A gripping and inspiring book, Civic Passionsexamines innovative leadership in periods of crisis in American history. Starting from the late nineteenth century, when respected voices warned that America was on the brink of collapse, Cecelia Tichi explores the wisdom of practical visionaries who were confronted with a series of social, political, and financial upheavals that, in certain respects, seem eerily similar to modern times…

Witch-hunts were by no means focused only on women – one in four alleged witches in Central Europe was male. This study traces the witch trials of men in French and German speaking regions in Central Europe, opening up a little known chapter of early modern times. The author analyzes the proportion of accused men in the witch-hunts, describes their trials and explores the conflicts from which witch-hunts involving men evolved…

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Эта книга известного белорусского писателя, поэта, прозаика, публициста, члена Союза писателей, государственного и общественного деятеля — главного редактора «Информационного вестника Администрации Президента Республики Беларусь» Эдуарда Скобелева стала суперпопулярной ещё задолго до выхода в свет. Автор через художественные формы романа о величайшем Лидере XX века доносит до читателя важнейшие проблемы современного человечества.
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In thinking about ancient Egypt, certain images come to mind - the pyramids, the Sphinx, the vast Sahara Desert, the mighty Nile River, and the image of the lovely Queen Nefertiti. Officially called the Great Royal Wife of the Pharaoh Akhenaten, she was related to King Tutenkhamen and may have even wielded great power, sharing the throne with her husband for a time…

A comprehensive book on shipping derivatives and risk management which covers the theoretical and practical aspects of financial risk in shipping. The book provides a thorough overview of the practice of risk management in shipping with the use of theoretical examples and real-life applications…

The basic aim of the book is a critique of the assumptions of totalitarian propaganda and the concomitant construction of principles which commit neither the fallacy of despising human intelligence–as do the totalitarians–nor of defying it–as do the heads-in-the-clouds idealists. To that end, Professor Bartlett inspects the evidence in favor of the view that man in the mass betrays a primitive, childlike intelligence, a sport of unconscious urges to be played upon by an elite versed in the secrets of human manipulation. The book, because of its limitations of space, is guilty of a superficial discussion of the history of propaganda and the limitations of various propaganda media. To the reviewer it seems that this section might have been left out in favor of further discussion of propaganda strategy. Another fault is the lack, obvious by its absence, of consideration of the relation of propaganda to the context of events on which it takes place. The most fitting comment the reviewer can make, however, is that Professor Bartlett has crammed into the pages of his slim volume an imposing array of provocative insights, shrewd conclusions, and arresting hypotheses–many of which have stood the test of recent history.

CICS Transaction Server for z/OS Version 2.3 provides an efficient and effective environment for applications written in COBOL, PL/I, C, C++, and Java. This version strengthens application development capabilities, enables enhanced re-use of 3270 applications, and enables applications to be accessed as Web Services within a services oriented architecture (SOA).

This book is first and foremost aimed at foreign international tax practitioners with corporations as their clients, If you are an adviser to individuals this book will have useful information on how your client's companies in the Netherlands will generally be treated, but it will not tell you how foreign individuals are taxed in the Netherlands and what estate planning techniques could be used.
This book aims to go further than many loose-leaf editions which give a global overview of corporate taxation in the Netherlands: it makes little sense to write something again that is out there already. First. I have tried to cover what I believe is the relevant material that a foreign international tax practitioner comes across as opposed to a national professional. In my mind international professionals are not that interested in knowing about the tax issues that typically play at an operating company level: investment incentives and divestment clawbacks, or labour cost incentives. Instead, they want to know about cross-border flows of funds and services, acquisitions, disposals, mergers, the prevention of double taxation and to some extent tax consolidation (but again, not the nitty gritty at opco level).

Jede Propaganda", befahl Adolf Hitler, "hat volkstümlich zu sein und ihr geistiges Niveau einzustellen nach der Aufnahmefähigkeit des Beschränktesten unter denen, an die sie sich zu richten gedenkt."
Mit primitiven Produktionen über deutsche Weihnachtsfeiern, Autobahnen, Frontsiege, über den deutschen Wald und "Die englische Krankheit" (Filmtitel) gehorchten deutsche Filmleute der Jahre 1933 bis 1945 ihrem Führer aufs Wort – was wirklich kein Wunder war.
it sentimentalen Durchhalte-Filmen ("The First Days"), hämischen Zeichen-Tricks und markigen Phrasen ("Bombardiert den Feind noch und noch und noch und noch, bis er genug hat!") nahmen sich jedoch auch Hitlers demokratische Gegner aus England und den USA in Kriegszeiten die Freiheit, ihre Bürger auf beschränktem Niveau zu manipulieren – und das ist hierzulande weithin unbekannt geblieben.
Denn die Kriegsgegner hielten die Propaganda-Traktate in ihren Archiven unter Verschluß. Ein Vergleich alliierter und deutscher Beeinflussungstechniken im Film war kaum möglich.
Daß er jetzt dennoch stattgefunden hat, ist ein Verdienst des Österreichischen Filmmuseums. Seine Kuratoren Peter Konlechner und Peter Kubelka holten die "Propaganda und Gegenpropaganda im Film 1933-1945" in 88 Dokumentar-Beispielen aus neun Sammlungen nach Wien und spielten sie in 26 ausverkauften Vorstellungen.
Noch einmal kehrte – im Film "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer" (1938) – die "Ostmark" heim ins Reich, wurde "Der Fluch des Hakenkreuzes" (USA, 1940) beschworen, der "Sieg im Westen" (Deutschland, 1941) gefeiert und "The Battle of Russia" (USA, 1944) auf deutsche Kosten geschlagen.

The Nazis saw film as a major vehicle for both indoctrination and escapist pacification of the masses; in fact, Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels tried to create a German counter-Hollywood. This highly acclaimed study, by one of Germanys leading commentators and authors on cultural policy, analyses the pictorial and spoken language of the various film genres in the Third Reich, including news reels, documentaries, feature and cultural films. It shows how a powerful and sinister propaganda machine emerged which, by deploying a wide range of psychological techniques, exerted a strong fascination on the masses. These methods were so successful that they continue to serve as models for totalitarian rgimes to this day.