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Das Bayerische Jahrbuch verzeichnet Behörden, Ministerien, Körperschaften und mit ihnen verbundene Einrichtungen des öffentlichen Lebens im Freistaat Bayern: Behörden und Dienststellen der staatlichen und kommunalen Verwaltung die Gerichtsbarkeit Interessenverbände und andere Organisationen aus Politik, Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Kunst usw. Notar/-innen, Kirchenbehörden, Hochschulen, Museen, Bibliotheken, Kreditinstitute über 12.000 Bürgermeister/-innen, Landrät/-innen, Vorsitzende, Geschäftsführer/-innen, Präsident/-innen, Direktor/-innen und andere Personen in leitender Funktion statistischer Überblick zu ausgewählten Themen Personenregister, Sach- und Institutionenregister

Experimental Learning and Innovation Environments, such as Living Labs, Field Labs, and Urban Innovation Labs, are increasingly used to connect multi-stakeholders in envisioning, creating, experimenting, learning, and trying out novel responses to diverse societal challenges. With designers facilitating the co-creation processes that take place in these labs, the design discipline plays an important role in these experimental environments.Applied Design Research in Living Labs and other Experimental Learning and Innovation Environments combines a focus on Experimental Learning and Innovation Environments (or Living Labs) with a focus on Applied Design Research. It offers an interdisciplinary perspective by bringing together diverse stakeholders from different disciplines. The book will adopt an interdisciplinary perspective, integrating insights from design, innovation, sociology, technology, and other relevant fields. It showcases real-world examples and case studies of successful Applied Design Research in Living Labs and focuses on design dilemmas that emerge while working in these Experimental Learning and Innovation Environments. The book explores the role of various stakeholders, including the roles that may play out during the development of Experimental Learning and Innovation Environments, and goes on to discuss the balance between fixed or fluid roles of these stakeholders and the polarity between working within one specific discipline versus working with various expertise or disciplines.Designers, government representatives, and researchers who apply a living lab approach to solve multi-stakeholder challenges in various fields by applying Urban Innovation Labs, Energy Living Labs, Mobility Living Labs, Health Living Labs, Education Living Labs, or Social Living Labs will find this book of interest.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Das Bayerische Jahrbuch verzeichnet Behörden, Ministerien, Körperschaften und mit ihnen verbundene Einrichtungen des öffentlichen Lebens im Freistaat Bayern: Behörden und Dienststellen der staatlichen und kommunalen Verwaltung die Gerichtsbarkeit Interessenverbände und andere Organisationen aus Politik, Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Kunst usw. Notare, Kirchenbehörden, Hochschulen, Museen, Bibliotheken, Kreditinstitute über 12.000 Bürgermeister, Landräte, Vorsitzende, Geschäftsführer, Präsidenten, Direktoren und andere Personen in leitender Funktion Statistischer Überblick zu ausgewählten Themen Personenregister, Sach- und Institutionenregister

From a bold new historian comes a vibrant history of Rome as seen through its most influential persona throughout the centuries: the pope.Rome is a city of echoes, where the voice of the people has chimed and clashed with the words of princes, emperors, and insurgents across the centuries. In this authoritative new history, Jessica Wärnberg tells the story of Rome's longest standing figurehead and interlocutor—the pope—revealing how his presence over the centuries has transformed the fate of the city of Rome. Emerging as the anonymous leader of a marginal cult in the humblest quarters of the city, the pope began as the pastor of a maligned and largely foreign flock. Less than 300 years later, he sat enthroned in a lofty, heavily gilt basilica, a religious leader endorsed (and financed) by the emperor himself. Eventually, the Roman pontiff would supplant even the emperors as de facto ruler of Rome and pre-eminent leader of the Christian world. By the nineteenth century, it would take an army to wrest the city from the pontiff's grip. As the first-ever account of how the popes'presence has shaped the history of Rome, City of Echoes not only illuminates the lives of the remarkable (and unremarkable) men who have sat on the throne of Saint Peter, but also reveals the bold and curious actions of the men, women, and children who have shaped the city with them, from antiquity to today. In doing so, the book tells the history of Rome as it has never been told before. During the course of this fascinating story, City of Echoes also answers a compelling question: how did a man—and institution—whose authority rested on the blood and bones of martyrs defeat emperors, revolutionaries, and fascists to give Rome its most enduring identity?

Das Bayerische Jahrbuch verzeichnet Behörden, Ministerien, Körperschaften und mit ihnen verbundene Einrichtungen des öffentlichen Lebens im Freistaat Bayern: Behörden und Dienststellen der staatlichen und kommunalen Verwaltung die Gerichtsbarkeit Interessenverbände und andere Organisationen aus Politik, Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Kunst usw. Notare, Kirchenbehörden, Hochschulen, Museen, Bibliotheken, Kreditinstitute über 12.000 Bürgermeister, Landräte, Vorsitzende, Geschäftsführer, Präsidenten, Direktoren und andere Personen in leitender Funktion

In Rome the echoes of the past resound clearly in its palaces and monuments, and in the remains of the ancient imperial city. But another presence has dominated Rome for 2,000 years -the pope, whose actions and influence echo down the ages. In this epic tale, historian Jessica Wärnberg tells, for the first time, the story of Rome through the lens of its popes, illuminating how these remarkable (and unremarkable) men have transformed lives and played a crucial role in deciding the fate of the city. Emerging as the anonymous leader of a marginal cult in the humblest quarters of the city, less than 300 years later the pope sat enthroned in a gilt basilica, endorsed by the emperor himself. Eventually, the Roman pontiff would supplant even the emperors, becoming the de facto ruler of Rome and pre-eminent leader of the Christian world. Shifting elegantly between the panoramic and the personal, the spiritual and the profane, this is a fresh and often surprising take on a city, a people and an institution that is at once familiar and elusive.

The virus that changed how we think about cancer and its culprits—and the vaccine that changed how we talk about sex and its risks. Starting in 2005, people in the US and Europe were inundated with media coverage announcing the link between cervical cancer and the sexually transmitted virus HPV. Within a year, product ads promoted a vaccine targeting cancer's viral cause, and girls and women became early consumers of this new cancer vaccine. An understanding of HPV's broadening association with other cancers led to the identification of new at-risk populations—namely boys and men—and ignited a plethora of gender and sexual issues related to cancer prevention. Sexualizing Cancer is the first book dedicated to the emergence and proliferation of the HPV vaccine along with the medical capacity to screen for HPV—crucial landmarks in the cancer prevention arsenal based on a novel connection between sex and chronic disease. Interweaving accounts from the realms of biomedical science, public health, and social justice, Laura Mamo chronicles cervical cancer's journey out of exam rooms and into public discourse. She shows how the late twentieth-century scientific breakthrough that identified the human papilloma virus as having a causative role in the onset of human cancer galvanized sexual politics, struggles for inclusion, new at-risk populations, and, ultimately, a new regime of cancer prevention. Mamo reveals how gender and other equity arguments from within scientific, medical, and advocate communities shaped vaccine guidelines, clinical trial funding, research practices, and clinical programs, with consequences that reverberate today. This is a must-read history of medical expansion—from a “woman's disease” to a set of cancers that affect all genders—and of lingering sexualization, with specific gendered, racialized, and other contours along the way.

Multilingual classrooms and online communication are becoming increasingly linguistically diverse due to globalization and new discourse patterns are emerging. Many of these patterns include the use of linguistic resources from multiple languages in the same utterance. Translanguaging, a recent theoretical framework, is gaining prominence among scholars interested in studying these multilingual discursive practices and the concept of a unitary language system for lexical processing. The aim of this book is to gain a better understanding of the bilingual brain and how words and sentences that use features from socially distinct languages are processed. Using examples provided by multilingual study participants, a categorization of the various forms of translanguaging is developed to build a translanguaging model. Psycholinguistic methods such as eye tracking are combined with conventional sociolinguistic survey methodology to provide rich qualitative and quantitative data that address the cognitive effects of translanguaging and the underlying structure of translingual word-formations. This monograph shows how language biography, exposure, and attitude towards multilingual discursive practices all affect cognitive processing. It also demonstrates how multilingual speakers are setting the patterns for novel word-formations to be produced, thus having a social, cultural, and cognitive impact on how we communicate.

O que nossas políticas nacionais de leniência têm em comum com temas relacionados à economia comportamental? Por que (e como) a política de leniência norte-americana se tornou o exemplo a ser seguido? Qual o procedimento adequado a ser seguido para a celebração de um acordo de leniência? Como a forma que tal procedimento é desenhado pode impactar na eficácia de uma política de leniência? Quais são os elementos que contribuem para uma maior (ou menor) eficácia de uma política de leniência? A resposta para essas perguntas, e como nossas políticas de leniência nacionais (especificamente quanto às modalidades anticorrupção e antitruste) podem ser mais eficazes com base na avaliação dos elementos que contribuíram para a eficiência das políticas de leniência que são referências globais (a política norte-americana e a europeia), é o que você vai encontrar na presente obra.

The apostle Peter gradually became one of the most famous figures of the ancient world. His almost undisputed reputation made the disciple an exquisite anchor by which new practices within and outside the Church could be established, including innovations in fields as diverse as architecture, art, cult, epigraphy, liturgy, poetry and politics. This interdisciplinary volume inquires the way in which the figure of Peter functioned as an anchor for various people from different periods and geographical areas. The concept of Anchoring Innovation is used to investigate the history of the reception of the apostle Peter from the first century up to Charlemagne, revealing as much about Peter as about the context in which this reception took place.

Word storage and processing define a multi-factorial domain of scientific inquiry whose thorough investigation goes well beyond the boundaries of traditional disciplinary taxonomies, to require synergic integration of a wide range of methods, techniques and empirical and experimental findings. The present book intends to approach a few central issues concerning the organization, structure and functioning of the Mental Lexicon, by asking domain experts to look at common, central topics from complementary standpoints, and discuss the advantages of developing converging perspectives. The book will explore the connections between computational and algorithmic models of the mental lexicon, word frequency distributions and information theoretical measures of word families, statistical correlations across psycho-linguistic and cognitive evidence, principles of machine learning and integrative brain models of word storage and processing. Main goal of the book will be to map out the landscape of future research in this area, to foster the development of interdisciplinary curricula and help single-domain specialists understand and address issues and questions as they are raised in other disciplines.

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive overview of the history, development and contemporary significance of sport in Asia. It addresses a wide range of issues central to sport in the context of Asian culture, politics, economy and society.The book explores diverse topics, including the history of traditional Asian sport; the rise of modern sport in Asia; the Olympic Movement in Asia; mega sport events in Asia; sport governance and policy; gender, class and ethnicity in Asian sport, and Asia's sporting heroes and heroines. With contributions from 74 leading international scholars, it offers a new perspective on understanding Asian sport and society, telling the story of how sport in this mega-region is coming together and reshaping the world in the process. It also provides readers with a wide lens through which to better contextualise the relationships between Asia and the world within the global sport community.The Routledge Handbook of Sport in Asia is a vital resource for students and scholars studying the history, politics, sociology, culture and policy of sport in Asia, as well as sport management, sport history, sport sociology, and sport policy and politics. It is also valuable reading for those working in international sport organisations.

政治・経済・社会・学術・芸能・スポーツなど、幅広い分野で活躍中の外国人10,310人を収録した人名録。前版『現代外国人名録2016』（2016.1刊）以降に新たに登場した人物や、前版に収録された人物のその後の動向・業績など、最新データを掲載。政治・経済の要人から、ノーベル賞作家、第一線の研究者、若者に人気のアイドル、話題のYoutuberまで、欧米のみならず、アジア、中近東、アフリカ、中南米など世界中の多彩な人物を収録。英字表記からも引ける「人名索引（欧文）」付き。

Language Contact. An International Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of current topics in research on language contact. Broadly conceived, it stands out for its international approach to language contact, complementing the theoretical state-of-the-art with examples from traditionally eclipsed areas and languages. Next to a thorough introductory overview of the ground-breaking methodological and theoretical approaches that shaped the discipline, ample attention goes to the new and innovative insights on language contact in the 21st century. Combining concise introductory contributions with in-depth treatment of the most relevant case studies in the field, the handbook speaks to both junior and established scholars.

The freshwater eels, the Anguillids, have increasingly become the focus of attention for fisheries managers, scientists, researchers, policy makers, conservation bodies and other stakeholders. These species can be seen as a bellwether for issues affecting aquatic ecosystems - their steep decline and the management initiatives to try and reverse this trend, touch on subjects as diverse as disconnected waterways, loss of habitat, novel parasites, pollution, over-fishing and climate change. There are some 16 species of the Anguilla genus and all exhibit similar lifestyles, growing in waters often far-removed from their marine spawning grounds. These enigmatic, contradictory and confounding species share similar challenges and pressures wherever they are found. This book was generated from the 1st UK International Eel Science Symposium, which was held at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) in June 2017. Hosted by the Institute of Fisheries Management (IFM), the ZSL and the Environment Agency (EA), the Symposium was heralded as a success, with over 180 delegates in attendance. Many of the world's top eel specialists attended or gave presentations across a diverse range of subjects. This was one of the Symposium's, and now the book's great strengths - its diversity of subjects and authors. Many countries are represented within the book, from across Europe and as far afield as New Zealand, South Africa, Vanuatu, French Polynesia, Japan, Canada and the USA. The EA and IFM have collaborated to produce this landmark book, which includes a mix of cultural, scientific and management information that will be invaluable to anyone with a professional or personal interest in these mysterious fish, including ichthyologists, fisheries scientists and managers, aquaculture personnel, environmental biologists and ecologists, marine and freshwater biologists, vertebrate zoologists, animal behaviourists and students studying in all these areas. Libraries in all universities and research establishments where these subjects are studied and taught should have copies on their shelves.

Connecting migration studies and the theory of valuation, this collection offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of transnational music practices. Conceiving music as a practice not confined to audibility, the contributions reveal how music emerges in concrete situations through people, objects, techniques, meanings, and emotions in different parts of the world and during different historic periods. Values are thereby created and shared, and creative processes are evaluated in terms of diversity, space and exchange. This book presents cases of contemporary, popular and traditional music, festivals and trade fairs, albums and band projects, shedding light on the tensions between the transfer, reconstruction and creation of music in different contexts.

This respected resource is a biographical dictionary of the significant players in the physical, biological and related sciences. Each edition includes biographical entries on nearly 135,000 living scientists, providing birthdate; birthplace; field of spe

The National Faculty Directory contains the names, departmental affiliations, institutional addresses, and phone numbers of nearly 1 million members of teaching faculties at nearly 4,500 American colleges and universities and 278 Canadian institutions that use instructional materials primarily in English. Updated and verified continuously, it is used by academic, public, and media libraries, and scholarly and research organizations.

政治、経済、学術、芸術から、スポーツ、ポップカルチャー、事件まで、21世紀の国際舞台を彩る人物10,004人を収録。職業、肩書、国籍、生年月日、学歴、受賞歴、経歴など詳細なプロフィールがわかる。2012年以降の世界の動きに対応した最新データを掲載。アルファベットから引ける「人名索引（欧文）」付き。

Profiles living persons in the physical and biological fields, as well as public health scientists, engineers, mathematicians, statisticians, and computer scientists.

This volume contains a selection of nineteen peer-reviewed papers from the 42nd annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) held at Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah, in 2012. The contributions cover a wide range of current topics in the areas of phonetics, phonology, syntax, interfaces, and diachronic Romance linguistics, with an emphasis on experimental approaches, in connection to L1 and L2 acquisition, code-switching and psycholinguistics. Among the languages and varieties of Romance analyzed are French (Old, Modern, and Norman), Portuguese (Brazilian and Classical), and Spanish (Modern and Judeo-Spanish), but also Italo-Romance, Latin, and Romanian. In a comparative tradition, the discussions extend to languages outside Romance, such as dialects of Arabic, Germanic, and Palenquero creole. This collection of papers at the forefront of research contributes to our understanding of Romance languages, and to the influence of Romance linguistics, and will be of interest to scholars in Romance and general linguistics.

Das Bayerische Jahrbuch verzeichnet Behörden, Ministerien, Körperschaften und mit ihnen verbundene Einrichtungen des öffentlichen Lebens im Freistaat Bayern: Behörden und Dienststellen der staatlichen und kommunalen Verwaltung die Gerichtsbarkeit Interessenverbände und andere Organisationen aus Politik, Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Kunst usw. Notare, Kirchenbehörden, Hochschulen, Museen, Bibliotheken, Kreditinstitute über 12.000 Bürgermeister, Landräte, Vorsitzende, Geschäftsführer, Präsidenten, Direktoren und andere Personen in leitender Funktion

An Introduction to Programming by the Inventor of C++ Preparation for Programming in the Real World The book assumes that you aim eventually to write non-trivial programs, whether for work in software development or in some other technical field. Focus on Fundamental Concepts and Techniques The book explains fundamental concepts and techniques in greater depth than traditional introductions. This approach will give you a solid foundation for writing useful, correct, maintainable, and efficient code. Programming with Today's C++ (C++11 and C++14) The book is an introduction to programming in general, including object-oriented programming and generic programming. It is also a solid introduction to the C++ programming language, one of the most widely used languages for real-world software. The book presents modern C++ programming techniques from the start, introducing the C++ standard library and C++11 and C++14 features to simplify programming tasks. For Beginners—And Anyone Who Wants to Learn Something New The book is primarily designed for people who have never programmed before, and it has been tested with many thousands of first-year university students. It has also been extensively used for self-study. Also, practitioners and advanced students have gained new insight and guidance by seeing how a master approaches the elements of his art. Provides a Broad View The first half of the book covers a wide range of essential concepts, design and programming techniques, language features, and libraries. Those will enable you to write programs involving input, output, computation, and simple graphics. The second half explores more specialized topics (such as text processing, testing, and the C programming language) and provides abundant reference material. Source code and support supplements are available from the author's website.

This book is one out of 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes and deals with education and the professional ethics, which scientists, regulators and practitioners of engineering geology inevitably have to face through the purposes, methods, limitations and findings of their works. This volume presents contributions on the professional responsibilities of engineering geologists; the interaction of engineering geologists with other professionals; recognition of the engineering geological profession and its particular contribution to society, culture, and economy and implications for the education of engineering geologists at tertiary level and in further education schemes. Issues treated in this volume are: the position of engineering geology within the geo-engineering profession; professional ethics and communication; resource use and re-use; managing risk in a litigious world; engineering and geological responsibility and engineering geology at tertiary level. The Engineering Geology for Society and Territory volumes of the IAEG XII Congress held in Torino from September 15-19, 2014, analyze the dynamic role of engineering geology in our changing world and build on the four main themes of the congress: Environment, processes, issues and approaches. The congress topics and subject areas of the 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes are: Climate Change and Engineering Geology. Landslide Processes. River Basins, Reservoir Sedimentation and Water Resources. Marine and Coastal Processes. Urban Geology, Sustainable Planning and Landscape Exploitation. Applied Geology for Major Engineering Projects. Education, Professional Ethics and Public Recognition of Engineering Geology. Preservation of Cultural Heritage.

Das Bayerische Jahrbuch verzeichnet Behörden, Ministerien, Körperschaften und mit ihnen verbundene Einrichtungen des öffentlichen Lebens im Freistaat Bayern: Behörden und Dienststellen der staatlichen und kommunalen Verwaltung die Gerichtsbarkeit Interessenverbände und andere Organisationen aus Politik, Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Kunst usw. Notare, Kirchenbehörden, Hochschulen, Museen, Bibliotheken, Kreditinstitute über 12.000 Bürgermeister, Landräte, Vorsitzende, Geschäftsführer, Präsidenten, Direktoren und andere Personen in leitender Funktion

Wie orientiert man sich unter Dutzenden von Aufnahmen einer Mozartsinfonie? Am besten mit Michael Wersins'CD-Führer Klassik'. Erneut grundlegend überarbeitet und aktualisiert, ist er ein verlässlicher, wenn nicht gar notwendiger Begleiter, zudem eine große Hilfe für den Aufbau einer gut sortierten CD-Sammlung: Über 140 herausragende Kompositionen aller Gattungen, vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart, werden analysiert und musikhistorisch eingeordnet, anschließend besonders gelungene Einspielungen charakterisiert und zahlreiche Interpreten sowie ihre künstlerischen Leistungen beschrieben. Die Nennung der jeweiligen Labels und der Bestellnummer erleichtert die Beschaffung der besprochenen CDs.

Das Bayerische Jahrbuch verzeichnet Behörden, Ministerien, Körperschaften und mit ihnen verbundene Einrichtungen des öffentlichen Lebens im Freistaat Bayern: Behörden und Dienststellen der staatlichen und kommunalen Verwaltung die Gerichtsbarkeit Interessenverbände und andere Organisationen aus Politik, Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Kunst usw. Notare, Kirchenbehörden, Hochschulen, Museen, Bibliotheken, Kreditinstitute über 12.000 Bürgermeister, Landräte, Vorsitzende, Geschäftsführer, Präsidenten, Direktoren und andere Personen in leitender Funktion

Observation, Prediction and Simulation of Phase Transitions in Complex Fluids presents an overview of the phase transitions that occur in a variety of soft-matter systems: colloidal suspensions of spherical or rod-like particles and their mixtures, directed polymers and polymer blends, colloid--polymer mixtures, and liquid-forming mesogens. This modern and fascinating branch of condensed matter physics is presented from three complementary viewpoints. The first section, written by experimentalists, emphasises the observation of basic phenomena (by light scattering, for example). The second section, written by theoreticians, focuses on the necessary theoretical tools (density functional theory, path integrals, free energy expansions). The third section is devoted to the results of modern simulation techniques (Gibbs ensemble, free energy calculations, configurational bias Monte Carlo). The interplay between the disciplines is clearly illustrated. For all those interested in modern research in equilibrium statistical mechanics.

Das Bayerische Jahrbuch verzeichnet Behörden, Ministerien, Körperschaften und mit ihnen verbundene Einrichtungen des öffentlichen Lebens im Freistaat Bayern: Behörden und Dienststellen der staatlichen und kommunalen Verwaltung die Gerichtsbarkeit Interessenverbände und andere Organisationen aus Politik, Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Kunst usw. Notare, Kirchenbehörden, Schulen, Hochschulen, Museen, Bibliotheken, Krankenhäuser, Kreditinstitute über 12.000 Bürgermeister, Landräte, Vorsitzende, Geschäftsführer, Präsidenten, Direktoren und andere Personen in leitender Funktion

In the global economy, linguistic diversity influences economic and political development as well as public policies in positive and negative ways. It leads to financial costs, communication barriers, divisions in national unity, and, in some extreme cases, conflicts and war--but it also produces benefits related to group and individual identity. What are the specific advantages and disadvantages of linguistic diversity and how does it influence social and economic progress? This book examines linguistic diversity as a global social phenomenon and considers what degree of linguistic variety might result in the greatest economic good. Victor Ginsburgh and Shlomo Weber look at linguistic proximity between groups and between languages. They describe and use simple economic, linguistic, and statistical tools to measure diversity's impact on growth, development, trade, the quality of institutions, translation issues, voting patterns in multinational competitions, and the likelihood and intensity of civil conflicts. They address the choosing of core languages in a multilingual community, such as the European Union, and argue that although too many official languages might harm cohesiveness, efficiency, and communication, reducing their number brings about alienation and disenfranchisement of groups. Demonstrating that the value and drawbacks of linguistic diversity are universal, How Many Languages Do We Need? suggests ways for designing appropriate linguistic policies for today's multilingual world.

Das Bayerische Jahrbuch verzeichnet Behörden, Ministerien, Körperschaften und mit ihnen verbundene Einrichtungen des öffentlichen Lebens im Freistaat Bayern und liefert aktuelle Informationen zu Institutionen und Personen des öffentlichen Lebens in Bayern: Behörden und Dienststellen der staatlichen und kommunalen Verwaltung, die Gerichtsbarkeit, Interessenverbände und andere Organisationen aus Politik, Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Kunst usw., Notare, Kirchenbehörden, Schulen, Hochschulen, Museen, Bibliotheken, Krankenhäuser, Kreditinstitute sowie über 12.000 Bürgermeister, Landräte, Vorsitzende, Geschäftsführer, Präsidenten, Direktoren und andere Personen in leitender Funktion.Der Hauptteil des Jahrbuches wird durch einen Statistischen Überblick zu ausgewählten Themen abgerundet.Ein umfangreiches Personenregister sowie ein Sach- und Institutionenregister ermöglichen die gezielte Suche im Bayerischen Jahrbuch.

Das Bayerische Jahrbuch verzeichnet Behörden, Ministerien, Körperschaften und mit ihnen verbundene Einrichtungen des öffentlichen Lebens im Freistaat Bayern und liefert aktuelle Informationen zu Institutionen und Personen des öffentlichen Lebens in Bayern: Behörden und Dienststellen der staatlichen und kommunalen Verwaltung, die Gerichtsbarkeit, Interessenverbände und andere Organisationen aus Politik, Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Kunst usw., Notare, Kirchenbehörden, Schulen, Hochschulen, Museen, Bibliotheken, Krankenhäuser, Kreditinstitute sowie über 12.000 Bürgermeister, Landräte, Vorsitzende, Geschäftsführer, Präsidenten, Direktoren und andere Personen in leitender Funktion.Der Hauptteil des Jahrbuches wird durch einen Statistischen Überblick zu ausgewählten Themen abgerundet.Ein umfangreiches Personenregister sowie ein Sach- und Institutionenregister ermöglichen die gezielte Suche im Bayerischen Jahrbuch.

Kürschners Musiker-Handbuch verzeichnet mehr als 12.000 lebende professionelle Musikschaffende der E-Musik. Aufgenommen werden Komponistinnen und Komponisten, Dirigentinnen und Dirigenten, Instrumentalsolistinnen und -solisten, Sängerinnen und Sänger sowie Professorinnen und Professoren mit Schaffensschwerpunkt im deutschsprachigen Raum. Die einzelnen Einträge enthalten biographische Angaben, Kontaktadressen sowie Angaben zu Werdegang und künstlerischem Schaffen, zur Mitgliedschaft in Ensembles, zu Preisen und zu den wichtigsten Werken und/oder Einspielungen. Im Anhang sind rund 3.000 wichtige Adressen der Musikszene aufgeführt: Orchester und Ensembles, Agenturen und Verlage mit Ansprechpartner und Schwerpunkt, Festivals, Ausbildungsstätten sowie Wettbewerbe mit Teilnahmebedingungen und Preisgeld. Ein Berufsregister erleichtert die Suche.

Aktuelle Informationen zu über 7.000 Institutionen und ca. 12.000 Personen des öffentlichen Lebens in Bayern: Behörden und Dienststellen der staatlichen und kommunalen Verwaltung; die Gerichtsbarkeit; Interessenverbände und andere Organisationen aus Politik, Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Kunst usw.; Notare, Kirchenbehörden, Schulen, Hochschulen, Museen, Bibliotheken, Krankenhäuser, Kreditinstitute sowie Bürgermeister, Landräte, Vorsitzende, Geschäftsführer, Präsidenten, Direktoren und andere Personen in leitender Funktion.Der Hauptteil des Jahrbuches wird durch einen Statistischen Überblick zu ausgewählten Themen abgerundet.Ein umfangreiches Personenregister sowie ein Sach- und Institutionenregister ermöglichen die gezielte Suche im Bayerischen Jahrbuch.

Many high net worth individuals are interested in diversifying their portfolios and investing in collectibles. A collectible is any physical asset that appreciates in value over time because it is rare or desired by many. Stamps, coins, fine art, antiques, books, and wine are examples of collectibles. Where does the financial advisor or investment manager for these high net worth individuals go to learn about these investments? There is no comprehensive resource from the financial standpoint--until now. Dr Stephen Satchell of Trinity College, Cambridge, has developed a book in which experts in various types of collectibles analyze the financial aspects of investing in these collectibles. Chapters address issues such as: liquidity challenges, tax ramifications, appreciation timelines, the challenge of forecasting and measuring appreciation, and the psychological component of collecting and the role of emotion in collectible investing.Key FeaturesFeature: Contributors are experts in collectible investing from around the worldBenefit: Gives financial advisors and wealth managers handy access to expert opinions to better advise clients interested in collectible investmentsFeature: Experts discuss the pros and cons of collectibles from an investment perspective in their area of expertise Benefit: One stop shopping, all expertise brought together in one volume, creating a handy reference guideFeature: Experts discuss art, stamps, coins, antiques, wine, from around the world in one global perspectiveBenefit: Wealth managers can gain information about a wide range of collectibles and learn about investing in these types with a global perspective

This book is the answer to the perennial question,'What's out there in the world of genealogy?'What organizations, institutions, special resources, and websites can help me? Where do I write or phone or send e-mail? Once again, Elizabeth Bentley's Address Book answers these questions and more. Now in its 6th edition, The Genealogist's Address Book gives you access to all the key sources of genealogical information, providing names, addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, websites, names of contact persons, and other pertinent information for more than 27,000 organizations, including libraries, archives, societies, government agencies, vital records offices, professional bodies, publications, research centers, and special interest groups.

The essays of Alan Dundes virtually created the meaning of folklore as an American academic discipline. Yet many of them went quickly out of print after their initial publication in far-flung journals. Brought together for the first time in this volume compiled and edited by Simon Bronner, the selection surveys Dundes's major ideas and emphases, and is introduced by Bronner with a thorough analysis of Dundes's long career, his interpretations, and his inestimable contribution to folklore studies. Runner-up, the Wayland Hand Award for Folklore and History, 2009

Blackness Without Ethnicity draws on fifteen years of his research in Bahia, Rio Suriname, and Amsterdam. Sansone uses his findings to explore the very different ways that race and ethnicity are constructed in Brazil and the rest of Latin America. He compares these Latin American conceptions of race to dominate notions of race that are defined by a black-white polarity and clearly identifiable ethnicities, formulations he sees as highly influenced by the US and to a lesser degree Western Europe. Sansone argues that understanding more complex and ambiguous notions of culture and identity will expand the international discourse on race and move it away from American dominated notions that are not adequate to describe racial difference in other countries (and also in the countries where the notions originated). He also explores the effects of globalization on constructions of race.

Society places more demands on the seeing and processing of visual information than ever before. Information is increasingly given in a visual way and with great diversity, such as traffic signs, high definition computer monitors, newspapers, books, television, LCD control panels, etc. The expanding flow of visual information makes a significant demand on visual processing and, as a consequence, people with decreased visual performance may experience any impairment as a handicap. This book presents edited papers from the international conference on low vision, VISION 1993, held in Groningen, the Netherlands, in July 1993. The conference, attended by rehabilitation therapists, optometrists, occupational therapists, ophthalmologists, educationists, psychologists, clinical physicists, and other professionals in the field of theoretical aspects of vision and visual impairment, provided an interdisciplinary forum for the exchange of information, experiences and results from research and the different disciplines in the field of rehabilitation for visually impaired people. The book contains descriptions of practical experiences as well as reports of the results of research projects, and will be of interest to all those working in the field of visual impairment.