The political and symbolic centrality of capital cities has been challenged by increasing economic globalization. This is especially true of secondary capital cities; capital cities which, while being the seat of national political power, are not the primary economic city of their nation state. David Kaufmann examines the unique challenges that these cities face entering globalised, inter-urban competition while not possessing a competitive political economy.Varieties of Capita...

This book examines Uncreative Writing—the catch-all term to describe Neo-Conceptualism, Flarf and related avant-garde movements in contemporary North American poetry—against a decade of controversy. David Kaufman analyzes texts by Kenneth Goldsmith, Vanessa Place, Robert Fitterman, Ara Shirinyan, Craig Dworkin, Dan Farrell and Katie Degentesh to demonstrate that Uncreative Writing is not a revolutionary break from lyric tradition as its proponents claim. Nor is it a racist, reactionary cap...

Die öffentliche Debatte über Migration ist heute ebenso geprägt von Ängsten und Befürchtungen wie von Idealisierung. Was fehlt, sind Perspektiven für die Zukunft - kritische Analysen und optimistische Entwürfe, die von der Öffentlichkeit aufgenommen und diskutiert werden können. Das vorliegende Buch versammelt 15 Vorschläge von Personen aus Wissenschaft, Kultur und Politik. Ausgehend von ihrer Kenntnis, Forschung und Erfahrung formulieren die Autoren konstruktive Handlungsmöglichkeiten. Si...

This book explores cities and the intra-regional relational dynamics often overlooked by urban scholars, and it challenges common representations of urban development successes and failures.Gathering leading international scholars from Europe, Australia and North America, it explores the secondary city concept in urban development theory and practice and advances a research agenda that highlights uneven development concerns.By emphasising the subordinate status of secondary...

Capital cities that are not the dominant economic centers of their nations – so-called ‘secondary capital cities’ (SCCs) – tend to be overlooked in the fields of economic geography and political science. Yet, capital cities play an important role in shaping the political, economic, social and cultural identity of a nation. As the seat of power and decision-making, capital cities represent a nation’s identity not only through their symbolic architecture but also through their economies and ...

In recent years, companies and government agencies have come to realize that the data they use represent a significant corporate resource, whose cost calls for management every bit as rigorous as the management of human resources, money, and capital equipment. With this realization has come recognition of the importance to integrate the data that has traditionally only been available from disparate sources.An important component of this integration is the management of the “metadat...

Psychotherapy in the Wake of War presents the ways in which differing views of various psychoanalytic schools and traditions—spanning developments for more than one hundred years—may affect theoretical and technical issues in psychoanalytic treatments. Colleagues representing different traditions of psychoanalytic thinking comment on a selection of nine cases and suggest ways of managing these both technically and theoretically. They have a variety of theoretical structures and axioms in t...

Was ist ein gutes Leben? Was macht mein Leben einfacher, ohne es einzuschränken? Was tut mir gut, aber gleichzeitig auch anderen? Es sind bestimmte Werte, die sich in einer Einstellung, aber auch im Verhalten, im Tun ausdrücken. Welche das sein könnten, zeigt dieses Buch mit Themen wie Achtsamkeit und Beharrlichkeit, Ehrfurcht und Geduld, Gönnen und Risikobereitschaft, Vertrauen und Humor, bis hin zu Toleranz und Zivilcourage. Die Beiträge dieses Buches sind – aus ganz verschiedenen Richtu...

The Witness Development Evangelism Workbook equips Christians to be witnesses for Christ in a natural conversational style (also known as the Oral Inductive Method). You will learn how to share biblical truths in an enjoyable and engaging manner. Jesus used stories and questions to help people self-discover truths and this training closely replicates his style of evangelism.This workbook provides background, how-to’s, and exercises to help you become an expert of biblical ...

In 1878, the first complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered in a coal mine in Bernissart, Belgium. Iguanodon, first described by Gideon Mantell on the basis of fragments discovered in England in 1824, was initially reconstructed as an iguana-like reptile or a heavily built, horned quadruped. However, the Bernissart skeleton changed all that. The animal was displayed in an upright posture similar to a kangaroo, and later with its tail off the ground like the dinosaur we know of today. Focu...

Sechs Gräber platzten auf wie überreife, schwarze Früchte. Der Boden flog durch die Luft, die Erde riss auf, und Blumen und Sträucher wurden hinweggefegt. Die Särge wurden, wie von Geisterhand, ächzend aus der Erde geschoben. Die schmalen Frontseiten durchstießen hart den Boden und kamen wie kantige Ungetüme aus der Tiefe. Wie Geschosse griffen sie an. Ihr Ziel: Menschen! Zur gleichen Zeit lag Iwan Kunaritschew, im San Franzisko Kentfield Hospital, im Sterben. Die PSA im Alarmzustand und L...

An ihrem Geburtstag erlebt Maike im Kindergarten viel Schönes, aber auch Aufregendes. Ihre Erzieherin Nina verzeiht Maike, dass sie Unsinn gemacht hat. Ob Maike selbst auch verzeihen kann? Und dann sind die Geburtstagsgeschenke weg, die sie doch extra für die anderen mitgebracht hat… . Immer wieder zeigt Maike, wie hilfreich ein kurzes Gebet zu Jesus sein kann.