the Berlin Wall, citizens of the former German Democratic Republic were confronted with a dilemma: Were they already Germans without qualification, like their compatriots in the West? Or did they remain "East Germans" for the time being, with an identity tied to their distinct past, as if they were foreigners who had migrated without leaving home? How Memory Divides shows that these questions remain unresolved even today, less because of any "incomplete unity" between Germans in West and East, than because of the contradictory ways in which "easterners" themselves have remembered their past. Drawing on a unique study spanning two decades, the author reveals how divergent biographical memories have given rise to life stories with a diverse array of genres and storylines at odds with official accounts of the GDR and its demise. Over time, efforts to effect unity between West and East have reproduced divisions within the East. This book will appeal to scholars and students of sociology and politics with interests in memory, heritage, and identity.
Divided Subjects, Invisible Borders
What do Germany’s memorials, films, artworks, memory debates and national commemorations tell us about the lives of Germans today? How did the Wall in the Head come to replace the Wall that fell in 1989? The old identities of East and West, which all but dissolved in joyous embraces as the Berlin Wall fell, emerged once more after formal re-unification a year later in 1990. 2015 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of that German re-unification. Yet Germany remains divided; a mutual distrust lingers, and national history remains contentious. The material, social, cultural and psychic effects of re-unification on the lives of eastern and western Germans since 1989 all demand again asking fundamental questions about history, social change and ideology. Divided Subjects, Invisible Borders puts affective life at the centre of these questions, both in the role affect played in mobilizing East Germans to overthrow their regime and as a sign of disappointment after formal reunification. Using contemporary Germany as a lens the book explores broader debates about borders, memory and subjectivity.
Leistungsfaehige Verbindungen des Ingenieurholzbaus - Einsatzmoeglichkeiten fuer Nadel- und Laubholz
This book is about the invention of mechanical connections and contact joints to support the utilization of beech wood for structural applications. Further the influence of fastener holes in the tension and compression area of timber and glulam members on the load-carrying capacity under load parallel to the grain was studied.
Handbuch Akkreditierung von Studiengängen
Angestoßen durch den Bologna-Prozess wurde 1999 auf Probe die Akkreditierung von Studiengängen eingeführt. Dieses freiwillige Verfahren der Qualitätssicherung von Studiengängen hat sich inzwischen etabliert. So arbeiten Wissenschaftler, Mitarbeiter, Studierende, Arbeitgeber- und Arbeitnehmervertreter in sieben Akkreditierungsagenturen und der Aufsichtseinrichtung, dem sogenannten Akkreditierungsrat zusammen. Das Handbuch macht den Leser mit allen Aspekten der Akkreditierung so vertraut, dass er zu einem kompetenten Teilnehmer oder Akteur im Umfeld der Akkreditierung von Studiengängen wird. Es führt in die hochschulpolitischen Rahmenbedingungen, die Diskussion um die Akkreditierung selbst und Grundlagen der Qualitätssicherung und Partizipation ein. Es erläutert die Struktur des Akkreditierungssystems und alle Elemente des eigentlichen Verfahrens. Schließlich enthält es die Beschlusstexte und die Adressen aller deutschen Einrichtungen.
Aufstieg oder Ausstieg?
Die Zeit zwischen Promotion und Professur ist der "Flaschenhals" für eine Karriere im deutschen Wissenschaftssystem. Was muss sich ändern, damit Karrierewege planbar werden? Die Beiträge des Sammelbandes beleuchten die Optionen wissenschaftlicher Karrieren aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln: Sie beschreiben die Befunde des Bundesberichts Wissenschaftlicher Nachwuchs 2013 zum beruflichen Verbleib von Wissenschaftlern, öffnen den Blick auf die europäische Ebene und erörtern Modelle zum Tenure Track als Möglichkeit planbarer wissenschaftlicher Karrieren. Der Band dokumentiert die Ergebnisse der 7. GEW-Wissenschaftskonferenz, die 2013 in Berlin stattfand und auf der der Köpenicker Appell formuliert wurde.
Classical Rhetoric and Its Christian and Secular Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times
Since its original publication by UNC Press in 1980, this book has provided thousands of students with a concise introduction and guide to the history of the classical tradition in rhetoric, the ancient but ever vital art of persuasion. Now, George Kennedy offers a thoroughly revised and updated edition of Classical Rhetoric and Its Christian and Secular Tradition. From its development in ancient Greece and Rome, through its continuation and adaptation in Europe and America through the Middle Ages and Renaissance, to its enduring significance in the twentieth century, he traces the theory and practice of classical rhetoric through history. At each stage of the way, he demonstrates how new societies modified classical rhetoric to fit their needs. For this edition, Kennedy has updated the text and the bibliography to incorporate new scholarship; added sections relating to women orators and rhetoricians throughout history; and enlarged the discussion of rhetoric in America, Germany, and Spain. He has also included more information about historical and intellectual contexts to assist the reader in understanding the tradition of classical rhetoric.
