Peter Schmidt

Brian Eno

Over One Hundred Worthwhile Dilemmas

Oblique Strategies

Michael Frese

Andreas Bausch

Evidence-based Entrepreneurship introduces the concept of evidence-based entrepreneurship (EBE), discuss the implications of EBE, and sketches out its opportunities and limitations. The users of EBE can be the scientists themselves, professionals who deal with entrepreneurs, policy makers whose policies affect entrepreneurs, students of entrepreneurship, and last but not least the entrepreneurs themselves. Much of the review is related to the idea of meta-analysis -- a quantitative review of the scientific literature -- to help determine how strong certain relationships are, how often a relationship consistently appears across studies, and how much we can trust the methodological rigor of the research. A meta-analysis provides the best available type of evidence because it goes beyond one methodology, one study, and one researcher. Evidence-based Entrepreneurship provides a great opportunity that is relevant for practice and policy while strengthening the empirical and theoretical bases of entrepreneurship research. Practice can never be fully based on evidence; therefore, we talk about evidence-informed practice and evidence-based research suggestions. Both management and entrepreneurship show a gap between knowledge and practice - the knowledge-doing gap. Managers as well as entrepreneurs or professionals who deal with entrepreneurs often fail to take note of scientific evidence when making decisions and empirical research has shown that managers often take actions that are uninformed and sometimes even diametrically opposed to empirical evidence. In the area of entrepreneurship, one can often hear open disdain for scholarly work because professors have not yet "made their first million" - the foremost argument seems to be that only experience counts. The authors suggest that professionals who deal with entrepreneurs can profit from evidence-informed practice.

Cumulative Science, Action Principles, and Bridging the Gap Between Science and Practice

Evidence-based Entrepreneurship

Ann D. Witte

Our interest in the statistical modeling of data on the timing of recidivism began in the mid 1970s when we were both junior members of the eco nomics department at the University of North Carolina. At that time, methods of analyzing qualitative and limited variables were being developed rapidly in the econometric literature, and we became interested in finding a suitable application for these new methods. Data on the timing of recidivism offered unique and interesting statistical challenges, such as skewness of the distribution and the presence of censoring. Being young and foolish, we decided it would be fun to try something "really" difficult. And, being young and ignorant, we were blissfully unaware of the con current developments in the statistical modeling of survival times that were then appearing in the biostatistics, operations research, and criminological literatures. In the course of some earlier research, we had learned that the North Carolina Department of Correction had an unusually well-developed data base on their inmates. We approached the Department and asked if they would be interested in working with us to develop models that would predict when their former charges would return to their custody. They agreed because they were interested in using such models to evaluate rehabilitative programs and alternative prison management systems and to help project future prison populations.

Predicting Recidivism Using Survival Models

Amritjit Singh

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, we may be in a “transnational” moment, increasingly aware of the ways in which local and national narratives, in literature and elsewhere, cannot be conceived apart from a radically new sense of shared human histories and global interdependence. To think transnationally about literature, history, and culture requires a study of the evolution of hybrid identities within nation-states and diasporic identities across national boundaries. Studies addressing issues of race, ethnicity, and empire in US culture have provided some of the most innovative and controversial contributions to recent scholarship. Postcolonial Theory and the United States: Race, Ethnicity, and Literature represents a new chapter in the emerging dialogues about the importance of borders on a global scale. This book collects nineteen essays written in the 1990s in this emergent field by both well established and up-and-coming scholars. Almost all the essays have been either especially written for this volume or revised for inclusion here. These essays are accessible, well-focused resources for college and university students and their teachers, displaying both historical depth and theoretical finesse as they attempt close and lively readings. The anthology includes more than one discussion of each literary tradition associated with major racial or ethnic communities. Such a gathering of diverse, complementary, and often competing viewpoints provides a good introduction to the cultural differences and commonalities that comprise the United States today. The volume opens with two essays by the editors: first, a survey of the ideas in the individual pieces, and, second, a long essay that places current debates in US ethnicity and race studies within both the history of American studies as a whole and recent developments in postcolonial theory.

Race, Ethnicity, and Literature

Postcolonial Theory and the United States

Mit Mentaltechniken nach dem neuesten Stand der Psychologie der Emotionalen Intelligenz geht das tatsächlich ... probieren Sie es aus! In dieser Einführung lernen sie neueste Methoden kennen, wie man Angst, Ärger, Stress, Trauer, Eifersucht, Trennungsschmerz, Nervosität und zahllose andere belastende Emotionen schneller als jemals zuvor in den Griff bekommt. Denn seit einigen Jahren sind im Rahmen der Psychologie der "Emotionalen Intelligenz" neue hochwirksame Techniken entwickelt worden, um bei Stress und Konflikten besser mit den eigenen Gefühlen, Stimmungen, Emotionen, Affekten und Bewertungen umzugehen.

Mit neuen Mentaltechniken innerlich freiwerden

Die Kraft der positiven Gefühle

Leonie Huddy

Josef Seethaler

Jürgen Grimm

Globalization, immigration and economic crisis challenge the conceptions of nations, trans-national institutions and post-ethnic societies which are central topics in social sciences' discourses. This book examines in an interdisciplinary and international comparative way structures of national identity which are in conflict with or supporting multi-ethnic diversity and trans-national connectivity. The book’s first section seeks to clarify the concepts of national identity, nationalism, patriotism and cosmopolitism and to operationalize them consistently. The next section regards the diversity within national states and the consequences for the management of identity and intra-national integration. The third section focuses on external integration between different nations by searching for the "squaring of the circle" between the bonding with co-patriots and the critical reflection of one's own national perspective in relation to others. The last section explores to what extent and in which ways media use shapes collective identity.

Media and Societal Factors of What We Are

Dynamics of National Identity

Håndboldtips 7 henvender sig til alle, der har en praktisk interesse for håndboldtræning. Bogen formål er at give inspiration til din træning ved at angive træningsøvelser til de fleste elementer i god håndboldtræning. Bogen anviser ikke nødvendigvis færdige løsninger, men sigter mod, at du som læser bliver hjulpet på vej i udviklingen af din egen træningsplanlægning i forhold til målgruppe, spillermateriale, alder, niveau m.m. Lad dig inspirere, bryd ned, byg op og lav dine egne variationer.

- 177 træningsøvelser til håndbold

Håndboldtips 7

Jaak Billiet

Eldad Davidov

Intended to bridge the gap between the latest methodological developments and cross-cultural research, this interdisciplinary resource presents the latest strategies for analyzing cross-cultural data. Techniques are demonstrated through the use of applications that employ cross national data sets such as the latest European Social Survey. With an emphasis on the generalized latent variable approach, internationally–prominent researchers from a variety of fields explain how the methods work, how to apply them, and how they relate to other methods presented in the book. Syntax and graphical and verbal explanations of the techniques are included. A website features some of the data sets and syntax commands used in the book. Applications from the behavioral and social sciences that use real data-sets demonstrate: The use of samples from 17 countries to validate the resistance to change scale across these nations How to test the cross-national invariance properties of social trust The interplay between social structure, religiosity, values, and social attitudes A comparison of anti-immigrant attitudes and patterns of religious orientations across European countries. The book is divided into techniques for analyzing cross-cultural data within the generalized-latent-variable approach: multiple-group confirmatory factor analysis and multiple-group structural equation modeling; multi-level analysis; latent class analysis; and item-response theory. Since researchers from various disciplines often use different methodological approaches, a consistent framework for describing and applying each method is used so as to cross ‘methodological borders’ between disciplines. Some chapters describe the basic strategy and how it relates to other techniques presented in the book, others apply the techniques and address specific research questions, and a few combine the two. A table in the preface highlights for each chapter: a description of the contents, the statistical methods used, the goal(s) of the analysis, and the data set employed. This book is intended for researchers, practitioners, and advanced students interested in cross-cultural research. Because the applications span a variety of disciplines, the book will appeal to researchers and students in: psychology, political science, sociology, education, marketing and economics, geography, criminology, psychometrics, epidemiology, and public health, as well as those interested in methodology. It is also appropriate for an advanced methods course in cross-cultural analysis.

Methods and Applications

Cross-Cultural Analysis

An Economic Analysis of Crime and Justice: Theory, Methods, and Applications presents the applications of economic theory and econometric methods to various problems in criminology. The book is divided into three parts. Part I discusses models of criminal recidivism. The second part tackles the economic model of crime. Part III estimates cost functions for prisons. Specific chapters in the book cover topics on statistical analysis of qualitative outcomes; analysis of two measures of criminal activity: the arrest rate and the conviction rate; and long-run estimate of cost function for a group of Federal Correctional Institutions. Economists, correctional administrators, and criminal justice professionals will find the book a great source of information and insight.

Theory, Methods, and Applications

An Economic Analysis of Crime and Justice

Dette er min version af håndboldens historie og begreber vævet sammen med små nedslag i mit eget liv, mit eget livslange engagement i sporten og min passion for legen med den harpiksklistrede bold. Det er ikke kun en fagbog og det er ikke kun en biografi. Det er lidt af det hele. Det er en fortælling om verdens bedste leg. I min version. Håndboldens historie. Min historie. Vores fælles historie.

Håndbold - min fortælling om legen med den harpiksklistrede bold

Peter Norton

Pae White

A More Universal Edition

one hundred worthwhile dilemmas

Oblique strategies

Der Ästhet als GewalttäterEin der weiblichen Schönheit verfallener Psychopath pflegt in seinem Keller ein obskures Steckenpferd. Doch eines Tages gerät er an eine ebenbürtige Gegnerin …"Vielleicht hasst du ja seitdem die Frauen?" –– "Ganz im Gegenteil, es gibt nichts Größeres als weibliche Schönheit für mich. Mehr hat uns dieses öde Universum leider nicht zu bieten."Befangen in grenzenloser Faszination für die weibliche Schönheit, versucht der junge Robert Quant sich auf makabre Art und Weise von seiner Obsession zu befreien. Ein beklemmender, in seiner Konsequenz beängstigender Psychothriller – bösartig und hintergründig –, dessen Thema das Verfallensein an die weibliche Schönheit ist.Gab Peter Schmidts „Der Mädchenfänger“ vielleicht sogar das Vorbild ab für den Fall der jungen Natascha Kampusch in Österreich, die der arbeitslose Nachrichtentechniker Wolfgang Priklopil in Wien mehr als acht Jahre lang in einem Kellerverlies gefangen hielt? – Das wird wohl nie zu klären sein. Aber Ähnlichkeiten und Übereinstimmungen sind kaum zu übersehen …PRESSESTIMMEN"Muss man lesen!"(Chemnitzer Blick)"Der Roman Der Mädchenfänger" von Peter Schmidt erhält das Prädikat ‚Krimi des Monats'“(SFB, Pulp-Magazin/ Kultur aktuell)„Das Buch ist ein beklemmender, in seiner Konsequenz beängstigender Psychothriller, der alle Freunde diese Genres begeistern wird.“ (Fränkisches Volksblatt) Schmidts Stärke liegt in der Präzision, mit der er Charaktere und Situationen beschreibt. (WAZ) „Unter den deutschen Kriminalschriftstellern ist der Westfale Schmidt fraglos einer der wenigen, die wirklich erzählerisches Format besitzen.“ (Hamburger Abendblatt)

Der Mdchenfnger

Seltsame und bedrohliche Ereignisse storen das Leben des entlassenen Polizeibeamten Harris, als er gerade mit seiner Nichte in ein schones altes Haus am Stadtrand gezogen ist, um sich ganz seiner Lieblingsbeschaftigung, der englischen Landschaftsmalerei zu widmen. Harris ist entsetzt, weil er plotzlich auf dem Kirchendach eines seiner Gemalde sein eigenes Gesicht abgebildet findet ... Schon bald muss er erkennen, dass er es mit einem ratselhaften, ubermachtigen Widersacher zu tun hat, der offensichtlich alle nur denkbaren teuflischen" Register zieht, um mit ihm zu spielen. Und dieser Gegner bewegt sich mit einer Leichtigkeit durchs Haus, die sich niemand erklaren kann ... Ein Psychothriller uber die Abgrunde des menschlichen Bewusstseins, dessen Diabolik viele Bosewichte Hitchcocks wie harmlose Chorknaben erscheinen lasst ..." Boses Omen?: Zu allem Uberfluss hat in diesem Haus einmal ein verruckter junger Psychopath (?) namens Robert Quant gelebt, der lange Zeit ein Madchen im Keller des Anbaus gefangen hielt. (In: Peter Schmidt: Der Madchenfanger")

Harris

Bernd Witte

Theo Buck

Hans-Dietrich Dahnke

Regine Otto

Dieser Band bietet eine umfassende Darstellung der künstlerischen Arbeit Goethes als Dramatiker, einschließlich der zahlreichen Kurzdramen und Gelegenheitsarbeiten wie Festspiele, Prologe, Maskenzüge sowie der Singspiele und der dramatischen Fragmente. Damit wird ein wesentlicher Bestandteil der Dramengeschichte in Deutschland und einer der wenigen herausragenden Beiträge zum Welttheater erstmals systematisch erschlossen.

Band 2: Dramen

Goethe-Handbuch

"Rundt om bolden" er skrevet for håndboldtrænere og -spillere som en slags "Grønspættebog" ... den bog som Rip, Rap og Rup i de gamle Anders And blade fra min ungdoms tid, altid slog op i, når de skulle have løst et problem ... for der kunne man finde svaret på næsten alt. Det kan man nok ikke helt i denne bog, men den er et forsøg på at skrive en håndbog, der går i dybden og fortæller om alt det, der også har med håndbold at gøre, men som ikke nødvendigvis er teknisk eller taktisk træning på halgulvet. Bogen kommer rundt om emner som trænerens mange roller, indlæringsprocesser, træningsplanlægning, teamwork og samarbejde, mental fokus, kost og søvn, hvordan man laver en god præsentation og skriftlig fremstilling m.m. Kort sagt en værktøjskasse til alt det, der foregår rundt om spillet, rundt om bolden: - Trænerens roller - Træningsplanlægning - Arbejde i teams - Mental fokus og koncentration - Forberede en god præsentation - Skrive så det kan læses og forstås - Spise og sove rigtigt ... og meget mere ... Bogen er skrevet fra en håndboldmæssig vinkel, men langt de fleste kapitler kan med fordel bruges i al holdsport.

... en håndbog for håndboldtræner og -spiller

Rundt om bolden

How Did Love Become A Reality Show? - The Destruction of Intimacy In a Culture Built On Image

This book investigates the views of Christianity of Abhay Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada (1896-1977), founder of the "International Society for Krishna Consciousness" (ISKCON), a branch of the Bengal Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition, commonly known in the West as the "Hare Krishna Movement." Furthermore it analyses his approach to a fertile interreligious dialog with the Christian faith.

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupāda's interpretations and conclusions about Christianity

Krishna meets Jesus

Achim Koch

Martina Wasmer

Der sechste Band der Buchreihe "Blickpunkt Gesellschaft" befaßt sich mit dem Thema "Politische Partizipation". Auf der Grundlage der Allgemeinen Bevölkerungsumfrage der Sozialwissenschaften (ALLBUS) 1998 wird in den Beiträgen des Bandes ein breites Spektrum unterschiedlicher Formen politischer Beteiligung analysiert: von der Teilnahme an Wahlen über parteibezogene Partizipation und politisches Protestverhalten bis zu gewalttätigen politischen Handlungen. Verschiedene theoretische Modelle zur Erklärung politischer Partizipation werden dabei herangezogen. Daneben wird in einzelnen Beiträgen gezielt die Rolle spezifischer Determinanten politischer Beteiligung - wie z.B. der Mediennutzung - untersucht. Wie läßt sich die Beteiligung an Wahlen erklären, wenn doch die eigene Stimme kaum einen Einfluß auf den Wahlausgang hat? Was sind die Ursachen für das geringere politische Engagement von Frauen im Vergleich zu Männern? Welche Rolle spielt die Mitgliedschaft in Organisationen und Vereinen für das politische Teilnahmeverhalten? Diese und weitere Fragen werden in dem vorliegenden Buch behandelt.

Empirische Befunde und theoretische Erklärungen

Politische Partizipation in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

"Rundt om bolden" er skrevet for håndboldtrænere og -spillere som en slags "Grønspættebog" ... den bog som Rip, Rap og Rup i de gamle Anders And blade fra min ungdoms tid, altid slog op i, når de skulle have løst et problem ... for der kunne man nemlig finde svaret på næste alt. Det kan man nok ikke helt i denne bog, men den er et forsøg på at skrive en håndbog, der går i dybden og fortæller om alt det, der også har med håndbold at gøre, men som ikke nødvendigvis er teknisk eller taktisk træning på halgulvet. Bogen kommer rundt om emner som trænerens mange roller, indlæringsprocesser, træningsplanlægning, teamwork og samarbejde, mental fokus, kost og søvn, hvordan man laver en god præsentation og skriftlig fremstilling m.m. Kort sagt en værktøjskasse til alt det, der foregår rundt om spillet, rundt om bolden: - Trænerens roller - Træningsplanlægning - Arbejde i teams - Mental fokus og koncentration - Forberede en god præsentation - Skrive så det kan læses og forstås - Spise og sove rigtigt ... og meget mere ... Bogen er skrevet fra en håndboldmæssig vinkel, men langt de fleste kapitler kan anvendes i al holdsport.

Peter Schmidt

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