Two hundred scores lie on the desk. The calendar holds twelve nights. That, at its core, is the whole story – everything else is negotiation.An opera house can put every production on stage immaculately – on time, on budget, to a standing ovation – and still fail, because it staged the wrong operas. Companies and public bodies manage exactly the same feat: every project on the dashboard glows green, and year after year the organisation counts for less. What decides success is not h...

An unswervingly loyal, highly disciplined militant force is as essential to the establishment and maintenance of a dictatorship as the dictator himself. Many factors contributed to the emergence of the Third Reich, and prominent among them were the actions of Hitler’s earliest paramilitary force, the Sturmabteilungen (SA, Storm Troops), and the men chosen by the Führer to lead it. Although Hitler ultimately culled the SA of its most revolutionary elements, there remained within it and the ...

What if the shortest path is a double curve?This book celebrates the productive side-glance: the quiet resistance of the everyday, the cheerful reordering of things, and the "aha" moment waiting just around the next bend. Instead of grand theories, these stories offer small shifts in perspective that open new doors—focusing on attitude rather than recipes, on awareness rather than alarm.It is a collection where order and chance find a way to cooperate. Every...

Have you ever noticed how trains run more smoothly the moment onboard bistro runs out of coffee? Or how your carbon footprint suddenly goes feral—just because you dared to check a suitcase?In Double Curve (Volume 2), Andreas Schulz takes you on a tour through the absurdities of modern mobility. Meet a train driver who sacrifices the timetable for a cigarette—and accidentally becomes a hero. Join a couple on a cruise that goes slightly differently than advertised… a...

Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Pedagogy - Higher Education, grade: 2, University of Vienna (Soziologie), course: Class Relations in the Global Digital Economy, language: English, abstract: The following paper shall examine the processes of commodification in the German speaking academic context and illustrate the “state of the art” of research of the commodification of academic labor on several dimensions: (i) by university research institutions and (ii) by student organiz...

Learn how to build all of your favorite houses in this all-new guide for Minecraft. Houses included in this guide are a mushroom hut, a tree house, a floating house, a cobblestone and glass home, a rustic countryside house, a medieval style house, and a lighthouse!Conquer Minecraft with your very own tree house!

Fun things to do while traveling, waiting around, between jobs or have time on your hands -- on your own or with others, from using your imagination to mental exercises and light physical activities.

Have you gone on a long trip where you have gotten bored while traveling or waiting in an airport or bus or train station? Do you need a quick pickup to help in your job search? Have you wondered how to pass the time and amuse yourself, when you cant use your cell phone, read, or listen to music?THINGS TO DO WHEN YOU ARE ON A LONG TRIP, WAITING AROUND, OR JUST PLAIN BORED is the perfect antidote. It features a variety of fun and creative things you can do in your imaginati...

**An inspiring visual guide to a richer life.“If there’s a thinker to steal from, it’s Jessica Hagy.”—Austin Kleon, author of Steal Like an Artist and Newspaper Blackout**How to Be Interesting is passionate, positive, down-to-earth, and irrepressibly upbeat, combining fresh and pithy life lessons, often just a sentence or two, with deceptively simple diagrams and graphs. Each of the book's more than 100 spreads will nudge readers a little bit further out o...

From the author of the National Book Award finalist Ghostroots, a debut novel that thrills with its eerie mix of folklore and history.Something is haunting the pregnant women of Lagos. Across the city, they are walking into water . . . and drowning.Twenty-three-year-old Yosoye arrives in Lagos ready to start her life. Working for a slick architectural firm, she finds a city of adventure and opportunity. Her new world is one of fancy gallery opening...

As Europe finds itself once again caught between two superpowers – the USA and a rising China – little has been written about a relationship that will have a profound influence on the international order: the relationship between the People's Republic of China and Germany.In Germany and China, leading international relations expert Andreas Fulda looks critically at the increasingly interdependent relationship between the two countries. Drawing on examples from politics, in...

Two brilliant, multi-layered stories from the winner of the Kenzaburo Oe Prize: part of our Japanese novella series, showcasing the best contemporary Japanese writing In two stunning tales by novelist-playwright Toshiki Okada, characters stagger and thrash, bound by a generational hunger for human connection. On the eve of the Iraq War a couple find unexpected deliverance - fleeting and anonymous - at a love hotel. And wheels spin as a woman aches for something more from her husband, even ...