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Domestic musical arrangements of opera provide a unique window on the world of nineteenth-century amateur music-making. These arrangements flourished in especially rich variety in early nineteenth-century Vienna. This study reveals ways in which the Viennese culture of musical arrangements opened up opportunities, especially for women, for connoisseurship, education, and sociability in the home, and extended the meanings and reach of public concert life. It takes a novel stance for musicology, prioritising musical arrangements over original compositions, and female amateurs' perspectives over those of composers, and asks: what cultural, musical, and social functions did opera arrangements serve in Vienna c.1790–1830? Multivalent musical analyses explore ways Viennese arrangers tailored large-scale operatic works to the demands and values of domestic consumers. Documentary analysis, using little-studied evidence of private and semi-private music-making, investigates the agency of musical amateurs and reinstates the central importance of women's roles.
This proactive guide brings the relationship between work life and mental well-being into sharp focus, surveying common challenges and outlining real-life solutions. The authors’ approach posits managers as the chief mental health officers of their teams, offering both a science-based framework for taking stock of their own impact on the workplace and strategies for improvement. Areas for promoting mental wellness include reducing stress and stigma, building a safe climate for talking about mental health issues, recognizing at-risk employees, and embracing diversity and neurodiversity. Emphasizing key questions to which managers should be attuned, the book speaks to its readers—whether i...
Nacheinander werden sechs jungen Frauen auf bestialische Art und Weise ermordet. Alle bis auf das zweite Opfer werden mit wuchtigen Schlägen auf den Hinterkopf, Messerstichen in die Brust und durch Strangulation mit einem Seil getötet. Nur dem zweiten Opfer wird zusätzlich noch die Kehle durchgeschnitten. Die ermittelnden Polizeibeamten der Mordkommission kommen zunächst nicht so richtig mit ihren Ermittlungen voran. Es gibt mehrere Verdächtige, einige Verdachtsmomente, aber keinen schlüssigen Beweis gegen einen der Verdächtigen. Die Ermittlungen gehen in eine andere Richtung, nachdem einige Frauen, die von tatsächlichen oder vermeintlichen Übergriffen durch den brutalen Serienmörd...
A collection of engaging essays that seeks to uniquely reperiodize American literature. It is all but inevitable for literary history to be divided into periods. "Early American," "antebellum," "modern," "post-1945"—such designations organize our knowledge of the past and shape the ways we discuss that past today. These periods tend to align with the watershed moments in American history, even as the field has shifted its perspective away from the nation-state. It is high time we rethink these defining periods of American literary history, as the drawing of literary timelines is a necessary—even illuminating—practice. In these short, spirited, and imaginative essays, 23 leading America...
Mae Maguire flees across two states to get away from a crazed ex-husband. She settles in her friend's fishing cabin on the Rio Grande River in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado where she hopes to pursue her art and find a new beginning. She befriends an attractive German neighbor, a hydrologist who is affiliated with the prestigious Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico. Secrets are revealed through his stories about a World War II Camp for German prisoners that was located nearby. Her peace is shattered when her cabin is broken into and evidence mounts that someone is watching her every move. The friend who shares his cabin with Mae cannot protect her while he is working at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, so she must trust the local authorities to do it. Mae's adventures bring her into direct contact with the harsh realities of nature. When she stumbles upon information worse than she could ever have imagined, her survival skills are tested - as are her relationships.
Dieses Buch gibt nicht nur einen strukturierten Überblick über angewendete Personalentwicklungsmaßnahmen in der Beschaffung, sondern inspiriert auch zur Anwendung neuer Modelle. Gerade in den letzten Jahren hat die Funktion Beschaffung einen enormen Bedeutungszuwachs erhalten. Die Umsetzung moderner Beschaffungsstrategien stellt Verantwortliche vor neue Herausforderungen und der Stellhebel Mitarbeiter ist zum entscheidenden Erfolgsfaktor geworden. In einer quantitativen Studie untersuchten die Autorinnen Rahmenbedingungen und Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten funktionsspezifischer Personalentwicklungsmaßnahmen. Die dabei identifizierten typischen Probleme werden durch praktische Empfehlungen und zahlreiche Best Cases Beispiele aus der Praxis ergänzt. Akademische Schwerpunktartikel setzen die Praxisbeiträge in einen theoretischen Bezugsrahmen und beleuchten Aspekte wie z. B. Team- oder Führungskräfteentwicklung, die Bedeutung eines „Global Mindsets“ für Beschaffer, virtuelle Personalentwicklungsmöglichkeiten oder aber Agilitätskonzepte näher. Ein gelungener Transfer von Wissenschaft zu Praxis und lohnenswerte Lektüre für professionelle Einkäufer.