Funny, smart, and just a little dangerous.This is not another leadership audiobook decorated with empowerment slogans and predictable success stories.The Future Wears High Heels enters the world of Emirati women who do not ask for a place at the table. They change the table, the conversation, and occasionally the entire direction of the room.These women do not need to become louder to be heard. Their authority is visible in the businesses they build, the decisions t...

All he needs is the sword of a true warrior – or so he thinks.England AD 1070. In the fenlands of East Anglia, the Saxon resistance against the Norman king smoulders.Loïc, a young squire, knows that every man has to stand their ground against the rebels, but he only attracts the scorn and spite of the other squires during fighting practice. He must prove himself in combat if he wants to teach the others a lesson and survive a hostile onslau...

Recent developments in aDNA has reshaped our understanding of later European prehistory, and at the same time also opened up for more fruitful collaborations between archaeologists and historical linguists. Two revolutionary genetic studies, published independently in Nature, 2015, showed that prehistoric Europe underwent two successive waves of migration, one from Anatolia consistent with the introduction of agriculture, and a later influx from the Pontic-Caspian steppes which without any...

The modern German classic that has shaped an entire generation.A mother and her two teenage children sit at the dinner table. In the middle stands a large pot of cooked mussels. Why has the father not returned home? As the evening wears on, we glimpse the issues that are tearing this family apart.'I wrote this book in August 1989, just before the Fall of the Berlin Wall. I wanted to understand how revolutions start. It seemed logical to use the figure of a tyrannical father...

A desperate heir. A dark secret. A deadly game.England, 1086. Sixteen-year-old Roger is thrust into the role of heir after his brother’s death, yet his father refuses to see him as a worthy successor.Determined to prove himself, Roger seeks solace in Gwennaol, a taciturn girl that might know a dark secret about his father.But seeing her is against his father’s order, and the closer he draws to the truth, the deeper he is entangled in a deadly strugg...

Bringing together new articles and essays from the controversial Berkeley conference of the same name, The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness presents a fascinating range of inquiry into the nature of whiteness. Representing academics, independent scholars, community organizers, and antiracist activists, the contributors are all leaders in the “second wave” of whiteness studies who collectively aim to combat the historical legacies of white supremacy and to inform those who seek to ...

Originating in the armed forces of the early 20th century, weapons based on chemical, biological or nuclear agents have become an everpresent threat that has not vanished after the end of the cold war. Since the technology to produce these agents is nowadays available to many countries and organizations, including those with terrorist aims, civil authorities across the world need to prepare against incidents involving these agents and train their personnel accordingly.As an introdu...

This book, based on extensive original research, examines how far the collapse of the Soviet Union represented a threshold that initiated change or whether there are continuities which gradually reshaped cinema in the new Russia. The book considers a wide range of films and film-makers and explores their attitudes to genre, character and aesthetic style. The individual chapters demonstrate that, whereas genres shifted and characters developed, stylistic choices remained largely unaffected....

The Dead Guest – An Amsterdam Mystery (A2 English Reader)A mysterious death in the heart of Amsterdam. A quiet hotel. And a detective who knows that something is not right.When a guest is found dead in a small hotel near the canals of Amsterdam, the case seems simple at first. But detective Jan van der Weert quickly realizes that the story is more complicated. The victim had secrets, and several people in the hotel seem to know more than they say.As...

Heated debates about Muslim women's veiling practices have regularly attracted the attention of European policymakers over the last decade. The headscarf has been both vehemently contested by national and/or regional governments, political parties and public intellectuals and passionately defended by veil wearing women and their supporters. Systematically applying a comparative perspective, this book addresses the question of why the headscarf tantalises and causes such controversy over is...

Ein Antriebssystem, das Schiffe auf neue Weise manövrierbar machte – diese bahnbrechende Erfindung gelang 1926 dem österreichischen Ingenieur Ernst Schneider. Seine Idee eines neuartigen Propellertyps bewährte sich erstmalig in Modellversuchen an der Schiffbautechnischen Versuchsanstalt in Wien. Heute zählt der Voith Schneider Propeller (VSP) zu den bedeutendsten maritimen Erfindungen des 20. Jahrhunderts und ist aus der Schlepp- und Fährschifffahrt, dem Offshore-Bereich sowie aus zahlreic...

A propulsion system that made ships maneuverable in a new way—this groundbreaking invention was achieved in 1926 by the Austrian engineer Ernst Schneider. His idea for a novel type of propeller was first proven in model tests at the Vienna Model Basin. Today, the Voith Schneider Propeller (VSP) ranks among the most significant maritime inventions of the 20th century and has be-come indispensable in tug and ferry operations, the offshore sector, and numerous specialized applications. This r...