Statistiken heben in großer Regelmäßigkeit die Bedeutung von Familienunternehmen für die deutsche Volkswirtschaft hervor. Sie sind investitions-, ausbildungs- und forschungsstark und belegen Spitzenwerte bei Beschäftigung sowie Umsatz. Unternehmerfamilien hingegen begegnen uns mitunter in Zerrbildern. Schlagwörter wie "Clan", "Erbe" und "Streit" erheischen Aufmerksamkeit und suggerieren mit sich selbst beschäftigte Organismen hinter den Unternehmen. "Generation Verantwortung" spürt jenseit...

Ein Notfall-Alpha-Frischling und ein routinierter Omega sind die einzigen zwei Zutaten, die man für ein hübsches, heißes Desaster braucht …JustinIch hätte bei meinem allerersten Einsatz als Notfall-Support-Alpha nicht aufgeregter sein können! Dafür habe ich trainiert. Ich war bereit. Zumindest dachte ich das, bis ich den ersten Fuß über die Türschwelle meines Klienten setzte. Dort fand ich einen alleinerziehenden Vater dreier Kinder vor, der kurz d...

Arranged Marriage: The Politics of Tradition, Resistance, and Change shows how arranged marriage practices have been undergoing transformation as a result of global and other processes such as the revolution of digital technology, democratization of transnational mobility, or shifting significance of patriarchal power structures. The ethnographically informed chapters not only highlight how the gendered and intergenerational politics of agency, autonomy, choice, consent, and intim...

Who told your muse she could go on vacation? While one could say that hard-working muses are just as entitled as the rest of us to relax, refresh and recharge, why does their absence always seem to coincide with publishing deadlines and the inability to squeeze forth a single clever thought, turn of phrase or imaginative plot twist. Writing is--and always will be--a solitary craft but never so lonely as when you realize you've been staring at a blank page or blinking cursor for two hours a...

There are two sides to every story, any good writer can tell you that. Well, we took this quite literally. Our writers were struggling with writers blocks on their individual books and needed to find a way to get past it. What they did was as unusual as this book. First, they took a scientific approach to understanding the reason for the block and identified methods to modify the causes. Second, they exercised their minds by free telling (stories without regard to decency, spelling or gram...

Perfect for literature classes and beginning writers of all ages!"Tell me a story of when you were little" is something children love to ask. Now ten award-winning writers: Mary Pope Osborne, Laurence Yep, James Howe, Katherine Paterson, Walter Dean Myers, Susan Cooper, Nicholasa Mohr, Reeve Lindbergh, Avi, and Francesca Lia Block tell young readers stories drawn from their own childhood memories. The authors have also contributed notes about why they chose particu...