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The Ring
A celebratory summary of one of the greatest operatic events at the Royal Opera House in London, The Ring charts the story of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen--the first staging in 1892 through the increasingly controversial productions of the late twentieth century. Each chapter is richly illustrated to evoke the character of the productions and their times.
Time and Poverty in Western Welfare States
Time and Poverty in Western Welfare States is the English-language adaptation of one of the most important contributions to welfare economics published in recent years. Professors Leibfried and Leisering offer a time-based (dynamic) analysis of the study of poverty, and suggest the need for a radical re-think of conventional theoretical and policy approaches. The core of this study is the empirical analysis of the life course of recipients of 'Social Assistance' in Germany, although the conclusions are put into a wider context of socio-economic and socio-political analysis and comparative observations are made with other countries, notably the USA. Time, Life and Poverty will be of interest to upper-level students, researchers and policy-makers in a wide range of social science disciplines, including: economics, social policy, sociology, psychology and European studies.
Poverty and Economic Inequality in Industrialized Western Societies
Comprises 13 papers which discuss poverty and economic inequality in industrialized Western countries.
Armut in einem reichen Land
Vermehrte Fluchtmigration, Angst vor gesellschaftlichem Abstieg und soziale Ungleichheit: Obwohl diese Themen viele Menschen umtreiben, wird Armut in Deutschland, so Christoph Butterwegge, nicht konsequent bekämpft, sondern verharmlost und "ideologisch entsorgt". In der aktualisierten Auflage seines Standardwerks diskutiert er auch, was getan werden muss, um die Kluft zwischen Arm und Reich wieder zu schließen. "Dieses Buch besticht durch analytische Klarheit und präzise politische Urteile. Wer sich über alle Aspekte von Armut informieren möchte, kommt an ihm nicht vorbei." Süddeutsche Zeitung
Covent Garden Books
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Cosmopolitan Vision
In this new book, Ulrich Beck develops his now widely used concepts of second modernity, risk society and reflexive sociology into a radical new sociological analysis of the cosmopolitan implications of globalization. Beck draws extensively on empirical and theoretical analyses of such phenomena as migration, war and terror, as well as a range of literary and historical works, to weave a rich discursive web in which analytical, critical and methodological themes intertwine effortlessly. Contrasting a ‘cosmopolitan vision’ or ‘outlook’ sharpened by awareness of the transformative and transgressive impacts of globalization with the ‘national outlook’ neurotically fixated on the fam...
Grenzen des Sozialversicherungsstaates
Über die Grenzen des Sozialversicherungsstaates wird nicht erst seit der Zunahme der sozialen und finanziellen Belastungen, die mit der deutschen Einheit verbunden sind, diskutiert. Der demographische Wandel gibt Anlaß zu weitreichenden Spekulationen über die Zukunft der Rentenversicherung, die Gesundheitsreform und die Einführung der Pflegeversicherung verunsichern den historischen Kompromiß zwischen Arbeitgeber- und Arbeitnehmerbeiträgen. Schließlich stellt die steigende Armut und Sozialhilfeabhängigkeit die Verteilungswirkung des Sozialversicherungssystems in Frage. Die Autoren analysieren die Leistungsfähigkeit der Sozialversicherungssysteme und skizzieren Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten des modernen Sozialstaats.
Animals and Courts
Early modern princely courts were not only inhabited by humans, but also by a large number of animals. This coexistence of non-human living beings had crucial impacts on the spatial organization, the social composition and cultural life at these courts. The contributions enrich our knowledge on another aspect of court life and invite to reconsider our basic understandings of court, courtiers and court society.
The Frey Sander Connections Germans from Russia
This book provides the genealogical connection of the Frey, Sander and extended families. The genealogical record is traced from the late 1500’s of central Europe to the Russian Steppes near what is now Odessa Ukraine and finally to the Prairies of North America. Brief historical descriptions are included to provide some insight into the reasons why the families relocated. The major part of the book traces the ancestral lines through the years and includes church and civil records as genealogical prime sources.
