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CMJ New Music Report
CMJ New Music Report is the primary source for exclusive charts of non-commercial and college radio airplay and independent and trend-forward retail sales. CMJ's trade publication, compiles playlists for college and non-commercial stations; often a prelude to larger success.
Socialist Entrepreneurs? Business Histories of the GDR and Yugoslavia
This book breaks new ground, taking business history where it has only reluctantly gone in the past. The introduction reviews the small, but growing, literature, based on fresh archival materials, which investigates the history of business organisation in the Global East, or the Second World in the Cold War. It argues that there is already a great variety of approaches that go beyond the view of the Soviet-style firm as primarily a production function. Focusing on East Germany and Yugoslavia, seven chapters showcase new directions in the field, and demonstrate that the combination of business history with other historical and disciplinary approaches can help unpack the diversity of historica...
Dictatorship and Information
Fear pervades dictatorial regimes. Citizens fear leaders, the regime's agents fear superiors, and leaders fear the masses. The ubiquity of fear in such regimes gives rise to the "dictator's dilemma," where autocrats do not know the level of opposition they face and cannot effectivelyneutralize domestic threats to their rule. The dilemma has led scholars to believe that autocracies are likely to be short-lived.Yet, some autocracies have found ways to mitigate the dictator's dilemma. As Martin K. Dimitrov shows in Dictatorship and Information, substantial variability exists in the survival of nondemocratic regimes, with single-party polities having the longest average duration. Offering a syst...
Handbook of Experimental Structural Dynamics
The SEM Handbook of Experimental Structural Dynamics stands as a comprehensive overview and reference for its subject, applicable to workers in research, product design and manufacture, and practice. The Handbook is devoted primarily to the areas of structural mechanics served by the Society for Experimental Mechanics IMAC community, such as modal analysis, rotating machinery, structural health monitoring, shock and vibration, sensors and instrumentation, aeroelasticity, ground testing, finite element techniques, model updating, sensitivity analysis, verification and validation, experimental dynamics sub-structuring, quantification of margin and uncertainty, and testing of civil infrastructu...
Sites of Modernity—Places of Risk
“Places of risk” and “sites of modernity” refer not merely to physical locations, but also objects and institutions that stand at the center of contemporary debates on security and risk. These are social and political domains where energy and infrastructure are produced, where domestic security is pursued and maintained, and where citizens encounter the state in its punitive or monitory roles. Taking a wide view of the period from the 1970s to today, this volume brings together innovative, interdisciplinary case studies of sites of modernity that promise to provide security and safety, yet at the same time are deemed responsible for creating new risks. With a particular contemporary interest in the technocratic changes of security and risk control the contributors to Sites of Modernity — Places of Risk position the 1970s as a turning point in the path from industrial to post-industrial modernity.
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»Stellt die Bürger ruhig«
»Stellt die Bürger ruhig!« lautete die Devise von Wirtschaftsfunktionären und Politikern angesichts der sich zuspitzenden Umweltkonflikte im Chemierevier Halle-Bitterfeld. Die ohnehin akuten Umweltprobleme der Region wurden durch die zunehmende ökonomische Überforderung der DDR verschärft und führten zu einer konfliktträchtigen Situation, die in den 1980er-Jahren auch den Staatssicherheitsdienst auf den Plan rief. Die Studie zeigt, wie die Geheimpolizei angesichts einer zunehmend umweltbewussten Bevölkerung und handlungsunfähiger Behörden und Betriebe Umweltprobleme vertuschte, indem sie für eine strikte Geheimhaltung von Umweltdaten sorgte und dazu Wissensträger lückenlos überwachte und die staatlich unabhängige Umweltbewegung observierte und bekämpfte.
